Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Three years ago, video chat appeared set to revolutionize the way we work. All we actually got was slightly better video chat. Video-first communication obviously became much more important to many with the covid pandemic. With people suddenly forced to use video chat for work, school, and
Read MoreSebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Amazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues — The retail giant is reducing packaging on millions of deliveries — Millions of Amazon orders are arriving on doorsteps across the U.S. without
Read MoreThe decentralized Instagram alternative is a great option if you want to back up your feed, focus on photo-sharing, or cut loose from Meta’s empire entirely. And making the leap is surprisingly easy.
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Read MoreA signal generator that can produce the usual sine, square, and triangle waves is handy and has been a staple of electronic benches for decades. Being able to craft custom signals opens up new horizons, but historically, these instruments were expensive. The price has come down, though, and [Rishin Goswami] made a 5 MHz 8-bit
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is now official, bringing a larger secondary screen, a gapless design, and several other refinements. If you want to get the most out of your new Galaxy Z Flip 5, we have a few tips and tricks that can help you. Let’s jump right in. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at Stanford University’s efforts to educate Congress on AI, including a boot camp covering AI’s potential to reshape education and a primer on deepfakes — The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence
Read More[Mango Jelly] got a question from someone trying to model a phone box with a complex curved roof. We have to admit that when we saw it, we knew it would be hard to model well. Naturally, there are several ways it could be one, but [Mango Jelly] used the curves workbench in FreeCAD to
Read MoreMicrosoft has unveiled Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 1, which introduces a number of improvements for day-to-day tasks, after having just released Visual Studio 2022 17.7, which also brings enhancements to streamline coding. Productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 1 include the ability to add reviewers to an Azure DevOps or GitHub pull
Read MoreLucas Manfredi / The Wrap: The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a strike resolution soon — “Organizations indispensable to the creation of media are cutting staff… and in some cases, even risk closing,” the Hollywood Professional Association writes
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered where the term “banker’s hours” came from, look back to the booming post-war economy of 1950s America. That’s when banks were deluged with so many checks, each of which had to be reconciled by hand, that they had to shut their doors at 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon, just to
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
Read MoreIain Thomson / The Register: Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and unveils VeilidChat, a Signal-like instant messaging app — ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’ — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid …
Read MoreCam Thompson / CoinDesk: A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social app built on Base that has driven 4,400 ETH in trading volume since launching its invite-only beta on Thursday — The new social app has driven 4,400 ETH ($8.1 million) in trading volume in less than 24 hours since its launch, far surpassing OpenSea’s
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs — Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
Read MoreFitbit devices remain among the most popular wearables available, including the company’s top smartwatch lineups. The health-focused Fitbit Sense line is the brand’s top tier with advanced sensors and a range of smartwatch tools. While we weren’t blown away by the latest model during Fitbit Sense 2 review, we’re excited to see what lies in
Read MoreFitbit devices remain among the most popular wearables available, including the company’s top smartwatch lineups. The health-focused Fitbit Sense line is the brand’s top tier with advanced sensors and a range of smartwatch tools. While we weren’t blown away by the latest model during Fitbit Sense 2 review, we’re excited to see what lies in
Read MoreManya Saini / Reuters: Chindata Group plans to go private in a $3.16B deal with Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty on the future of the Chinese data center operator — Chindata Group said on Friday it would go private in a sweetened $3.16 billion deal with investor Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty …
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups — – A division of Andreessen Horowitz, a16z crypto, has introduced two technologies, Lasso and Jolt, related to SNARKs.
Read MoreFortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue: Illinois passes the US’ first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and featured kids of influencers to a percentage of earnings — Illinois has officially passed the nation’s first legislation aimed at protecting child influencers, in a move advocates …
Read MoreJesse Levine / Bloomberg: After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn’t been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months — – Musk hasn’t agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says — Meta’s Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry
Read MoreThe web is full of great content to read, but websites can be a bit too distracting. Have you ever wondered if there is a way to simplify text and read without all the extra fluff? There is. Google Chrome has Reader mode. Reader mode became available with the release of Chrome version 114, which
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Sources: Modular, which offers AI development tools and a programming language, is discussing a Series A at a ~$600M valuation, after a $30M seed in June 2022 — Modular, a startup whose software aims to loosen Nvidia’s chokehold over in-demand artificial intelligence chips …
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Read MoreIn a recent blog post, [Benjamin Breen] makes an interesting case that 2023 might go down in history as the start of a scientific revolution, and that’s even if LK-99 turns out to be a dud. He points to several biomedical, quantum computing, and nuclear fusion news items this year as proof. However, we aren’t
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