Gundam is about to make the jump to live action in a big way Legendary Pictures is working on a feature film version of Sunrise’s incredibly popular mech suit anime for Netflix, set to be directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. Legendary was first announced to be working with Sunrise on the live-action Gundam film in 2018, […]
Microsoft has agreed to purchase speech recognition and artificial intelligence specialist Nuance in a bid to strengthen its cloud and AI-based healthcare business. Microsoft said the all-cash deal is valued at $19.7 billion, or $56 per share – representing a 23 percent premium over Nuance’s most recent closing price. Once complete, it’ll be Microsoft’s second-largest […]
NVIDIA today at its GTC conference announced its next round of professional-focused graphics cards, based on the Ampere architecture first scene with its RTX 30-series GPUs. For desktops, there’s the RTX A5000 and A4000 GPUs, featuring 8,192 and 6,144 CUDA cores, respectively. Those GPUs top out with 24GB of GDDR6 memory, though you can also […]
Apple has changed how it markets the Pro Display XDR in the United Kingdom following complaints to an advertising regulator, with it no longer using the words “Far beyond HDR” to describe the screen. Apple’s Pro Display XDR is an impressively powerful monitor, capable of displaying HDR10 content as well as Dolby Vision and HLG […]
Nvidia Corp. is stepping up its artificial-intelligence competition with Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by introducing a new central processing unit to crunch reams of data, with technology based on its acquisition target Arm Holdings PLC. Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Monday introduced the new technology, dubbed Grace, in the keynote address […]
Samsung’s next mid-range phone could be close to launch. Thanks to unofficial renders from reliable leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer (OnLeaks), we have our first look of what the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will look like. As you might expect for a phone that’s the “Fan Edition” of the Galaxy S21, the handset bears a striking similarity […]
Microsoft is nearing a deal to buy voice recognition pioneer Nuance Communications that would value the artificial intelligence company at about $16bn, according to people briefed about the matter. The deal would be the second-largest acquisition ever by Microsoft. It comes after the tech giant had been exploring a number of takeover opportunities over the […]
A federal judge has granted the New York attorney general’s request to move a lawsuit against Amazon back to New York state court. AG Letitia James’ lawsuit alleges that the ecommerce giant failed to protect workers at its Brooklyn and Staten Island warehouses from COVID-19 during the early months of the pandemic, and retaliated against […]
NASA engineers have decided to delay the Ingenuity helicopter’s debut flight on Mars to at least Wednesday, April 14th, after running into a minor computer glitch during a rotor spin test late Friday night, the agency said on Saturday. NASA stressed that Ingenuity was “safe and healthy,” and that it was reviewing telemetry from the […]
Firefox is ending support for the Amazon Fire TV platform and Echo Show devices starting on April 30th. The browser will stop receiving security updates after that date, and you’ll no longer be able to install it either. Of course, that also means you won’t be able to reinstall it if you decide to remove […]
Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said Friday that under President Biden’s budget request, the agency’s Artemis mission has a new goal: in addition to landing the first woman on the Moon, it will also send the first person of color to the lunar surface. So far, the only Earthlings to touch the Moon’s surface have […]
Google has officially announced a new Pixel phone, the Pixel 5A 5G. It’s done so in the same way it has announced a lot of recent Pixel phones: by reacting to a rumor. “Pixel 5a 5G is not cancelled. It will be available later this year in the U.S. and Japan and announced in line […]
Boeing has recommended that airlines temporarily take the 737 Max out of service because of an issue with the plane’s electrical systems. It’s the latest in a now very long line of problems that have cropped up with this particular plane since two of them crashed in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people. US airlines […]
Amazon has won a victory in its hard-fought campaign to stop workers at an Alabama warehouse forming the company’s first union, in a tough blow for the US labor movement. Workers at the Bessemer, Alabama, plant have voted 1,798 to 738 to reject the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Counting concluded on Friday morning, […]
Lenovo’s new Legion Phone Duel 2 is a gaming phone that has two USB-C ports, a pop-up digital camera, and even built-in followers. There’s a lot tech inside that Lenovo determined it’d be finest to shove its most vital, hard-working parts into the center of the phone, making it simpler for the followers to maintain […]