Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
Companies are racing to cool down their servers as energy prices and temperatures soar. And the worst is yet to come.
Read MoreCompanies are racing to cool down their servers as energy prices and temperatures soar. And the worst is yet to come.
Read MoreEver heard of Aerochrome? It’s a unique type of color infrared film, originally created for the US military and designed for surveillance planes. Photos taken with Aerochrome film show trees and other vegetation in vivid reds and pinks, creating images that aren’t quite like anything else. A modified method of trichrome photography is the key
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Bolt Mobility, co-founded by Usain Bolt, seems to have ceased operations and vanished from at least five US cities, leaving unusable e-bikes; Bolt raised $40.2M — Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, appears to have vanished without …
Read MoreUnwanted advertising — or spam — is obviously nothing new. We’ve had it all the way back to when we got leaflets and brochures in the mail. Now that we are more online and also on our smartphones, spam is annoying the hell out of us in our emails and on our phones. While email
Read MoreCredit: Google The Pixel 7 launch event could apparently take place on October 6. The phones are said to go on sale from October 13. Google surprised us back in May when it confirmed the existence of the Pixel 7 series phones and gave us a peek at their designs. The company only confirmed a
Read MoreThe world’s oldest video game is now available on a sought-after handheld game machine — and no, I don’t mean the Steam Deck. Developers have released the iconic 1962 game Spacewar! on the Analogue Pocket. This Game Boy-style device is built from the ground up to preserve the games of yesteryear, but it does have
Read MoreGoogle Search’s timer feature in 2013 when it was first introduced. | Image: Google Until recently, one of the most convenient ways to set a timer was to simply search for one on Google. Punch in a query like “10 minute timer” and, hey presto, you’d get a ten minute timer. But last month, reports
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The coronavirus pandemic is now in its third year, which means that many former commuters are now in their third year of working from home. Even folks who are back in the office a few days a week are often working from home more than they did before
Read MoreWe’ve seen system ads on smartphones for a while now, as manufacturers seek to make a profit (or a bigger profit) while still delivering good hardware. Major OEMs like Samsung, Xiaomi, and Realme have all played this game. However, we wondered whether consumers would be willing to buy a phone with ads if it were
Read MoreIt’s one thing for CIOs to say that cloud computing will see the highest rate of spending growth in 2022, as recorded in a Morgan Stanley survey. It’s quite another thing to actually spend that money. But spending they are, as last week’s results from the big three cloud vendors (AWS, Microsoft, and Google) demonstrated.
Read MoreFrom manufacturing to transportation to retail, companies across virtually every industry are supporting their digital transformations by moving to a cloud-based infrastructure. The shift from on-premises software to cloud services has been revolutionary to the process of application development and deployment, especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. But using the cloud often isn’t enough. You need to
Read MoreCloudflare is in the midst of a significant transformation, as it continues to build out the tools developers need to run their applications across a global network of edge locations. Recent moves put the 18-year-old internet security and performance company on a collision course with the industry-dominating hyperscale cloud providers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,
Read MoreHeather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: As the market downturn sees some US tech investors and startups hunkering down, others continue as normal; Q2 average investment deal sizes are at record levels — Market correction leaves some startups in crisis as others take employees on vacation — Why a 2022 Recession Would Be Unlike Any
Read MoreGood day, and welcome to the Daily Authority. We hope you had a wonderful weekend. I’m a few weeks late, but I finally found time to get into Stray. I wish someone had told me what happens immediately after the tutorial. The ultimate phone case? Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’ll provide a fair
Read MoreBusiness sign of a Tim Horton’s cafeteria. | Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images Tim Hortons, the Canadian fast food chain accused of using its mobile app to collect “vast amounts of sensitive location data” in violation of Canadian privacy laws, says it’s reached a proposed settlement in the resulting class action lawsuits,
Read MoreKingdom Rush Vengeance TD+ is now available for download via Apple Arcade and can be played on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Read MoreFinancial Times: A look at Samsung’s mounting semiconductor problems: reportedly losing Qualcomm and Nvidia’s business to TSMC, Galaxy S22 lagging iPhone 13’s chips, and more — Move follows warnings from investors, analysts and employees that chipmaker is losing its technological edge
Read MoreOlder readers and those with an interest in retrocomputing may remember the days when a computer might well have booted into a BASIC interpreter. It was simultaneously a general purpose device that could run any software it would load, and also a development environment. Not something that can be said for today’s development boards which
Read MoreApple really wants to sell through its Apple TV inventory and is now offering more people a gift card if they buy soon.
Read MoreWater & Music: An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets — tl;dr: This article presents an analysis of secondary sales and trading activity across several notable, multi-edition music NFT drops from late 2021 to mid-2022.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Renowned YouTubers have tested the Nothing Phone 1’s durability and repairability. The phone holds up surprisingly well for a mid-ranger in the torture test. The teardown shows it could be a nightmare to repair. The Nothing Phone 1 has been through Zack Nelson’s famous JerryRigEverything durability test. Folks over
Read MoreJiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: As the US passes its CHIPS+ Act, China plans to invest ~$150B+ through 2030 on chips, South Korea eyes $260B in chip investments by 2027, and the EU plans $40B — The question is whether semiconductor giants choose America over other locations that have offered incentives and lower costs
Read MoreNeha Wadekar / Washington Post: Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps — NAIROBI — The shooter approaches from behind, raising a pistol to his victim’s head. He pulls the trigger and “pop,” a lifeless body slumps
Read MoreShannon Liao / Washington Post: An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games — Kate Edwards works to foresee blind spots — and help companies steer clear. — In “Stray,” the adorable cat video game that’s become …
Read MoreBicycles need at least two wheels to be rideable, but [The Q] realized you don’t necessarily need the wheels to be in one piece. As long as you have at least two points of rolling contact with the ground, you can spread the load across multiple partial wheels. He demonstrated this by splitting the rear
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