The infamous butterfly keyboard. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you bought an Apple MacBook with an ill-fated butterfly keyboard and ended up having to replace either individual keycaps or the whole keyboard, you may be eligible to claim part of a $50 million settlement reached after a class-action lawsuit. The law
Read MoreAlex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a version of Bing that uses ChatGPT to answer search queries. The Information reports that Microsoft hopes to launch the new feature before the end of March in a bid to make Bing more competitive with Google. By using the technology behind ChatGPT —
Read MoreImage: Withings Plus Samsung has a new range of TVs to show off, and Qi wireless charging is getting an upgrade. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe combination of WebAssembly and Kubernetes is an interesting development. Where traditional containers can be large and take time to deploy, even using slimmed-down dedicated host Linux distributions, WebAssembly applications simply require a standard runtime and, as they are dedicated binary files, need much less in the way of system resources. This makes them an
Read MoreA book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and it is no less true four decades since. Software, whether it is an application you bought or one that you built yourself, remains hard to deploy, hard to
Read MoreIn early November, when the Great Discontinuity happened, I started working on a Steampipe plugin to enable SQL queries against the Mastodon API, along with a companion Steampipe “mod” (suite of dashboards) to display and chart the results of those queries. I expect these dashboards will soon be available in Steampipe Cloud, where it will
Read MoreMegha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: A look at three pieces of Indian government legislation planned in 2023 to regulate US tech giants, mixing EU antitrust rules with China-style surveillance — American tech firms will face hard choices in India this year — The standoff between India and U.S. tech giants will intensify …
Read MoreEliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: Bitcoin miner Core Scientific plans to shut down mining rigs tied to Celsius Mining, its largest client with 37K+ machines, as both companies undergo bankruptcy — The two firms have been engaged in litigation over a 2020 hosting contract, which Core Scientific says is costing it $2 million in revenue per
Read MoreMatt Levine / Bloomberg: The US case against alleged Mango Markets manipulator Avraham Eisenberg highlights traders treating crypto as a game, forgetting the real-world consequences — Mango — So here’s a trade. — You open two accounts on a commodity futures exchange, Account A and Account B.
Read MoreApple’s MagSafe wireless charger will form the basis for Qi2, a new wireless charging standard that will be used by companies around the world.
Read MoreCredit: Halo Halo, makers of the popular SleepSack, have launched a wearable baby sleep tracker. Called SleepSure, the device provides customizable alerts and helps track a baby’s sleep at home or on the move. Modern wearables almost always come with a sleep-tracking feature, but most of them are made for adults. That changes today with
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: A look at Samsung’s TV updates in 2023: Neo QLEDs converting SDR to HDR, futuristic MicroLED TVs, improvements to The Frame, and software and AI updates — Last year, Samsung radically shook up the TV market with the introduction of its first OLED model in many years.
Read MoreGood morning, Daily Authority readers, and a very Happy New Year to you all. We’ve kickstarted January with a bang as CES 2023 formally opens its gates tomorrow. Yes, the world’s largest tech show is underway, and there’s plenty of tech news to go around. So without further ado, here’s everything you need to catch
Read MoreAnna Gross / Financial Times: Arm VP Dennis Laudick says the company more than doubled automotive revenue since 2020 thanks to more complex cars; Arm’s 2022 total revenue rose 35% to £2.7B — SoftBank-owned company battles Intel and MIPS in auto sector as it prepares for blockbuster listing
Read MoreAll-new Nvidia GeForce NOW membership tier offers the power of the RTX 4080 over its cloud gaming service.
Read MoreZachariah Kelly / Gizmodo Australia: Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand report the service being down for over 12 hours, starting around 6:40am AEST on January 4 — It seems to be every day now that we’re writing a story on Twitter, and today’s no exception. Twitter appears to be down or poorly functioning
Read MoreThe OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Buds Pro 2. | Image: OnePlus The OnePlus 11, the latest flagship smartphone from the Oppo sub-brand, has been announced for the Chinese market ahead of its global launch next month. Its feature set doesn’t hint at any major departures from OnePlus’ previous flagships, but the company has opted for
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus has launched the OnePlus 11 in China. The phone starts at ~$580 for a 12GB RAM + 256GB storage model. It will launch globally on February 7. OnePlus has finally taken the covers off the OnePlus 11. The phone launched in China today alongside the OnePlus Buds Pro 2. While it’s the
Read MoreSome products seem to have a part of two that’s pretty much guaranteed to end up dying on you. In the case of the 2015-vintage Wacom Cintiq Companion 2, this turns out to be the so-called Athena chip, which switches the display input between the HDMI port and internal display controller. This allows for use
Read MoreRest of World: Scams have started impacting Amazon sellers across Pakistan, which Marketplace Pulse says has the third-highest number of registered sellers on the platform — Pakistan ranks third among countries that have registered the most number of new sellers on Amazon. It’s also gaining a reputation as a scammers’ paradise.
Read MoreCredit: Withings Withings announced U-Scan, an at-home urinalysis platform that offers hands-free data collection. The pebble-shaped reader sits inside users’ toilets to automatically capture samples and analyze biomarkers. The device will be available in Europe in mid-2023 for €499.99, with plans to expand to US markets in the future. Withings is making its way to
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Report: Indian crypto exchanges lost 81% of trading volume between July and October 2022, as traders turned to foreign exchanges due to India’s new crypto tax — India’s tax rules on crypto, which went into effect last April, has resulted in local exchanges ceding the lion’s share of the market …
Read More[Learnelectronics] purchased some near-field EMI probes for his tiny spectrum analyzer for about $5 on sale. Could they be any good at that price? Watch the video below and find out. The probes arrived as a kit with four problems: three circular ones for sensing the H field and a stubby probe for sensing E
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Chinese regulators approve Ant Group’s plan to raise ~$1.5B for its consumer unit, signaling progress in the firm’s government-ordered overhaul — Chinese regulators approved a plan by billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. to raise 10.5 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) for its consumer unit …
Read MoreThe Matter-enabled SwitchBot Hub 2 is also a temperature and humidity sensor. | Image: SwitchBot The smart home company SwitchBot, which makes tiny robots that can do things for you like press switches, turn locks, and open curtains, is introducing a new Matter-enabled hub. The $69 SwitchBot Hub 2 arrives in March and will work
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