Hardware is hard. We know this. But sometimes that mantra is used to justify lengthy roadmaps and delayed shipping dates. Reekon, however, isn’t letting such things stand in the way of making and selling products. The company is currently 13 full-time employees strong, after doing a lot of early work with around five. The startup’s founding story is even more humble. Co-founder and CEO Christian Reed was working at MIT spinoff 3D-printing firm Formlabs at the time. “Our first product, the M1 Caliber, myself and my co-founder started as a side project,” says Reed. “It was something I had thought…
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It was announced earlier this year that Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy would arrive on PC in early 2024. Now we have a specific release date for the three Objection-able courtroom puzzlers: January 25th, 2024.
The infamous MacBook Pro Touch Bar might be resurrected in a future iPhone model. According to patent filings found by AppleInsider, Apple has been working for over a decade on a sideway secondary display for the iPhone, which could even include virtual buttons. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. While Apple has already filed a patent application with this idea in 2011 and had it granted by 2014, the company has applied for…
A block of concrete made with waste foundry sand. Credit: Nottingham Trent University Up to 100 million tons of waste foundry sand could be averted from landfill worldwide and used to make a new form of concrete, research shows. A study by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) shows that waste foundry sand—which is a by-product the metal casting industry—could be used to make concrete that is suitable for withstanding lighter loads. Led by Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh, an expert in intelligent engineering systems, the research shows that with a substitution ratio of up to 30%, recycled waste foundry sand-based concrete has a…
This marks the 12-year-old Québec AI firm’s first external funding. Québec City-based artificial intelligence (AI) software and service company Vooban has secured a strategic investment from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). After establishing itself in Québec, Vooban targets Ontario and US expansion through organic growth and acquisitions. The amount that Vooban received from the Québec public pension plan manager was not disclosed. Vooban, which helps businesses design and deploy AI solutions, plans to use this capital to fuel its Ontario and United States (US) expansion plans, which will involve a combination of organic growth and acquisitions.…
In brief: Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink is now accepting applications for its first human clinical trial. The PRIME Study, which is short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface, will evaluate the safety of Neuralink’s fully implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) as well as the surgical robot used to install the device. The study will additionally assess the functionality of the implant, which is designed to allow patients with paralysis to control external devices using their mind. The BCI will be placed in the region of the brain that controls movement intention, Neuralink said. Once in place, it will be…
One of the biggest announcements at today’s AI-filled Amazon event is the all-new Echo Show 8. The company has refreshed the design with edge-to-edge glass up front and softer curves for a more refined look overall. While the aesthetics have changed for the better, most of the interesting stuff is on the inside. That includes updated internals to enable faster responses from Alexa and Adaptive Content based on your proximity to the device.Amazon has also outfitted the new Echo Show 8 with spatial audio and room calibration, specifically citing improvements to clarity and bass. In Amazon’s busy demo area, I…
UK regulatory body the Competition and Markets Authority is reportedly preparing to share its preliminary judgement on Microsoft’s revised Activision Blizzard deal next week. The CMA is, of course, Microsoft’s last remaining hurdle in getting its proposed $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard over the finish line after the UK regulator made the shock decision to block the deal in April, highlighting concerns relating to the burgeoning cloud gaming sector and arguing the deal would risk “stifling competition in this growing market”. Following the CMA’s decision – and the Federal Trade Commission’s failure to secure a temporary…
Li Auto, a Chinese electric car manufacturer, recently hired some talent from the smartphone industry, which sparked speculation that the company is looking to enter the smartphone market as well. Similar to Nio, which is about to announce its first smartphone on September 21. And it shapes up to be a flagship handset too. However, Li Auto’s CEO Li Xiang clarified that the company has no plans to launch a smartphone. It’s too busy working on cars. The fact that the firm hired some high-profile talent from the smartphone industry isn’t anything new for Li Auto. In fact, the CEO…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Upgrading, or retrofitting, the world’s iron and steel processing plants early could reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 gigatonnes by 2050, roughly equivalent to two years’ worth of net global carbon emissions, according to a new study published in Nature and led by UCL researchers in collaboration with Tsinghua University, Peking University and King’s College London. The researchers found that by upgrading the world’s iron and steel production facilities, carbon emissions can be reduced by 58.7 gigatonnes between 2020 and 2050, roughly equivalent to two years’ worth of net global carbon emissions. In addition, they…