The Filthy Truth About Subway Air
Levels of particulate matter in the world’s metro systems far exceed recommended limits—and the deeper you go, the worse it gets.
Read MoreLevels of particulate matter in the world’s metro systems far exceed recommended limits—and the deeper you go, the worse it gets.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip were spotted on China’s CCC certification website. The listing shows that the upcoming foldable phones would continue using 25W charging, the same as their predecessors. Much has leaked about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip
Read MoreWhile our modern computer can easily emulate a lot of different old machines, there is something about having replica hardware that is even better. Not as nice as having the real thing, in some ways, although you don’t have to worry about wear and tear on a replica, either. [Jeff Tranter] has built a kit
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to boost efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom — Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Chromebooks are cheaper than comparable Windows counterparts, but a new report highlights that their components for repair are challenging to locate and purchase. Google’s eight-year automatic update guarantee for Chromebooks starts running from the day of certification and not purchase, meaning buyers are left with shorter update windows. This
Read MoreBloomberg: Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week — Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend’s birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
Read MoreEasy PCB fabrication in China has revolutionised electronic construction at our level, but there are still times when it makes sense to etch your own boards. It’s a messy business that can also be a slow one, but at least a project from [earldanielph] takes away one chore. It agitates the etchant solution round the
Read MoreRoman Feeser / CBS News: A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID app, launched in 2014, which can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or song — Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans
Read MoreCredit: Kuba Wojciechowski An alleged hands-on video of the Google Pixel Fold has leaked. It shows Google’s first foldable phone in the flesh for the very first time. A number of details about the upcoming Pixel Fold leaked on Friday, but the weekend brought us our very first real look at Google’s first foldable phone.
Read MoreReddit user [nomoreimfull] posted code for a dynamic WiFi beacon to r/arduino. The simple, but clever, sketch is preloaded with some rather familiar lyrics and is configured to Rickroll wireless LAN users via the broadcast SSID (service set identifier) of an ESP32 WiFi radio. The ESP32 and its smaller sibling the ESP8266 are tiny microcontrollers
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Samsung is working on stacked battery tech that could enable longer-lasting batteries. The tech will apparently improve energy density by over 10%. The Korean brand will purportedly use this tech in phones, tablets, laptops, and more. Samsung’s Galaxy S23 phones all have wildly different battery capacities, ranging from the
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Samsung is working on stacked battery tech that could enable longer-lasting batteries. The tech will apparently improve energy density by over 10%. The Korean brand will purportedly use this tech in phones, tablets, laptops, and more. Samsung’s Galaxy S23 phones all have wildly different battery capacities, ranging from the
Read MoreEasy PCB fabrication in China has revolutionised electronic construction at our level, but there are still times when it makes sense to etch your own boards. It’s a messy business that can also be a slow one, but at least a project from [earldanielph] takes away one chore. It agitates the etchant solution round the
Read MoreNabiha Syed / The Markup: Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office’s guidance on AI-generated work, and more — A conversation with Katherine Forrest — Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere …
Read MoreDemetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the Biden administration asked South Korea to urge Samsung and SK Hynix not to fill any market gap in China if Beijing bans Micron from selling chips — White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing
Read MoreMark it on your calendars, folks — this is the week that the term RUD has entered the public lexicon. Sure, most of our community already knows the acronym for “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” and realizes its tongue-in-cheek nature. But given that the term has been used by Elon Musk and others to describe the ignominious
Read MoreFor years it was a given that it was impossible to run a Linux based operating system on a less powerful computer whose architecture lacked a memory management unit. There were projects such as uCLinux which sought to provide some tidbits to low computing power Linux users, but ultimately they came to naught. It is
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown Ten years ago, the 2013 Samsung Galaxy S4 was a technological marvel. Android phones had only been around for a few years at that point, and the Galaxy S4 seemed like it could do so much despite its small size. As consumers, we
Read MoreZoe Kleinman / BBC: Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay — Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
Read MoreOur friend [Fran Blanche] recently recorded what it was like to participate in an energetic round table at the recently held Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East. Fran joined well known personalities [Jeri Ellsworth], [Adrian Black] of Adrian’s Digital Basement, and Usagi Electric creator [Dave Lovett] with yours truly moderating. The table-less roundtable discussed the pros
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown Ten years ago, the 2013 Samsung Galaxy S4 was a technological marvel. Android phones had only been around for a few years at that point, and the Galaxy S4 seemed like it could do so much despite its small size. As consumers, we
Read MoreCriminals profit from ransomware. It works — it pays. But knowing how these gangs work can help us prepare for the next ransomware onslaught. Criminals profit from ransomware. It pays off and works, just like all malware on the Internet of Things. In the previous year, phishing or ransomware is the subject of a recent
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Hacker group naming schemes, such as Microsoft’s new system, are counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis; a government body should set a naming convention — Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?
Read MoreZoe Kleinman / BBC: Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay — Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
Read MoreApple is planning to switch to OLED displays by 2027, with two new 32-inch and 42-inch displays planned for launch.
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