Nature’s Soundtrack Reveals the Secrets of Degradation
Researchers are applying digital listening technology to the natural world. It turns out it has quite a lot to say to us—and not all of it sounds good.
Read MoreResearchers are applying digital listening technology to the natural world. It turns out it has quite a lot to say to us—and not all of it sounds good.
Read MoreWorld Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles.
Read MoreThere’s probably some axiom in professional journalism that says you shouldn’t give out free advertisement to your competitors — but since none of us have any formal training in this kind of thing and are just making it up as we go along — we’re more than happy to plug the brand-new MOSFET.net. We like
Read MoreDavid Benoit / Wall Street Journal: US bank Silvergate, which caters to crypto, reports liquidating debt to cover $8.1B withdrawals as FTX collapsed and laying off 40% of its staff; SI falls 40%+ — Bank sold assets at a loss to cover withdrawals and cut 40% of its staff but remains committed to crypto
Read MoreNew insight from Digitimes claims that 50% of iPhones could be made in India by 2027.
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Washington Post: After FTX collapsed, citizen journalists, including @AutismCapital, Coffeezilla, and Doomberg, stepped up to cover the saga, often outshining traditional media — A group of online creators has skyrocketed to fame by covering every aspect of the meltdown, but some optimize for attention over accuracy
Read MoreApple’s butterfly keyboard was notoriously bad but you could be owed part of a $50 million settlement if you act fast.
Read MoreLevi Winslow / Kotaku: After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul’s apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul finally responds, acknowledging some involved were “bad actors” — Blockchain investigator Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen may see Paul in court — After keeping his mouth shut …
Read MoreApple’s website says digital narration makes audiobooks more widely available to authors. | Image: Apple Audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech AI are now available via Apple’s Books service, in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry. Apple describes the new “digital narration” feature on its website as making “the creation
Read MoreSchools have adapted to disruptive technology before — ChatGPT is the latest challenge to educational norms. | Photo by Nicolas Villalobos via Getty Images The New York City Department of Education has blocked access to ChatGPT on its networks and devices over fears the AI tool will harm students’ education. A spokesperson for the department,
Read MoreSony and Honda’s new EV prototype: Afeela. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge CES rumbles on, and Apple sneaks out a new audiobook feature. Continue reading…
Read MoreAMD has acknowledged reports of its Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs overheating and is currently investigating the cause. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Several user reports have appeared since the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card last month that claim the GPU is impacted by performance issues due
Read MoreEach year thousands die because there aren’t enough organs for transplants, and I may be one of them. It’s time to start compensating donors.
Read MoreYou might often encounter null reference exceptions in your applications if null checks aren’t appropriately implemented. A null reference exception will abruptly terminate the execution of your program unless it is properly handled in your code. The null object pattern solves this problem, giving you an elegant way to handle null reference exceptions in your
Read MoreAs recently announced, SvelteKit has arrived at its much anticipated 1.0 milestone, following a long beta. SvelteKit 1.0 brings a fully realized application framework for building full-stack JavaScript applications with Svelte front ends. Let’s take a look. The general layout of SvelteKit 1.0 Svelte is a front-end reactive framework, comparable to React or Vue at a high
Read MoreVue, the popular JavaScript framework for building web UIs, is on a path to add support for externally imported types in a planned 3.3 release. Two features the project originally planned to graduate in Vue 3.3, Suspense and Reactivity Transform, will remain in experimental status. Plans for Vue 3.3 include support of externally imported types
Read MoreNot every Apple gift is perfect. If you got one over the holidays, you probably have only until January 8 to return it.
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Philips Hue owner Signify launches a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs, available for $130, effectively a software version of the $250M Play HDMI Sync Box — Signify, owner of the Philips Hue brand, is launching a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs.
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Gemini Trust COO Noah Perlman leaves the company, as founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss struggle to regain $900M in customer funds lent to DCG’s Genesis — Gemini Trust Co. Chief Operating Officer Noah Perlman has left the cryptocurrency firm founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss …
Read More(Image: Valencell)Paying a visit to the doctor is rarely a palatable experience, and having your blood pressure checked by one of those vise-like arm cuffs certainly doesn’t help matters. Soon we might be able to skip that ordeal entirely, thanks to a device introduced this week at CES 2023. Valencell, a biometric tech startup, unveiled
Read MoreApple has quietly rolled out a new feature that will use AI to narrate titles in its Books app.
Read MoreShaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Dune Analytics: 630K+ wallets created 2.82M Ethereum Name Service domains in 2022, including 430K in September, the most, and 52K in December, the least — The figure represents 80% of all registrations since the service launched. — Ethereum Name Service (ENS) saw a lifetime record number …
Read MoreAngus Berwick / Reuters: Source: FTX’s former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with US prosecutors, telling them what he knew of SBF and others misusing customer funds — FTX’s former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with U.S. prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm’s collapse …
Read MoreHey there! I wish CES would shift back a week or so. I’m still trying to find my feet again after the festive season, but the expo really throws you into the deep end. Anyway, we’ve got plenty of news from Las Vegas as well as a major featured story for Android below. Android gains
Read MoreA few months ago we featured a model aircraft whose power plant came courtesy of an angle grinder. It was the work of [Peter Sripol], and it seems he was eseiged by suggestions afterwards that he might follow it up with a helicopter built using a Dremel rotary tool. Which he duly did, and the
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