Google Japan has made a Gboard hat that types everything and also protects you from the sun. You can actually make the hat yourself with a 3D printer or even cardboard. It’s an actual head-turning device. Google Japan’s latest DIY innovation is a hat shaped like a giant keycap. It’s obviously something you will never
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google has launched the Magnifier app on Pixel phones. This app allows you to easily read text in the distance, such as menus and airport signs. Magnifier works on the Pixel 5 and newer. Google had plenty to show off at its Pixel 8 series launch event, and one
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Pixel Watch 2 makes subtle design changes that make it incompatible with cases meant for the first-gen Pixel Watch. The crown is slightly bigger, and the button and speaker holes are positioned slightly differently. The Google Pixel Watch 2 is the company’s second smartwatch in recent years. It’s
Read MoreEveryone and their pet hamster probably knows that the most common way to produce hydrogen is via the electrolysis of water, but there are still a number of steps between this elementary knowledge and implementing a (mostly) automated hydrogen generator. Especially if your end goal is to create liquid hydrogen when everything is said and
Read MoreWhen Google announced the Pixel 6 series with the in-house Tensor CPU, enthusiasts hoped for longer software support on the Pixel series. To everyone’s surprise, the search giant stuck with the same three years of OS updates and five years of security patches. With the introduction of the Pixel 8 series, Google finally sets the
Read MoreImage: Genvid Silent Hill: Ascension, the interactive streaming series set in the universe of the classic horror games, will have its “world premiere” on October 31st at 9PM ET, says Jacob Navok, the game’s executive producer and CEO of developer Genvid. If you want to take part you’ll be able to participate through Ascension’s iOS
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Getty Images’ Craig Peters on the company’s generative AI tool, copyright issues, attribution for rights holders, deepfakes, disinformation, and more — Getty’s entire brand is built on authenticity. CEO Craig Peters sat down with us at Code to talk about how the company is dealing with AI and
Read MoreI hate to say, “I told you so,” but the significant downturn in cloud spending that many people anticipated has not yet happened. Last year and this year, I’ve had one argument after another with tech reporters who all believed that cloud spending would take a nosedive after years of rapid growth. Their reasons included
Read MoreKubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have become increasingly popular since Docker launched in 2013, but large applications spread out across many containers are difficult to coordinate. Kubernetes makes containerized applications dramatically easier to manage at scale. It has
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus has launched the Pad Go, an 11.35-inch budget tablet with a large battery. The tablet also features 33W fast charging, 8GB RAM, and four speakers. OnePlus has launched the OnePlus Pad Go, following the impressive OnePlus Pad unveiled earlier this year. The new Android tablet is aimed at price-conscious buyers looking to
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung has confirmed the existence of the Exynos 2400 while also revealing some features. Expect an Xclipse 940 GPU with RDNA 3 tech as well as on-device generative AI. Samsung is tipped to adopt an Exynos chipset in some Galaxy S24 series phones next year. Now, the company has
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week. A source familiar with Microsoft’s plans tells The Verge that the company is eyeing up Friday October 13th as the closing date where it announces to the world that the 20-month process to
Read MoreJoseph Cox / 404 Media: Report: the US DHS finds that ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service illegally used phone location data; a CBP official tracked coworkers for no investigative purpose — A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.
Read MoreMichael Lewis / Wall Street Journal: Going Infinite excerpt: how effective altruism pushed Caroline Ellison to Alameda, which would lose its management team and half its employees in 2018, and more — In an exclusive excerpt from his new book ‘Going Infinite,’ Michael Lewis offers an intimate look at the tumultuous early days …
Read MoreAs long-time Hackaday readers will know, there is much rubbish spouted in the world of audio about perceived tone and performance of different hi-fi components. Usually this comes from audiophiles with, we’d dare to suggest, more money than sense. But oddly there’s an arena in which the elusive tone has less of the rubbish about
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The Canadian regulatory body that oversees radio, television, and online streaming services put out a news release last week about a provocative new rule. Any online streaming service that operates in Canada, offers broadcasting content, and earns more than $10 million in annual revenue will need to complete
Read MoreWith the exception of Google’s Pixel Tablet, there might as well be one name in town when it comes to quality Android tablets, and that’s Samsung. If you have Samsung’s Galaxy Tab A8 from 2022, you might be considering a step up to the new Galaxy Tab S9 FE, which is costlier but not as
Read MoreChoose your college roommates carefully… | Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Drew Angerer, Getty Images Two of Bankman-Fried’s MIT roommates make a damning case for the prosecution. Continue reading…
Read MoreAisha Counts / Bloomberg: Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown — – CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
Read MoreReuters: Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
Read MoreFor electronics, your knowledge probably follows a bit of a bell curve over time. When you start out, you know nothing. But you eventually learn a lot. Then you learn enough to be comfortable, and most of us don’t learn as much about new things unless we just happen to need it. Take SMD components.
Read MoreJacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: FTX co-founder Gary Wang testifies that Alameda Research had “special privileges” that afforded a $65B line of credit, of which the firm ultimately withdrew $8B — FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang takes the stand — The Sam Bankman-Fried trial gained steam after a somewhat sleepier first half of the day.
Read MoreLiz Young / Wall Street Journal: Source: Flexport plans to lay off up to 30% of its workforce around the end of October, after a sharp revenue drop and cutting ~20% of its staff in January 2023 — The second round of staff cuts at the freight forwarder this year comes as global shipping demand
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them — Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
Read MoreIf you want something as personal as a keyboard done right, you have to do it yourself. Not quite satisfied with the multitude of mechanical offerings out there, [summific] decided to throw their hat into the ring and design the Chrumm keyboard. And boy, are we glad they did. Between the lovely tenting angle and
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