Once upon a time, a computer was a big metal brick of a thing that sat on or next to your desk. Now, it’s possible to fit decent computing power into a board the size of a stick of gum. [Electo] took advantage of this to build an entire computer into a mouse form factor.
Read Morecusco writes: After three years and 72 flights of its 5-flight mission the mission of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars is finally over. Images show that Ingenuity suffered damage to one of its rotor blades and will not be able to take off again. NASA’s press release, also shared by cusco: Ingenuity landed on Mars
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple has revealed why it’s restricting the ability to sideload apps on iOS to the European Union. The company claimed that this was due to concerns about malware and other unsavory content. Apple has just revealed a variety of changes to iOS and the App Store in the European
Read MoreElectric cars have more widgets than ever, but manufacturers would rather you don’t have direct access to them. The Open Vehicle Monitoring System intends to change that for the user. [via Transport Evolved] As car manufacturers hoover up user data and require subscriptions for basic features, it can be a frustrating time to make such
Read MoreOpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. From a report: The company has released a handful of new models and dropped the price of API access — this is primarily of interest to developers, but also serves as a bellwether for future consumer options.
Read MoreApple’s iOS 17.2 added a new option to the iPhone 15 Pro‘s Action button with the ability to start a translation. Here’s how to do it, and how to pick the language you want. Apple has added a Translate option to the Action Button You could already have set your Action Button to run Apple’s
Read MoreCruise, the driverless car subsidiary of General Motors, said in a report on Thursday that an adversarial approach taken (non-paywalled link) by its top executives toward regulators had led to a cascade of events that ended with a nationwide suspension of Cruise’s fleet. From a report: The roughly 100-page report was compiled by a law
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple has announced sweeping changes coming to the iPhone for users in the EU. For the first time, Apple will allow third-party app stores on its platform. The changes will come in March 2024. Apple’s ecosystem is about to go through a groundbreaking change in the EU due to
Read MoreJ.P. Morgan says Apple won’t see much immediate impact on App Store revenue due to how its new fee structure is arranged, but regulators around are likely eyeing the solution. Apple’s EU changes won’t have impact on revenue Apple has changed how it does business in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. Amongst
Read MoreJust a few hours ago, NASA dropped some devastating news: Ingenuity will fly no more. Three years after dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover and after 72 flights through the thin Martian atmosphere, the little helicopter that could now can’t, after having sustained damage to one or more of its rotors during its
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry (non-paywalled link) on Thursday into the multibillion-dollar investments by Microsoft, Amazon and Google in the artificial intelligence start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic, broadening the regulator’s efforts to corral the power the tech giants can have over A.I. The New York Times: These deals have allowed the big companies to
Read MorePlayStation 5 system update blocks Cronus Zen controller adapter. The $100+ device promises controller compatibility but also enables gameplay “amplification.” Sony crackdown follows concerns over GamePacks providing unfair advantages in Call of Duty and other online multiplayer titles. Cronus admits no timeframe for a fix. Workaround requires avoiding update or using Remote Play. Read more
Read MorePlayStation 5 system update blocks Cronus Zen controller adapter. The $100+ device promises controller compatibility but also enables gameplay “amplification.” Sony crackdown follows concerns over GamePacks providing unfair advantages in Call of Duty and other online multiplayer titles. Cronus admits no timeframe for a fix. Workaround requires avoiding update or using Remote Play. Read more
Read MoreApple has introduced a new feature for Apple Podcasts in iOS 17.4 that provides a transcript for seemingly nearly every podcast. Apple Podcasts app Machine translation has improved significantly in recent years, to the point that spoken word should be relatively non-trivial to transcribe into text. Apple’s work on machine learning models and artificial intelligence
Read MoreApple Vision Pro has been deemed irrelevant to Netflix users according to the company’s CEO, but “we’ll see where things go.” Netflix Netflix is among several high profile apps not available as apps on Apple Vision Pro. Others include YouTube and Spotify. The Netflix CEO Greg Peters was asked about this decision during an interview
Read MoreAdorama makes upgrading to the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro more affordable thanks to an exclusive promo code from AppleInsider, which also includes a healthy discount on accompanying AppleCare coverage. Adorama’s discount on the M3 MacBook Pro makes it a deal of the week. A standout configuration carrying a sizable discount is this M3 Max version,
Read MoreEven if you already own an Xbox, it wouldn’t be the worst idea to buy one as a backup. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge We’ve seen the original Xbox Series S in white dip below the $249.99 mark over the past several months. But if you missed out on those opportunities, Dell
Read MoreCode sleuths have discovered files in iOS 17.4 that suggest an iPad Pro will have a landscape Face ID sensor and an Apple Pencil 3 works with Find My. iPad Pros Apple released iOS 17.4 beta 1 on Thursday for developer testing. It is meant to contain the changes brought about by EU regulation, but
Read MoreApple will provide grants to the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to support creative voices within Indigenous communities. The grants, part of the Empowering Creatives program, are intended to help those in underinvested communities unlock their creative potential. “We believe Indigenous communities’ rich histories and cultures deserve
Read MoreWorldwide, starting in iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, Apple will allow developers to stream games under a single app rather than submitting each game under the streaming umbrella to content review. On Thursday, Apple announced that it would be changing the way it handles game streaming services for iOS and iPadOS. Previously, if a developer
Read MoreStarting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services. From a report: This means that services like Xbox Cloud Streaming and GeForce Now, which previously were only accessible on iOS via a web browser, will be able to offer full-featured apps. “Developers can now submit a single app
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge In a blog post, OpenAI said the updated GPT-4 Turbo “completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended to reduce cases of ‘laziness’ where the model doesn’t complete a task.” The company, however, did not explain what it updated. Some ChatGPT users recently complained about
Read MoreImage: Pocketpair The multiplayer survival game has become 2024’s biggest surprise. Continue reading…
Read MoreFortnite in 2020, when it was banned on the App Store. | Screenshot: Fortnite Epic plans to launch the Epic Games Store on the iPhone this year in the European Union — and it’s bringing Fortnite back to the platform along with it. The announcement comes after Apple shared how it will open up iOS
Read MoreMacworld While iOS 17.4 is going to bring a lot of new choices and freedom to iPhone users in the EU, iPhone users all over the world are finally getting an annoying restriction or two lifted as well, and we won’t even have to wait for iOS 17.4 to get it. Apple has long held
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