Ulrich Kranz, the former CEO of electric car company Canoo and a key executive on the Apple Car team, is facing an SEC lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission believes that Kranz provided unreasonable revenue projections for Canoo and also misstated how much he was paid. Apple hired Ulrich Kranz back in 2021 for its Apple Car project. Kranz is known for founding self-driving car startup Canoo, and prior to that, he spent 30 years at BMW. Canoo is still around and may be most recognizable for its odd-looking “Lifestyle Vehicle,” which has not yet been produced…
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Reality Bytes is a monthly feature all about virtual reality. This time Rick takes another look at the puzzles of The Room VR: A Dark Matter as it makes its way to PSVR2. Look, I could justify this month’s Reality Bytes in any number of ways. I could say the VR launch cupboard is a little bare at the moment, with Steam’s New Releases list offering up a lot of dour military shooters, dubious Early Access projects, and fantasy dismemberment porn. I could say that The Room VR: A Dark Matter has just received a PSVR2 release, so now…
After reports saying the iPhone 15 could be delayed due to disruptions in the OLED panel production, a story by The Elec shows that Samsung Display has received mass production approval from Apple, which means the South Korean company can produce the displays for all iPhone 15 models. 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. On the other hand, LG Display received partial approval to produce the panels for the iPhone 15 Pro models,…
Increasing the number of printed voxel generated from the same DMD. a Conventional tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing. b Tomographic volumetric helical additive manufacturing. Scale bars: 10 mm. Credit: Light: Advanced Manufacturing (2023). DOI: 10.37188/lam.2023.012 Over the last decade, 3D printing technologies have experienced unprecedented developments and changes. They now enable rapid fabrication of three-dimensional objects at a very competitive cost complex. It makes 3D printers especially attractive and pertinent for various fields, including the aerospace industry or medical devices. Until recently, the paradigm in light-based 3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) mainly relied on using a vat of liquid photopolymer…
The appetite for hardware to train AI models is voracious. AI chips are forecast to account for up to 20% of the $450 billion total semiconductor market by 2025, according to McKinsey. And Insight Partners, the VC firm, projects that sales of AI chips will climb to $83.3 billion in 2027 from $5.7 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate 35%. (That’s close to 10 times the forecast growth rate for non-AI chips.) Case in point, Tenstorrent, the AI hardware startup helmed by engineering luminary Jim Keller, this week announced that it raised $100 million in a convertible note…
Solutions for low-emission ocean transport and electric motors in cars among past recipients. The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF), an independent, private organization, is continuing its partnership with provincially backed economic development agency Opportunities NB (ONB) to invest $2 million into cleantech and climate mitigation projects as part of their joint Climate Impact Fund. NBIF and ONB launched the Climate Impact Fund in 2021 with an initial investment of $1.5 million with the goal of growing the development and commercialization of new cleantech innovations in New Brunswick. Funding for the NBIF and ONB’s Climate Impact Fund was provided through the…
GameStop is pulling the plug on its crypto locker after only a year. An alert posted this week to the company’s website (via Game Developer) says GameStop Wallet will be no more after November 1st. The retailer says its decision was “due to the regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space.” The gaming retailer’s iOS and Chrome Extension lockers, billed as a “self-custodial Ethereum wallet,” will be removed on November 1st. The retailer recommends that customers have access to their Secret Passphrase to retrieve their NFTs by October 1st. “Any customer with access to their Secret Passphrase has the ability to…
I will forever have a soft spot for the Galaxy Flip. It’s the device that made me believe that foldables could, indeed, be a viable path forward for the smartphone industry. Respect to the Fold for the tough path it blazed to become the first commercially viable entry, but the Flip flipped the script, as it were, demonstrating that foldables need not be bulky nor prohibitively expensive. It’s the kind of device that makes one lament the fact that we abandoned the clamshell as a society. It’s a nice looking device that snaps shut and sits comfortably in your pocket.…
Acclaimed martial arts adventure Sifu is nearing the end of its journey; developer Sloclap has announced the game will be getting its last-ever content update on 7th September. Sifu has, of course, been around for a while at this point, having launched for PS5 and PC via the Epic Games Store back in February last year. It made the jump to Xbox and Steam this March, bringing its acclaimed third-person, single-player action – which Eurogamer contributor Edwin Evans-Thirlwell called an “elegant martial arts meditation on temporality and self-possession” in his Recommended review last year – to a whole…