Crystals are key to a lot of radio designs. They act as a stable frequency source and ensure you’re listening to (or transmitting on) exactly the right bit of the radio spectrum. [Q26] decided to use the ProgRock2 “programmable crystal” to build a receiver that could tune multiple frequencies without the usual traditional tuning circuitry.
Read MoreJoel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: Apple drops its lawsuit against Gerard Williams III, a former Apple chip executive who allegedly poached its employees and used company resources to start Nuvia — Apple Inc. dropped its lawsuit against a former chip executive the company sued for allegedly poaching its employees for a startup.
Read MoreReuters: Interviews with lawmakers and sources reveal how, over just 11 days, MEPs created a draft bill on generative AI, a rare example of quick consensus in the EU — As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT.
Read MoreCompanies now are looking to secure revenue streams by sneakily locking customers into as many recurring services as possible. Subscription software, OS ecosystems, music streaming, and even food delivery companies all want to lock consumers in to these types of services. Battery-operated power tools are no different as there’s often a cycle of buying tools
Read MoreTechCrunch: Docs and sources: OpenAI closed a $300M+ share sale at a $27B-$29B valuation; backers include Tiger Global, Sequoia, a16z, Thrive, K2 Global, and Founders Fund — Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. The money from VCs reported here, part of a tender offer, is separate to that.
Read MoreMark Matousek / The Information: Source: IRL CEO Abraham Shafi has stepped down, following allegations the messaging startup used bots to inflate the users it reported publicly and to investors — Abraham Shafi has stepped down as CEO of messaging app IRL following allegations that the company used bots to inflate the users …
Read MorePhoto by Monica Chin / The Verge Just two days after a substantial leak pegged the price of Asus’ Steam Deck competitor at $699.99 with a Z1 Extreme chip and 512GB of storage, an extremely similar leak says the entry-level model with a vanilla Z1 processor and a 256GB SSD will cost $599.99. As before,
Read MoreCompanies now are looking to secure revenue streams by sneakily locking customers into as many recurring services as possible. Subscription software, OS ecosystems, music streaming, and even food delivery companies all want to lock consumers in to these types of services. Battery-operated power tools are no different as there’s often a cycle of buying tools
Read MoreHonkai: Star Rail is like many other gacha JRPGs. It lets you make friends and then share your best characters with those friends. We have a tutorial on making friends in Honkai: Star Rail already. In this article, we’ll talk about Support Characters and Starfaring Companions, what they do, and how they work. QUICK ANSWER
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave, the company that develops its own privacy-focused web browser and search engine, announced that it will no longer use Microsoft’s Bing search as a source for its web searches. “Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index,” reads a Thursday
Read MoreForbes: Filing and sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is raising a $330M Series F at a ~$4.2B valuation, up from its $2.7B valuation for its Series E in June 2021 — The funding, revealed in a filing, shows that the logistics company priced a $330 million Series F funding round in April.
Read MoreGIF by Sean Hollister / content from Roddenberry Archive Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, left us a long time ago — but his archive is slowly being digitized so it can live forever. The latest batch includes an official website that lets you set foot on almost every Enterprise bridge. GIF by Sean Hollister
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The Issue It’s probably happened to all of us: you want to link to a really interesting factoid in a really long article — but you can’t be sure that the people reading your social network or blog entry will be able to find the factoid in all
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence (AI) systems have become synonymous with regenerative efforts that aim to help business owners streamline their operations and assist marketers with developing more foolproof strategies to garner attention from the right target audience. Over the last decade, and perhaps more so within the last several years, AI systems have rapidly become an implementation for businesses
Read MorePhoto by Unique Nicole/Getty Images Damon Lindelof, known for his work on shows like Lost and the new Peacock show Mrs. Davis, was “asked to leave” the Star Wars universe, he said in an interview with Esquire. Word went around last year that he was developing a new Star Wars movie, but Variety reported in
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave, the company that develops its own privacy-focused web browser and search engine, announced that it will no longer use Microsoft’s Bing search as a source for its web searches. “Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index,” reads a Thursday
Read MoreThe Metaverse is a term used to describe a hypothetical future iteration of the internet, which involves the integration of virtual reality, augmented reality, and other immersive technologies to create a shared, interactive virtual space. In this virtual world, users can interact with each other and digital objects in real-time, creating an entirely new form
Read MoreHonkai: Star Rail is a gacha with some pretty standard gacha mechanics. One such example is making friends. You can’t use the Friend menu until after you make it to the Astral Express for the first time. Luckily, that doesn’t take very long. Once you can make friends, you can borrow their Support Characters and
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is testing a new feature that will let you add songs to the photo carousels you post to the platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on his Instagram broadcast channel, noting that it’s already available in a “few countries with more to come.” While Instagram already
Read MoreAfter launching in late 2022, ChatGPT has become all the rage. Using the cutting-edge artificial intelligence chatbot, you can do everything from holding a conversation to writing an entire term paper in minutes. Plus, ChatGPT can do many things you didn’t know it could, like create a brand logo and compose music. Bill Gates says ChatGPT is one
Read MoreIf you’ve dived under the hood of any car built in the last 40 years, you’ve likely noticed the bundles of neatly-wrapped cables making up the car’s wiring loom. [The Q] has built a tool for handling jobs like this yourself. The build starts with a pair of sprockets linked up with bicycle chain, and
Read MoreThe Galaxy A54 5G was released earlier this April and looks to be one of the most impressive budget phones of 2023. That said, the competition is about ready to heat up. The Google Pixel 7a is rumored to be on its way next month. Let’s look closer at the Pixel 7a vs Galaxy A54
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge American Department of Defense policy already bans artificial intelligence from autonomously launching nuclear weapons. But amid rising fears of AI spurred by a plethora of potential threats, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has decided to make extra-double-sure it can’t. As announced earlier this week, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA)
Read MoreKim Zetter / Wired: Sources: the US DOJ discovered the SolarWinds breach in late May 2020, months before its public disclosure in December 2020, but was unaware of its significance — In May 2020, the US Department of Justice stumbled upon Russian hackers in its network, but did not realize the significance of what it
Read MoreEven if surface-mount skills aren’t in your repertoire, chances are pretty good that most of us are at least familiar with SMD stencils. These paper-thin laser-cut steel sheets are a handy way to apply a schmear of solder paste to the pads of a PCB before component placement and reflowing. But are stencils good for
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