Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury A couple of weeks ago, Google Maps started rolling out improvements to the transit experience in many cities, including Paris where I live. I was quite excited to discover the new features until I realized they’ve been live for me but I
Read MoreHotel prices and tourism numbers are up as New York City goes through its first holiday season with new rules that ban nearly all Airbnbs and other short-term rentals.
Read MoreSopan Deb / New York Times: NASA engineers streamed an HD cat video from 18.6M miles away, the farthest ever, using lasers instead of radio frequencies to achieve speeds of 267 Mbps — Using laser communication, NASA streamed a cat video from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round trip flights to the moon.
Read MoreApple’s decision to withdraw the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from sale could cost it $400 million this holiday season.
Read MoreBloomberg: Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008 instances of CSAM, possibly helping to create AI CSAM — The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used …
Read MoreAngry Birds hatchery has been found in the TestFlight teraleak, a game with a mode dedicated to hatching your own birds.
Read MoreMotorola Moto G 5G renders and a 360-degree video have leaked online, showing the phone from various angles. The phone has a redesigned rear camera housing compared to the 2023 model. The Moto G 5G phones are dependable workhorses in the budget segment, and we called the Moto G 5G 2023 a “decent starter smartphone.”
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: X set up a 10-person team to help reach $100M in US political ad spend in 2024, to offset other ad losses, a goal industry executives are skeptical of — Plans for new political ads team to hit $100mn in sales ahead of US presidential election are met with
Read MoreNomad’s upcoming stand Qi2 charger will help make charging rates more consistent across devices. | Image: Nomad Nomad, a reputable producer of phone cases and accessories, has announced its first stand charger based on the new magnet-enhanced Qi2 standard. The $100 Stand Qi2 Magnetic Wireless Charger is capable of charging MagSafe and Qi2-enabled devices at
Read MoreWe spent some time with the prototype robot vacuum from two ex-Google engineers that will be available in March 2024.
Read MoreThe Jakarta Persistence API (JPA) is a Java specification that bridges the gap between relational databases and object-oriented programming. This two-part tutorial introduces JPA and explains how Java objects are modeled as JPA entities, how entity relationships are defined, and how to use JPA’s EntityManager with the Repository pattern in your Java applications. This gives you
Read MoreSQL is the leading language for developing and querying databases, but it has a few quirks. In my last article, I shared 7 SQL mistakes to avoid. Now, let’s take a look at 9 best practices for writing faster SQL queries. 9 best practices for faster SQL queries Retrieve only the columns you need Use CASE
Read MoreSam Tobin / Reuters: The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can’t be a patent “inventor”, rejecting a bid to register patents by US computer scientist Stephen Thaler, in a landmark case — A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created …
Read MoreA PornHub banner from the 2023 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. | Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In a press release today,
Read MoreJohn Yoon / New York Times: A look at South Korea’s AI industry, one of the world’s most competitive and diverse, as startups train on Korean language and culture to compete with US giants — While they lag behind their U.S. counterparts, their focus on non-English languages could help loosen the American grip on artificial
Read MoreThe Pixel Fold is Google’s first foray into the exciting world of foldable smartphones. The expensive high-end phone has a lot going for it and tops our list of the best foldable you can get. However, the Fold, unfortunately, suffers from the teething pains of any first-generation device and has its fair share of software
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority MicroLED screens are only expected to come to smartphones after 2033, the MicroLED Industry Association stated. The association expects the first wearables with the tech to arrive as soon as 2026, though. MicroLED technology is the next big step for screens, and we’ve already seen the first microLED TVs
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: The EU designates Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, meaning stricter rules on age verification and illegal content — Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: ByteDance’s 2023 sales surged to $110B+, broadly matching 2022’s 30% growth rate, despite economic turbulence in China and scrutiny in the US and India — – TikTok’s Chinese owner expects revenue growth of about 30% … The world’s most valuable startup’s growth broadly matched …
Read MoreGoogle’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.
Read MoreBig Tech data centers are not only being used to power the internet but also to heat people’s homes. But who’s really winning when Facebook keeps you warm at night?
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered what lies beneath the barely visible hole in the can of a MEMS microphone, you’re in luck, because [Zach Tong] has a $10 pair of earbuds to sacrifice for the cause and an electron microscope. For the uninitiated, MEMS stands for microelectromechanical systems, the tiny silicon machines that power some of
Read MoreSQL is the leading language for developing and querying databases, but it has a few quirks. In my last article, I shared 7 SQL mistakes to avoid. Now, let’s take a look at 9 best practices for writing faster SQL queries. 9 best practices for faster SQL queries Retrieve only the columns you need Use CASE
Read MoreiOS 17.2.1 has arrived, and some regions hint at fixes to battery drain issues.
Read MoreThe CEO of Masimo, the company that owns a patent Apple is accused of infringing, says he’d be willing to discuss a settlement — but Apple seems uninterested.
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