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A deep dive into Apple’s plans for the new iPhones and Watches coming this fall, including iPhone 15 Pro with 1.5mm bezels, a step towards a borderless iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A deep dive into Apple’s plans for the new iPhones and Watches coming this fall, including iPhone 15 Pro with 1.5mm bezels, a step towards a borderless iPhone  —  Apple is just weeks away from introducing the iPhone 15 and next-generation watches.  The new lineup will mark another stepping stone toward

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A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic (Tate Ryan-Mosley/MIT Technology Review)

Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic  —  An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio.  —  The White House wants big AI companies …

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Starlink’s near total control of satellite internet is raising global alarms; 4,500+ Starlink satellites are in orbit, accounting for 50%+ of active satellites (New York Times)

New York Times: Starlink’s near total control of satellite internet is raising global alarms; 4,500+ Starlink satellites are in orbit, accounting for 50%+ of active satellites  —  The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology.  The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.

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Self-Hosted Chatbot Focuses on Privacy

Large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage lately, assisting from all kinds of tasks from programming to devising Excel formulas to shortcutting school work. They’re also relatively easy to access for the most part, but as the old saying goes, if something on the Internet is free the real product is you (and

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An interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a Microsoft cryptographer who won the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, on cryptography, “post-quantum” security, and more (Allison Parshall/Quanta Magazine)

Allison Parshall / Quanta Magazine: An interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a Microsoft cryptographer who won the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, on cryptography, “post-quantum” security, and more  —  Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future.

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Vacuum Chamber Gets Automation

[Nick] does a lot of custom work with vacuum tubes. So much so that he builds his own vacuum tubes of various shapes, sizes, and functions right on his own workbench. While the theory of vacuum tubes is pretty straightforward, at least to those of us who haven’t only been exposed to semiconductors, producing them

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Self-Hosted Chatbot Focuses on Privacy

Large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage lately, assisting from all kinds of tasks from programming to devising Excel formulas to shortcutting school work. They’re also relatively easy to access for the most part, but as the old saying goes, if something on the Internet is free the real product is you (and

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Self-Hosted Chatbot Focuses on Privacy

Large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage lately, assisting from all kinds of tasks from programming to devising Excel formulas to shortcutting school work. They’re also relatively easy to access for the most part, but as the old saying goes, if something on the Internet is free the real product is you (and

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Starlink’s near total control of satellite internet is raising global alarms; 4,500+ Starlink satellites are in orbit, accounting for 50%+ of active satellites (New York Times)

New York Times: Starlink’s near total control of satellite internet is raising global alarms; 4,500+ Starlink satellites are in orbit, accounting for 50%+ of active satellites  —  The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology.  The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.

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Fiber-Infused Ink Allows 3D-Printed Heart Muscle To Beat

Illustration from Anatomy & Physiology, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/, Jun 19, 2013. What makes a body’s organs into what they are is more than just a grouping of specialized cells. They also need to be oriented and attached to each other and scaffolding in order to create structures which can effectively perform the desired function.

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Japan plans to add ~110K new trainees to acquire digital skills through fiscal 2024, as the government projects a 2.3M digital worker shortage by fiscal 2026 (Hiroyuki Akiyama/Nikkei Asia)

Hiroyuki Akiyama / Nikkei Asia: Japan plans to add ~110K new trainees to acquire digital skills through fiscal 2024, as the government projects a 2.3M digital worker shortage by fiscal 2026  —  Tokyo aims to add 110,000 new trainees in the field over next two years  —  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left …

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Fiber-Infused Ink Allows 3D-Printed Heart Muscle To Beat

Illustration from Anatomy & Physiology, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/, Jun 19, 2013. What makes a body’s organs into what they are is more than just a grouping of specialized cells. They also need to be oriented and attached to each other and scaffolding in order to create structures which can effectively perform the desired function.

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Fiber-Infused Ink Allows 3D-Printed Heart Muscle To Beat

Illustration from Anatomy & Physiology, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/, Jun 19, 2013. What makes a body’s organs into what they are is more than just a grouping of specialized cells. They also need to be oriented and attached to each other and scaffolding in order to create structures which can effectively perform the desired function.

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Despite TikTok prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, some creators say they’re sponsored by alcohol brands, and they drink excessively to promote them (Jessica Lucas/HuffPost)

Jessica Lucas / HuffPost: Despite TikTok prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, some creators say they’re sponsored by alcohol brands, and they drink excessively to promote them  —  While the app has strict rules prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, creators are still allegedly making money drinking to excess — and at least one has died.

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Mechanical Pencil Solder Feeder Hack

Want a better way to feed solder, but want to do it on the quick and cheap? Well [ptkrf] has a solution for you in an old instructables post we stumbled upon recently. You might have, or can inexpensively buy, a mechanical pencil which has the feeder button on the side rather than on top,

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Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West’s account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won’t be eligible to monetize it, and ads won’t appear next to his posts (Rebecca Elliott/Wall Street Journal)

Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West’s account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won’t be eligible to monetize it, and ads won’t appear next to his posts  —  West won’t be eligible to monetize his account, and ads won’t appear next to his posts  —  X, the social-media platform formerly

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Despite TikTok prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, some creators say they’re sponsored by alcohol brands, and they drink excessively to promote them (Jessica Lucas/HuffPost)

Jessica Lucas / HuffPost: Despite TikTok prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, some creators say they’re sponsored by alcohol brands, and they drink excessively to promote them  —  While the app has strict rules prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, creators are still allegedly making money drinking to excess — and at least one has died.

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