The Dynamic Island is cool but please don’t let it become another Touch Bar
The Dynamic Island was a major selling point for the iPhone 14 Pro, so why does it feel like such an aftermath?
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Read MoreDespite the popular adage about everything on the internet being there forever, every day pages of information and sometimes entire websites are lost to the sands of time. With the imminent shutdown of the DPReview website, nearly 25 years of reviews and specifications of cameras and related content are at risk of vanishing. Also lost
Read MoreWe live in a world where online calendars are a part of our daily lives. No matter how diligently you use an online calendar, you’re still benefiting from it. For instance, you might be reminded to send a birthday card online, schedule events or business meetings, or block out your day. It is important to realize that
Read MoreClothilde Goujard / Politico: Italy’s privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data” — The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.
Read MoreOpenAI is accused of “unlawful collection of personal data.” | Illustration: The Verge Italy’s national privacy regulator has ordered an effective ban of AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing creators OpenAI of “unlawful collection of personal data.” It’s ordered OpenAI to stop collecting Italian users’ data immediately until it amends its data collection practices. The country’s Data
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei reports 2022 revenue up 0.9% YoY to ~$93.4B and net profit down 69% YoY to ~$5.18B, its biggest drop since 2011, amid pandemic controls and US sanctions — – Huawei reported net profit for 2022 totaled 35.6 billion yuan ($5.18 billion), a 69% year-on-year decline.
Read MoreNix’s wearable sensor promises to give cyclists and runners real-time hydration advice by analyzing their fluid loss while they work out.
Read MoreThe Apple TV+ movie is sleek but simplistic at times.
Read MoreCredit: Weibo/FlyPig An unboxing video has shown off the vivo X Fold 2 foldable phone. The video suggests a thinner foldable with a similar camera system as the X90 Pro. The company also confirmed to us that there were no current plans for a global launch. Vivo launched its X Fold and X Fold Plus
Read MoreModern microcontrollers often have specs comparable with or exceeding early gaming consoles. However, where they tend to fall short is in the video department, due to their lack of dedicated graphics hardware. With some nifty coding, though, great things can be achieved — as demonstrated by [TEC_IST]’s project that gets the RP2040 outputting 1080p video
Read MoreGood morning all, and happy Friday! I’m currently enjoying the second six-hour unscheduled power outage in the past 24 hours. I trust your day is going much better! Microsoft is the new Google The generative AI era has sprung a few surprises. No one would’ve believed that ChatGPT and GPT-4 would take off the way
Read MoreBack in 2019, I wrote about the “container tax.” In simple terms, this is the additional cost to use containers properly within a cloud-based application. It includes development, operations, and other expenses that containers incur. The goal of leveraging containers is to offset the additional costs with the benefits they offer. Many other technologies come
Read MoreNo one was prepared for Google search when it came along. Search engines existed, of course, but not like that—not like Google. It was clear pretty early that Google search was one of those applications that comes along every 20 years or so and changes not just the game, but people’s lives. Flash forward 20
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai has responded to criticism of the company’s experimental AI chatbot Bard, promising that Google will be upgrading Bard soon. “We clearly have more capable models,” Pichai said in an interview on The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast. “Pretty soon, perhaps as this [podcast] goes live, we will
Read MoreVirgin Orbit was notable for launching its LauncherOne rocket from midair using Cosmic Girl, a converted Boeing 747. | Image: Virgin Orbit Virgin Orbit, the satellite-launching subsidiary of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, has announced that it will lay off 85 percent of its workforce and is ceasing operations “for the foreseeable future.” The company, which
Read MoreBen Cohen / Wall Street Journal: How Apple’s standalone classical music app fixes the genre’s biggest problem of search and discovery with better metadata created by Dutch company Primephonic — Forget the metaverse. The future is metadata. It’s how the world’s most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.
Read MoreIf you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps to place where, but quite often you’ll have to rely on experience and rules of thumb. For example, you might have heard that you should
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: India is looking for alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, and is seeking to spend between $16M and $120M — Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world
Read MorePlus: Microsoft Outlook and Android patch serious flaws, Chrome and Firefox get fixes, and much more.
Read MoreWeaving through traffic and protests in the French capital shows that the real problem isn’t scooters—it’s cars.
Read MoreAn innovative research project delivers new evidence about the challenging life of astronauts on the International Space Station.
Read MoreHuman: Fall Flat, one of the most successful games of all time is now available on Apple Arcade.
Read MoreBloomberg: Insiders say crypto firms are struggling to access banking services and facing lengthy application procedures amid bank collapses and regulatory scrutiny — US banks, already hesitant to work with crypto customers, are now even warier of providing services to the industry after a string …
Read MoreTwitter: Twitter launches its Verified Organizations program, which allows companies to get a verified checkmark for $1,000/month and their affiliates for $50/month each
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