The Ultra-Efficient Farm of the Future Is in the Sky
Take a tour of a rooftop laboratory where scientists show how growing crops under solar panels can produce both food and clean energy.
Read MoreTake a tour of a rooftop laboratory where scientists show how growing crops under solar panels can produce both food and clean energy.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: after burning through $7B in the past year, YMTC has had to raise billions of dollars in capital, as the Chinese chipmaker tries to adapt to US curbs — Memory chipmaker was running out of cash after a year of combating Washington’s tighter controls
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority US smartphone shipments declined in Q3 2023 when compared to Q3 2022. The biggest losers in shipments were TCL, Google, and Samsung, followed by a modest loss for Apple. Only Motorola and HMD Global managed to ship more phones despite a decrease in consumer demand. The US smartphone market
Read MoreA mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead the software lives on a piece of flash memory. It’s usually not a problem as they also appear on the USB bus
Read MoreLeah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker says Firefox’s switch to Yahoo in 2014 degraded UX and Firefox had difficulty competing on mobile because of defaults — – Mozilla’s Firefox switched to Yahoo from Google in 2014 — Difficulty of switching search engines is key to DOJ case
Read MoreCredit: DOJ Apple’s internal presentation from 2013 is part of new exhibits posted by the Department of Justice in the ongoing Google antitrust trial. The presentation condemns Google’s privacy practices and how it handles user data. One of the slides is dedicated to calling out Android as a “massive tracking device.” The US Department of
Read MoreKhari Johnson / Wired: The OMB releases draft rules that require federal agencies to monitor AI use in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms against citizens — Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …
Read MoreCredit: NASA NASA is launching a streaming service called NASA Plus next week. The service doesn’t require a subscription and is completely ad-free. It will feature NASA’s Emmy Award-winning live coverage, shows based on missions, and more. NASA is launching more than rockets these days. The space agency is gearing up to unveil its new
Read MoreSome of the off-brand video game consoles and even accessories for the major brands can leave a lot to be desired. Whether it’s poor build quality or a general lack of support or updates, there are quite a few things on the market not worth anyone’s time or money. [Jonathan] was recently handed just such
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Pixel 8 owners are complaining about rapid battery drain on mobile data and unreliable connectivity. It seems the regular Pixel 8 is suffering more when it comes to the battery issue. Both new Pixels are exhibiting poor signal strength and connection drops for many users. The Pixel 6 series
Read MoreThomas Seal / Bloomberg: On the UK’s AI Safety Summit first day, there were closed-door discussions about whether to pause the development of next-generation “frontier” AI models — – Tech leaders and academics in attendance disagreed on AI risks — ‘I hope that it doesn’t get dominated by the doomer,’ CEO says
Read MoreThe Raspberry Pi series of boards are noted for their good software support, with a continuous flow of operating system upgrades such that an original Pi from 2012 will still boot the latest Pi OS. But these upgrades are best done by writing a fresh SD card, so oddly, the Pi remains surprisingly difficult in
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: The UK plans to invest £225M into Isambard-AI, an AI supercomputer 10x faster than the UK’s current quickest machine, to be built by the University of Bristol — – The U.K. government said Wednesday that it will invest £225 million, or $273 million, into an AI supercomputer …
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: DoorDash tests a prompt warning customers that orders with no tip ahead of time may take longer to get delivered, since drivers choose which orders to accept — DoorDash has added a pop-up in its app this week warning customers that orders with no tip might take longer to
Read MoreTaylor Soper / GeekWire: Chainguard, which helps companies secure their open-source software supply chain, raised a $61M Series B led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $116M — Chainguard, a Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity startup, raised $61 million in a Series B round.
Read MoreSmoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em. | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Michael M. Santiago, Bloomberg, Klmax, Whyframestudio, Yevgen Romanenko, Pixhook, Peter Dazeley, Jimkruger, Getty Images Mistakes aren’t illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried’s lawyers never made his defense land. Continue reading…
Read MoreAmanda Chicago Lewis / The Verge: A critical look at the SEO industry, as users complain that Google isn’t as useful anymore and some SEO experts say it’s now harder to game Google’s algorithm — As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Intuit plans to shut down personal finance app Mint, which had 3.6M MAUs in 2021, on January 1, 2024, and is pushing users to Credit Karma, acquired in 2020 — – Credit Karma hopes to attract more high-score customers — Mint service had 3.6 million monthly active users in 2021
Read MoreTheo Wayt / The Information: Flexport acquires the tech stack of shuttered digital freight startup Convoy; a source says Convoy CEO Dan Lewis will join Flexport as part of the deal — Flexport has reached a deal to buy the technology of shuttered trucking startup Convoy, as Flexport doubles down on its U.S. trucking ambitions
Read MorePhoto by Arturo Holmes/WireImage Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against an AI app developer for using her name and likeness in an online ad, according to a report from Variety. The ad was for an AI image editor, called Lisa AI: 90s Yearbook & Avatar, and featured an AI-generated version of Johansson’s voice. As
Read MoreJoe Duball / IAPP: The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta’s use of personal data for behavioral ads on the legal base of contract and legitimate interest in the EU and EEA — An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe. Changes are coming to adtech’s approach …
Read MoreJetBrains has released a stable version of its Kotlin Multiplatform technology for sharing code among iOS, Android, desktop, web, and other platforms, the company said on November 1. Leveraging the Kotlin language, Kotlin Multiplatform is designed to simplify development of cross-platform projects. In beta since 2022, Kotlin Multiplatform lets developers build applications and reuse code
Read MoreDraft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement, health care, and other areas—and to shut down any algorithms doing harm.
Read MoreWe just love it when y’all build off of each other’s projects. This spooky Halloween noise maker from [C.M. Herron] is no exception. But while the projects we’ve seen lately rely on external computers and/or guitar pedals to create the effects part of the build, this one has everything running on a Raspberry Pi that
Read MoreThe slow-motion implosion of Elon Musk’s X has given rise to a slew of competitors, where privacy invasions that ran rampant over the past decade still largely persist.
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