Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority In a market full of flashing screens, animation, and on-device interaction, the Oura Ring and Whoop bands stand apart. Neither ecosystem features a display, but both pack a lot of tools into a wearable device. To find out which of these fitness trackers is right for you, we compare Oura
Read MoreThere are plenty of bizarre computers around from the 70s through the 90s before the world somewhat standardized around various duopolies of hardware vendors and operating systems. Commodore, Atari, and even Apple had some bizarre machines from this era but for our money, the most unusual systems come out of the Eastern Bloc. We’ve featured
Read MoreJessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs — Can’t wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec’s
Read MoreOn its face, 3D printing is pretty simple — it’s basically just something to melt plastic while being accurately positioned in three dimensions. But the devil is in the details, and there seems to be an endless number of parameters and considerations that stand between the simplicity of the concept and the reality of getting
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 — – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run.
Read MoreWhen something is described as “Low Noise”, it is by the nature of the language a relative phrase. The higest quality magnetic tape is low noise compared to its cheaper sibling for example, but still has noise many would consider unacceptable. In instrumentation however, “Low Noise” has to really mean just that, with a range
Read MoreTim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, an undefined metric for measuring Twitter’s success, after taking issue with mDAUs during the takeover — Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success
Read MoreKrisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits — A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million …
Read MoreWith only two space stations in orbit around Earth today in the form of the International Space Station and the Chinese Tiangong (‘Sky Palace’) station, it’s easy to forget how many space stations were launched in the previous century. And the Soviet Union launched by far the most, as part of the Salyut (Russian for
Read MorePatrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more — The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr. — After a decades-long career …
Read MoreTaylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware — Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.
Read MoreTom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo — Five years after the IOC criticised shooters. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-chief — Fortnite has been named as a late addition …
Read MoreTaylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware — Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 — – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run.
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 — – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run.
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 — – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run.
Read More[Emupedia]’s work to preserve computer history by way of making classic and abandoned games and software as accessible as possible is being done in a handy way: right in your browser with EmuOS. A few moments of BIOS startup kicks off EmuOS right in a browser window. Doing things this way has powerful “Just Works”
Read MoreOpinion post by Dhruv Bhutani I believe in a future where homes are connected, smarter, and automated enough not to require switches or repetitive voice-based input. However, till we get there, I’ve been documenting my journey in creating an affordable, fully connected home and have invested a lot of money in picking up some of
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests — The European Union’s fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what’s to come for AI services.
Read MoreEmulators are easy and convenient, but for some retrocomputing enthusiasts nothing comes close to running classic software on actual era-appropriate hardware. This can become a problem, though, for those into vintage PC gaming: old PCs and their monitors are notoriously large and heavy, meaning that even a modest collection will quickly fill up a decent
Read MoreEmulators are easy and convenient, but for some retrocomputing enthusiasts nothing comes close to running classic software on actual era-appropriate hardware. This can become a problem, though, for those into vintage PC gaming: old PCs and their monitors are notoriously large and heavy, meaning that even a modest collection will quickly fill up a decent
Read MoreMega Pinsir is coming to raids in Pokémon Go. Read ahead for everything you need to know to beat it.
Read MoreMega Pinsir is coming to raids in Pokémon Go. Read ahead for everything you need to know to beat it.
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests — The European Union’s fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what’s to come for AI services.
Read MoreWelcome to the 483rd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Apple and Google are working together to reign in location tracker abuse. The problem is, essentially, that people can use Google and Apple’s Bluetooth trackers to track people who don’t know that they’re being tracked. The two
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