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San Jose, California company — the brainchild of Michael Leabman, an MIT graduate and former sales executive at Lucent — has made considerable progress toward its goal of ubiquitous power-at-a-distance charging in five years. It’s amassed more than 170 patents, partnered with Dialog Semiconductor to manufacture and sell its licensed chip designs, and assembled a […]

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For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit’s effort has been slow, in part because of the translation tool it uses. Editors on the website have  a desire to use Google Translate, as it could make translations faster. , the parent company of Wikipedia, announced today […]

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We’ve all been there: You’re trying desperately to Google something before your phone dies, but alas — you can’t quite manage it. Before today, your search results would’ve been lost to the annals of history, but Google’s taken the wraps off of a new feature that lets you pick up searches where you left off. […]

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We’ve all been there: You’re trying desperately to Google something before your phone dies, but alas — you can’t quite manage it. Before today, your search results would’ve been lost to the annals of history, but Google’s taken the wraps off of a new feature that lets you pick up searches where you left off. […]

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announced its new today. It’s a $700 GPU that may have similar performance to , which ranges in price from $700 to $800. This finally makes AMD competitive with Nvidia again on the high-end (if you ignore that $1,200 RTX 2080 Ti). But the Radeon VII may actually help Nvidia make its case about the […]

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The Shield TV, Nvidia’s Android TV streaming box, is still getting regular updates, but the Shield Tablet, which launched in 2014, was last refreshed in 2015 and officially discontinued last year, wasn’t quite the same success. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a small press gathering at CES in Las Vegas today, the company […]

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CEO Jensen Huang had a well-timed Q&A session at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. It came on Wednesday morning, just after his rival, Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, gave a keynote speech where she introduces the . Huang was not impressed. “It was kind of underwhelming,” he said […]

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As Twitter continues to look for ways to monetise its platform beyond basic advertising, it is building more tools for businesses that turn Twitter into more of a utility that helps them do their jobs. Today at CES, Twitter said it’s going to make it easier for publishers to better understand what sort of content is […]

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A new drone from the NIMBUS group at the University of Nebraska can fall out of a plane, parachute down, fly to a certain place, dig a hole, hide sensors inside it, and then fly away like some crazy wasp. Robots are weird. The goal of the project is to allow drones to place sensors […]

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This light makes the smart home even more accessible. Installed as any other ceiling downlight, the June AI downlight features Amazon Alexa through integrated JBL speakers. There’s a light in there, too. The idea is great: make the smart home invisible. Instead of having an Amazon Echo sitting on a table, this device sits in […]

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