Google wants to reduce Stadia lag with ‘negative latency’

Here's the excerpt from Edge:But latency is the thing that gets the most attention. And while it's already proven to be more than playable, [Madj Bakar, VP of Engineering] expects further improvements. "Ultimately, we think, in a year or two, we'll have games that are running faster and feel more responsive in the cloud that…

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Alex Garland’s ‘Devs’ explores free will in the age of predictive computing

On its surface, Devs is the story of Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno), a software engineer at the fictional Amaya Corporation. Amaya builds quantum computers, which are systems where the bits (called qubits) can exist in multiple states simultaneously, as opposed to traditional computers, which are limited to the binary of 0 or 1. Garland describes…

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Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 review: Better than the original

I'll admit I've been eager to test the XPS 13 2-in-1 ever since I got my hands on it earlier this year. It was one of those rare gadget love-at-first-sight moments: Just by looking at it, you can tell that it's more refined than the previous generation 2-in-1 and the plain XPS 13. It's impressively…

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Musk: Powerpacks are coming to northern California Superchargers

As Pacific Gas and Electric blacks out power across wide swaths of northern California, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned plans in place that could help Tesla owners during power outages. During past emergencies like hurricanes Irma and Florence, Tesla has used its OTA capabilities to give owners a boost, and its Powerwall can store additional…

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Dyson Sucks the Air Out of Its Electric-Car Dreams

Turns out it’s harder to make an electric car than a vacuum.Dyson, the British maker of highly designed consumer products, acknowledged as much Thursday, when it said will shutter its four-year-old automotive business.In a letter to employees, chief executive James Dyson wrote the company “simply can no longer see a way to make [the vehicle…

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USB-C Has Finally Come Into Its Own

The Surface Pro 7. The Kindle Fire HD 10. The PlayStation 5. All major gadgets announced or detailed this week, each with a bevy of enhancements. But more important than any of those flagship products on its own is the fact that together they embraced something their predecessors did not: USB-C.You know USB-C. If you…

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Andy Rubin’s Essential Gem Isn’t Just a New Phone

On Tuesday, Andy Rubin emerged from his nearly year-long Twitter silence to show off a prototype of a mobile device, an elongated product that marries the body of a tiny TV remote with a more modern touchscreen.“GEM Colorshift material,” Rubin tweeted, followed by “...still dialing in the colors.” His third tweet could have been ripped…

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Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200

More than a year has passed since Bloomberg Businessweek grabbed the lapels of the cybersecurity world with a bombshell claim: that Supermicro motherboards in servers used by major tech firms, including Apple and Amazon, had been stealthily implanted with a chip the size of a rice grain that allowed Chinese hackers to spy deep into…

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13 Best PS4 Accessories to Up Your Game (2019)

The PS4 and PS4 Pro may be on their way out the door, but before the PlayStation 5 comes out, they’re still capable consoles that have some of the best games you can buy.Whether you're interested in picking up the new console, or sticking with your old PS4, there are still tons of great accessories…

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Brie Larson Says Marvel’s Superheroines Want an All-Female Movie

Happy Thursday, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s pop-culture news roundup. What’s happening this week? Well, there’s a new Marvel show coming to Hulu. Also, speaking of Marvel, the women of the MCU want an all-female movie. Let’s just dive in, shall we?Brie Larson Says Marvel’s Superheroines Want an All-Female MovieRemember that…

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