It’s a ceiling light, it’s a speaker, it’s a projector, it’s the Xgimi Aladdin. | Image: Xgimi Xgimi has two new projectors for the US, its brightest ever 4K smart projector and a 3-in-1 unit that’s also a ceiling light and Bluetooth speaker. Both long-throw projectors run Google TV. Xgimi says its 4K Horizon Max
Read MoreThis kind of 3D effect is hard to capture in photos, but trust me, the astronaut was popping out of that screen. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Despite the pictures, I solemnly swear that, in person, that astronaut on the new Acer Aspire 3D 15 SpatialLabs Edition was reaching their arms
Read MoreAsian man traveler photographer are taking photo and use laptop at beautiful forest. Travel photography, blogger, vlogger, camping, work aboard, adventure lifestyle, hipster, tourism concept. ; Shutterstock ID 1690123849; Purchase Order: – Credit: Acer Acer is launching three new Swift and three new Aspire laptops. Acer’s Swift laptops and the Aspire Vero 16 are powered
Read MoreThe U.S. Justice Department is getting close to filing an antitrust case against Apple, with a case expected to be filed as early as the first half of 2024.
Read MoreFrom made-to-measure smart shades to retrofit curtain bots, these are our favorite WIRED-tested drapes for your windows.
Read MoreThe Air 2 Ultra bring back full-fledged tracking capabilities. | Image: Xreal Augmented reality company Xreal has revealed a new entry in its Air glasses lineup: the $699 Air 2 Ultra. The Air 2 Ultra glasses, which developers can preorder today for shipment starting in March, are ultimately meant to compete with Meta’s Quest 3
Read MoreCredit: Xreal XREAL has launched the Air 2 Ultra Augmented Reality glasses. They feature new 3D environment sensors, a titanium frame, and support for Apple’s Spatial Video feature. The ultra-lightweight glasses cost $699 and will be available starting in March. XREAL (formerly Nreal) has released a new pair of Augmented Reality glasses that promise high-end
Read MoreA Martínez / NPR: Q&A with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state’s efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections — NPR’s A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats to the integrity of the 2024
Read MoreCybex’s car seat can rotate 360 degrees, track the temperature, and alert you if you leave your kiddo in the car.
Read MoreCells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Every holiday season in Lebanon is a rare chance for us to reconnect with friends and family members who now live all across the globe. From Canada to France, the UAE, and more, we all travel back home for the holidays and meet
Read MoreIEEE Spectrum: How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims — This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
Read MoreThe ARChive of Contemporary Music has one of the largest collections of vinyl records in the world and is in danger of losing its home. Its champions are making a case for the future of physical media.
Read MoreYou, too, can add long-distance WiFi to your laptop with this new not-quite dongle solution. (Credit: Ben Jeffery) The 802.11ah WiFi (HaLow) standard is fairly new, having only been introduced in 2017. It’s supposed to fall somewhere between standard WiFi used in domiciles and offices and the longer range but low-bitrate LoRaWAN, ZigBee, and others,
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 20, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hello, welcome, hi, what’s up, how are you, welcome to the gang, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) It’s our
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Read MoreThe ARChive of Contemporary Music has one of the largest collections of vinyl records in the world and is in danger of losing its home. Its champions are making a case for the future of physical media.
Read MoreIf you do much practical 3D printing, you eventually need some sort of fastener. You can use a screw to bite into plastic. You can create a clearance hole to accommodate a bolt and a nut or even build in a nut trap. You can also heat-set threaded inserts. Which is the best? [Thomas] does
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is about 30% less than in 2022 — U.S. national security officials have raised concerns about North Korea’s use of stolen crypto to develop nuclear weapons. — Register Now
Read MoreRaffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance aren’t keen on buying Nvidia’s lower-powered AI chips and are shifting some orders to Huawei’s China-made chips — Chinese buyers are pushing back against the lower-powered AI chips it hopes to sell to them in response to U.S. export curbs
Read MoreIt’s not entirely clear why [Advanced Tinkering] needs a 50,000-volt power supply, but given the amount of work he put into this one, we’re going to guess it will be something interesting. The stated specs for this power supply are pretty simple: a power supply that can be adjusted between 20kV and 50kV. The unstated
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: some executives and board members at companies run by Elon Musk fear his use of drugs, including LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy, could harm his companies — Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies
Read MoreIn the wide world of programming, there are a few dark corners that many prefer to avoid and instead leverage the well-vetted libraries that are already there. [Phillip Tennen] is not one of those people, and when the urge came to improve font rendering for his hobby OS, axle, he got to work writing a
Read MoreIf you do much practical 3D printing, you eventually need some sort of fastener. You can use a screw to bite into plastic. You can create a clearance hole to accommodate a bolt and a nut or even build in a nut trap. You can also heat-set threaded inserts. Which is the best? [Thomas] does
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: Hands-on with Midjourney v6: generates highly detailed images that sometimes seem unrealistic, a different approach to prompting compared to v5, and more — As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists furious. — In December, just before Christmas …
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