Image: Microsoft Microsoft has once again accidentally offered the Windows 11 upgrade to PCs with unsupported hardware. Twitter user PhantomOcean3 spotted the mistake earlier this week, where Microsoft was showing fullscreen prompts on unsupported hardware. Microsoft has now explained the mistake, noting that PCs that didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11 weren’t able
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Read MoreThe Nokia G22, surrounded by iFixit repair tools. | Image: HMD HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen, charging port, or flat battery — a simpler process on its new Nokia G22, and it’s partnering with repair specialists iFixit to provide customers with
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Read MoreCredit: Nokia The G22 is Nokia’s first smartphone designed around repairability. Nokia claims its C32 phone has the highest image quality ever seen on its C-series devices. The Nokia C22 offers more durability than the previous generation. The maker of Nokia phones — HMD Global — had a few announcements to share at MWC 2023
Read MoreHMD Global announced three new Nokia phones at MWC 2023, including two entry-level C-Series devices and, more interestingly, the Nokia G22. This budget phone promises to be easier to repair than almost anything else currently on the market. According to HMD, changing the Nokia G22’s battery should take just five minutes, while the more complicated
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Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani As someone who sports some of the best smartwatches primarily for health metrics, the lackluster improvement in battery life in the category has long been a pet peeve of mine. Those health metrics will only be as good as the amount of data I
Read MoreMelissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things” — Midjourney says it’s a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images.
Read MoreFounders and coders have shipped updates through blackouts and from bomb shelters. “There’s no way out except to fight for the future,” one worker says.
Read MoreStartups rush to gain a foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting.
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Read MoreComputer vision software scoured satellite photos to spot the balloon at six locations around the nation—and is now helping trace it back to its origin.
Read MoreIt’s the most basic of functions for a camera, that when you point it at a scene, it produces a photograph of what it sees. [Jasper van Loenen] has created a camera that does just that, but not perhaps in the we might expect. Instead of committing pixels to memory it takes a picture, uses
Read MoreGood afternoon, readers, and welcome to This Week in Space: Your weekly roundup of news from here to the big empty. This week, a lot is going on with SpaceX and the International Space Station. Today we’ll hear those updates, plus a colossal solar flare, ‘beneficiated regolith,’ and a black hole that decided three’s a
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Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: A major outage has taken down Dish Network’s websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems — Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that’s taken down the company’s main websites, apps …
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI; Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs — – Companies like Microsoft and Google are fighting to integrate cutting-edge AI into their search engines, as billion-dollar competitors …
Read MoreBefore video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball machine designers could never dream of. [Eli] had one of these mechanical machines from 1974 as a kid and, later, encountered a more modern machine with
Read MorePolitico: Crypto analytics firm Inca Digital: Huobi and KuCoin still allow traders to transact with debit cards issued by sanctioned Russian banks on their P2P platforms — Two of the world’s largest crypto exchanges failed to take steps to prevent sanctioned Russian banks from using their platforms …
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