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Read MoreEven if you’re an intermediate golfer, Stix clubs might be your best fit. They’re a good value, they look sharp, and they can improve your distance.
Read MoreYoung artists like Latto, Vince Staples, and Doechii are subtly persuading listeners to rethink the way music genres can be interpreted.
Read MoreWith clinical vaccine trials for everything from HIV to Zika, messenger RNA could transform medicine—or widen health care inequalities.
Read MoreThe killer app for GPT-3 could help marketers lure clicks and game Google rankings.
Read MoreWhen we talk about astronomers spotting something in the far-off corners of the cosmos, it’s usually a galaxy, a star, or some other celestial object. Not this time. A team from South Africa has discovered an ultra-powerful radio-wave laser, a phenomenon known as a megamaser. At more than five billion light years away, this is
Read MoreThis weekend the InfoAge Science and History Museum in Wall, New Jersey will once again play host to the Vintage Computer Festival East — the annual can’t-miss event for anyone who has even a passing interest in the weird and wonderful machines that paved the way for the supercomputers we now all carry around in
Read MoreApple made quite a splash with the introduction of its self-built M1 SoCs back in 2020. The original M1 chip seems quaint now that the Pro, Max, and Ultra variants have launched, and Apple is now preparing for round two of its silicon onslaught. The company is reportedly hard at work on the follow-up chip,
Read MoreGood morning! It’s a peaceful Easter Monday, which many parts of the world have as a holiday. But, there’s plenty of good reads out there… mmWave woes
Read MoreMatt Wirz / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Eva Shang, whose investment firm Legalist uses AI to fund lawsuits with a stronger chance of winning and has raised $400M in the past six months — Fund manager, startup founder, blogger: Eva Shang is cracking the private debt market. The $400 million she raised in
Read MoreAdjusting the brightness of a device’s screen is something you should learn how to do on day one. Thankfully, if you just purchased a Fitbit product, the process is straightforward. Whether you now own a flagship Fitbit Sense or the Charge 5, you can find detailed steps to adjust your Fitbit’s screen brightness below. QUICK
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Read MoreBloomberg: China’s National Bureau of Statistics: quarterly chip production dropped 4.2% QoQ in March, the first time since early 2019, amid weaker demand and lockdowns — China’s quarterly production of semiconductors shrunk for the first time since early 2019 as consumer electronics demand softened …
Read MoreYou’ve got a new iPhone SE, now what? At the very least, you’ll want a new case. Since the dimensions of both the iPhone SE 2 released in 2020 and the newer 2022 iPhone SE 3 match the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8, cases will be interchangeable between all of these models. One of my
Read MoreLate last year RedMonk analyst Steven O’Grady wrote a post titled “A Return to the General Purpose Database.” The idea was that the market, seeking something beyond “vanilla” relational databases, had yielded all sorts of specialized NoSQL and other databases (or, in AWS’ case, had attempted to sell pretty much every kind of database). But now, the
Read MoreEveryone knows the pain that follows after your CFO takes a look at the cloud computing bill. The products and services are priced in fractions of a cent, but somehow those fractions all add up. The good news is that more options are appearing as smaller clouds compete directly on price. In most cases, it’s
Read MoreTechnical debt can be small, like minor code improvements to improve performance, code readability, or other support factors. Large technical debt may be deprecated APIs, applications lacking CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery), services with little automated testing, or legacy systems that impact operations. Regardless of the source, size, and impact, it’s certain that IT
Read MoreSmartphone camera partnerships have been around for years, as popular photography or camera brands team up with mobile manufacturers. This has resulted in Leica-branded Huawei flagship phones, Nokia phones with Zeiss optics, and OnePlus phones with Hasselblad branding. Do these partnerships actually make for better photos, though? We asked this question last week, and here’s
Read More(Photo: Apex 360/Unsplash)Researchers in the UK have found a way to make human skin cells look and act 30 years younger than they are. Professor Wolf Reik of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge has been working with a team of fellow epigeneticists to “rejuvenate” human cells, making them equivalent to the cells of someone much
Read MoreIf you’ve used a computing device in the past few decades, chances are you’ve been annoyed by notifications at some point. Websites and social media platforms are designed to constantly send you little dings and chimes to keep you engaged. Google is looking to fix this problem with a new kind of notification system it
Read MoreOur favourite cyborg [Zack Freedman] has been stumbling over a common problem many of us will be all too familiar with — that of tool storage and the optimal retrieval thereof. His solution is the Gridfinity: A modular workshop organisation system. Never chase your pen around on the desk again In [Zack]’s words, the perfect
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A variety of Apple Watch software features are apparently coming soon. Some of the more notable features include a new low power mode and satellite connectivity for messages and alerts. The Apple Watch wasn’t the first smartwatch on the market, but it’s undoubtedly one of the most popular watch
Read MoreIgnacio Olivera Doll / Bloomberg: Fan tokens issued by Manchester City and other soccer clubs have proven to be a disappointment for hopeful fans, with prices quickly losing steam within days — As soon as rumors started buzzing that soccer star Lionel Messi would transfer from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain in August …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus is apparently getting ready to launch a smartwatch in the Nord series. The wearable is supposed to be inexpensive and could launch alongside the OnePlus Nord 3. The OnePlus Nord Watch moniker has since appeared on the company’s website. Update: April 18, 2022 (3:09 AM ET): It looks
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based UrbanPiper, which helps restaurants manage multiple food delivery services, raises a $24M Series B from Swiggy, Zomato, and others — UrbanPiper, a restaurant management platform that processes 18% of all online food orders in India, has raised $24 million in a new financing round …
Read MoreCredit: Microsoft A third-party tool that installed the Play Store on Windows 11 PCs also brought a variety of other nasty additions. Windows Toolbox installed a malicious Chrome extension and sketchy scripts. The extension redirected users to questionable affiliate and referral links. Microsoft launched Windows 11 late last year, and the most notable addition was
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