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Larry Page’s air taxi startup is buying former DJI rival 3D Robotics

The Verge

Image: 3D Robotics. Kitty Hawk, the air taxi company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is buying what’s left of one-time DJI competitor 3D Robotics. As part of the acquisition, 3D Robotics co-founder Chris Anderson will become Kitty Hawk’s chief operating officer. Kitty Hawk is shifting its focus after recent turmoil.

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Glowforge cuts deal with Michaels to expand retail reach of its 3D laser printers

GeekWire

Glowforge has signed on with a new retail partner in a bid to get its 3D laser printers and other products in front of more customers who are already thinking about making and creating. Glowforge makes a line of 3D laser cutters/engravers. Some hardware jobs will remain in-person jobs at Glowforge Labs in Seattle. and Canada.

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See inside the new Apple Watch Series 6 with iFixit’s latest teardown

The Verge

There’s also one major piece of hardware that’s disappeared from the Watch: the tech used to enable Force Touch. Apple had an equivalent feature, known as 3D Touch, for phones starting with the iPhone 6S in 2015. The tech giant began removing 3D Touch on its smartphones and replacing it with Haptic Touch in 2018.

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Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for sounding too much like ‘Unreal’

The Verge

The China-based Nreal makes an augmented reality headset known as the Nreal Light, which projects 3D objects into real space, and it’s developed a demo game called Nreal Tower. Meanwhile, Epic’s Unreal Engine is a ubiquitous game-making tool that’s also used for films and general purpose 3D design.

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Insomniac says Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be about half the length of the original

The Verge

The Lost Legacy reference was first used by Bloomberg ’s Jason Schreier in a post last week confirming the game would be a standalone title and not an expansion of 2018’s Spider-Man , following confusion from a Sony executive’s interview with The Telegraph. The original 2018 game takes about 15 to 20 hours to beat the main story on average.

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Mercedes-Benz embraces the touchscreen in the new version of MBUX

The Verge

It’s all powered by a new hardware suite that adds functionality and features across the car, like improvements to the “Hey Mercedes” voice command system, pseudo-3D display technology behind the steering wheel, and new personal profiles that can be accessed via a fingerprint sensor or facial and voice recognition.

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Next-gen console analysis: Sony to challenge Microsoft with higher prices, more exclusive games

GeekWire

Now that we know most of the details about both the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, the tale of the tape says that, on a hardware level, the two systems are very similar. One big difference, though, comes from the changes between versions of the hardware. Is Sony’s victory a foregone conclusion? It seems to think so.

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