Uber is trying to save passengers time. How? By completely overhauling its app, putting a focus on speed and efficiency. “It’s not just a normal update,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said during a press briefing Tuesday at the company’s swanky San Francisco headquarters. “This is a radical redesign and rebuild of the app from scratch.” …
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Chatting and collaborating with colleagues used to be all about watercoolers and whiteboards. These days it’s more about videoconferencing, email and at least one form of instant messaging. Microsoft is the latest company to jump on the work-chat bandwagon with the launch of Teams at a New York event Wednesday. Teams brings together chats, notes and planning with the intention …
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Parents, do you remember when your “robot friend” was a cardboard box in your front yard? Well, times have definitely changed, and now your child can befriend Dash, a superfun, real-life robot companion from Wonder Workshop. This week, one lucky parent will receive Wonder Workshop’s Holiday Pack, which includes Dash and the Launcher snap-on accessory. Dash is a voice-responsive, interactive …
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Need to get somewhere and don’t want to use your legs like a sucker? Move over Hoverboard, Walkcar’s got this. The WalkCar is a laptop-sized transporter similar to the Segway, as you’ll use body control to operate the powerful yet compact platform. Tilt left and it’ll turn left, tilt right and it’ll turn right, and so on. If you lose …
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Japanese high school student Saya has flawless skin, shiny hair and her uniform is always clean. That’s not surprising since her parents are computer graphics artists who worked together to design their own virtual child. When Saya was first unveiled around October last year by creators Teruyuki and Yuka Ishikawa, she blew viewers away. She’s so realistic — from her …
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Well, this is a nice surprise: A drone from a startup that’s actually shipping on time. Zero Zero Robotics announced its Hover Camera back in April, saying it would ship before the holidays, and lo and behold it’s actually happening. Now called the Passport, the compact quadcopter is roughly the size of an average hardcover book when folded up for …
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Vodafone has put on its game face for the global race towards 5G, conducting the first public trials of the technology in Sydney today. The telco has partnered with Nokia to test and develop the technology, and both companies were talking up the benefits of lower latency, faster speeds and greater capacity for more connected devices on the network. Vodafone …
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What does it look like to you? Here are some CNET answers: “A futuristic ashtray from a movie made in the 1960’s.” — Eric “I see a bad coldbrew coffee maker…actually, it’s that thing that had those poison balls from ‘The Rock.'” — Morgan That thing that had those poison balls from “The Rock.” “I guess it looks like a …
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South Korea has brought us Samsung, the world’s biggest phone maker. Now, the country’s government is investing big bucks so that the world’s biggest robotics maker hails from South Korea, too. The country will invest $450 million, or 500 billion won, to cultivate a strong robotics industry, Yonhap News reports. Vacuum robots are the most widely used type of robot …
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Warning: Minor spoilers for “Westworld” ahead. Can’t wait to take the train back to “Westworld” to learn what’s up with Ed Harris’ creepy man in black and find out just how off-script the town’s robot hosts are starting to veer? You don’t need to wait until the new HBO drama’s normal Sunday night time slot this week. The network decided …
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