At CES 2023, we talked with Chuck Sabin, the Senior Director of Market Development at the Bluetooth SIG. We discussed the topics of Bluetooth LE, Auracast, and the LC3 codec. Mr. Sabin also shared his insights into lossless codecs and much more. You can read an overview of the interview below or check out the
Read MoreWe had a short interview with Rick Kowalski, who is the Director of Industry Analysis and Business Intelligence at CTA, the organization behind the CES trade show. We talked about the main theme of this year’s CES, the products he thinks stand out, and the companies behind them. Mr. Kowalski also gave examples of how
Read MoreThe long overdue Apple Silicon Mac Pro refresh will apparently keep the same design as the existing model, says Mark Gurman.
Read MoreAlex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn’t yet emerged — We’re seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade. — After years of hype, the Creator Economy is
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple’s headset “Reality Pro” to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM — 2023 is set to be the year of Apple’s mixed-reality headset and not much else. Also: The company hikes battery …
Read MoreOver the decades there have been many programming languages, some of which have flowered briefly, and others that have stuck around despite newer, better, and faster competition. Few languages embody this last group more than FORTH, over five decades old and still cropping up wherever a simple, elegant, fast, and compact stack-based programming language fits
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple’s getting ready to launch its long-rumored mixed reality headset this spring, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company’s reportedly planning to reveal the device ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and will start shipping it this fall. The headset, which could cost
Read MoreThe neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New research shows how and why they are different.
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Read MoreDepending on who you are, this can be much more complicated than “whenever I feel like it.”
Read MoreWIRED photographer Roger Kisby captures the glory, madness, and optimism of the consumer tech extravaganza.
Read MoreAn fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking also means that GitHub projects tend to have a lot of forks, with the popular projects having hundreds of them. Since GitHub has
Read MoreBeyond just getting us from A to B, 2023’s vehicles want their drivers to be happier, healthier, and safer.
Read MoreOliver Whang / New York Times: A look at Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab, which is exploring questions around artificial consciousness and the possibility of self-aware robots — The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.
Read MoreAs electronics have moved lower in voltage, it’s perhaps less common to work on live-mains equipment. Thus particularly among younger hardware hackers it sometimes seems as though such work is viewed as so dangerous as to be only for the foolhardy. In practice it remains safe, so long as appropriate precautions are taken and a
Read MoreA lot of us have a soft spot for retrocomputers, and there’s nothing quite like running original hardware. Unfortunately if you’re after the truly original touch then that means carrying along the family TV from 1982, and that’s where life becomes annoying. What if there were a way you could easily drive an LCD panel
Read MoreTodd Bishop / GeekWire: Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly causing a youth mental health crisis — A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges …
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: After years of hype, 5G took a back seat at CES 2023, as the industry focuses on laying the groundwork for self-driving cars, AR, and expanding IoT in cities — When it wasn’t being overshadowed by covid resurgences, CES, for the past few years, has partially functioned as a big
Read MoreWashington Post: Sources: the US attorney’s office for the Western District of Washington sent subpoenas to US-based hedge funds for records of their communications with Binance — The federal probe into Binance is unfolding at a time of deep uncertainty in the crypto industry
Read MoreLauren Leffer / Gizmodo: DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to fight a speeding ticket in an unnamed US courtroom in February 2023 — The AI legal assistant has helped people contest parking tickets, now it’s leveling up to the courtroom—and the judge doesn’t know.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Twitter cuts more staff in its diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in a unit mitigating hate speech and harassment — Twitter Inc., under new owner Elon Musk, has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished trust and safety team handling …
Read MoreWithin the world of medical science fiction they are found everywhere: tiny robots that can zip through blood vessels and intestines, where they can deliver medication, diagnose medical conditions and even directly provide treatment. Although much of this is still firmly in the realm of science-fiction, researchers at Stanford published work last year on an
Read MoreJosh Nicholas / The Guardian: The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 — More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn’t it taken
Read MoreOnce [Hide-key] saw the likes of the banana and corn macro pads, they knew they had to throw their hat in this strange and wonderful ring. Some family members suggested a sunflower, and off they went looking for inspiring images, finally settling on a more iconic and less realistic design which we think is quite
Read MoreFinancial Times: Despite a recent pledge by Chinese officials to support tech to boost growth, VCs and foreign investors remain wary after a brutal, two-year regulatory campaign — Beijing about-face met with caution after brutal regulatory campaign to tame large internet groups
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