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Read MoreMacworld It’s awards season in Hollywood, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to talk about Apple TV+. What are currently our favorite shows? What are we looking forward to this year? And what shows did we not like? That’s on this episode of the Macworld Podcast! This is episode 872 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon,
Read MoreGoogle’s data center in Eemshaven, Netherlands. | Image: Google Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements to support two new wind farms off the coast of the Netherlands. It’s part of Google’s plan to match all of its data center electricity
Read MoreBrian O’Rourke, co-founder and CEO of CitySwift said the investment was ‘a massive vote of confidence’ in the team and its tech. Read more: Galway’s CitySwift secures €7m funding to double its team
Read MoreDan Robinson reports via The Register: Quantum companies received 50 percent less venture cap funding last year as investors switched to generative AI or shied away from risky bets on Silicon Valley startups. Progress in quantum computing is being made, but practical applications of the technology are still likely years away. Investment in quantum technology
Read MoreImagine you’re a commando, doing some big secret mission on the continent in the midst of World War II. You need to hook up some wires to your explosive charges, and time is of the essence. Do you bust out the trusty Weller and see if those petulant Axis chaps will let you plug it
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you walk over buried fiber optics or drive a car across them, above-ground activity creates a characteristic vibration that ever-so-slightly disturbs the way light travels through the cables. With the
Read MoreIt’s hard to hit, but Apple’s Secure Enclave does have limits to how many cards can be stored in Apple Wallet. Here’s what to do if you hit that limit. Apple’s T2 chip Apple’s Secure Enclave is a protected area on Apple’s devices which holds keys, encrypted data, cards, and other security information. The idea
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google has a temporary solution for the storage bug affecting Pixel phones after the January Play System update. A more permanent solution is also in the works. Google says the bug mainly affects Pixel devices using multiple user accounts or work profiles. Google has issued a fix for the
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google is now rolling out Circle to Search to the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. The feature doesn’t require any separate updates and downloads. Google has started rolling out the Circle to Search feature to the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. First introduced alongside the Galaxy S24
Read MoreThe gyroscopic system for gyro monorail trains that Brennan developed. (Credit: Primal Space) Everyone who has ever handled a spinning gyroscope found themselves likely mesmerized by the way it absolutely maintains its orientation even when disturbed. Much of modern technology would be impossible without them, whether space telescopes or avionics. Yet during the early 20th
Read MoreDan Robinson reports via The Register: Quantum companies received 50 percent less venture cap funding last year as investors switched to generative AI or shied away from risky bets on Silicon Valley startups. Progress in quantum computing is being made, but practical applications of the technology are still likely years away. Investment in quantum technology
Read MoreFor nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California.
Read MoreImage: Disney Hulu has just laid the groundwork to kick friends, family, and freeloaders off its streaming service unless they pay for their own accounts. This week, the company revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban password sharing outside of “your primary personal residence,” and it’s begun to tell subscribers they’ll need to comply
Read MoreThe mid-2012 MacBook Pro was the last with an optical drive, and it is finally considered obsolete by Apple. mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro Apple maintains a vintage and obsolete product list that updates based on how long it has been since a product was for sale. Some vintage products may be eligible for service, while
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The past few days have been a wild ride for the growing open source AI community — even by its fast-moving and freewheeling standards. Here’s the quick chronology: on or about January 28, a user with the handle “Miqu Dev” posted a set of files on HuggingFace,
Read MoreApple’s 8K immersive experience series have started populating in the Apple TV app, though you’ll need the Apple Vision Pro to interact. Apple Vision Pro immersive experiences Apple Vision Pro launches on Friday and there are signs of that impending release beginning to show in Apple services. The Apple TV app already showed signs of
Read MoreJess Weatherbed reports via The Verge: Bullitt Group, the UK-based smartphone manufacturer behind the rugged handsets of Cat, Land Rover, and Motorola, has seemingly shut down. On Monday, Mobile World Live spotted several Bullitt Group employees on LinkedIn saying that the company folded on January 26th after a “critical planned restructuring” failed. The Telegraph reported
Read More“China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has come to strike,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a prepared testimony before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. NBC News reports: Wray
Read MoreX CEO Linda Yaccarino told US senators she’s hiring more trust and safety staffers. She didn’t mention that Elon Musk fired most people policing content on the platform when he acquired it in 2022.
Read MoreA lawyer for FTX said the defunct crypto exchange has abandoned its plans to relaunch, instead opting to liquidate all assets and return funds to customers. The Guardian reports: The exchange, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, has been negotiating for months with potential bidders and investors, but none were willing to put in enough money to
Read MoreThis week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with Tony Zeoli about Netmix and the Radio Station WordPress plugin. The story starts with the Netmix startup, one of the first places doing Internet music in the 1990s. That business did well enough to get bought out just before the Dot Com bubble burst in 2000.
Read MoreImage: Kojima Productions The sequel to Death Stranding is shaping up to be just as strange as the original. At its State of Play showcase today, Sony showed off a new trailer for the game that… starts out with a particularly disturbing bit of surgery. The lengthy clip features a whole bunch of new locations
Read MoreImage: Konami Silent Hill, the town in desperate need of a city council or something, showed up during PlayStation’s State of Play in a big way with two new trailers and a stealth drop of a new, free-to-play game. The first game was the debut of Silent Hill: The Short Message, an all-new entry in
Read MoreA statement made during the Qualcomm earnings call revealed Apple has extended its 5G modem patent license agreement through March 2027. iPhone 15 Apple and Qualcomm are stuck in a strained relationship a little bit longer. In-house development of an Apple-made modem continues to encounter issues, leading Apple to extend its agreement with Qualcomm. According
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