A new battery from Energizer comes with “color alert technology” to alert parents if their child has swallowed one. When the coin lithium battery comes into contact with saliva, it activates a blue dye “so parents and caregivers know that medical attention could be required,” reports the New York Times. The battery also features more
Read MoreGoogle employees from Flutter, Dart and Python claim the company is reducing roles, while others claim the roles are being moved to new locations. Read more: Google reportedly cuts hundreds of staff from core teams
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/Evan Blass A trusted leaker has posted a bunch of screenshots showing off a Pixel 8a product page. The screenshots confirm seven years of updates, as well as a host of Pixel 8 series features. The Google Pixel 8a is expected to launch this month, but we’ve already seen a ton of leaks so
Read MoreBeing able to make a request using Siri while driving helps keep your eyes on the road, but just asking for Siri may not work on older cars or in certain other circumstances. Here’s the fix. For most people using CarPlay, being able to call the vocal assistant Siri up by simply saying its name
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act” now has the support of 60 US
Read MoreOne of the greatest things about the hacker ecosystem is that whole standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants thing. Somebody makes something and shares it, and then someone else takes that thing and remixes it, sometimes making it objectively better. For their T3rminal cyberdeck, [calebholloway08] was inspired by a number of projects and came up with something that looks simply
Read MoreThe European Health Data Space will standardise electronic health records across the EU and could benefit Ireland greatly – if the country prepares for its arrival. Read more: What will the European Health Data Space mean for Ireland?
Read MoreCredit: Walmart YouTuber SuperDell-TV got his hands on Walmart’s unreleased Onn 4K Pro Google TV box. The leaked device features powerful specs, Dolby Vision/Atmos support, and hands-free functionality. While Walmart hasn’t officially announced the Onn 4K Pro, its price could be around $50. Google’s I/O conference might bring a new Chromecast with Google TV, but
Read MoreAccording to CNBC, Google is laying off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams and moving some roles to India and Mexico. From the report: The Core unit is responsible for building the technical foundation behind the company’s flagship products and for protecting users’ online safety, according to Google’s website. Core teams include key
Read MoreThe ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet by the Justice Department has revealed that Google paid Apple a staggering $20 billion in 2022 for default search engine status. In 2022, Alphabet paid Apple $20 billion Google’s relationship has been under heavy scrutiny during an antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of using its size as an advantage
Read MorePicking a storage medium for data preservation can be a conflicting time. Sure, they say optical storage tends to last, but it can’t be as straightforward as just burning everything onto Blu-Rays, right? Here’s a paper from Canadian Conservation Institute, teaching you the basics of using compact disks for data storage, it appears, without missing
Read MoreNew submitter berghem shares a report from The Guardian: For the first time, researchers have formally shown that exposure to toxic PFAS increases the likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, adding a new level of concern to the controversial chemicals’ wide use. The findings are especially significant because proving an association with death by chemical
Read MoreUnity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former CEO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member. “Filling a role that has been temporarily filled by former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, Bromberg will formally join Unity as CEO on May 15,” reports VentureBeat. “Whitehurst will serve as executive chair of the Unity board, and
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for money to continue a broadband-affordability program that gave out its last round of $30 discounts to people with low incomes in April. The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has lowered monthly Internet bills
Read MoreThe company’s decision to eliminate the team building its charging infrastructure comes at a delicate time for the EV industry. Other players are eager to pick up where Tesla left off.
Read MoreAnthropic has released its Claude AI chatbot on the App Store, bringing the company’s ChatGPT competitor to the masses. Compared to OpenAI’s chatbot, Claude is built with a focus on reducing harmful outputs and promoting safety, with a goal of making interactions more reliable and ethically aware. You can give it a try here. 9to5Mac
Read MoreThe Asus ROG Ally. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge What is Asus hiding? Two weeks ago, I told you how Asus has officially extended its warranty on the ROG Ally gaming handheld’s SD card reader to two full years in the United States, presumably to give you more time to get it
Read MoreRoblox announced it’ll be rolling out virtual billboards with video advertisements that will be displayed in its virtual worlds. Reuters reports: Users will now see billboards featuring content from brands such as e.l.f beauty, Walmart and Warner Bros Discovery, just as they would in real life. That would give advertisers access to Roblox’s nearly 72
Read MoreThis week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for BitTorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do?
Read MoreWhy wait? | Image: Netflix Want to try the nine games that Netflix now streams from cloud servers directly to your laptop, desktop, or TV? Officially, you’re supposed to wait until the beta rolls out more broadly, but for now, there may be an easier way. If you fire up a desktop web browser, log
Read MoreImage: Crunchyroll While Crunchyroll’s monthly prices haven’t jumped in five years, Sony is getting ready to change that for subscribers in a handful of countries. Crunchyroll announced today that the prices for its Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan streaming subscription tiers are going up as a result of “the company’s investment in more anime, additional
Read MoreSvelte 5, a planned update to the reactive UI framework, has reached the release candidate phase. No breaking changes are anticipated between now and the stable release. The release candidate was announced on April 30. It features a rewrite of Svelte to be faster, easier to use, and more robust. Runes, a signal-powered reactivity API,
Read MoreAmid tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Health insurance provider UnitedHealth paid a multimillion-dollar ransom to hackers who broke into one of its subsidiaries, disrupting healthcare providers across the country for months, CEO Andrew Witty confirmed on Wednesday. In a hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, Witty said the decision to pay the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority AT&T has launched a new service called AT&T Turbo that allows customers to pay extra for prioritized data. It aims to provide faster speeds and reduced lag, particularly in congested areas or during peak traffic times. AT&T Turbo is available as a $7 per month add-on for eligible plans.
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