Credit: DavidMa05368498 A new leak has highlighted two AI features and the three other highlight features of the Galaxy S24 series. According to this leak, the Galaxy S24 is expected to come with a Live Translate feature within the Samsung Phone app. The Generative Edit feature will let users move or remove objects using AI,
Read MoreHow do you keep a few sodas in your classroom cool? Well, if you are teacher [Ethan Hunt], you have your students design and build a solid-state mini refrigerator that can beat his prototype fridge. The prototype uses a Peltier effect module to get three cans down to 11 C (52 F), with a final
Read MoreIn January 2024, Apple TV Plus gets a new series that explores America’s contribution to the bombing of Nazi Germany during World War II. But who were these Masters of the Air, and what’s their story?
Read MorePedro Pascal, Sundar Pichai, Grimes, Jennifer Doudna, and more: feisty conversations with famous people.
Read MoreFrom Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed. There is no happy ending to this story.
Read MoreWe live in an exciting time with respect to electrical power, one in which it has never been easier to break free from mains electricity, and low-frequency AC power in general. A confluence of lower-power appliances and devices using low-voltage external switch-mode supplies, readily available solar panels and electronic modules, and inexpensive high-capacity batteries, means
Read MoreI use hundreds of Mac apps every year, but it was still easy to narrow down the three best Mac apps for 2023.
Read MoreReuters: A look at Chinese startup SEIDA, which claims to be developing the optical proximity correction chip design software to help China’s chip self-reliance vision — Last year, a veteran Silicon Valley software executive took the helm of a startup in his native China, company records show.
Read MoreStudents [Berk Gokmen] and [Justin Green] developed an RP2040-based LED-illuminated lightsaber as a final project with a bit of a twist. It has two unusual sound-reactive modes: disco mode, and vowel detection mode. Switching allegiances (or saber color, at least) is only a sound away. Disco mode alters the color of the saber dynamically in
Read MoreMadhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The UK’s NHS deploys an AI stethoscope from Mayo Clinic spinoff Eko in 200 GP surgeries to detect heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and valvular heart disease — Rollout of stethoscope with pioneering technology could save lives and ease the strain on the NHS
Read MoreA.O. Scott / New York Times: Some authors are embracing chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit: a “muse”, or an extra intelligence, a supplemental mental database — What happens to literature when writers embrace A.I. as their muse? — The robots of literature and movies usually present either …
Read MoreCan Apple afford to lose more iconic designers?
Read MoreIt was recently announced that US Steel will be acquired by Tokyo-based Nippon Steel for a measly $14.1 billion , ending the former’s 122 year history as a former US industrial powerhouse. Yet what happened to degrade what was once the number one steel maker in the world upon its formation out of two existing
Read MoreTanya Snyder / Politico: Lidar sensor tech is the latest flashpoint in the US-China trade war, as the US lidar industry mounts a lobbying offensive against Chinese companies like Hesai — The domestic lidar industry is mounting a lobbying offensive against a leading Chinese rival that’s stepping up its own PR game.
Read MoreWas 2023 a good year or not a good year for Apple stock?
Read MoreApple fans interested in a desktop computer over a laptop are only going to look at one product: the Apple iMac. Also a favorite of graphic designers and anyone without the space for a PC tower, the iMac is a high-end machine with a high price tag to match. The cheapest of the latest M3
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch — Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.
Read MoreThere are many ways to lock a door. You could use a keypad, an RFID card, a fingerprint or retina scan, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the list goes on. You could even use a regular old metal key. But none of these may be as secure as [mircemk]’s Arduino-based door lock that employs a smartphone’s flashlight as
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: Filing: US prosecutors have decided not to pursue a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, as much of the evidence was already presented at the first trial — U.S. prosecutors said on Friday they do not plan to proceed with a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted …
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch — Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS. Both versions of the app are now available to download from the Apple App Store. The app gives you access to Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) and works similarly to
Read MoreGitHub’s Copilot Chat, initially available to organizations through Copilot for Business, has now been launched in general availability for all users, according to TechCrunch. This expansion follows the beta release to individual Copilot customers, who pay a monthly fee of $10. The chatbot is now accessible in the sidebar of Microsoft’s IDEs, Visual Studio Code
Read MoreMichael Cohen, former lawyer and fixer for former President Donald Trump, recently faced a peculiar legal blunder. According to The New York Times, court papers revealed that Cohen inadvertently used fake legal citations generated by Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, in a motion submitted to a federal judge. This incident has raised questions about the reliability
Read MoreGary Marcus / Marcus on AI: OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users — A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke …
Read MoreThe Information: Sources: BuzzFeed is close to selling most of Complex Networks to livestream shopping startup Ntwrk for a little above $100M, far below Jonah Peretti’s target — After months of discussions, BuzzFeed is close to an agreement to sell most of its Complex Networks business to Ntwrk …
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