Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Hands-on with the HP Spectre Fold: a very striking design, slim bezels, a 17-inch 2560 x 1920 OLED display, 8.5mm thin, Intel i7-1250U, 16GB of RAM, and more — HP’s first “3-in-1” is incredibly sleek but can it live up to that price? — Senior Writer, Reviews
Read MoreNew York Times: How Instacart CEO Fidji Simo helped find new ways for the company to make money, including via expanding its ads and software, which made $406M in 2023 revenue — As it prepares to go public next week, Instacart shows that one secret to making money as a gig economy company is to
Read MoreThe Mac is getting one of the biggest games of the year and yours will probably run it with aplomb.
Read MoreApple claims its new Apple Watch is carbon neutral and has done impressive work to decarbonize its supply chain, but making new stuff always leaves a mark on the climate.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s updated subscription service for online multiplayer access focuses on a larger library of titles and removes the Games with Gold perk.
Read MoreThere’s a simple reason why high-tech gadgets like PCs, TVs and smartphones are so cheap: they’re mass-produced. By spreading out huge engineering costs over equally huge production volumes, the cost per item can remain quite low. The flipside to this is that devices with only a small niche market can be extremely expensive even when
Read MoreThe newest Apple Watch Series 9 is officially vying for shoppers’ attention. While the smartwatch packs a few key upgrades under its hood, it should look very familiar at first glance. Apple’s design has remained largely unchanged since the Series 7 landed in 2021. Yet, a closer look shows important improvements and significant new features. To determine
Read MoreIn a future iOS update, you’ll soon be able to activate the Translate app with a simple press and hold of the iPhone 15 Pro’s new Action Button.
Read MoreA green prototype of the METL tire with the tread applied. You can see the coil of nitinol through the transparent tire. | Image: The Smart Tire Company The Metl bicycle tire is the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol, a NASA-developed shape-memory alloy made of nickel and titanium that can be
Read MoreWe have AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max. Is it time for AirPods Ultra, too? This concept suggests so.
Read MoreToday, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group shared the release of PostgreSQL 16. With this latest update, Postgres sets new standards for database management, data replication, system monitoring, and performance optimization, marking a significant milestone for the community, developers, and EDB as the leading contributor to PostgreSQL code. With PostgreSQL 16 comes a plethora of new
Read MoreMicroservices architecture describes a collection of loosely coupled, extensible, independently deployable services that interact with each other through well-defined interfaces. This article examines microservices architecture, its benefits and drawbacks, and then illustrates how we can implement a simple microservice in ASP.NET Core. In future articles, we’ll complete our microservices-based application by implementing an API gateway
Read MoreMicrosoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in how to manage open source development at scale. With millions of users and thousands of potential contributors, the company’s project maintainers have problems that most open source projects haven’t yet had to face. At Microsoft’s level of scale, a project maintainer is more
Read MoreIt’s now easier for Pixel Tablet owners to replace their device’s battery, screens, and other components. | Image: iFixit It’s now easier for Google Pixel Tablet owners to repair their own device, thanks to the partnership between Google and right-to-repair champions iFixit. As spotted by 9to5Google, genuine Pixel Tablet parts are now available to purchase
Read MoreHelene Braun / CoinDesk: A US judge says FTX can now sell, stake, and hedge its crypto holding, estimated to be worth $3.4B+, including $1.16B in solana, to repay creditors — Lawyers of FTX had submitted a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, asking for permission to sell …
Read MoreGen Alpha is quickly developing tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.
Read MoreWashington Post: On day two of the Google trial, an Apple lawyer protested two numbers the DOJ used in its opening statement, including Google paying Apple $4B-$7B for search — Protection of trade secrets versus transparency has been a major debate between Google and activists in the case
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Nothing Phone 2 is now receiving the Nothing OS 2.0.3 update. It brings a few new features, improvements, and bug fixes to the phone. Nothing is now rolling out a fresh update for the Phone 2. Spotted previously by a few users, the Nothing OS 2.0.3 update
Read MoreWhen it comes to driving a display, you can do all kinds of fancy tricks with microcontrollers to get an image up. Really, though, FPGAs are the weapon of choice for playing with these kinds of signals. [Ted Fried] put one to great work driving an ancient IBM 5151 MDA display, and shared his results
Read MoreCredit: Google Android Auto is getting several new apps, including The Weather Channel, Zoom, WebEx, and Prime Video. The Weather Channel app will give drivers hourly forecasts and alert them about unexpected weather changes. Google is also rolling out digital car key support in the US for select cars. Google is bringing several Android Auto
Read MoreMariana Lenharo / Nature: Researchers develop RETFound, an AI tool capable of predicting the risk of ocular diseases, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, and more based on retinal images — Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of diagnosing and predicting the risk …
Read MoreHundreds of schools, hospitals, and other public buildings made from RAAC, a cheap, lightweight concrete, have to close—the victims of quick fixes and decades of cost-cutting.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Wayve unveils Lingo-1 self-driving car system that the company claims can explain its actions with ~60% accuracy compared to human answers; availability TBD — Company says use of AI gives vehicle owners more confidence in the technology but accepts model needs ‘more training’
Read MoreNewley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Top10VPN: the government’s internet shutdowns in India between 2019 and 2022 cost $4.8B+ in economic activity and affected more than 120M people in 2022 — Online sellers and ride-hailing drivers count the cost as authorities cut off the internet more than in any other country
Read MoreTyler Cowen / Bloomberg: Child content creators, or “kidfluencers”, some of whom make $20M+/year, show that protecting kids from labor exploitation is difficult in the social media age — Protecting children from labor exploitation is difficult in the age of social media.
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