Now playing: Watch this: Hasbro’s getting your kids to code with princess robots… 1:25 Throwing coding into toys is a trend that’s gone full-force over the last year or so, and Hasbro isn’t letting up. Two new spins on coding robots in 2017 include Belle from “Beauty and the Beast,” and a little hairless puppy …
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Learning a new language can be rough. Casio knows this, and has made a mini-language partner for you in form of the Lesson Pod. The Lesson Pod is a charming desktop buddy that acts as both a conversation partner and instructor, providing accurate spoken sentences that you can practice at home or on the go. The little guy stands at …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image He looks excited. He’s paid to be. Verizon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You’re already excited by the news that Verizon is relaunching its unlimited plan. You know, the one that gave you what you wanted until Verizon decided that it wasn’t what it …
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In this week’s This Feels A Little Like Skynet: IBM built a new voice assistant using artificial intelligence called Hayvn, focused on cybersecurity. Think of it as Amazon Alexa, but instead of ordering soap, it’s helping you manage threats. Sure, this might sound like it’s ripped straight out of the plot for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, in which …
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“Rememory,” a new movie about what our minds forget, tries to teach a tech lesson that its makers hope you’ll remember. The film, a sci-fi crime drama about a groundbreaking device that records unfiltered memories, spins a cautionary tale of how even well-intentioned technology can, well, ruin lives. Premiering Wednesday at the Sundance Film Festival, it stars Peter Dinklage, best …
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This year’s Sundance Film Festival was awash in new movies, shorts and experiences made for augmented and virtual reality. For today’s podcast, digital media reporter Joan E. Solsman discusses her visit to the festival to see these new forms of storytelling take shape, such as a new 40-minute VR film called “Miyubi” about a toy robot living with a family …
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Here’s FamilyTreeNow.com’s promise: “100 percent free family tree and geneaology research.” Sounds good, right? Well known sites such as Ancestry.com charge you, but FamilyTreeNow is completely free. But it’s not a genealogy site. Rather, it’s masquerading as one, when it’s really a people-search tool similar to Peoplefinders and Spokeo. However, those sites charge for their services, and that’s where FamilyTreeNow …
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No need to hunt for the geeky pockets at Sundance — they’re front and center this year. The Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday night in Park City, Utah, with a science-based call to arms as its opening-night movie. “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” revisits the crusade against climate change a decade after “An Inconvenient Truth” became one of …
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A friendly neighborhood robot might soon deliver your takeout. Small, six wheeled robots from Starship Technologies will start taking orders in Redwood City, California, and Washington DC, the company said in a release Wednesday. Starship is partnering with food delivery services DoorDash and Postmates for the pilot programs, its first in the US. Starship already has a number of delivery …
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There are lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion fans in the world, and many of them hope to ride Universal Studios Japan’s new Evangelion-themed VR roller coaster ride. That means there will be some long queues at the park. To combat the tedium of these lines, the theme park made MAGI Mobile, a companion app that entertains you while you wait …
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