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Sources detail Apple XR headset’s external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple’s app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple XR headset’s external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple’s app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users — Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset’s features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try

Gimmicks are dead — just make a good phone

Credit: 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

Apple’s VR headset will have a MagSafe-type charging connector, separate USB-C port for data

Apple’s upcoming mixed-reality headset will have two ports, a USB-C port for data transfer and a magnetic port for a MagSaf-type battery attachment.

Apple’s VR headset will have a MagSafe-type charging connector, separate USB-C port for data

Apple’s upcoming mixed-reality headset will have two ports, a USB-C port for data transfer and a magnetic port for a MagSaf-type battery attachment.

Gimmicks are dead — just make a good phone

What to Expect From Ransomware Gang Attacks in 2023

Criminals 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

Run Linux By Emulating RISC-V On a RISC-V Microcontroller

For 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

Best Hiking Boots (2023): Walking Shoes, Trails, Backpacking

From strenuous hikes and serious summits to weekend rambles in the park, here are 11 great walking boots and shoes to make the most of your time outdoors.

Every gadget we’ve X-rayed with a Lumafield CT scanner

See inside a few of our favorite things — retro, modern, you name it. Continue reading…

VHS Robot Swaps Tapes, as Seen in Hackers

Tape robots are typically used in places that store vast amounts of data – think film studios and government archives. If you’ve seen the 1995 cult movie Hackers, you might remember a scene where the main character hacks into a TV station and reprograms their tape ‘bot to load a series he wanted to watch.

I installed Windows on my iPad so you don’t have to

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A Mac-running iPad has been a pipedream for Apple enthusiasts like me ever since the first iPad was announced. Why? It’s all about productivity — that often unquantifiable metric that can lead to a dog-headed pursuit of shoehorning software solutions as a bandage. But I digress. When I

Researchers Argue Black Holes Will Destroy All Quantum States

New calculations suggest that the event horizons will eventually “decohere” quantum possibilities—even those that are far away.

Bose and Razer smart glasses are silly, but I still believe they have potential

Opinion post by Adam Birney As I walk into the office rocking a pair of Bose Frames Tempo with music blasting behind my ears, my co-workers snicker, shake their heads, or straight up ask me, “What the heck are you wearing?” If I had walked in wearing wireless earbuds or headphones, no one would have

A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which featured primates in similar poses to the BAYC under the pretense of satire, violated Yuga Labs’ copyright (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which featured primates in similar poses to the BAYC under the pretense of satire, violated Yuga Labs’ copyright — Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps’ RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled

REI Co-Op Big Haul Review: The Best

REI’s house brand nails the details—big and small—with a well-priced duffel bag that works for everybody.

How to Talk to Your Partner About Sex (2023)

Open communication can be challenging—but expressing desires and boundaries is good for everyone. Here’s how to get started.

Generating Entangled Qubits and Qudits with Fully On-Chip Photonic Quantum Source

As the world of computing and communication draws ever closer to a quantum future, researchers are faced with many of the similar challenges encountered with classical computing and the associated semiconductor hurdles. For the use of entangled photon pairs, for example, it was already possible to perform the entanglement using miniaturized photonic structures, but these

AI’s mythology as a technology for creating intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries (Jaron Lanier/New Yorker)

Jaron Lanier / New Yorker: AI’s mythology as a technology for creating intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries — There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

The Shuttle Engine Needed 3D Printing, But…

If we asked you to design a circuit to blink a flashing turn signal, you would probably reach for a cheap micro or a 555. But old cars used bimetallic strips in a thermomechanical design. Why? Because, initially, 555s and microcontrollers weren’t available. [Breaking Taps] has the story of NASA engineers who needed some special

Hacker Group Names Are Now Absurdly Out of Control

Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?

Avenue 5 Is Funny But Needs More Variety

The HBO show, from Veep creator Armando Iannucci, has all of that shows comedy, but not as many of its layers.

A look at GeoComply, which says it checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the bets are happening in a US state where they’re legal (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: A look at GeoComply, which says it checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the bets are happening in a US state where they’re legal — Even before online wagering on sports was legal in the U.S., Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs predicted

Tiny Three-Tube Receiver Completes Spy Radio Suite

In our surface-mount age, it’s easy to be jaded about miniaturization. We pretty much expect every circuit to be dimensionally optimized, something that’s easy to do when SMDs that rival grains of sand are available. But dial the calendar back half a century or so and miniaturization was a much more challenging proposition. Challenging, perhaps,

Some critics of Twitter Blue, such as @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say they have been given unwanted Blue checkmarks (Mike Pearl/Mashable)

Mike Pearl / Mashable: Some critics of Twitter Blue, such as @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say they have been given unwanted Blue checkmarks — If you can’t beat ’em verify ’em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter’s revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here:

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