AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series will apparently add some lower power chips for handhelds. | Image: AMD via Aokzoe You’ve obviously heard of the Steam Deck, and perhaps Asus drew your attention to the upcoming ROG Ally with its not-an-April-Fools’-joke. But that’s apparently just the tip of the iceberg for AMD-powered Steam Deck rivals, which have
Read MoreGoogle has added coding capabilities to its AI chatbot. Bard is now able to help with over 20 programming languages. The chatbot can also be used to help create functions in Google Sheets. Earlier this month, Google introduced an “Experiment updates” page to notify users of changes to Bard. Today, the updates page got its
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority According to a noted Apple analyst, iPhone sideloading might not be allowed in the United States. Apple might lock sideloading to locations in which it is forced to do so by the government. It’s also suggested that Apple could charge developers who want to allow sideloading of their apps.
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant says the North Korea-linked hack of VoIP company 3CX’s customers is the first confirmed incident of one software-supply-chain attack enabling another — The mass compromise of the VoIP firm’s customers is the first confirmed incident where one software supply chain attack enabled another, researchers say.
Read MoreÁlvaro Bernis / The Verge How we use the internet is changing fast, thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find information and redeliver it as a simple conversation. Continue reading…
Read MoreGoogle Nest speakers will soon speak less. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s a truth universally acknowledged that smart speakers should just shut up. I don’t want to know when Siri / Alexa / Google has locked my front door — I just asked it to do that and I expect it
Read MoreCollector containers at the Orca direct air capture and storage facility, operated by Climeworks AG, in Hellisheidi, Iceland, on September 7th, 2021. | Image: Arnaldur Halldorsson/Bloomberg via Getty Images Climeworks, the Swiss company that’s capturing CO2 emissions for Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, is crafting plans to expand across the US, which is becoming the destination
Read MoreSpaceX Starship prototype stacked on top of a Super Heavy rocket in Boca Chica, Texas. | Image: SpaceX The Starship launched successfully but didn’t last long into its first orbital test flight before blowing up. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Zarif Ali Humane cofounder Imran Chaudhri showed off a demo of a projector-based wearable while at a TED Talk. The wearable is capable of sending and receiving calls, language translation, and more. The wearable is a standalone product that doesn’t need to be paired with other devices. You may have never heard of Humane,
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required — Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has given a first live demo of its new device …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Mullvad, the Swedish company behind Mullvad VPN (virtual private network), says police walked away with nothing after attempting to seize computers from its office. According to an update on Mullvad’s site, the authorities left and didn’t take anything after it informed them that the company doesn’t store
Read MoreWhat is Cloud Deployment Model? In simple terms, “Cloud” indicates the internet, and ‘computing’ includes the systems and infrastructure that allow computers to run, build, deploy, or interact with the information. Instead of hosting systems, infrastructure, applications on your hard drive, or a site server, you can host on virtual or online servers that connect
Read MoreMichael Kan / PCMag: Mullvad VPN says Swedish police visited its office with a search warrant but left without any customer data after being informed of company’s no-logging policy — However, Swedish law enforcement left with nothing after learning Mullvad VPN has a strict no-logging policy when it comes to customer information.
Read MoreIn a world where an analogue to digital converter is all too often an integrated peripheral buried inside a microcontroller, it’s easy to forget how simple these devices can be when built from first principles. An entry in our Op-Amp Challenge from [NNNI] demonstrates this perfectly, it’s a high resolution multi-slope ADC for instrumentation purposes,
Read MorePhoto by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Redbox wants to give Netflix’s DVD business a second chance at life, but Netflix isn’t budging. That’s according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter (via NextTV), which says that Redbox’s parent company has already expressed interest in acquiring Netflix’s DVD business, only to get turned down by the streamer
Read MoreLow-code and no-code platforms have already played a vital role in helping business users build their own software applications with little or no knowledge of coding. Use of these platforms, though, will reach a tipping point as generative AI is added to them, supercharging the use of low-code and no-code systems among business users who
Read MoreThe Baader-Meinhof effect is the common name for what scientists call frequency illusion. Suppose you are watching Star Trek’s Christopher Pike explain how he makes pasta mama, and you’ve never heard of it before. Immediately after that, you’ll hear about pasta mama repeatedly. You’ll see it on menus. Someone at work will talk about having
Read MoreDara Kerr / NPR: Sources: Twitter removed “visibility filtering rules”, known as “shadow bans”, for government accounts and state-affiliated media from Russia, China, and Iran — Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Amid a recession, rampant inflation, and a possible banking crisis, finding the right investment options is essential. Most people want to park their money in a safe, liquid investment with as good an APY as possible. The Apple Card Savings account aims to be just that. Today we’ll tell
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s coffers became a smidge lighter on Thursday after his net worth plummeted by $12.6 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, the biggest drop in Musk’s wealth so far this year. That fall comes on the heels of a fairly tumultuous 24 hours for SpaceX,
Read MoreIn the midst of a recession, we’re all looking for the right place to park our money. Ideally, you want part of your investments to be safe, liquid, and earn as much interest as possible. Apple aims to take your business with its own high-yield savings account. Today, we’ll tell you what you need to
Read MoreThe Original Tamagotchi is one of many budget-friendly gifts you can buy for kids and adults alike. | Image: Tamagotchi If “budget-friendly” and “high-quality” sound like oxymorons to you, you’re in for a surprise. As it turns out, you can buy a number of great gifts without completely draining your savings account, which makes it
Read MoreToday, anyone can shoot video because cameras are cheap and readily available. But if you want to do fancy Hollywood-style moving shots, you’ll need somebody to point the thing — or a machine to do it for you. [Giovanni Aggiustatutto] went the latter route with this mechanized pan-tilt build. The build relies on stepper motors
Read MoreCredit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer The latest leak surrounding the Pixel Fold has given us a bevy of new details. There may reportedly be two models that will sell for $1,799 and $1,919. The leak also claims that shipments could start on June 27. As leaks about the Pixel Fold begin to ramp up,
Read More“Bad Astronomer” Phil Plait’s new book is full of the technical details authors need for their novels.
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