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Over on the Glassdoor job-hunting website, Amazon has listed a position for a senior software development manager for virtual reality. Amazon Video is actually seeking a candidate who will lead its VR team within the Amazon Video branch. Potential employees will need at least a degree in Computer Science or a related field, more than…
Attack of the drones Up until the last few years, drones meant for your everyday consumer have been nothing short of simple little play things, for the most part. That doesn’t keep the child in me from sill wanting one, though. With DJI working on its Phantom 4, which brings flying drones to a whole…
An engineering marvel When Nvidia told us that it managed to shrink its desktop GTX 980 GPU to fit inside notebooks, we went through two stages of denial. The first stage was disbelief. “The 980 is a huge and powerful card,” we thought to ourselves. The second stage was dismissiveness. “It’s got to throttle tremendously.”…
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Closing the gap It’s not unusual for grade school teachers to assign their students homework that requires Internet access. The problem is that more than half of all households making under $25,000 don’t have broadband Internet service, versus a 95 percent broadband penetration rate among households with incomes over $150,000 per year. To help close…
Packing a big punch in a small footprint Boutique system builder Origin PC decided to literally downsize things with its new Chronos small form factor desktop for gamers. What makes this particular iteration special for Origin PC is that it uses the smallest SFF case it’s ever offered. The new Chronos SFF desktop measures just…
Think small You may have noticed an increase in the number of small form factor computer cases to choose from these days. That’s because SFF builds are suddenly vogue, and to assist with builders looking to piece together a compact system, Corsair today announced the release of its first ever SFX form factor PSUs. Don’t…
We may have AI similar to HAL 9000 sometime in the future, but it will take a lot of learning before it gets there. What’s in your pocket? Most of us move through our daily lives with a rudimentary form of AI in our pockets or purses. We tend to think of them as apps…
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey recently spoke with Shacknews about the price of the upcoming Oculus Rift VR headset, his Tesla Model S car, and supporting Apple’s Mac platform. The interview took place in San Francisco during the Windows 10 Showcase event in late February. Oculus VR was there demonstrating Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition running…
Unnamed sources informed the Wall Street Journal last week that Intel is working on an augmented reality solution based on its RealSense 3D camera technology. The company will likely offer a headset design to other manufacturers rather than market a first-party model itself, similar to what Microsoft is doing with its upcoming HoloLens headset, according…