As handheld computing has solidified alongside everything else into the mobile phone, it’s sad that the once promising idea of a general purpose machine in the palm of the hand has taken a turn into the dumbed-down walled-garden offered by smartphone vendors. There was a time when it seemed that a real computer might be
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus has confirmed an IP65 rating for the OnePlus 12. The phone will also offer a 5,400mAh battery and USB 3.2 Gen 1 support. OnePlus has been issuing a drip feed of details about the OnePlus 12 in the days ahead of the phone’s Chinese launch on December 5. Now, the company has
Read MoreDaniel Ek / Spotify: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says the company is laying off about 17% of its workforce due to slow economic growth and more expensive capital — Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. — Team,
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung will reportedly launch the Galaxy Book 4 series on December 15. The laptops are expected to be equipped with Intel’s new Core Ultra CPUs. Some specifications of the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra have also leaked. Samsung is reportedly readying its new Galaxy Book series of laptops with AI
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Xbox division is working with partners so that it’s ready to bring a new store to the iPhone if and when it’s allowed to.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority A leaker has claimed Samsung could switch to a Sony main camera for the Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus. The company has long used Samsung ISOCELL sensors in its flagship phones. This doesn’t necessarily mean a hardware upgrade is on the cards for the Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus.
Read MoreImage: Pophouse Entertainment Kiss has been on a really, really long tour. The biggest glam rock band of all time has been playing its End of the Road tour for the last four years, and just wrapped the final show of its final farewell tour in New York City at Madison Square Garden on Friday.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: US regulators are proposing a labeling system for AI healthcare apps, including requiring disclosure of how the tools are trained and how they perform — Regulators want to create a ‘nutrition label’ for AI apps in one of Washington’s first attempts to impose safety requirements on the technology
Read MoreWhat do you need to make a radio transmitter? There are builds that work with just a couple of transistors. But how about a GPS-disciplined small signal beacon? You can actually get the job done for less than the cost of a fancy hamburger, thanks to [RPiks]’s pico-WSPR-tx and the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network
Read MoreGillian Tan / Bloomberg: CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, closed a minority stake sale to investors led by Fidelity; sources say the sale values the startup at $7B — – IMCO, JPMorgan Asset Management, Zoom Ventures bet on startup — Nvidia, Magnetar Capital are among its existing investors
Read MoreParesh Dave / Wired: Documents: OpenAI signed a letter of intent in 2019 to spend $51M on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain AI, in which Sam Altman had invested $1M+ — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain.
Read More[CNCDan] previously dabbled with Raspberry Pi CM4-powered gaming handhelds but was itching for something more powerful. Starting in May 2023, he embarked on building an Intel NUC7i5BNK-powered handheld dubbed NucDeck. As he goes over the feature list, it sounds like a commercially available console. A 1024 x 600 screen provides a good balance of fidelity
Read MoreSunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: Bitcoin trades above $40K for the first time since May 2022 as the digital asset extends its 2023 rebound on expectations of interest-rate cuts and ETF demand — – Expectations for first US spot Bitcoin ETFs propelling rally — Crypto market also benefiting from hopes for Fed rate cuts
Read MoreSure, it does less than originally promised, but hey — at least it’s more expensive. That about sums up Tesla fans’ feelings after the long-awaited Cybertruck reveal at the Texas Gigafactory on Thursday, where Elon Musk himself handed over the keys — or their Cyber equivalent — to a few new owners. These are expensive
Read MoreApple is likely to partner up with Chase Bank for the Apple Card after ending its partnership with Goldman Sachs.
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 is easily one of the best smartwatches you can buy, though it’s not a dramatic improvement from its predecessor. While there’s still more than a half year before we get newer watch hardware, I’d love to see Samsung make a few bolder moves in 2024 with the next Galaxy Watch.
Read MoreNew York Times: A deep dive into the founding of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as many of their backers feared the risks of advanced AI but wanted the power to shape it — The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it.
Read MoreJust when you think the POV thing has run out of gas, along comes [mitxela] to liven things up. In this, he’s taken the whole persistence of vision display concept and literally spun up something very cool: a tiny volumetric “electric candle” display. As he relates the story, the idea came upon him on a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know you’ve been waiting all year to hear this: You can use Zoom on your 2nd gen or later Apple TV 4K. Yesterday, AppleInsider spotted a post from Sigmund Judge about the “Zoom – for Home TV” app that quietly showed up in the tvOS App Store.
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 is easily one of the best smartwatches you can buy, though it’s not a dramatic improvement from its predecessor. While there’s still more than a half year before we get newer watch hardware, I’d love to see Samsung make a few bolder moves in 2024 with the next Galaxy Watch.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons 2023 was a pretty good year for smartphones. There was no shortage of quality Android phones on offer, from Google and Samsung to OnePlus and Xiaomi. And it also seemed like a big year for non-Samsung foldable phones too. Now that 2023 is pretty
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple — Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.
Read MoreFortnite leakers have been busy working away datamining the new Season 5 Chapter 1 update and we now have the new map to play on now that the Chapter has just gone live. Contrary to map leaks from last month, the leak of the new map ahead of today’s season launch looks very different, with
Read MoreLogo: Filmic / Image: The Verge Bending Spoons has reportedly laid off all of the staffbehind popular iOS and Android mobile filmmaking app Filmic Pro. That’s according to PetaPixel, which reported on Friday that it learned Filmic now has no dedicated employees and that the layoffs included the company’s founder and CEO, Neill Barham. Some
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