Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Layer 1 blockchain Aptos Labs has raised a $150M Series A led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, bringing its total raised in 2022 to $350M — The team looking to bring the Diem blockchain back to life raised $150 million in a Series A round. — Layer 1 blockchain Aptos
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Wearables are a super popular product category, be they smartwatches or fitness trackers. They offer a variety of functions, such as telling the time (obviously), mirroring smartphone notifications, music playback, fitness/health features, and providing quick access to apps. These devices do require charging though, but what we want to
Read MoreAs interest in electric vehicles continues to grow, consumers may find they have a lot of questions that they would like answered even before stepping inside a dealership or taking out a car loan. To that end, General Motors is launching a new online platform called EV Live designed to educate curious car buyers about
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at China’s efforts to grow its chip industry by focusing on the most demanded and basic technologies, such as microcontrollers and power supply chips — Chip makers boost production of mature semiconductors now in high demand, which could add to their global influence
Read MoreThe strategy, which involves inoculating an infected person’s closest contacts, helped beat smallpox. But it requires good contact tracing and enough vaccines.
Read MoreSince Vladimir Putin blocked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in March, Russia has been pushing away from the global internet at a rapid pace.
Read MoreThe DOJ vows to protect people’s ability to travel out of state for abortion care, but legal experts warn we can’t take it for granted.
Read MoreInstalling apps on your smartphone means giving up some degree of privacy. Until recently, Google’s Play Store showed you all the permissions an app might request, but Google recently dropped that in favor of the developer-provided Data Safety box. Having developers divulge their plans for your data is a good thing, but relying on that exclusively
Read MoreIf you are a process junkie and love seeing the end-to-end of how a thing is made and with what tools, then watch [Michael Klements] show off his Raspberry Pi case design. His case has quite a few cool-looking elements to it, and incorporates 3D printing as well as laser-cut and clear bent acrylic for
Read MoreDylan Martin / The Register: Intel plans to manufacture chips for Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek, the first major partnership for Intel Foundry Services; MediaTek will still use TSMC — This will be the x86 giant’s first major foundry customer — Intel will manufacture chips for Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek …
Read MoreCredit: Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority Hello. Wolf spiders can grow up to five centimeters in diameter. In related news, my wife almost burned the house down yesterday. Hope your weekend was just as exciting. The dissolution of OnePlus continues — today, the alert slider OnePlus, once the proud bastion of doing things differently, is
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has settled its lawsuit with Chicago over the city’s so-called “Netflix tax,” according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The tax placed a 9 percent levy on “amusements that are delivered electronically” — essentially targeting streaming services. The exact terms of the settlement weren’t made public.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google quietly disabled the Frequent Faces camera feature on Pixel phones back in May. A statement on its forum suggests a “fix” is coming for an unspecified issue. Google’s Pixel phones have offered a “Frequent Faces” feature for several generations, identifying faces of people you often shoot in photos
Read MoreBlizzard launched Diablo Immortal earlier this summer to a chorus of mediocre reviews and howls of anger from gamers. The mobile-optimized Diablo is free to download, but it’s overflowing with in-app purchases. That hasn’t stopped it from becoming a huge money-maker for the company, and it’s about to rake in even more cash. Blizzard and
Read MoreLucy Craymer / Reuters: New Zealand’s internet safety group Netsafe says Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, and Twitter have agreed to self-regulate to reduce harmful content in the country — Big tech companies agreed on Monday to reduce harmful online content in New Zealand, making a move that critics said dodged the alternative of government regulation.
Read MoreThe game tasks players with managing immigration in the fictional Soviet state of Arstotzka. The self-described “dystopian document thriller” Papers, Please is getting a new mobile port for iOS and Android, out on August 5th as a paid, standalone app. The news was announced on Twitter by the game’s indie developer Lucas Pope. Papers, Please
Read MoreSam Biddle / The Intercept: Google employees, kept in the dark about firm’s sale of advanced AI tools to Israel, say it could bolster Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestine — Training materials reviewed by The Intercept confirm that Google is offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities …
Read MoreYou know what legacy software is. It’s what other people write and what other people use. Right? Wrong. “The minute you ship code, you have legacy software,” argues Jean Yang, founder and CEO of Akita Software. “There’s stuff that binds you. You can’t change it. I don’t remember things I did last week, and I
Read MoreThe business leaders who hire engineering firms such as mine like to see the numbers, the metrics that claim to quantify the value we create. While they may not understand the esoteric subtleties of refactoring to improve readability and conciseness, they can appreciate when code coverage increases from 85% to 90%. The numbers are going
Read MoreMeasuring quality of any kind requires the science of creating a measure or key performance indicator for a subjective property and turning it into a quantifiable attribute. Measuring quality should be a means to drive operational and delivery improvements. But there’s a cost to measuring quality and a human capacity to how many metrics people
Read MoreMonthly bandwidth caps are common among internet service providers (ISPs) in the US, but two US Senators want to stop that practice. Ben Ray Luján and Cory Booker have introduced the Uncap America Act, which would ban most ISP data caps. Naturally, there are some carve-outs for network management, but the real problem is the
Read MoreThe term “adaptive optics” sounds like something that should be really complicated and really expensive. And in general, the ability to control the properties of optical elements is sufficiently difficult enough that it’s reserved for big-science stuff like billion-dollar space telescopes. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t quick and dirty adaptive optics that are suitable
Read MoreA stock photo of a chess-playing robot in Shanghai — unconnected to this incident. | Photo by Gao Yuwen/VCG via Getty Images A chess robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy playing in a tournament in Russia, according to reports from local news outlets (seen via The Guardian). The incident happened last week at
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority OnePlus has had a rocky couple of years that brought big shifts in strategy and product lineup. It’s become harder to anticipate what OnePlus will do next, but one thing is for sure — OnePlus phones still draw plenty of attention. Now, ahead of OnePlus launching the OnePlus 10T
Read MoreAnna Gross / Financial Times: A global shortage of fiber optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, especially in Europe, India, and China, casting a shadow over 5G rollouts — Rising prices of critical components casts shadow over 5G rollout and development of data centres
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