13 Best White Elephant Gifts (2024): Legos, Desk Accessories
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a desk organizer shaped like a pear to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
Read MoreBring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a desk organizer shaped like a pear to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
Read MoreBring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a desk organizer shaped like a pear to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
Read MoreMonths after a debut on the iPad Pro, Apple has finally moved the M4 to the MacBook Pro. Here’s what’s different in the base 14-inch MacBook Pro between the M3 and M4 versions. M4 14-inch MacBook Pro [left], M3 14-inch MacBook Pro [right] Apple’s regularly scheduled update to the MacBook Pro lineup has happened again,
Read MoreApple claims its newest line of phones will let you play everything from Apple Arcade indies to AAA titles. It does, but don’t expect a console-level experience.
Read MoreWhen users on X block someone, the blocked user will still be able to view their posts, but can’t interact with them. Read more: X officially allows blocked users to view public posts
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Pixelmator team has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple, but it’s still pending regulatory approval. According to the announcement, no substantial changes will be made to Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator, and Photomator for the time being. It’s currently unclear if Apple will bake Pixelmator’s technology into its
Read MoreThe announcement from Perplexity comes ahead of this year’s highly contentious US presidential election. Read more: AI start-up launches election hub for US voters
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority As discovered in an APK teardown, Google could tweak the functionality of the Quick Share tile. This new functionality bypasses several current dialogs and sheets to make sharing files with others swifter and easier. Google has steadily improved its Quick Share feature since it merged with Samsung’s similar offering
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority As discovered in an APK teardown, Google could tweak the functionality of the Quick Share tile. This new functionality bypasses several current dialogs and sheets to make sharing files with others swifter and easier. Google has steadily improved its Quick Share feature since it merged with Samsung’s similar offering
Read MoreThe company’s modular technology improves energy efficiency, reduces emissions and recovers radiated waste heat. Read more: Pyramp: How this TU Dublin spin-out is converting heat waste to electricity
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Select Google Play Points members can now get a 30% discount on Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL. The discount is available until December 2, 2024. It cannot be combined with other promotions, though trade-in options will be available for additional savings. In an exciting new
Read MoreWe love seeing the incredible work many RF enthusiasts manage to pull off — they make it look so easy! Though RF can be tricky, it’s not quite the voodoo black art that it’s often made out to be. Many radio protocols are relatively simple and with tools like gnuradio and PocketSDR you can quickly
Read MoreWe love seeing the incredible work many RF enthusiasts manage to pull off — they make it look so easy! Though RF can be tricky, it’s not quite the voodoo black art that it’s often made out to be. Many radio protocols are relatively simple and with tools like gnuradio and PocketSDR you can quickly
Read MoreThe Atlantic complains that our chaos of different plug types “was supposed to end, with USB-C as our savior.” But part of the problem is what they call “the second circle of our cable hell: My USB-C may not be the same as yours. And the USB-C you bought two years ago may not be
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Whether it’s the relentless onslaught of ads or the dozens of inauthentic links occupying the top spot, using Google Search has never felt more unrewarding than in 2024. So it’s perhaps not surprising that entire AI startups like Perplexity have sprung up to threaten Google’s search business. Shortly after
Read MoreOur bodies divest themselves of 60 billion cells every day through a natural process called “apoptosis”. So Stanford medicine researchers are developing a new approach to cancer therapy that could “trick cancer cells into disposing of themselves,” according to announcement from Stanford’s medical school: Their method accomplishes this by artificially bringing together two proteins in
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from the blog Interesting Engineering: A team of students made history this month by performing Europe’s first rocket hop test. Those who have followed SpaceX’s trajectory will know hop tests are a vital stepping stone for a reusable rocket program, as they allow engineers to test their rocket’s
Read MoreSlashdot reader samleecole shared this report from 404 Media: Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider, recently launched a large language model tool that it is encouraging doctors and clinicians to use for translation, sensitive patient data, and has suggested it can be used for diagnostic purposes, 404 Media has learned. Northwell Health has
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this story from SciTechDaily: New research confirms that subtle temperature differences at the ocean surface, known as the “ocean skin,” increase carbon dioxide absorption. This discovery, based on precise measurements, suggests global oceans absorb 7% more CO2 than previously thought, aiding climate understanding and carbon assessments… Until now, global estimates
Read MoreSomewhere off in interstellar space, 15.4 billion miles away from Earth, NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager “recently went quiet,” reports Mashable. The probe “shut off its main radio transmitter for communicating with mission control…” Voyager’s problem began on October 16, when flight controllers sent the robotic explorer a somewhat routine command to turn on a heater. Two
Read MoreApple will update the current MacBook Pro again in 2025, but those waiting for a significant redesign may have to wait a little longer. The 2023 MacBook Pro was the first to offer a Space Black option. The company often tweaks the hardware of its MacBook Pro lineup from year to year. Major redesigns are
Read MoreThis, but blasting demons. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge What do John Deere tractors, Ikea smart bulbs, Lego bricks, and the MacBook Pro Touch Bar have in common? They can all run Doom, and naturally, so can Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo alarm clock. It was only a matter of time before someone pulled
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Opinion post by Adamya Sharma Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets were my usual go-to solutions for planning and splitting holiday expenses with my friends and family. For years, I’ve struggled with maintaining complicated expense sheets, grappling with complicated formulas, and ensuring everyone contributes to adding and updating data. For
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Opinion post by Adamya Sharma Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets were my usual go-to solutions for planning and splitting holiday expenses with my friends and family. For years, I’ve struggled with maintaining complicated expense sheets, grappling with complicated formulas, and ensuring everyone contributes to adding and updating data. For
Read MoreApple Vision Pro may get an M5 upgrade in 2025, but the expected lower-price headset has been delayed, and may offload processing to the iPhone to cut costs. Apple Vision Pro on display at Apple Park. Image credit: Apple Ming-Chi Kuo says that production of an all-new version of the Apple Vision Pro has been
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