Amazon last week held its Alexa Live 2021 developer conference, which would have been a lot more fun if during the event the Amazon Echo show in my office hadn’t gone insane. During the keynote, they started rattling off all the new commands that the Echo products could follow. My Echo could hear and tried…
It has been a sweltering summer for those of us on the West Coast of the United States. So hot that the lenses on my project car melted while it was in the shop. I think we’ve gone beyond the point of correction and now must focus on mitigation. For those of us on the…
Those of us who grew up with Star Trek might remember a device from the series called a replicator. This was a 3D printer of sorts that could create almost anything, ranging from food to weapons, at the touch of a button. We are going in that direction, but it will be decades — and…
I finally picked up an Oculus Quest 2 last month and have been exploring its capabilities. I’m impressed. This untethered product is the first VR rig I’ve tested using the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform, and I was skeptical about how it would perform compared to the older Samsung rig I have connected to my PC. To…
