John Deere has stood at the center of the right to repair debate for years. | Image: Getty Images John Deere has finally committed to giving farmers the tools they need to fix their own equipment. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the agricultural lobbying group, American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), on Sunday,
Read MoreImage: MSI The future of popular overclocking utility MSI Afterburner has been called into doubt after developer Unwinder claimed MSI has “semi abandoned” the project and has “stopped performing [its] obligations.” Unwinder, who TechPowerUp reports is Russian national Alexey Nicolaychuk, suggests that MSI hasn’t been paying him for the better part of a year and
Read MoreNew laws have also been introduced to make it easier to install gigabit internet into existing flats and apartments across the UK. | Image: The Verge My years-long battle to get gigabit internet installed may soon be over, thanks to new rules introduced by the UK government that make it easier to install faster broadband
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As Twitter slashes staff and pares back moderation under Elon Musk, it may soon run into a problem it can’t ignore: its potential liability for copyright infringement. TorrentFreak reported last week that the company faces a lawsuit by celebrity photo agency Backgrid. Backgrid says that Twitter systematically failed
Read MoreUSB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, bullying companies into making their devices work with widely available chargers. As a hobbyist, you no longer need to push 3 A through tiny MicroUSB connectors and
Read MoreWe are in an advanced age where new technologies and tools are developed daily and new versions of existing ones are released. IT professionals must constantly update their skills in accordance with the current technology in the market. This is the new normal; knowing the new technological trends every day and adapting them to make
Read MoreBrian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Up until late December 2022 hackers were using a flaw on Experian’s site to get people’s entire credit reports using only their name, SSN, address, and birthday — Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit
Read MoreApple’s focus on its upcoming AR/VR headset has reportedly caused iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS 14 features to be canned.
Read MoreApple’s 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro refreshes aren’t expected to be big this year based on a new report.
Read MoreMany gearheads dream of owning a supercar, but their exorbitant prices make them unattainable for all but the most affluent. [Andrzej Burek] decided to make his dreams come true by building his own supercar with a human-powered twist. [YouTube] At first glance, [Burek]’s SLS AMG looks like the real thing. Pop the hood, and you’ll
Read MoreColorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell. (Image: NIAID/Wikimedia Commons)A new implant could become a key tool in the fight against various forms of cancer. Researchers in California have developed a tiny device designed to be placed directly next to a tumor within the body. Once implanted, the device helps to shrink the existing
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung confirmed a launch event for a Galaxy A-series phone on its website in India. The details on the website suggest it’s the Galaxy A54. The launch event is scheduled for January 18th. It was just last week, during CES, when Samsung launched Galaxy A14. Now Samsung is preparing
Read MoreIt’s technically old news, but the ninth-gen iPad might still be a great fit for you. | Image: Apple The latest products might be worth the price hike if you get cooler features and drastically better performance than what the last-gen version offered. In the case of Apple’s spruced-up starter iPad released in October 2022,
Read MoreApple is expected to keep things quiet when it comes to 2023 releases, except for one new major product line, Apple Reality.
Read MoreLike many of you, I’ve become the designated “fix-it” person for my family and friends. While it can be a lot of work — I just finished an oil change that required me to lay in a cold, wet driveway and I can’t mention in polite company the substances I was bathed in while fixing
Read MoreJesse Pound / CNBC: Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire insurance tech company Duck Creek Technologies for $2.6B in cash, or $19 per share; Duck Creek stock jumps 45%+ — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Insurance tech company Duck Creek Technologies has reached a takeover deal …
Read MoreThough Apple has made rapid progress in outfitting most of its Mac lineup with its own silicon, several models are still using Intel processors. The most notable is the Mac Pro, which sits atop Apple’s lineup in cost and performance. The new Mac Pro with Apple silicon should have already been released by now, but
Read MoreNate Raymond / Reuters: SCOTUS lets Meta’s WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug to install spyware, allowing surveillance on 1,400 people — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc’s (META.O) WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting …
Read MorePhoto by Roberto Baldwin for The Verge BMW issued a recall notice for over 14,000 electric vehicles for a software malfunction that could lead to a loss of power and an increased risk of a crash. The automaker said that the recall covers certain iX SUVs and i4 and i7 sedans produced between October 14th,
Read MoreDominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Crunchbase: Black US founders raised around 1%, or an estimated $2.254B, of the total US venture capital raised in 2022, down from the record 1.3% in 2021 — Some. Good. News. — The latest Crunchbase data shows that Black startup founders in the United States raised around $264 million …
Read MoreFinancial Times: The UK will pay £24M to settle with French IT group Atos, which challenged awarding an £850M supercomputer contract to Microsoft to forecast weather and more — French group claimed its bid was unfairly rejected — The UK government was forced to pay out £24mn to Atos …
Read MoreThe Dynamic Island is reportedly coming to all iPhone 15 models, not just those with the Pro moniker.
Read MoreEric Wallerstein / Wall Street Journal: FTX’s bankruptcy executives are seeking to recoup Sam Bankman-Fried’s and FTX’s charitable donations; FTX’s Future Fund pledged $160M+ to over 110 nonprofits — Nonprofits struggle to decide how to handle money received from bankrupt crypto exchange — Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX doled out millions in charitable donations.
Read More(Image: Google)Android Auto and Apple CarPlay have changed the way people experience their vehicles’ infotainment systems. Since they were introduced in the mid-2010s, both have allowed drivers to cast their smartphones’ navigation apps, weather widgets, music interfaces, and (controversially) even text messages to their cars’ touch screens. But unlike Apple CarPlay, which tends to get
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Exploring the impact of the emerging AI epoch, led by DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT, on Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable Diffusion …
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