March 14, 2019 Android Q will offer photo apps access to added depth effects The first Android Q beta has arrived. And based on the features Google listed on Android Developers Blog, it could herald the arrival of…
March 14, 2019 Telegram gained three million new users during Facebook outage Three million new users have signed up to Telegram over the past 24 hours, during a period in which Facebook (and Facebook Messenger), Instagram,…
March 14, 2019 Google is shutting down Spotlight Stories, its immersive film studio Google has announced that it’s shutting down Spotlight Stories, its in-house film studio focused on producing 360-degree videos for phones. “Google Spotlight Stories is…
March 14, 2019 Google shutters its Spotlight Stories VR studio after six years Google's Spotlight Stories is no more. The VR studio's executive producer, Karen Dufilho, has sent out an email to announce that the division is…
March 14, 2019 MoviePass’ ‘day to day’ leading exec resigns after a few months In December MoviePass closed out a turbulent year with new subscription plans for moviegoers and a path to profitability, all with a new exec…
March 14, 2019 MIT robot’s flytrap gripper can grab both fragile and heavy objects Robot hands tend to skew toward extremes. They can pick up delicate objects or heavy objects, but rarely both. MIT CSAIL's solution? Avoid hands…
March 14, 2019 This robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but it can lift 100 times its own weight If someone asked you to imagine a robot, says Daniela Rus, a professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), you’d probably…
March 14, 2019 Microsoft’s Pi Day sale takes $314 off of some Windows laptops and desktops As it has done for the past few years, Microsoft is celebrating Pi Day 2019 by marking down a selection of PCs by $314;…
March 14, 2019 Senators want Congressional hacks to be public knowledge When a company is hacked, consumers usually find out about it through the press or emails. You probably remember the Target hack that spilled…
March 13, 2019 EA reportedly paid Ninja $1 million to stream ‘Apex Legends’ It's no secret that EA paid top streamers to promote (and to some extent, influence) Apex Legends, but how much did those streamers make?…