🥽 Apple Vision Pro launch date 📱 Samsung foldable concept 🚙 Robotaxis hit the highway 🛰️ Stricken lunar lander sends image | |
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Apple finally reveals launch date for Vision Pro headset
| The company is also inviting people to join sessions at its Apple Stores during which staff will offer a full demonstration of the new device | Apple's Vision Pro headset will launch in the U.S. on Friday, February 2, the company has announced, with preorders starting on Friday, January 19. Other countries are expected to start selling the mixed-reality device soon after. The Vision Pro costs a hefty $3,499 and is Apple’s most significant product release since the Apple Watch in 2015. It’s not clear how many people are keen to purchase the new headset, but Apple will be aiming to persuade enough people that the device is a game changer in the form of a “revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment,” according to its own comments on Monday ... | |
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Is Samsung's In&Out Flip the future of folding smartphones? | The Korean company's remarkable handset folds in half – both ways | Samsung has unveiled its newest folding phone concept at CES 2024. It’s called the In&Out Flip, and it may point the way for the design of future folding handsets. At first glance, the In&Out Flip looks a lot like a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5. It has a 6.7-inch Full HD+ display that can fold inward to become a small, pocketable square. But its big trick is that you can bend it all the way backward, too, so you don’t need a dedicated cover screen. If you want to keep tabs on your notifications, apps, and more without opening the full 6.7-inch screen, you can just fold the phone backward and use the main screen as a cover display ... | |
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Robotaxis without anyone behind the wheel coming to Arizona freeways | Drivers on Phoenix freeways may soon be overtaken by cars without anyone in the driver’s seat | In a first for the Alphabet-owned company, Waymo is about to send its robotaxis onto freeways without a safety driver behind the wheel. The autonomous cars will begin by giving rides to Waymo staff traveling on freeways across Phoenix, Arizona, before expanding the service to regular passengers via its Waymo One ridesharing service. Aware of the trouble that’s hit rival robotaxi firm Cruise in recent months, Waymo insists it’s well prepared for the fully driverless freeway rides as it has “years of safe and proven experience operating fleets of rider-only vehicles on public roads across California and Arizona, and millions of miles of experience operating autonomous class 8 trucks and cars on freeways with a specialist present” ... | |
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Peregrine lacks power to achieve lunar landing, Astrobotic confirms | NASA had contracted Astrobotic to send the Peregrine lander and 20 science payloads to the moon as part of a program involving the space agency partnering with private firms for lunar missions
| Astrobotic has had to abandon its effort to put the first American lander on the moon in five decades, a mission that also aimed to achieve the first commercial lunar landing. The Pittsburgh-based company said on Monday night that a propellant leak on the spacecraft carrying the Peregrine lander meant that it would continue operating for a couple more days at most. Earlier on Monday, Astrobotic shared an image (above) captured by a camera attached to a payload deck on Peregrine. It shows a disturbance to the multi-layer insulation, which the company said offered “the first visual clue that aligns with our telemetry data that points to a propulsion system anomaly ” ... | |
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