Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed Senate Bill 58, which would have allowed adults to possess small amounts of mescaline, DMT, and psilocybin, the hallucinogen in magic mushrooms
Read MoreA malaria vaccine that could protect millions of children against the parasite-borne disease is expected to roll out early next year. It follows another formula that has already had moderate success.
Read MoreBack in the late 1990s as the digital revolution overtook photography there were abortive attempts to develop a digital upgrade for 35mm film cameras. Imagine a film cartridge with attacked sensor, the idea went, which you could just drop into your trusty SLR and continue shooting digital. As it happened they never materialised and most
Read MorePeople are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.
Read MoreFoundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and open source, specifically. I’m on the record with 908 words of eyeroll for the Open Enterprise Linux Association and OpenTofu, given the conspicuous absence of cloud vendor support. Yet I’ve also recommended projects like Kubernetes precisely because of their foundation-led community support. Foundations can help foster community but
Read MoreThe initial surge of excitement and apprehension surrounding ChatGPT is waning. The problem is, where does that leave the enterprise? Is this a passing trend that can safely be ignored or a powerful tool that needs to be embraced? And if the latter, what’s the most secure approach to its adoption? ChatGPT, a form of
Read MoreSo you’ve developed cloud-native microservices, have a process to manage API keys, and documented the integration options. Your devops team thinks it’s ready to publish the APIs and support application integrations. But are your APIs and applications ecosystem-ready? Software as a service (SaaS) platform companies recognize the strategic importance of integrating into platform ecosystems and
Read MoreJoyce Lee / Reuters: Samsung and SK Hynix say the US will let them supply US chip equipment to their Chinese factories indefinitely without separate approvals — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) will be allowed to supply U.S. chip equipment to their China factories indefinitely without …
Read MoreBloomberg: China outlines a plan to target 300+ exaflops of computing capacity, up from 220 in 2023, bigger optical networks, advanced data storage, and more by 2025 — – Country aims to build more data centers, high-speed networks — Effort to benefit local suppliers due to security concerns
Read MoreThe same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers. A WIRED investigation reveals the company’s “very crazy night” trying to stop them.
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based care home marketplace Lottie, which claims 500K monthly users, raised a £16.35M Series A led by Accel, after raising £6M in July 2022 — The U.K. care home sector was pegged as £7.7 billion market in 2021, according to most recent estimates …
Read MoreRyan Broderick / Garbage Day: NewsWhip: seven of the top 10 “news” articles with the most interactions on Facebook in September 2023 were published on the catholicfundamentalism.com domain — Read to the end for the garfarious anglerfish — This Is What Replaces News On Facebook
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority In an interview, a Google executive confirmed that the company has no plans to enter the budget segment with a Pixel device. A low-cost Pixel device at the €200/$200 price point would require “too many compromises.” Google released the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, ushering in another
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung is apparently thinking about offering more than five years of security updates. The company reportedly wants to up the ante due to new regulations. Google upped the ante in a big way last week when it confirmed that the Pixel 8 phones would receive seven years of OS
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority HONOR has announced that the Magic Vs2 foldable is coming this week. The new foldable is said to be thinner and lighter than the already svelte Magic V2. It’s believed that the new device could also be cheaper than its predecessor. HONOR made quite a splash back in July
Read MoreThe world’s largest single market has launched a bold plan to tax carbon at its borders. The rest of the world is paying very close attention.
Read MoreSamsung has quietly launched the Galaxy Tab A9 and Galaxy Tab A9 Plus in India. These budget Android tablets start at just ~$156 and go up to ~$276 for the 5G variants. Samsung usually involves a lot of fanfare in its product release announcements. The Galaxy S flagships and foldables are always launched with large-scale
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google launched the Pixel 8 series phones last week, and we’re seeing price hikes across the board. The US is seeing a $100 price hike for both phones, taking them to $699 and $999 respectively. However, it turns out that consumers in the likes of Europe and India are
Read MoreDrones are a pain, especially mini ones. When you are designing, building (or even reviewing) them, they inevitably fly off in some random direction, inevitably towards your long-suffering dog, hit him in the butt and send him scuttling off in search of a quieter spot for a nap. [Tristan Dijkstra] and [Suryansh Sharma] have a
Read MoreNatalie Weiner / The Verge: A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website’s old tech and increased fees — A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
Read MorePlankton are tiny organisms that drift around in the ocean. They aren’t just whale food — they are responsible for fixing up to 50% of the world’s carbon dioxide. That, along with their position as the base of many important food chains, makes them interesting to science. Unfortunately, they are tiny and the ocean is
Read MoreMechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that propel foam darts at unsuspecting siblings. Yet as useful as it would be to scale such mechanisms down to microscopic levels, this comes with previously minor issues
Read MoreRed vs. Blue is now all but gone from YouTube. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Rooster Teeth has moved some of its popular content, including most Red vs. Blue seasons, off the YouTube platform entirely and onto its own website. Rooster Teeth senior writer and showrunner for RWBY Kerry Shawcross posted a video
Read MoreToo much of a good thing is generally a bad thing, but a surfeit of asteroid material is probably a valid exception to that rule. Such was NASA’s plight as it started to unpack the sample return capsule recently dropped off by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it flew by Earth, only to discover it was
Read MoreLisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which may impact customer service, HR, and mental health sectors — Artificial Intelligence is getting smart enough to express and measure human empathy. Here’s how the new technology could change healthcare …
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