The Rise of the Tech Bro Supervillain
For decades movie bad guys were easily identified by their mustaches or mwa-ha-has. These days, evil wears a hoodie.
Read MoreFor decades movie bad guys were easily identified by their mustaches or mwa-ha-has. These days, evil wears a hoodie.
Read MoreYounger users are sidestepping Google in favor of the social app’s search engine, so I tried it too. You will absolutely believe what happened next.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever played around with macro photography, you’ve likely noticed that the higher the lens magnification, the less the depth of field. One way around this issue is to take several slices at different focus points, and then stitch the photos together digitally. As [Curious Scientist] demonstrates, this is a relatively simple motion control
Read MoreEmployees are ready to change their jobs, with nearly half of American workers planning to look for a new job in the coming six months. According to a new Robert Half report, which surveyed 2,500 professionals, around 46% of them said they plan on making a career or job change in the first half of the year. Job-hopping has
Read MoreThis image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light years away. The cold, wispy cloud material (blue, center) is illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper left).
Read MoreMiles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: A look at Google’s evolving legal strategy to combat the DOJ’s antitrust claims; sources say Google believed an ad unit spinoff could help end multiple cases — The latest U.S. lawsuit against Google compounds the legal issues the company faces worldwide while broadening the scope …
Read MoreOnePlus has teased the arrival of a tablet alongside the OnePlus 11. This could be the company’s long-anticipated OnePlus Pad. Renders have also leaked, showing relatively thick bezels and a circular camera housing. Update: January 26, 2023 (7:27 AM ET): Well, we didn’t have to wait too long for a proper look at the OnePlus
Read MoreCharlie Warzel / The Atlantic: Facebook and Donald Trump have experienced a mutual decay since his ban, both losing their shine, meaning his reinstatement may not be as impactful as feared — This afternoon, Meta announced that it will soon reinstate Donald Trump’s account after a two-year suspension from Facebook and Instagram.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever struggled to keep your top-shelf PC hardware cool, a content creator in China has found one simple trick: Just take your PC into the middle of a record-breaking winter freeze. The city of Mohe in Northern China hit -53C this week. This led a local gamer to wonder how her PC would
Read MoreChris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Q&A with DoNotPay’s Joshua Browder on pivoting from legal issues to refocus on consumer support after getting “distracted”, ChatGPT, future plans, and more — When British-American entrepreneur Joshua Browder first launched his legal services chatbot DoNotPay in 2015 …
Read MoreOnePlus has teased the arrival of a tablet alongside the OnePlus 11. This could be the company’s long-anticipated OnePlus Pad. The OnePlus 11 is launching globally on February 7, and the company is holding its own launch event for India. The brand has since confirmed a host of products that will join the party. Now,
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: Welcome to the Jungle, which helps recruitment through feature-rich profiles, a job board, and more, raised a €50M Series C, bringing its total funding to €79M — French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $54 million (€50 million) Series C round.
Read MoreHi there! Our country’s rolling blackouts somehow skipped us for the most part, until last week. Ah, it was good to have a reliable electricity supply while it lasted. Anyway, we’re covering Android’s big changes in India, cartoons as 80s sitcoms, and more. Google announces Android changes for India
Read MoreFor the overwhelming majority of bicycles out there that feature multiple gears, switching between these is done purely mechanically, with a cable. Generally this uses a derailleur, which forms part of the gear switching and chain tensioning mechanism. As a mechanical system, it’s reliable when well maintained, but tuning it can be a real hassle.
Read MoreCredit: Walmart TCL and Metro have launched the Ion X smartphone. The phone brings a removable battery, microSD support, and a 3.5mm port. You’re otherwise looking at a very unremarkable handset in other areas. Phones with removable batteries are a rarity these days, as even the vast majority of low-end devices offer fixed batteries. Fortunately,
Read MoreMatthew Ball / MatthewBall.vc: A brief history of VR/AR/MR devices and why hardware challenges have limited mainstream adoption, which could likely slow the metaverse’s emergence and growth — Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR) …
Read MoreAggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: German software maker SAP plans to cut ~3,000 jobs in 2023, or 2.5% of its staff, and explore selling its remaining Qualtrics stake; SAP stock is down 12% YTD — SAP SE is planning to cut about 3,000 jobs this year while exploring a sale of its remaining stake in Qualtrics
Read MoreIDC: Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% YoY to 300.3M in Q4 2022, the largest ever drop in a quarter; Apple dropped 14.9%, Samsung 15.6%, and Xiaomi 26.3% — Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Smartphone shipments have dropped nearly 20 percent year-over-year during the recent holiday period, as consumer demand softens amid inflation and economic uncertainties. It’s the “largest-ever decline in a single quarter,” according to IDC, and it contributed to 2022 having the lowest annual shipment of smartphones since 2013.
Read MoreFar more than a trendy buzzword in the business world today, data science is redefining how companies interact with their customers. No matter the sector or industry—retail, insurance, manufacturing, banking, travel—every large enterprise has its own way of dealing with data science. They have to. Data is everywhere. It’s the new gold, and mining that
Read MoreArtificial neural networks are a form of deep learning and one of the pillars of modern-day AI. The best way to really get a grip on how these things work is to build one. This article will be a hands-on introduction to building and training a neural network in Java. See my previous article, Styles of machine
Read MoreWall Street Journal: New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on the alleged use of facial recognition to deny access to ticket holders — Probe related to company’s alleged use of the technology to bar certain ticket holders from its venues
Read MoreKathryn Tewson / Techdirt: Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more — Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. — I’ve been going pretty hard on DoNotPay …
Read MoreThe most common suspension systems on automobiles rely on simple metal springs. Leaf spring and coil spring designs both have their pros and cons, but fundamentally it’s all about flexing metal doing the work. Air suspension works altogether differently, employing gas as a spring, as demonstrated by this simple Lego build from [JBRIX]. The suspension
Read MoreConnie Guglielmo / CNET: CNET’s EIC reflects on the outlet’s AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We’re going to help shape that change.
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