Apple’s 11-inch iPad Pro M5, priced at $899 (was $999), is just a beast of a tablet that some claim is the perfect laptop replacement, and after seeing its capabilities in action, you’ll find it difficult to disagree.
Waymo has just enabled fully driverless trips with their sixth-generation Driver. Employees and guests are now getting into sleek Ojai minivans and driving through Phoenix streets with no one behind the wheel. Public access is just around the corner, and the company hopes to see a significant increase, up to 1 million paid trips per week, by the end of the year.
Nicolas Cage stars as a down-at-heels Spider-Man in the upcoming series Spider-Noir, a dark, gritty take on the web-slinger that will premiere on Prime Video in the spring. This one is based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir and transports its hero to 1930s New York, where one man is the last chance for a city in serious jeopardy.
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania developed HoloRadar, a system that allows a mobile robot to create a 3D map of its surroundings even when it cannot see them directly in front of it. That means that a pedestrian hiding around the corner of a hallway, as well as walls, entrances, and obstructions, will appear on the robot’s map in astonishing detail, thanks to radio signals that bounce off surfaces in the same way that light bounces off mirrors.
Southwest Airlines has just announced that it will be putting Starlink on board. As a result, extremely fast Wi-Fi will begin to appear on flights this summer. Southwest intends to equip more than 300 Boeing 737 planes with this technology by the end of the year, representing a major chunk of their fleet.
Kent Survival arrives in a stretch of woodland in a truck with ten boxes of huge plastic bricks, a real-life LEGO project, and sets out to build a livable shelter out of them. These bricks are essentially the same as their traditional LEGO counterparts, but scaled up to a much larger size: they come in 8-stud and 4-stud versions, totaling 1400 pieces. His idea was simple: build the thing and see if it was possible to turn a child’s play into a real shelter.
Raytheon’s non-kinetic Coyote responds intelligently to the growing threat of drone swarms. Companies and militaries are seeking for cost-effective solutions to deal with large numbers of low-cost, off-the-shelf drones. RTX’s Raytheon division has really created a new variant that demonstrates what it’s all about.
Carl Llewellyn spends his days playing with tiny computers and classic gaming cartridges. Recently, he went far beyond what most people would dare to do, connecting a Nintendo 64 and a PlayStation 2 to play Super Mario 64 on the internet simultaneously. Players take control of their own Mario and progress through stages in real time.
HP announces the OMEN Gaming Subscription, a monthly program that lets you use a brand-new gaming laptop for a recurring fee. Initially available in the United States as a pilot project, this service is aimed at serious gamers who cannot afford, or do not have the means for, the initial cost of a high-end gaming laptop. You choose the model you want, add any extra accessories you desire, and then sign up for a series of monthly payments that cover the laptop itself, as well as any ongoing support and maintenance.
Corsair K100 AIR Wireless keyboard is the company’s thinnest to date, packing a full-size mechanical board with lots of key travel into a frame that is only slightly thicker than many laptops. It is only 11mm thick at its narrowest point, yet 17mm at the position where the keys are located. Despite this, it still includes the stylish Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile tactile switches, which provide a highly crisp and responsive feel without the inconvenience of standard mechanical keyboards.