Jan 5, 2023 Tech Speaker 1: I’m here in Las Vegas surrounded by slot machines. But what if you wanna be surrounded by that in your own home? Well, arcade one up, which makes a lot of arcade cabinets, is getting into the Home Arcade casino game thing with the Wheel of Fortune Casino Cade,
Month: January 2023
Today at CES 2023, a great-Big Tech conference in Vegas, Mercedes-Benz announced its answer to range anxiety and the great electric-vehicle charger shortage. Following the likes of Tesla and GM, the German automaker shared a plan to develop a 10,000-charger network by 2030, starting with the U.S. and Canada and later expanding into China, Europe
Toyota has been taking a beating in the press these days. The new Prius, arguably the company’s standard bearer, has been damned with faint praise. One review called it “the best CD player in a download world.” Beyond that, the company has been called out for lobbying against California’s right to set emissions standards and
The Canadian government has apparently used taxpayer money to pay for an anarchist Fallout mod. And not just once or twice, but four times. I have so many questions, mainly: “What does it take to get rejected from a Canadian arts grant?” CC Off English Nous Aurons is an overhaul mod that turns Fallout Tactics:
There isn’t much hope that 2023’s fundraising environment will be better for startups than last year’s. It seems likely that it will get worse before it gets better — even at the earliest stages, which have largely been insulated thus far. But for burgeoning companies capable of building business models that reflect current conditions and
Crime never pays. Unless you get away with it. Ermenildo “Ernie” Castro seemingly did not. The former software engineer at Zulily is accused of stealing over $300,000 from the online retailer through a scheme straight out of the 1999 slacker revenge movie Office Space. He now claims the money’s all gone, telling police he lost
Both 15-year fixed and 30-year fixed refinances saw their average rates recede over the past seven days. The average rate on 10-year fixed refinance also decreased. Like mortgage rates, refinance rates fluctuate on a daily basis. With inflation at a 40-year high, the Federal Reserve hiked the federal funds rate seven times in 2022. Though
This year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — the celebration of all things tech and then some — brought what it usually brings to the Vegas Strip: AI-powered gadgets. Of course, AI comes in many forms, and not all that’s advertised as AI is in fact true AI. But there’s always diamonds in the rough,
Microsoft plans to collaborate with the Indian space agency to give Indian space tech startups free access to cloud tools, the two said Thursday, the latest in the U.S. tech giant’s attempts to deepen its ties with young firms in the South Asian market. As part of a memorandum of understanding that Microsoft has signed
Jan 5, 2023 Computing Speaker 1: Welcome to c e s 2023. I am so happy to see you here today. Speaker 2: I’m very excited to announce that we are now bringing 3D V cash technology to our rise in 7,000 processors. The rise in 7 7800 X 3D is eight cores. 16 threads
Sony has a new gaming controller designed to be customizable for people with disabilities. Project Leonardo, unveiled Wednesday at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, is the codename for a new PlayStation 5 accessibility kit that Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan said “will allow players with disabilities to play more easily, more comfortably and for
Ember’s a bit of a weird one. The Southern California firm has two distinct – though not wholly unrelated arms. There’s the smart mug side of the business that launched the startup and the more recent cold chain shipping wing, which leverages its temperature control technology to move things like medical supplies. While it seemed
Jan 5, 2023 Video Games Speaker 1: VR already has displays nailed down, but now we gotta figure out what to do with our hands. There are controllers, there’s hand tracking. I’m curious about haptic gloves. Speaker 1: Nobody wants to wear big, weird gloves on their hands, but the tack gloves made by B
Unless you live in a natural fibers-only household, your laundry is likely exacerbating an environmental crisis with each wash. The terrible microplastics mess we’re making — thanks in great part to the rise of synthetic clothing — apparently inspired Samsung to develop some new washing machine tech, which it called a “breakthrough in the fight
Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. Rocket ships are being unveiled as sputtering messes, mission-driven startups don’t feel so mission-oriented when responding to investor pressure, and widespread layoffs offer a loud reminder that jobs are breakable contracts, not sacrosanct vows. Over the past few months, thousands of employees from Meta, Twitter, Stripe,
Since Tuesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has lost six rounds of voting to become the next Speaker of the House in Congress. These humiliating defeats have left the legislative branch of the U.S. Government in limbo and even led one bored congressman to go full Leeroy Jenkins on the House floor as the worst parts
Before the prequel trilogy released in the late ‘90s/early noughties and Disney bought LucasFilm for an exorbitant amount of money in 2015, Star Wars licensing was a bizarre no man’s land. While I was, admittedly, a bit too young to recall anything other than plastic lightsabers and scratchy Padme Amidala headpieces, thanks to a tweet
Matter is a new universal smart home protocol that promises to bundle compatibility with Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung and countless others within a single standard. That’s got all of the top smart home brands angling to be as Matter-friendly as possible, in one of the most obvious tech trends of CES 2023. That list includes
It would be a massive understatement to suggest that robot toys are a mixed bag. They largely get the looks right, but brains are another thing altogether. Look at the time and money that went into building the first Roomba, for example, and it becomes very clear why the dream of ubiquitous home robot still
Natalia Holgado Sanchez Contributor Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi, an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. I am not sure about you, but lately I’ve been hearing the same chatter from friends and colleagues at startups. It’s usually a version of: “Will
The Galaxy Z Flip 4 is one of Samsung’s latest and greatest phones, and there’s quite a few deals you can take advantage of right now. However, most of the big discounts available are only available if you’re trading in your existing phone and signing up for a lengthy plan with a major carrier. But
If you’re looking for a way to help your streams stand out from the crowd this year, Elgato’s Stream Deck MK.2 can help you do so. And right now at Amazon, you can pick it up for just $130, $20 off the usual price and the lowest it’s gone outside of Black Friday and Prime
Bird Buddy, the maker of a smart bird feeder that snaps photos of your bird visitors which are collected in a companion mobile app, is out today with another product for its nature enthusiast and birdwatching community. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company is showing off a prototype of its new
Food waste and food packaging take up a significant portion of the world’s landfills. AlterPacks is tackling both issues with technology that turns food waste into takeout boxes and other containers. The Singapore-based startup has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Plug and Play APAC and Seed Capital, with participation from Earth Venture
Neutrogena has asked us for years to put its soaps, lotions and other products on our bodies. Now it wants us to put its creations in our mouth. The company is promising better skin through its custom Skinstacks skin-nutrient gummies, officially launched Tuesday and on display this week at CES in Las Vegas. The product
Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the 80s’ finest films, “so bad.” The NES peripheral transfixed a generation of youngsters, only to later realize that the “bad” in this instance should perhaps have been taken a bit more literally. Nintendo ultimately sold one million of the things, but the technology just wasn’t there,
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Inevitably, whenever a new game comes out, people start to figure out ways to beat it faster and faster. And if you do this in the recently released comedic shooter High On Life, the game will react positively, cheering you on and hoping you set a world record in the process. CC Off English Released
On December 22, the popular 2019 Korean MMORPG, Lost Ark, announced an update to a hero class months before her official release in the U.S. and Europe in April. The update isn’t a gameplay one, but rather, a cosmetic one that will tone down any perceived lewdness by adding some length and undergarments to her
Dell always has interesting prototypes and concept pieces to show off at CES. I don’t think any of them have actually turned into real products, but this year, we’re seeing some of those prototypes return in a V2 form. Last year’s Concept Nyx was a home gaming server, which let you store games in one