Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple will apparently launch iOS 18.2 and more Apple Intelligence features in the week of December 2. ChatGPT integration, Genmoji, and the Image Playground app are all expected as part of this update. Apple will reportedly launch its upgraded Siri in April as part of iOS 18.4. Apple finally
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority For the first 35 years of my life, I lived in Lebanon, where big international bands and artists rarely hold any concerts. We’d get one or two big names a year, and it was easy to know who was coming and when because it would be all over
Read MoreThis secure, durable walkie-talkie is worth the seemingly exorbitant price.
Read MoreWhen we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI connectivity for high-speed applications such as solid state disks. It’s a connector that offers much more than that interface though, making it suitable for some unexpected add-ons. As an example [MagicWolfi] has produced an m.2
Read MoreAs the industry looks to AI and robotics for the next big thing, Our Erotic Journey’s James Guo just wants to build you the perfect vibrator.
Read MoreDIY gaming handhelds have long been the purview of the advanced hacker, with custom enclosures and fiddly soldering making it a project not for the feint of heart. [Beth Le] now brings us a custom handheld for the beginner that can be assembled in 15 minutes and doesn’t require any soldering. These claims might seem
Read MoreDIY gaming handhelds have long been the purview of the advanced hacker, with custom enclosures and fiddly soldering making it a project not for the feint of heart. [Beth Le] now brings us a custom handheld for the beginner that can be assembled in 15 minutes and doesn’t require any soldering. These claims might seem
Read More3D printing has allowed the hobbyist to turn out all sorts of interesting chess sets with either intricate details or things that are too specialized to warrant a full scale injection molded production run. Now, the magic of 3D printing has allowed [Works By Design] to change the game by making pawns that can automatically
Read More3D printing has allowed the hobbyist to turn out all sorts of interesting chess sets with either intricate details or things that are too specialized to warrant a full scale injection molded production run. Now, the magic of 3D printing has allowed [Works By Design] to change the game by making pawns that can automatically
Read MoreThis week’s Ubuntu Summit 2024 was attended by Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030). He’s also a FOSS correspondent for the Register, where he’s filed this report: One of the first full-length sessions was presented by David Morin, executive director of the Academy Software Foundation, introducing his organization in a talk about Open Source Software for Motion
Read MoreThis week’s Ubuntu Summit 2024 was attended by Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030). He’s also a FOSS correspondent for the Register, where he’s filed this report: One of the first full-length sessions was presented by David Morin, executive director of the Academy Software Foundation, introducing his organization in a talk about Open Source Software for Motion
Read MoreIf you need to measure the temperature of something, chances are good that you could think up half a dozen ways to do it, pretty much all of which would involve some kind of thermometer, thermistor, thermocouple, or other thermo-adjacent device. But what if you need to measure something really hot, hot enough to destroy
Read MoreIf you need to measure the temperature of something, chances are good that you could think up half a dozen ways to do it, pretty much all of which would involve some kind of thermometer, thermistor, thermocouple, or other thermo-adjacent device. But what if you need to measure something really hot, hot enough to destroy
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports that a former Etsy CEO remodeled their home into what’s known as a passive house. It’s “designed to be as energy efficient as possible, typically with top-notch insulation and a perfect seal that prevents outside air from penetrating the home; air flows in and out through filtration and exhaust systems only.”
Read MoreIn the world of retro gaming, some legends never die – especially the ‘phantom’ PSP, Sony’s mythical handheld that never saw the light of day. While that elusive device remains a dream, hacker and gaming wizard [Kyle Brinkerhoff] built his own – and Macho Nacho made a video about it. His creation, which also goes
Read MoreGM’s president of global markets says their EV portfolio “is growing faster than the market,” according to Investopedia, “because we have an all-electric vehicle for just about everybody, no matter what they like to drive.” The headline at Barrons? “Don’t Look Now, but GM’s EV Sales Are on Fire.” GM delivered almost 32,000 all-electric vehicles
Read MoreGM’s president of global markets says their EV portfolio “is growing faster than the market,” according to Investopedia, “because we have an all-electric vehicle for just about everybody, no matter what they like to drive.” The headline at Barrons? “Don’t Look Now, but GM’s EV Sales Are on Fire.” GM delivered almost 32,000 all-electric vehicles
Read More“AI-driven 0-day detection is here,” argues a new blog post from ZeroPath, makers of a GitHub app that “detects, verifies, and issues pull requests for security vulnerabilities in your code.” They write that AI-assisted security research “has been quietly advancing” since early 2023, when researchers at the DARPA and ARPA-H’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge demonstrated
Read MoreFormer FTX executive Nishad Singh was ordered to forfeit $11 billion, reports CNBC — and is subject to three years of supervised release, making him “the fourth ex-employee of the collapsed crypto exchange to be punished.” But while he’d faced a maximum sentence of 75 years, he’ll serve no time, according to this report from
Read MoreGaming on the iPod barely predates the iPhone’s arrival in 2007, but fans have launched a project to be sure they can still play the games into the future. The first Apple mobile gaming device: the click-wheel iPod. An iPod fan going by the name Quix discovered a small loophole Apple’s digital rights management protection
Read MoreWhile Amazon, Google, and other companies build new data centers — sometimes for their AI projects — parts of America “are facing higher electric bills,” reports the Washington Post: The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority When the Pixel 9 series launched with a bunch of new Google and Gemini AI features, there were a few I quickly dismissed as “cool for a few days, not useful for later.” One of those was the built-in image generator, and even though I had a bit
Read MoreThe free face-image search engine PimEyes “scans through billions of images from the internet and finds matches of your photo that could have appeared in a church bulletin or a wedding photographer’s website,” -us/news/technology/they-made-a-public-rolodex-of-our-faces-here-s-how-i-tried-to-get-out/ar-AA1tlpPuwrites a Washington Post columnist. So to find and delete themselves from “the PimEyes searchable Rolodex of faces,” they “recently handed over
Read MoreThe US National Labor Relations Board is again accusing Apple management of illegally deterring employee discussions of pay and bias issues, part of a general anti-union campaign by the iPhone maker. Apple has faced numerous employee allegations across 2024. In addition to a raft of ongoing complaints, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel
Read MoreFinancial firm Berkshire Hathway has spent a year reducing its shares of AAPL stock, which once took up half of chairman Warren Buffett’s entire portfolio. Buffett meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Image credit: Apple For the fiscal third quarter 2024, which ended on September 30, Buffett still held $69.9 billion in AAPL, or around
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