In a nutshell: As more companies start testing autonomous delivery bots, are they going to steal human jobs and take up sidewalk space? Not in New York City, where FedEx’s SameDay Bot has been told it’s not welcome.

FedEx unveiled the delivery bot, which is designed for short-distance deliveries, back in February. It’s battery-powered, tops out at 10 mph, can climb stairs, and uses the same camera and LIDAR tech found in autonomous vehicles.

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In brief: SEC filings show there's been a bidding war between Facebook and Google over Fitbit, which the latter eventually won by a small margin. Fitbit employees seem optimistic about the acquisition, but privacy advocates are still questioning the implications. It's possible that Google and Facebook both wanted to tap into the health data of over 28 million users, as most of the innovation they could bring would be on the algorithms side of the equation.

When news broke earlier this month that Google managed to buy Fitbit

Rumor mill: For its upcoming Galaxy phones, Samsung might drop Qualcomm's in-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor after security concerns of industry officials and consumers around the technology, which likely emanated from the fact that its latest flagships were recently subject to a faulty implementation of the sensor, blacklisting them across several international banks.

Samsung's use of the Qualcomm ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner on its phones was one of the very few places where the Galaxy S10 and Note 10 flagships lagged behind the competition.

In brief: Are you using an HPE solid state drive? If so, you’ll want to install a critical firmware patch to stop it from permanently failing in less than four years of operation.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise said that certain SAS solid state drives (full list here ) would fail once they hit their 32,768th hour of operation—that's 3 years, 270 days, and 8 hours—unless their firmware is upgraded to version HPD8.

The company says a

The virtual reality industry has grown considerably since the first full-sized headsets hit the market several years ago, but not just in the realm of gaming. VR is being used in the medical field, in the real estate industry, and even for farming and agriculture purposes.

Some of these uses are a bit more bizarre than others, and you need look no further than a recent experiment conducted by Russian farmers in Moscow for evidence of that. During the experiment, which is ongoing, farmers fitted their cows with altered

One of the main benefits of being a PC gamer is the frequent sales you have access to throughout the year. Most major digital distribution platforms offer steep discounts on large portions of their game catalog during the holidays, at the very least, and Steam is usually the best of the best in this regard.

Even relatively new titles can be had for 50 percent (or more) off during Valve's frequent store-wide sales, and the latest event -- the Autumn Sale -- is a great example

Sarcastic commentary: So let's get this straight: EA finally releases a single player Star Wars game that has no microtransactions and it outsells all other EA titles in the franchise to become the fastest selling SW game to date. Well, surprise, surprise!

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has only been out for less than two weeks, and according to EA, it has already started breaking records. While the publisher did not release any specific numbers, it says that the game is the fastest-selling digital download

What just happened? The organization that crafts the standards behind RISC-V chipset architecture have an even bigger headache than dealing with the never-ending Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) battles. The political trade war is creating too much uncertainty, so the RISC-V Foundation is moving shop to Switzerland where it will continue its mission to direct the development of an open-source instruction set architecture for CPUs.

The trade war is starting to show its effects on the global tech industry, even as President Trump says the US

In brief: Nvidia partnered with Bethesda earlier this year to launch a ray-traced version of Quake II. It wasn’t just a one-and-done, however, as the GPU maker on Tuesday rolled out an update for the remaster that further improves eye candy.

Quake II RTX v1.2 adds more than 400 enhanced textures to the mix and there are now real-time ray-traced graphics that can be seen on security monitors and other displays. Select surfaces now exhibit recursive reflections