Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Alphabet’s Wing unveils a new drone that can carry up to five pounds, fly a 12 mile round trip, and cruise at 65mph, set for deployment in the next 12 months — If drone delivery is going to go mainstream, it’s going to need bigger aircraft that can handle
Read MoreCredit: Apple To comply with the Epic vs Apple ruling, Apple has revised its App Store rules in the US to allow alternative payment systems. However, the company is placing plenty of additional burdens on developers opting for it, like continuing to charge a 27% commission, keeping a right to audit the developers’ accounting, and
Read MoreMagic Leap’s been making AR headsets for a while and it isn’t worried that Apple is coming for its lunch.
Read MoreWhatsApp is rolling out several updates to its Channels feature globally. Channels can now send out voice updates and polls and allow users to share the channel’s update to their personal WhatsApp status. Channel owners can now set up to 16 admins to run the channel. WhatsApp is one of the world’s most popular instant
Read MoreFor obvious reasons, there has been a lot of interest in small-scale residential solar power systems lately. Even in my neck of the woods, where the sun doesn’t shine much from October to April, solar arrays are sprouting up on rooftops in a lot of local neighborhoods. And it’s not just here in suburbia; drive
Read MoreSamsung promoting Unpacked at The Sphere. | Image: Samsung It’s almost time for Samsung’s winter Unpacked event, where we’ll see the launch of the Galaxy S24 lineup and some splashy new AI features to go along with them. The event will cap off months of leaks of the new devices — plus some teases directly
Read MoreThe year 2023 saw the “enshittification” of platforms from Facebook to Google Search. A new exit strategy means platforms will have to play nicely with your data, even if you leave for a rival.
Read MoreGlobal deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Read MoreIdaho’s capital city is seeing an influx of young people as they apply for tech jobs away from big coastal cities amid massive layoffs and a disillusion with Big Tech.
Read MoreWhen faced with an FPGA, some people might use it to visualize the Mandelbrot set. Others might use it to make CPUs. But what happens if you combine the two? [Michael Kohn] shows us what happens with his RISC-V CPU with an instruction specially made for computing the Mandelbrot set. [Michael] takes us through the
Read MoreSatviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: Google partners with NPCI, which runs India’s Unified Payments Interface, to expand beyond India; the UPI platform had ~$209B in transactions in November 2023 — Google India Digital Services Pvt. and National Payments Corporation of India, the company behind India’s Unified Payments Interface …
Read MoreVenkat Eswarlu / MSPoweruser: Google updates its Chrome Incognito disclaimer after a privacy settlement, saying that Incognito mode “won’t change how data is collected” by Google and others — Readers help support MSPoweruser. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Scotland-based game studio Build a Rocket Boy raised a $110M Series D ahead of the much-anticipated launch of its first titles and immersive open world platform — Build a Rocket Boy, a Scotland-headquartered game development company founded by one of the former lead developers behind …
Read MoreTim Hardwick / MacRumors: Filing: Apple seeks $73.4M in legal fees from Epic, including a 10% discount since Epic prevailed on one of 10 counts, after SCOTUS declined to hear the appeals — Apple wants Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the
Read MoreImage: Amazon Back at its fall hardware event, Amazon announced that AI artwork generation would be coming to its Fire TV Omni QLED televisions and the second-gen Fire TV Stick 4K Max. And now, the feature has begun rolling out to those products in the US, giving owners a way to create a custom background
Read MoreAlex Hern / The Guardian: Internet Watch Foundation: over 100K webpages featured self-generated CSAM in the past year, up 66% YoY; a record 275,655 webpages in total had CSAM, up 8% YoY — Volume of material children are coerced or groomed into creating prompts renewed attack on end-to-end encryption
Read MoreApple will finally allow web purchases from third-party developers but there’s a pretty huge catch that Epic Games plans on fighting in court.
Read MoreA woman in Brazil has gone viral after taking her pet pig into an Apple store and letting it defecate everywhere.
Read MoreObsidian is an app that works across your devices and builds a web of interconnected notes and ideas.
Read MoreBloomberg: Filing: Kazakhstan-based mobile app provider Kaspi.kz’s CEO and other shareholders plan to sell 9M shares for $873M; Kaspi.kz’s Super App had 13.5M MAUs in 2023 — At current prices, the shares would be valued at $873 million, according to the company’s filing Tuesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreOnce, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Lexington, Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage’s Pinegrove, and StepStone are raising billions to buy stakes in VC-backed tech startups via secondary share sales — Buyers return after secondary market for private shares was hit by higher interest rates — Investment firms are raising billions …
Read MoreLouis Menand / New Yorker: Generative AI is just the latest innovation to put pressure on the copyright system, but might be the one that brings down the whole legal copyright structure — Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is gearing up to rebrand Assistant with Bard to Bard, according to an app teardown. The teardown suggests that every instance of “Assistant with Bard” will be replaced with “Bard.” Google announced last year that it was bringing its new Bard AI chatbot to Google Assistant, calling
Read MoreAnyone who’s ever spent time in a woodworking shop knows how much dust is produced when cutting, sanding, and so on. [Tim] of Pilson Guitars was looking to outfit his shop with centrifugal dust separators to combat the problem, which are supposed to remove over 99% of the sawdust particles right out of the air.
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