Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury I’ve spent the past four years coughing — I did it way before COVID made it cool — and after a lot of failed wishful thinking to make it go away, I ended up at a pulmonologist being diagnosed with asthma. My
Read MoreRobots are cool. Everyone knows it, and [Eater NY] highlights a coffee shop with a robotic server opening in Brooklyn. While robots able to prepare and serve drinks or food is not new, it isn’t every day a brick-and-mortar café with a robot behind the counter opens up. But expensive automation isn’t the only puzzle
Read MoreRobots are cool. Everyone knows it, and [Eater NY] highlights a coffee shop with a robotic server opening in Brooklyn. While robots able to prepare and serve drinks or food is not new, it isn’t every day a brick-and-mortar café with a robot behind the counter opens up. But expensive automation isn’t the only puzzle
Read MoreBloomberg: China says it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron products, warns country’s key information infrastructure operators against buying them — China issued its latest salvo in an escalating semiconductor war with the US, announcing that Micron Technology Inc. products …
Read MoreBloomberg: China says it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron products, warns country’s key information infrastructure operators against buying them — China said it found “relatively serious” cybersecurity risks in Micron Technology Inc. products that were sold in the country …
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Mobileye, Cruise, Waymo, and other self-driving system makers are simulating bad drivers, jaywalkers, and edge cases to train and test autonomous vehicles — Call it the Mad Max driving test, a gantlet only a Hollywood director—or a mild-mannered engineer—could dream up
Read MoreAs researchers race to cultivate these intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few growing in labs are our best glimpses of the forerunners of complex life.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani I’ll get straight to the point. I don’t like where Google is heading with the new Magic Editor in Google Photos. Magic Editor in Google Photos opens a lot of opportunities but will need significant safeguards. Google’s blockbuster showing at Google I/O kicked off
Read MoreThanks to these apps, you can easily run games that have been trapped in System 9 since the late 90s – but no more.
Read MoreWith WWDC just around the corner, what will Apple and watchOS 10 bring to the Apple Watch?
Read MoreWhile the company’s new top-level domains could be used in phishing attacks, security researchers are divided on how big of a problem they really pose.
Read MoreThe new tool basically transforms ChatGPT into a virtual assistant to help you manage projects, run a marketing campaign, and more.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, building a tiny compiler from scratch can be as fun as it is accessible. [James Smith] demonstrates by making a tiny compiler for an extremely simple programming language, and showing off a hello world. Here’s what happens with a compiler: human-written code gets compiled into low-level machine code, creating a natively-executable
Read MoreSony’s latest flagship, the Xperia 1 V, has a unique camera setup among the current crop of Android flagships. Even with its overkill specs, it trusts the user completely to do the right thing. This approach is in stark contrast to Google’s on its Pixel 7 Pro. The Pixel 7 Pro is widely regarded as
Read MoreIn recent years small drones have gone from being toys and photography tools to a deadly threat on the battlefield. Kamikaze drones have become especially prominent in the news due to their use in the war in Ukraine by both sides. While we haven’t seen coordinated swarms being actively employed on the modern battlefield, it’s
Read MoreMadeleine Ngo / New York Times: The US could be on the cusp of a chipmaking boom, with 50+ projects announced since the CHIPS Act, but officials worry the industry could face a worker shortage — Strengthened by billions of federal dollars, semiconductor companies plan to create thousands of jobs.
Read MoreGraphene isn’t easy to produce at scale. But making small batches of graphene is doable in a few ways. [Robert Murray-Smith] decided to try producing “flash graphene.” This requires a big capacitor bank that is moderately expensive, so he decided to explain a different technique he read about using an ordinary laser cutter. Check it
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Meta and Magic Leap are in talks for a multiyear deal in which Magic Leap could provide IP licensing and contract manufacturing for Meta’s AR products — Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’ — Facebook’s parent company is in talks …
Read MoreThese days, our video cards are actually as powerful as yesterday’s supercomputer and our monitors are bigger than the TVs most of us had as kids. But how did we get there? [RetroBytes] covers computer displays starting with the Colossus computer to today. Back in the days of Colossus, of course, a display was actually
Read MoreDavid Pan / Bloomberg: Analysts say crypto miners pivoting to AI cloud services face an uphill battle due to needing other specialized processors, hardware and staff costs, and more — Crypto miners looking to provide services for upstarts in artificial intelligence may be looking at an uphill battle, according to analysts.
Read MoreIronically, using a device to help me fall asleep has relieved me of the burden of self-moralizing about my tech usage.
Read MoreIronically, using a device to help me fall asleep has relieved me of the burden of self-moralizing about my tech usage.
Read MoreJessica Maddox / Wired: A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue — From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet’s problems.
Read MoreJessica Maddox / Wired: A look at the issues fomented by a decentralized web, including a rise in conspiratorial thinking due to more siloed online spaces and increasing app fatigue — From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet’s problems.
Read MoreIntegrating non-smart devices into your home automation system can be a cumbersome process, involving the wiring of multiple modules. However, [Pricelesstoolkit] has created the ESPClicker – a compact, ESP8266-based module that can remotely “press buttons” and simplify this process. The ESPClicker’s core feature is its three relays that can be soldered to the button terminals
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