An anonymous reader shares a report from TechCrunch, written by Devin Coldewey: It’s no secret I’m a fan of the reMarkable, a tablet with a paper-like display that’s focused on text and sketching rather than rich media and games. The sequel to the original, announced today, looks to make a good thing even better. Designed for the creation and consumption of…
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PlayStation 2 Is Now Officially 20 Years Old
The PlayStation 2 is celebrating its 20th anniversary as it launched in Japan on March 4, 2000. “It was released in the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world a year later and would go on to become the best-selling console of all time,” reports GiveMeSport. From the report: To put this into context, its main rivals at the time,…
Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due To Costly Parts
Scarce components have pushed the manufacturing costs for Sony’s next PlayStation to around $450 per unit, forcing a difficult price-setting decision in its battle with Microsoft, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources. From the report: The Japanese conglomerate is preparing to gradually replace the six-year-old PS4 console, releasing its PlayStation 5 the same holiday season its archrival debuts the upcoming Xbox Series…
Tim Sweeney: Android is a Fake Open System, and iOS is Worse
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened a game event in Las Vegas today with a call to make the industry more open and liberate it from the monopolistic practices of platform owners such as Google and Apple. From a report: In a talk about his vision for games in the next decade, Sweeney alternated between criticizing all of the big players…
MWC Hangs by a Thread After Nokia, Vodafone, DT and Other Big Names Back Out
More big names are stepping away from the world’s biggest phone and telecom trade fair, they announced today, prompting the organizers to urgently decide what they wish to do going forward. From a report: Nokia, one of the omnipresent firms at major tech trade conferences, won’t be attending this year’s Mobile World Congress, it said Wednesday citing health and safety concerns…
PETA Suggests Celebrating Groundhog Day With a Weather-Predicting AI-Enabled Robot
There’s a North American tradition that says there’ll be six more weeks of winter if a groundhog can see his shadow (due to clear skies) on February 2nd. And while it’s been honored every year with a ceremony in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania since 1887, PETA is now suggesting that the event’s organizers should stop using a live groundhog — and replace him…
Huge PS5 Leak Spills a Bunch of Info On Sony’s Reveal Event
A PS5 leak posted on 4Chan, which was later reposted on Reddit, spills a bunch of information on the PlayStation 5 reveal event which is expected to take place in February. According to the leak, the PS5 will be unveiled on February 5 at a PlayStation Meeting event for the media. “The console design, controller, UI/home screen, certain features, console specs,…
Sony’s Robot Dogs Are Helping Japanese People Find Companionship
The dogs, known as Aibos, are companion robots made by Sony — robots that don’t necessarily do much apart from providing company and comfort. From a report: Every Aibo — Japanese for “companion” — is manufactured identically, besides a choice between silver and white or a brown, black, and white version. They all have rounded snouts that include a camera for…
Sony Can’t Make Image Sensors Fast Enough To Keep Up With Demand
Sony is working around the clock to manufacture its in-demand image sensors, but even a 24-hour operation hasn’t been enough. From a report: For the second straight year, the Japanese company will run its chip factories constantly through the holidays to try and keep up with demand for sensors used in mobile phone cameras, according to Terushi Shimizu, the head of…
Google Assistant Can Now Interpret 44 Languages on Smartphones
Kyle Wiggers, writing for VentureBeat: In January during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Google debuted interpreter mode, a real-time translation feature for Google Home speakers and third-party smart displays like those from JBL, Sony, LG, and Lenovo. The tech giant said at the time that interpreter mode would eventually come to mobile devices, but it didn’t set a…