ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
ADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.
Read MoreADS-B Exchange, beloved for resisting censorship, was sold to a company owned by private equity—and now even its biggest fans are bailing.
Read MoreWorkers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped.
Read MoreThe power to fight human diseases put genome editing on the map. But similar technology could help crops withstand the stress of climate change.
Read MoreIt’s official: the best way to improve both your life and your community is to get everyone to cycle to school together.
Read MoreWhen tracing the history of first-person shooting (FPS) games, where do you credit with the genesis of the genre? Anyone who played 3D Monster Maze on the Sinclair ZX81 might dare to raise a hand, but we’re guessing that most of you will return to the early 1990s, and id Software. Their 1992 title Wolfenstein
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Nothing Phone 1 was one of the most unique smartphones we saw in 2022. OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei started Nothing with the goal of breathing some new life into the stagnant mobile market. Now that the company has declared its intentions with the Phone 1, what can we
Read MoreYou may have heard that highly productive people wake up at 4 am, run 10 miles, and attain enlightenment before sunrise. But that’s not always true. Rather, they come in many varieties ranging from late risers, early risers, singles, couples, and family members. So what are the most common traits of highly productive people? They are constantly
Read MoreThe Perseverance rover has spent almost two Earth years on Mars, which is just a single Martian year. With a full seasonal cycle in the books, researchers from the University of the Basque Country in Madrid have released the first detailed weather report from Perseverance. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, explores how temperature, wind
Read MoreA recent study by Gartner predicts that by 2025 more than 95% of application workloads will exist on cloud-native platforms (up from 30% in 2021). I tend not to believe these kinds of predictions because adoption is never linear. We run out of applications that are easy to convert to new development approaches (in this case, cloud
Read MoreOutside of providing more transparency for its customers, Google is still under pressure to fully comply with the EU’s geo-blocking regulations. | Illustration: The Verge Many of Google’s offerings will soon be updated to provide clear and accurate information in compliance with consumer protection laws in the EU. Announced by the European Commission on Thursday,
Read MoreJames Shotter / Financial Times: Over 100 Israeli tech groups let staff join a “warning strike” over controversial government plans to curb judiciary powers, the latest warnings by businesses — Executives say new government’s move to curb judicial powers will scare away vital investment to the self-styled Startup Nation
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: The EU Commission says Google has agreed to update its Store, Play Store, Hotels, and Flights to provide clear and accurate information and comply with EU laws — Many of Google’s offerings will soon be updated to provide clear and accurate information in compliance with consumer protection laws in the
Read MoreA series of leaks about iOS 17, the iPhone 15, and even Apple VR have taken the internet by storm, all because of one questionable leaker.
Read MoreHappy Friday everyone! There’s a cold wave in Europe right now, which means temperatures have dropped all the way to the low teens Celsius (or the 50s in Fahrenheit) here in Sunny Malaga. That’s nothing compared to most places in the world, but you better believe that I’m going to wear my heaviest coat and
Read MoreApple has stopped developing its WiFi-only chip, according to leakers, but the development of a combination chip continues.
Read MoreThe phrase “Lego Guitar” can be a stressful one to hear. You might imagine the idea of strings under tension and a subsequently exploding cloud of plastic shrapnel. This build from the [Brick Experiment Channel] eschews all that, thankfully, and is instead a digital synth that only emulates a guitar in its rough form factor.
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/Mukul Sharma A new leak points to a Coca Cola phone being in the works. A leaked image shows a cola-themed phone that looks similar to a Realme handset. Realme has since teased a soda-related announcement. Update: January 27, 2023 (1:06 AM ET): Well, we thought that a recently leaked render of a Coca-Cola
Read MoreThat’s not water you see above in those circular windows, but this bicycle garage is definitely under the water. Click here for a larger image. The four-year, $65 million project has everything — and nothing — to do with the automobile. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google’s Pixel phones generally stand out thanks to the camera experience (among other features), offering great image quality and some handy features. In saying so, we recently wrote an article calling for more camera-focused accessories for the Pixel line. We also used the article to ask whether you thought
Read MoreApple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy lineup are two of the biggest names in the smartphone industry. Apple is clearly selling more iPhones in the US, grabbing 50% of the smartphone market share in the third quarter of 2022, compared to Samsung, which sits in second place with a 24% share of the market. But quantity
Read MoreMost 3D printers come with a pretty basic filament holder — often little more than a bar to hang the spool on. [Ivan Miranda]’s 3D printers run bigger spools than most, though, so he had to craft an altogether more serious solution. Unlike most of [Ivan]’s creations, the spool holder isn’t actually 3D printed. For
Read MoreImage: Rare Goldeneye 007 and Dead Space both make a return, and Google makes some upgrades. Continue reading…
Read MoreChainalysis: A look at crypto money laundering in 2022: illicit addresses sent nearly $23.8B, up 68% YoY, four addresses got $1B+ combined, DeFi got record funds, and more — The 2023 Crypto Crime Report — Money laundering is crucial to all financially motivated crime because it’s what enables criminals …
Read MoreJagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian gig economy workers for Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, and others deal with blocked accounts for up to weeks, after speaking out on poor working conditions — Workers on platforms like Uber, Ola and Swiggy deal with blocked accounts, other backlash for speaking out over poor conditions
Read MoreIn case you thought that cameras, LiDAR, infrared sensors, and the like weren’t enough for Big Brother to track you, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to track human movements via WiFi. [PDF via VPNoverview] The process uses the signals from WiFi routers for an inexpensive way to determine human poses that
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