This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves
A prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move.
Read MoreA prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move.
Read MoreThe Pixel Pump is an open source manual pick & place assist tool by [Robin Reiter], and after a long road to completion, it’s ready to ship. We first saw the Pixel Pump project as an entry to the 2021 Hackaday Prize and liked the clean design and the concept of a completely open architecture
Read MorePreetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, up from a $2.6B loss in Q2 2022, its first profit — Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank — Uber Technologies posted
Read MoreBloomberg: After Curve disclosed a hack, CRV dropped by ~25% in three days, prompting fears of wider market turbulence; DefiLlama: crypto using Curve fell ~50% to $1.9B — – Curve’s native CRV coin posted three-day, 25% slump after hack — Drop raised concerns about wider fallout from platform’s woes
Read MoreSam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Sources: under pressure from the EU, Meta offers to seek user consent in Europe for targeted ads based on users’ digital activity as soon as October 2023 — Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital
Read MoreGoogle Takeout is getting new features that will allow users to upload their Google account data to third-party services. | Illustration: The Verge Google is making it easier to backup and transfer your personal data between third-party services, in response to a GDPR investigation by Italy’s AGCM competition watchdog. In a press release announcing the
Read MoreCharlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg: Pearson plans to launch generative AI study tools for the upcoming academic year, including an “On a Tight Schedule” feature to summarize key learning points — – ChatGPT-style features will be added to Pearson+ and Mastering — New AI tools will not give students a ‘shortcut to an answer’
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The popular CoverScreen OS app now supports the Galaxy Z Flip 5. This support comes despite the phone only being released on August 11. You probably won’t need this app thanks to Samsung’s own downloadable tool. Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Flip 5 last week, and people will only
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority The Redmi 12 5G marks the global debut of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC, with better 5G support than its predecessor SoCs. Xiaomi will also rebrand the phone under the Redmi Note 12R and POCO M6 Pro 5G brandings for different regions. There are a few different
Read MoreOften neglected as ‘merely a styling language’, CSS contains a wealth of functions built right into the browser’s rendering engine that can perform everything from animations to typography and even mathematical operations, with more added each year. Screenshot of the output of the basic rotating dots example using CSS. In a tutorial [Bramus] takes us
Read MoreChristian Davies / Financial Times: A look at South Korea’s position in the tech “cold war”, as the country pivots away from China’s economy and prepares to comply with the US-led China chip ban — Washington is courting chipmakers and battery manufacturers with large subsidies but demanding they loosen ties with their other major market
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Meta plans to launch a range of AI chatbots dubbed “personas” that exhibit personalities as soon as September, to boost engagement on its platforms — Facebook owner seeks to seize on hype for AI while challenging rivals such as OpenAI, Snap and TikTok
Read MoreJoe McDonald / Associated Press: China restricts civilian drone exports, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern about military use; DJI pulled out of Russia and Ukraine in April 2022 — China imposed restrictions Monday on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern that drones might be converted to military
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: senior EU and US officials are concerned about China’s accelerated push into the production of older-generation chips made with 28nm equipment or above — – China is building more plants than others despite US sanctions — Officials are worried about impact on domestic chip plans
Read MoreCars (including LEGO ones) will roll downhill. In theory if the hill were a treadmill, the car could roll forever. In practice, there are a lot of things waiting to go wrong to keep this from happening. If you’ve ever wondered what those problems would be and what a solution would look like, [Brick Technology]
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: senior EU and US officials are concerned about China’s accelerated push into the production of older-generation chips made with 28nm equipment or above — – China is building more plants than others despite US sanctions — Officials are worried about impact on domestic chip plans
Read MoreThe Economic Times: A regulatory disclosure shows that Fidelity has halved the valuation of Indian business messaging startup Gupshup to $697M, down from $1.4B in July 2021 — Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund’s stake in the San Francisco-headquartered startup was valued at nearly $11.09 million as of April 30, 2023, which it successively marked down.
Read MoreRay Schultz / MediaPost: DoubleVerify, which offers software for digital media measurement and analytics, agrees to acquire digital ad campaign optimization company Scibids for $125M — DoubleVerify is acquiring Scibids, a digital campaign optimization firm. — The cash-and-stock transaction is valued at $125 million …
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and says it will try out the server for six months — The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on
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Read MoreThe general consensus among us mammals is that if we get very cold, we die. Within the world of nematodes, however, they’d like to differ on that viewpoint. This is demonstrated succinctly after researchers coaxed a batch of these worms back into action after they had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for an estimated 46,000
Read MoreShruti Khairnar / FinTech Futures: Seoul-based Finda, which runs an online loan comparison service, raised a ~$37M Series C from JB Financial and 500 Global; Finda brokered ~$3B in loans in 2022 — South Korean fintech Finda, which operates a loan comparison platform, has secured $37 million (KRW 47 billion) in Series C funding from
Read MoreJoseph Menn / Washington Post: The California Privacy Protection Agency plans to review manufacturers’ treatment of data collected from vehicles, including locations and images from cameras — Modern cars are computers filled with data, with few clear manufacturer policies on what happens to it
Read MoreAndy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sources: Nintendo plans to release a new console in H2 2024, with portable mode, an LCD screen, and a cartridge slot; key partners already have development kits — Development kits for Nintendo’s next console are now with key partner studios, with launch planned for next year, sources have told
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