After identifying interlocking symmetries in mammalian cells, scientists describe some tissues as liquid crystals. That lays the groundwork for a fluid-dynamic theory of how tissues move.
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 17, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage. This week, I’ve been watching A Murder at
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Q&A with Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders on generative AI’s role in robotics, when to expect true general-purpose robots, the humanoid form factor, and more — For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics.
Read MoreEmily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google’s first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google’s products are more accessible — Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company’s not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
Read More[ModBot] has been trying different engineering plastics for 3D printing. He recently looked at carbon fiber mixed with PET, but this time, he shows us his results with PET with glass fiber, or PET-GF. You can see how it all turned out in the video below. The first part of the video compares the specifications,
Read MoreYou probably don’t notice keyboard latency when typing or doing mundane tasks, but if you start gaming, that’s also when you might start complaining. Every millisecond counts in that arena. Think your keyboard is fast? Think again. Because unfortunately, no matter what you’ve got in there, that key matrix is slowing you down. What you
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority If you’re looking for an alternative to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, there are a lot of prepaid carriers available in the US. Some are small independent companies; others belong to telecoms or one of the three major cellular networks. Two of the more popular prepaid carriers are Visible and
Read More[ModBot] has been trying different engineering plastics for 3D printing. He recently looked at carbon fiber mixed with PET, but this time, he shows us his results with PET with glass fiber, or PET-GF. You can see how it all turned out in the video below. The first part of the video compares the specifications,
Read MoreEmily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google’s first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google’s products are more accessible — Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company’s not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
Read MoreElizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: Pudgy Penguins plans to launch an early-access version of Pudgy World, an interactive digital playground for Pudgy Penguins NFT holders, before April 2024 — Pudgy World, an interactive digital world available to Pudgy Penguin NFT holders, will become available in alpha mode sometime next year, according to the company’s CEO.
Read MoreWhen you design your first homebrew CPU, you probably are happy if it works and you don’t worry as much about performance. But, eventually, you’ll start trying to think about how to make things run faster. For a single CPU, the standard strategy is to execute multiple instructions at the same time. This is feasible
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: After Beeper Mini’s recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access — A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
Read MoreIn classical control theory, both open-loop and closed-loop control systems are commonly used. These systems are well understood and rather straightforward, controlling everything from washing machines to industrial equipment to the classical computing devices that make today’s society work. When trying to transfer this knowledge to the world of quantum control theory, however, many issues
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman’s firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other — Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla will release its 2023 Holiday Update next week with a few big changes, including one that lets Teslas call 911 automatically if the car’s airbags deploy in a crash. On Thursday, the company announced the update is coming next week, and it highlighted other coming features like
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: Tesla’s 2023 Holiday Update, set for next week, includes a feature that automatically calls 911 if the car’s airbags deploy in a crash, Apple Podcasts, and more — Tesla will release its 2023 Holiday Update next week with a few big changes, including one that lets Teslas call 911 automatically
Read MoreNvidia’s stock value experienced an extraordinary surge in 2023, tripling its worth and outperforming every other company in the S&P 500 according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. This remarkable growth positions Nvidia for what is projected to be the best annual performance of any major stock in the past decade. Nvidia’s exceptional rise
Read MoreMargi Murphy / Bloomberg: Graphika: apps and websites using AI to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity; 34 such providers together had 24M+ unique visitors in September 2023 — – Referral links to undressing apps increase on X and Reddit — Numerous services have popped up since AI tech has advanced
Read MoreHey, what if you could have a factory that makes robots that is run by… robots? This is hardly an original thought, but we are a long way from having an assembly line of C3POs self-replicating. On the other hand, animals — including humans — self-replicate all the time using DNA. Now, scientists are making
Read MoreBeeper Mini brought iMessage to Android. It didn’t last long. | Image: Beeper A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly from their Android devices without any weird relay servers, and about 24 hours after it became clear Apple had taken steps to shut
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes
Read MoreIn a move that positions the European Union at the forefront of technological governance, EU negotiators have reached a historic agreement on the world’s first comprehensive AI regulations, as per reporting by the Associated Press. The deal, known as the Artificial Intelligence Act, marks a significant milestone in legal oversight for AI technology, which has
Read MoreIf someone makes a device, someone else will want to break it open and run their own software on it. When the original manufacturer is Apple this is never made easy, and as [Daniel Stenberg] reminds us in the case of one of the earlier iPod models it required an unusual approach. In short, an
Read MoreErik Hoel / The Intrinsic Perspective: A bear case for the AI industry, as the sectors LLMs seem capable of disrupting so far, like writing, digital art, and programming help, are not very lucrative — Gemini and the supply paradox of AI — Another day, another huge new AI model revealed. This time it’s Google’s
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