The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream
The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.
Read MoreThe fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.
Read MoreImplementation of LoRaWAN-based soil moisture sensing device. (Credit: Maja Škiljo et al., 2022) Although we generally think of Internet of Things (IoT) and similar devices as things that are scattered around above ground, there are plenty of reasons to also have such devices underground. These so-called IoUT devices are extremely useful when it comes to
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus The Founder of OnePlus and SVP of OPPO confirms that OnePlus and OPPO will release the same foldable phone. The OnePlus Open/OPPO Find N3 will have a hinge that’s 37% smaller than the Find N2’s hinge. The new foldable will be getting an alert slider. OpenPlus and OPPO have been busy working on
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, October 4 at noon Pacific for the Modeling Space Hack Chat with Bryan Murphy and Sam Treadgold! We’re going to go out on a limb here and guess that a fair number of Hackaday readers went through a phase of model building growing up. To further push out that branch, we’ll
Read MoreImage: The Verge Apple will no longer provide customer support on X (formerly Twitter), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. When you try to send a direct message to the Apple Support account, it now instructs you to visit the general support page on Apple’s website. The account will similarly respond with an automated reply for
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Intel’s GM of the Data Center and AI Group Sandra Rivera about the Metaverse, competing with Nvidia, brain-like architectures, generative AI, and more — Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation 2023 event in San Jose, California.
Read MoreThe new Genki Alpine collection. | Image: Human Things Gaming accessory company Human Things is coming out with new Genki ShadowCast external capture cards that feature higher-quality recording for livestream sessions, plus a slightly souped-up new Covert Dock GaN charger for Nintendo Switch. The company is crowdfunding its new “Alpine collection” on Kickstarter, including ShadowCast
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Google launches Chromebook Plus certification for premium Chromebooks, with qualifying specs like a 1080p webcam and display, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage — Google has introduced Chromebook Plus, a new certification that’s meant to help shoppers identify high-quality Chromebooks to buy.
Read MorePhoto by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Tesla produced 430,488 vehicles in the third quarter of 2023, a 10 percent drop from the previous quarter but a 25 percent year-over-year increase for the company. Tesla attributed the sequential drop in production to “planned downtimes for factory upgrades.” During a recent earnings call, Tesla CEO
Read MoreGarmin Vivoactive 5 review: At a glance What is it? The Garmin Vivoactive 5 is the latest addition to the Vivoactive lineup, a series that hasn’t seen a new model in four years. The new fitness-focused smartwatch marks the line’s first AMOLED display and adds many of Garmin’s around-the-clock health and fitness tracking tools. It
Read MorePhoto illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge When I contacted a telehealth provider for Ozempic, I got exactly what I asked for. Continue reading…
Read MoreA software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.
Read MoreThe walking tank concept has always captured imaginations. Whether you’re talking about the AT-AT walkers of Star Wars, or the Dreadnoughts from Warhammer 40,000, they are often portrayed in fiction as mighty and capable foes on the battlefield. These legged behemoths ideally combine the firepower and defense of traditional tanks with the versatility of a
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: What to expect from the “Made by Google” event on October 4: Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2, Android 14 release, and more — Google is gearing up to launch a new lineup of Pixel products during its upcoming Made by Google event. Even though Google has
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge The most recent crop of Beats headphones and earbuds just can’t stop going on sale. Once again, since their release in July, the Beats Studio Pro noise-canceling headphones are on sale for $249.95 ($100 off) at Woot. Beats’ latest wireless cans may look a lot like many of
Read MoreAST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite is 693 square feet in size. | Image: AST Mobile via Business Wire The enormous, next-generation communications satellite BlueWalker 3 has become one of the brightest objects visible in the night sky, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. While BlueWalker 3 is groundbreaking for its
Read MoreThe Pixel 8 Pro unboxing video shows off a matte black backing and a black camera bar. | Image: PBKreviews via YouTube The Pixel 8 launch event is just days away, but someone has already gotten their hands on Google’s upcoming smartphones. In a pair of unboxing videos posted to YouTube by PBKreviews (via 9to5Google),
Read MoreHardshell rain jackets don’t stay water resistant forever. This is how to give new life to your old outdoors outerwear.
Read MoreGoogle’s Chromebook Plus program is a new categorization for Chrome OS machines that meet certain hardware requirements. Supported models will have more robust software, AI capabilities, and more. Existing Chromebooks that meet the hardware criteria will retroactively receive support. Over 12 years ago, Google launched Chrome OS and the first Chromebooks. The company set out
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 8 Pro has now been unboxed in a video. In addition to the package contents, we also get a look at the phone. The phone lacks the glossy back cover of the vanilla Pixel 8. We’ve already seen the standard Google Pixel 8 unboxed in a short video clip, and now the
Read MoreApple’s long-anticipated Lionel Messi documentary is called “Messi Meets America” and arrives on Apple TV Plus on October 11.
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Read MoreImage: Netflix The latest end-of-the-world movie coming to Netflix has some serious star power. Leave the World Behind — based on the book of the same name by Rumaan Alam — is helmed by Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail and stars Mahershala Ali, Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon. It’s a post-apocalyptic thriller with a
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk alongside the Cybertruck at its 2019 launch event. | Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images Tesla didn’t end up holding a delivery event for its Cybertruck in the third quarter of 2023 as CEO Elon Musk had hoped. “We’re anticipating having [a] delivery event, a great delivery
Read MoreKatie Tarasov / CNBC: A profile of New York-based GlobalFoundries, spun out of AMD in 2009, which makes “essential” 12nm chips and above for image sensors, power management, and more — WATCH NOW — How GlobalFoundries rose to be the world’s third-biggest chip foundry
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