This week America’s Department of Energy announced “a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.” The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) led the Blueprint’s development in collaboration with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies. The Blueprint is
Read MoreCNN revisits 2003’s disastrous landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia tonight with two “immersive” specials co-produced by BBC and Mindhouse Productions “featuring exclusive interviews and revealing never-before-broadcast footage,” according to an announcement — with two more specials airing next week. You can watch a trailer here. Across four episodes, the story of the ticking-clock of
Read More“It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem,” reports Kotaku: Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters and skins. And publisher WB Games is reportedly issuing DMCA takedown notices against
Read MoreThe foundations behind Rust, Python, Apache, Eclipse, PHP, OpenSSL, and Blender announced plans to create “common specifications for secure software development,” based on “existing open source best practices.” From the Eclipse Foundation: This collaborative effort will be hosted at the Brussels-based Eclipse Foundation [an international non-profit association] under the auspices of the Eclipse Foundation Specification
Read MoreWhile some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.
Read MoreWho has not at some point in their lives experienced the horror of a pin on a DIP package breaking off? It’s generally game over, but what if you don’t have another chip handy to substitute? It’s time to carefully grind away some of the epoxy and solder on a new pin, as [Zafer Yildiz]
Read MoreApple will debut a second short film from its “Prehistoric Planet Immersive” series for Apple Vision Pro users on April 19th. Apple included a handful of Immersive Video experiences along with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro in February. They are 180-degree 3D video shot in 8K, making them different from both 3D movies
Read MoreWho has not at some point in their lives experienced the horror of a pin on a DIP package breaking off? It’s generally game over, but what if you don’t have another chip handy to substitute? It’s time to carefully grind away some of the epoxy and solder on a new pin, as [Zafer Yildiz]
Read MoreWeb designers, photographers, and proofreaders would like the AI transition that the world has seen. With new AI tools coming up every now and then, the trend of AI doesn’t seem to slow down. The search giant Google also developed its own AI tool called Gemini, which can do various things for you. Like other
Read MoreDonghua Jinlong’s factory. | Image: Donghua Jinlong Chemical Co. TikTok isn’t just useful for videos on robotic tape storage, Radiohead songs on step motors, and regretful congressmen. It’s also a place where businesses can go viral by marketing their industrial products. Because of that, I now know that a company called Donghua Jinlong Chemical makes
Read MoreA professor at Ithaca College runs part of each student’s essay through ChatGPT, “asking the AI tool to critique and suggest how to improve the work,” reports CNN. (The professor said “The best way to look at AI for grading is as a teaching assistant or research assistant who might do a first pass …
Read More“Scary moments for passengers on a Southwest flight from Denver to Houston,” tweets an ABC News transportation reporter, “when the engine cover ripped off during flight, forcing the plane to return to Denver Sunday morning.” “Think that big circular metal panel surrounding the engine,” writes QZ — adding that after it ripped off, the engine
Read MoreLet’s be honest. When it comes to operating miter saws, these tools kick dust out the back like a spray paint can. Most of us have accepted this quirk as-is, but not [Inspire Woodcraft] who’s on a mission to achieve near perfect dust collection. And he nearly has it. With a budget dust collection setup,
Read MoreOn Mozilla’s blog, engineer Martin Thomson explores Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” initiative (which proposes sharing a subset of private user information — but without third-party cookies). The blog post concludes that Google’s Protected Audience “protects advertisers (and Google) more than it protects you.” But it’s not all bad — in theory: The idea behind Protected Audience
Read MoreWhile the European Parliament passed a wide-ranging “AI Act” in March, “Leaders from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI have all called for AI regulations in the U.S.,” writes CIO magazine. Even the Chamber of Commerce, “often opposed to business regulation, has called on Congress to protect human rights and national security as AI use expands,” according
Read MoreImage: Wes Davis / The Verge Earlier this year, there were enough rumors about imminent new Apple products to make for a big spring event, but the company instead announced its new M3 MacBook Airs via press release — and new iPads haven’t shown up since. Today, Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter
Read MoreImage: The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 33, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about the end of Google Podcasts
Read MoreA small group of demonstrators disrupted the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago on Saturday to protest Apple’s use of labor in Africa and its disciplining of at least one employee wearing pro-Palestinian clothing items. The protest, which took place Saturday, was peaceful but resulted in the store closing early, with a heavy police presence
Read MoreGboard is the stock keyboard app for Android and has many useful features. Google is also constantly working to improve its Android keyboard app. While the Gboard app for Android is pretty well designed and has lots of customization features, some of the features may not work as intended. For example, recently, a few Android
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple is reportedly exploring foldable iPads but hasn’t been able to create a crease-free folding display. It’s believed the company could abandon the concept if it can’t kill the display crease. We’ve seen reports about Apple working on a foldable iPad for a while now. However, it now sounds
Read MoreMacworld With the release of the M3 MacBook Air about a month ago, Apple’s laptop lineup became up-to-date, with each MacBook sporting some version of the M3 chip, the latest in Apple silicon. So, now it should be time for the other shoe to drop: the updates to the desktop Mac lineup. But of the
Read MoreIt seems that finding an appliance without some WiFi connectivity and an app to load your laundry data into the cloud is an increasingly difficult thing to do in the 2020s. Many of us resolutely refuse to connect these smart appliances to the Internet, but not because we don’t see the appeal — we just
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority The new iPad Pro, iPad Air, Magic Keyboard, and Apple Pencil will reportedly launch in early May. It’s also believed that a new iPad Mini and base iPad are in the works and could launch as soon as the end of the year. We’ve heard murmurings about new iPads
Read MoreApple is said to be considering future products that make it easier to consolidate information from other smart home devices, and a room assistant that could point a screen at you constantly, as you move around the space. An artist’s rendition of a HomePod with a display Apple continues to have grand ambitions for more
Read MoreSlashdot reader sciencehabit shares this report from Science magazine: Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules in materials. The arguments for black hole entropy were indirect, however, and no one had
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