Nvidia teased out a powerful system that would serve as an AI supercomputer earlier this year, giving cars the ability to drive themselves. But while there’s been a ton of progress in building safer autonomous driving, we might not quite be at the point where we can fully trust the car to do everything. Enter Co-Pilot. Nvidia is baking in new technology in its Xavier drive computers… Read More Nvidia builds a co-pilot into its autonomous drive computerThis entry was posted in Apps Gadgets Mobile nvidia TC on January 4, 2017 by Matthew Lynley
Nvidia is giving gamers using the GeForce Experience will now be able to broadcast directly to Facebook Live, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced at CES today. Huang basically breezed past the announcement heading into a trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda streamed live, but it does represent a rather huge development in live streaming. While Twitch has largely become the go-to place to watch… Read More Nvidia makes it easier for gamers to stream live to ...This entry was posted in Gadgets Mobile nvidia TC on January 4, 2017 by Matthew Lynley
Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of devices you can talk to to make them do stuff. That’s all good and well, but apart from talking back to you, they don’t really seem to care about you all that much. Emotech takes a different tack with Olly, adding personality and giving the assistant a physical personality. And it’s pretty damn cute, too. Read More Emotech shows off Olly, the most likable personal assistant aroundThis entry was posted in Emotech Europe Gadgets Olly Startups TC on January 4, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
Startups are taking over CES. While the Sonys and Samsungs of the consumer electronics industry are presenting their latest and greatest devices today, hundreds of companies are also making their way to Las Vegas to present some nifty hardware products. That’s the reason why TechCrunch is organizing the Hardware Battlefield. It’s just like the Battlefield startup competition at… Read More Meet the 12 finalists at ShowStoppers’ LaunchIt startup competition at ...This entry was posted in CES Europe Gadgets Startups TC on January 4, 2017 by Romain Dillet,Frederic Lardinois
Over the past few years, CES has become one giant A/V club for the folks at Sony. The show has essentially turned into a showcase for the hardware giant’s high-res TVs, headphones and speakers. And this year’s no different. Sony is launching a metric ton of speakers this year, including the SRS-XB40, SRS-XB30, SRS-XB20 and SRS-XB10 (never change with those naming conventions,… Read More Up to 10 of Sony’s new speakers can be linked ...This entry was posted in Gadgets Sony TC on January 4, 2017 by Brian Heater
At long last, LG has an OLED TV competitor in the US market. And it makes sounds with its screen. The post Sony's First OLED TV Is Freaking Gorgeous appeared first on WIRED. Sony’s First OLED TV Is Freaking GorgeousThis entry was posted in CES Gadget Lab Gear Sony on January 4, 2017 by Tim Moynihan
Sex toy maker OhMiBod just announced that the company is looking to open up its relationship… with developers. Best known for its digitally-connected vibrators, OhMiBod will release an open SDK to accompany its latest line of devices this spring. The company notes that some creative apps could tie the company’s line of sex toys into hookup apps like Tinder and Grindr, making for… Read More OhMiBod invites developers to make cybersexy apps for its sex ...This entry was posted in Gadgets TC on January 4, 2017 by Taylor Hatmaker
Nvidia’s press conference starts at 6:30 PM Pacific, 9:30 PM Eastern, 2:30 AM in London. Nvidia may have missed the smartphone boat, but the company accidentally became an essential chipmaker thanks to machine learning. Graphics processing units let developers run a ton of image processing tasks in parallel. That’s why carmakers are using Nvidia chips for their self-driving… Read More Watch Nvidia’s CES press conference live right hereThis entry was posted in CES Gadgets nvidia TC on January 4, 2017 by Romain Dillet
The Chromebook Plus and Pro are all work and all play, all laptop and all tablet. The post Want a Peek at the Future of Laptops? Check Out Samsung's New Chromebooks appeared first on WIRED. Want a Peek at the Future of Laptops? Check Out ...This entry was posted in Android CES chromebook Gadget Lab Gear Laptop and tagged google samsung on January 4, 2017 by David Pierce
Delphi has been coming to CES for 21 years as of this year, the company’s CTO Jeffery Owens told me on Tuesday before we embarked on a short tour of downtown Las Vegas aboard an Audi equipped with Delphi’s latest self-driving tech. In the beginning, Delphi had to work pretty hard to get its automaker partners to pay attention to its efforts to push vehicle tech forward, but now… Read More Delphi’s self-driving car takes us on a stress-free tour of ...This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Gadgets TC Transportation on January 4, 2017 by Darrell Etherington