I’ve never been so happy to use a computer that meets my state’s legal drinking age. | Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge It’s been 20 years since Apple discontinued the iMac G4, a unique computer with a funky half-globe base and a flatscreen LCD on a fancy hinge and adjustable arm. In its unaltered
Read More“The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed,” announced the Internet Archive Thursday, “as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications. Our team is working around the clock across time zones to bring other services back online.” Founder Brewster Kahle told The Washington Post it’s the first time in its
Read More“Biden forgives more student loans,” read Thursday’s headline at CNBC. While this time it was $4.5 billion in student debt for over 60,000 public service workers, “The Biden-Harris Administration has approved $175 billion in student debt relief for nearly 5 million borrowers through various actions,” according to an announcement from the White House on Thursday.
Read MoreGalaxy S24 Ultra Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A new leak has revealed the standard color options for the upcoming Galaxy S25 Ultra. The device will reportedly be available in black, blue, green, and titanium colorways. Samsung will likely have a few online-exclusive color options for the device along with these four colorways. Samsung
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: If you dread the thought of calling to change an airline ticket or negotiate your internet bill, a new artificial intelligence tool may provide a solution. DoNotPay, which offers an assortment of consumer-friendly services like tracking subscriptions, generating burner phone numbers, and searching for unclaimed property, now features a
Read MoreA cohort of content creators say it’s possible to make money on OnlyFans without stripping. I put that claim to the test.
Read MorePlus: The alleged SEC X account hacker gets charged, Kroger wriggles out of a face recognition scandal, and Microsoft deals with missing customer security logs.
Read MoreMacworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent magnetic hold Good adjustment NFC shortcuts are helpful; Fast Qi2 charging Cons High price Our Verdict The MagEZ Car Mount Pro 2 impresses across the board: fast charging, strong hold, and integrated NFC function. No competitor offers a comparable range of functions. Pitaka also offers a version
Read MoreNormally when making a long voyage in a canoe, an adventurer would paddle the vessel as far as possible and then “portage”, or carry, the canoe over the short sections of land separating the bodies of water. Portaging is a lot of work, though, since canoes generally aren’t particularly light or designed for traveling over
Read MoreThe DJI Mavic Pro 3 drone. | Image: DJI DJI, the world’s largest drone company, is suing to avoid being seen as a tool of the Chinese government. On Friday, it sued the US Department of Defense to delete its name from a list of “Chinese Military Companies,” claiming it has no such relationship to
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Read MoreRC cars used to be pretty simple. They’d go forwards, backwards, and steer if you got a full-function toy. However, with modern technology, it’s pretty trivial to make them more advanced. [Stuck at Prototype] demonstrates that nicely with his little Micro Racer Cars. Each little RC car has its own ESP32 running the show, hooked
Read MoreRC cars used to be pretty simple. They’d go forwards, backwards, and steer if you got a full-function toy. However, with modern technology, it’s pretty trivial to make them more advanced. [Stuck at Prototype] demonstrates that nicely with his little Micro Racer Cars. Each little RC car has its own ESP32 running the show, hooked
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Brandon Barrett arrived here two weeks ago, sick but hopeful, like dozens before him. Just a few years back, he could dead lift 660 pounds. After an injury while training to be a professional dirt-bike rider, he opened a motorcycle shop just north of Buffalo.
Read MoreYou normally think of smart glasses as something you wear as either an accessory or, if you need a little assistance, with corrective lenses. But [akhilnagori] has a different kind of smart eyewear. These glasses scan and read text in the user’s ear. This project was inspired by a blind child who enjoyed listening to
Read MoreMicrosoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions. From a report: According to a notification sent to affected customers, Microsoft said that “a bug in one of Microsoft’s internal monitoring agents resulted in
Read MoreAnalogue, a retro gaming company, is releasing a hardware-emulated Nintendo 64 console that can play every N64 game in 4K resolution. TechCrunch reports: Analogue, as is its habit, spent years meticulously re-engineering the N64 in FPGA form — basically, this means that the new 3D console is, in several important ways, indistinguishable from the original
Read MoreThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating farm equipment maker Deere over its repair policies, focusing on whether the company’s restrictions on repairs violate customers’ “right to repair.” Reuters reports: The investigation, authorized on Sept. 2, 2021, focuses on repair restrictions manufacturers place on hardware or software, often referred to by regulators as impeding customers’
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement. The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing IVF, according to undercover video footage.
Read MoreAdult Swim Though Shinichirō Watanabe’s new animated series Lazarus still doesn’t have a solid release date, Adult Swim has just dropped a wild new clip from the project showcasing its parkour-friendly vision of the future. Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them manually would have been tedious, so he turned to a technique he calls
Read MoreCredit: Amazon It was only a matter of time before Amazon revealed its first color e-ink Kindle. After all, color e-ink technology has been in the works for years, with color e-readers from smaller manufacturers hitting the market since 2021. In fact, earlier this year, Kobo, one of the major players in the e-reader space,
Read MoreThe future of phones is flat. | Image: Digital Chat Station on Weibo The next OnePlus flagship looks a little flat — and that’s a good thing. The alleged image of the unreleased OnePlus 13 was posted to Weibo and has been since removed, but not before it was spotted by 9to5Google. It shows the
Read MoreCredit: Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S24 series gets all the glory, including some of the best phones the market has to offer. Those phones can be pricey, though, which is why something like the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE can be a bit of a better option for those who want to
Read MoreCredit: 8bitdo This has to be about the coolest keyboard I’ve seen. It’s like love at first sight, and I am sure all the retro gaming geeks among us will agree. The NES-inspired design is hard to ignore, and so is the deal we have found on it. While it usually costs $99.99, the 8Bitdo
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