The E3 of yore is never coming back (spoiler: it never has)
I recently watched a YouTube video that went into great detail (15 minutes of detail, to give an indication) on…
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I ask 100 information questions to four digital assistants. All of them fail at least half.
After seeing the poor feedback of Watson in Bridge Crew, I decided to take my four digital assistants for a spin. After 21 questions across four assistants, I learned that Alexa cannot give basic information about Amazon Prime videos, none of them can properly understand which movie you’re looking for information for, and none of them can actually recommend stuff. Also, Google still needs to learn how to round up.
The Stress of VR: Why Repeat VR Usage is Difficult
With the recent release of Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft put out a high-budget, cross-platform multiplayer VR game, spanning Playstation,…
The Surface Laptop is the Least Repairable Ever, and That’s Probably OK
iFixit recently tore down the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices. After many surface-themed puns, they hammered a verdict that…
Whole Foods is Amazon’s Most Expensive Purchase – But Also The Best Value
TechCrunch recently featured a graph of Amazon’s acquisitions, ordering them by price, noting that the Whole Foods acquisition was extremely…
Whole Foods as Datacenters: Does it make sense?
The Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods continues to make ripples, with the latest one being quite unexpected. Dean Bubley of…
Streaming 2.0: The Quest for More TV
When Microsoft revealed the Xbox One in 2013, it was to the fanfare of TV and sports, with a smattering…