With the increasing waste heat production by today’s electronics in ever smaller spaces, drawing this heat away quickly enough to prevent thermal throttling or damage is a major concern. This is where research by Lin Jing and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering demonstrates a thermal interface material (TIM) that should provide
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources and docs: Binance and Binance.US have been more intertwined than disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to buy and sell crypto — The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent. Now, regulators are circling.
Read MoreThose who hibernate in their workshops have a habit of re-imagining their relationship to tools. And [Marius Hornberger] is no exception, but the nine upgrades he’s added to his grandfather’s old drill press puts this machine on a whole other level. In proper storytime fashion, [Marius] steps us through each upgrade, the rationale, and the
Read MoreWith the increasing waste heat production by today’s electronics in ever smaller spaces, drawing this heat away quickly enough to prevent thermal throttling or damage is a major concern. This is where research by Lin Jing and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering demonstrates a thermal interface material (TIM) that should provide
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge With all the hype surrounding ChatGPT, it’s no wonder other companies are vying for a piece of the AI-powered chatbot game. Companies are betting that we’re at a decisive moment in the artificial intelligence industry, where products that adopt and build upon the budding technology could have the potential to reshape technology
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Android has been around for over 15 years at this point, so we’ve seen loads of versions over the years. From the early days of Cupcake and Donut to the latest Android 13 and Android 14, each version has brought a lot to the table. However, it’s fair to
Read MoreThe M1-equipped iMac released in 2021. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s readying a new iMac that could launch as early as the second half of this year, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. While the new iMac will reportedly feature the same 24-inch display size as the previous
Read MoreThe Raspberry Pi shortage has been a meme in hacker circles for what feels like an eternity now, and the Pi 4 seems to be most affected – though, maybe it’s just its popularity. Nevertheless, if you’re looking for a Pi 4, you would need to look far and wide – and things are way
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Bluetooth provides us with a huge range of features, from connecting peripherals to streaming music to wireless earbuds. The standard is poised to become even more useful thanks to Auracast audio broadcasting capabilities. While not strictly brand new (the technology was announced in 2022), we spent some ears-on time
Read MoreThe smart home brand sets its sights on Wi-Fi with two affordable systems—but there are compromises.
Read MoreYou can use whatever sound you want for when your phone rings—but phones make it hard. Here’s how to get around it.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple’s new 24″ iMacs are in engineering validation testing, will likely launch in H2 2023 with the M3 chip and same exterior design as the old iMacs — Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Bluetooth provides us with a huge range of features, from connecting peripherals to streaming music to wireless earbuds. The standard is poised to become even more useful thanks to Auracast audio broadcasting capabilities. While not strictly brand new (the technology was announced in 2022), we spent some ears-on time
Read MoreLook Ma, no wires! These stick vacs are the best battery-operated dust suckers.
Read MoreYou can use whatever sound you want for when your phone rings—but phones make it hard. Here’s how to get around it.
Read MoreWe always like when a designer does something different. After all, it is easy just to do what everyone else is doing. But to see things a different way is always interesting to us. When you think of a battle bot, you probably think of a robot with wheels or tracks, attacking other robots in
Read MoreBert Hubert / Bert Hubert’s writings: An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope — The EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal. And the EU is not alone in thinking something needs to be
Read MoreResearchers have uncovered a surprising wealth of “intransitive” patterns in randomly chosen dice.
Read MoreAlex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat’s subscription fees and features are aimed at professional creators filling social feeds because regular users post too infrequently — Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are not for ordinary users. They’re for the professionals who’ve taken over the feeds.
Read MoreCustom semiconductor chips are generally big projects made by big companies with big budgets. Thanks to Tiny Tapeout, students, hobbyists, or anyone else can quickly get their designs onto an actual fabricated chip. [Matt Venn] has announced the opening of a third round of the Tiny Tapeout project for March 2023. In 2022, Tiny Tapeout
Read MoreWhen people pay for sexual media, they’re seeking more than an anonymous image. AI cannot replicate the underlying desires that drive sex work.
Read MoreWe each asked ourselves how a folding iPad would convince us to buy one – and the answers may surprise you.
Read MoreThere’s quite a few devices on the market that contain a Raspberry Pi as their core, and after becoming a proud owner of a solar roof, [Paolo Bonzini] has found himself with an Entrade ENR-DTLA04DN datalogger which – let’s just say, it had some of the signs, and at FOSDEM 2023, he told us all
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Current and former Dapper Labs staff say bullying and lavish spending by CEO Roham Gharegozlou has hurt the NFT startup amid layoffs and a prolonged bear market — – Dapper Labs CEO and co-founder Roham Gharegozlou’s extravagant spending and habit of bullying employees …
Read MoreSergi Castella i Sapé / Zeta Alpha: An analysis of the top 100 cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022 shows US-based AI research as the most impactful and Google the dominant organization — Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it
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