🤖 A remarkable robot goes into retirement
📱 Motorola just announced three new phones
🎬 Insta360's first 8K 360-degree camera
📺 Netflix in generative-AI boo-boo? 🕹️ Nintendo's latest Indie World showcase |
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Boston Dynamics retires one of its most impressive robots |
In a surprise move, Boston Dynamics has retired its amazing Atlas robot
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It’s over for Atlas, the bipedal bot that impressed many with its acrobatics and other antics over the last decade. “Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists, and leapt over technical barriers in the field,” Boston Dynamics said in comments accompanying a YouTube video (above) celebrating the incredible contraption. “Now it’s time for our hydraulic Atlas robot to kick back and relax.” After years of development, Atlas became an incredibly agile machine capable of replicating human movement with astonishing accuracy. Somersaults and funky dance moves were also in its repertoire. Boston Dynamics has been focusing more on another of its robots in recent years, one that it’s even managed to commercialize ... |
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Motorola just announced three new phones
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Following the launch of new Moto G phones earlier this year, Motorola has just announced its new, higher-specced Edge 50 phones |
Motorola’s new Edge 50 series comprises three phones and compete with some of the best Android phones available today, Digital Trends reported. First up is the Edge 50 Ultra, Motorola’s main flagship release of this year. Available in Forest Gray, Peach Fuzz, and Nordic Wood, the first two give the handset a vegan leather back, while Nordic Wood has a real wood backside. All three have a sandblasted aluminum frame, a 6.7-inch OLED panel, a 144Hz refresh rate, and 2500 nits of peak brightness. The new phone also gets a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50MP ultrawide camera (with autofocus), and a 64MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. The front camera also has a 50-megapixel sensor ... |
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Insta360’s new flagship X4 camera delivers 8K 360-degree video
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Insta360 has unveiled the X4, its first 360-degree video capable of shooting at 8K |
Besides 8K 360-degree video at 30 frames per second (fps), the new Insta360 X4 also shoots 5.7K at 60fps and 4K at 100fps, PetaPixel reported. A single-lens mode also lets it function as a 4K/60p action camera. Used in the right way, a selfie stick attached to the camera disappears from the 360-degree footage, creating shots that look like they were captured by a low-flying drone. “8K will be transformative for creators as reframed video now holds its own alongside footage shot on regular cameras,” the company said. “But X4 isn't just about image quality, it's designed to be the most robust, easy-to-use 360° camera ever, no matter your experience. This idea was at the heart of a lot of the changes we made” ... |
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Netflix true crime documentary may have manipulated images using AI
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The streaming site has yet to confirm or deny the suggestion, but such action would certainly raise eyebrows |
A true crime documentary on Netflix appears to have included images created by artificial intelligence, Futurism reported. The documentary focuses on a murder-for-hire plot in 2010 involving a woman named Jennifer Pan. At first glance the photos of Pan seem fine, but a closer look reveals the kind of errors that generative AI sometimes makes when tasked with adjusting or creating an image. In its own analysis of one of the photos, Futurism points out the “mangled hands and fingers, misshapen facial features, morphed objects in the background, and a far-too-long front tooth.” The news site says the apparent changes are “tinkering with the fabric of reality itself to manipulate a true story,” and has contacted Netflix for comment ... |
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Nintendo's latest Indie World showcase is happening today |
Many are hoping to see the unveiling of the highly anticipated sequel to Hollow Knight |
Depending on when you’re reading this, Nintendo’s presentation may have already taken place! The latest Indie World event is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET and will bring “roughly 20 minutes of announcements and updates on indie games headed to Nintendo Switch in 2024,” according to a message posted by the company on social media on Tuesday. Whether you watch it live or later, you can catch the content on Nintendo’s YouTube and Twitch channels (the YouTube player is embedded above). Nintendo’s most recent Indie World showcase was five months ago and featured Switch games Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, Backpack Hero, Blade Chimera, and Core Keeper , Polygon reported ... |
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