Apple Vision Pro is a dev kit for the super-rich lab rat
It’s great to see that Apple is innovating again, even if I can’t afford a Vision Pro myself.
Read MoreIt’s great to see that Apple is innovating again, even if I can’t afford a Vision Pro myself.
Read MoreIf you’re at all into nostalgic cameras, you’ve certainly seen the old Brownie from Kodak. They were everywhere, and feature an iconic look. [JGJMatt] couldn’t help but notice that you could easily find old ones at a good price, but finding and developing No. 117 film these days can be challenging. But thanks to a
Read MoreWhether you’re an amateur drawing dabbler on your hands, here’s how you can leverage your iPad to elevate your artistry.
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last month Sony showed off a big slate of upcoming games (and even some surprise hardware), which was followed by a packed Summer Game Fest. Now it’s Microsoft’s turn. On June 11th the company will be holding not one but two events: a showcase focused on Xbox games,
Read MoreBy imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly—and efficiently—than before.
Read MoreThese macOS utilities will make day-to-day work on your Mac much easier.
Read MoreBy imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly—and efficiently—than before.
Read MoreThe discovery and implementation of alternating current revolutionized the entire world little more than a century ago. Without it, we’d all have inefficient, small neighborhood power plants sending direct current in short, local circuits. Alternating current switches the direction of current many times a second, causing all kinds of magnetic field interactions that result in
Read MoreKirsten Grieshaber / Associated Press: A University of Vienna philosopher used ChatGPT to create a 40-minute church service, including the sermon, prayers, and music, led by four AI-generated avatars — The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews
Read MoreUnlock the full potential of your iPhone: Magnify, measure, and relax with these viral TikTok tips.
Read MoreUnlock the full potential of your iPhone: Magnify, measure, and relax with these viral TikTok tips.
Read MoreDocuments WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more.
Read MoreNatasha Singer / New York Times: While US schools debate what to teach students about AI’s promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums — While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons.
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Apple Vision Pro’s biggest potential advantage will be the ability for developers to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools — Apple’s developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays …
Read MoreWashington Post: Verizon report: median amount lost from business email compromise is $50K in recent years and median ransomware damage doubled to $26K over the last two years — A smorgasbord of data in Verizon’s annual breach report — When a vulnerability in the ubiquitous open-source tool log4j …
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: Reddark: over 100 subreddits have gone dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s recent remarks on API changes in an AMA, and thousands plan to follow — The version of Reddit we’ll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have
Read MoreGame consoles typically support a limited number of input devices, meaning that console games are often completely optimized for the default controller supplied with that platform. Nintendo’s tendency to completely reinvent their controllers pretty much every generation can therefore become a little irritating, especially when they also enable their newer consoles to play games from
Read MoreGuy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister said there is no money in the budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany — Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: Reddark: over 200 subreddits have gone dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s recent remarks on API changes in an AMA, and thousands plan to follow — The version of Reddit we’ll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. Hundreds of subreddits have pledged
Read MoreIt’s a pretty sure bet that anyone who survived high school biology has heard about the Miller-Urey experiment that supported the hypothesis that the chemistry of life could arise from Earth’s primordial atmosphere. It was literally “lightning in a bottle,” with a mix of gases like methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water in a closed-loop glass
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: Researchers claim their model can detect academic writing from ChatGPT with 99%+ accuracy at the document level and 92% accuracy at the paragraph level — Researchers say their algorithm can detect scientific writing by robots with surprising accuracy. — Scientists from the University …
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model’s training — When tested, “Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes.” — On Wednesday, two German researchers …
Read MoreLike any hobby, amateur radio has no upper bounds on what you can spend getting geared up. Shacks worth tens of thousands of dollars are easy to come by, and we’ll venture a guess that there are hams out there pushing six figures with their investment in equipment. But hands down, the most expensive amateur
Read MoreReddits user and moderator community are very peeved at its CEO right now. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The version of Reddit we’ll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark, and thousands more plan to follow in protest of
Read MorePlatformer: Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether — Musk won’t pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company’s trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
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