The Pixel 7a is Google’s mid-range Pixel offering in 2023. With a slightly higher price tag than before, the Pixel 7a still continues to provide one of the best Android experiences in the mid-range, all thanks to Google’s software magic and Pixel UI. People who buy the Pixel 7a care about software updates, and it’s
Read MoreFacebook Messenger will no longer be available on the Apple Watch soon so you’ll have to use your iPhone instead.
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Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Australian edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute non-fiction book summaries, and raised $30M from Insight Partners — After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition …
Read MoreReuters: EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition in public, limit predictive policing, and impose transparency on generative AI; EU Commission will finalize details — European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT …
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Tears of the Kingdom doesn’t quite live up to its predecessor, but it’s still a fantastic new approach to Hyrule. Continue reading…
Read MoreBloomberg: Tech firms are increasingly hiring in South and Central America because remote hires there often accept lower pay than in the US but have similar time zones — Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US.
Read MoreStack Overflow, a question-and-answer portal for developers, would lay off 10% of its workforce, the company announced on Thursday. The job cuts, which will affect at least 58 employees, are a result of the company’s renewed focus on profitability due to macroeconomic concerns, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar said in a blog post. “Our focus for this
Read MoreThe Xperia 1 V. | Image: Sony Sony has announced its latest flagship smartphone, the Xperia 1 V. At first glance, it doesn’t look too different from the Xperia 1 IV that proceeded it, with its tall 21:9 display, vertical row of rear cameras, and sensible squared off design. But internally it’s using a new
Read MoreGrowing fleets, fancier sensors, and tighter budgets are forcing autonomous vehicle developers to get pickier about what stays on their servers.
Read MoreThe company’s pricey new Pixel Fold probably won’t sell in huge numbers. But Google still wins.
Read MoreThree states are suing to block security rules for water facilities. If they win, it may open the floodgates for challenges to other cyber rules.
Read MoreNow that I work in machine learning, I’m often struck by the parallels between this cutting-edge technology and traditional Chinese medicine.
Read MoreAs a thoroughly modern web framework, ASP.NET Core has built-in support for response compression, allowing you to reduce the size of responses and shorten response times. In this article we will examine how response compression works and how we can take advantage of response compression middleware in ASP.NET Core. Compression is an easy way to
Read MoreDylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: A look at Microsoft’s Trust Code training video series, heading into its seventh season, which has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers — Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide
Read MoreThe headphones are designed to be modular and can be disassembled for repairs. | Image: Fairphone The Fairbuds XL are a pair of modular, repairable headphones that are designed to be easy to dismantle, easy to repair, and easy to keep using for longer. Continue reading…
Read MoreWith readily available spare parts and a modular construction, Fairphone’s first over-ear headphones are a suitable companion to its repairable smartphones. I just wish they sounded better. Continue reading…
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M — In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find …
Read MoreGoogle just held its annual I/O keynote, and here are five cool Google I/O announcements that Apple should rip off.
Read MoreWacky racing driving game is the pick of the latest Apple Arcade drop, and will have you pulling over in stitches.
Read MoreBloomberg: SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B — SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate …
Read MoreA coal power plant in Texas in 2017 that became the first in the US to add carbon capture technology. | Photo by Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules for power plants today that are supposed to clean up pollution. But instead of encouraging more renewable energy
Read MoreBrian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Microsoft released at least 48 security fixes for Windows and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation — Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software …
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 7a is the first Pixel A-series phone to come with wireless charging support. It democratizes wireless charging by bringing it down to a lower price point in the Pixel lineup. While you could buy other phones at this price point that did already support wireless charging, having more options is good for
Read MoreNo matter how memory technology marches on, magnetic core memory is still cool. Radiation-hard, nonvolatile, and so pretty. What’s there not to love? [Mark Nesselhaus] is no stranger to fun in-your-face electronics builds — judging from his hackaday.io projects — and this entry to the Hackaday Op-Amp contest is no outlier. This is a sixteen-bit
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