Road Robots Are Coming to the Rescue
Supply chains are clogged and driving is getting more dangerous. 2023’s autonomous vehicles could help fix both.
Read MoreSupply chains are clogged and driving is getting more dangerous. 2023’s autonomous vehicles could help fix both.
Read MoreIn the shift away from fossil fuel energy sources, there has been a huge expansion in solar power. We’ve seen solar thermal plants in the desert and photovoltaic panel farms covering huge areas of land, but perhaps the most potential comes from placing the panels on rooftops. In some parts of the world this is
Read MoreElectron is software for running web-written apps in the same way as native ones, and has gotten plenty of bad press for its RAM appetite around these parts. But while the execution might leave something to be desired, the concept itself is quite solid — if you’ve already got code written for the web, a
Read MoreBrian Merchant / The Atlantic: Meta’s dramatic implosion, Elon Musk’s Twitter train wreck, and Amazon’s labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech — The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall. — The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Predictions for 2023: competition for Meta’s metaverse, Apple’s AR/VR headset debut, generative AI integration into products, continuing crypto gloom, and more — Our tech columnists look ahead to an Apple headset, Netflix password crackdowns, the next DALL-E and more — Big layoffs at Meta, Amazon, Snap and others?
Read MoreBen Jiang / South China Morning Post: Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles — Richard Liu Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of JD.com , has ended a low-profile period and stepped forward to lecture executives …
Read MoreThere’s an uneasy meeting in the world of audio between digital and analogue. Traditional analogue audio reached a level of very high quality, but as old-style media-based audio sources have fallen out of favor there’s a need to replace them with ones that reflect a new digital audio world. To do this there are several
Read MoreRyan Broderick / Polygon: A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled — The NFT gaming community only grew more niche and scam-filled in 2022 — Less than 12 months ago, it felt as if 2022 …
Read MoreApple has released a limited-edition version of AirPods Pro in celebration of Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit.
Read MoreNathan Crooks / The Block: FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M — – FTX Trading and its affiliated debtors said Friday that they would seek the return of crypto held by the
Read MoreHave you tried your hand at circuit sculpture yet? Well, if you were waiting for the ideal first project with a great build video to go along with it, keep reading. [4dcircuitry]’s 555-based flashing circuit sculpture ticks all the go-for-it boxen for us — the component list is short, the final circuit looks cool, and
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will soon let you swipe to switch between different views containing recommended and followed tweets, trends, topics, and more. In a tweet, Elon Musk announced that support for the navigation feature will arrive in January. Musk first hinted at the feature earlier this month, noting the “main
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s throwing more money into the metaverse with its acquisition of Luxexcel, a Netherlands-based company that specializes in 3D-printing prescription lenses for smart glasses. The news was first reported by Dutch outlet De Tijd (via TechCrunch), but Meta has since confirmed to The Verge that it purchased the
Read MoreSandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Italy’s parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s new bill also includes an incentive for those declaring crypto for tax purposes.
Read MoreTaking screenshots on your iPad is incredibly easy once you learn how to do it, here’s how.
Read MoreMore than one person using your Apple TV account? It’s easy to set up multiple accounts.
Read MoreUp until the mid-1980s, connecting a computer to a phone line was tricky: many phone companies didn’t allow the connection of unlicensed equipment to their network, and even if they did, you might still find yourself blocked by a lack of standardized connectors. A simple workaround for all this was an acoustic coupler, a device
Read MoreKashmir Hill / New York Times: Google changes its appeals process for accounts flagged as containing CSAM; the content deemed exploitative will still be removed from Google and reported — People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.
Read MoreiCloud Drive is great for storing your files and accessing them from any Apple device, here’s how to use it.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Source: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week — Created with sketchtool. — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week, according to a person familiar with
Read MoreComet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. This fine telescopic image was taken on December 19th. | Dan Bartlett via NASA Here’s something to look forward to in the new year: 2023 could give us a once-in-a-generation chance to see a
Read MoreYou don’t always need much to build an FPV rig – especially if you’re willing to take advantage of the power of modern smartphones. [joe57005] is showing off his VR FPV build – a fully-printable small Mechanum wheels car chassis, equipped with an ESP32-CAM board serving a 720×720 stream through WiFi. The car uses regular
Read MoreMatt Levine / Bloomberg: Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance — On Oct. 25, Bloomberg Businessweek published “The Crypto Story,” a cover-to-cover issue of the magazine that I wrote about what crypto
Read MoreHello, readers, and welcome back to the last This Week in Space of 2022. As the year draws down to a close, American aerospace — both public and private — has gone as quiet as a winter’s night. So, we’re consoling ourselves with a triple scoop of news from Mars. Climate scientists have used Nvidia’s
Read MoreThe large screen of your iPad provides a great way to read your favorite books – you just need the right app.
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