Today, we have stories about Apple’s “ultra” security measures, someone compressing entire movies on floppy disks and taking a deep dive into the ways we can connect, without touch, in a post-pandemic world. But for this opening salvo, we’re going to see a family of dancing robots.
Watch the Atlas robot and the entire Boston Dynamics family, including the doggy Spot and the stackable Handle, dance “Do You Love Me” by The Contours, and you will feel affection or, well, disgust. Boston Dynamics may now be 80% owned by car manufacturer Hyundai, but it is maintaining its sense of humor.
-Mat Smith
You can get the $ 400 smart speaker for just $ 159.
Although Google’s Home Max was officially retired and removed from sale a few weeks ago, the Google Store is once again offering the speaker for sale. Although it displays a message saying the device is out of stock and asking customers to try a pair of the new Nest Audio devices, it will still allow you to test a charcoal-colored Home Max speaker for $ 179.
Everything we said in our review is still standing, as this voice activated speaker has excellent sound quality and connects directly to the Google Assistant ecosystem. The best part now is that it no longer costs $ 400 – at least while supplies last.
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They can watch the low-resolution version of ‘Shrek’ on a personalized VCR.
A Redditor is compressing entire movies at a resolution of 120 x 96 pixels at four frames per second. As such, they were able to stack Shrek on media with a storage size of 1.44 MB, or about 0.03 percent of a DVD’s 4.7 GB capacity. In fact, u / GreedyPaint sprayed Shrek to 1.37 MB, so there was still some room to spare.
To play, you can connect a floppy drive to a Raspberry Pi as part of a personalized VCR system affectionately called LimaTek Diskmaster. When the device is turned on, it displays a homemade animation that asks the Redditor to insert a disc. When this happens, the movie will automatically play. Just don’t expect it to look good.
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And the ways in which we can connect in a post-pandemic world.
What will the post-pandemic world be like? In any case, technology will be fundamental to everything. This year’s memories are still raw and conditioning – wash your hands for two songs from “Happy Birthday”! Don’t touch your face! – it’s still instinctive.
During 2020, the technology industry promoted products aimed at minimizing, sanitizing or tracking physical touch. Think: wearables that keep you from touching your face or touch screens and buttons without touch. Which of these will we discard when society reopens fully and what can become permanent? Chris Ip reports what happened in 2020 and what we can expect next year.
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