How Supergenes Beat the Odds—and Fuel Evolution
Stretches of DNA that lock inherited traits together often accumulate harmful mutations. But they also hold genetic benefits for species.
Read MoreStretches of DNA that lock inherited traits together often accumulate harmful mutations. But they also hold genetic benefits for species.
Read MoreThis smart bird feeder takes pictures, notifies you when new visitors arrive, and even teaches you facts about your fluffy friends.
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani Will fast charging kill my phone’s battery life? That’s a question that pops up every single time a smartphone manufacturer claims to deliver some form of fast charging. Would it heat up the phone too much? What kind of measures are in place to
Read MoreThe roads and parks are calling. Our favorite cold-weather picks will have you jogging in no time.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Inside Apple’s efforts to develop new financial services, which have suffered from slow progress and missed deadlines due to engineering and technical setbacks — Apple’s slate of new financial services — including “buy now, pay later” offerings, savings accounts and an iPhone subscription program — have hit delays.
Read MoreThe RGBDeck mod just isn’t ready yet. | Image: Adam Honse / Reddit As cool as the Steam Deck looks with RGB lighting, you might not want to attempt to mod your device just yet. One Reddit user who tried the mod found that while adding the RGB LEDs doesn’t draw a significant amount of
Read MoreToday is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old stuff when he came across the game. Luckily for us, he decided to do a complete teardown and a comprehensive review more than 40 years
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority There’s really no shortage of retro games emulators to run on your Android smartphone. Some of the big-name machines you can emulate on Android include the NES, SNES, Sega Mega Drive, PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Sega Dreamcast, and more. Those are just the home consoles too, with
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Read MoreRemember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.
Read MoreSiri is a great assistant to help ease your daily life so you don’t forget to say happy Valentine’s Day.
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Read MoreSteve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks — “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
Read MoreJennifer Elias / CNBC: Google staff criticize company leadership over the Bard announcement, calling the unveil “botched”, “myopic”, and “un-Googley” on the internal forum Memegen — – Google employees took to Memegen this week, filling the message repository with criticisms …
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Creating trustworthy generative AI requires resources probably on the scale of what companies like Microsoft and Google possess, making them even more powerful — Relying on tech giants for both answers and assistance, rather than just information, could entrench them into our lives more deeply than ever
Read MoreKirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: Sources and memo: Zappos laid off over 300 employees in January, or ~20% of its workforce, including in customer service, as part of broader layoffs at Amazon — A round of layoffs marks latest major change to the tech giant’s subsidiary — Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse
Read More[Yuichiro Morimoto] wanted to create a decorative lamp, one that wasn’t burdened with batteries or wires, but used just the ambient light in the room to create a directed glow effect. Using a coloured circular acrylic sheet, with a special coating (not specified) ambient light impinging on the surface is diffused toward the edge. This
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta’s limited ad targeting options and Amazon’s ad product investments are leading brands to shift their budgets to Amazon; Amazon’s ad business grew 19% in Q4 — – Facebook’s more limited targeted capabilities coupled with Amazon’s investment in ads products is leading a growing number of brands to shift their ad
Read MoreReuters: Stock exchange data: Alibaba sold its remaining 3.16% Paytm stake for ~$167.14M, days after Paytm posted its first quarterly operating profit post IPO — China’s Alibaba Group (9988.HK) has sold its remaining stake in Indian digital payments firm Paytm (PAYT.NS) for about 13.78 billion rupees …
Read MoreAnyone who’s owned a game console from the last couple of generations will tell you that the machines are becoming increasingly like set-top computers — equipped with USB ports, Bluetooth, removable hard drives, and their own online software repositories. But while this overlap theoretically offers considerable benefits, such as the ability to use your own
Read MoreLouise Matsakis / Semafor: Sources: TikTok’s Internal Audit team that spied on journalists had wide investigative powers with little oversight; ByteDance says it’s restructuring the team — TikTok’s hyper-aggressive internal security team drew a wave of complaints from employees before its conduct exploded …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ford’s gearing up to announce a $3.5 billion battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, according to a report from Automotive News. In an advisory obtained by the outlet, the automaker says it will reveal the news of the factory on Monday in partnership with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL),
Read MoreOnline weather services are great for providing generic area forecasts, but they don’t provide hyperlocal data specific to your location. [Harald Kreuzer] needed both and built a Raspberry Pi Weather Station that provides weather forecasts for the next 7 days as well as readings from local sensors. The project is completely open source and based
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Opera says it is testing a new ChatGPT-powered “shorten” feature in its browser that provides bulleted summaries of articles or webpages in the sidebar — The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company’s broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft’s doing with Edge.
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Opera says it is testing a new ChatGPT-powered “shorten” feature in its browser that provides bulleted summaries of articles or webpages in the sidebar — The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company’s broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft’s doing with Edge.
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