Founded by Dr Dara Meldrum in Trinity College Dublin, Vertigenius has developed a sensor and app that can help monitor the treatment of vertigo from home. Read more: Vertigenius raises €2.1m and creates 10 jobs for vertigo treatment tech
Read MoreThe Atoto S8 Pro is an aftermarket infotainment system with wireless CarPlay, GPS tracking, and a pile of other features in a design with a serious weak point. Atoto S8 Pro Wireless CarPlay receiver review: a big display for CarPlay Sometimes, products come to the market built to do a single, specific thing well. The
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: A key supplier to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is building a $20 million supercomputer with buzzy chipmaker Nvidia to speed deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities across the U.S. federal government, the MITRE think tank said Tuesday. MITRE, a federally funded, not-for-profit research organization
Read MoreThe Mostly Printed CNC is famous for two things. First, being made mostly from 3D printed parts and commonly available steel tubing. Second, because of the materials used, its rigidity isn’t fantastic. But any CNC router is better than no CNC router, and [Alex Reiner]’s “Mostly Mostly Printed CNC” upgrades the base MPCNC into a
Read MoreLawyers for the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX said customers would receive all the money they lost when the firm collapsed in 2022 and receive interest on top of it. “But the recoveries come with a caveat,” reports the New York Times. “The amount owed to customers was calculated based on the value of their holdings
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Amazon plans to start flying delivery drones in Arizona this year — but don’t count on them to bring you a refreshing drink on a hot day. The hexacopter can’t operate when temperatures top 104 degrees Fahrenheit, or 40 degrees Celsius, the company says, and average daily
Read More“With all the improvements in car safety over the decades, the recent addition of a plethora of high tech sensors and warnings comes with increased costs,” writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. “And not just to have to have them on your car. Any time you get into an accident, even a minor one, it
Read MoreAt the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said today’s ChatGPT chatbot “will be laughably bad” compared to what it’ll be capable of a year from now. “We think we’re going to move toward a world where they’re much more capable,” he added. Business Insider reports: Lightcap says large
Read MoreIf you haven’t worked with the US government, you might not know Mitre, a non-profit government research organization. Formed in 1958 by the U.S. Air Force as a company to guide the SAGE computer, they are often research experts who oversee government contracts or evaluate proposals. Now they are building a $20 millon “AI Sandbox”
Read MorePam Belluck reports via the New York Times: Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer’s that would mean that up to a fifth of patients would be considered to have a genetically caused form of the disease. Currently, the vast majority of Alzheimer’s cases do not have a clearly identified
Read MoreApple’s latest stylus will only work with its newest iPads. The long-running second-gen Apple Pencil—which the company still sells—will not.
Read MoreWayve, a UK-based AI firm focused on developing self-driving car technology, has secured a record $1.05 billion in funding, with Microsoft and Nvidia participating in the round led by SoftBank. According to the BBC, this investment is the largest for an AI company in Europe. The BBC reports: Wayve says the funding will allow it
Read MoreOpenAI is reportedly enhancing ChatGPT with a new feature that enables the AI to perform web searches and cite sources, according to Bloomberg, positioning it as a direct competitor to Google’s search engine and AI startups like Perplexity. This development could significantly change how users interact with ChatGPT by integrating more dynamic and referenced information
Read MoreWayve, a UK-based AI firm focused on developing self-driving car technology, has secured a record $1.05 billion in funding, with Microsoft and Nvidia participating in the round led by SoftBank. According to the BBC, this investment is the largest for an AI company in Europe. The BBC reports: Wayve says the funding will allow it
Read MoreThe 2024 iPad Air still offers a nice display, though, not as nice as the OLED display on the new iPad Pro. | Screenshot: Apple After nearly a two-year wait, Apple finally updated its iPad lineup with a thinner iPad Pro and new iPad Air. The new tablets start at $999 and $599, respectively, and
Read MoreThe Raspberry Pi finds a use in a huge variety of applications, and in almost any location you could imagine. Sadly those who use those machines might not be in the same place as the machines themselves, and thus there’s the question of providing a remote connection between the two. This may not be a
Read MoreSolar panels point to the sky at the Weesow-Wilmersdorf solar park on May 3rd, 2024, near Grischow, Germany. | Photo by Maja Hitij / Getty Images The amount of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants likely peaked in 2023, according to the annual global electricity review by energy think tank Ember.
Read MoreWith newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption. Introduced May 1, Deno 1.43 can be accessed via running the deno upgrade command in a terminal. Deno Land developers have reworked many aspects of the Deno language server, commonly referred
Read MoreA case maker has listed out protective cases for the Pixel 9 series, confirming rumored design changes. The listings support rumors of three Pixel 9 models, including a new, smaller Pixel 9 Pro. The Pixel Fold 2 case listing suggests it may launch alongside the Pixel 9 series this fall. With the Google Pixel 9
Read MoreThe ACP provided a broadband subsidy for millions of Americans. Now Congress has a plan to reinstate it.
Read MoreFor the second time, the disgraced former CEO of Theranos has had her federal prison sentence shortened. In July, it was reduced by two years. Now, 40-year-old Holmes is scheduled for release on August 16, 2032 instead of December 29, 2032 — a reduction of more than four months. The Guardian reports: People incarcerated in
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Department of Justice has unsealed charges against a Russian national accused of developing and administrating LockBit ransomware. In a filing on Tuesday, the DOJ claims the 31-year-old Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev helped make LockBit one of “the most prolific and destructive ransomware group[s] in the world.” Khoroshev
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a major shake-up of its chip roadmap, Apple has announced a new M4 processor for today’s iPad Pro refresh, barely six months after releasing the first MacBook Pros with the M3 and not even two months after updating the MacBook Air with the M3. Apple
Read MoreEMBARGO: June 15, 2021, 10:30am ET | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Elon Musk doesn’t like lidar, the laser sensor that powers many companies’ self-driving ambitions. He previously called it a “crutch” and said any company that relies on lidar for its autonomous capabilities was “doomed.” Well, apparently Tesla is stocking up on
Read MoreThe iPad Pro line has boasted Apple’s flagship display technology for the last six years, starting with a ProMotion LED display, stopping at at miniLED backlighting for a while, then arriving at tandem OLED. Here’s how they compare. iPad Pro display technology has come a long way Apple revealed the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro
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