Google will finally kill the Google Now Launcher this month, according to some code sleuthing. The news comes several years after Google pulled the launcher from the Play Store. Google also switched from this launcher to the Pixel Launcher in 2016. Google hasn’t always used the Pixel Launcher as the home screen experience for its
Read MoreMongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. Its flexible data model allows you to easily store unstructured data. First released in 2009, it is the most commonly used NoSQL database. It has been downloaded more than 325 million times. MongoDB is popular with developers because it is easy to get
Read MoreIf you program in Python, you have most likely encountered situations where you wanted to speed up some operation by executing multiple tasks in parallel or by interleaving between multiple tasks. Python has mechanisms for taking both of these approaches, which we refer to as parallelism and concurrency. In this article we’ll detail the differences
Read MoreVaadin recently released new research on the state of Java in the enterprise. Combined with other sources, this survey offers a good look into Java’s evolution. The overall view is one of vitality, and even a resurgence of interest in Java, as it continues to provide a solid foundation for building applications of a wide range of
Read MoreAnne VanderMey / Bloomberg: MobileCoin says Chief Product Officer Bob Lee has died, remembering him as “a force of nature” who helped “birth Android and CashApp” as the first Square CTO — Bob Lee, the chief product officer of crypto startup MobileCoin Inc., has died, the company said.
Read MoreReuters: Foxconn reports Q1 revenue rose 3.9% YoY to ~$48B, March revenue fell 21.1% YoY to ~$13B due to lower consumer electronics demand, and predicts weaker Q2 sales — Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and major iPhone assembler for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) …
Read MoreKatharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: Ofcom says AWS, Azure, and Google may be limiting competition in the UK cloud computing market after a review since October 2022 and refers the case to the CMA — Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country’s digital regulator
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The April 2023 security patches have been delayed for Google Pixel smartphones. This is the second month in a row that security patches have been delayed. Verizon appears to be rolling out the patches to older Pixels. It seems Verizon is rolling out the April 2023 update for
Read MoreAdnan Bhat / Rest of World: How sound boxes, small speakers that read out payment confirmations, have become a lucrative revenue stream for Paytm and other digital payment firms in India — Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra specs have been leaked online. The specs suggest a chipset and durability upgrade for the Ultra slate. We’ve seen our fair share of Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 series leaks in recent months, with the most recent leak outing the apparent Galaxy Tab S9 Plus
Read MoreThe World Health Organization is gearing up to test vaccines against the Marburg virus—but the world is still not prepared to contain new viral outbreaks.
Read MoreMandatory face-recognition tools have repeatedly failed to identify people with darker skin tones. One Dutch student is fighting to end their use.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese regulators have slowed merger approvals of deals by US firms, asking some to make products that they sell in other countries available in China — The U.S. encouraged China to set up a robust antitrust regime. Now, Beijing is holding back its required green light for mergers …
Read MoreCredit: Google A new Google device was spotted at FCC, listing out support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and UWB. This device could be the Google Pixel Tablet. UWB can find many uses on the device, such as handoff functionality and bolstering Android’s Find My Device network. Google is planning a re-entry into the tablet market with
Read MoreIf you know anything about he design of a CPU, you’ll probably be able to identify that a critical component of all CPUs is the Arithmetic Logic Unit, or ALU. This is a collection of gates that can do a selection of binary operations, and which depending on the capabilities of the computer, can be
Read MoreAmos Zeeberg / Wired: How surveillance industry blog IPVM ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war after investigating Hikvision’s and Dahua’s mass face recognition systems — Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
Read MoreStephen Nellis / Reuters: Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers it uses for AI training are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia’s A100-based systems — Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models …
Read MoreWired: A look at Amazon’s struggle to clear technical and regulatory hurdles for US drone deliveries, like not being certified to fly over active roadways and people — The tech giant dreams of filling the skies with package-bearing drones. But it has repeatedly failed to clear technical and regulatory hurdles.
Read MoreThe company’s policy bars use of the AI chatbot to “misinform.” A study found that it readily spouted untruths on topics from Covid-19 to the war in Ukraine.
Read MoreIn 1996, the 3Dfx VooDoo VGA chipset changed computer graphics forever. Because of the high cost of memory, most of the boards had only 4 MB of memory — which seemed a lot back then. However, the chipset could actually handle up to 8 MB. [Bits and Bolts] couldn’t stand that his board only had
Read MoreStephen Nellis / Reuters: Google claims its 4th-gen TPU-based supercomputers it uses for AI training are up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia’s A100-based systems — Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models …
Read MoreJoshua Benton / Nieman Lab: Twitter’s new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive — Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?
Read MoreFor most of us, vacuum tubes haven’t appeared in any of our schematics or BOMs in — well, ever. Once mass-manufacturing made reliable transistors cheap enough for hobbyists, vacuum tubes became pretty passe, and it wasn’t long before the once mighty US tube industry was decimated, leaving the few remaining tube enthusiasts to ferret out
Read MoreEthan Shanfeld / Variety: Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says “mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games” after two moderately successful but dwindling iOS games — As Nintendo takes its shot at the box office with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the first animated film featuring …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Strivacity, which helps companies build secure customer login flows and identity management, raised a $20M Series A2 led by SignalFire — Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. According to a recent Verizon survey, 61% of all breaches now involve credentials …
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