At the level pursued by many Hackaday readers, the advent of affordable 3D printing has revolutionised prototyping, as long as the resolution of a desktop printer is adequate and the part can be made in a thermoplastic or resin, it can be in your hands without too long a wait. The same has happened at
Read MoreBloomberg: Filing: SMIC-backed Semiconductor Manufacturing Electronics Shaoxing plans to raise $1.4B in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market as Beijing battles US curbs — A chip foundry backed by China’s top semiconductor firm is set to raise $1.4 billion in Asia’s biggest initial public offering so far this year …
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Slack rolls out Canvas, a collaboration tool for each channel with document creation, editing, and more, announced in September 2022 — The best thing about Slack’s new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you. It’s like Google Docs but inside of Slack.
Read MoreToyota’s fifth-generation Prius certainly has a lot to like. Until our public charging infrastructure can handle the demands of rapid EV adoption, the Toyota Prius offers no-hassle efficiency. And for a lot of buyers, that’s all that matters. Continue reading…
Read MoreSeyka in Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge I was relieved when I first looked at the small map in Horizon Forbidden West’s new expansion, Burning Shores. Sony’s Horizon series is renowned for its expansive open worlds that are littered with things to do. When you look at
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A dedicated toggle for camera and microphone controls is coming to Chromebooks. The toggle will make it so that users can manage these controls all from one place. The toggle should roll out later this year. One of the biggest problems with webcams and microphones is it can be
Read MoreAnnachiara Biondi / Financial Times: On TikTok, guides to buying “dupes” of pricey luxury items are gaining a following and sparking a debate over knock-offs; #dupes has 2.1B views and #Reps 1.9B — On TikTok, guides to buying ‘dupes’ of pricey luxury items are gaining a following — In 2012, a classic Chanel flap bag
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and others from August 2023 — Alibaba’s (9988.HK) AliExpress, Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Marketplace, Apple’s App Store and 16 other tech companies will be subject …
Read MoreDon’t panic. Instead, teach your beloved offspring to answer the Three Questions of Streaming.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A Korean news outlet has claimed that Samsung is working on the Exynos 2400 chipset. It asserts that Samsung is hoping to use it in the Galaxy S24 series next year. A Twitter tipster has claimed that the chipset could arrive in some base S24 models. Update: April 25,
Read MoreThe Japanese company Ispace could be the first to safely touch down on the moon’s surface, with more spacecraft following later this year
Read MoreBloomberg: South Korea indicts Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin and nine others on multiple charges and freezes ~$184.7M in assets from them so far — South Korea indicted Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin along with nine others on multiple charges including violations of capital markets law.
Read MoreThere are tons of web browsers to choose from on your smartphone and computer, ranging from Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge to Opera and Brave. We thought it would be a good idea to ask you about the web browser you use on your phone and computer. Well, the results are in, and here’s what
Read More80s-era electronic speech certainly has a certain retro appeal to it, but it can sometimes be a useful data output method since it can be implemented on very little hardware. [luc] demonstrates this with a talking thermometer project that requires no display and no special hardware to communicate temperatures to a user. Back in the
Read MoreTimothy B Lee / Understanding AI: AI will have a significant impact on the economy, but as with the internet, this impact will be concentrated in information-focused industries and occupations — Software didn’t eat the world and AI won’t either. — In 2011, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published an essay …
Read MoreAs you likely know by now, WebAssembly, or wasm, is an efficient, cross-platform, cross-language way to run code almost anywhere, including in a browser and on a server—even in a database. Cosmonic is a commercial platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for wasm modules. It builds on the open-source wasmCloud. This technology preview starts with a quick overview of
Read MoreIt’s 9:00 Monday morning, and you arrive at the office for your first week of hybrid work to learn that your cloud application has been shut down by the security team. You later find out that the security team leader did not feel respected enough during the development process and went to the CIO and
Read MoreCode and data integrity and encryption support in Java would get boosts from two different proposals floating in the open source Java community. One proposal would tighten strong encapsulation of Java APIs, and the second would deliver an API for Key Encapsulation Mechanism, an encryption technique that promises to provide protection against quantum computers. A
Read MoreMatt O’brien / Associated Press: Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the path from GPT-4 to AGI, safety measures, the regulation of LLMs, development of GPT-5, the response to ChatGPT, and more — OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn’t a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The Poco F5 is coming soon, the Snapdragon India Twitter account announced. Poco’s new handset is confirmed to have a Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 chipset. This processor is expected to duke it out with 2022’s flagship phones. The Poco F series stands out from the brand’s other devices
Read MoreImage: BMW BMW is finally expanding support for its mobile car key technology, dubbed Digital Key Plus, to select Android phones running Android 13.1 or later. Digital Key Plus can now be set up via the My BMW App on compatible Google Pixel and Samsung devices, which includes the Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 6 Pro,
Read MoreA rite of passage in decades past for the electronics experimenter was the crystal radio. Using very few components and a long wire antenna, such a radio could pick up AM stations with no batteries needed, something important in the days when a zinc-carbon cell cost a lot of pocket money. The days of AM
Read MoreCredit: Evan Blass Motorola has confirmed that the cover display of the new Razr will be the largest amongst current flip phones in the market. The company has equated the bigger outer screen to the size of the first-generation iPhone. The Chinese launch of the new Razr seems imminent. Motorola has confirmed that the upcoming Razr
Read MoreChloe Xiang / VICE: A look at AI Hub, a Discord community focused on AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists — On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it.
Read MoreChloe Xiang / VICE: A look at AI Hub, a Discord community focused on AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists — On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it.
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