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Owlchemy Labs: Solving the “Hard Problems” of Hand Tracking in Virtual Reality

When Owlchemy Labs revealed its next game at Gamescom in August, there wasn’t much to say. The announcement was pretty indescribable, with a trailer (embedded below) revealing next to nothing and showing no gameplay. Instead, Owlchemy focused on two key facts: the game will be multiplayer and will support hand tracking. Both of these elements …

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How the Galaxy S23 Ultra will break my vicious iPhone cycle (and why it's so hard to quit using Apple's phones in favor of Android)

How the Galaxy S23 Ultra will break my vicious iPhone cycle (and why it’s so hard to quit using Apple’s phones in favor of Android)

Who knew I would become an iPhone user? And not only that, but also in the long term. I certainly didn’t. Five years ago I was happy with my large, fairly basic mid-range Xiaomi Mi Max 2 smartphone, and Apple’s iPhones seemed like overpriced, polished, but fairly unimpressive options that people were choosing purely for …

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Are we too hard on artificial intelligence for autonomous driving?

Are we too hard on artificial intelligence for autonomous driving?

I recently attended and presented at the “Implementation of ISO 26262 & SOTIF” conference in Detroit. Its subtitle was “Taking an Integrated Approach to Automotive Safety”. After three days, my head was spinning with the number of ISO/SAE and other standards. And at the end of day two, after another example that fooled the self-driving …

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prospect |  When chess is hard and cheating is easy, the next move is complicated

prospect | When chess is hard and cheating is easy, the next move is complicated

Make no mistake: thinking is hard. You can see it in the grand masters of chess, whose heartbeat triples galloping under their shirts. What separates champion Magnus Carlsen is his deadly immobility, an extremely thoughtful shudder under pressure, which makes his recent behavior all the more surprising. Basically, what Carlsen did in chess is the …

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‘It’s not that hard’: Does kicking Kiwi Farms off the internet prove tech companies can take action against hate speech?

AAs the internet continues to evolve from its beginnings as the unregulated Wild West, the big debates about what people should be allowed to see and do online have moved away from major platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter to focus on the stocks of a small group of technology companies. These service providers operate …

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