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This weed company just made a smart bong and it’s awesome

sudshr47 January 9, 2018

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When technical advancements combine with legal cannabis, you get a smart bong.

Cannabis company Puffco announced a new product on Monday that takes your standard, everyday run-of-the-mill bong, and brings it right into 2018. The Puffco Peak is a battery-operated desktop concentrate vape, but the best part is that it incorporates water filtration — it’s a smart bong, dude. 

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Dubbed the “first-ever smart rig for concentrate consumers,” the Peak heats up in just 20 seconds and operates completely wirelessly, making handoffs a breeze. The rig has four pre-programmed heat settings, as well as a “boost mode” to clear out any leftover concentrates so nothing goes to waste.   Read more…

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Ces CES 2018 IBM Quantum Computer quantum computing

IBM’s quantum computer could change the game, and not just because you can play Battleship on it

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Developing new synthetic materials, allowing for faster machine learning, and providing an advanced back-end to power consumer apps. These are just some of the potential applications of the first ever 50-qubit quantum computer prototype displayed at …

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Samsung’s big PC innovation is … a stylus?!

sudshr47 January 9, 2018

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Samsung — buddy, pal, friend — what are you doing?

I’m all for AI in everything, the connected, 5G in everything, and even Bixby, but how are you going to tell us adding an S Pen stylus to a laptop is any kind of meaningful PC innovation … in 2018?

It’s not that I don’t appreciate a fine digital pen — Apple Pencil, Surface Pen, and the Pixelbook Pen are all pretty nice — but like, adding an S Pen and basically calling it a day? Kinda lazy.

At its big CES 2018 press conference, Samsung spent much of its hour-long keynote talking about AI. And AI. And then more AI. Read more…

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Bluetooth Headphones Ces CES 2018 Hardware Qualcomm TC

Qualcomm shows off a chip for the next generation of Bluetooth earbuds

sudshr47 January 8, 2018

 Between ARM-powered PCs, standalone VR headsets and the abundance of smart assistants, Qualcomm’s got its fingerprints everywhere at this CES. At a press conference today, the company debuted a number of new chips. One of the more interesting of the bunch is the Low Power Bluetooth SoC QCC5100 — a chip designed specifically for wireless earbuds. The company’s claiming… Read More

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HTC’s new Vive Pro is for hardcore VR fans

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The HTC Vive isn’t the only Vive headset anymore.

HTC unveiled the HTC Vive Pro, a new VR headset that upgrades the Vive’s audio and resolution in a major way. It also comes with a redesigned headstrap.

The new Vive Pro supports resolutions up to 2880 x 1600, which amounts to a 78 percent increase compared with the original Vive. On the audio side, the company says the Pro’s headphones, which support 3D audio and include a built-in amplifier, can compete with other high-end products.

It also has a slightly new design, compared with the original Vive. HTC redesigned the head strap to make it more comfortable — the company says it will now put less pressure on the front of the head. Additionally, it’s equipped with dual microphones with noise-canceling abilities. Read more…

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Ces CES 2018 Gadgets Samsung TC

Watch Samsung’s CES press conference live right here

sudshr47 January 8, 2018

 Samsung is always betting big on CES, and this year should be no exception. Today at 2 PM Pacific, 5 PM Eastern, 10 PM in London, the company will unveil its new lineup of consumer electronics devices. You should expect a wide range of new products, from smart watches to washing machines.
We’ll have a team on the ground, so you should also check out our live blog for our first-hand… Read More

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Ces CES 2018 Driverless Cars Self Driving Cars Tech

The next frontier for self-driving cars: Making them human

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was positively giddy as he showed off the company’s next-generation chips at one of the first events of CES 2018.

The processor, called the Drive Xavier, is made to take on one of the most demanding use cases today self-driving cars. And as you’d expect, it’s leaps and bounds better than the previous generation of chips, ticking off plenty of “oh wow” boxes on the spec sheet: 9 billion transistors in an 8-core CPU, a new 512-core GPU, capable of 30 trillion operations per second while consuming just 30 watts.

But that wasn’t why Huang was so excited. 

Nvidia didn’t just build a powerful system on a chip, it made it compact. The company’s previous generation of self-driving chip tech, the Drive PX 2, was a chunky piece of hardware, weighing several pounds and roughly the size of a bulky laptop. By contrast, the Nvidia Drive Xavier is so light that Huang said he could “barely feel it” during his keynote. Read more…

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Artificial Intelligence Ces CES 2018 Gadgets Hardware Lg TC Tv

LG has come up with a surprisingly interesting way to apply AI to TV

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 Generally speaking, at CES and elsewhere, when a company says something is powered by AI, they’re blowing smoke. And while smoke was definitely blown at LG’s otherwise unremarkable press conference this morning, the company also announced it was applying AI in a way that’s both unexpected and smart: intelligently enhancing TV images using computer vision. Read More

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Sony’s new phone takes your selfies to the next level with two front cameras

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Are you a selfie addict? Pfttt, who are you kidding? We all are. Let’s get something else straight: For real selfie addicts, an iPhone won’t cut it.

Instead, you’ll want a phone that’s more versatile, like Sony’s new Xperia XA 2 Ultra that was just announced at CES 2018. The new Android phone has two front-facing cameras — one regular wide-angle and one ultra-wide angle for those group shots.

Sony’s Android phones are usually a huge snooze-fest (they’ve basically made all the wrong moves over the last few years), but the XA2 Ultra actually has something few phones have. Read more…

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