When [bdk6] tried painting aluminum for electronic projects, he found it didn’t tend to stay painted. It would easily scratch off or, eventually, even flake off. The problem is the paint doesn’t want to adhere to the aluminum oxide coating around the metal. Research ensued, and he found an article in an old ham radio
Read MoreWABetaInfo: WhatsApp releases a beta version of its native macOS app, built using Mac Catalyst, to all users via its website, following a limited TestFlight app beta — After releasing a very limited early-beta program of WhatsApp beta for macOS for a small number of people on TestFlight …
Read MoreJacob Buster and Emma Tremblay in Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out. | Image: Sundance Institute It’s pretty easy to look at a film title like Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out — which, from now on, I’m just calling Aliens Abducted My Parents —
Read MoreJ.D. Capelouto / Semafor: Live Nation President Joe Berchtold to Congress: during Taylor Swift’s tour presale, Ticketmaster saw triple the bot traffic, which then impacted Verified Fan — The president of Ticketmaster’s parent company explained to a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday why its site melted down in November during …
Read MoreThe iPad Pro has a wide range of accessories, including the pricey Magic Keyboard shown here. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge B&H Photo has a great deal on the 11-inch iPad Pro that has the new M2 processor. The 128GB Wi-Fi version of the tablet in space gray costs $729 (originally $799),
Read MoreA clever smart lantern that adds an ambient glow wherever you put it.
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity crisis response startup CYGNVS, which offers a guided virtual platform to prepare, plan, and practice, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z — Cybersecurity crisis response startup CYGNVS Inc. is exiting stealth mode today with $55 million in early-stage funding and a mission …
Read MoreThe battery pack for the upcoming Reality Pro headset is as big as two iPhone 14 Pro Maxes, a new report claims. And it still won’t last as long as a movie.
Read MoreStephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All At Once. | Image: A24 Just a few weeks after the Golden Globes wrapped up, here we are talking about awards again thanks to the nominations for the 2023 Oscars. As expected, Everything Everywhere All At Once got a lot of love, nominated for best picture as well as
Read MoreApple reportedly wants around 25% of its iPhones to be made in India, a move that will help reduce its reliance on Chinese manufacturing.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When Google announced its new Pixel 7 and 7 Pro smartphones, it promoted a feature called Clear Calling that would improve audio on hard-to-hear phone calls. The feature wasn’t ready when the phones went on sale, but in December 2022, Google made it available for its two latest
Read MoreIf decades of cheesy sci-fi and pop culture have taught us anything, it’s that radiation is a universally bad thing that invariably causes the genetic mutations that gifted us with everything from Godzilla to Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish. There’s a kernel of truth there, of course. One only needs to look at pictures of what
Read More(Image: CHUTTERSNAP/Unsplash)California seems to be taking its role at the forefront of US electric vehicle adoption seriously. According to a new report, zero-emission vehicles made up nearly 19 percent of new car sales that occurred within California in 2022. Each quarter, the California Energy Commission (CEC) calculates how many zero-emission vehicles have been sold in
Read MoreIsaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: Google plans to end a pilot program to let political campaigns evade its email spam filters and says in a filing the RNC did not join the pilot before midterms — The technology giant introduced the exemption after the GOP blamed Gmail spam filters for the party’s poor fundraising performance
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A rumor suggests that all models of the Galaxy S23 will have a brightness of 1750 nits. This would be a bump up for the base model. If you liked the Samsung Galaxy S22, but thought the screen could be brighter, you may get your wish in the next
Read MoreAn unknown AirTag was discovered under the hood of an NYPD car and nobody knows why it was there.
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Taiwan’s Foxconn and Apple suppliers Pegatron, Quanta, and Compal plan to grow their manufacturing presence in Mexico in 2023 to diversify from China — Supply chain shifts westward thanks to U.S. policy and client requests — TAIPEI — Taiwanese tech suppliers are increasing …
Read MoreReviews have gone live for Apple’s newest MacBook Pro with updated M2 silicon. As expected, the new machines are ravaging benchmarks across the board compared with their M1 predecessors. What’s even more impressive is Apple has seemingly made huge gains in efficiency as well. Our colleagues at PCMag took the 16-inch Pro with the M1
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google’s phones have long stood out thanks to their unique camera experiences and impressive image quality. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 range upped the ante in this regard thanks to a relatively large 50MP main camera, impressive periscope lens on the Pro models, and a host of neat
Read MoreJacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: QuickNode, which offers blockchain deployment tools used by Twitter, OpenSea, Coinbase, Adobe, and others, raised a $60M Series B at an $800M valuation — QuickNode, a blockchain deployment platform, has raised $60 million in a Series B round for an $800 million valuation …
Read MoreBrian Tyree Henry has been awarded a surprise nomination for best-supporting actor for his role in Causeway alongside Jennifer Lawrence on Apple TV Plus.
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: LastPass parent GoTo confirms hackers stole encrypted backups, an encryption key for some data, billing info, and more, in a breach first disclosed last year — GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole …
Read MoreIn a surprising about-face, AMD will be offering its upcoming X3D Ryzen CPUs “unlocked” to allow for overclocking. This is a complete and welcome reversal from the situation with its previous X3D CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. That chip didn’t allow for any overclocking whatsoever. Zen 4 with V-Cache will be the first AMD CPUs
Read MoreThe flat monthly $5 fee for RxPass doesn’t increase even if users need multiple prescription medications each month. | Image: Amazon Amazon is launching RxPass in the US, a new drug subscription exclusive to Prime members that charges users a $5 monthly fee to ship eligible prescription medications to their doorstep. Announced on Tuesday in
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority You’d be forgiven for thinking that smartphones look the same these days. After all, so many devices use a combo of glass or plastic backs, feature punch-hole cutouts, and offer triple or quad rear camera setups. Nevertheless, one thing smartphone brands can’t seem to agree on is the placement
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