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Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: powerful 200MP camera, awesome display, excellent battery life, and fast processor, but expensive and no charging speed upgrade (Mark Spoonauer/Tom’s Guide)

Mark Spoonauer / Tom’s Guide: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: powerful 200MP camera, awesome display, excellent battery life, and fast processor, but expensive and no charging speed upgrade — The Galaxy S23 Ultra packs a stunning 200MP camera along with very fast performance and much longer battery life

A company is trying to map America’s cell networks using mail trucks

Pictured: the FCC’s map of LTE coverage in the US. | Image: FCC Cell network coverage maps have always been dubiously accurate in the US, and even the ones released by the FCC in 2021 come with a ton of asterisks. A company called Ranlytics is hoping to make a much more accurate picture by

JFET Stands in For Triode in This Infinite Impedance Detector

An “Infinite Impedance Detector” might sound a little like something that [Zaphod Beeblebrox] would use to zip around the galaxy. It’s not, of course, but it is an interesting and useful demodulator for AM radio signals, as [Sebastian Westerhold] over at Baltic Labs explains in the brief but well-done video below. If you’ve ever browsed

Mercury Research: x86 CPU shipments from Intel, AMD, and others fell 34% YoY and 19% QoQ in Q4, the biggest drops in 30 years; 374M units were shipped in 2022 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag: Mercury Research: x86 CPU shipments from Intel, AMD, and others fell 34% YoY and 19% QoQ in Q4, the biggest drops in 30 years; 374M units were shipped in 2022 — Low demand and excess inventory cause a huge decline in x86 CPU shipments for Q4, according to Mercury Research.

Pi Pico Breathes New Life into Original PlayStation

Those gamers who were playing in the mid 1990s may retain a soft spot for Sony’s first PlayStation. The grey console was the thing to have a quarter century ago, but we’re guessing few who had one will have a soft spot for their CD mechanisms. These were seemingly manufactured from Sony’s finest chocolate, and

Sources: China Telecom and China Mobile withdrew their ~20% investment in an Asia-Europe subsea cable project after US firm SubCom was chosen to build the line (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: China Telecom and China Mobile withdrew their ~20% investment in an Asia-Europe subsea cable project after US firm SubCom was chosen to build the line — Telecoms groups withdrew investment in Sea-Me-We 6, which will transmit data between Asia and western Europe

An Instant Camera Using E-Paper As Film

The original Polaroid cameras were a huge hit not just for their instant delivery, but for the convenient size of the permanent images they delivered. It’s something that digital cameras haven’t been able to replicate, which drew [Cameron] to produce a modern alternative. In the place of the chemical film of the original, it uses

Source: PayPal is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase their scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and its key partner Paxos faces a probe in New York (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Source: PayPal is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase their scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and its key partner Paxos faces a probe in New York — PayPal Holdings Inc. is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and a key partner …

Google employees are apparently very unhappy with Bard and Sundar Pichai

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Reports from inside Google suggests employees are quite unhappy with the rollout of Google Bard, its ChatGPT-like AI. The employees feel like the announcement was rushed and blame Sundar Pichai. Employees are also quick to note that company-wide layoffs don’t paint a good picture of what’s happening behind

4 Best Online Flower Delivery Services (2023): Sustainable and Dried Flowers

Keep the planet—and your budget—in mind with these eco-friendly services. But if you can, shop local.

How to delete your Uber account

Uber is a reasonably reliable ride-share app that works in most regions, but it does have its downsides. For starters, the fares are vastly more expensive than public transit, especially during peak hours. Or maybe you are just tired of the awkward conversations with your driver. Whatever the reason, if you’re ready to say goodbye

The best noise-canceling headphone deals

Sony’s WH-1000XM5 noise-canceling headphones are $50 off, which is amongst the better discounts we’ve seen on them. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge With more people working from home than they used to, owning a good pair of noise-canceling headphones has become more appealing than ever. However, they can be expensive and difficult

3D Printing Support Gets Down to Tacks

If you use supports for FDM 3D printing, you might find that some designs are more amenable than others to automatically-generated supports. [Slant 3D] , for example, shows a cool-looking eagle with a downward-curved beak that comes to a point. Using traditional supports would allow the print to succeed, but didn’t allow the beak to

Reddit thinks AI chatbots will ‘complement’ human connection, not replace it

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit doesn’t seem to be too worried about the AI-powered conversational chatbots like the ones Google and Microsoft revealed this week, based on a statement the company shared with The Verge. Shifting from traditional search to ChatGPT-like bots could erase the strategy of appending “reddit” to your searches

Microsoft Is Testing Universal RGB Control in Windows 11

Since RGB software entered the PC market many moons ago, it’s been a disorganized mess. Every company that makes hardware with RGB has its own software to control it. Few of these utilities, if any, can sync with one another. So you might have Corsair RAM, an Asus GPU/motherboard, and an NZXT CPU cooler, all

Google employees are apparently very unhappy with Bard and Sundar Pichai

Technological Advances that are Driving Edge Computing Adoption

The evolution of a technology as a pervasive force is often a time-consuming process. But edge computing is different — its impact radius is increasing at an exponential rate. AI is an area where edge is playing a crucial role, and it is evident from how companies like Kneron, IBM, Synaptic, Run:ai, and others are

Oxygen OS vs One UI: A thorough comparison of the two popular Android skins

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority There are many folks out there who swear by stock Android. While we would agree that many Android skins tend to be bloated and poorly designed in comparison, some skins work so well that they transcend stock Android to become something even better. Today, we’re going to look at

Source: Microsoft shut its Industrial Metaverse Core team, formed four months ago to build tools for industrial settings, and laid off the team’s 100 employees (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Source: Microsoft shut its Industrial Metaverse Core team, formed four months ago to build tools for industrial settings, and laid off the team’s 100 employees — In a surprising reversal, Microsoft has killed a team it formed four months ago to help customers use the metaverse in industrial settings …

Yoko Taro’s new game is about Sega running the world

Image: Sega Yoko Taro, known for offbeat RPGs like Nier: Automata and Nier: Replicant, is announcing his latest out-of-the-ordinary project: 404 Game Re:set, a free-to-play mobile game set in a universe where Sega runs the world. Seriously. Here’s the overview of the game from the Google Play listing: This is the world for SEGA by

Blue Origin Gets Its First Interplanetary NASA Launch Contract

Until now, the aerospace outfit Blue Origin was little more than a plaything for Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. The company’s New Shepard rocket has launched a few space tourists, but its upcoming New Glenn vehicle will have a shot at something more important. NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract to launch a Mars mission

Uber gets a huge new iPhone feature (but you might never use it)

Uber has begun rolling out a new CarPlay app for Uber drivers.

Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say Twitter’s API paywall will jeopardize the study of influence campaigns and platform manipulation (Brian Fung/CNN)

Brian Fung / CNN: Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say Twitter’s API paywall will jeopardize the study of influence campaigns and platform manipulation — For years, Twitter, like other social media platforms, has freely given its platform data to independent researchers …

Classic PC game Myst gets a gorgeous remaster, goes free on iPhone & iPad

The hugely popular Myst is back and it’s now remastered and free to download.

Concept brings the Dynamic Island to the Mac’s dock

Someone took the iPhone’s Dynamic Island and reimagined it for the Mac as the “Dynamic Dock.”

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