A number of US cities are pulling the plug on Flock Safety's AI cameras
Flock, valued at roughly $7.5 billion and backed by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, says its systems help police identify vehicles linked to criminal activity by analyzing license plates and other features, such as bumper stickers. But the same capability has alarmed privacy advocates and local governments, particularly after reports that...
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Gamer recycles VR roller coaster into fully motion-enabled Elite Dangerous cockpit
A streamer recently explained how they built a chair that responds to movement feedback from simulation games. The project began as a childhood dream and evolved into a hobby of acquiring and repurposing used machinery.
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Amazon's Jassy now sees AWS hitting $600 billion a year on AI tailwinds
Jassy's comments, delivered at an internal all-hands meeting and reviewed by Reuters, reflect a growing conviction within Amazon that AI will reshape not only its cloud segment but also the company's broader strategy. While he once envisioned AWS becoming a $300 billion-a-year business over the next decade, Jassy now believes...
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Sony releases new PlayStation 3 update nearly 20 years after launch
The 4.93 update for the PlayStation 3 arrived this morning, exactly one year after the 4.92 update. As PlayStation Lifestyle reports, the patch notes are the same vague line PS3 owners have been seeing for years: "This system software update improves system performance."
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Tim Cook shuts down speculation about his retirement: "That's a rumor"
The comment came after the Financial Times reported last year that Apple might be setting the stage for Cook's departure as early as 2026. But as Apple heads deeper into the year, Cook's demeanor and remarks suggest no imminent leadership transition. When asked directly about whether he had plans to...
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Meta will end Horizon Worlds VR access in June as the metaverse dream keeps fading
Meta announced in February that it was making Horizon Worlds, its first attempt at creating a shared immersive VR world that Mark Zuckerberg was once obsessed with, a mobile-only experience.
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Todd Howard discusses Starfield's next big update – and says Elder Scrolls VI is still years away
Starfield received a small paid update this week, with a larger free update and a paid DLC storyline set to launch on April 7 alongside the PS5 port. The new content follows several significant updates Bethesda has released in hopes of improving the game since it launched in 2023 to...
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Man says wife stole $172 million in Bitcoin after hidden CCTV cameras captured wallet password
According to High Court filings, Ping Fai Yuen claims his wife, Fun Yung Li, secretly recorded him entering the seed phrase and access codes for his Trezor cold wallet at their family home in August 2023.
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A 1TB MacBook Neo? A modder just made it happen
The project, documented in a detailed teardown video, walks through each stage of the hardware surgery. What begins as a straightforward disassembly quickly becomes a display of precision engineering rarely seen outside of Apple's manufacturing lines.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says gamers calling DLSS 5 AI slop are "completely wrong"
Few technologies have faced as much criticism upon their reveals as DLSS 5. The vast majority of gamers are aghast at the way it gives characters a typical AI-generated uncanny valley appearance – especially Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy – as opposed to the "photorealistic" look Nvidia claims.
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