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Lenovo’s Project Crystal is the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display
25 Feb

Lenovo’s Project Crystal is the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display

John RoutledgeLatest News
It’s not often you encounter a device that looks like it came straight out of a movie set. But Lenovo’s Project Crystal, supposedly the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display, is an example of sci-fi come to life.Currently there are no plans to turn Project Crystal into a retail product. Instead Lenovo’s latest concept device was commissioned by…
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Lenovo and Motorola’s Smart Connect makes it easier to manage tasks across your devices
25 Feb

Lenovo and Motorola’s Smart Connect makes it easier to manage tasks across your devices

John RoutledgeLatest News
Motorola and Lenovo have announced a new cross-device management tool at MWC 2024 called Smart Connect that lets users seamlessly switch tasks from one device to another. You could, for example, move a podcast from your phone to your tablet without losing your place using only a swipe gesture, or easily share files between connected devices using a unified Share…
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Let’s talk about Xbox | This week’s gaming news
24 Feb

Let’s talk about Xbox | This week’s gaming news

John RoutledgeLatest News
No one is suggesting that Microsoft should stop making video game hardware. What we've been considering, here in the dark and twisted Engadget Slack channels, is whether Microsoft should keep making generationally distinct consoles in the traditional hardware cycle. Basically, does Xbox need a box? Microsoft has been busy building the foundation of a platform-agnostic, cloud-first future for video games,…
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Google explains why Gemini’s image generation feature overcorrected for diversity
24 Feb

Google explains why Gemini’s image generation feature overcorrected for diversity

John RoutledgeLatest News
After promising to fix Gemini's image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company's Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information, explained that Google's efforts to ensure that the chatbot would generate images showing a wide range of people "failed to…
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Amazon to pay $1.9 million to settle claims of human rights abuses of contract workers
23 Feb

Amazon to pay $1.9 million to settle claims of human rights abuses of contract workers

John RoutledgeLatest News
Amazon will pay out $1.9 million to more than 700 migrant workers to settle claims of human rights abuses following exploitative labor contracts, as reported by CNBC. The impacted laborers were working at two of the company’s warehouses in Saudi Arabia.Amazon acknowledged the issue in a blog post, saying it hired a third-party labor rights expert to investigate warehouse conditions. The…
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