iPad mini 7 release tipped for end of this year
A new report says the iPad mini 7 could debut before the end of the year.
Read MoreA new report says the iPad mini 7 could debut before the end of the year.
Read MoreWith the number of internet blackouts on the rise, cybersecurity firm eQualitie figured out how to hide censored online news in satellite TV signals.
Read MoreCorporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs.
Read MoreIf you ask your neighbor who Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is, they’d probably know. But mention Gary Kildall, and you are likely to get a blank stare unless you live next door to another Hackaday reader. [Al’s Geek Lab] has a great three-part documentary on Gary Kildall who, in case you didn’t know, was
Read MoreCredit: LG LG has launched the Gram Fold, its first laptop with a folding screen. The laptop packs a 17-inch display when unfolded or a 12-inch screen when folded. Expect to pay ~$3,729 for this device in Korea. We’ve seen the likes of ASUS and Lenovo launch laptops with folding screens in recent years, offering
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Several early adopters are reporting heating issues on the iPhone 15 series. These issues are during charging and, separately, during prolonged phone use. We can independently confirm these heating issues on our iPhone 15 Pro Max. The iPhone 15 series is the hottest phone in the market and in
Read MoreThis smart alarm clock has a huge library of soundscapes, but the AI-powered Magic Story Maker might be the best part.
Read MoreChatGPT inches closer to feature parity with the seductive AI assistant from Her, thanks to an upgrade that adds voice and image recognition to the chatbot.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, and improved underlying models. This time, though, it’s tweaking the way you use ChatGPT itself. The company is rolling out a new version of the service that allows you to prompt
Read MoreImage: Nick Barclay / The Verge What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That’s the premise behind Spotify’s new AI-powered voice translation feature, which reproduces podcasts in other languages using the podcaster’s own voice. The company has partnered with a handful of podcasters to translate their episodes into Spanish and
Read MoreIf you read Hackaday, you probably get the title of [SunEstra’s] post: A Casual Date with the Dumpster. Many great hacking projects start with finding one man’s trash. This June, [SunEstra] rescued an old Tektronix 2465B oscilloscope, which appeared to be in good shape. Why we never find four-channel 400 MHz scopes in the dumpster
Read MoreCredit: Google / YouTube Camera features of the Pixel 8 series have leaked through a seemingly official Google video. The Pixel 8 Pro is getting a new Pro camera mode with manual adjustment options for shutter speed, ISO, and more. Google is also adding a new AI face-swapping feature to fix bad facial expressions. The
Read MoreCredit: Google A reliable leaker has dished out a Pixel 8 series spec sheet. The sheet lists seven years of software updates for the new phones. It looks like the Pixel 8 Pro will have superior durability too. We already have a ton of Pixel 8 series details thanks to leaks, rumors, and even Google’s
Read MoreA Rogowski coil is a device for measuring AC current that differs from a conventional current transformer in that it has no need to encircle the conductor whose current it measures. They’re by no means cheap though, so over time we’ve seen some interesting variations on making one without the pain in the wallet. We
Read MoreCredit: Roland Quandt/X The UK price of the Pixel Watch 2 has leaked, suggesting a slight bump compared to the first Pixel Watch. The smartwatch can also be seen in all-black in a newly leaked image. It’s raining Google leaks today, and we’re wondering just what the company will announce on October 4 that we
Read MoreFinancial Times: Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic, with an initial investment of $1.25B for a minority stake in the AI startup, and an option to increase the total to $4B — Amazon Web Services lures Claude chatbot maker, which was valued at nearly $5bn earlier this year
Read MoreCredit: JerryRigEverything on YouTube The new iPhone 15 Pro series uses Titanium for the side frame and an aluminum mid-frame, while the older iPhone 14 Pro series uses Stainless Steel. In extreme drop tests, the iPhone 15 Pro performed worse than the 14 Pro. The iPhone 15 Pro Max failed the bend test, shattering its
Read MoreIn the technology world, the latter half of the 2010s was mostly about slight tweaks, not sweeping changes: Smartphones got slightly better, and computer processing somewhat improved. Then OpenAI unveiled its ChatGPT in 2022 to the public, and—seemingly all at once—we were in a qualitatively new era. The predictions have been inescapable in recent months. Futurists warn
Read MoreIn yet another installment of “everyone is doing it, but no one knows how,” a recent NewVantage Partners survey found that while 93.9% of executives surveyed expect to increase their data investments in 2023, just 23.9% of organizations characterize themselves as data-driven. Where is all that investment going, if not to change the way their
Read MoreThe first computer vision use cases in the 1950s analyzed typed versus handwritten text. Early commercial applications focused on single images, including optical character recognition, image segmentation, and object detection. Pioneering work on facial recognition began in the 1960s, and big tech companies began launching capabilities around 2010. The computer vision market size was estimated
Read MoreA teaser image of the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro released by Google. | Image: Google Google’s upcoming Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro could come with seven years of software support, according to a leaked list of specs published by 91Mobiles. Kamila Wojciechowska, the original source of the leak, has also published US pricing
Read MoreSidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: DeFi project Mixin Network suspends deposits and withdrawals after suffering a hack involving about $200M; SlowMist: Mixin’s cloud provider was compromised — – Compromise in cloud service provider’s database led to breach — Project expected to give details in a livestream later today
Read MoreCredit: Google A reliable leaker has dished out a Pixel 8 series spec sheet. The sheet lists seven years of software updates for the new phones. It looks like the Pixel 8 Pro will have superior durability too. We already have a ton of Pixel 8 series details thanks to leaks, rumors, and even Google’s
Read MoreBreakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but who wants to get up first thing in the morning and make it? Well, there may come a day when a robot can do the dirty work for you. This is Toyota Research Institute’s vision with their innovatively-trained breakfast bots. Going way beyond pick
Read MoreVictoria Thiem, system safety engineer from Lockheed Martin, checks the temperature of the actual size OSIRIS-REx’s return capsule sample during the recovery rehearsal at Lockheed Martin, Waterton Canyon campus in Littleton, Colorado on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. | Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as
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