Apple wird das Apple TV der dritten Generation bald nicht mehr anbieten. Wer das vor vier Jahren erschienene Streaming-Gerät noch haben möchte, kann es aber vorerst weiter kaufen. (Apple TV, Apple) Month: October 2016
Gears of War 4: The next gen is now—if you’re on Windows 10, at least
Review: Xbox “Scorpio” era starts early and looks great—but geez, the campaign sucks.
Hindsight tells us that Microsoft's gamble on the Gears of War series paid off not once but twice: first, as a successful tech demo for what its Xbox 360 console could muster in 2006, and second, as an honest-to-goodness contender for the online-combat crown.
Frankly, the game didn't need to be more than a beautiful tease for the lighting and rendering effects of Unreal Engine 3 on console-grade technology, but it happened to distill the important bits of a multiplayer shooter into a gameplay system that kicked butt on an Xbox gamepad. Halo works well enough on a controller, sure, but Gears of War, with its stick-to-cover, turf-control battling system, is the rare online game that might be better with two joysticks and zero mice.
But sticking to the Xbox 360 for nearly a decade meant that the shooter series began to tread water in both of those respects. Gears of War 4, the series' first entry on a new hardware platform, seems to aim its sights at resurrecting the series' original tentpoles: compelling multiplayer combat and jaw-dropping real-time visuals. The game's overall success boils down to nailing those aspects, but Gears 4 also stands as a curious first for Microsoft.
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Cloud Computing: Was ist eigentlich Software Defined Storage?
Cloud Computing boomt und beschert auch dem Konzept des Software Defined Storage (SDS) ordentlich Auftrieb. Worum geht es dabei eigentlich und warum ist SDS interessant? Golem.de erklärt das am Beispiel der SDS-Lösung Ceph. (Cloud Computing, POSIX)
Cloud Computing boomt und beschert auch dem Konzept des Software Defined Storage (SDS) ordentlich Auftrieb. Worum geht es dabei eigentlich und warum ist SDS interessant? Golem.de erklärt das am Beispiel der SDS-Lösung Ceph. (Cloud Computing, POSIX) Galaxy Note 7: Austauschgerät entzündet Feuer in einem Flugzeug
Erneut ist ein Galaxy Note 7 in Brand geraten – aber diesmal soll es ein Gerät nach dem Austausch gewesen sein. Der Vorfall hatte die Evakuierung eines Flugzeugs zur Folge. Samsung und Behörden ermitteln noch. (Galaxy Note 7, Smartphone)
Erneut ist ein Galaxy Note 7 in Brand geraten - aber diesmal soll es ein Gerät nach dem Austausch gewesen sein. Der Vorfall hatte die Evakuierung eines Flugzeugs zur Folge. Samsung und Behörden ermitteln noch. (Galaxy Note 7, Smartphone) Ford: Autonomes Auto von Uber übersieht Einbahnstraße
Ein von Uber umgebautes, autonom fahrendes Auto ist in Pittsburgh fast verkehrt herum in eine Einbahnstraße abgebogen. Das Auto erkannte das Verkehrsschild offenbar nicht. Der Testfahrer verhinderte Schlimmeres. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)
Ein von Uber umgebautes, autonom fahrendes Auto ist in Pittsburgh fast verkehrt herum in eine Einbahnstraße abgebogen. Das Auto erkannte das Verkehrsschild offenbar nicht. Der Testfahrer verhinderte Schlimmeres. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie) LIFX: Infrarotlicht-LED für das Smart Home
LIFX hat eine vernetzte LED-Lampe vorgestellt, die Licht im Infrarotspektrum aussendet. Das soll für das Smart Home interessant sein. So können Überwachungskameras im Dunkeln mehr erkennen. (Smart Home)
LIFX hat eine vernetzte LED-Lampe vorgestellt, die Licht im Infrarotspektrum aussendet. Das soll für das Smart Home interessant sein. So können Überwachungskameras im Dunkeln mehr erkennen. (Smart Home) Samsung to buy AI platform Viv, from the makers of Siri
Earlier this year two of the developers behind the original version of Siri unveiled a new app called Viv. While Siri was acquired by Apple and baked into the company’s smartphone operating system, Viv was designed to be more of an open platform, capable of tapping into third-party services… much the way Amazon’s Alexa can learn “skills” and the way the Google Assistant will soon support “Actions.”
While Viv Labs demonstrated a preview of its software in May, the company has yet to release anything to the public.
Continue reading Samsung to buy AI platform Viv, from the makers of Siri at Liliputing.
Earlier this year two of the developers behind the original version of Siri unveiled a new app called Viv. While Siri was acquired by Apple and baked into the company’s smartphone operating system, Viv was designed to be more of an open platform, capable of tapping into third-party services… much the way Amazon’s Alexa can learn “skills” and the way the Google Assistant will soon support “Actions.”
While Viv Labs demonstrated a preview of its software in May, the company has yet to release anything to the public.
Continue reading Samsung to buy AI platform Viv, from the makers of Siri at Liliputing.
Theranos throws in the towel on clinical labs, officially pivots to devices
In an open letter, CEO Elizabeth Holmes announces company-wide restructuring.
Founder and CEO of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, at TEDMED 2014. (credit: TEDMED)
In a move that seemed inevitable and long overdue, Theranos CEO and founder announced today in an open letter that the company is shuttering its clinical work for good.
“After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best aligned with our core values and mission,” Holmes wrote.
As part of the restructuring, the disgraced blood testing company will lay off about 340 employees, based in Arizona, California, and Pennsylvania. It will close its labs and all of its remaining Wellness Centers. Moving forward, Theranos will focus on selling its diagnostic device, the miniLab, which it debuted at a scientific conference at the beginning of August.
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Theranos throws in the towel on clinical labs, officially pivots to devices
In an open letter, CEO Elizabeth Holmes announces company-wide restructuring.
Founder and CEO of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, at TEDMED 2014. (credit: TEDMED)
In a move that seemed inevitable and long overdue, Theranos CEO and founder announced today in an open letter that the company is shuttering its clinical work for good.
“After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best aligned with our core values and mission,” Holmes wrote.
As part of the restructuring, the disgraced blood testing company will lay off about 340 employees, based in Arizona, California, and Pennsylvania. It will close its labs and all of its remaining Wellness Centers. Moving forward, Theranos will focus on selling its diagnostic device, the miniLab, which it debuted at a scientific conference at the beginning of August.
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AT&T names 11 new metro areas for gigabit fiber Internet
AT&T Fiber will be in (parts of) 45 metros by end of 2016.
AT&T yesterday announced another 11 metro areas where it plans to install gigabit fiber Internet. So far, AT&T Fiber is available in 29 metro areas in the US, and another 38 (including those announced this week) are slated to get the service eventually.
The newly announced metro areas are Gainesville and Panama City, Florida; Columbus, Georgia; Central Kentucky; Lafayette, Louisiana; Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi and Northeast Mississippi; Wilmington, North Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee and Southeastern Tennessee; and Corpus Christi, Texas.
AT&T did not say when these areas will actually get service. The company said it will have deployed in 45 metro areas by the end of 2016, including the 29 already being served. The 11 newly announced areas are presumably among those that won't get service until at least 2017.
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