I’m sure we can all agree that the worst time to find out a magnet is the wrong way around is after glue has been applied. With that in mind, [erick.siders] created the parametric Magnet Placer tool. Color-coded tools, one for each polarity. Picking up and placing magnets into assemblies can be an error-prone process, because
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 227th edition is here with a confirmed Galaxy Unpacked date, Galaxy S23 teaser videos, eSIM transfer profiles for Pixels, Ubisoft delays, AI interns, and much, much more. My week has been spent terrifying
Read MoreAdam Popescu / MIT Technology Review: A look at Congo’s Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay salaries and build infrastructure projects — In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin
Read MoreJavaScript, Java, and Python skills are most in-demand by recruiters, according to a report published this week by tech hiring platforms CodinGame and CoderPad. But while the supply of those skills exceeds demand, the demand for TypeScript, Swift, Scala, Kotlin, and Go skills all exceed supply. The State of Tech Hiring in 2023, a CodinGame-CoderPad
Read MoreAn unavoidable aspect of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels is that they become less efficient when they warm up. As [Tech Ingredients] explains in a new video, the reason for this is that the input of thermal energy makes it harder for electrons to be dislodged from the band gap by photons, which is the essential
Read MoreNitish Pahwa / Slate: How All-In, a podcast moderated by Jason Calacanis and his billionaire pals that often tops tech-podcast charts, gives an insight into Twitter under Elon Musk — On Nov. 7, about a week after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the staff, a company vice president offered a group
Read MoreAs [Phil Greenland] explains in the first part of his excellent write-up, the lithium battery used to keep the real-time clock (RTC) going on the Macintosh SE/30 has a nasty habit of exploding and leaking its corrosive innards all over the board. Looking to both repair the damage on a system that’s already had a
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Emails show Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending up to $250K; all ads must run by February 28, a period that includes the Super Bowl — Tech company to match advertisers’ ad spending up to $250,000 — Twitter Inc. is offering advertisers a new incentive in an attempt
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Hackers are exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting — A patch was released in October, but not all servers have installed it. — Malicious hackers have begun exploiting …
Read MoreMack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Three ex-employees say SoundHound laid off ~200 people, or ~50% of staff, with two weeks of severance that will only be paid if the company can raise more money — The massive restructuring comes just one year after the company went public via SPAC and two months after a separate layoff
Read MorePaul Roberts / The Seattle Times: Meta and Microsoft are vacating some of their Washington office buildings in Seattle and Bellevue, respectively, amid job cuts and popularity of remote work — In the latest sign of change in the tech sector — and softness in the office market here — Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft
Read MorePeter Blumberg / Bloomberg: A San Francisco federal judge rules that the laid-off Twitter workers must pursue severance claims in individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit — Twitter Inc. won a ruling forcing a group of laid-off workers fighting the company over their severance packages to pursue …
Read MoreDerek B. Johnson / SC Media: CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee’s laptop and stole 2FA-backed credentials to breach the company’s systems and data in December 2022 — CircleCI’s chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer’s laptops and stole elevated account privileges …
Read MoreThe service is… spoty. | Nick Barclay / The Verge It’s Friday night in the US, and the music is not playing on Spotify for many people. Users report streams suddenly stopped, and for people who’ve logged out, some say they can’t log in again. The outage has garnered over 30,000 reports on DownDetector.com, starting
Read MoreHarmful Algal Blooms (HABs) can have negative consequences for both marine life and human health, so it can be helpful to have early warning of when they’re on the way. Algal blooms deep below the surface can be especially difficult to detect, which is why [kutluhan_aktar] built an AI-assisted algal bloom detector. After taking images
Read MoreA crew works to replace older EVgo fast charging stations through its new ReNew program. | Image: EVgo When electric vehicle owners take longer trips, they often rely on nationwide fast charging providers like EVgo, Electrify America, and ChargePoint to reach their destinations. So it can be more than a minor inconvenience for EV drivers
Read MoreIsabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Google Cloud introduces an AI tool designed to help retailers keep track of their inventory by analyzing imagery from retailers’ ceiling cameras, robots, more — An image database of more than a billion products helps power the tool — Google Cloud said it has developed …
Read MoreNeither of these AE86s take gas. | Image: Toyota The “E” in the name of Toyota’s legendary AE86 was there to designate it as a Corolla, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it stood for “electric” instead? Apparently someone at the company thought so; Toyota is showing off a concept version of what the 80s
Read MoreHaving a child is a major milestone in a person’s life, and there’s a long list of things to get done before that little bundle of joy kicks and screams its way into the world. What better way to make sure you’ve still got time to paint the nursery and assemble the crib than to
Read MoreIf anyone knows the secret to a successful budget phone, it’s Motorola. The Chicago-based giant has lasted longer in the affordable Android segment than just about anyone else, refining its craft over countless generations of Moto G devices. However, the landscape of cheap smartphones isn’t the same as it once was. Premium specs are working
Read MoreA promo still for Netflix’s Agent From Above. | Image: Netflix The upcoming Netflix show Agent From Above tried to film its star up close with a drone — and Taiwanese actor Kai Ko got stitches, and possibly worse, when things went wrong (via DroneDJ). We don’t have many confirmed details on what happened during
Read MoreIf you have an RTL-SDR compatible radio there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard of the rtl_433 project, which lets you receive and decode signals from an ever-expanding list of supported devices in the ISM radio bands. It’s an incredibly useful piece of software, but the fact that it requires an external software defined radio and
Read MoreImage: Google Google is launching its final Stadia game today and is promising to release a tool next week to enable Bluetooth connections on its Stadia Controller. The last Stadia game to launch on the service is Worm Game, a test game that was technically available on Stadia before Stadia launched publicly in November 2019.
Read MoreStrava, an official price chart would be nice. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge No one likes price hikes, but Strava’s messy rollout has left many customers wondering what’s happening to their subscription. Here’s what’s actually happening: the company is raising prices for the first time in more than a decade, and
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is testing free ad-supported TV channels that show content from certain media companies, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The concept is similar to services like Pluto TV, Roku’s Live TV channels, or the experiences built into TVs from companies like Samsung, LG, and
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