Saturday, September 9, 2023

This popular online gaming platform is coming to PS4, PS5 next month

Roblox, the popular gaming platform, will be available on PS4 and PS5 consoles starting in October. The announcement was made at the Roblox Developers Conference. The company also unveiled a new conversational AI assistant that will help creators make experiences for the app. Roblox is already available on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and Xbox, and has more than 65 million players. https://ift.tt/Sgmp2BA

A profile of Rene Haas, who Arm appointed as CEO in February 2022 after Nvidia's Arm acquisition was scrapped and SoftBank shared plans to pursue an IPO instead (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Rene Haas, who Arm appointed as CEO in February 2022 after Nvidia's Arm acquisition was scrapped and SoftBank shared plans to pursue an IPO instead  —  The American CEO of Arm, a British company owned by a Japanese tech conglomerate, must juggle the needs of chip-making customers who are battling each other



How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a "neural network planner" trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips (Walter Isaacson/CNBC)

Walter Isaacson / CNBC:
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips  —  The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.



Some Wyze security camera owners report briefly seeing feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames "a web caching issue" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Some Wyze security camera owners report briefly seeing feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue”  —  Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren't theirs …



How some doctors are using VR to help patients manage pain and to practice by simulating procedures, as medical schools insert the tech into their curriculums (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
How some doctors are using VR to help patients manage pain and to practice by simulating procedures, as medical schools insert the tech into their curriculums  —  - Surgeons are using Meta's Quest 2 to simulate procedures, allowing doctors to practice from home.



The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered "Trump Accounts" for children when they launch this summer (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)

Stacy Cowley / New York Times : The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered “Tru...