Michael Hicks

F8 2018 Using billions of hashtagged photos, Facebook’s 'weakly supervised training' method has made its AI slightly more effective than Google’s at labeling images.

F8 2018 From dating profiles to a way to wipe your browsing history, this year's conference was packed with announcements.

F8 2018 Only two languages will be available at first, but more will be added in later updates.

Brave Robotics and SoftBank will show off two-ton car-robot hybrid at an expo in Florida this November.

The eighth New Shepard reusable rocket launch takes Blue Origin one step closer to sending tourists to space this year.

Japanese researchers compared living human brains and Neanderthal fossils to unlock what could have led to their demise.

Oculus’ haptic gloves could monitor how you interact with real-life objects, then mirror that tactile feedback in VR.

A Singapore-based robotics company plans to incorporate AI tech and Ikea's entire catalog into its two-armed assembly bot.

They hope is to 'optimize' the genetically-engineered creation to degrade plastics in hours instead of centuries.

'Rigid' robots are considered impractical for combat and recon, so the US Army has enlisted the help of a university to build invertebrate-like robots.

Google’s Open Heritage project is making 3D data of destroyed landmarks available for historical study.

VW is already testing its AI tech at Hamburg Airport, but has ambitions to turn self-driving cars into personal assistants.

High-powered wireless VR and always-connected AR devices could become reality... whenever 5G does.

Discoveries by researchers at McGill University may finally lead to treatments to help people with PTSD and schizophrenia.

These tiny chips will ensure IoT devices don't have to wait for a cloud server to tell them how to react to their environment.

Facebook CEO tells a US congressional committee that his data was swept up in the scandal, but remains cagey on the details.

Versus How much does a VR headset really cost? Here are the latest prices to help you decide which headset best fits your budget.

Updated Facebook may face significant financial penalties after allowing up to 87 million users' data to be leveraged in elections.

It's only for developers, but the new Leap Motion headset could usher in a new era of augmented reality.

Updated Facebook divulged the figure in a post explaining its latest updates to guard against third-party access to user data.

Amazon's Gadget Skills API beta will let devs make their own Echo Button games, and maybe their own Gadgets as well.

Steam's latest survey shows even more users are plugging in to play with Oculus Rift.

Musk has taken over manufacturing of the Model 3 after Tesla struggled to meet production targets.

Patents include listening to phone calls and scanning your room to create ad profiles to sell to third-parties.

Samsung’s support page shows that you’ll need to upgrade to the Galaxy S7 or newer to get the latest security updates.