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Vulkan graphics will enable faster games and apps on Apple platforms
The Khronos Group, a consortium of hardware and software companies, has announced that the Vulkan graphics technology has been ported to Apple’s platforms, allowing games and apps to run at faster performance levels on Macs and iOS devices. That’s a small victory for open platforms, and it should make a lot of Apple consumers happy. […]
China plans to enable half of all new cars with AI by 2020
SHANGHAI — China aims to implement artificial intelligence technology in at least half of all its new cars by 2020 and cover 90 percent of its big cities and highways with a wireless network so the cars can talk to each other and the roads, its top state planner said on Friday. These goals are […]
Guidemaster: Everything Amazon’s Alexa can do, plus the best skills to enable
Enlarge If you’ve just introduced one of Amazon’s Echo devices into your home and feel a little lost, you’re not alone. The promises made by Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa are vast, and it’s difficult to know where to start when you want Alexa to do something more than set a cooking timer or tell you tomorrow’s weather […]
How blockchain could end, instead of enable, money laundering
GUEST: An Israeli District Court recently ruled that Israeli banks are not obligated to provide financial services to companies whose primary business is trading in cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. The Court reasoned that banks should not have to assume the risks associated with providing a financial platform to these digital currency businesses when […]
Op-ed: The Deep Space Gateway would shackle human exploration, not enable it
Enlarge / What the Deep Space Gateway might look like based on NASA concept drawings. (credit: NASA) Editor’s note: NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway has been in the news recently due to a joint statement of support for the project from US and Russian officials. However, as former space shuttle pilot and International Space Station commander […]
Toyota’s future EV battery tech could enable much longer trips
The switchover to an electric vehicle (EV) future is bound to happen, with increased sales and companies like Volvo committing to hybrid models in the next couple of years. One of the things still holding back widespread adoption of the technology, however, is the low range the current crop of EV batteries represent. We’re not […]
Jon ‘Neverdie’ Jacobs raises Ethereum cryptocurrency to enable cross-platform online game avatars
Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs has done some crazy things, like running for “President of Virtual Reality” and buying a virtual asteroid for $ 100,000 in real money in the online game Entropia Universe. Now his Neverdie company is trying to raise a ton of money via the Ethereum cryptocurrency through an initial coin offering (ICO) so […]
GoTenna raises $7.5 million to enable off-the-grid communications on your smartphone
Satellite-powered phones are often clunky, expensive, and, well, dependent on satellite connection. GoTenna wants to bring off-the-grid text and GPS communication to your smartphone. No cell service? No Wi-Fi? No problem. The Brooklyn-based startup today announced funding of $ 7.5 million, led by Union Square Ventures. GoTenna’s USB key-type device works using Bluetooth low-energy (LE), […]
Implants enable richer communication for people with paralysis
John Scalzi’s science fiction novel Lock In predicts a near future where people with complete body paralysis can live meaningful, authentic lives thanks to (fictional) advances in brain-computer interfaces. A new study by researchers at Stanford University might be the first step towards such a reality. Using brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to help people with paralysis […]
