How to Upgrade Your YouTube Recording Setup
Whether you’re recording specifically for the platform or making movies that may just end up there, this gear can help.
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Read MoreWhen Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the first-generation iPad Pro in 2015, he called it, “the biggest news for the iPad since the iPad.” Over seven years later, the 2022 iPad Pro is the least newsworthy iteration of Apple’s flagship tablet to date. With a grand total of new features you can count on one
Read MoreCredit: Weibo/Xiaomi Xiaomi is usually part of the first wave of brands to adopt Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon silicon, and this time is no different as it’s just launched the Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro in China. The two phones are indeed powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flagship processor, so you should expect
Read MoreDara Kerr / The Markup: Uber’s slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts — An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks
Read MoreJust drag this conveniently inflatable half-doughnut out to the nearest lake.
Read MoreIt has become a bit of a running joke in the Hackaday community to suggest that a project could or should have been done with a 555 timer. [Tim] has rather taken this to heart with his latest Electronic Dice project, which uses three of the venerable devices. If three seems like a lot of
Read MoreEri Sugiura / Financial Times: Sony’s CTO and NEC’s CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China’s ability to procure chips but question the sanctions’ long-term effectiveness — Sony and NEC executives say progress may be slowed but China will remain a force in AI and other areas
Read More[Zak]’s two-floor apartment has a typical door entry control system, but the setup is less than ideally convenient. The wall-mounted telephone-like intercom is downstairs, but [Zak] is usually upstairs. What’s an enterprising hacker to do? Obviously the most elegant solution is to simply do without visitors in the first place, but [Zak] opted for a
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: Experts warn of a “hallucination” problem with ChatGPT and LaMDA, as these chatbots take what they have learned and reshape it without regard for what is true — Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child’s homework will never be the same. Then there’s the misinformation problem.
Read MoreBrendan Murray / Bloomberg: Pactum, which offers AI-powered software to help big companies like Walmart automate routine supplier negotiations, raised a $20M Series A extension led by 3VC — Supply disruptions may be cooling down as the global economy downshifts, but the tech revolution in logistics is just heating up.
Read MoreWashington Post: A look at some early-adopters using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generator bots to write business emails, find creative inspiration, and more — The latest AI sensation, ChatGPT, is easy to talk to, bad at math and often deceptively, confidently wrong. Some people are finding real-world value in it, anyway.
Read MoreAI knoweth everything, and as each new model breaks upon the world, it attracts a new crowd of experimenters. The new hotness is ChatGPT, and [Jonas Degrave] has turned his attention to it. By asking it to act as a Linux terminal, he discovered that he could gain access to a complete Linux virtual machine
Read MoreAs a programming language, Lisp has been around longer than any other active language except for Fortran. To anyone who regularly uses it, it’s easy to see why: the language allows for new syntax and macros to be created fluidly, which makes it easy to adapt it to new situations, like running it on a
Read MoreJason Del Rey / Vox: Layoffs and rescinded job offers are threatening Amazon’s reputation in the tech job market, where it was already facing challenges, according to a June memo — A leaked memo shows Amazon was concerned with attracting and retaining top engineers earlier this year.
Read MoreStingrays have an elegant, undulating swimming motion that can be hypnotic. [Vimal Patel] re-created this harmony with his fantastic mechanical mechanical stingray using LEGO pieces and a LEGO Technics Power Functions motor. The motor is set in a clever arrangement that drives the motion remotely, so that it and electrical elements can stay dry. The
Read MoreKaren Hao / Wall Street Journal: How AI-based natural language processing algorithms can be applied to biological data to create protein-language models and cut drug discovery time to months — Natural language processing algorithms like the ones used in Google searches and OpenAI’s ChatGPT promise to slash the time required to bring medications to market
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s relaunching its Blue subscription on Monday, one month after abandoning a chaotic first attempt that spurred hoax accounts and general mayhem. As reported previously, the subscription will cost $8 per month to purchase on the web or $11 per month via the iOS App Store to make
Read MoreWe feature a lot of clocks here at Hackaday, but alarm clocks seem to be less popular for some reason. Maybe that’s because no-one enjoys being woken up in the morning, or simply because everyone uses their smartphone for that purpose already. In any case, we’re delighted to bring you [Manuel Tosone]’s beautiful Nixie tube
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Getting a Verizon unlimited plan for your smartphone not only gives you features like unlimited talk, text, and data in the US but some special perks as well. That includes getting Disney Plus for free for six months. If you want to get this special limited-time promotion, here’s how
Read More@twitter: Twitter will relaunch Blue on Monday for $8 per month on the web and $11 per month on iOS, giving subscribers a blue checkmark after their account is reviewed — we’re relaunching @TwitterBlue on Monday – subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber-only features, including the
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Apple will no longer bar employees from speaking out about workplace harassment and discrimination issues, as first reported by the Financial Times. The company shared the news following a review of Apple’s non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), which previously excluded language surrounding the discussion of working conditions. Apple shareholders voted
Read MoreSeveral games on Switch walked away as winners during The Game Awards 2022. But this week wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows due to the FTC blocking the Microsoft merger and then there was also the Super Smash Tour controversy.
Read MoreEric Levitz / New York Magazine: With “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends — But it is actually a tool of progressive power. While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …
Read MoreVideo effects and mixing are done digitally today, but it wasn’t always so. When analog ruled the video world, a big switch panel was key to effective results. VIdeo like this was the result of combining different analog feeds with different effects. The better the hardware, the more was possible. Devices like [Glen]’s Grass Valley
Read MoreAlex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT — The tech giant believes the future of search is conversational. How did it let OpenAI’s ChatGPT take the lead? — Google’s had
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