Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek Lab] has you covered with a new video (also embedded below), which you will unfortunately have to watch
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Pixel 8 phones are receiving their first firmware update. This update is part of Google’s November 2023 software update for Pixel phones. It fixes a ‘screen jerkiness’ issue on the Pixel 8 range, among other tweaks. The Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro launched just over a
Read MoreThe West Bank was Israel’s surveillance laboratory. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, Palestinian residents have been locked in for days at a time.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is rolling out a fix for the Android 14 storage bug that affected Pixel owners with multiple device profiles. The phone would complain of being out of storage and, in some instances, get stuck in a reboot loop. Unfortunately, if your phone is stuck in a reboot
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at the hurdles tech startups like Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones, face in competing for Pentagon funding against more entrenched weapons makers — Shield AI, a tech start-up, already has a drone run by artificial intelligence being used by the Israeli military.
Read MoreIf you like Nixie tubes and/or DIY calculators, checkout this interesting talk from the HP Handheld Conference in Orlando last month by [Eric Smith] from Brouhaha and [John Doran] from Time Fracture. For 20-some years, [Eric] and the late [Richard Ottosen] have been incrementally developing various DIY calculators — this paper from the 2005 HHC conference is
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Watch 6 Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority You can now easily uninstall apps from connected devices via the Play Store on your phone. We’re guessing this feature will be available for Wear OS smartwatches at first. There’s more to Android than just smartphones, as the platform also powers other device categories like
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales in April to September rose 2.4% YoY to 6.84M — – Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio’s future under Microsoft, the idea of releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio’s future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft’s huge acquisition …
Read MoreA new report says Apple is planning a major battery upgrade for all of its devices in 2025.
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: A look at OpenAI’s custom GPT builder, which Sam Altman says the company wants to keep simple for now, and the risks in allowing anyone to create GPT agents — Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real — Today, let’s talk about the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Co-working office space provider WeWork has filed for bankruptcy covering its locations in the US and Canada, and in a filing, it said it had liabilities of between $10 and $50 billion. It’s the latest turn for a company that went from being valued at $47 billion in
Read MoreCyrus Farivar / Forbes: Leaked audio: at an all-hands meeting, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said the company is pausing production of its fully autonomous van Origin, amid safety concerns — Reeling from a month in which the California DMV yanked Cruise’s permits for its self-driving robotaxis and the company paused all operations …
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: A recap of the first day of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial, where both sides made their opening statements and Epic Games Store head Steve Allison testified — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Chinese authorities took away game-streaming site DouYu’s founder Chen Shaojie in October 2023; a source says to probe porn and gambling on DouYu — DouYu chief executive’s troubles come after authorities find pornography on streaming platform — The founder of Tencent-backed …
Read MoreWhen you think of a programming language, you probably think of a hefty compiler or interpreter. Maybe its on a bunch of floppies, a CD, or even an EEPROM. But what about a language that fits in a single disk sector? A language like that would — in theory — be used to help bootstrap
Read MoreSam Biddle / The Intercept: Internal documents: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and sometimes had problems recognizing kids, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
Read MoreThe troubled coworking company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. WeWork says locations will remain open.
Read MoreWhen you think of a programming language, you probably think of a hefty compiler or interpreter. Maybe its on a bunch of floppies, a CD, or even an EEPROM. But what about a language that fits in a single disk sector? A language like that would — in theory — be used to help bootstrap
Read MoreThis wall clock built by [Alf Müller] is lovely, using two NeoPixel rings to mark the time by casting light onto a 3D-printed ring. The blue shows the minutes, made more discrete by a grid inside the ring. The green shows the hours. [Alf] has provided the code so you can rework the color scheme.
Read MoreKatie Paul / Reuters: Meta says it is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products, a company spokesperson said on Monday, cutting off campaigns’ access …
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Sony says it’s terminating X integration for PS5 and PS4 starting November 13, 2023, meaning users won’t be able to post and view content on X from the consoles — Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won’t be able to post
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: AI startup Vectara’s Hallucination Evaluation Model: OpenAI’s LLMs had the lowest hallucination rates, followed by Meta’s; Google’s PaLM-Chat had the highest — When summarizing facts, ChatGPT technology makes things up about 3 percent of the time, according to research from a new start-up.
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: WeWork, valued at $47B in 2019, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its locations in the US and Canada, and reports liabilities between $10B and $50B — – Office-sharing company WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court Monday.
Read MoreWith a new M3 processor inside that juices performance across the board, the latest edition of Apple’s world-class laptop smokes the competition.
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