Electronics have been sent to some pretty extreme environments, but inside a living host is a particularly tricky set of conditions, especially if you don’t want to damage the organism ingesting the equipment. One step in that direction could be an edible battery cell. (via Electrek) Developed by scientists at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia,
Read MoreMeir Orbach / CTech: Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — Volumez’s controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge into intelligence quickly and at scale
Read MoreVictor Swezey / The Daily Beast: Twitter Blue checkmarks were restored on Saturday for some of the platform’s biggest names, including those who had not criticized the verification system — Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform’s biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub’s private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers privately disclose security flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability — GitHub announced that private vulnerability reporting is now generally available and can be enabled at scale, on all repositories belonging to an organization.
Read MoreAI-powered chatbots are pretty cool, but most still require you to type your question on a keyboard and read an answer from a screen. It doesn’t have to be like that, of course: with a few standard tools, you can turn a chatbot into a machine that literally chats, as [Hoani Bryson] did. He decided
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: in its most advanced chipmaking effort, Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners and build a test chip to showcase the capabilities of its designs — Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers
Read MoreVictor Swezey / The Daily Beast: Twitter Blue checkmarks were restored on Saturday for some of the platform’s biggest names, including those who had not criticized the verification system — Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform’s biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
Read MoreAI-powered chatbots are pretty cool, but most still require you to type your question on a keyboard and read an answer from a screen. It doesn’t have to be like that, of course: with a few standard tools, you can turn a chatbot into a machine that literally chats, as [Hoani Bryson] did. He decided
Read MoreVictor Swezey / The Daily Beast: Twitter Blue checkmarks were restored on Saturday for some of the platform’s biggest names, including those who had not criticized the verification system — Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform’s biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
Read MoreClimate activists wearing masks of company CEOs including LVMH’s Bernard Arnault (2nd L) Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (C), Microsoft founder Bill Gates (2ndR) and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (R) on April 13th, 2023. | Photo by John MacDougall / AFP via Getty Images Brands love making big promises around Earth Day, and a lot
Read MoreA continuity tester, as found on most multimeters today, is a great tool for finding broken connections and short circuits. But once you’ve found a short, it’s up to you to figure out which part of the circuit it’s in – a tedious job on a large PCB with hundreds of components. [John Guy] aims
Read MoreA continuity tester, as found on most multimeters today, is a great tool for finding broken connections and short circuits. But once you’ve found a short, it’s up to you to figure out which part of the circuit it’s in – a tedious job on a large PCB with hundreds of components. [John Guy] aims
Read MoreRishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: Filing: Sundar Pichai received compensation of ~$226M in 2022, including stock awards of ~$218M; Alphabet announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs in January 2023 — Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) Chief Executive Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022 …
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs We’re spoilt for choice with great phones; whether you’re after amazing performance, all-day battery life, or a great camera, the current market has you covered. Brand loyalty aside, a phone’s aesthetics and ergonomics are increasingly differentiators between models. One trend that still divides the
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Report: cheap Chromebooks, due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability, are less sustainable and more expensive for schools than pricier devices — Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops …
Read MoreWelcome to the 481st edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Facebook settled a court case regarding the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal this week. The reward is $725 million. Folks who were on Facebook during the scandal may be entitled to compensation. You can follow the link for
Read MoreAn old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned reputation comes from being built in Lisp which allows it to be expanded to do almost anything. Despite this in-joke in the community,
Read MoreCredit: Zak Khan / Android Authority Samsung’s line of true wireless earbuds makes for an eclectic and impressive-sounding catalog. The Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 stand proudly as an affordable alternative to the flagship Buds Pro series. They share much of the same DNA, including industry-leading noise canceling and sound quality. They are also great value
Read MoreJenny Leonard / Bloomberg: Sources: President Biden plans to sign an EO in the coming weeks limiting new investments by US businesses in China, focused on chips, AI, and quantum computing — President Joe Biden aims to sign an executive order in the coming weeks that will limit investment in key parts of China’s economy
Read MorePhoto illustration by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Out of all the streaming services I use — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and Funimation — Discovery Plus is the one that I use the most. And I don’t even get it for free through some kind of promotion — I actually pay for it.
Read MorePhoto illustration by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Out of all the streaming services I use — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and Funimation — Discovery Plus is the one that I use the most. And I don’t even get it for free through some kind of promotion — I actually pay for it.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons Google Photos is one of the more underappreciated Google success stories, and it’s not hard to see why. The app is more than just the default gallery app for Pixel phones and some other brands, bringing fantastic editing features and polished cloud backup functionality
Read MoreWhen you think of NASA, you think of high-stakes, high-cost, high-pressure engineering, and maybe the accompanying red tape. In comparison, the hobby hacker has a tremendous latitude to mess up, dream big, and generally follow one’s bliss. Hopefully you’ll take some notes. And as always with polar extremes, the really fertile ground lies in the
Read MoreApple’s noise-canceling AirPods Max are currently $100 off in multiple colors. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Happy Earth Day, all! We’ve got a bunch of great deals to kick off the weekend, none of which have anything to do with Earth Day. Now that we’ve established that, let’s get to the deals!
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue — Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing
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