In two recent papers, an international team of scientists describes the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell, which the researchers are calling a nitroplast. Phys.Org reports: The discovery of the organelle involved a bit of luck and decades of work. In 1998, Jonathan Zehr, a UC Santa Cruz distinguished professor of marine sciences,
Read MoreWhat better way to learn to use Git than a gamified interface that visualizes every change? That’s the idea behind Oh My Git! which aims to teach players all about the popular version control system that underpins so many modern software projects. Git good, with a gameified git interface. Sometimes the downside to a tool
Read MoreCalpine’s billion-dolllar Nova Power Bank near Los Angeles will be among the largest in the world when it comes online later this year. According to Reuters, the plant is built on the site of a failed gas-fired power plant and “will be able to power about 680,000 homes for up to four hours when charged.”
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized. After months of delays, false starts, and interventions by lawmakers working to preserve and expand the US intelligence community’s spy powers, the House of Representatives voted on Friday to
Read MoreIf you need to make round things, you probably need a lathe. Can you build one as nice as one you can buy? Probably not. But can you build one that will work and allow you to do more things than having no lathe at all? [Mikeandmertle] say absolutely! You can see the contraption in
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Hospitals — despite being places where people implicitly expect to have their personal details kept private — frequently use tracking technologies on their websites to share user information with Google, Meta, data brokers, and other third parties, according to research published today. Academics at the University
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung is planning to bring select Galaxy AI features to several older flagship phones and tablets next month via the One UI 6.1 update, according to 9to5Google and Android Central, both of which referred to a post from a Samsung representative who posted on the company’s community forum
Read MoreAmiMoJo writes: Huawei Technologies is building a massive semiconductor equipment research and development center in Shanghai as the Chinese tech titan continues to beef up its chip supply chain to counter a U.S. crackdown. The centre’s mission includes building lithography machines, vital equipment for producing cutting-edge chips. To staff the new center, Huawei is offering
Read MoreAccording to Bloomberg, Adobe used images from its competitor Midjourney to train its own artificial intelligence image generator, Firefly — contradicting the “commercially safe” ethical standards the company promotes. Tom’s Guide reports: The startup has never declared the source of its training data but many suspect it is from images it scraped from the internet
Read MoreChina’s push to replace foreign technology is now focused on cutting American chip makers out of the country’s telecoms systems. From a report: Officials earlier this year directed the nation’s largest telecom carriers to phase out foreign processors that are core to their networks by 2027, a move that would hit American chip giants Intel
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google says it will start removing links to California news websites in a “short term test for a small percentage of California users.” The move is in response to the pending California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), which would require Google to pay a fee for linking
Read MoreWorkholding is generally not a problem on a big CNC plasma cutter.; gravity does a pretty good job of keeping heavy sheet steel in place on the bed. But what if your CNC table isn’t a table? The answer: magnets — lots of magnets. The backstory on this is a bit involved, but the condensed
Read MoreAccording to Bloomberg, Adobe used images from its competitor Midjourney to train its own artificial intelligence image generator, Firefly — contradicting the “commercially safe” ethical standards the company promotes. Tom’s Guide reports: The startup has never declared the source of its training data but many suspect it is from images it scraped from the internet
Read MoreAmiMoJo writes: Huawei Technologies is building a massive semiconductor equipment research and development center in Shanghai as the Chinese tech titan continues to beef up its chip supply chain to counter a U.S. crackdown. The centre’s mission includes building lithography machines, vital equipment for producing cutting-edge chips. To staff the new center, Huawei is offering
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google says it will start removing links to California news websites in a “short term test for a small percentage of California users.” The move is in response to the pending California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), which would require Google to pay a fee for linking
Read MoreApple’s next generation M4 Apple Silicon, is expected to arrive before the end of 2024, and is rumored to have a greater focus on AI than ever before. Apple’s M3 chip family Barely half a year after the introduction of the M3 generation and ahead of the likely launch of the M3 Ultra chip at
Read MoreCredit: Ishan Agarwal Nothing’s two upcoming earbuds have leaked once again. The latest leak shows off both earbuds, their cases, and the different colorways. Just a few days ago, a leak spilled all the beans about the Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a). If that leak wasn’t enough, a new leak gives us another chance
Read MoreTom’s Hardware: Intel is discontinuing its boxed overclockable Core i5, i7, and i9 Raptor Lake CPUs. Every K-series chip in the lineup will be discontinued on May 24th, 2024, after which vendors will no longer be able to purchase them. Intel’s product change document states that the last product discontinuance order date and non-cancelable/non-returnable cut-off
Read MoreOpenTable’s restaurant pages still feature a lot of reviews left by anonymous diners at the moment, but that will not be the case starting next month. From a report: The online restaurant reservation service is changing its policy around reviews so that they’re not as anonymous — and it’s even applying the new rule retroactively.
Read MoreFace swap videos were on the rise, especially after the arrival of AI tools. When the trend of AI had just started, NeoCortext.inc introduced an Android app called Reface. The Reface app for Android shortly became viral due to its face swap features. The app allowed users to create face swap videos without any technical
Read MoreThe Pokémon Company Japanese police arrested a man after finding evidence that he illegally tampered with save data for the Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which he used to create custom characters that he sold on an online gaming marketplace. According to machine translations of stories at NHK and the Asahi Shimbun, the
Read MorePhoto by Edie Leong for The Washington Post via Getty Images Tesla is reducing the subscription fee for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assist software in a reflection of the company’s continuing financial hardships. The company slashed the price to $99 / month, down from $199 where it has been since at least 2021. Tesla announced
Read MoreParamount Plus Season 3 of Paramount Plus’ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is still in production, but the streamer has already decided to renew the series. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which is coming to an end. Paramount Plus announced today that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google appears to be working on a couple of changes to the Extensions menu. Activating a flag in version 125.0.6398.0 introduces a toggle that turns all extensions off in one fell swoop. The flag also seems to add dynamic colors and remove the pin icon. Google appears to be
Read MoreAdobe has begun to procure videos to build its AI text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated a similar technology. From a report: The software company is offering its network of photographers and artists $120 to submit videos of people engaged in everyday actions such as walking or expressing emotions including
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