Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange
The phenomenon threatens local drinking water, and scientists think climate change may be the culprit.
Read MoreThe phenomenon threatens local drinking water, and scientists think climate change may be the culprit.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The average PC gamer likely has one controller they use for certain games. They connect that controller to their PC, launch a game, and then play. There’s not much extra thought put into it. However, if you’ve ever wondered what you could be doing with your controller and
Read MoreNot every transition must be a caterpillar into a butterfly, or a solitary trek through terror and pain. The natural world has other models of transformation.
Read MoreIt’s all the same features, but none of the distractions or annoying notifications.
Read MoreEver want to play with an FPGA, but don’t have the hardware? Now, if you have one of those ever-abundant Pi Picos, you can start playing with Verilog without getting an FPGA board. The FakePGA project by [tvlad1234], based on the Verilator toolkit, provides you with a way to compile Verilog into C++ for the
Read MoreUpgrading your iPhone or iPad? Want to keep your phone but switch carriers? You’ll need to remove your SIM first, and here’s how.
Read MoreAri Levy / CNBC: Ernst & Young: US tech IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94%, from $155.8B in 2021 to $8.6B in 2022; FactSet: no tech IPO raised $1B in 2022, compared to 15 in 2021 — – IPO deal proceeds plummeted 94% in 2022, according to Ernst & Young’s IPO report published in mid-December.
Read MoreWhile the Ultra stole the spotlight this year, there were a lot of interesting launches in the world of Apple Watch and watchOS this year.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence will try—and fail—to grasp the subtleties of human expression.
Read MorePlus: Patches for Apple iOS 16, Google Chrome, Windows 10, and more.
Read MoreDo “anti-hangover” supplements really work? With the sterling help of a UK rugby team, we raised a glass or five to find out.
Read MoreSupply chains are clogged and driving is getting more dangerous. 2023’s autonomous vehicles could help fix both.
Read MoreIn the shift away from fossil fuel energy sources, there has been a huge expansion in solar power. We’ve seen solar thermal plants in the desert and photovoltaic panel farms covering huge areas of land, but perhaps the most potential comes from placing the panels on rooftops. In some parts of the world this is
Read MoreElectron is software for running web-written apps in the same way as native ones, and has gotten plenty of bad press for its RAM appetite around these parts. But while the execution might leave something to be desired, the concept itself is quite solid — if you’ve already got code written for the web, a
Read MoreBrian Merchant / The Atlantic: Meta’s dramatic implosion, Elon Musk’s Twitter train wreck, and Amazon’s labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech — The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall. — The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Predictions for 2023: competition for Meta’s metaverse, Apple’s AR/VR headset debut, generative AI integration into products, continuing crypto gloom, and more — Our tech columnists look ahead to an Apple headset, Netflix password crackdowns, the next DALL-E and more — Big layoffs at Meta, Amazon, Snap and others?
Read MoreBen Jiang / South China Morning Post: Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles — Richard Liu Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of JD.com , has ended a low-profile period and stepped forward to lecture executives …
Read MoreThere’s an uneasy meeting in the world of audio between digital and analogue. Traditional analogue audio reached a level of very high quality, but as old-style media-based audio sources have fallen out of favor there’s a need to replace them with ones that reflect a new digital audio world. To do this there are several
Read MoreRyan Broderick / Polygon: A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled — The NFT gaming community only grew more niche and scam-filled in 2022 — Less than 12 months ago, it felt as if 2022 …
Read MoreApple has released a limited-edition version of AirPods Pro in celebration of Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit.
Read MoreNathan Crooks / The Block: FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M — – FTX Trading and its affiliated debtors said Friday that they would seek the return of crypto held by the
Read MoreHave you tried your hand at circuit sculpture yet? Well, if you were waiting for the ideal first project with a great build video to go along with it, keep reading. [4dcircuitry]’s 555-based flashing circuit sculpture ticks all the go-for-it boxen for us — the component list is short, the final circuit looks cool, and
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will soon let you swipe to switch between different views containing recommended and followed tweets, trends, topics, and more. In a tweet, Elon Musk announced that support for the navigation feature will arrive in January. Musk first hinted at the feature earlier this month, noting the “main
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s throwing more money into the metaverse with its acquisition of Luxexcel, a Netherlands-based company that specializes in 3D-printing prescription lenses for smart glasses. The news was first reported by Dutch outlet De Tijd (via TechCrunch), but Meta has since confirmed to The Verge that it purchased the
Read MoreSandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Italy’s parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s new bill also includes an incentive for those declaring crypto for tax purposes.
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