WhatsApp lets you create groups without naming them

WhatsApp lets you create groups without naming them

WhatsApp will now let you create small groups without first naming them. Mark Zuckerberg announced the new feature in a Facebook post (viaTechCrunch). You previously had to choose your group’s name when setting it up. TechCrunch reports that unnamed groups have a cap of six members instead of the named groups’ limit of 1,024 participants. … Read more

Apptronik’s Apollo is the latest humanoid robot to beat Tesla to market

Apptronik’s Apollo is the latest humanoid robot to beat Tesla to market

Apptronik unveiled a new workforce robot today. Named Apollo, the machine is designed to “work in environments designed for, and directly alongside, humans.” The android is initially intended to move and carry cases and totes in logistics and manufacturing settings. But the Austin-based Apptronik sees Apollo expanding into “construction, oil and gas, electronics production, retail, … Read more

University of California BCI study enables paralyzed woman to ‘speak’ through a digital avatar

Dr. Mario did not prepare us for this. In a pioneering effort, researchers from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, in partnership with Edinburgh-based Speech Graphics, have devised a groundbreaking communications system that allows a woman, paralyzed by stroke, to speak freely through a digital avatar she controls with a brain-computer interface. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) … Read more

Armored Core VI review: FromSoftware’s latest challenge is surprisingly approachable

In 2004, a young Hidetaka Miyazaki joined FromSoftware. Before becoming a household name in gaming circles, he cut his teeth working on the studio’s long-running Armored Core series, serving as a planner on 2005’s Armored Core: Last Raven and then as director on Armored Core IV and Armored Core:For Answer. Following the success of Demon’s … Read more

Ex-OpenSea employee receives prison sentence for NFT insider trading

Former OpenSea employee Nathanial Chastain has been sentenced to three months in prison over an NFT (non-fungible token) insider trading scheme. Chastain, who was found guilty of wire fraud and money laundering, used “confidential information about which NFTs were going to be featured on OpenSea’s homepage for his personal financial gain,” according to the US … Read more

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