Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is reportedly preparing to build a $25,000 electric car built on the company’s next-generation engineering platform. Axios reports that Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson has detailed the plan to build a $25,000 electric car alongside an autonomous robotaxi that could ferry passengers around. The $25,000 car reportedly
Read MoreThis high-end streamer/headphone amp combo is among the best you’ll hear, but it has a price tag to match.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect from Apple’s “Wonderlust” event on September 12, including four iPhone 15 models with USB-C and Apple Watch Series 9 with new sensors and chips — Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
Read MoreXiaomi has apparently pushed out a very buggy update to the first-generation Mi Box S. The Android TV 12 update causes a host of problems, ranging from app crashes to slowdown. Up until the Chromecast for Google TV came along, Xiaomi’s Mi Box devices were considered by many to be the best cheap Android TV
Read MoreTimmy Shen / The Block: Ant Group launches ZAN, a new blockchain service aimed at institutional and individual clients in overseas markets, including Hong Kong and Singapore — – Ant Group said ZAN will focus on serving institutional and individual clients in overseas markets including Hong Kong and Singapore.
Read MoreGergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram’s tech stack, handling Threads’ unexpectedly intense launch, and more — The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an
Read MoreThe ‘Apps by Apple’ section of the Apple site could signify something big for the future of the company.
Read MoreThe world needs thousands of new grid battery installations to fight climate change. They rarely catch fire—but many people are skeptical of having one next door.
Read MoreWhile hackers can deftly navigate their way through circuit diagrams or technical documentation, for many of us, simple social interactions can be challenge. [Simone Giertz] decided to help us all out here by making a device to help us share our feelings. Like an assignment in Mission: Impossible, this aluminum box can convey your confessions
Read MoreAnna Tong / Reuters: Similarweb: ChatGPT’s desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following 10% drops from each of the previous two months — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline for the third month …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir raises $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, down from $11.8B in early 2022 — Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn
Read MoreClever coaching assistant video track shots in real-time and offers detailed personalised reports.
Read MoreUsing large language models (LLMs) is generally easy, although there’s an art to constructing effective prompts for them. On the other hand, programming with language models can be challenging. Enter LangChain. LangChain is a framework for developing applications powered by language models. You can use LangChain to build chatbots or personal assistants, to summarize, analyze, or
Read MoreTrendforce has reported that the iPhone 15 Pro might not increase at all, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max only increases by a little.
Read MoreChina Mobile has publicly denied claims it won’t sell the iPhone 15, as Apple’s China crisis continues to grow.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has issued a critical security update for iPhones to address a zero-day bug in iOS 16 that could allow attackers to remotely install spyware on a device without any interaction from the iPhone owner. Citizen Lab, a spyware research group, discovered the exploit last week and
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max could launch with a base 128GB storage option, according to TrendForce.
Read MoreAlongside iOS 16.6.1, Apple released updates for iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to fix a spyware exploit.
Read MoreBangor University scientists think that the way to go big with nuclear power is to, in fact, go small. Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and are meant to power a reactor by Rolls Royce the size of a “small car.” We aren’t sure
Read MoreMackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The US Commerce Department begins an official probe to “obtain more information” on a “purported” 7nm chip made by SMIC in China used in Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro — – Commerce working to get more information on purported 7nm chip — It’s touched off a debate about the efficacy of US
Read MoreEcho Wang / Reuters: Brand Engagement Network, which offers AI-powered chatbots and conversational AI tech to companies, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $358M valuation — Artificial intelligence startup Brand Engagement Network (BEN) on Thursday agreed to go public through a merger …
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority We’d be hard-pressed not to recommend a Garmin watch to most runners looking for a new device. For those on a budget, the lowest-end Forerunner offers a fantastic fitness tracking experience at a great price. Yet, as much as still recommend the Garmin Forerunner 55, we’re eager to see
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which offers tools to help companies map their IT architecture, sources say for around $1.2B — As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company’s ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture.
Read MoreWe like [Thomas Sanladerer], so when we say his channel has gone in the toilet, we mean that quite literally. He had a broken toilet and wanted to compare options for effecting a 3D printed repair. The mechanism is a wall-mounted flush mechanism with a small broken plastic part. Luckily, he had another identical unit
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: A look at Microsoft’s device-agnostic game streaming model; sources say Microsoft prototyped a cloud-focused Xbox handheld, but work on cloud gaming has slowed — With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far.
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