It seems that the guys at Lenovo and NEC have some ideas to bridge the gap between desktop gaming and mobile gaming.Sure, companies like Razer, Alienware, and Nvidia have tried in the past to make Windows-based PC gaming more mobile and handheld, but what Lenovo and NEC’s LaVie Mini aims at doing seems much more interesting… because the LaVie Mini isn’t a portable Windows gaming device… it...

The pandemic is proving to be an accelerator for brands to adopt new paradigms of value creation. Now more than ever, luxury goods companies are seeking new ways to connect with their customers. They are reinventing and re-imagining themselves in ways that were previously unimaginable.The pandemic is proving to be an accelerator for brands to adopt new paradigms of value creation. Now more than...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple two patents for 2-way charging, also referred to as reverse charging. Apple's work on this invention dates back to their original patent filing back in March 2016. With the advent of iPhone 12 introducing MagSafe Charging using magnetics, Apple's patent for inductive charging between a future MacBook Pro and/or iPad Pro and iDevices such...

The COVID-19 pandemic has democratized e-commerce for all types of consumers, and over 18 million CPG buyers (and counting) in the U.S. have flooded the online space since March. Online shoppers have been mirroring their purchasing within the channel to their constantly shifting, pandemic-related needs and are becoming further entrenched in their shopping behaviors. But not all online engagemen...

OpenAI debuted two multimodal AI systems that combine computer vision and NLP: DALL-E, a system that generates images from text, and CLIP, a network trained on 400 million pairs of images and text..OpenAI today debuted two multimodal AI systems that combine computer vision and NLP: DALL-E, a system that generates images from text, and CLIP, a network trained on 400 million pairs of images and t...

When trying to learn a physical skill such as judo or yoga from a video, it can be frustrating if you're not able to keep up with the onscreen action. That's where Reactive Video playback comes in, as its slows videos down to match the speed of their viewers.The system is being developed via a collaboration between Britain's Lancaster University, California's Stanford University, and the FX Pal...

More than 50 million electric vehicles could be sharing roads in the next five years. Updating charging infrastructure is key to scaling the industry.E-mobility has reached a tipping point. More than 250 new models of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) will be introduced in the next two years alone, and as many as 130 million EVs could be sharing roads t...

What seemed so impossible at the beginning of the pandemic is now real: vaccines are here, in record time. They bring much-needed hope to a holiday season shadowed by death and fear.[In Singapore, people are already required to check in with a contact tracing app before entering places like cinemas. Will these systems also track vaccination status?]While authorities work out details for this ma...

After spending a year quarantined with three roommates, the air quality in our apartment, if you can imagine, has grown quite stuffy. The solution seems simple: crack open a window. That’s true, we could do that, but giving our neighbors a clear view into our home does not sit well with any of us. For my roommates and I specifically, we have the bad luck of having large windows that look out o...