A McDonald’s in Pittsburgh. | Photo: Paul Weaver / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images If your local McDonald’s has been getting your order confidently wrong with an AI chatbot at the drive-thru, I have good news for you: The company is ending the program for now. The company told franchisees that it’s winding
Read MoreDirector Steven Spielberg was giving a talk when his Apple Watch suddenly said he’d taken a hard fall. His reaction to the false alarm ended up making matters worse. Pressing the onscreen “X” will cancel any sort of false alarm on the Apple Watch. Although false warnings from an Apple Watch are rare, they are
Read MoreWednesday the annual electric vehicle outlook report was released by market researcher BloombergNEF. And the analyst wrote that “Our long-term outlook for EVs remains bright,” according to the Los Angeles Times: In 2023, EVs made up 18% of global passenger-vehicle sales. By 2030, according to the report, 45% will be EVs. That number jumps to
Read MoreDirector Steven Spielberg was giving a talk at the Tribeca Festival when his Apple Watch suddenly said he’d taken a hard fall. His reaction to the false alarm ended up making matters worse. Pressing the onscreen “X” will cancel any sort of false alarm on the Apple Watch. Although false warnings from an Apple Watch
Read MoreBloomberg reports: A disease caused by a rare “flesh-eating bacteria” that can kill people within 48 hours is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed Covid-era restrictions. Cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) reached 977 this year by June 2, higher than the record 941 cases reported for all of last year, according to
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple reportedly wants the iPhone 17 to be significantly thinner. The company is also working on making the MacBook Pro and Apple Watch thinner. The plan is to make these devices the thinnest and lightest in their categories across the industry. When Apple launched the new thinner iPad Pro
Read MoreWhatsApp, the popular Meta-owned instant messaging platform, is reportedly developing a new feature that will allow Android users to transfer chat history from their old phones using a QR code. WhatsApp allows chat migration between iOS and Android devices WABetaInfo, a known WhatsApp tipster publication, discovered the new feature in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority For the past few years, buying a laptop has been pretty straightforward. First, you decide whether you want a Windows laptop, a Chromebook, or a MacBook. Then, you pick a budget and buy something you like that fits within it. That was all it took. In late 2024, though,
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority When Google shut down its Play Music app in 2020, I switched to Spotify — like many others, almost out of spite, but also because the new platform wasn’t nearly as fully featured as the one it replaced. But nearly four years have passed since then and Spotify’s frequent
Read MoreImage: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 42, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about Excel, reading
Read MoreZDNet published a new article this week with their own tips for new Linux users. It begins by arguing that switching to the Linux desktop “is easier than you think” and “you’ll find help everywhere”. (And also that “You won’t want for apps.”) That doesn’t mean it has everything. For example, there is no version
Read MoreThe United States and China appear locked in a race to weaponize four-legged robots for military applications.
Read MoreThe United States and China appear locked in a race to weaponize four-legged robots for military applications.
Read More“Titanium that was distributed with fake documentation has been found in commercial Boeing and Airbus jets,” reports CNN. America’s Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating whether those components pose a safety hazard to the public,” along with the manufacturers of the aircraft and supplier Spirit AeroSystems. “A parts supplier found small holes in the material
Read More[endes0] has been hacking with USB HID recently, and a Logitech M185 mouse’s USB receiver has fallen into their hands. Unlike many Logitech mice, this one doesn’t include a Unifying receiver, though it’s capable of pairing to one. Instead, it comes with a pre-paired CU0019 receiver that, it turns out, is based on a fairly
Read More[endes0] has been hacking with USB HID recently, and a Logitech M185 mouse’s USB receiver has fallen into their hands. Unlike many Logitech mice, this one doesn’t include a Unifying receiver, though it’s capable of pairing to one. Instead, it comes with a pre-paired CU0019 receiver that, it turns out, is based on a fairly
Read More[endes0] has been hacking with USB HID recently, and a Logitech M185 mouse’s USB receiver has fallen into their hands. Unlike many Logitech mice, this one doesn’t include a Unifying receiver, though it’s capable of pairing to one. Instead, it comes with a pre-paired CU0019 receiver that, it turns out, is based on a fairly
Read MoreLast month TIOBE announced its estimate that the four most popular programming languages were: 1. Python 2. C 3. C++ 4. Java But this month C++ “overtook” C for the first time, TIOBE announced, becoming (according to the same methodology) the #2 most popular programming language, with C dropping to #3. ” C++ has never
Read MoreLast month TIOBE announced its estimate that the four most popular programming languages were: 1. Python 2. C 3. C++ 4. Java But this month C++ “overtook” C for the first time, TIOBE announced, becoming (according to the same methodology) the #2 most popular programming language, with C dropping to #3. ” C++ has never
Read MoreLast month TIOBE announced its estimate that the four most popular programming languages were: 1. Python 2. C 3. C++ 4. Java But this month C++ “overtook” C for the first time, TIOBE announced, becoming (according to the same methodology) the #2 most popular programming language, with C dropping to #3. ” C++ has never
Read MoreClimbers care a lot about their ropes because their lives literally depend on them. And while there’s been tremendous progress in climbing rope tech since people first started falling onto hemp fibers, there are still accidents where rope failure is to blame. This long, detailed, and interesting video from [Hard is Easy] follows him on
Read MoreClimbers care a lot about their ropes because their lives literally depend on them. And while there’s been tremendous progress in climbing rope tech since people first started falling onto hemp fibers, there are still accidents where rope failure is to blame. This long, detailed, and interesting video from [Hard is Easy] follows him on
Read MoreClimbers care a lot about their ropes because their lives literally depend on them. And while there’s been tremendous progress in climbing rope tech since people first started falling onto hemp fibers, there are still accidents where rope failure is to blame. This long, detailed, and interesting video from [Hard is Easy] follows him on
Read MoreThe $22 million paid by Change Healthcare’s parent company to unlock its systems “may have emboldened bad actors to further target the vulnerable industry,” writes Axios: There were 44 attacks against the health care sector in April, the most that [cybersecurity firm] Recorded Future has seen in the four years it’s been collecting data. It
Read MoreThe New York Times magazine remembers that once upon a time, in the early 1990s, “some prominent researchers were promoting, and the media helped popularize, the idea that moderate drinking…was linked to greater longevity. “The cause of that association was not clear, but red wine, researchers theorized, might have anti-inflammatory properties that extended life and
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