Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Prophesee has partnered with Qualcomm to bring a new kind of fast image sensor to smartphone cameras. The “event-based” Metavision technology will enable smartphone cameras that can capture fast action in comparison to today’s image sensors. The... Read more

Enlarge / SpaceX’s V2 Mini Starlink satellites. SpaceX With Starlink speeds slowing due to a growing capacity crunch, SpaceX said a launch happening as soon as today will deploy the first “V2 Mini” satellites that provide four times more per-satellite capacity than earlier versions. Starlink’s second-generation satellites include the... Read more

The Last of Us episode 7 landed on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, following Ellie and Joel (Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal) after a nasty encounter with a marauder left Joel stabbed and near death. It interrupted their quest to bring Ellie to the rebel group known as the... Read more

It began with a tweet of a bar graph depicting a sharp rise in the month of February: Neil Clarke, the publisher and editor in chief of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld, had plotted out the publication’s past few years of plagiarized and spammy submissions. Until late 2022, the... Read more

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced the authorization of the first at-home, over-the-counter test that can tell you whether you have the virus that causes COVID-19 or influenza, all through a single swab of the nose.  The Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Home Test is a nasal... Read more

If you own as many backpacks as we do, you might have noticed that they’re categorized by liters rather than their inch-by-inch dimensions. The volume, or bag capacity, is a critical factor to keep in mind when purchasing a backpack. For example, a 15-liter backpack is fine for day-to-day... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. A decade ago, social casino games exploded as free-to-play social casino games, where you could buy virtual chips but couldn’t cash out winnings. But Playstudios showed up in 2011 with a different... Read more

The Pokemon Company teased upcoming announcements last week, with a video presentation scheduled for Monday, Feb. 27. It promised “about 20 minutes” of news about the monster-collecting megafranchise, which will likely include additional content for Nintendo Switch games Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. “Tune in to our official YouTube channel... Read more

Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing future may seem outlandish to some, but only because no nation has detonated a nuclear weapon in conflict since 1945. Countries including the US, Russia, and China wield hefty nuclear arsenals and... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Qualcomm said it has lined up seven global telecommunications operators to leverage XR (extended reality) devices using Snapdragon spaces. The operators include CMCC, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI Corporation, NTT QONOQ, T-Mobile, Telefonica, and Vodafone. All are working with... Read more