Macworld Kids ask questions all the time, and I think it’s important as a parent to admit when you don’t know the answer. Naturally, it’s tempting to bluff, in order to preserve their childlike belief in your omniscience, but you’re only storing up trouble for that moment when they gain access to Google and find
Read MoreInk stamps can be fun to make and use, and 3D printers are uniquely positioned to create quality stamps of all kinds with just a little care. As with most things, the devil is in the details and the best results will require some extra work. Luckily, [Prusa] has a blog post that goes through
Read MoreInk stamps can be fun to make and use, and 3D printers are uniquely positioned to create quality stamps of all kinds with just a little care. As with most things, the devil is in the details and the best results will require some extra work. Luckily, [Prusa] has a blog post that goes through
Read MoreMacworld Want to learn a new language? Babbel is making it easier than ever to learn a new language with a lifetime subscription marked down to $129.99 (reg. $599). Babbel is a full-fledged language education tool developed by a team of over 100 expert linguists and backed by research from institutions like Yale University and
Read MoreThe fintech, which is led by co-founders James Fahy and Ciara Walsh, provides a cashless platform that streamlines tipping processes in the hospitality sector. Read more: JustTip: Making tipping easier for hardworking hospitality workers
Read More“Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly,” reports the Associated Press, “avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.” (It can take up to four
Read MoreAt December’s “Microsoft Excel World Championship” in Las Vegas, “finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities,” writes the New York Times, “as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience of about 400 people, and more watching an ESPN3 livestream.” The Times notes that “many fans find
Read MoreAt December’s “Microsoft Excel World Championship” in Las Vegas, “finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities,” writes the New York Times, “as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience of about 400 people, and more watching an ESPN3 livestream.” The Times notes that “many fans find
Read More“An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday,” reports the Financial Times, “in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure…” Criminal investigations have started in Latvia and Sweden, and a ship has been
Read More“An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday,” reports the Financial Times, “in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure…” Criminal investigations have started in Latvia and Sweden, and a ship has been
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter… The new proposal would
Read MoreSince launching in 2020, the nonprofit site RestofWorld.org has been covering tech news from 100 countries. And they’ve just announced the winners in their 2024 international photography contest. “From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world, featuring everything from sprawling mines to biometric facial scans.” Like last
Read MoreFor the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was “hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour,” a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. (“Two other victims were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Read MoreFor the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was “hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour,” a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. (“Two other victims were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Read MoreThis weekend Cory Doctorow delved into “the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints.” If your users can’t leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (not solely their departure to a competitor, but also fines, criminal charges, worker revolts, and guerrilla warfare with interoperators), then you have
Read MorePhotographic accessories are often plagued by high prices, as photography is considered a rich man’s game. It doesn’t have to be that way though, and [Snappiness] is here to get you started on the route to cheaper kit with a waist-level viewfinder project. If you’ve used a twin-lens reflex camera then you should be familiar
Read MoreEarlier this month a major fire erupted at a California battery plant. But several factors contributed to its rapid spread, the fire district’s chief told the Los Angeles Times: A fire suppression system that is part of every battery rack at the plant failed and led to a chain reaction of batteries catching on fire,
Read MoreApple’s AirPods could offer more than just sound, with the personal audio accessories still anticipated to gain cameras at some point in the future, and there’s patent filings to prove it. AirPods Pro 2 Apple’s work to increase the utility of its wearable devices could lead in a slightly offbeat direction for one product. The
Read MoreAmid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which “will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems.” Wikipedia defines ACPI as “an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components” for things like power management and putting unused
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU’s electricity in 2024, while coal-burning power plants generated 10%, according
Read MoreThe long-rumored Apple Glass may eventually become Apple’s wearable future, with development of the smart glasses hitting hurdles that even Apple’s rivals are having to deal with. Renders of what Apple Glass could look like The Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first attempt at a head-mounted display, as a project that sucked a considerable amount
Read MoreNot too long ago, I aired my grievances about Google Chrome’s shortcomings on Android. Compared to many alternatives, Chrome isn’t as flexible or customizable, leaving me to either deal with its quirks or find something else. While I haven’t kicked it off my phone, Mozilla Firefox has usurped it as my go-to web browser on
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck falls in love with an A-list celebrity — the company always gives the same reason. It needs the extra money, you see, in order to keep investing in the kind of programming
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority When Google Photos introduced Memories in 2019, my eyes rolled so far to the back of my head that I risked going permanently blind. At the time, every app was chasing TikTok and Instagram Stories, implementing those bite-sized swipeable short videos for dwindling attention spans, and I thought
Read MoreThe Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It might be time for a more unified platform. Read the full story at The Verge.
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