The HTC Vive Pro Eye that was introduced during this year’s CES is now available for purchase in North America. The starting price of the whole kit in the US is $1,599 while in Canada, it’s CAD2,149. The Vive Pro Eye is mainly developed for the enterprise customers looking to train their employees and test…
Walmart on Friday announced plans for a new, in-home grocery delivery service which would allow the retailer to deliver items directly to a customer’s fridge or freezer, even when the customer isn’t home. The service, called InHome Delivery, works by way of smart entry technology combined with proprietary cameras worn by the delivery associates that…
Synapse, a San Francisco-based startup that operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has closed a $33 million Series B to develop new products and go after international expansion. The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from existing backers Trinity Ventures and Core Innovation Capital . Synapse…
Using less than $8 and thirteen hours of training time, researchers from the United Nations were able to develop a program that could craft realistic seeming speeches for the United Nations’ General Assembly. The study, first reported by MIT’s Technology Review, is another indication that the age of deepfakes is here and that faked texts…
Using less than $8 and thirteen hours of training time, researchers from the United Nations were able to develop a program that could craft realistic seeming speeches for the United Nations’ General Assembly. The study, first reported by MIT’s Technology Review, is another indication that the age of deepfakes is here and that faked texts…
Exercise tech company Peloton filed confidentially for IPO this week, and already the big question is whether their last private valuation at $4 billion might be too rich for the appetites of public market investors. Here’s a breakdown of the pros and cons leading up to the as-yet revealed market debut date. Risk factors The…
One of the bigger security announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple’s new requirement that app developers must implement the company’s new single sign-on solution, Sign In with Apple, wherever they already offer another third-party sign-on system. Apple’s decision to require its button in those scenarios is considered risky — especially at…
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! The Samsung Galaxy S10 is an excellent phone. It just is. It gets the basics right. The screen is big and vivid, and yet the phone itself is reasonably compact, making it easy to grasp. The S10 offers an…
An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to bypass a recently patched elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is known for publicly dropping zero-day exploits for unpatched Windows vulnerabilities. In the past year, the hacker has…
Amazon dropped the prices significantly on Arlo Pro 2 wireless outdoor camera system kits. Smart home security is a driving force for many people who are ready to move beyond just saying, “Alexa” or “Hey, Google.” Wireless outdoor security systems are easy to install, and the Arlo Pro 2’s reputation and customer ratings should put…
