The Bowers and Wilkins PI7 S2. | Image: Bowers and Wilkins Two years after releasing its first pair of true wireless earbuds, Bowers and Wilkins is here with two updated models. The $399 (£349 / €399) PI7 S2 are the higher end of the two, with dual drivers, more microphones, and the ability to use
Read MoreSimon Sharwood / The Register: India’s education minister demos BharOS, a homegrown mobile OS claimed to ship with no preloaded apps, share no user data, and incapable of running malware — BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware. Right — A mere week after an Indian …
Read MoreGood morning, Daily Authority readers. Tomorrow is my birthday, and I’m thinking of gifting myself a new laptop. My eyes are on the new MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro processor since I’ve been a macOS user for a while now. Here’s hoping I can convince myself to spend a bomb on the thing. Are
Read MoreAs Stadia players mourn the loss of their cloud gaming platform, alternative services are offering free trials to tempt new users. | Image: The Verge Free trials are being issued for alternative cloud gaming services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Amazon Luna following the shutdown of Google Stadia on January 18th. As reported by 9to5Google,
Read MoreFor most of us, an 8-bit microcomputer means one of the home computers which set so many of us on our way back in the 1980s. But this ignores an entire generation of 1970s 8-bit machines which filled the market for affordable office and industrial desktop computing before we were seduced by Pac-Man or Frogger.
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Read MoreIsabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: More than half of Whirlpool’s and less than half of LG’s smart appliances remain connected to the internet, via which they sell parts and subscription services — The appliance makers continue to invest in efforts to drum up revenue through internet-connected devices, but many customers aren’t logging on
Read MorePatrick McGee / Financial Times: Sources: Apple is quietly enhancing maps, search, and online advertising on iOS to further separate its services from those offered on rival Android — iPhone-maker enhances maps, search and online advertising on iOS to challenge rival Android system — Apple is taking steps to separate …
Read MoreCredit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer A new report has revealed how Google will handle Flip to Shhh on the Pixel Fold. The feature will require users to fold the device and place it face-down. Smartphones have offered a flip to silence feature for years now, allowing you to place your device screen-down to silence
Read MoreThe Verge Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 services are currently down for thousands of users worldwide due to a networking issue. The software maker says it has “identified a potential networking issue” and is troubleshooting a fix to bring services back online. Thousands of users reported issues early this morning at around 2:30AM
Read MoreIn a recent episode of [The Retro Shack], a new Commodore VIC-20 is built, using a ‘Vicky Twenty’ replacement PCB by [Bob’s Bits] as the base and as many new components as could be could found. The occasion for this was that a viewer had sent in a VIC-20 that turned out to be broken,
Read MorePicking the best resin (SLA) printer is not an easy task. Every large and small 3D printer manufacturer offers a range of models covering many features that are backed by an equally extensive range of customer support. Although review sites and user feedback on forums can help with making a decision, especially for beginners it
Read MoreDarrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Lyft starts charging wait-time fees to customers after two minutes, except for Shared, Access, Assisted, and Car Seat rides; Uber has had such fees since 2016 — Lyft has introduced wait-time fees — in other words, charges incurred if a Lyft driver has to wait for you upon pickup.
Read MoreWesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: Apple releases iOS 12.5.7 and macOS 11.7.3 to patch security issues on older devices including the iPhone 5S and the 2013 MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and MacBook Pro — Apple has provided iOS 12.5.7, macOS 11.7.3, and other updates for older devices that can’t be updated to the latest releases.
Read MoreWill Knight / Wired: The Brookings Institution: from 2008 to 2021, Chinese companies accounted for 201 facial recognition tech export deals, followed by US companies with 128 deals — Experts fear sales of the technology also export authoritarian ideas about biometric surveillance. The second largest exporter is the US.
Read MoreThe Gigafactory. | Image: Tesla Tesla is investing more than $3.6 billion into its Reno, Nevada Gigafactory, and with part of the cash, it plans to build its “first high-volume Semi factory,” according to a blog post published Tuesday. The company officially delivered the first of its long-delayed electric Semi trucks to PepsiCo in December,
Read MoreApple is reportedly readying the re-release of its revamped architecture for the Home app.
Read MoreJustin Roiland at New York Comic Con in 2013. | Photo by Getty Though Adult Swim initially had little to say about recent news reports that Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland is facing two felony charges for domestic battery and false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, or deceit, the channel now says it has
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: The US DOJ’s case against Google could succeed due to being rooted in real harms and a prime example of market consolidation resulting in overcharged customers — The US government is coming after the company’s ad business — and it might win — Today let’s talk about a major new antitrust
Read MoreThe Lightyear 0 at its unveiling last year. | Image: Lightyear Plus more details about Apple’s long-rumored VR / AR headset. Continue reading…
Read MorePrem Thakker / New Republic: Twitter reinstates Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who tried skirting his ban, called Hitler “really fucking cool”, and is banned elsewhere — Nazi, white nationalist, and Taliban fan Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter. — Fuentes was originally banned from Twitter …
Read MoreApple is reportedly readying the re-release of its revamped architecture for the Home app.
Read MoreMike Oitzman / The Robot Report: Autonomous construction equipment maker Built Robotics acquihires Y Combinator-backed Roin Technologies, which designs and builds concrete finishing robots — San Francisco-based Built Robotics has acquired Roin Technologies. Roin is a three-year-old engineering company that has designed …
Read MoreWhile passing objects as arguments is a standard and familiar way to invoke methods, providing methods as arguments to other methods is less so. Nonetheless, we often must pass a method as a parameter to another method when working with event handling in C#. We do this using delegates. I provided an overview of delegates
Read MoreA previous-generation 14-inch MacBook Pro with a potentially faster SSD than the the latest models. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The base level 14-inch M2 MacBook Pro reportedly has a slower SSD than its predecessor, according to tests done by 9to5Mac. In BlackMagic’s Disk Speed Test, the 512GB SSD in Apple’s
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