Over the last few years, Rust has evolved from a curiosity brewed up in a Mozilla employee’s lab to a strong contender for the next generation of native applications and bare-metal solutions. Those advances come from Rust providing its own toolchain and component management system—along with certain popular features and quirks. This article is for
Read MoreIn tech Twitter’s rush to replace Twitter with Mastodon, we seem to be falling into an old trap, one that has long bedeviled tech and, in particular, the open source corner of tech. That problem, of course, is tech. And open source. Or rather, the belief that the solution to most problems is more tech
Read MoreApple has reportedly killed plans to use Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) for future iPhone memory chips amid ongoing Chinese tensions.
Read MoreDavid Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: A look at Gary Gensler’s plan to regulate most crypto as securities and questions over the SEC’s handling of FTX, which met the regulator before its implosion — Gary Gensler, the chair of the S.E.C., is at the center of a reckoning over the future of cryptocurrency after the
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority It seems like almost every person locks their smartphone, be it with a PIN code or biometric authentication. As for smartwatches, though? We wondered whether Android Authority readers locked their watches, so we posted a poll to find out. Well, a few days have passed since the poll’s publication
Read MoreStephanie Murray / The Block: DCG’s Grayscale refuses to share proof of reserves, citing “security concerns”, as Grayscale Bitcoin Trust reaches new lows and DCG’s Genesis halts withdrawals — Grayscale will not show proof of reserves due to “security concerns,” after its bitcoin and ether products fell to all-time lows this week.
Read MoreA 500-page document reviewed by WIRED shows that Corellium engaged with several controversial companies, including spyware maker NSO Group.
Read MoreForget the nostalgia of paper and embrace the near-infinite library.
Read MoreAlgorithms that create art, text, and code are spreading fast—but legal challenges could throw a wrench in the works.
Read MoreFossil fuels are rapidly heating the planet, but their aerosols also help cool it. Just how much, though, is a major uncertainty in climate science.
Read MoreThe retailer has a price match guarantee for anything bought until December 24, so get ahead of your holiday shopping list without worry.
Read MoreFleetwood Mac puns aside, very little has changed about how we “slice” models for printers in the last 30 years. However, [Stefan Hermann] of CNC Kitchen has a demo that tries to change all that by slicing conically. For the uninitiated in the dark arts of printing in the third dimension, the canonical definition of
Read MoreApple Music is coming Tesla.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Developers have created solutions to enable 32-bit app support on the Pixel 7 series. These hacks require your phone to be rooted. The Google Pixel 7 series is the first Android phone to ship with 64-bit app support only. But what if you need to run 32-bit apps for
Read MoreAlexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk’s Twitter starts the FIFA World Cup, traditionally one of the platform’s busiest periods, with a depleted staff, potentially leading to serious issues — Employees have been working for weeks to prepare for the soccer extravaganza, a Twitter executive says
Read MoreSunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: Crypto prices sink, with bitcoin dropping ~4% and ether ~7%, dragged down by the ongoing FTX saga, potential contagion, and the FTX hacker offloading ether — Cryptocurrency prices struggled Monday in the ongoing crisis sparked by the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s once powerful FTX empire.
Read MoreLG Display’s Thin Actuator Sound Solution is just 30 percent of the weight and 10 percent of the thickness of a conventional car speaker. | Image: LG Display LG Display has developed a new “invisible” speaker technology for vehicles that uses a passport-sized vibrating panel to generate sound. It was developed with an unnamed “global
Read MoreLaura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: A look at things journalism could lose if Twitter dies: real-time feedback on stories, news outlets being publicly called out, DMs as a reporting tool, and more — Goodbye to screenshotted best bits, DMs, “that tweet should be a story”… “If Twitter goes away my job would actually be
Read MoreIt’s easy to become jaded by modern microcontrollers: for just a few bucks you can get a MCU that’s powerful enough to give a desktop computer from the early 90s a run for its money while packing in contemporary technology like WiFi and Bluetooth. For many projects we don’t even have to consider optimizing our
Read MoreYou might think earbuds have to rest inside your ears and block out the world, but if you’re looking for options that don’t do that, consider open ear headphones instead. While they may not be known for their sound quality or audiophile-cred, they are ideal for joggers, outdoor athletes, and anyone who needs to hear
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: An interview with Brian Armstrong on crypto and economic freedom, Coinbase’s “no politics in the workplace” policy, the crypto downturn, regulation, and more — Ahead of my lunch with crypto exchange chief Brian Armstrong, his team tell me they had tried to find a decent restaurant …
Read MoreHey there! I ended up at a German-themed restaurant this weekend to watch the last race of the Formula 1 season. Here’s hoping for a much closer title fight next season. Our main story today is our Logitech G Cloud review, but we’ve also got a few more stories worth checking out. Logitech G Cloud review:
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge Bob Iger’s back at Disney, and Ye, Trump, and others are back on Twitter. Continue reading…
Read MoreThere’s no shame in admitting you’ve been burned by a cheapo USB cable — ever since some bean counter realized there was a few cents to be saved by producing “power only” USB cables, no hardware hacker has been safe. But with this simple tester from [Álvaro Prieto] in your arsenal, you’ll never be fooled
Read MoreThe world of microwave RF design appears to the uninitiated to be full of unimaginably exotic devices, as engineers harness the laws of physics to tame radio signals to their will. Among the weapons in their arsenal are materials of known dielectric properties, from which can be made structures with the desired effects on RF
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