Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024: Watch Online, What Time, Path of Totality
Here’s how to view the total solar eclipse on April 8 as the moon casts a slender shadow across Mexico, the United States, and eastern Canada.
Read MoreHere’s how to view the total solar eclipse on April 8 as the moon casts a slender shadow across Mexico, the United States, and eastern Canada.
Read MoreFour months ago long-time Slashdot reader Shayde tried restoring a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer. But now he’s gone even further back in time. Shayde writes: In 1984, Apple II’s were at the top of their game in the 8 bit market. A company in New Jersey decided to get in on the action and built
Read MoreIf God came down to Earth tomorrow to deliver 10 more commandments, the TP-7 is what we’d use to record them—if we could afford one.
Read MoreThis massive, chonky Louis animatronic has almost as much range of movement as I do. | Image: Disney No matter your opinion on the current state of its animated movies, Disney is proving that it can still knock animatronics out of the park. This week, the entertainment giant gave us another early look at the
Read MoreFender’s digital modeling amp is so easy to use and sounds so great, it’s as if Apple made a guitar pedal.
Read MoreApple stores will reportedly prepare for a long-awaited update its iPad Pro and iPad Air models in the first week of May. New iPad Pro logo on the back In his weekly newsletter, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that the refreshed lineup will feature new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros. Also expected are an all-new 12.9-inch
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Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Google has filed a patent for fall detection via smart home devices using a radar system. The feature would notify an emergency contact or emergency services in the event of a fall. This suggests that the radar-equipped second-generation Nest Hub could gain fall detection support. Fall detection is one
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority According to Stat Counter, Google Chrome is the most popular internet browser, with a 63% global share. If you’re a part of the remaining 37% and want to give the Chrome browser a try, it’s easy to download and install Chrome on any device. Read more: 20 Google Chrome tips
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S23 series suffers from a fingerprint scanner bug after the One UI 6.1 update. A company representative acknowledged the bug and noted that a fix was in the works. There’s no word on a timeline for this fix to be released to users.
Read MoreMacworld For any occasion, whether it’s game day, a family fishing trip, or a stroll through your neighborhood, having a weather app you can trust can make all the difference. Rather than rely on the weather app pre-installed on your smartphone, get real-time weather updates and interactive radar from Weather Hi-Def Radar. This app isn’t your regular
Read More“America’s honeybee population has rocketed to an all-time high,” reports the Washington Post: We’ve added almost 1 million bee colonies in the past five years. We now have 3.8 million, the census shows. Since 2007, the first census after alarming bee die-offs began in 2006, the honeybee has been the fastest-growing livestock segment in the
Read MoreMacworld Whether you’re dreaming of beach days on the Mediterranean coast or want to explore the Big Apple this summer, you can make your travel dreams come true — for less! With Dollar Flight Club (DFC), you can book flights to almost any destination at more affordable rates. How? Dollar Flight Club will scour the web
Read MoreAlong with the rise of the modern World Wide Web came the introduction of the JPEG image compression standard in 1992, allowing for high-quality images to be shared without requiring the download of a many-MB bitmap file. Since then a number of JPEG replacements have come and gone – including JPEG 2000 – but now
Read MoreEveryone likes having internet access on their computer and laptop to browse their favorite websites & services. However, the thing that often disappoints many PC users is some websites not opening despite having an active & stable internet. This is a part of an internet issue you may often face, preventing you from accessing selected
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Google TV is giving users a way to experience the eclipse happening on April 8. On April 7-8, Google TV will show local and national coverage of the eclipse in the For You tab. Each channel will appear with a custom eclipse-themed title card. Certain parts of North America
Read MoreWindows Report speculates on what Microsoft may be working on next based on a recently-published patent for “performant sound recognition AI technologies” (dated April 2, 2024): Microsoft’s new technology can recognize different types of sounds, from doorbells to babies crying, or dogs barking, but not limited to them. It can also recognize sounds of coughing
Read MoreMany of us misspent our youth fixing televisions. But fixing a 1970s TV is a lot different than today — the parts were big and tubes were made to be replaced. Have you torn into a big flat screen lately? It is a different world, as [The Fixologist] shows us in the video below. The
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Google TV is giving users a way to experience the eclipse happening on April 8. On April 7-8, Google TV will show local and national coverage of the eclipse in the For You tab. Each channel will appear with a custom eclipse-themed title card. Certain parts of North America
Read MoreThere’s a saying among recreational mariners that the word “boat” is actually an acronym for “bring out another thousand”, as it seems you can’t operate one for long without committing to expensive maintenance and repairs. But this axiom isn’t limited to just civilian pleasure craft, it also holds true for large and complex vessels —
Read MoreConceptually, radar is pretty simple: send out a radio wave and time how long it takes to get back via an echo. However, in practice, there are a number of trade-offs to consider. For example, producing a long pulse has more energy and range, but limits how close you can see and also the system’s
Read More“The San Francisco Giants are one of four teams in Major League Baseball this season offering fans a free shortcut through the gates into the ballpark,” writes SFGate. “The cost? Signing up for the league’s ‘facial authentication’ software through its ticketing app.” The Giants are using MLB’s new Go-Ahead Entry program, which intends to cut
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been part of our lives for a decade: a way to look up a phone number that just called you, right from your recent calls screen. X user AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a
Read MoreThursday America’s Environmental Protection Agency “awarded $20 billion to help finance clean-energy projects across the country,” reports the Washington Post. The money comes from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund established by President Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The fund seeks to leverage public and private dollars to invest in clean-energy technologies such
Read MoreThe European Space Agency has a Planetary Defence Office, which includes its Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre. “It has come to our attention,” they wrote in the April edition of their monthly newsletter, “that a recent trend among journalists has been to come up with creative comparisons to convey the size of an asteroid to the
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