Off-the-shelf stock parts are the blocks from which we build mechanical projects. And while plenty of parts have dedicated uses, I enjoy reusing them in ways that challenge what they were originally meant for while respecting the constraints of their construction. Building off of my piece from last time, I’d like to add to your
Read MoreThe Edge says the band’s forthcoming Las Vegas residency is the “dawn of a new creative genre.”
Read MoreJohn Kruzel / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases related to government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Trump-related case in 2021 — The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution’s …
Read MoreThe Jib True 2 come in some funky colors, but today’s deal is only on the light gray and blue combo. | Image: Skullcandy I keep rubbing my eyes, thinking my vision must be off, but these wireless earbuds are really on sale for less than one Jackson. That’s right, the Skullcandy Jib True 2
Read MoreJohn D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: A poll of 1,500 US voters finds 46% support a nationwide TikTok ban and 35% oppose it; 62% of Republicans are in favor, compared to 33% of Democrats — Majority of GOP voters support banning Chinese-owned app, compared with 33% of Democrats — WASHINGTON—Nearly half of U.S. voters
Read MoreResidents and visitors in Sheffield can point their phone at the tops of buildings and see giant animated creatures spring to virtual life.
Read MoreAI doesn’t understand how humans read well enough to design type on its own. But it can help typographers make their work more accessible.
Read MoreLizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven’t raised funds since 2021 — The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
Read MoreReuters: The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, an ex-OpenSea product manager accused of insider trading in NFTs, begins this week, one of the first cases for digital assets — U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens …
Read MoreThe French automaker has big plans for this small electric car, and way ahead of its 2024 debut, WIRED got behind the wheel of an early build.
Read MoreWhen you think of Android OEMs, there’s a good chance that Samsung would be near the top of that mental list. The Korean firm has made some of the best Android phones, with the latest Galaxy S23 series setting the benchmark for others to follow. But what if you don’t have the capital to purchase
Read MoreBloomberg: Research in 2021: around 60% of undersea internet cable faults were caused by fishing equipment or anchors; repairs can often cost $250K to $3M per incident — On the evening of Oct. 14, the managing director of Shefa, a Faroese Telecom subsidiary, received a call from one of his technicians …
Read MoreAt the center of the much-maligned film is a beautifully bizarre sequence that secures the movie’s singularly strange affect.
Read MoreThe chatbot is tempting physicians with its ability to spout medical information, but researchers warn against trusting AI with tough ethical decisions.
Read MoreIt may not be obvious, but Valve’s Steam Deck is capable of being more than just a games console. Demonstrating this is [Parker Reed]’s experiment in 3D scanning his kitchen with a Kinect and Steam Deck combo, and viewing the resulting mesh on the Steam Deck. The two pieces of hardware end up needing a
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to $200M+ — The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.
Read MoreThe Apple MagSafe Battery Pack attached to an iPhone 12 Mini. | Image: Dieter Bohn / The Verge More details are emerging about the design of Apple’s long-awaited mixed reality headset ahead of its expected unveiling on June 5th. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the headset’s external battery pack — which is designed to sit
Read MoreCredit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer A new Google Pixel Fold leak has dished out more specs. The foldable is said to offer a 4,500mAh battery with 23W charging speeds. That means we should expect charging speeds in the same ballpark as the Pixel 7 line. The steady stream of Google Pixel Fold rumors has
Read MoreYou may have formed an impression of digital twins based on The Matrix movies or The Sims video game series. But advances in cloud infrastructure, edge computing, IoT, distributed data management platforms, and machine learning capabilities have transformed digital twins from science fiction to a more mainstream business capability. Bringing digital twin capabilities to companies
Read MoreSomething has changed at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with regard to its formerly fraught relationship with open source. Though it was always incorrect to lambast AWS for “strip-mining” open source, as Daisuke Wakabayashi did in The New York Times, there was just enough smoke in that “strip-mining” fire to make the accusation seem somewhat credible.
Read MoreGoogle has added code generation and debugging capabilities to its generative AI offering, dubbed Bard AI, in response to rival offerings from Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer. “Starting now, Bard can help with programming and software development tasks, including code generation, debugging, and code explanation,” Paige Bailey, group product manager at Google Research, wrote
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung has relaunched the Galaxy Enhance-X app. This app offers a variety of AI-enhanced photo editing features. It’s only on the Galaxy S23 series for now, but it’ll come to the S22 series and Galaxy A family. Samsung quietly revealed the Galaxy Enhance-X app last year, bringing a variety
Read MoreBloomberg: A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google’s Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann — In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After chief twit Elon Musk made good on his promise to remove Twitter accounts’ legacy verification blue ticks last week, numerous high-profile accounts now appear to be re-verified — including a number of dead celebrities. It’s likely that the re-appearance of their blue ticks is part of a
Read MoreThe digital publisher grew fat off the back of Facebook’s fickle algorithm. Battered and bruised, it’s now going back to where it all began.
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