Mac mini (M2, M2 Pro, 2023) review: a miniature marvel
2023’s Mac mini silicon changes makes the tiny desktop computer a genuine option for professionals.
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Read MoreThe Verge: Apple HomePod (second-gen) review: great sound quality, useful sensors, speedy Siri, and deep Apple integration, but pricey and best experience needs two units — Apple’s second take on the HomePod doesn’t stray far from the original, but it’s better all around.
Read More(Credit: Naeblys/Getty Images) (Credit: Naeblys/Getty Images) Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of moving objects on the macroscale. It’s counter-intuitive; like laser cooling, the system does the opposite of what you might expect when you point a laser at it. Instead of pushing, the laser pulls. In the latest issue
Read MoreOpen-source based data governance and security SaaS provider Privacera on Tuesday said that it was integrating with Dremio’s open lakehouse to aid enterprise customers with data governance and data security. A data lakehouse is a data architecture that offers both storage and analytics capabilities, in contrast to data lakes, which store data in native format,
Read MoreSamsung is taking its turn in the spotlight as live events return. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a weird time for in-person tech events. On one hand, companies are just champing at the bit to host them after a few years of lockdown livestreams. Samsung is the latest of them, after
Read MoreWall Street Journal: After the market crashed, Madonna, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and other celebrities have been embroiled in legal difficulties over promoting crypto projects — Prominent endorsers named as defendants in class-action lawsuits, while agents warn clients away from future deals
Read MoreImage: WinFuture At this year’s Samsung’s new Unpacked event, the company is expected to introduce three new Galaxy S23 phones along with (rumor has it) up to five brand-new Galaxy Book laptops — and it is going to announce them at the first in-person Unpacked event since February 2020. So you can look forward to
Read MoreAs many people have pointed out, what matters with USB-C isn’t just the standard, it’s the implementations. After all, it’s the implementations that we actually have to deal with, and it’s where most of the problems with USB-C arise. There is some fault to the standard, like lack of cable markings from the get-go, but
Read MoreSmartphones are amazing tools, but sometimes they can be an equally amazing time suck. In an effort to minimize how much precious time goes down the drain, [Lance Pan and Zeynep Kirmiziyesil] decided to make a functional and beautiful smartphone sleeve to keep you on task. Most modern smartphones have some form of Do Not
Read MoreSharon Goldman / VentureBeat: A roundup of potential rivals to OpenAI’s ChatGPT service: DeepMind’s Sparrow, Google’s LaMDA, Anthropic’s Claude, and Character AI — Today, ChatGPT is two months old. — Yes, believe it or not, it was less than nine weeks ago that OpenAI launched what it simply described as an …
Read MoreYes, they’re problematic. They can also reflect an alternate reality that feels eerily close to the truth.
Read MoreApple’s second take on the HomePod doesn’t stray far from the original, but it’s better all around. Continue reading…
Read MoreSchlage’s new smart lever lock is designed to secure interior and other single-hole doors. | Image: Schlage Schlage has a new smart lock, but it’s not for your front door. The $309.99 Schlage Encode Smart WiFi Lever lock is coming this spring and is designed for doors with a single hole and no deadbolt. These
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes sustainable, modular consumer electronics, raised €49M in “growth capital”, bringing its total funding to ~€86.6M — Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes modular and — the claim is — more sustainable …
Read MoreParmy Olson / Bloomberg: EU Commission changes, triggered by human rights group ICCL, mean regulators in Ireland and elsewhere will report six times a year on GDPR, violations, and more — It’s well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of
Read MoreOld rivals Red Hat and Oracle have teamed up for RHEL-based virtual machines running in Oracle’s OCI service.
Read MoreSure, every influencer owns these buds. They’re still pretty great.
Read MoreA few weeks ago at CES, we were surprised by the paucity of PCIe 5.0 drives at the show. The technology has been talked about for at least a year, it’s now supported by both AMD and Intel, and we, the speed-obsessed PC-building crowd, have our wallets out. Sadly, we were left to conclude that
Read MoreHaomiao Huang / Ars Technica: A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers — A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. — Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical.
Read MoreCredit: SmartPrix/Steve Hemmerstoffer New Nothing Ear 2 renders have appeared online. The renders show a similar design to the earlier Ear 1. The earbuds are also said to come with dynamic ANC and more. The Nothing Ear 1 was the first product by the new startup, and we thought the company delivered a great pair
Read MoreClearML, an open source MLops platform announced its new research report: “MLOps in 2023: What Does the Future Hold?” This study polled 200 machine learning decision-makers in the United States, examining key trends in machine learning and MLops (machine learning operations). Putting the potential vendor self-serving bias aside for now, ClearML’s study found that MLops
Read MoreSpotify’s graph showing subscriber and user growth. | Image: Spotify Spotify’s number of premium subscribers increased to 205 million as of December 31st, the company announced in today’s earnings release, representing a 14 percent increase year-on-year. That helped increase its monthly active users (MAUs) to 489 million, a 20 percent rise. That’s above its guidance
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority. It’s the last day of the month and though January hasn’t been a bad one, today we’ve got not one but two top stories for you, including some Facebook controversy. Facebook’s battery controversy
Read MoreAnna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to €3.2B and a €270M loss, up from €39M YoY, as operating costs rose 44% YoY; paying subscribers were up 10M to 205M — Music streaming group adds subscribers but is hit by rise in operating expenses — Spotify’s losses ballooned …
Read MoreMichael King / Search Engine Land: An in-depth analysis of Yandex’s leaked source code shows 17,854 ranking factors, scraping Google, Bing, YouTube, and TikTok, “Vital Hosts” boosts, and more — Yandex isn’t Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.
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