Video Friday: Human to Humanoid
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. HRI 2024: 11–15 March 2024, BOULDER, COLO. Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, […]
‘1899’ Fans Still Want Answers
1899, a science fiction series from Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, creators of the hit TV show Dark, premiered on Netflix in November 2022. TV producer Ruairi Carroll enjoyed the show’s mysterious characters and storyline. “Whatever way Netflix algorithms work, it was being pushed on my screen all the time,” Carroll says in Episode […]
The 96th Academy Awards: What does winning an Oscar even mean anyway?
Ah, the Oscars. Sunday night’s 96th Academy Awards are the night of a thousand stars and a thousand dreams (hello, Moonlight!) — or heartbreaks, if you’re among the losers (sorry, La La Land). The victorious moment can send a career careening to new heights (hello, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck!) or nudge it in exactly […]
BAFTA’s 20th Games Awards feature a variety of nominees
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has released the list of nominees for its 20th Game Awards in 2024. The list features several familiar games from other awards events […]
Apple AirPods Max 2: release date, specs and price
Considering Apple has a reputation for releasing product updates every couple of years, it is somewhat surprising that we’re yet to be treated to the second generation of the hugely popular Apple AirPods Max. The AirPods Max represented Apple’s first foray into the over-ear headphones market when they launched in 2020, having already taken the […]
Apple blew $10 billion on failed car project, considered buying Tesla
Aurich Lawson/Jonathan Gitlin/Getty Images Apple spent roughly $1 billion a year on its car project before canceling it last month, according to a report in Bloomberg. The project, which apparently made as little sense to many inside Apple as it did to outside observers, began in 2014 as the tech giant looked for a new […]
The Download: Organoid uses, and open source voting machines
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections While vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord, New Hampshire, this past August, election officials asked every kind of question: How much does the new scanner weigh? Are any of its parts made in China? The answers weren’t trivial. These machines are a […]