From The Verge: Meta is looking down the road at a follow-up to the Quest 3, which is releasing this week, and plans to take cues from Apple’s Vision Pro while it races to mainstream its VR tech. That’s according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, who writes that the...
From PC Mag: Amazon’s Luna is adding the ability to buy games, specifically games made by Ubisoft.
Luna is a cloud gaming platform developed by Amazon that allows customers to play games on not their PC or Mac as well as their Fire TV, Fire Tablets, iPhone, iPad, Android devices, and select Samsung...
After attending several different comic conventions and markets for my girlfriend's shop, I think I can generally predict who will show up and spend money based on some criteria. One criterion that seems to be notable is the cost of entry to the event. Free events generally attract a lot of people with varying interests, which leads to many window shoppers. This group of people have not put any direct money down to attend in the first place, so...
What the inside of something looks like has always fascinated me. Growing up, I would peruse these Dorling Kindersley books over and over. They had the most interesting diagrams explaining concepts from nature to science. Each of them was as interesting as the last. For example, one would describe the ecosystem of a tree with a huge picture of the tree, but certain sections would be opened up to reveal the different animals or insects that made...
From The Verge: Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week. A source familiar with Microsoft’s plans tells The Verge that the company is eyeing up Friday October 13th as the closing date where it announces to the world that the 20-month...
From PC World: If you haven’t looked at the consumer PC market lately, maybe don’t — it isn’t a pretty picture. Of course that’s bad news for companies like Intel, whose bread and butter is selling the chips that almost literally run the industry. But Intel’s higher-ups see hope on the horizon, in...
From CNET: One of the premium soundbars Samsung released earlier in the year will get a software update letting it serve as a SmartThings hub, the first of other soundbars and TVs that will have smart home functionality included in the device, the company announced Thursday at its Samsung Developer...
From The Verge: Seven years after releasing the Leica Sofort, Leica has finally announced a sequel: the Leica Sofort 2. The instant film camera will be available for $389 on November 9th.
The new Leica Sofort 2 costs about $90 more than its predecessor, and it transforms the product from a fully...
From PC World: Adobe plans to announce a ridiculously cool photo editor at Adobe Max, dubbed Project Stardust, that uses AI to understand objects in your photos as…objects — allowing you to quickly edit and modify them.
Adobe released a teaser for Project Stardust on YouTube, where Adobe employees...
From CNET: The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have arrived, bringing more AI smarts and camera improvements to Google's flagship phones. The new phones, which launch on Oct. 12, highlight how artificial intelligence is becoming a more prevalent part of Pixel phones, from the Google Assistant to screening...
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