It’s funny how people slip out of history. The story of Valve’s formation in its critical early years and how it made the original Half-Life is an inspiring one. I was one of the people who attempted to capture the story of the storytelling shooter game, but my relatively short story in 1998 for the Wall Street Journal left a key contac…Read More
The ability to control electronics without touching them or paying with a swipe of the hand may seem like sci-fi, but it’s a growing reality. Microchip implants have existed in some form for decades, and technology is now advanced enough to make them practical. Still, this field carries significant security concerns. The Growing Field of Implanted Microchips Veterinarians have implanted radiofrequency identification chips in pets since the 1990s. Human microchips got FDA approval in 2004
Image credit: Pexels Waiting patiently for physical tickets to arrive in the mail or making a trip to the box office is long gone. Event tech has grown to offer more convenient and secure options. While digital tickets have become the norm, challenges around security and ticket authentication still remain. Vipass aims to push event tech into its next phase by solving this issue and offering enhanced convenience through a streamlined approach and even greater
As someone who has worked primarily with Typescript over the last few years, learning Golang was challenging as much as it was stimulating. Recap: What are interfaces? Interfaces ensure consistent behavior without focusing on implementation details. Interfaces in TypeScript are structural TypeScript is a structurally typed type system, one way it achieves this is using interfaces. They allow you to define the structure of objects you expect to handle within your code. Let’s take a
2 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Why use a humanoid when you could use Dexterity’s Mech instead. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. European Robotics Forum: 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE,
Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is, if Wayve sticks to its strategy of ensuring its automated driving software is cheap to run, hardware agnostic, and can be applied to advanced driver-assistance systems, robotaxis, and even robotics. The strategy, which Kendall laid out during Nvidia’s GTC conference, begins with an end-to-end data-driven learning approach. This means that what the system “sees” through a
Remedy Entertainment has been on a hot streak these last few years, releasing Control and following it up with the critically acclaimed Alan Wake 2. After putting out these stellar single player experiences the studio is now looking to replicate that success in the multiplayer space, with its cooperative first-person shooter that’s set in the universe of Control, FBC: Firebreak. The company is now sharing a gameplay trailer, and new details since the project debuted
It’s been six months (yes, really) since we were first introduced to the Zen 5 CPU architecture with the Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs, and it’s been nearly a year and a half since AMD unveiled the Threadripper Pro 7000 series processors. Isn’t it about time for a new Threadripper generation? Apparently so, because those parts are seemingly already in shipping containers, according to the latest leak. Spotted by the ever watchful eye of a community
Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start early tests of its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand” homes by the end of 2025, according to the company’s CEO, Bernt Børnich. “Neo Gamma is going into homes this year,” Børnich told TechCrunch in an interview at Nvidia GTC 2025. “We want to invite early adopters in this year to help us develop this system. We want it to live and
It was on, then off, and welp, now it’s on again — and this time for a lot more money. Yep, the Equity podcast dug into Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz. There was a lot to unpack: the why, the how, what it means. And of course, there was the “who wins” part. Sequoia takes home the VC prize for total payout. But another plucky VC out of Israel called Cyberstarts