Controlling smart devices from different manufacturers may be about to get a whole lot easier. An industry standard called Matter has been publicly displayed and could mean an end to clogging up your phone with multiple apps. Matter, a joint effort involving device-makers Amazon, Apple and Samsung, plus Zigbee, a protocol behind many smart devices […]
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A music video for Hotel California by The Eagles… but all visuals have been generated by the Midjourney AI bot. [Daara]
We’ve featured Engineered Arts’s Ameca robot ealier this year on Geeks are Sexy, but since then, the company has added 12 new actuators to the robot’s face, allowing it to express a wider range of facial expressions Check it out! [Engineered Arts | Via BIS]
A woman who died last June has answered questions at her own funeral. Although Marina Smith’s “responses” were pre-recorded, a chatbot-like system selected them to fit the spontaneous questions asked by mourners. Smith was the founder of the National Holocaust Center in the United Kingdom and campaigned to educate on the topic. Her funeral “appearance” […]
The latest installment of “Can It Run Doom?” has some unusual twists. The hacking of John Deere tractor screens brings both legal and societal implications. You’d be wrong to assume tractors are not high-tech items: modern internet-connected models can include features from auto-steering to 3D mapping to sensors that gather data about crop yields and […]
A computer used by Bill Gates in his last major work as a software developer is up for auction. The TRS-80 Model 100 was one of the earlier notebook computers. Although Gates had performed management roles since Microsoft’s founding in 1975, he continued as an active member on development teams until 1983. While he occasionally […]
In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn’t activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages— causing one company to see a 40% rise in sausage sales. So, what could sausages do that gloves couldn’t? In other words, how do touchscreens actually work? Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini […]
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LG has demonstrated what it calls the first TV set to offer 5.1 audio without any speakers. It comes with a vibrating screen and an eyewatering price tag. The idea of the screen itself producing the sound is not new. Sony already offers it in one model, while LG has used the technology on both […]