One of the most laborious tasks in PCB layout is the routing. Autorouting isn’t always perfect, but it is nice to have the option, even if you only use it to get started and then hand-tune the resulting board. Unfortunately, recent versions of Kicad have dropped support for autorouting. You can, however, still use Freerouting
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, starting at €999 and available for preorder in Europe — The clip-on fan interfaces with a trap door that opens up for internal cooling. — Some companies may be giving …
Read MoreMadhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A look at OpenAI’s “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release — Microsoft-backed company asked an eclectic mix of people to ‘adversarially test’ GPT-4, its powerful new language model
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A rounded-rectangle case is one of the Apple Watch line’s most distinguishing features. Though the overall design of the wearables only alters slightly from one generation to the next, each model is available in specific colorways. The Apple Watch Series 8 color options should look familiar to most shoppers.
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: A San Francisco federal judge rules Google must face trial, set for May 8, over Sonos’ patents, but invalidates two of four patents and narrows Sonos’ claims — Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos Inc
Read MoreUnderstanding the most impactful 2023 healthcare statistics is critical if you’re in the healthcare industry or if you’re a customer of the U.S. healthcare industry — which is, basically, all of us. Young or old, employed or retired, what happens in healthcare affects us all. Healthcare has been going through momentous changes. COVID changed everything,
Read MoreThe state is poised to be the first in the US to block downloads of the popular app, which could ignite a precarious chain reaction for digital rights.
Read MoreRobert Leedham / British GQ: Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Digg’s collapse, Reddit going public after 17 years, TikTok and regulation as its biggest threats, its longevity, and more — First, he has some thoughts to share on teetotalism, the Twitter Files and TikTok — For 17 years now …
Read MoreSegment Anything, recently released by Facebook Research, does something that most people who have dabbled in computer vision have found daunting: reliably figure out which pixels in an image belong to an object. Making that easier is the goal of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), just released under the Apache 2.0 license. The online demo
Read MoreUnderstanding the most impactful 2023 healthcare statistics is critical if you’re in the healthcare industry or if you’re a customer of the U.S. healthcare industry — which is, basically, all of us. Young or old, employed or retired, what happens in healthcare affects us all. Healthcare has been going through momentous changes. COVID changed everything,
Read MoreThere are a lot of situations where a research group may turn to an electron microscope to get information about whatever system they might be studying. Assessing the structure of a virus or protein, analyzing the morphology of a new nanoparticle, or examining the layout of a semiconductor all might require the use of one
Read MoreImage: Rovio Sega is reportedly close to buying Rovio Entertainment — the company that owns the Angry Birds mobile game franchise — for a whopping $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sega may lock in the big deal by early next week, according to people speaking with WSJ. It’s surprising to think that
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Google Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro are undeniably attractive devices. Google has a record of producing high-end hardware at relatively affordable prices, and the latest smartphone flagships from the tech giant are among the best Android phones on the market. But why would you pay full
Read MoreImage: SpaceX SpaceX’s Starship rocket has been cleared for launch by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), meaning it could take its first orbital flight test as soon as next week, as reported earlier by CNN. With the help of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket, Starship is the spacecraft that’s designed to ferry crew and cargo to
Read MoreImage: SpaceX SpaceX’s Starship rocket has been cleared for launch by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), meaning it could take its first orbital flight test as soon as next week, as reported earlier by CNN. With the help of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket, Starship is the spacecraft that’s designed to ferry crew and cargo to
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple TV 4K is getting a new multiview feature just in time for tonight’s Friday Night Baseball games, as first spotted by Tom’s Guide (via TechCrunch). The feature is still in beta and will reportedly let you watch up to four sports streams at once in a grid
Read MoreMarkets are always in flux, randomly walking between gains and losses, but sometimes macro factors conspire to create sustained volatility. In 2022, we saw unusual supply constraints — lingering post-coronavirus supply chain issues, a persistently tight labor market, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — converge with high demand — partly fueled by heavy government stimulus
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Filing: Elon Musk creates X.AI Corp., a privately held AI company incorporated in Nevada, and authorizes the sale of 100M shares — Name of new Nevada-incorporated organization suggests link to billionaire’s interest in everything app — Elon Musk has created a new artificial intelligence …
Read MoreIllustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state, starting on January 1, 2024 — Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation
Read MoreIllustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s
Read MoreIllustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s
Read MoreZ Fold 4 (unfolded) Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Update, April 14, 2023 (04:05 PM ET): We’ve updated this Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 rumor hub with new information related to the design of the phone.
Read MoreThe nation’s highest court temporarily stayed restrictions on the drug mifepristone while it continues weighing a decision.
Read MoreIf you were active in the online dating scene 10 years ago or knew people who were — you might remember a very different world. Sure, a decade might as well be a lifetime in digital years, but it’s still remarkable how much has changed. Some of these changes were easy to predict at the
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