Sooner or later, the numbers were going to contract. Broadly speaking, the pandemic has been a gamechanger for automation broadly and robotics specifically. But not even those categories are immune from macro trends. Per new numbers from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) — whose job it is to track such things — North American … Read more
A popular secure video-conferencing app has just ditched the main feature making it for a long time the go-to for activists, journalists, and whoever looking for extra privacy: its users’ anonymity. Completely free to use, Jitsi Meet is an encrypted and open-source platform available for both web and mobile. Jitsi has increasingly become a privacy-first … Read more
The long-awaited “Skyrim in space,” Starfield, is out today after many years in development over at Bethesda. It’s ambitious and lavishly produced, but despite its size it lacks the sense of wonder and vastness that its pastoral predecessor epitomized. (I and my colleague Darrell both played the game and came away with differing impressions — … Read more
On the lookout for the best new Hulu movies? You’ve landed in the right place. This is TechRadar’s guide to every new Hulu movie joining the streamer in September 2023. In the guide below you’ll see all of the incoming new Hulu releases for the next month, bringing you a constant stream of fresh films … Read more
Speak, an English language learning platform backed by OpenAI’s startup investment fund, the OpenAI Startup Fund, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series B-2 funding round led by angel investor Lachy Groom. The co-founders of Dropbox, Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, also participated in Speak’s tranche, which brings the startup’s total raised … Read more
We always expected to see the Google Pixel 8 launch in October, but now we know exactly when, as Google has announced that it’s holding an event on Wednesday, October 4, where we’ll see the latest additions to the company’s “Pixel portfolio of devices.” That’s the wording used in the invite, and while the Pixel … Read more