Image: Post News Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.” The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a
Read MoreGoogle’s latest streaming dongle offers a cheap way to add smart features and apps to any TV. | Image: Google Almost any TV you can buy these days supports streaming in some form or fashion, but what if you don’t like its user interface or it doesn’t have all of the apps you need? That’s
Read MoreMicrosoft Research Asia earlier this week unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. ArsTechnica: In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds — or allow anyone with
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Best Buy is currently running a deal for Samsung Galaxy A35 purchases. Buying the handset will get you a free $40 gift card. If you activate the unlocked phone, you can get $100 off of your purchase. Samsung announced the launch of the Galaxy A35 in the US only a day ago. If
Read MorePebblebee initially announced its Find My Device network compatible trackers would launch in late May. The company has now revealed shipping will begin on May 27. This is the same date that Chipolo will also start shipping its own Find My Device trackers. Earlier this month, Google finally rolled out its shiny new Find My
Read MoreThe European Commission is set to approve Apple’s opening up of Apple’s NFC platform to third-party mobile wallets as soon as May, which could help save the iPhone maker from a $40 billion fine. NFC in the iPhone is chiefly used for Apple Pay In January, Apple agreed that it would open up its NFC
Read MoreAdult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will have to do risk assessment reports and take measures to address systemic risks linked to their services to comply with new EU online content rules, the European Commission said on Friday. From a report: The three companies were designated as very large online platforms last December under
Read MoreMacworld Following a report that the Notes app will offer new math-based features, AppleInsider reports that the Calculator app will get a major overhaul in macOS 15. Apple is expected to debit macOS 15 at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 in June. The changes to the macOS Calculator include: A redesign that resembles the iOS
Read MoreFriend or foe? The Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot has long been an inspiration for developing home robots. But should it be? | Image: Warner Bros. Television, Hanna-Barbera As a child of the 1980s, my perception of the smart home has been dominated by the idea that one day, we will all have Rosey the Robot-style
Read MoreIf you read the December 1970 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, you’d be treated to [Len Buckwalter]’s crystal radio build. He called out Modern Radio Labs as the supplier for parts. That company, run by [Elmer Osterhoudt], got so many inquiries that he produced a kit, the #74 crystal set. [Michael Simpson] found an unopened kit
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, India’s top three IT outsourcing firms, have collectively seen their workforce shrink for the first time in at least 20 years. The trio reported a combined reduction of more than 63,750 employees in the financial year ending March 31, 2024. Read more of this story
Read MoreCredit: Google YouTube will be livestreaming the second weekend of Coachella. Users will be able to watch four stages at once with multiview. The Coachella, Outdoor Theatre, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, and Yuma stages will all be recorded. If you wanted to catch Coachella 2024, but couldn’t attend for whatever reason, YouTube had you covered last
Read MoreAre you even gaming if you’re not rocking a cool headset? The HyperX Cloud III Wireless fits the bill, and its down at its lowest price ever on Amazon today. A 33% drop from retail price gives you the chance to pick it up for just $114.70. HyperX Cloud III Wireless for $114.70 ($55 off)
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: iPerf is a fairly popular cross-platform tool that is used by many to measure network performance and diagnose any potential issues in this area. The open-source utility is maintained by an organization called Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and officially supports Linux, Unix, and Windows. However, Microsoft has now published
Read MoreWhether it is pursuing a master’s degree, planning the next 12-hour shift or preparing for the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association ambassador programme, BMS’s Emma Bennett-Wren has a jam-packed day. Read more: How this bioprocess associate got to grips with biopharma
Read MoreThe Bitcoin halving is imminent. Crypto mining companies are reaching for every trick in the book to survive it.
Read MoreThe world’s most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Today Meta unleashed its ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI, across its apps and as a standalone. The company boasts that it is running on its latest, greatest AI model, Llama 3, which was trained on “data of the highest quality”! A dataset seven times larger than Llama2! And includes 4
Read MoreCredit: Google YouTube will be livestreaming the second weekend of Coachella. Users will be able to watch four stages at once with multiview. The Coachella, Outdoor Theatre, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, and Yuma stages will all be recorded. If you wanted to catch Coachella 2024, but couldn’t attend for whatever reason, YouTube had you covered last
Read MoreTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has indicated it will increase the cost of chips made outside of Taiwan as the company reacts to pressures on its profitability. The world’s largest maker of advanced chips for customers like Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., has sounded its price warning as government and big tech firms are cognizant of
Read MoreAntitrust chief Margrethe Vestager still wants to favor the dominant music streaming service in the EU, and says that Apple must allow Spotify’s latest iOS antisteering update immediately. The European Union suspects Big Tech firms are avoiding their responsibilities to the publc Central to Spotify’s iOS app is the addition of a link to its
Read MoreTesla has issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks because the accelerator pad could get trapped, pushing the car to full speed.
Read MoreMicrosoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. From a report: This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account. As first noticed by the outlet Windows Latest, the most recent Windows 10 update Release Preview includes
Read MoreThe Waymo vehicle was set on fire with fireworks. | Image: Frisco Live 415 The San Francisco Police Department has identified and served a search warrant on a teenager who is suspected of starting a fire in a Waymo self-driving taxi vehicle earlier this year. On March 27th, investigators entered the suspect’s residence and seized
Read MoreA recovery vehicle drives past burned structures and cars two months after a devastating wildfire on October 9th, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. | Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images New details surfaced this week about cascading failures that led to wildfires ripping through Maui last August. While investigations confirming the cause of the blaze
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