If you’re wondering why there was no newsletter last weekend, it was because we had our hands full with Hackaday Berlin. But boy, was it worth it! Besides being the launch party for the tenth annual Hackaday Prize, it was the first Hackaday gathering in Europe for four years, and it was awesome to see
Read MoreThe arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra presents mobile photography enthusiasts with yet another dilemma when picking out the best smartphone camera. In addition to the already impressive spec sheet, we’ve seen some minor improvements with the new 200MP and changes to how the phone handles zoom processing compared to its predecessor, but is
Read MoreRiot Games Arena in LA. | Image: Riot Games This weekend is an important one for Valorant esports, with the launch of a new professional league for teams across North America, Latin America, and Brazil. The debut of the VCT Americas league, as it’s known, will also mark the first time Valorant games have taken
Read MoreWall Street Journal: How GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen abandoned the company’s e-commerce push to refocus on its ~4.4K stores, leading to GameStop’s first profit in two years — Videogame retailer, the original meme stock, hits brakes on e-commerce push to refocus on its 4,400 bricks-and-mortar locations
Read MoreAs we have seen time and time again, not every device stores our sensitive data in a respectful manner. Some of them send our personal data out to third parties, even! Today’s case is not a mythical one, however — it’s a jellybean Amazon Echo Dot, and [Daniel B] shows how to make it spill
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 238th edition here with Google accused of ripping off ChatGPT, Apple’s WWDC invites, more Twitter drama, and a Galaxy Z Flip 4 competitor coming soon, plus woolly mammoth meatballs, a dating sim that
Read MoreA Victorian lawsuit set a precedent of foregrounding personal privacy when we talk about data. But that rings hollow without policy to bolster those rights.
Read MoreThe trees have blossomed earlier as the local weather has warmed. But experts are divided over whether it’s cause for alarm.
Read MoreWhy would you region-lock a printer? | Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge A couple of weeks ago, Nilay wrote about the Brother laser printer everyone else has. It’s cheap, reliable, and the toner lasts a long time. Get a Brother laser printer, he said, and basically never think about your printer again. You know
Read MoreRealme recently launched a Coca-Cola themed smartphone, marking the latest in a long line of collaborations between phone brands and companies outside the tech sphere. There have been loads of these smartphone partnerships over the years, giving us some cool (and occasionally not-so-cool) products. But which collabs resulted in the best phones and/or accessories? We’ve
Read MoreWe tried the carmaker’s “emissions-neutral” synthetic fuel, which is chemically identical to 93 octane gas. It’s amazing, but there are some major caveats.
Read MorePlus: A major new supply chain attack, Biden’s spyware executive order, and a hacking campaign against Exxon’s critics.
Read MorePlus: The library ebook app OverDrive is shutting down, Fitbit loses some social features, and we take a stroll on Amazon Sidewalk.
Read MoreWe tried the carmaker’s “emissions-neutral” synthetic fuel, which is chemically identical to 93 octane gas. It’s amazing, but there are some major caveats.
Read MoreWhy would you region-lock a printer? | Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge A couple of weeks ago, Nilay wrote about the Brother laser printer everyone else has. It’s cheap, reliable, and the toner lasts a long time. Get a Brother laser printer, he said, and basically never think about your printer again. You know
Read MoreThe Jetson Rogue. | Image: Jetson Another hoverboard is being recalled due to fire risk. According to a notice on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) website, the 42-volt Jetson Rogue is being recalled because the lithium-ion battery packs in the hoverboards can overheat. A fire marshal in Pennsylvania determined that a Jetson Rogue
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has limited the number of files a user can store on Google Drive. Google never officially announced this limit. Users over the limit are effectively locked out of their accounts until they delete files. Some Google Drive users are getting a rather nasty surprise. It appears that a
Read MoreSometimes, you just want to go ride your bike in the great outdoors, but you can’t be bothered throwing it in the back of the car. That wouldn’t be a problem if you rode this latest build from [The Q]: a bike small enough to fit in a handbag. The build starts by customizing a
Read MoreImage: Disney Issue You’re watching Disney Plus and it’s too damn dark to see. So damn dark you’re likely to be eaten by a grue. What the heck were these filmmakers thinking? Quick fix Turn off Dolby Vision, and maybe turn off HDR, in your set-top box or TV’s settings menu. Screenshot by Sean Hollister
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more — At its State of Unreal event last week, Epic Games showed off not only the visual magic of 3D graphics of games in the future.
Read MoreA Sidewalk coverage map claims the network reaches over 90 percent of the US population. | Image: Amazon It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on. Today, Amazon revealed just how far its Sidewalk IoT network penetrates the
Read MoreJosh Sisco / Politico: Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA — The case, if filed, would be the first in a potentially long list of enforcement actions against the tech giant.
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google confirms putting a limit of 5M files per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug — The new file limit means you can’t actually use the storage you buy from Google. — “Please delete 2 million
Read MoreMatt Binder / Mashable: Twitter code behind For You tracked authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group — Musk said he had no idea it was doing that! — Twitter has just released …
Read MoreObserving a colony, swarm or similar grouping of creatures like ants or zebrafish over longer periods of time can be tricky. Simply recording their behavior with a camera misses a lot of information about the position of their body parts, while taking precise measurements using a laser-based system or LiDAR suffers from a reduction in
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