The US plans to double the tariffs on Chinese semiconductors, but is also increasing tariffs on EVs, solar cells, batteries and critical minerals. Read more: US raises tariffs on Chinese chips as trade war ramps up
Read MoreIf you need to make polyurethane belts in custom lengths, it’s not too hard. You just need to take lengths of flexible polyurethane filament, heat the ends, and join them together. In practice, it’s difficult to get it right by hand. That’s why [JBVCreative] built a 3D printed jig to make it easy. The jig
Read MoreWithout variables, programming languages are next to useless. Fortunately, JavaScript’s variable system is incredibly powerful and versatile. This article shows you how to use JavaScript variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and other data types. Once you’ve stored this information, you can use it anywhere in your program. All about JavaScript variables Here’s what
Read MorePhilip Ball reports via Scientific American: Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues who were simply trying to put together a compendium of human DNA functions.
Read MoreCredit: Sony Sony has officially launched the Xperia 1 VI. The Xperia 1 VI has a FHD+ OLED display, a 5,000mAh battery, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. The new Xperia 1 will cost £1299/€1399 with pre-orders starting on May 15. It has been about a year since the Xperia 1 V launched, and
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Sony Sony has just announced the Xperia 10 VI smartphone. The mid-range device brings a 3.5mm port, microSD card support, and an upgraded processor. The device still sticks with a 60Hz OLED screen and drops last year’s telephoto camera, though. Sony’s Xperia 10 range of mid-range phones aren’t amazing devices, but they
Read MoreThe new jobs will be across IT, operations, sales and transport and Primeline expects its new facility to secure new customers. Read more: Primeline Group to create 400 jobs at Meath distribution site
Read MoreFrom left to right: Wireless Temperature Sensor X, Heat Pump Optimizer X, Thermostat X, and two Smart Radiator Thermostat X | Image: Tado Tado just launched a new range of heating products — called Tado X — that supports the Matter smart home protocol. It joins Nest as being one of the few (only?) European
Read MoreAt Google I/O today, Google introduced a “next-generation AI assistant” called Project Astra that can “make sense of what your phone’s camera sees,” reports Wired. It follows yesterday’s launch of GPT-4o, a new AI model from OpenAI that can quickly respond to prompts via voice and talk about what it ‘sees’ through a smartphone camera
Read MoreWhen we think about self-driving cars, we normally think about big projects measured in billions of dollars, all funded by major automakers. But you can still dive into this world on a smaller scale, as [jmoreno555] demonstrates. The build consists of a small RC car—an HSP 94123, in fact. It’s got a simple brushed motor
Read MoreLater this month, Comcast will launch a three-way bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+. It will “come at a vastly reduced price to anything in the market today,” said. Comcast chief Brian Roberts. Variety reports: The goal is to “add value to consumers” and at the same time “take some of the dollars out
Read MoreUsers reported that various Meta applications were down Tuesday night, including Instagram and Facebook. Facebook Meta services were down with outages centered around New York and California for a few hours Tuesday. Smaller outages around the country indicated it may have been a server-side issue. Reports of Instagram and Facebook outages appeared on Downdetector starting
Read MoreIt can be easy to get carried away with tagging files in Finder. If manually organizing them seems too daunting, you can always go back to square one. If you’re overflowing with tags, it’s easy enough to get back on track. Finder’s tags can, for some, seem like a pesky waste of space in their
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Starting in June of last year, global temperatures went from very hot to extreme. Every single month since June, the globe has experienced the hottest temperatures for that month on record — that’s 11 months in a row now, enough to ensure that 2023 was the
Read MoreOperating systems! They’re everywhere these days, from your smart TV to your smartphone. And even in your microcontrollers! Enter BreadboardOS for the Raspberry Pi Pico. BreadboardOS is built on top of FreeRTOS. It’s aim is to enable quick prototyping with the Pi Pico. Don’t confuse operating system with GUI—BreadboardOS is command-line based. You’d typically interface
Read MoreLugnaquilla in the Wicklow mountains is the highest point in Leinster, but for one researcher it offers views not just of the beautiful landscape but into our deep past and potential futures. Read more: A song of ice and climate: How Ireland’s glacial past can predict our future
Read MoreOne day after OpenAI showed off an all-new, emotional version of ChatGPT, the company announced that chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company. He had voted in November to fire CEO Sam Altman.
Read MoreAt its I/O developer conference today, Google announced Veo, its latest generative AI video model, that “can generate ‘high-quality’ 1080p resolution videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic styles,” reports The Verge. From the report: Veo has “an advanced understanding of natural language,” according to Google’s press release,
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge This is not a joke: Google will now let you perform a “web” search. It’s rolling out “web” searches now, and in my early tests on desktop, it’s looking like it could be an incredibly popular change to Google’s search engine. The optional setting filters out almost all the other blocks of
Read MoreOne day after OpenAI showed off an all-new, emotional version of ChatGPT, the company announced that chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company. He had voted in November to fire CEO Sam Altman.
Read MoreOne day after OpenAI showed off an all-new, emotional version of ChatGPT, the company announced that chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company. He had voted in November to fire CEO Sam Altman.
Read MoreSmartphones are an integral part of life, but what if you can’t see the screen? There is text-to-speech available, but that’s not always handy and can be slow. It also doesn’t help users who can’t hear or see. Refreshable braille devices are also available, but they are expensive and not very convenient to use. [Bmajorspin]
Read MoreOpenAI’s co-founder and Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the company to work on “something personally meaningful,” wrote CEO Sam Altman in a post on X. “This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. […] I
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist who helped lead the infamous failed coup against Sam Altman and then later changed his mind, is officially leaving the company. Both Altman and Sutskever have posts announcing the news: Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya
Read MoreGoogle and OpenAI have announced significant updates for their AI models and features, creating more competition for Apple ahead of WWDC. Apple will has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to compete with Google and OpenAI On Monday, OpenAI announced its innovative GPT-4o AI model and an all-new Mac app, while
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