Niantic Spatialが開発運営を行う『Ingress』とは、2つの陣営に分かれたエージェント（プレイヤー）が世界中に点在するポータルをめぐって戦うほか、それらを道しるべに各地を散策するなど幅広い遊びが体験できる位置情報ゲームだ。そんな本作で毎月...続きを読む

Samsung Galaxy S26シリーズが値上げの可能性！パーツ高騰により各モデルで1〜2万円規模の価格引き上げが噂されています。購入を検討中の方はお早めにチェック。

Reservations are now live for Valve's "Steam Frame" VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). "It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB," reports CNET, "and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don't already own it." Reservations are open through Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, "with customers randomly assigned a place in line after the reservation window closes." CNET's editor at large even argues that the Steam Frame "isn't necessarily the future of XR, as much as it's a framework for evolving beyond the present." Their review calls it an "ambitious" VR headset that "feels like an experiment in progress." The ability to run other apps in windows can make Frame feel, at times, almost like a computer. Linux apps in desktop mode range from Chromium to Firefox to a bunch of other tools. I watched YouTube in one window while playing Portal 2 in other, and started to marvel at how flexible Frame could be. But VR games require a full immersive takeover of the headset... The Steam Frame can convert games intended for both PC VR and even Android APK files, using a conversion tool called Lepton... I haven't sideloaded anything yet, but Steam Frame in theory could be a Rosetta Stone for VR gaming, even tapping into some Android XR titles, but not out of the box... 2D games can be projected onto a near-range or farther-off theater mode screen that can be dragged around, resized and turned into a curved or flat monitor, much like with the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung Galaxy XR or Meta Quest. You can download any game in your Steam library to test, even if it's not technically listed as "Great on Frame" yet... But the name "Frame" suggests a framework, something Valve's team acknowledged when I spoke to them during my review process... "We want this to be your PC, and people mod it, take it apart, make accessories for it," says Jeremy Selan, a software developer on the Steam Frame team. "We'll be putting out the CAD for all these [Steam Frame] systems. This is entirely based on open-source technology stacks based upon SteamOS. Our hope is that this isn't just one device, that this would be sort of the root of a growing SteamOS ecosystem. It already encompasses gaming and Proton and SteamOS and those Linux gaming capabilities. This is going to lay the foundation for a new sort of evolutionary tree of that, to also bring it into the VR and XR space."

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サムスンのGalaxy Z Fold8の広告になんとティム・クック氏が出演！？ライバル企業のCMに登場した人物の正体を明らかにします。

アウトドアを楽しむすべてのアスリートのみならず、ファッションシーンでも注目のNIKE ACGから、最先端のテクノロジーを凝縮した新作トレイルランニングシューズが発表されました。トレイルを攻略するNIKE ACGの最新イノベーション発表され…

あるカナダ人の若者は、米国で住宅の転売を行う不動産投資家になるために仕事を辞めました。ビジネスについて多くのことを学んだ彼は、もしやり直せるなら、もう二度としないだろうと話しています。

Nothingの新型ヘッドホン「Headphone (1) Pro」の噂を徹底解説。トリプルドライバーや強化されたANCなど、注目のアップグレード情報や予想価格をご紹介します。

とにかく売れてはいるけれど…。音楽はストリーミングで聴いてます。すっかり主流の座を占めるようになった、SpotifyやApple Musicなどの音楽ストリーミングサービスの陰で、意外にもCDセールスが伸びている実態を、このほどHypebe…

LGのスマートテレビが同意なしに音声データや視聴習慣を収集・送信していた問題について解説。プライバシーリスクやハッキングの懸念に迫ります。

YouTubeが人気クリエイターの流出阻止へ向けて用意するアメとムチの戦略とは？二大プラットフォームの綱引きの行方を解説します。

国連人権トップがAI業界の権力集中と存続の危機に警鐘を鳴らす。手遅れになる前に必要な安全性確保と自律型兵器禁止への動きを解説します。

Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in control" of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited Slack screenshots late Thursday evening where Mullenweg posted "Don't call it a comeback" and linked to LL Cool J's music video for "Mama Said Knock You Out." "Mullenweg's Slack profile picture currently shows him wearing a pirate hat and eyepatch," the report notes. From the report: "Happy to announce the board is back in agreement, and I'm in control of Automattic," Mullenweg wrote in the company-wide Announcements channel on Slack. "A lot happened in the past 48 hours that we need to sort out, and I hope much of it was a misunderstanding, because I have huge respect and regard for those involved." Mark Davies, Automattic's CFO who was set to act as interim CEO according to a statement from Automattic, had his Slack account deactivated as of at least Friday, sources told 404 Media and TechCrunch similarly reported. Davies, Mullenweg, and Automattic did not respond to 404 Media's requests for comment for this story. Techcrunch reported that Mullenweg told them a blog post is forthcoming. On Friday morning, Mullenweg published a blog post on his personal website, titled "Major Life Announcement." In it he announced he's buying a tugboat. "Anybody who's founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch," he wrote in the blog. He did not address the confusion surrounding his status at Automattic. The back-and-forth follows years of legal fights, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding Mullenweg's leadership.

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長〜く使える相棒になりそう。先日のAppleイベントで発表されたApple Watch Series 12とApple Watch Ultra 4。センサー性能が60倍とかよーわからんレベルで強化されたり、自動文字起こしなどのAI機能が追加…

Last week, Google announced that it managed to produce a detailed 3D reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system. A few days later a software engineer at Coinbase said the fly brain was being trained to play the original Doom. "Each Doom frame stimulates sensory neurons," says Alex Wormuth. "Neural activity is mapped to game controls. Damage triggers a stimulus to two PPL101 dopamine cells as reinforcement." Since then, the digital brain model has been repurposed to control other games like Beat Saber and Super Mario 64. PC Gamer reports: You can even watch the fruit fly play in real time via Wormuth's website, and it not only shows the point of view in Doom, but can also show a third-person render of the fly going around Doom maps. As of the time of writing, the fly is on round 6385 and, well, it's not very good. Sorry, fly. But modders aren't done here. They have also somehow managed to make the fruit fly play Beat Saber, and play it pretty well. Lyra Bubbles on X has used the brain and replays of a song in Beat Saber to teach the fruit fly where to hit and why, via Reinforcement Learning. That does mean it's not organically reacting to the notes popping up on screen, but it is receiving input and responding to stimuli. Lyra says, "Further training is to reduce reliance on external signals and allow it to play fully reactively with no input data." And, after "pivoting to fly engineering in 2026", Jessica Paquette also shared on X their experience running the digital fly brain through Super Mario 64. If you think that is all the game's modders made the fruit fly play, think again, as YouTuber Ro0oney even put it in Minecraft. But this time, Ro0oney used Flywire.AI, a similar project made in collaboration with Princeton University. The number of neurons are different (160,000+ vs 139,255), and Google analyzed a male brain whilst Flywire analyzed a female brain, but the basic idea is the same.

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あくまでもベンチマーク。まず、その点にご留意ください。また、まだ発売前ですし、OSも安定していなければ、このスコアが本当なのかもわかりません。そのうえでお伝えしますと、iPhone 18 ProのGeekBench 6のベンチマークスコアが…

デュオ...？iPhone Duoが発表されたのがうれしくて、ダンボールでモックを作って遊んでいた編集部員の内藤。とんでもないことに気づいてしまいました。D（ディー）U（ユー）O（オー）DUO（デュオ）...？…

Appleの秋イベントとAIへのスタンスを解説。他社が脅威論を語る中、Appleが見せる「AIとの適度な距離感」が共感を呼ぶ理由とは？その人気の秘訣に迫ります。

iPhone 18 Proおよび折りたたみモデルiPhone Duoの発売日、予約方法、au・楽天・ソフトバンク・ドコモのキャリア価格やキャンペーン情報を随時更新でお届けします。

メジャーデビュー10周年を迎えたシンガーソングライター・あいみょん。自身初となるベストアルバム『AIMYON BEST ALBUM – 唇を追え！ -』が9月9日（水）にリリースされ、その発売を記念した大型ビジュアル広告が東京・渋谷に登場した...続きを読む

静かで薄い！使用中に熱を帯びてくるパソコンを、どうやって冷やすか？ 水冷システムを搭載するモデルもあるものの、一般的なのは冷却ファンを備える構造でしょう。ファンが回る音の大きさや、そもそも厚みが出てしまう設計を受け入れるほかありません。でも…