Photo by Emma Roth / The Verge Despite doubts that the Raspberry Pi 5 would launch this year, the latest version of the microcomputer has arrived with some notable upgrades at a $60 starting price. Not only is it supposed to perform better than its predecessor, but it’s also the first Raspberry Pi to come
Read MoreAlex Pasternack / Fast Company: At the center of Google’s antitrust trial are a “remarkable” number of deleted employee chats, as chat backups show employees discussing going “off the record” — Chat records reveal employees at the search giant frequently discussing going “off the record,” …
Read MoreMin Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: Counterpoint: Pixel had a record 12% market share in Japan in Q2 2023, up from 2% YoY, while the iPhone’s share fell from 58% to 46% during the same period — – iPhone’s share dropped below 50% for first time in two years — The Pixel has grown to its
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Raspberry Pi 5 launches with 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor, up to 8GB of RAM, two 4K HDMI ports with HDR, available in October for $60 for 4GB model — Despite doubts that the Raspberry Pi 5 would launch this year, the latest version of the microcomputer has arrived with
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google reportedly shipped 1.2 million Pixels in Q2 2023. Compared to the same time last year, the market share of Pixel phones in the US has doubled. Apple and Samsung still lead the pack as far as North American smartphone shipments are concerned. Google seems to be heading in
Read MoreThe loss of one’s sense of hearing or vision is likely to be devastating in the way that it impacts daily life. Fortunately many workarounds exist using one’s remaining senses — such as sign language — but what if not only your sense of hearing is gone, but you are also blind? Fortunately here, too,
Read MoreBack in the day a miniature television, probably on a wristwatch, was the stuff of science fiction. Now, it’s something which can be done with a commodity microcontroller, as [Atomic14] shows us with the ESP32-TV that plays both video and sound. Even with modern silicon it’s still somewhat pushing the envelope. As he explains in
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims 90% of the top 100 advertisers “returned to the platform in the past 12 weeks alone” and that X will be profitable by early 2024 — According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the company formerly known as Twitter will be profitable by early 2024.
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT has regained the ability to access the internet. The new Browse With Bing feature is now available to Plus and Enterprise users. Free ChatGPT users should also get internet access soon. ChatGPT can now browse the internet in real-time to offer more accurate and up-to-date results for queries.
Read MoreGoogle is the iPhone’s default search engine and Apple VP Eddy Cue has been in court to discuss whether that’s a good idea.
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority The European Commission wants Apple to open up its gates to competitors. The legislating body wants iPhone users to benefit from competitive services like electronic wallets, app stores, or browsers. After years of back and forth, Apple finally had to submit to EU regulations by booting out Lightning and
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Canalys: Q2 smartphone sales in North America fell 22% YoY, with Apple down 20% and Samsung down 27%; Google’s sales rose 59% YoY and market share doubled to 4% — North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google. — Canalys has some gruesome new numbers …
Read MoreReuters: A US Senate staffer says officials told lawmakers that Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft’s email system stole 60K emails from ten State Department accounts — Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails …
Read MoreIvan Levingston / Financial Times: Nord Security, the Lithuania-based startup behind NordVPN, raised $100M led by Warburg Pincus at a $3B valuation, up from $1.6B valuation in April 2022 — Lithuanian tech company nearly doubles valuation in one year to $3bn after deal with private equity group
Read MoreAnthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: SpaceX gets its first US Space Force contract, valued at up to $70M, offering the military custom satellite communications via the company’s Starshield service — – Contract extends billionaire’s role as a defense contractor — Starshield provides customized satellite communications
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe makes its web-based Photoshop, including Firefly-powered features, generally available for paid plans, and has no “immediate plans” for a freemium plan — After almost two years in beta, Adobe’s Photoshop on the web service — a simplified online version …
Read MoreWhen first learning about and building electronic circuits, the first things all of us come across are passive components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. These have easily-understandable properties and are used in nearly all circuits in some way or another. Eventually we’ll move on to learning about active components like transistors, but there’s a
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Sources: X is cutting ~50% of its global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud, less than a month after saying it would expand the team — Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Meta’s celebrity AIs are generated AI animations built from filming the 28 people they represent; Meta would not comment on how the celebrities were compensated — Actors are in the middle of a major, protracted battle with Hollywood over what role AI will be playing in the future of entertainment …
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: Hands-on with ChatGPT’s image recognition and voice features: image recognition isn’t perfect and refuses to discuss faces, voice is fluid and natural, and more — The image-recognition feature could have many uses, and the voice feature is even more intriguing.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered how much memory a process uses, you’ve probably used a form of task manager or system monitor. System monitors can be useful to identify resource hogs, but are often less versatile if you want more details about just one process. If you’ve ever faced this problem, then [Fabien Sanglard]’s Space-Time explorer
Read MoreAdobe says it no longer has plans for a free-to-use version of the online photo editing software. | Image: Adobe After almost two years in beta, Adobe’s Photoshop on the web service — a simplified online version of the company’s desktop photo editing app — is now generally available starting Wednesday, September 27th. According to
Read MoreLizette Chapman / Bloomberg: The US DoD awards Palantir a three-year $250M R&D contract to develop AI services, building on the company’s work since at least 2018 for the Army Research Lab — The new three-year deal demonstrates the company’s closeness to the US government, as well as its growing presence at the intersection of
Read MoreDevin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Paris-based Mistral AI makes its first LLM, Mistral 7B, that it claims outperforms open models with up to 13B parameters, free to use without restrictions — The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken seriously
Read MoreImage: Kia The 2024 Kia EV9 will start at $54,900 for the Light RWD trim before destination fees or adding options like a bigger battery or two extra motors for AWD. When announced earlier this year, the EV9 caught everyone’s attention since there are few (and costly) seven-seater fully-electric vehicles on the market, and the
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