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Sep 8, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more. Grid Studio is marking their third anniversary with a three-dale sale running from today through September 10th. Grid's unique vintage tech displays take the gadgets that defined the future we live in now, opens them up, and gives us a peak inside at how they were put together — all laid out in a smart and attractive fashion that really shows off the care and thought that went into these devices inside and out.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
Legacy US automakers have been struggling with the transition to electric vehicles. First, they were behind the curve in anticipating American customer demand for EVs, with almost every new EV announced seeing long waitlists for new orders. But secondly, they're discovering that it is expensive to build everything they need to build these cars.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
When the Qi2 wireless charging standard was unveiled back in January, we knew it would be a while before we saw it in any shipping products. It takes time to develop, manufacture, and distribute new tech on a global scale, so anything that was in the works before wouldn't ship with the new magnetic-alignment wireless charging coils.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
Philips Hue is best known for their smart lighting products, but they're starting to branch out into the broader smart home ecosystem with two new security cameras. The aptly named Secure camera comes in both wired and battery-powered options, with admittedly basic specs for a very high price. Though they do look nice.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
Google's set to show off the next step in its Pixel smartphones on October 4th, 2023, and they're sure to bring some interesting features to the party. And it just happens that Google has managed to leak this phone to kingdom come (like, they posted that image below on their store), so there's a lot we already know. DesignIf you saw the Pixel 6 or 7, the Pixel 8 will look very familiar.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
It's so ubiquitous of a problem that there's a phrase to express the frustration felt: this meeting could've been an email. So Google is offering you a way out, in a manner of speaking, with their new Duet AI for Google Meet. While it's touted as a "you don't have the time" or "you are needed elsewhere" feature, the Duet "Attend for me" option is also sure to see a fair amount of use in the form of "I don't want to be in this call".
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
While a lot of us might be comfortable with the voice controls in modern cars, they often have a bit of a learning curve as you figure out the right commands to make stuff happen. That's not the case with human assistants that can understand implied context, but they're (1) expensive and (2) slow to respond.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
Mark your calendars: September 15th will bring the launch of the next iPhone, and it's bound to bring more than just minor upgrades to the flagship of Apple's lineup. Here's what you should expect to see from the iPhone 15:USB-C, finallyFirstly, and foremost, and finally: USB-C is finally coming to the iPhone. It's been more than a decade with Lightning (which predated USB-C by years) and it's high time that Apple make the switch.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT chat AI tool, has a new option for business uses: ChatGPT Enterprise. This new paid tier of ChatGPT uses the more capable GPT-4 multimodal language model (versus the 3.5 the public can use for free), with the promise of unlimited usage and twice-as-fast performance. But more importantly for many businesses, it segregates their data and submissions into the system from access by anybody else, even OpenAI.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
crackberry.com | Derek Kessler
The driverless cars that are roaming the streets of San Francisco as both testbeds and transportation service are loaded with sensors. They're adorned with lidar bulbs, camera hoods, ultrasonics, and more, feeding into powerful computers that image the world around them in 3D in real-time to predict what will happen next and plan a route to the next destination.
