Credit: Halo Halo, makers of the popular SleepSack, have launched a wearable baby sleep tracker. Called SleepSure, the device provides customizable alerts and helps track a baby’s sleep at home or on the move. Modern wearables almost always come with a sleep-tracking feature, but most of them are made for adults. That changes today with
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: A look at Samsung’s TV updates in 2023: Neo QLEDs converting SDR to HDR, futuristic MicroLED TVs, improvements to The Frame, and software and AI updates — Last year, Samsung radically shook up the TV market with the introduction of its first OLED model in many years.
Read MoreGood morning, Daily Authority readers, and a very Happy New Year to you all. We’ve kickstarted January with a bang as CES 2023 formally opens its gates tomorrow. Yes, the world’s largest tech show is underway, and there’s plenty of tech news to go around. So without further ado, here’s everything you need to catch
Read MoreAnna Gross / Financial Times: Arm VP Dennis Laudick says the company more than doubled automotive revenue since 2020 thanks to more complex cars; Arm’s 2022 total revenue rose 35% to £2.7B — SoftBank-owned company battles Intel and MIPS in auto sector as it prepares for blockbuster listing
Read MoreAll-new Nvidia GeForce NOW membership tier offers the power of the RTX 4080 over its cloud gaming service.
Read MoreZachariah Kelly / Gizmodo Australia: Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand report the service being down for over 12 hours, starting around 6:40am AEST on January 4 — It seems to be every day now that we’re writing a story on Twitter, and today’s no exception. Twitter appears to be down or poorly functioning
Read MoreThe OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Buds Pro 2. | Image: OnePlus The OnePlus 11, the latest flagship smartphone from the Oppo sub-brand, has been announced for the Chinese market ahead of its global launch next month. Its feature set doesn’t hint at any major departures from OnePlus’ previous flagships, but the company has opted for
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus has launched the OnePlus 11 in China. The phone starts at ~$580 for a 12GB RAM + 256GB storage model. It will launch globally on February 7. OnePlus has finally taken the covers off the OnePlus 11. The phone launched in China today alongside the OnePlus Buds Pro 2. While it’s the
Read MoreSome products seem to have a part of two that’s pretty much guaranteed to end up dying on you. In the case of the 2015-vintage Wacom Cintiq Companion 2, this turns out to be the so-called Athena chip, which switches the display input between the HDMI port and internal display controller. This allows for use
Read MoreRest of World: Scams have started impacting Amazon sellers across Pakistan, which Marketplace Pulse says has the third-highest number of registered sellers on the platform — Pakistan ranks third among countries that have registered the most number of new sellers on Amazon. It’s also gaining a reputation as a scammers’ paradise.
Read MoreCredit: Withings Withings announced U-Scan, an at-home urinalysis platform that offers hands-free data collection. The pebble-shaped reader sits inside users’ toilets to automatically capture samples and analyze biomarkers. The device will be available in Europe in mid-2023 for €499.99, with plans to expand to US markets in the future. Withings is making its way to
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Report: Indian crypto exchanges lost 81% of trading volume between July and October 2022, as traders turned to foreign exchanges due to India’s new crypto tax — India’s tax rules on crypto, which went into effect last April, has resulted in local exchanges ceding the lion’s share of the market …
Read More[Learnelectronics] purchased some near-field EMI probes for his tiny spectrum analyzer for about $5 on sale. Could they be any good at that price? Watch the video below and find out. The probes arrived as a kit with four problems: three circular ones for sensing the H field and a stubby probe for sensing E
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Chinese regulators approve Ant Group’s plan to raise ~$1.5B for its consumer unit, signaling progress in the firm’s government-ordered overhaul — Chinese regulators approved a plan by billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. to raise 10.5 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) for its consumer unit …
Read MoreThe Matter-enabled SwitchBot Hub 2 is also a temperature and humidity sensor. | Image: SwitchBot The smart home company SwitchBot, which makes tiny robots that can do things for you like press switches, turn locks, and open curtains, is introducing a new Matter-enabled hub. The $69 SwitchBot Hub 2 arrives in March and will work
Read MoreImage: Chrysler By 2028, iconic American automotive brand Chrysler says it will be an electric-only company. As such, it needs an interior that compliments and accentuates this shift to an emission-free future. Today, Chrysler unveiled a “demonstrator” cockpit designed to showcase a host of new technologies that the automaker’s future EV owners can expect to
Read MoreAlex Barker / Financial Times: Ampere Analysis: a decade-long original TV show spending boom is expected to slow to a crawl in 2023; streaming services will cut growth from 25% in 2022 to 8% — Lossmaking streaming platforms and traditional channels face pivotal year in 2023, say analysts
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Android’s director of engineering said Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture and outlined a years-long roadmap at the recent RISC-V summit — Google’s keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support. — Over the holiday break …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: China is pausing massive investments and costly subsidies aimed at building a chip industry to compete with the US, amid a nationwide COVID-19 wave — China is pausing massive investments aimed at building a chip industry to compete with the US, as a nationwide Covid resurgence strains …
Read MoreThe Brow Magic is a type of “brow printer” with an AR component. | Image: L’Oreal L’Oréal is no slouch when it comes to gadgets. Like Dyson, L’Oréal has been pushing the game in beauty tech for the past few years, announcing neat gizmos like wearable UV and pH sensors. This year is no different.
Read MorePut it in the museum of unique dongles. | Image: Samsung As companies have announced smart appliance after smart appliance, some people (myself included) have questioned why on earth you’d want to connect something like a washing machine or refrigerator to the internet. Samsung, however, has come up with a very compelling, if admittedly niche,
Read MoreApple’s MagSafe puck, wirelessly charging an iPhone 12 Pro | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s safe to say that Apple’s MagSafe magnetic charging pucks for iPhone have not created the amazing snap-on accessory ecosystem we’d hoped. Instead of freely allowing manufacturers to create gadgets that power and/or communicate with an iPhone,
Read MoreImage: Samsung Last year’s S95B QD-OLED (quantum dot) TVs from Samsung were an exciting shakeup for the consumer market and gave LG and Sony some long overdue competition. But the S95B series was limited to just 55-inch and 65-inch models — because those are the only TV sizes that Samsung Display manufactured QD-OLED panels for.
Read MoreImage: Samsung Last year, Samsung radically shook up the TV market with the introduction of its first OLED model in many years. And it used a new QD-OLED (quantum dot) panel that produces superior color brightness compared to popular OLED sets from LG. 2023 is going to be decidedly low key by comparison. Instead of
Read MoreAnyone who has done any amount of 3D printing with SLA printers is probably well aware of the peeling step with each layer. This involves the newly printed layer being pulled away from the FEP film that is attached to the bottom of the resin vat. Due to the forces involved, the retraction speed of
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