Google Home now supports Matter. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS. This means the Matter smart home standard, first developed by Google, Apple, Samsung, Amazon, and others, now has the foundation in place
Read MoreHere is a robot removing the Dell Concept Luna’s keyboard. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge Almost a year ago today, Dell announced the “Concept Luna”, a fully repairable and upgradable laptop incorporating sustainable materials. With everything removable and replaceable, from the memory and SSD to the keyboard and the screen, it looked
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury I bought my first Chromebook in January 2015. I still remember sitting in a hotel room in Vegas during CES week, a brand new Toshiba Chromebook 2 on my lap, looking in bewilderment at Chrome OS and how it took all of
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Read MoreByron Kaye / Reuters: Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their services, calling the companies’ responses “alarming” — An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
Read MoreGrand Theft Auto V now has ray-traced reflections on PS5 and Xbox Series X / S consoles. A new patch, spotted by Eurogamer, brings ray-traced reflections to the game’s fidelity mode (30fps), adding a lot more realistic detail to vehicles, characters, windows, and basically any glossy surfaces. The results are truly impressive. Now if you
Read MoreLoni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: A look at the face off in South Africa between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land — On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the
Read MoreKeith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies — Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology
Read MoreZack Beauchamp / Vox: A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk’s Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
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Read MoreAt the company’s next annual meeting, shareholders will be asked to pressure the company over contracts with US immigration and the Israeli government.
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Read MoreGrowing crops to make plastic could theoretically reduce reliance on fossil fuels and even pull carbon out of the atmosphere, but at an enormous environmental cost.
Read MoreSoon, companies will have no place to hide if they fail to deliver on sustainability.
Read MoreGovernments around the world are pushing AI regulation that has nothing to say about generative models. That could be dangerous.
Read MoreYule Log broadcasts are a bit of an American tradition, though similar content has also been broadcast around the world. They consist of a video of a log burning in a fireplace, ideally merrily so, and often feature Christmas carols or other holiday songs to help create a festive mood. [Joshua Gross] wanted to bring
Read MoreWhen Intel released its Alder Lake “hybrid” platform on the all-new LGA 1700 socket in 2021, it promised two generations of CPUs would be supported. But according to a new leak of Intel’s roadmap, Intel might be squeezing in a third generation as well. The leaked slides look quite legit; they note a new platform
Read MoreMobile applications have become part of our daily lives, from ordering food to securing our homes and even booking concert or flight tickets – today there is an app for nearly everything you can think of. While it may seem impossible at times that people can come up with newer and better mobile apps, the
Read MoreAustralia’s first-ever eSafety report says companies like Apple aren’t doing enough to detect child abuse material and grooming.
Read MoreTo create fusion ignition, the National Ignition Facility’s laser energy is converted into X-rays inside the hohlraum, which then compress a fuel capsule until it implodes, creating a high-temperature, high-pressure plasma. | Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nuclear fusion is back in the news. This week, the US Department of Energy announced what it called
Read MoreTaryn Plumb / VentureBeat: Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data — Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. — Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th …
Read MorePaul J. Davies / Bloomberg: An attempt to understand how much real-world money was lost by SBF and FTX, a key question for the SEC, suggests only a fraction of crypto’s peak $3T value — Now that Samuel Bankman-Fried has been detained in the Bahamas, US authorities are preparing to finally put the question that
Read MoreThe Lucid Air is the first product from the California-based company. Lucid’s sedan is sublime to drive, if a bit strange in appearance. Can the Air unseat the Tesla Model S as the leader in the luxury EV market? Continue reading…
Read MoreAs I sat down to chat with Carl Pei about some news related to Nothing OS — the software powering his company’s Nothing Phone 1 — I was surprised by how he opened up the conversation. He told me a story about one of the early hires on Nothing’s software engineering team. After a disappointing interview
Read MoreDave Lee / Financial Times: Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
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