Deputy Editor
Alex Cranz is the Deputy Editor at The Verge. Before that she spent five years overseeing the consumer tech coverage at Gizmodo and whacking gadgets with a machete. Her work has also appeared in Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Laptop Mag and she has trained at least two dogs to do fist bumps.
Instead of being stuck in Teams or another Microsoft app the new translation feature will be “available across any video calling app, any entertainment app, translated locally across the NPU.”
That’s great because in the one demo we’ve seen so far it seemed to do a very impressive job of translating everything said in real time, no human translator required.
We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem
AI might be cool, but it’s also a big fat liar, and we should probably be talking about that more.
Streaming is cable now
Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever.
In a press release festooned with enough emoji to confuse it with a X post from a cryptobro, American���s major passenger train company announced it wants to figure out how to get high speed Wi-Fi blanketing its Northeast Corridor.
Companies that want to pitch it on ideas to improve the Wi-Fi can fill out a questionaire that requires Google Chrome but looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator.
Recently we suggested Boston Dynamics should enshroud its bots in some kind of hair. Today Boston Dynamics showed off a costume for its Spot robot that is festooned in blue, sparkly fur.
I’m sure its just a coincidence, but if not, thank you for listening Boston Dynamics. The bots are indeed less terrifying when they look like giant puppet dogs or some kind of adorable CGI render.
One owner apparently plugged his into his car after recieving it at the swanky NYC event a few days back and it promptly bricked itself.
They said that Rabbit was quick to replace it, but not before they snapped a pic of what looks like an Android debugging UI.
E Ink has a few competing color electronic paper technologies, and this video gets down on the microscopic level with one of them. While this is a Boox device, its the same display tech Kobo is using in its new color e-readers.