Shopping for a new phone case can be challenging, especially when trying to find a balance between style and protection. However, Incipio may have the best solution with their Cru case for the Galaxy S24 series. The Cru case is primarily made from co-molded TPU, which means that the bulk of the body is a
Read MoreThe Guardian reports that this week “Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, introduced a bill to establish a four-day US working week.” “Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea,” Sanders said on Thursday. “Today, American workers are over
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority YouTube Music seems to have added a new song search feature. It reportedly lets you search for a song by humming, singing, or playing it. It doesn’t look like the new option has rolled out widely. YouTube Music is reportedly getting a new song search feature — something that
Read MoreIs it upper midrange? Is it lesser high-end? Hard to say. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm just launched a new chipset that’s designed to sit just below its current flagship in terms of capabilities and price. The Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 aims to bring most of the 8 Gen 3’s features — including support for on-device
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor for smartphones. This chipset features the same CPU tech as the top-shelf Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but uses last year’s flagship GPU. Phones with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 are expected to launch later this month. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is
Read MoreThe Verge On March 11th, Elon Musk said xAI would open source its AI chatbot Grok, and now an open release is available on GitHub. This will allow researchers and developers to build on the model and impact how xAI updates Grok in the future as it competes with rival tech from OpenAI, Meta, Google,
Read MoreIn 2020 Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs. But now “America’s most radical experiment with drug decriminalization has ended,” writes the Atlantic, “after more than three years of painful results.” Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has pledged to sign legislation repealing the principal elements of the ballot initiative… Possessing hard drugs
Read MoreFor fans of the iconic anime Akira, there’s only one way to traverse the mean streets of post-apocalyptic neo-Tokyo, and that’s the futuristic mount of motorcycle gang leader Shôtarô Kaneda. It’s a low-down feet-forward machine with, we’re told, “Ceramic double-rotor two-wheel drive,” which we’re guessing is some kind of hybrid electric drive with what sounds
Read MoreDatabricks CTO Matei Zaharia “said that Databricks had to keep track of scheduling a million things,” remembers adjunct MIT professor Michael Stonebraker. ” He said that this can’t be done with traditional operating system scheduling, and so this was done out of a Postgres database. And then he started to whine that Postgres was too
Read MoreWhat in the world could an accessory for an obsolete audio medium possibly have to do with keeping all your unruly bits and pieces in order? First of all, we’re not sure the CD is quite dead yet; we’ve got about a thousand of them packed away somewhere, and we’re pretty sure they’ll be back
Read MoreApple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini AI engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry. From the report: The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of
Read MoreA PBS reporter “digs into a new report covering the plastic industry’s tactics to push recycling — and avoid regulation,” according to a new video from PBS News Weekend: A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmentalist group, says newly uncovered statements from oil and plastics executives underscore the industry’s decades-long secret
Read MoreA friend of ours once described computers as “high-speed idiots.” It was true in the 80s, and it appears that even with the recent explosion in AI, all computers have managed to do is become faster. Proof of that can be found in a story about using ASCII art to trick a chatbot into giving
Read MoreA friend of ours once described computers as “high-speed idiots.” It was true in the 80s, and it appears that even with the recent explosion in AI, all computers have managed to do is become faster. Proof of that can be found in a story about using ASCII art to trick a chatbot into giving
Read More“Dell’s strict new RTO mandate excludes fully remote workers from promotion,” reports Business Insider. The site calls it “one of the most abrupt changes to remote work policies,” noting that Dell “has had a hybrid working culture in place for more than a decade — long before the pandemic struck.” “Dell cared about the work,
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When Apple stopped selling the M1 MacBook Air last week to make way for the new M3 version, I mourned the loss of the M1 Air’s iconic wedge shape. But perhaps that was a bit premature. Walmart announced Friday that for the first time, you can buy the
Read MoreMozilla Location Service offered “a free, open way to offer GPS-style location detection features” for developers on devices without GPS hardware, remembers the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. It used signals like Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons “without any of the privacy implications most competing geolocation services have.” But Friday they reported that Mozilla “has
Read MoreAmazon announced a new AI-powered chatbot last month — still under develoipment — “to help you figure out what to buy,” writes the Washington Post. Their conclusion? “[T]he chatbot wasn’t a disaster. But I also found it mostly useless…” “The experience encapsulated my exasperation with new types of AI sprouting in seemingly every technology you
Read More[Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR link and can be extended to behave like a polite worm virus. This allows the easy updating of a large cluster of co-located RP2040-based controllers. This could be handy in applications like swarm robotics or virtual cattle fencing. The project he
Read More[Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR link and can be extended to behave like a polite worm virus. This allows the easy updating of a large cluster of co-located RP2040-based controllers. This could be handy in applications like swarm robotics or virtual cattle fencing. The project he
Read MoreAmazon announced a new AI-powered chatbot last month — still under develoipment — “to help you figure out what to buy,” writes the Washington Post. Their conclusion? “[T]he chatbot wasn’t a disaster. But I also found it mostly useless…” “The experience encapsulated my exasperation with new types of AI sprouting in seemingly every technology you
Read MoreThe Street interviewed Chad Anderson, founder/managing partner of the “space economy” investment firm Space Capital, who calls SpaceX’s progress “unprecedented,” and believes their next launch could carry “operational” payloads like Starlink satellites. Anderson added that Starship reaching orbital velocity and reentering the atmosphere at those speeds (roughly 16,000 miles per hour) was “a really big
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report: After 20 years of development, the open source GnuCOBOL “has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments,” said OCamlPro founder and GnuCOBOL contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM talk about the technology. GnuCOBOL turns COBOL source code into executable applications. It is
Read MoreFollowing the demise of Apple’s own automotive project, the company’s attention has turned to the next-generation CarPlay and its relationship with automakers. A visualization of CarPlay Although Apple first debuted a next-generation CarPlay concept in the summer of 2022, only two automakers thus far — Porsche and Aston-Martin — have committed to the product. More
Read MoreThe last two models of 13-inch MacBook Pro with the infamous “butterfly” style keyboard, both from 2019, are still eligible for a free repair for most of 2024 — but you need to hurry. Close-up view of a black and silver MacBook keyboard with focus on the QWERTY keys. Starting with the 12-inch MacBook that
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