Articles by Quinten Plummer

Sony this week announced its Multifunctional Light, a ceiling lamp that's kitted out with sensors to talk to smart things It includes sensors for motion, illumination, temperature and humidity. There's also the requisite WiFi radio, a memory card slot, a condenser microphone, and an infrared controller for air conditioners....

Google on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Clay Bavor as vice president of virtual reality, one of several indications that the company intends to get serious about competing in the emerging field ...

Periscope on Tuesday announced integration with Twitter, allowing users to view its live-stream broadcasts directly in the Twitter iOS app ...

AT&T on Tuesday began offering unlimited mobile data to its pay TV customers New or existing DirecTV and U-Verse TV subscribers can get unlimited talk, text and data for US$100 per month. AT&T will charge $40 for two additional phones, and a fourth phone will be free....

AT&T on Tuesday began offering unlimited mobile data to its pay TV customers New or existing DirecTV and U-Verse TV subscribers can get unlimited talk, text and data for US$100 per month. AT&T will charge $40 for two additional phones, and a fourth phone will be free....

AT&T on Tuesday began offering unlimited mobile data to its pay TV customers New or existing DirecTV and U-Verse TV subscribers can get unlimited talk, text and data for US$100 per month. AT&T will charge $40 for two additional phones, and a fourth phone will be free....

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey on Wednesday said the company did a poor job of communicating the price of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift headset However, similarly priced products, such as TVs and smartphones, cost less to manufacture than the Rift VR headset, he said in a Reddit Ask Me Anything, or AMA, session....

Apple on Wednesday announced that customers spent a record US$1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases during the holidays Jan. 1 was the App Store's best day ever, with consumers spending about $144 million, the company said....

A room-sensing camera planted on the front of the Vive Pre was the reason the release ofValve andHTC's virtual reality headset was delayed, the companies revealed Tuesday at CES 2016 The Vive VR headset was supposed to beat Oculus VR and Sony to the punch, coming out in the last quarter of last year instead of launching well into 2016....

Combining human and computer intelligence could help solve the world's most vexing problems, researchers envisioned in an article published Monday in the journal Science Researchers from Cornell University and the Human Computation Institute want more humans to help out in accelerating research and finding solutions to life's most difficult problem...

Fitbit shares earlier this week climbed several percentage points after the company's app topped the iOS charts over the Christmas holiday The Fitbit app was the top free app downloaded from Apple's App Store on Christmas Day. It was already the most downloaded app in the store's fitness and health category....

Amazon has been negotiating a lease for 20 Boeing 767 jets as it executes on plans to start its own air cargo business, according to recent reports It launched a pilot of the service in Wilmington, Ohio, where Air Transport Services Group, or ATSG, has been managing airfreight on Amazon's behalf, according to The Seattle Times....

Target, Walmart and other large U.S. retailers have extended their hours on Christmas Eve in an effort to snag last-minute holiday shoppers It's a wider net for consumers during a season in which about 17 percent of shoppers last week said they hadn't starting buying gifts, in a Reuters/Ipsos poll....

TheCalifornia Department of Motor Vehicles on Thursday proposed rules for autonomous vehicles, and Google isn't happy about one of the provisions The new rules for autonomous autos were presented for public commentary. The DMV has invited the public to weigh in on the proposal in two workshops, one in Sacramento and the other in Los Angeles, early ...

The Seattle City Council this week approved an ordinance that will allow drivers forUber andLyft to form unions, becoming the first U.S. city to pass such legislation The City Council voted 9-0 in favor of the ordinance, which doesn't require the mayor's signature to pass....

Racking in more than 200 times its original asking price, the crowdfunded space simulator Star Citizen earlier this week reached a landmark 100 million in backer dollars.At the same time, developer Cloud Imperium released version 2.0 of the game's Alpha build Alpha 2.0 is billed as the biggest Star Citizen update yet, as it features more pieces of ...

Researchers have created a computational model that enables artificial intelligence to learn the way humans do, according to an article published last week in the journal Science The model gives AI the ability to recognize handwritten alphabetical characters as fast as humans can....

Twitter on Thursday revealed it's testing the expansion of promoted tweets aimed at logged-out users The company has been searching for ways to monetize the patronage of the roughly 500 million logged-out users per month who hop off Google for a moment to read tweet or two. The glue here is more tweets, more content....

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer said last week that Psychonauts will get a sequel -- if fans prove they want it badly enough. Appearing at the Game Awards in Los Angeles, he kicked off Double Fine's Fig campaign for Psychonauts 2, urging fans to pitch in US$3.3 million toward development of the new title.

IBM on Tuesday revealed that it has acquiredClearleap, a company that develops cloud middleware for streaming video between endpoints Clearleap's scalable video platform can support millions of concurrent users in the event live broadcasting is in high demand. Customers of the company, which recently raised $40 million in funding, include the NFL, ...