We know that the sun is just one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but we don’t know much about most of the stars outside our corner of the cosmos. That’s starting to change, thanks to projects like the DECaPS2 survey. Astronomers working on that initiative have just released a
Read MoreASML CEO Peter Wennink. | Image: Getty A key supplier of chip manufacturing tools believes that demand for semiconductors could pick back up in the second half of this year, CNBC and the Financial Times report. “Most of our customers tell us that they expect a recovery in the second half of this year,” ASML
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 3.4% YoY to $4.67B, breaking a run of double-digit growth since 2020, and issues tepid Q1 guidance below estimates — Texas Instruments Inc., one of the world’s largest chipmakers, suffered its first sales decline since 2020 and gave a tepid forecast …
Read MoreAlex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is reportedly working on a big update to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will improve its UI and features. Windows Central reports that the overhaul will include modern designs to match the rest of Windows 11, and features to more deeply integrate Microsoft 365 and OneDrive. Internal
Read MoreKalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch found OpenAI’s ChatGPT was able to pass a final exam for the school’s MBA program, scoring between B- and B — ChatGPT uses AI to pass final exam at UPenn’s Wharton — New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found
Read More(Image: Fmartin/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)As the world comes to terms with the realities of climate change, the pressure to adopt more renewable energy is unavoidable. However, the sun isn’t always shining, and the wind isn’t always blowing. Worst of all, our ability to store that energy for the cold, still nights is still woefully inadequate.
Read MoreWarehouse workers in the UK are walking out for the first time, and they want the world to follow.
Read MoreNate Lanxon / Bloomberg: After unofficial walkouts in 2022, hundreds of Amazon workers in a UK warehouse are striking, an unprecedented step in the country, after 98% voted in favor — Hundreds of Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center workers in the UK plan to strike on Wednesday as part of unprecedented industrial action by the company’s
Read MoreIn Lists and people on Mastodon I showed how I added a list column to the following tab of the Mastodon browser I’m building. That was a step in the direction of easier and more powerful list management. It enables me to see whether the people I follow are assigned to lists, and to consider
Read MoreMany young developers today do not remember the time of the shedding and cold rocks, let alone the dotcom bomb (or its associated fansite). Before each of these collapses, the fat times felt like they would never end. But fat times always give way to lean times and layoffs. Even if you are in a
Read MoreCredit: Qualcomm A Qualcomm representative suggested that the company will skip AV1 encoding. The representative hinted that Qualcomm could skip to VVC encoding instead. This will allow for much smaller file sizes when recording video on mobile. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset in November 2022, and it’s powering the top-end smartphones from
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Dutch chip equipment maker ASML reports Q4 sales up 29% YoY to €6.4B, 2022 net sales up 13% YoY to €21.1B, and forecasts 25% revenue growth in 2023 — – Dutch chip equipment maker ASML forecast a 25% jump in 2023 revenue. — ASML CEO Wennink said China accounted for around
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: UK-based enterprise VR training startup Gemba, used by Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and more, raised an $18M Series A led by Parkway; courses can cost ~$7,250 per person — Gemba, an enterprise-focused virtual reality (VR) training startup used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has raised $18 million in a Series A
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Marc Benioff’s controversial acquisitions, focus on growth over profits, celebrity relationships, and philanthropic pursuits have vexed shareholders — Marc Benioff helped build the software group into a Silicon Valley giant, but shareholders are agitating for change
Read MoreAkriti Sharma / Reuters: Microsoft is resolving a “networking issue” impacting Teams, Azure, Outlook, and other services, taking them offline in India, Japan, the UK, and elsewhere — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Wednesday it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams …
Read MoreThe Bowers and Wilkins PI7 S2. | Image: Bowers and Wilkins Two years after releasing its first pair of true wireless earbuds, Bowers and Wilkins is here with two updated models. The $399 (£349 / €399) PI7 S2 are the higher end of the two, with dual drivers, more microphones, and the ability to use
Read MoreSimon Sharwood / The Register: India’s education minister demos BharOS, a homegrown mobile OS claimed to ship with no preloaded apps, share no user data, and incapable of running malware — BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware. Right — A mere week after an Indian …
Read MoreGood morning, Daily Authority readers. Tomorrow is my birthday, and I’m thinking of gifting myself a new laptop. My eyes are on the new MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro processor since I’ve been a macOS user for a while now. Here’s hoping I can convince myself to spend a bomb on the thing. Are
Read MoreAs Stadia players mourn the loss of their cloud gaming platform, alternative services are offering free trials to tempt new users. | Image: The Verge Free trials are being issued for alternative cloud gaming services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Amazon Luna following the shutdown of Google Stadia on January 18th. As reported by 9to5Google,
Read MoreFor most of us, an 8-bit microcomputer means one of the home computers which set so many of us on our way back in the 1980s. But this ignores an entire generation of 1970s 8-bit machines which filled the market for affordable office and industrial desktop computing before we were seduced by Pac-Man or Frogger.
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Read MoreIsabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: More than half of Whirlpool’s and less than half of LG’s smart appliances remain connected to the internet, via which they sell parts and subscription services — The appliance makers continue to invest in efforts to drum up revenue through internet-connected devices, but many customers aren’t logging on
Read MorePatrick McGee / Financial Times: Sources: Apple is quietly enhancing maps, search, and online advertising on iOS to further separate its services from those offered on rival Android — iPhone-maker enhances maps, search and online advertising on iOS to challenge rival Android system — Apple is taking steps to separate …
Read MoreCredit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer A new report has revealed how Google will handle Flip to Shhh on the Pixel Fold. The feature will require users to fold the device and place it face-down. Smartphones have offered a flip to silence feature for years now, allowing you to place your device screen-down to silence
Read MoreThe Verge Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 services are currently down for thousands of users worldwide due to a networking issue. The software maker says it has “identified a potential networking issue” and is troubleshooting a fix to bring services back online. Thousands of users reported issues early this morning at around 2:30AM
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