For decades now, we’ve been able to quickly and reliably interface musical instruments to computers. These tools have generally made making and recording music much easier, but they’ve also opened up a number of other out-of-the-box ideas we might not otherwise see or even think about. For example, [Joren] recently built a human interface device
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has delayed plans to block third-party cookies in the Chrome browser. The company said it’s now aiming to ditch third-party cookies by early 2025. This latest postponement comes after two previous delays by Google. Google announced plans several years ago to ban third-party cookies in the Chrome browser.
Read MoreThe company is also rolling out Meta AI, an assistant that greatly enhances the device’s overall functionality, in beta mode for users in the US and Canada. Read more: Meta lets Ray-Ban smart glasses share view while on video calls
Read MoreIf you use WhatsApp for communication, you can now utilize Meta AI, the company’s open-source AI chatbot. The AI chatbot is right now made available on the WhatsApp app and it’s a very useful feature to have. So, if you are a fan of AI chatbots and would like to have one on your WhatsApp
Read MoreConstruction has begun on a $12 billion high-speed rail project to connect Las Vegas and Los Angeles by the end of the decade. The project, backed by $3 billion in federal support, aims to reduce travel time to under two hours and significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions. Popular Science reports: Brightline expects its trains will
Read MoreBang & Olufsen has released just 200 units of its new-old CD changer, but it reminds us that a corporation can’t ever delete a physical, plastic disc out of your great big honking CD collection.
Read MoreDays after the House of Representative passed a bill to force parent ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok, the Senate has passed the bill and sent it to Biden’s desk. Read more: TikTok braces for a US ban as Senate passes divestment bill
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images A bill that would force China-based company ByteDance to sell TikTok — or else face a US ban of the platform — is all but certain to become law after the Senate passed a foreign aid package including the measure. It now heads
Read More“Row hammer” by Dsimic – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. As DDR SDRAM increases in density and speed, so too do new challenges and opportunities appear. In the recent DDR5 update by JEDEC – as reported by Anandtech – we see not only a big speed increase from the previous
Read MoreImage: Mercedes-Benz AG Mercedes’ box-shaped luxury off-roader finally gets an electrified makeover. Continue reading…
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, new A.I. technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that can edit your DNA,
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own. From a report: The FTC received more than 26,000 public comments in the months leading up to the vote. Chair Lina Khan referenced on Tuesday some of
Read MoreWhat’s the simplest audio frequency oscillator you can imagine? There’s the 555, of course, and we can think of a few designs using just two transistors or even a few with just one. But how about an oscillator with no active components? Now there’s a neat trick. Replicating [Stelian]’s “simplest audio oscillator on the Internet”
Read MoreNew token Based Degen Club ($BDC) token pumped from $200K to an over $1.2M FDV in less than 12 hours of its launch yesterday, a 675% increase. $BDC currently holds a $1.37M FDV just under 24 hours from its listing. Source – DEXTools What Is Based Degen Club? As the Based Degen Club launches the
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Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google’s Gemini app now supports Android 10 devices or later. The company’s chatbot app previously required Android 12 or newer. This means people with much older Android devices can use Gemini too. Google’s Gemini assistant has been available (as Bard or otherwise) for just over a year now, using
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images A bill that would force China-based company ByteDance to sell TikTok — or else face a US ban of the platform — is all but certain to become law after the Senate passed a foreign aid package including the measure. It now heads
Read MoreNicola Davis reports via The Guardian: If every day appears to go in a blur, try seeking out new and interesting experiences, researchers have suggested, after finding memorable images appear to dilate time. Researchers have previously found louder experiences seem to last longer, while focusing on the clock also makes time dilate, or drag. Now
Read MoreAfter years of negotiations, the Senate approved a bill to force TikTok to either divest from its Chinese owners or face an outright ban.
Read MoreAndy Greenberg reports via Wired: More than two months after the start of a ransomware debacle whose impact ranks among the worst in the history of cybersecurity, the medical firm Change Healthcare finally confirmed what cybercriminals, security researchers, and Bitcoin’s blockchain had already made all too clear: that it did indeed pay a ransom to
Read MoreThat’s a nice looking charger. | Image by Elago MagSafe isn’t a particularly controversial standard, but I’ve heard people grumble about it. They get upset because it doesn’t charge quite as efficiently as an old-fashioned cable and they get annoyed that any phone case needs to be MagSafe-compatible. But could charging by cable provide you
Read MoreOracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter. CNBC reports: In a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Frist, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Ellison said Oracle is moving a “huge campus” to Nashville, “which will ultimately be our
Read MoreEight years ago, Valve began offering no-questions-asked refunds for any game you buy on Steam — as long as you asked for that refund within 14 days of purchase and hadn’t played more than two hours of a game. But when Valve started letting you play games ahead of their release dates with its “Early
Read MoreAndy Greenberg reports via Wired: More than two months after the start of a ransomware debacle whose impact ranks among the worst in the history of cybersecurity, the medical firm Change Healthcare finally confirmed what cybercriminals, security researchers, and Bitcoin’s blockchain had already made all too clear: that it did indeed pay a ransom to
Read MoreCredit: Lily Katz / Android Authority Some code found in the latest Google Home app seems to be mentioning a new Nest Hub Max device. Additionally, clues were found to a potential successor for the popular Nest Audio smart speaker. It’s been quite a while since Google launched the Nest Hub Max and the Nest
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