With the rising popularity of workplace diversity initiatives, it is important that we all be able to recognise when a company is talking the talk, without walking the walk. Read more: Knowing your green flags from your red: Is your company DEI washing?
Read MoreMacworld macOS Sequoia will arrive later today (Monday, September 16) at around 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET, and 6 p.m. BST. If you want to know what time the new operating system is likely to become available on your Mac and want to know what new features are coming, and whether your Mac will
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Apple Watch SE 3 was initially rumored to launch last week, along with the Series 10 model and iPhone 16 line. Apple didn’t end up refreshing its budget smartwatch this time around and has reportedly pushed it to next year. The upcoming Apple Watch SE will likely retire
Read MoreThe gang is demanding a ransom and threatening to release the stolen data on the dark web. Read more: Cyber gang Rhysida holds Port of Seattle data hostage
Read MoreAn EFF article calls out a “brazen attempt to privatize” a wireless frequency band (900 MHz) which America’s FCC’s left ” as a commons for all… for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment.” The spectrum has also become “a hotbed for new technologies and community-driven projects. Millions
Read MoreCredit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Android 15 will introduce a “Backup and restore” feature for Health Connect, allowing users to back up their data to the cloud with options for daily, weekly, or monthly intervals. This feature might only be available on devices running Android 15 or higher and won’t allow local storage backups,
Read MoreCredit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Android 15 will introduce a “Backup and restore” feature for Health Connect, allowing users to back up their data to the cloud with options for daily, weekly, or monthly intervals. This feature might only be available on devices running Android 15 or higher and won’t allow local storage backups,
Read MoreFlappy Bird’s original creator hasn’t posted anything on social media since 2017. Until today. “This morning, the game’s creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically terse comment stating that he has nothing to do with the revival,” report TechCrunch, “and that he ‘did not sell anything.’ He added, ‘I also don’t support crypto’… The post makes
Read MoreFlappy Bird’s original creator hasn’t posted anything on social media since 2017. Until today. “This morning, the game’s creator Dong Nguyen posted a characteristically terse comment stating that he has nothing to do with the revival,” report TechCrunch, “and that he ‘did not sell anything.’ He added, ‘I also don’t support crypto’… The post makes
Read More[Ken] from the YouTube channel What’s Ken Making is back with another MiSTer video detailing the TapTo project and its integration into MiSTer. MiSTer, as some may recall, is a set of FPGA images and a supporting ecosystem for the Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA board, which hosts the very capable Altera Cyclone V FPGA. The TeensyROM C64 cart supports TapTo The concept
Read MoreFor 30 days, 17,000 AT&T workers in nine different states from the CWA union went on strike. As it began one North Carolina newspaper noted some AT&T customers “report prolonged internet outages.” Last week an Emory University economist told NPR that “If it wasn’t disruptive or it didn’t have any kind of negative element towards
Read MoreBasing his analysis on slipping ship times from Apple’s ordering web page, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple is seeing lower demand for the high-end iPhone 16 models and higher sales for the regular iPhone 16, along with the iPhone 16 Plus. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus appear to be the top sellers
Read MoreThe New York Times looks at “a third-generation family firm” in Paraguay “with 280 workers that packages hot sauce, soy beans…and seven kinds of salt for sale in Paraguayan supermarkets.” Its mascot — on t-shirts, coffee cups, and “in heavy demand at Paraguayan weddings” — is a mouse named Mickey. 51-year-old Viviana Blasco — one
Read More“Even black holes have edge cases,” writes Astronomy magazine contributing editor Steve Nadis, in an article in Quanta magazine (republished today by Wired): Black holes rotate in space. As matter falls into them, they start to spin faster; if that matter has charge, they also become electrically charged. In principle, a black hole can reach
Read MoreLast October Slashdot reported on René Rebe’s discovery of a random illegal instruction speculation bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe discussed on his YouTube channel. But this week’s YouTube episode had a different ending, reports Tom’s Hardware… Two days ago, tech streamer and host of Code Therapy René
Read MoreLast October Slashdot reported on René Rebe’s discovery of a random illegal instruction speculation bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe discussed on his YouTube channel. But this week’s YouTube episode had a different ending, reports Tom’s Hardware… Two days ago, tech streamer and host of Code Therapy René
Read MoreIn 2015 Amazon purchased chip designer Annapurna Labs, remembers IEEE Spectrum, “and proceeded to design CPUs, AI accelerators, servers, and data centers as a vertically-integrated operation.” The article argues that while AMD, Nvidia, and other big-name processor companies may also want to control the full stack (purchasing server, software, and interconnect companies) — Amazon Web
Read More“It is with great relief that I welcome you home!” SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell posted on X. “This mission was even more extraordinary than I anticipated.” “SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home,” reports CNN, “capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the
Read MoreCredit: Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority A fresh render of the Galaxy S25 Ultra shows off the difference between it and the S24 Ultra. It’s said Samsung will tweak the metal frame to be thinner and lighter with rounded corners. The Galaxy S25 Ultra is expected to get some design changes that should make it
Read MoreApple is significantly increasing prices for out-of-warranty battery replacements, this time for the iPhone 16 Pro models. The new metal casing for the iPhone 16 Pro batteries could increase servicing costs. [X/KosumiSan] The new cost of an out-of-warranty battery replacement for the two larger models of the latest iPhone is $119, up from the $99
Read MoreIn 1980 a 23-year-old woman was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant in a small county in central Kansas. 44 years later, the county sheriff made a Facebook post… Over the years, dozens of law enforcement officers looked at the case to no avail. In mid-2022 I was approached by Detective Sgt. Adam Hales
Read MoreIt was one year ago that “an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe,” reports the Washington Post. “A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling…” Some initially thought the seismic instruments recording the signal were broken, but that was
Read MoreEVs can burn for days, firefighters have little or no training to deal with them, and conventional equipment isn’t effective. But new technology is being developed that should make all the difference.
Read MoreImage: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 52, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I swear I don’t always just share absurdly expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve
Read More“For 75 years Cosm built planetariums,” reports a Texas news station, “and then a few years ago realized this technology could take you from the night sky to anywhere under the sun.” So now Los Angeles and Dallas have massive 9,600-square-foot, 8K-resolution screens that one reviewer for SFGate calls “an absolute game-changer” for sports fans.
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