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Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow.
Read MoreAmsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow.
Read MoreAs of late, the rumor mill has been quiet on the topic of all of the mechanical buttons on the iPhone 16 family being replaced by capacitive ones, but a new report claims a supplier has been picked to do just that. iPhone 16 Pro may have larger screens Capacitive buttons were said to replace
Read MoreMacworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch
Read MoreBefore the expected 12.9-inch iPad Air has even been confirmed, ESR has launched a range of case models for it. A 12.9-inch iPad Air on an ESR magnetic case ESR already makes a range of Qi2 charging devices for the iPhone, and its lower-cost alternative to the Apple Pencil has been praised. Now it’s released
Read MoreNike’s reputation—and sales—are both in trouble. Now layoffs threaten to sour hopes that the Paris games could turn its fortunes around.
Read MoreMacworld Developed by over 100 expert linguists and academics from Yale University and the City University of New York, Babbel focuses on helping users learn practical conversational skills in a new language. Just select from one of Babbel’s 14 languages to begin, and study your new tongue with lessons ranging from 10 to 15 minutes. Discover how
Read MoreGoogle has shown off its camera testing facility in a CNET video. The video shows a more practical approach to testing smartphone cameras. Many smartphone brands have their own camera testing setups, allowing them to fine-tune their photo and video experience. We seldom get a close look at these facilities, though, but Google has now
Read MoreSome developers and business leaders believe that low-code is only for small, lightly used applications such as replacing spreadsheets and building dashboards. “These tools, in general, aren’t well suited to more advanced applications,” says Steve Jones, devops advocate at Red Gate Software. With heavier use and more complex data manipulation requirements, he says, “they often
Read MoreIf you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for example, recently issued a dire warning: “single vendor is the new proprietary.” Sounds terrible, right? I
Read MoreEmbracer Group will house major properties like the Lord of The Rings under its new Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends company. | Image: Warner Bros. Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group announced plans on Monday to split itself into three distinct games and entertainment companies: Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. These
Read MoreBloomberg looks at America’s biggest operator of private electrical vehicle charging infrastructure: Amazon. “In a little more than two years, Amazon has installed more than 17,000 chargers at about 120 warehouses around the U.S.” — and had Rivian build 13,500 custom electric delivery vans. Amazon has a long way to go. The Seattle-based company says
Read MoreJoe Biden said the national security package sent to the Senate over the weekend sends a ‘clear message about the power of American leadership on the world stage’. Read more: TikTok faces another US ban, this time it’s more likely to happen
Read MoreOne of the cringier aspects of AI as we know it today has been the proliferation of deepfake technology to make nude photos of anyone you want. What if you took away the abstraction and put the faker and subject in the same space? That’s the question the NUCA camera was designed to explore. [via
Read MoreCarl-Emil Grøn is the co-founder and CEO of one of the most exciting start-ups in Denmark. Now, with a recent funding boost and US expansion, he wants the full-stack company to start doing exactly what its name suggests. Read more: Reshape Biotech: Using robotics and AI to speed up lab experiments
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is rolling out a second April update for Pixel phones to fix network and connectivity issues. The update is already available on Verizon’s network and will roll out to all Pixel users over the coming weeks. Affected Pixel users can also sideload the OTA package now. Pixel
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google’s Gemini app for Android could soon gain a ‘real-time responses’ option. This will allow you to read a response as it’s being generated instead of waiting for the entire response to be generated first. This would be in line with the web version of Gemini. The Gemini assistant
Read MoreThousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.
Read MoreAccenture Song’s Tracy Duffy on how the ‘empathetic’ nature of design thinking can be integrated into life sciences marketing strategies. Read more: Design thinking: A ‘transformative’ approach to life sciences marketing
Read MoreThe company, which advises companies in property and construction, will use the investment to expand across Europe and grow its software business. Read more: Tech consultancy Catalyst scores €3m investment
Read MoreCredit: Harley Maranan / Android Authority Samsung is giving Galaxy users a free, one-time display replacement for phones affected by the infamous green line issue. For now, the replacement benefit is only available in India on select Galaxy phones. The deadline to claim the offer is April 30, 2024. Samsung India is reportedly offering a
Read MoreThis week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft: “If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago … [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability to federal agencies” instead of making it
Read MoreWhen you think of EVs from the 90s, GM’s EV1 may come to mind, but [bleeptrack] found a more obscure CityEL three wheeler to restore. This Personal Electric Vehicle (PEV) is no spring chicken, but a new set of LiFePO4 batteries should give its 48 V electrical system a new lease on life. [bleeptrack] shows
Read MoreEuropean chip machine-maker ASML is at the center of US-China trade tensions. Its new chief executive now faces a daunting political juggling act.
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon dioxide from air and seawater into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogen — a much-hyped clean fuel. The cluster of
Read MoreHundreds of video editing apps have been made for Android, offering easy video editing tools and features. While most video editors for Android are free to use, one problem you may face is related to watermarks. Most free video editing apps for Android put a watermark on the edited videos, which makes the video look
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