Indonesia is a highly populated country with many remote areas across 17,000 islands that lack proper internet services. Now, Starlink might be able to help. Read more: Musk launches Starlink internet services in Indonesia
Read MoreBoth Microsoft and Google have revealed lightweight AI options for customers this year, while some experts are pushing for the efficiency and lower cost of small language models. Read more: Are AI companies shifting to small language models?
Read MoreHow summits in Seoul, France and beyond can galvanize international cooperation on frontier AI safety
Read MoreRonan Murphy, who sits on Ireland’s AI Advisory Council, said the start-up he co-founded in 2021 has more than 300 customers across 40 countries. Read more: Getvisibility: Using AI to help companies keep their data secure
Read MoreOpenAI’s president and CEO claim the company has laid the foundations for the safe deployment of future AI technology, after one of its departing employees claimed safety has taken a ‘backseat to shiny products’. Read more: OpenAI gets defensive after losing top safety researchers
Read More“Last week, we reported on a customer who was charged $277 for gasoline his rented Tesla couldn’t have possibly used,” writes the automotive blog The Drive. “And now, we’ve heard from other Hertz customers who say they’ve been charged even more.” Hertz caught attention last week for how it handled a customer whom it had
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The price of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor will increase “significantly” over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a leaker claimed. That means we could see more expensive high-end phones in 2025 as OEMs might pass these costs on to consumers. This latest rumor comes months after Qualcomm told
Read MoreIn the 1960s, if you were a teenager in the United States, a big part of your life was probably music. There was a seemingly endless supply of both radio stations and 45s to keep you entertained. In the UK and other countries, though, the government held a monopoly on broadcasting, and they were not
Read More“$5,000 in cash had been withdrawn from my checking account — but not by me,” writes journalist Linda Matchan in the Boston Globe. A police station manager reviewed footage from the bank — which was 200 miles away — and deduced that “someone had actually come into the bank and spoken to a teller, presented
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Galaxy Watch 7 was spotted on the FCC website. The listing reveals that Samsung is upping its wireless charging speed by 50%. An FCC listing for the so-called Galaxy Watch FE was also spotted with charging details. Samsung’s next Unpacked event is just over a month away, and
Read MoreThe Valve Index VR headset has been around for a few years now. It doesn’t come with eye or face tracking, but that didn’t stop inspired folks like [Physics-Dude] from adding DIY solutions in elegant and effective ways using a combination of hardware, open software, and 3D printable parts. The whole assembly integrates tightly, thanks
Read MoreAndroid 15 Beta 2 can now automatically sync your Android profile picture with your Google Account photo. This is powered by a new Google Pixel Avatar App, which stores your Android profile picture and makes it available to other apps. Currently, only select system apps can retrieve your Android profile picture. Google will be releasing
Read MoreIf there was one question we heard most often this week, it was “Did you see it?” With “it” referring to the stunning display of aurora borealis — and australis, we assume — on and off for several days. The major outburst here in North America was actually late last week, with aurora extending as
Read MoreIllustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge A security lapse could let millions of college students do free laundry, thanks to one company. That’s because of a vulnerability that two University of California, Santa Cruz students found in internet-connected washing machines in commercial use in several countries, according to TechCrunch. The two students, Alexander Sherbrooke
Read MoreThis week the nonprofit Linux Foundation announced the launch of the High Performance Software Foundation, which “aims to build, promote, and advance a portable core software stack for high performance computing” (or HPC) by “increasing adoption, lowering barriers to contribution, and supporting development efforts.” It promises initiatives focused on “continuously built, turnkey software stacks,” as
Read MoreThere is an easy way to see a list of everything Apple talked about at WWDC sessions since 2000, without manually combing through Apple’s pages. Here’s how to do it. Dive into app & game development through new ‘Apple Pathways’ hub WWDC is an invaluable resource for developers. The recorded sessions provide valuable insights for
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the blog OMG Ubuntu: Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of us now log into after installing Ubuntu, anyone
Read MoreIf there was one question we heard most often this week, it was “Did you see it?” With “it” referring to the stunning display of aurora borealis — and australis, we assume — on and off for several days. The major outburst here in North America was actually late last week, with aurora extending as
Read MoreEven though not all of us will do it, many of us are interested in the art of casting metal. It remains a process that’s not out of reach, though, especially for metals such as aluminium whose melting points are reachable with a gas flame. The video below the break takes us through the aluminium
Read More“Blue Origin’s tourism rocket has launched passengers to the edge of space for the first time in nearly two years,” reports CNN, “ending a hiatus prompted by a failed uncrewed test flight.” The New Shepard rocket and capsule lifted off at 9:36 a.m. CT (10:36 a.m. ET) from Blue Origin’s facilities on a private ranch
Read MoreA 2023 Mac Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Mac Studio and Mac Pro aren’t due for an upgrade to Apple’s M4 chip until the middle of next year. That means both machines will still be on Apple’s M2 generation this year, unlike all other Macs except the MacBook Air,
Read More“The TIOBE Index sets out to reflect the relative popularity of computer languages,” writes i-Programmer, “so it comes as something of a surprise to see two languages dating from the 1950’s in this month’s Top 20. Having broken into the the Top 20 in April 2021 Fortran has continued to rise and has now risen
Read MorePodcaster and Apple TV enthusiast Sigmund Judge has spent $600 and “a stressful afternoon” replacing the keycaps on his new 11-inch iPad Pro’s white Magic Keyboard. The new white aluminum Magic Keyboard, modded with black keys. In a post on Mastodon, Judge showed evidence of his latest DIY project. After buying two aluminum Magic Keyboards,
Read MoreA 2023 Mac Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Mac Studio and Mac Pro aren’t due for an upgrade to Apple’s M4 chip until the middle of next year. That means both machines will still be on Apple’s M2 generation this year, unlike all other Macs except the MacBook Air,
Read MoreA 2023 Mac Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Mac Studio and Mac Pro aren’t due for an upgrade to Apple’s M4 chip until the middle of next year. That means both machines will still be on Apple’s M2 generation this year, unlike all other Macs except the MacBook Air,
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