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On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the Proteus Controller, a $299 modular video game controller kit that lets Xbox gamers with disabilities customize their controllers.
Created by peripheral company ByoWave as part of the Designed for Xbox program, the wireless controller consists of small cubes with interchangeable faceplates that include controller buttons, a directional pad, and analog sticks.
The “snap and play” parts connect together so gamers can build more...
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AST SpaceMobile has ramped up demonstrations of voice calls, texts, and video calls via satellite over the last year, using 4G LTE and 5G connections with download bandwidth reaching 14Mbps. Now the company says that a previous memorandum of understanding with AT&T to work on a space-based broadband network for phones has become a “definitive commercial agreement,” just in time for AST’s first five commercial satellites to launch this summer.
The FCC has...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a speech during an event called Microsoft Build: AI Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 2nd, 2024. | Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP via Getty Images
Microsoft’s producing a lot more planet-heating pollution now than it did when it made a bold climate pledge back in 2020. Its greenhouse gas emissions were actually around 30 percent higher in fiscal year 2023, showing how hard it could be for the company to meet climate goals as it simultaneously...
Tributes continue to pour in for Ayrton Senna, as F1 returns to Imola
As the 2024 Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix approaches, tributes continue to pour in for Ayrton Senna. This weekend’s race marks 30 years since the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, a weekend which saw the tragic deaths of both Senna and Roland Ratzenberger.
The latest tribute for Senna? A video from F1 featuring several current drivers on the grid, answering this question: What does Ayrton Senna mean to...
As Meta continues its pivot to AI and the Metaverse, there will inevitably be countless products and features that the company sunsets as a result.
Meta has now confirmed one of those products that it is shutting down: Workplace, a private social network platform for companies. TechCrunch first reported the news on Tuesday and Meta has since confirmed it.
“We are discontinuing Workplace from Meta so we can focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally...
If staring at your phone in a moving vehicle is a puke-worthy or vertigo-inducing experience, Apple's new Vehicle Motion Cues might be a solution.
Announced along with a series of other new accessibility features, Vehicle Motion Cues turn built-in motion sensors in iPhone and iPads into anti-sickness aids.
SEE ALSO: Apple adds new accessibility features across the senses, including eye tracking"Research shows that motion sickness is commonly...
A bombastic wasteland folktale, George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is an ingenious, eye-popping prequel to his near-perfect action romp Mad Max: Fury Road. While it revisits several characters and locations we've already seen, it's also a wildly different beast, one that replaces its predecessor's mile-a-minute chase structure with a years-spanning story that elevates the series' operatic imagery to the level of biblical myth.
Furiosa is vicious and pulsating despite taking its time....
Pressing play on a Conner O'Malley video is a disorienting experience.
Could it be a continuation of a previous character or universe? Could it be another installation of Truth Hunters host Mark Seevers, O'Malley's creation for the 2016 election that resembled Alex Jones if he were locked in a Wisconsin basement for two years, subsisting only on hot dog relish and stale buns? Sure. Could it be another video featuring the version of O'Malley hosting a late-night show on a bike, cruising...
The bill prohibits airlines from charging fees for families to sit together and requires them to accept vouchers and credits issued in lieu of refunds for at least five years.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a broad aviation bill to boost air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents, and speed refunds for canceled flights.
Gen X had the ’92 recession. Millennials had the 2008 crisis. But now, Gen Z might just have it made, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
We’ve heard a lot about how students graduating from college now have an uphill battle ahead of them. However, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Gen Z might actually be doing better than the generations before.
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The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.
At the PGA Championship, Scheffler can become the first golfer to win the first two majors of a season since 2015.
The PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club tees off Thursday in Louisville, Kentucky, with a longer course and stormy weather in the forecast.
President Biden, trailing in polls, is hoping to shake up the race and mitigate political risk. Donald Trump, already lowering expectations for his rival, is eager for onstage clashes.
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Want to watch every NFL game on TV this season? Bring your wallet
With the continued growth of streaming services, making everything from live sports to original programming available at a click of a button, it is a good time to be a sports fan.
Albeit a pricey one.
The NFL is set to unveil their full 2024 schedule later tonight, but we already know a few features regarding the upcoming schedule.
Including a number of games that will be exclusive to...
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Koepka explained how important his mindset is when it comes to the PGA Championship and other majors.
Brooks Koepka, the reigning PGA Championship winner, brings a distinct strategy to major tournaments, setting him apart from his peers.
His focus hits another level, and he transforms into someone else.
No wonder he has the nickname ‘Major Brooks.’
“My demeanor and focus are just different. I can’t explain it,” Koepka said Wednesday at...
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Netflix’s expansion into an ad-supported model seems to be a hit. Today, at its 2024 upfront presentation, the streamer said that it now has 40 million monthly users on its ad-supported tier globally. That’s up from 23 million earlier in the year; it took six months for the option to hit 5 million users after it launched in 2022. As of April, the service had a total of 270 million subscribers across all tiers. Netflix also said that, in...
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3 Body Problem is getting a second season. Netflix announced the news that its adaptation of Cixin Liu’s award-winning sci-fi trilogy is getting more episodes, with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo returning as executive producers and writers.
3 Body Problem follows a group of scientists as they struggle with the realization that humanity isn’t the only species in the universe and that its nearest neighbors are far more technologically advanced and very...
ChatGPT, OpenAI's blockbuster generative AI application, has recently received a significant upgrade with the introduction of the new GPT-4o model unveiled at OpenAI's "Spring Update" event. GPT-4o is a multi-modal model, advertised as able to use logic not just in the generation of text, but with audio inputs and outputs, and by receiving live video — all in real time. And while the reveal wasn't a search engine as was rumored in the weeks leading up to the announcement, the...