Apple TV finally gets a native Sky Go app for live and on-demand streaming
It’s been a long time coming, but Apple TV now supports Sky’s streaming app.
Read MoreIt’s been a long time coming, but Apple TV now supports Sky’s streaming app.
Read MoreTwitter is testing a new status option that lets people add context to a tweet, but it’s only available to a limited number of people so far.
Read MoreWorkers are calling on management to stop inflicting “traumatic” pressure on other workers trying to unionize.
Read MoreThe Resident Alien star—and science fiction fan—gave WIRED his picks for the best shows on TV, from Severance to Peacemaker.
Read MoreThe UK recently declined to regulate prize draws as a form of gambling, but does it matter? The industry has moved on to more problematic ways to make money.
Read MoreTo secure the land for its multibillion-dollar Downtown West development, the company has had to track down dozens of distant relatives of 19th-century landowners.
Read MoreHeavenly bodies are always in motion: Pushing back the asteroid probe’s blastoff date could require a new trajectory, longer travel time, and much more power.
Read MoreWant to try a big quantum computer but don’t have the cash? Google wants to up your simulation game with their “Quantum Virtual Machine” that you can use for free. On the face of it, it sounds like marketing-speak for just another quantum simulator. But if you read the post, it sounds like it attempts
Read MoreDeciding to change careers is a huge one. There are a lot of different opportunities out there for many people. There is no reason to stay in a career that is not right for you. You may not like your job. You could be looking for a brand new start in a completely different field.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Chinese grocery delivery startup Missfresh tells employees it has run out of money; Missfresh was valued at $3B after raising ~$300M in its June 2021 IPO — Unpaid suppliers occupy Chinese delivery start-up’s offices as it scrambles to raise funds — Missfresh, a Chinese grocery delivery start …
Read MoreMatthew Sparkes / New Scientist: DeepMind says AlphaFold has predicted the structure of almost every protein cataloged by science, over 200M in total, a problem in biology for decades — Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months …
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitter tests a status feature for tweets, letting users add a label from a pre-determined list, in the US and Australia — Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal, or Myspace). Some users are reporting …
Read MoreThe latest Firefox update now supports the 2021 MacBook Pro’s 120Hz display for smoother scrolling.
Read MoreJohn Loeffler / TechRadar: Recent AMD and Nvidia leaks show upcoming GPUs will consume excessive amounts of power, creating a high environmental cost for limited improvement in graphics — The planet may burn but at least the end will be ray-traced at 8K — A number of recent news items over the past few weeks
Read MoreApple has purchased a seven-building campus in San Diego that should host 5,000 employees by 2026.
Read MoreAs the blockchain concept expands beyond cryptocurrency into software applications, improving transaction-throughput performance has become a critical area of research and development. One of the more visionary improvements in this area is the Proof of History, introduced by the Solana blockchain. This article introduces Solana and the Proof of History (PoH) concept, including a discussion of
Read MoreIs it time for a successor to the stalwart C++ language? A group of developers at Google and other organizations believe it is. The group is behind an experimental language called Carbon, which offers interoperability with C++ while overcoming purported difficulties in improving the legacy language. Carbon attempts to overcome these obstacles by starting over
Read MoreThe porous rock beneath the Gulf Coast launched the petroleum age. Now entrepreneurs want to turn it into a gigantic sponge for storing CO2.
Read MoreASP.NET Core 6 introduces a simplified hosting model that can be used to implement lightweight APIs by eliminating the need to write the boilerplate code required in previous versions ASP.NET Core. We discussed how to get started with minimal APIs, and how to use logging and dependency injection with minimal APIs, in previous articles here
Read MoreDaniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic. | Image: Roku Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a biopic about the musician starring Daniel Radcliffe, will release on November 4th on The Roku Channel, the streaming company has announced. The film will be available to stream everywhere where Roku’s free service is available, and is the latest step
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Qualcomm has announced that Snapdragon silicon will power Samsung Galaxy flagships globally. The deal includes the Galaxy S23 series “and beyond.”
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Alibaba’s Ant Group, potentially pushing back Ant’s IPO for a year or more; regulators approve of the change — The shift, long under consideration to reduce governance risks, comes as the Chinese fintech giant seeks to move on from a tough year
Read MoreAnnie Njanja / TechCrunch: Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 survey of mobile data prices: five of the world’s 10 most expensive places are in sub-Saharan Africa; Israel is the cheapest — A new report detailing the cost of mobile data in different markets across the world, bears the evidence of why internet use …
Read MoreA new trademark for TikTok Music indicates the company is preparing a service for the purchase and streaming of music to rival Spotify and Apple Music.
Read MoreZeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: An interview with a Baidu robotaxi safety operator, who sits in the passenger seat and monitors how self-driving cars cope with Beijing’s streets — We spoke to Liu Yang, who has one of the strangest jobs around: to sit in the passenger seat and monitor how self-driving cars cope
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