Google will soon be dropping support for Dropcam HD, Dropcam Pro, Nest Secure, and the Works with Nest program. Existing Dropcam customers are being offered an indoor wired Nest Cam. Existing Nest Secure customers are being offered a Self Startup System from ADT, or $200 in Google Store credit. If you picked up a Dropcam
Read MoreMea culpa: I was wrong. The artificial intelligence (AI) singularity is, in fact, here. Whether we like it or not, AI isn’t something that will possibly, maybe impact software development in the distant future. It’s happening right now. Today. No, not every developer is taking advantage of large language models (LLMs) to build or test
Read MoreLow-code and no-code platforms are used to build applications, websites, mobile apps, forms, dashboards, data pipelines, and integrations. No-code platforms help business users, sometimes termed citizen developers, to migrate from spreadsheets, extend beyond email collaborations, and transition from manual task execution to using tools and automations across departments. Low-code platforms are usually for technologists and
Read MoreBloomberg: Shanghai-based SenseTime announces AI model SenseNova and chatbot SenseChat, available in Chinese and English, following Baidu’s Ernie Bot — SenseTime Group Inc. showed off a suite of new artificial-intelligence services developed with the company’s access to vast troves of data and deep computing power …
Read MoreIDC: Apple’s Mac shipments fell 40.5% YoY globally in Q1 2023, the largest drop among PC makers, as combined PC shipments fell 29% YoY to 56.9M units — Weak demand, excess inventory, and a worsening macroeconomic climate were all contributing factors for the precipitous drop in shipments …
Read More3D printing by painting with light beams on a vat of liquid plastic was once the stuff of science fiction, but now is very much science-fact. More than that, it’s consumer-level technology that we’re almost at the point of being blasé about. Scientists and engineers the world over have been quietly beavering away in their
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Bluetooth has become a valuable feature that many of us rely on every day. But most of the wireless devices you’re likely to own today go one step beyond the classic Bluetooth and you may have not even realized it. Over the past decade, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) has
Read MoreMolly White / @molly0xfff: [Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company’s control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage — The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related
Read MoreBrian Cox as Logan Roy. The third episode of the show’s final season feels like the true beginning of the end — and exactly the sort of jumpstart the series needed. Continue reading…
Read MoreApple has been having meetings with retail store workers to prevent them from unionizing, according to a new report.
Read More[ExtremeElectronics] cleverly demonstrates that if one Raspberry Pi Pico is good, then nine must be awesome. The PicoCray project connects multiple Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller modules into a parallel architecture leveraging an I2C bus to communicate between nodes. The same PicoCray code runs on all nodes, but a grounded pin on one of the Pico
Read MoreCredit: 9to5Mac Fresh renders of the iPhone 15 Pro have leaked, giving us a good look at the phone from all angles. The leak reveals a brand new colorway for the new iPhone. Images also show the new solid-state buttons, titanium body, and more. We’ve seen basic iPhone 15 Pro CAD images before, but folks
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Dell XPS 13 (2023) review: thin, light, nice screen, and improved battery life, but only two ports, quiet speakers, and worse performance than similar models — The latest XPS 13 is good enough — but no longer good enough to top the market. … The Dell XPS 13 has long
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrice Renders showing the Pixel 7a in three colors have leaked. The phone is expected to come in white, gray, and a new sky blue variant. Google’s next highly-anticipated Pixel has leaked yet again. This time, tipster OnLeaks and folks at MySmartPrice have brought us renders of all the color options the Pixel 7a
Read MoreCustom music instruments here at Hackaday range from wacky to poignant. OpnBeat by [Hiro Akihabara] focuses on something different: simplicity. There are few buttons, the design and code are optimized to be straightforward and easy to modify, and the interface is slick. Eight musical keys complement three interface keys and a knob. An Arduino Nano
Read More[ExtremeElectronics] cleverly demonstrates that if one Raspberry Pi Pico is good, then nine must be awesome. The PicoCray project connects multiple Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller modules into a parallel architecture leveraging an I2C bus to communicate between nodes. The same PicoCray code runs on all nodes, but a grounded pin on one of the Pico
Read MoreApple is no longer signing iOS 16.3.1 builds after the release of iOS 16.4.1, stopping downgrades to versions earlier than iOS 16.4.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Are you trying to keep your browsing safe and private? The best way to do this is by using a VPN. And if you happen to use Chrome, as over 65% of us do, you have access to Chrome extensions. This means you can take advantage of the best
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: As Congress weighs regulating AI, consumer advocates and the tech industry converge on Washington, DC to influence US lawmakers, most of whom lack AI expertise — After years of inaction on Big Tech — and the explosive success of ChatGPT — lawmakers aim to avoid similar mistakes with artificial intelligence
Read MoreIntel C43201-5 Release 1 chip: Instruction Decoder and Microinstruction Sequencer of iAPX 432 General Data Processor (GDP). The chip is in a 64-contact leadless ceramic QUad Inline Package (QUIP), partially obscured by metal retention clip of the 3M socket. In a recent article on The Chip Letter [Babbage] looks at the Intel iAPX 432 computer architecture. This
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms — Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America’s inventors, who are less productive once they join
Read More[BioBootloader] combined Python and a hefty dose of of AI for a fascinating proof of concept: self-healing Python scripts. He shows things working in a video, embedded below the break, but we’ll also describe what happens right here. The demo Python script is a simple calculator that works from the command line, and [BioBootloader] introduces
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Ground-to-satellite communication from the palm of your hand is no longer a thing of spy novels and sci-fi television. The latest iPhone can already connect to satellites in times of emergency and now, chipset maker Qualcomm is bringing the technology to Android phones too. We first heard about Snapdragon
Read MoreIgor Bonifacic / Engadget: In a reversal, Twitter lets users like, retweet, and reply to tweets with Substack links, but searches with “Substack” still just give results for “newsletter” — In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users …
Read MoreWhen it comes to cryptocurrency security, what’s the best way to secure the private key? Obviously, the correct answer is to write it on a sticky note and put it on the bezel of your monitor; nobody’ll ever think of looking there. But, if you’re slightly more paranoid, and you have access to a Falcon
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