How to Save Your Smartphone’s Battery Life (2023): Tips for iPhone and Android
Shrug off your anxiety with these power-saving tips to extend the juice of your iPhone or Android phone.
Read MoreShrug off your anxiety with these power-saving tips to extend the juice of your iPhone or Android phone.
Read MoreIn 2023, people will remember how to think for themselves—and Big Tech will help.
Read MoreWhen most of us think of glove controllers, the first which comes to mind is Nintendo’s PowerGlove, which promised much more than it delivered. But the idea persists, and from time to time we see them here at Hackaday. [Gord Payne] has one with an elegant sensor solution, it detects finger movement using a light
Read MoreEmily Sohn / Nature: Researchers detail reproducibility issues in health care AI; a 2021 review found health-related ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures — Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar
Read MoreThe Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. You can see a video of the project below. One thing that makes it a bit odd compared to other Altair clones we’ve seen is that the emulator runs in a
Read MoreBilly Perrigo / TIME: A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more — Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built.
Read More[David Johnson-Davies] has a lofty goal of building a small device to give to younger hackers on a semi-yearly basis. So this last year, he designed and created The Number Maze Game, a small handheld logic puzzle maze. It’s based on several 4-digit seven-segment displays controlled by an AVR128DA32. Navigation is just a few push
Read MoreFinancial Times: TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms expect age verification measures in the UK’s Online Safety Bill to reduce user numbers, hitting ad revenue — UK’s Online Safety Bill requires stronger age verification measures for platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat
Read MoreCoco Feng / South China Morning Post: China’s central bank says Ant Group and 13 other firms “have basically completed business rectification” under financial regulators’ guidance and supervision — Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group and 13 other platform companies “have basically completed business rectification” …
Read MoreThere’s an old series of jokes that starts with: “How do you put an elephant in a refrigerator?” The answer is to open the door, put the elephant inside, and close the door. Most people don’t get that because it is too simple, and simple is the approach Georgia Tech researchers have taken when faced
Read MoreJenny Gross / New York Times: How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool — The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.
Read MoreA mobile interface is a nice touch Anybody who has ever seen a video wall (and who hasn’t?) will be familiar with the idea of making large-scale illuminated images from individual coloured lights. But how many of us have gone the extra mile and fitted such a display in our own homes? [vcch] has done
Read MoreWall Street Journal: SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US worth ~$200B since 2020, as the US realizes that chips are now as central to modern economies as oil — Recent shortages and fears of China’s ambitions to dominate the industry have led to a frenetic effort to rev up U.S. production
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation will be provided publicly — The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …
Read MoreImage: Nova These may look like your typical pair of earrings outfitted with — rather large — pearls, but they’re more than just jewelry: they actually double as ultra-discrete earbuds (via Gizmodo). The clip-on or stud H1 Audio Earrings from Nova Audio feature two speakers behind both pearls (which are real, by the way) that
Read MoreThere are many fitness trackers that claim to help users log more sleep. Whether it’s through behavioral insights, data-driven trend analysis, or educational content, companies are eager to enter our bedrooms. The Muse S, now in its second generation, wants a place on your pillow. With built-in sensors, the headband leverages an electroencephalogram (EEG) to
Read MoreCan Tesla remain the leader in the modern electric vehicle market it effectively created? That question has been on the mind of EV buyers, investors, analysts, industry watchers, and Elon Musk stans for months now. That’s especially been the case as questions over demand in China and the US — not to mention the Twitter
Read MoreRotary potentiometers, switches, and encoders all share a basic design: adjustment is done via a shaft onto which a knob is attached, and knobs are sold separately. That doesn’t mean one knob fits all; there are actually a few different standards. But just because knobs are inexpensive and easily obtained doesn’t mean it’s not worth
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani Earlier this week, Korean publication The Elec published a report suggesting that Samsung, the world’s largest Android phone manufacturer, might have a rather monumental shift in strategy in place for its 2024 lineup. Shortly after incorporating the Note series into the primary Galaxy S lineup,
Read MoreWashington Post: How Elon Musk’s Twitter moderation cuts boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service’s 280M DAUs live, including in Japan and India — With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk’s moderation cuts has been great elsewhere
Read MoreA new report says Apple is planning to bid for streaming rights for the Premier League for Apple TV Plus after dropping out of the NFL streaming race.
Read MoreWelcome to the 467th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: We had some wallpaper goodness this week. First, you can get six of the Asus ROG Phone 6 wallpapers, and one of them is a live wallpaper. They look quite nice and are high-resolution, so they should
Read MoreNYXI’s newest controller takes design cues from GameCube and uses Hall Effect joysticks for no drift. In other news, Pokémon celebrated having 1,000 creatures and a huge BotW glitch was discovered.
Read MoreBloomberg: Customs data shows China’s chip imports fell 15% in 2022 to 538.4B units, the first annual drop since at least 2004; imports grew 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020 — China’s imports of integrated circuits declined in 2022 for the first time in almost two decades.
Read MoreHouse Financial Services chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC) announced the new subcommittee on Thursday. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Republican lawmakers announced a new panel on Thursday that will oversee the cryptocurrency industry, as reported earlier by Politico and CNBC. Led by Representative French Hill (R-AR), the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology
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