It’s official, the rumored LEGO Ideas Dungeons & Dragons set (21348) has been confirmed. Consisting of 3,745 pieces, not only features a tavern with a removable roof, so you can see inside to the upper level, but also a dungeon and tower as well.
Sure, it can’t compete with Ameca, but SKOOTR, developed by researchers at the University of Michigan, is still an omni-oriented robot that can skate around with ease. Design wise, it features a centrally-located flankd on three sides by three robotic legs, with each of them having two joints capable of flexing and extending.
Tommy B wanted something like the ASUS ROG Ally or Lenovo Legion Go, but needed the ability to customize / repair the hardware, which lead him to this project. He basically 3D-printed an enclosure to a Framework laptop mainboard and its battery.
NVIDIA Covert Protocol, built on Unreal Engine 5, brings AI game characters to life by leveraging Inworld’s SDK to make integrating with MetaHuman fast and simple. NVIDIA ACE technologies, including NVIDIA Riva Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) as well as NVIDIA Audio2Face (A2F), are used to augment Inworld’s speech and animation pipelines.
Foodora Air drones are set to launch a food delivery service in Sweden by May, thanks to 5G technology from Tele2. The latter will be used to connect o a number of restaurants on Värmdö, outside Stockholm, while foodora’s technology platform creates a seamless and efficient delivery experience.
Jensen Huang unveiled the NVIDIA Blackwell B200 AI chip at GTC 2024 today, and it packs 208 billion transistors while boasting 20 petaflops of compute from a single GPU. It also has 192GB of HBM3e memory offering up 8 TB/s of bandwidth, enabling users to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor.
The 128GB Google Pixel 8 5G smartphone offers flagship features for a budget price, as it’s being offered for just $499 shipped today, originally $699. One feature you might not know of is its ability to notify first responders in an emergency and sharing your location, complete with car crash detection. Product page.
Canon announced today that their have successfully launched their Ce-SAT-IE satellite into orbit from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex in Kagoshima, Japan on February 17, 2024. A Canon PowerShot S110 compact digital camera mounted on the satellite as a secondary-optical system for wide area photography captured a stunning image of Earth.
This stunning image of the Spider Web Galaxy, as captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcases its irregular shape in all its glory, located around 30 million light-years from Earth. It’s classified as UGC 5829 and consists of a large central body of dull-colored stars, with distorted arms around it.
An Apple Computer business card from 1983 signed by Steve Jobs has reached $42,875 USD at auction with three days left to go. The signature on this off-white 3.5″ x 2″ card has been certified by PSA and graded a a Gem Mint 10, the highest possible.