Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell. (Image: NIAID/Wikimedia Commons)A new implant could become a key tool in the fight against various forms of cancer. Researchers in California have developed a tiny device designed to be placed directly next to a tumor within the body. Once implanted, the device helps to shrink the existing
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung confirmed a launch event for a Galaxy A-series phone on its website in India. The details on the website suggest it’s the Galaxy A54. The launch event is scheduled for January 18th. It was just last week, during CES, when Samsung launched Galaxy A14. Now Samsung is preparing
Read MoreIt’s technically old news, but the ninth-gen iPad might still be a great fit for you. | Image: Apple The latest products might be worth the price hike if you get cooler features and drastically better performance than what the last-gen version offered. In the case of Apple’s spruced-up starter iPad released in October 2022,
Read MoreApple is expected to keep things quiet when it comes to 2023 releases, except for one new major product line, Apple Reality.
Read MoreLike many of you, I’ve become the designated “fix-it” person for my family and friends. While it can be a lot of work — I just finished an oil change that required me to lay in a cold, wet driveway and I can’t mention in polite company the substances I was bathed in while fixing
Read MoreJesse Pound / CNBC: Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire insurance tech company Duck Creek Technologies for $2.6B in cash, or $19 per share; Duck Creek stock jumps 45%+ — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Insurance tech company Duck Creek Technologies has reached a takeover deal …
Read MoreThough Apple has made rapid progress in outfitting most of its Mac lineup with its own silicon, several models are still using Intel processors. The most notable is the Mac Pro, which sits atop Apple’s lineup in cost and performance. The new Mac Pro with Apple silicon should have already been released by now, but
Read MoreNate Raymond / Reuters: SCOTUS lets Meta’s WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug to install spyware, allowing surveillance on 1,400 people — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc’s (META.O) WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting …
Read MorePhoto by Roberto Baldwin for The Verge BMW issued a recall notice for over 14,000 electric vehicles for a software malfunction that could lead to a loss of power and an increased risk of a crash. The automaker said that the recall covers certain iX SUVs and i4 and i7 sedans produced between October 14th,
Read MoreDominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Crunchbase: Black US founders raised around 1%, or an estimated $2.254B, of the total US venture capital raised in 2022, down from the record 1.3% in 2021 — Some. Good. News. — The latest Crunchbase data shows that Black startup founders in the United States raised around $264 million …
Read MoreFinancial Times: The UK will pay £24M to settle with French IT group Atos, which challenged awarding an £850M supercomputer contract to Microsoft to forecast weather and more — French group claimed its bid was unfairly rejected — The UK government was forced to pay out £24mn to Atos …
Read MoreThe Dynamic Island is reportedly coming to all iPhone 15 models, not just those with the Pro moniker.
Read MoreEric Wallerstein / Wall Street Journal: FTX’s bankruptcy executives are seeking to recoup Sam Bankman-Fried’s and FTX’s charitable donations; FTX’s Future Fund pledged $160M+ to over 110 nonprofits — Nonprofits struggle to decide how to handle money received from bankrupt crypto exchange — Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX doled out millions in charitable donations.
Read More(Image: Google)Android Auto and Apple CarPlay have changed the way people experience their vehicles’ infotainment systems. Since they were introduced in the mid-2010s, both have allowed drivers to cast their smartphones’ navigation apps, weather widgets, music interfaces, and (controversially) even text messages to their cars’ touch screens. But unlike Apple CarPlay, which tends to get
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Exploring the impact of the emerging AI epoch, led by DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT, on Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable Diffusion …
Read MoreKatie Paul / Reuters: Meta’s Oversight Board overturns Facebook’s decision to remove a post that said “death to Khamenei”, referencing the Iranian leader, after violent protests — Meta’s (META.O) Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company’s decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan …
Read MoreMike Allen / Axios: Sources: after Kevin McCarthy made concessions for the speakership, the GOP plans a subcommittee and hearings to investigate Big Tech, like the “Twitter Files” — House Republicans plan to launch a new investigative panel this week that will demand copies of White House emails …
Read MoreYour average 13.3-inch laptop is easy to transport, but the limited screen real estate can be a pain for productivity. How about two screens in a 13.3-inch form factor? That’s the new Lenovo Yoga Book 9i, which has been unveiled at CES 2023. This unusual form factor supports computing setups that other laptops could never
Read MoreNovelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.
Read MoreThe country’s surge in cases is a human tragedy but isn’t showing signs of changing the Covid picture in the West—where the virus is already running free.
Read MoreBy emulating the human ability to forget some of the data, psychological AIs will transform algorithmic accuracy.
Read MoreUsing the giant Virgo interferometer in Tuscany, researchers are recording gravitational waves created by interstellar cataclysms as they wash through our planet.
Read MoreHad a long day and still want to stream something? These tips from sleep experts will help you stay awake till the credits roll.
Read MoreOften with more “modern” complex protocols involving handshaking, token exchanges, and all the other hoops and whistles accompanying them, we forget how useful and powerful serial can be. In what might be a wonderful tribute to that, [Davide Gironi] created a simple AVR-powered 16-digit serial display. It can display two numbers, and that’s it. A
Read MoreAt CES 2023, we had the pleasure of talking to Paul Struhsaker, the Marketing Director at the Wireless Power Consortium. The conversation revolved around the new Qi2 wireless charging standard. We discussed what makes it different from the previous standard and how fast it is. Mr. Struhsaker also talked about when the technology will hit
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