Credit: Spigen on X Reputed case maker Spigen has shared a case for an upcoming iPhone that includes a button cover instead of a cutout for the mute switch. This button cover appears to protect the Action Button that is rumored to be present on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Apple
Read MoreIn retrocomputing circles, it’s often the case that the weirder and rarer the machine, the more likely it is to attract attention. And machines don’t get much weirder than the DEC Rainbow 100-B, sporting as it does both Z80 and 8088 microprocessors and usable as either a VT100 terminal or as a PC with either
Read MoreSteven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on 25 years of Google, competition in AI, ChatGPT in Bing, DeepMind and Google Brain, AI chips, staff’s bureaucracy complaints, and more — The tech giant is 25 years old. In a chatbot war. On trial for antitrust. But its CEO says Google is good for 25
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Tensor G3 could run cooler than its predecessors thanks to the use of a new packaging technology. The technology improves the thermal and electrical performance of a chip. Google’s Tensor chips have always been a pain point for Pixel phones. Not only do they lag behind the competition,
Read MoreLlama 2 is a family of pre-trained and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), ranging in scale from 7B to 70B parameters, from the AI group at Meta, the parent company of Facebook. According to Meta AI, Llama 2 Chat LLMs are optimized for dialogue use cases and outperform open-source chat models on most benchmarks they
Read MoreA funny thing happened when I was playing with Poe, a chatbot aggregator from Quora. I selected the recently released free almost-open-source Llama 2 70B Chat model from Meta and gave it the prompt “Generate a Python program to scrape a website. Include tests for python.org and infoworld.com.” That’s a shorter version of a prompt
Read MoreI’ve been keeping up with private clouds. I’m not doing too much private cloud work, but I am writing and designing courses on the topic. As you may recall, not long ago private clouds were the primary focus for most enterprises. They did not want their data and processes out of their direct physical control,
Read MoreThe concept of observability traces back to the 1960s, with Rudolf E. Kalman’s canonical work around decomposing complex systems for human understanding. It was a heady time for new compute systems in aerospace and navigation. The advances in these systems exceeded humans’ ability to reason about them, and Kalman’s work is largely credited for laying
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority HMD Global’s CEO announced that the company will begin selling smartphones under its own HMD brand alongside Nokia-branded smartphones. HMD Global’s license for the Nokia brand expires in 2026 unless renewed. Nokia has a rich history in the world of phones. They are credited for numerous legendary phones like
Read MoreOnePlus has started rolling out the first OxygenOS 14 update for the OnePlus 11. The Open Beta build is the first taste of Android 14 for the OnePlus flagship. The software contains security, performance, design, and other upgrades. As promised, OnePlus has rolled out the first OxygenOS 14 Open Beta for the OnePlus 11. The
Read MoreSankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: in a first, Apple plans to make the India-built iPhone 15 available in the country and some other regions on the global sales debut day — – Devices from India to debut at same time as China-made ones — IPhone 15 marks a milestone for India’s electronics ambitions
Read MoreImage: Hugo Herrera / The Verge A coalition of environmental, tech, and anti-hate speech groups sent a letter to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today demanding that the Democratic leader craft policy to address the growing impact AI could have on climate change. Companies should be required to disclose the environmental impact of developing energy-intensive AI
Read MoreJust when we though we’d seen it all when it comes to custom keyboards (or most of it, anyway), along comes [Stu] with the TypeBoy and TypePak. Like the title implies, TypeBoy and TypePak are inseparable. Let’s talk about TypePak first. Somehow, some way, [Stu] managed to fit the following into an aftermarket Game Boy
Read MoreRyan Heath / Axios: Survey of 2,203 US adults: 53% say AI misinformation will impact who wins the 2024 election, and 35% say AI will decrease their trust in election ads — – Self-identified liberals (21%) were nearly twice as likely to say they have used generative AI for work or education than moderates (11%)
Read MoreAs futuristic as holographic technology may sound, in a sense it’s actually already in widespread commercial use. Concerts and similar events already use volumetric projection, with a fine mesh (hologram mesh or gauze) acting as the medium on which the image is projected to give the illusion of a 3D image. The widespread availability of
Read MoreAndrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: The Internet Archive appeals a US judge’s decision in March 2023 favoring publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit’s ebook lending program — As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving …
Read MorePhoto by Omar Havana / Getty Images The shared electric scooter business has gone through a series of ups and downs over the last few years — mostly downs, if we’re being honest — but now, one company is ready to claim the mantle of victor. Lime released a new set of financial figures that
Read MoreIgnacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Visa’s credit card disputes hit 90M+ in 2022, up 24% in 2020 and ~2% in both 2021 and 2022, widely attributed to the online shopping shift since the pandemic — – Visa fields 90 million disputes annually after pandemic boom — Rise is mainly attributed to e-commerce growth and inflation
Read MoreHaving a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the successor to Philips’ original analog Compact Cassette format from 1963, DCC was short-lived and slipped away after only four years in 1996. [Techmoan] obtained a
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority With modern AI tools, virtually no creative task seems out of reach for computers anymore. We’ve already talked about AI image generators, for example, which can convert a few words into beautiful pieces of art. And it didn’t take long for companies to marry the idea of AI processing
Read MoreFanny Potkin / Reuters: GlobalFoundries opens a $4B chip fabrication plant in Singapore aiming to produce up to 450K 300mm wafers per year; Singapore makes 11% of total global chips — GlobalFoundries (GFS.O), one of the world’s top five largest contract chipmakers, launched a $4 billion fabrication plant in Singapore on Tuesday …
Read MoreJust when we though we’d seen it all when it comes to custom keyboards (or most of it, anyway), along comes [Stu] with the TypeBoy and TypePak. Like the title implies, TypeBoy and TypePak are inseparable. Let’s talk about TypePak first. Somehow, some way, [Stu] managed to fit the following into an aftermarket Game Boy
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok videos about the Hollywood writers strike were temporarily blocked as the platform attempted to moderate QAnon conspiracy theories. Media Matters for America, a nonprofit media research group, reported today that TikTok users were unable to search for content related to the Writers Guild of America strike. “WGA”
Read MoreAssociated Press: MGM Resorts says a “cybersecurity issue” that began on Sunday is affecting some casino and hotel computer systems at the company’s properties across the US — A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems at MGM Resorts International properties across …
Read MoreVisual Studio 1.82, the newest iteration of Microsoft’s popular open source code editor, features built-in port forwarding, for sharing services over the internet with others. WebAssembly debugging also is highlighted in the release. Introduced September 7, VS Code 1.82 introduces a port forwarding system that allows developers to share locally running services over the internet
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