Motor Authority reports that a Nissan executive told it that if the company is making an all-electric GT-R, it won’t compromise on performance, pointing to the McClaren Formula E team’s recent first victory in São Paulo, Brazil with a Nissan-designed electric racer.
As for what it will look like, an executive seemed to hint that last year’s Hyper Force concept is a preview of GT-Rs to come.
You can see that in this Slow Mo Guys YouTube Short showing the flashing of the invisible-to-the-human-eye IR illuminators of Apple’s face computer, both on the front and around the lenses’ edges.
At 1,000fps, the Guys show the Vision Pro’s very fancy micro-OLED displays alternating between images and black frames, with a ring of IR lights popping on during the dark moments to help track where your eyes are looking.
Bob was a short-lived attempt by Microsoft to make then-still-novel PCs approachable. It’s 29 this month, as XDA Developers reminds us today.
That article hauled Bob up from a three-decade-deep memory hole for me — my childhood best friend had it on his Packard Bell computer, and a very young version of me loved it. Until just now, I had assumed it was a digital playscape for children.
Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who’s apparently assembling an investor supergroup to buy the beleaguered app, wants to cut a deal to buy it sans algorithm and rebuild it, according to The Washington Post yesterday.
Now I may be a simple country tech reporter, but I’m not sure that’s such a good idea. Matt Perault, former Facebook public policy director, points out why in this quote from the Post:
“All the biggest companies have thrown a lot of money and engineering talent at that issue and have struggled to do it,” Perault said. “If Steve Mnuchin thinks he can do that and succeed where a lot of successful companies have struggled, good luck.”
[The Washington Post]
The change log for the beta version 17.10 for Garmin watches (including the Fenix 7s Pro, Epix and Epix Pro, and Enduro 2) adds phone-finding “during an activity with GPS.”
If you aren’t part of Garmin’s public beta program, here are the sign-up instructions. (The company notes that public beta testers can’t get this update on the Marq Aviator Gen 2, unfortunately.)
The company announced it was preparing to roll out the program, which lets people earn in-game sponsored items by completing quests while friends watch in Discord. According to The Wall Street Journal, that sponsored Quests will roll out in earnest next week.
The House is removing and blocking Copilot from “all House Windows Devices” after the Office of Cybersecurity determined that it risked “leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” reported Axios.
The House cited similar concerns when it restricted the use of ChatGPT in congressional offices last year and declared that no non-ChatGPT chatbots were authorized yet. A Microsoft spokesperson told Axios that meeting “federal government security and compliance requirements” with AI tools like Copilot is on its roadmap for “later this year.”
Developer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted a new “challenges” feature being developed for Instagram’s Telegram-like broadcast channels that lets creators start photo contests for members and award them prizes.
According to the screenshot Paluzzi shared, channel members can interact with or report entries, and can also share them “in their stories, messages and across other apps.”
After April 2nd, Google will flip the lights off for its podcasts app sending it to the graveyard. Here are Google’s instructions for switching to YouTube Music or some other podcast app.
A new Humane video runs down a lot of the mundane things you’d do with the AI Pin, like taking pictures, navigating its menus, entering your Wi-Fi password. or unlocking the Pin.
This may be the first video that’s given me an idea what it’s like to use it rather than just show off its AI features (there’s some of that here, too).