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Hip, hop, hurray: Rabbit opened pre-orders for its R1 pocket AI companion device earlier this week, and consumers jumped at the opportunity. In a recent post on X, the company recalled that early in the manufacturing process, they said internally they’d be happy to sell just 500 units on launch day. The team absolutely smashed […]

What just happened? One thing we’re always guaranteed to see a lot of at CES is a slew of new and impressive TVs. Hisense has become the latest company to show off its upcoming sets, which include a 110-inch model that can reach 10,000 nits of brightness and a Rollable Laser TV. Continuing the trend

Facepalm: Capcom has a mixed history with DRM. The company often removes Denuvo from its titles post-launch but has faced significant controversies regarding DRM. Despite these removals, Capcom continues to secure its games with software that may hinder modding. The recent patch for Resident Evil Revelations highlights Capcom’s practice of incorporating new DRM into some

Yikes! Scientists have been studying plastic-based environmental pollution by looking at microplastic particles. A concerning study of microscopic plastic particles at the sub-micron level shows bottled water is more polluted than tap water. A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” provides an unprecedented look at the mysterious

In a nutshell: Frore Systems has hit the Las Vegas strip with a thinner and lighter version of its AirJet Mini cooling system. The newly minted AirJet Mini Slim builds on the success of the original, which earned a Golden Award at Computex 2023 and a Best of Innovation award at this year’s consumer electronic

Facepalm: Imagine paying $1,660 for an RTX 4090 graphics card only to discover it was missing some vital components, including its GPU and several VRAM chips. That nightmare scenario was a reality for one Hong Kong gamer, who purchased Nvidia’s consumer flagship on the second-hand market. The unfortunate Mr. Hong bought the RTX 4090 from

In brief: Qualcomm recently unveiled an SoC designed to help other companies develop a new generation of mixed-reality headsets, perhaps to compete with Apple’s upcoming Vision Pro. One of Qualcomm’s first clients is Sony, which is preparing a new device separate from the gaming VR headset the company released in February last year. Sony is

Forward-looking: Rabbit is now accepting pre-orders for R1, a standalone AI-powered device that utilizes what the company calls a large action model (LAM) to learn how to perform and complete tasks on behalf of its user. In short, the LAM aims to understand how humans interact with computers. By learning and mimicking these behaviors, it

Something to look forward to: Some modders have been tinkering with pieces of Nvidia’s upcoming ray tracing mod framework for months, but the entire toolset will be available publicly in a few weeks. The company hopes the community will use this new software to create fan remasters of PC classics – like Half-Life 2, which

Facepalm: The Vision Pro headset is set to launch in the US on February 2, and Apple has released detailed app development requirements. Developers must thoroughly introduce and describe their creations before submitting their code to the device’s store. According to Apple’s new guidelines, apps intended to operate on visionOS should be labeled as “spatial