How to Install Threads on Your Windows Desktop
Meta’s new social app may be mobile-first, but with a little effort, you can install it on your desktop PC. Here’s how.
Read MoreMeta’s new social app may be mobile-first, but with a little effort, you can install it on your desktop PC. Here’s how.
Read MoreFractyl Health is developing a gene therapy alternative to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to control blood sugar and body weight without repeated injections.
Read MoreAt the very start of the personal computer revolution, there were relatively inexpensive boards with little more than a CPU, some memory, a display, and switches or a keypad. Some of these had expansion ports meant to allow you to build up, and some were just “trainers” to learn about computers. While you could argue
Read MoreSarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Alibaba’s Youku airs My Chinese Chip, a new drama series in China telling the story of a startup building lasers for deep ultraviolet lithography machines — A new series in China tells the story of a scrappy startup developing the advanced chipmaking technology that multinational trade sanctions today are keeping out
Read MoreUgreen’s new 300W GaN charger. | Image: Ugreen Ugreen is teasing a new 300W GaN charger with enough ports to charge a suitcase-worth of gadgetry. The $269 device has four USB-C ports and one USB-A port, and spokesperson Roger Wan says it will go on sale in mid-August. The most powerful port is able to
Read MoreMunsif Vengattil / Reuters: Foxconn pulls out of a $19.5B Indian chip and display joint venture, announced in 2022, with conglomerate Vedanta and is “working to remove the Foxconn name” — Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it is pulling out of a joint venture with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd …
Read MoreNaomi Nix / Washington Post: VR game makers say women are buying headsets due to fitness and workout apps, a shift from the male-dominated early days; <10% of Quest users were women in 2019 — Seeking to broaden their customer base, makers of virtual reality headsets move away from gaming and into new types of
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Revolut’s US system let criminals steal $20M+ over several months in 2022 before Revolut shut the loophole, equivalent to ~66% of its 2021 net profit — During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages.
Read MoreFitbit Charge 5 Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The latest update to the Fitbit Charge 5 is reportedly causing excessive battery drain and bricking devices. Affected consumers with an active warranty are offered a 35% discount code from Fitbit toward device purchases. There is no way to stop the Fitbit Charge 5 from
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Quiver Quantitative: Instagram Threads passes 100M signups in just five days, up from 30M in the first 24 hours and 10M in the first seven hours — Instagram’s text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million sign-ups in just five days. The Twitter rival was launched on June 6
Read MoreDevelopers and data scientists use generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to query volumes of documents and unstructured data. Open source LLMs, including Dolly 2.0, EleutherAI Pythia, Meta AI LLaMa, StabilityLM, and others, are all starting points for experimenting with artificial intelligence that accepts natural language prompts and generates summarized responses. To read this
Read MoreWe’re going back to the future with commercial Linux. In case you missed it, Red Hat apparently got tired of companies masquerading as communities, building Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clones through CentOS code and giving nothing back, not a line of code nor a penny. Some have called it freeloading. I called it a bad idea for
Read MoreBy this point, just about everybody has had a go playing with ChatGPT, making it do all sorts of wonderful and strange things. But how do you go beyond just messing around and using it to build a real-world, production application? A big part of that is bringing together the general capabilities of ChatGPT with
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.3B, beating estimates of ~$15.23B due to AI chips; TSM has risen 25%+ in 2023 despite full-year revenue warnings — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported better-than-expected sales on a boom in artificial intelligence applications demanding …
Read MoreA new report claims the OLED MacBook is delayed until 2027, but that the tech is coming to the iPad next year.
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro will release in a new color that plays homage to older Pro models.
Read MoreCarl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI releases in-house ChatGPT plug-in Code Interpreter to all Plus subscribers, helping them analyze data, create charts, edit files, and more — OpenAI first announced third-party software application plug-ins for its hit service ChatGPT back in March, allowing users to extend …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After several rounds of layoffs and a number of high-profile lawsuits, Rad Power Bikes’ new CEO is determined to get costs and safety under control Continue reading…
Read MoreAn IBM (or, later, Lenovo) ThinkPad is a popular choice in our community. They’re prized for their rugged design, longevity, and good software support. Over the many years that the line has been available, there have been a few models which have captured the attention more than others, and among those, probably the most sought-after
Read MoreCreated with GIMP Credit: Xiaomi/YouTube Xiaomi has launched the Pad 6 tablet in Europe after previously launching it in China. The 11-inch slate features a 144Hz refresh rate and is powered by the Snapdragon 870 platform. Xiaomi hasn’t launched the Pro version of the Pad 6 in Europe just yet. Update: July 9, 2023 (11:35
Read MoreApple is working on a foldable MacBook, with a potential launch in 2026 with displays sourced from Samsung Display and LG Display.
Read MoreEveryone wants a wider field of view in their VR headsets, but that’s not an easy nut to crack. [Statonwest] shows there’s a way to get at least some of the immersion benefits with a bit of simple hardware thanks to the VR Ambilight. RGB strip tucked behind a diffusor panel. A few years ago the
Read MoreThe Chinese-owned ecommerce app faces lawsuits for copyright infringement after sellers allegedly copied products and stole photos and text from Amazon.
Read MoreRussia’s invasion has caused $1 trillion of damage. Technology will be at the heart of Ukrainian recovery from the war.
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix The Google Pixel 8 could receive a price hike to $649 or $699, according to a leaker. This would be $50 to $100 more expensive than the standard Pixel 7, if true. The leaker also claimed that the phone would offer an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. We’ve posted loads of exclusive Google Pixel 8
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