Author: Cinga
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Nintendo’s original alarm clock prototypes were a lot less playful
Nintendo just announced its new Alarmo clock with a motion sensor, and even though we’re still soaking in the $100 device, the company also shared a look at some interesting early prototypes that reveal how the project changed during its development. While the Alarmo is round and an eye-catching red, one “early” prototype Nintendo showed…
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Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize
Two scientists credited with laying the “foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” University of Toronto professor emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University professor John Hopfield, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics today. Their discoveries and inventions laid the groundwork for many of the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, the Nobel committee at the Royal…
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Instacart’s smart cart helps you navigate to the sauce that’s on sale
If you always have trouble finding that specific pasta sauce like I do, there’s a smart grocery shopping cart that can map it out for you. Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce, now has a new store…
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A new Ray-Ban Meta update adds reminders and voice messages
Meta is bringing reminders to its Ray-Ban smart glasses, a feature it previewed during its Connect event last month. With the update, you can ask Meta AI to remember your surroundings, like where you parked, and even time up reminders to make a phone call. The other features coming with the update include the ability…
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Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune
Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. “Yesterday, gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on…
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Port workers along the East and Gulf coasts go on strike
Dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts of the US have shut down as thousands of dock workers strike over wages and technology that could replace jobs, according to CNBC. The strike, which began just past midnight on October 1st, could raise prices and make goods harder to get, depending on how long…
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Verizon says it fixed the outage that brought mobile services down across the country
Verizon experienced a huge outage that affected its mobile services across the country and lasted for several hours. But as of Monday evening, the company says services have been restored. “Verizon engineers have fully restored today’s network disruption that impacted some customers,” the company said on its Verizon News account on X at 7:18PM ET.…
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Leaked Google Pixel 9A renders reveal a visor-free look
Google’s first leak of the fall is here, with new renders of its upcoming Pixel 9A posted online for the world to see. As with the Pixel 8A leak earlier this year, Android Headlines has yet again acquired images of Google’s next budget A-series release, this time by way of OnLeaks, which was responsible for…
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Apple may release an iPad-like smart home display next year
Apple is preparing to take a fresh run at the smart home that starts with a rumored smart display that it may release next year. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in his Power On newsletter today that the display will use a new operating system, called homeOS, that’s based on the Apple…
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AMD improves Zen 5 CPU latency and performance with BIOS updates
AMD is releasing new BIOS updates that will boost performance for its Ryzen 9600X / 9700X processors and address some latency issues. The performance improvements and latency reductions arrive around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews and appear alongside updates to Windows 11 that include optimized AMD-specific branch prediction for both Zen…