The Vision Pro almost had a dedicated controller. | Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, which is coming later this year, will use hand-tracking and eye-tracking for control, but at one time, Apple considered a finger-worn input device, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. Gurman said
Read MoreMadhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies’ use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
Read MoreIn the quest to unravel the secrets of the universe, scientists have always been driven by a relentless curiosity. One of the greatest enigmas that has puzzled astrophysicists for decades is the nature of dark energy. To shed light on this elusive force and delve deeper into the mysteries of the cosmos, the European Space
Read MoreThe Apple Vision Pro’s $3,500 price point means that I’ll be sticking with the Meta Quest for at least one more generation.
Read MoreNew York Times: Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research: the global drone light show market is projected to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031 — The light displays are quieter, safer and better for the environment. — Like many in the fireworks industry, Stephen Vitale is in the family business.
Read MoreSo many food blogs and recipe sites are samey and full of pretty pictures but untested recipes. Don’t worry, it’s possible to find something you’ll love to cook and eat.
Read MoreWhat do you do, when you move into a shared apartment and find only one socket is available among four electric toothbrushes? Revert to an old-style manual brush? If you’re [luisengineering], not a bit of it. He’s modified an electric toothbrush with the only sensible power plant, a three-horsepower twin cylinder four-stroke gasoline motor. You’ll
Read MoreWe plonked our butts on these electric and nonelectric toilet seats to see which cleaned best.
Read MoreThere’s a surprisingly straightforward answer to how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that identical numbers never get too close together.
Read MoreThe toroidal boat propeller pair installed. (Credit: rctestflight) As boring as propeller designs may seem to the average person, occasionally there’s a bit of a dust-up in the media about a ‘new’ design that promises at least a few percent improvement in performance, decreased noise profile, or any combination of such claims. Naturally, if you’re
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is the company’s most durable smartwatch to date and even features a raised bezel for further protection of its massive display. Yet, from cosmetic damage to impacts that can degrade performance, accidents are bound to happen. Luckily, there’s even more you can to
Read MoreMigrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, scrambled PCB footprints, and plenty of other problems. Thankfully [shabaz] shows how to import EAGLE projects into KiCad 7 and fix the most common problems one is likely
Read MoreAndy Baio / Waxy.org: A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter’s web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: The moderators of r/IAmA say they will no longer coordinate celebrity AMAs and Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for tasks done by volunteers — The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
Read MoreThe Framework laptop will no doubt already have caught the eye of more than one Hackaday reader, as a machine designed for upgrade and expansion by its users. One of its key features is a system of expansion modules. The modules are USB-C devices in a form factor that slides into the expansion bays on
Read MoreTrisha Thadani / Washington Post: California regulators will decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 driverless cabs from Waymo and Cruise in SF, as city officials fume over a lack of control — To their dismay, local officials have no control over whatever the state decides — SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent sunny
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: Valve says it won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming the company planned to completely ban AI art — On Thursday, various outlets reported on a June Reddit post from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content.
Read MoreAn ultra-libertarian Balkan “country” called Liberland celebrated its eighth anniversary with a boat party and a barbecue, but no one lives there.
Read MoreKevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Red Hat’s new source code policy doesn’t violate the GPL itself but makes it harder to verify the company’s GPL compliance, angering the open-source community — A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks’ worth of heated GPL argument. — When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting …
Read MoreThe Framework laptop will no doubt already have caught the eye of more than one Hackaday reader, as a machine designed for upgrade and expansion by its users. One of its key features is a system of expansion modules. The modules are USB-C devices in a form factor that slides into the expansion bays on
Read MoreFour sealed models of the original iPhone are currently up for grabs in an auction and are likely to fetch around $200,000 together.
Read MoreMigrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, scrambled PCB footprints, and plenty of other problems. Thankfully [shabaz] shows how to import EAGLE projects into KiCad 7 and fix the most common problems one is likely
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Bluesky says it is “temporarily” pausing new sign-ups to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic” — / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’
Read MoreOne of our favorite retro-computing YouTubers, [Clint] from LGR, found himself a very interesting Fujitsu keyboard while thrift store shopping. It was a beautiful unit, but confusing, as this keyboard comes with an 8-pin DIN connector. A 5-pin DIN plug or 6-pin Mini-DIN would be easy to work with, but what was this odd connection?
Read MoreIn a recent Reddit post, it was revealed that Valve, the company behind the popular online gaming platform Steam, has been blocking the publication of video games that utilize AI-generated assets. This move has sparked a discussion among developers and artists about the implications of AI art and its ownership. While Steam’s rules for developer
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