Image: Getty Samsung has just released its earnings guidance for the three months ending December 31st 2022, and they don’t contain great news for the South Korean tech giant. The figures suggest Samsung may have just had its least profitable quarter in eight years, Reuters notes, as the global economic slowdown hits the company’s core
Read MoreGood news for folks who dislike the yoke-only steering wheel on the Tesla Model S and Model X — you can now configure the vehicles with a round wheel option again. | Image: tesla Tesla has re-introduced a round steering wheel option for its Model S and Model X vehicles, following two years of criticism
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Read MoreApple VR is behind schedule and may not be unveiled until an event later in the Spring or even WWDC, according to a new report.
Read MoreCloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence-based time series forecasting platform provider Myst AI. “Time series forecasting is one of the most applied data science techniques in business. Accurate forecasts can establish measurements to guide management, facilitate planning and goal setting, and help mitigate risk,” Greg Czajkowski, senior vice president of engineering and
Read MoreThis is the right way to do a dual-screen. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I will admit that I was skeptical when I first saw pictures of Lenovo’s new dual-screen Yoga Book 9i. I’ve tried foldables and dual-screens aplenty, and while many are usable, many also have serious limitations. But this is
Read MoreAs I mentioned last time, the Steampipe dashboard for Mastodon has evolved in unexpected ways. I imagined that the components — a plugin that maps Mastodon APIs to Postgres foreign tables, and a suite of views that query the APIs — would combine to enable a broad overview of activity in the fediverse. That didn’t
Read MorePython has a reputation for being one of the most convenient, richly outfitted, and downright useful programming languages. Execution speed? Not so much. Enter Cython. The Cython language is a superset of Python that compiles to C. This yields performance boosts that can range from a few percent to several orders of magnitude, depending on
Read MoreThe term artificial intelligence was first used in a 1955 proposal for a study submitted by John McCarthy of Dartmouth College, Marvin Minsky of Harvard University, Nathaniel Rochester at IBM, and Claude Shannon at Bell Telephone Laboratories. This happened before I was born. I find it kind of nuts that AI was discussed long before
Read MoreThe vaunted C++ programming language, which overtook Java last month in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, was the index’s biggest gainer in 2022, Tiobe announced this week. C++ popularity grew by 4.62 percentage points year over year, enough to earn the Tiobe Programming Language of the Year 2022 award. The Tiobe index gauges
Read MoreVarsha Bansal / Rest of World: A profile of Shaik Salauddin, an Uber driver turned union leader, who has become a quasi-celebrity in India after fighting for gig worker rights in the country — Shaik Salauddin: the Indian driver-turned-union leader who is brushing shoulders with top politicians and giving ride-hailing firms a run for their
Read MoreWhile bicycles appear to have standardized around a relatively common shape and size, parts for these bikes are another story entirely. It seems as though most reputable bike manufacturers are currently racing against each other to see who can include the most planned obsolescence and force their customers to upgrade even when their old bikes
Read MoreGood morning, dear readers. I woke up today to read what I can easily say is the millionth article with a headline that starts with “Netizens say…” Is it safe to say I don’t give a flying duck about what these so-called “Netizens” think or say? Most of it is garbage anyways. On another note,
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp has announced proxy support in the messaging app. This allows users to bypass government efforts to crack down on WhatsApp. Many governments around the world crack down on internet services, be it due to political unrest, protests in general, or for other reasons. Thankfully, WhatsApp has a solution
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has taken over a giant billboard to urge Apple to support RCS. The company called on Apple to fix pixelated photos and videos in iMessage. Google has been calling on Apple to adopt the RCS messaging protocol in iMessage for months now, as the service relies on SMS
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Stellantis announces Mobilisights, a business unit focused on selling software using connected vehicle data to enterprises, utilities, and other organizations — Stellantis is launching a new business unit dedicated to turning all that vehicle data into marketable products — and revenue.
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus A OnePlus executive has apparently said there won’t be a OnePlus 11 Pro this year. This would be the first year without a Pro model since 2018. OnePlus just launched the OnePlus 11 in China this week, with a global release scheduled for February 7. The phone lacks a Pro moniker, but does
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung is projecting its lowest quarterly profit in eight years. The slump comes from a weakened demand for chips and smartphones. Samsung blames the current global economic situation, high cost of living, and rising interest rates for the situation. Earlier today, Samsung reported that its fourth-quarter profit would slump
Read MoreOver the summer, you might recall seeing a homebrew 6502 game console called the GameTank grace these pages. The product of [Clyde Shaffer], the system was impressively complete, very well documented, and even had a budding library of games. Recently, [Clyde] took to the r/electronics subreddit to show off the latest improvement to the GameTank:
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Snap is shutting down its Camera app for Mac and PC on January 25; launched in 2018, the app let users apply facial filters while on video conference calls — On January 25th, Snap will be shutting down its camera app for Mac and PCs. If that name doesn’t ring
Read More[Curious Scientist] tried building an integrated strain gauge on a PCB, but ran into problems. Mainly, the low resistance of the traces didn’t show enough change under strain to measure easily. Even placing a proper strain gauge on the PCB had limitations. His new design uses a bridge design to make the change in the
Read MoreCNBC: Samsung expects Q4 operating profit fell by 69% YoY to $3.37B, an eight-year low, citing a greater than expected decline in memory chip demand — – Samsung Electronics flagged on Friday its quarterly profit tumbled to an eight-year low as a weakening global economy hammered memory chip prices and curbed demand for electronic devices.
Read MoreWhen you open the app, it shows an announcement saying it’ll no longer be available. On January 25th, Snap will be shutting down its camera app for Mac and PCs. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you may remember it as the program that let you apply silly filters to your face while you
Read MoreWait until you see the screen. Razer has given us a first look at the Razer Blade 16 and Razer Blade 18, which will be released in the next few months. And I will say right now: I am impressed. The Blade 18 is the biggest and most powerful Razer Blade that has ever been
Read MoreAna Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: 3AC liquidators have subpoenaed founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, who have resisted cooperation, via Twitter to disclose documents related to the fund’s collapse — 3AC founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies have been ordered to provide all documents in their possession or control …
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