Tap the waveform icon, circled above, to search with sound. | Screenshots: YouTube Music The Android YouTube Music app is rolling out a feature that’s part Shazam and part your friend when you say, “hey what’s that song that goes…” right before you hum out a bar. The feature lets you hum, whistle, sing, or
Read More“Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions,” writes New Atlas, “but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time.” Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only purifies iron but produces “reactivated cement” as a byproduct. If done using renewable energy, the process could make for completely carbon-zero
Read MoreThursday long-time Slashdot reader mschaffer reported that “Microsoft’s search engine isn’t working correctly, and many alternative search engines that rely on it are down, too.” Bing started “having issues” around 1:30 a.m. EST, reports SearchEngineLand (citing Downdector.com, and sharing screenshots of Bing.com searches failing — even on partner sites like DuckDuckGo). By Thursday morning search
Read MoreAs those of us who worked in the consumer software world back when physical media was king can attest, when a master disc has been sent for duplication and distribution there is no turning back from whatever code is in the hands of thousands of users. Usually such worries were confined to bugs or inadvertently
Read MoreRoughly 160,000 U.S.-based amateur radio enthusiasts belong to the American Radio Relay League, a nonprofit with 100 full-time and part-time staff members. Nine days ago it announced “that it suffered a cyberattack that disrupted its network and systems,” reports BleepingComputer, “including various online services hosted by the organization.” “We are in the process of responding
Read MoreFounded in 1963, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers held a special event Sunday that they said would be “inspiring engineering for the next 50 years.” The event featured talks on the origins of the internet from 80-year-old “father of the internet” Vint Cerf, along with John Shoch (who helped develop the Ethernet and
Read MoreIn the future, “Probably none of us will have a job,” Elon Musk said Thursday, speaking remotely to the VivaTech 2024 conference in Paris. Instead, jobs will be optional — something we’d do like a hobby — “But otherwise, AI and the robots will provide any goods and services that you want.” CNN reports that
Read MoreAmidst the push for more low-carbon energy, we see the demolishing of one of the pillars of electric grids: that of a careful balancing between supply and demand. This is not just a short-term affair. It also affects the construction of new power plants, investments in transmission capacity, and so on. The problem with having
Read MoreThursday long-time Slashdot reader mschaffer reported that “Microsoft’s search engine isn’t working correctly, and many alternative search engines that rely on it are down, too.” Bing started “having issues” around 1:30 a.m. EST, reports SearchEngineLand (citing Downdector.com, and sharing screenshots of Bing.com searches failing — even on partner sites like DuckDuckGo). By Thursday morning search
Read MoreRoughly 160,000 U.S.-based amateur radio enthusiasts belong to the American Radio Relay League, a nonprofit with 100 full-time and part-time staff members. Nine days ago it announced “that it suffered a cyberattack that disrupted its network and systems,” reports BleepingComputer, “including various online services hosted by the organization.” “We are in the process of responding
Read MoreUPI reports that the British government covered up “a multi-decade tainted blood scandal, leading to thousands of related deaths, a report published Monday found.” Britain’s National Health Service allowed blood tainted with HIV and Hepatitis to be used on patients without their knowledge, leading to 3,000 deaths and more than 30,000 infections, according to the
Read MoreImage: Bungie A jury found on Friday that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2, reported Stephen Totilo, who has written about Bungie’s cheating lawsuits for Axios. The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that
Read MoreA few days ago, Microsoft introduced a new Copilot app for Windows 11, which has a new user interface and is only available to some testers in the Insider Program. If the app receives a positive response, it will be added to the stable builds of Windows 11. So, what’s new in the new Copilot
Read MoreBesides investigations into Cruise and Waymo, America’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also announced it’s examining two rear-end collisions between motorbikes and Amazon’s steering wheel-free Zoox vehicles being tested in San Francisco, Seattle, and Las Vegas. This means all three major self-driving vehicle companies “are facing federal investigations over potential flaws linked to dozens
Read MoreIn the eternal quest to find more things to do with 3D printers, shoes have been in the spotlight for a while now. But how practical is additive manufacturing in this field really? Adidas Ultra 4D running shoes with 3D printed midsole. This is where [Joel Telling] of the 3D Printing Nerd YouTube channel puts
Read MoreThe coupon special knocks $200 off Apple’s latest 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 chip and bump up to 16GB unified memory. Plus, grab a $50 discount on three years of AppleCare. Save $200 on an upgraded M3 MacBook Pro. The upgraded 14-inch MacBook Pro in Space Gray is equipped with Apple’s M3 chip with
Read MoreThe coupon special knocks $200 off Apple’s latest 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 chip and bump up to 16GB unified memory. Plus, grab a $50 discount on three years of AppleCare. Save $200 on an upgraded M3 MacBook Pro. The upgraded 14-inch MacBook Pro in Space Gray is equipped with Apple’s M3 chip with
Read MoreYou can get Garmin’s Epix Pro for $799.99 right now, along with tablets, earbuds, and plenty of other items. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge The summer solstice may be when summer officially kicks off, but for many of us, it starts as soon as temperatures begin to rise and the smell of
Read MoreWhile you probably haven’t thought about it in years, the first mainstream universal messenger app for the Mac and just about every other platform will finally be completely retired in June 2024. Owner Mail.ru’s announcement that the messaging program is being discontinued Twenty-eight years is a long time for an net-based app to survive. For
Read More“Apple’s done a fantastic job of really innovating on the Mac,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the Wall Street Journal in a video interview this week. . Then he said “We are gonna outperform them” with the upcoming Copilot+ laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung that have been completely reengineered for AI
Read MoreYour ICQ number is finally shuffling off to the great beyond. Russian company VK, which has been the service’s steward since 2010, published a message Friday that simply reads, “ICQ will stop working from June 26th,” and implores users to switch to its other chat solutions. ICQ was among the crop of early instant messenger
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images We’ve curated a collection of great gifts that should appease any dad, from tabletop games and tools to some of our favorite tech. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Atlantic argued this week that OpenAI “just gave away the entire game… The Johansson scandal is merely a reminder of AI’s manifest-destiny philosophy: This is happening, whether you like it or not.” But the Washington Post reports that OpenAI “didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show.” [W]hile many hear an eerie resemblance
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPZ3tL0ShU Around three years ago, my husband and I moved from Lebanon to Paris. Going from a country where we had to plan every trip months in advance to a country where we could hop on a train and go anywhere in Europe was life-changing. No Visa applications, no SIM card change, and no new
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