The Galaxy Ring marks Samsung’s first foray into the smart ring wearables category. The company is reportedly planning a high production volume of 400,000 units initially. The Galaxy Ring is expected to launch in July and go on sale in August. Samsung’s highly anticipated Galaxy Ring is set for a summer debut, and the company
Read MoreTigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Contacts version 4.26 introduced a new connected apps box. The new section moves the various contact methods for apps like WhatsApp and Telegram into pull-down menus. The refreshed look means you don’t immediately see the same phone number repeatedly. You might have noticed that the most recent update
Read MoreWhile the “should have used a 555” meme is strong around these parts, we absolutely agree with [Kelvin Brammer]’s decision to make this 555-shaped plug-in replacement for the 555 timer chip using discrete parts, rather than just a boring old chip. As [Kelvin] relates, this project started a while back as an attempt to both
Read MoreThe Galaxy Ring marks Samsung’s first foray into the smart ring wearables category. The company is reportedly planning a high production volume of 400,000 units initially. The Galaxy Ring is expected to launch in July and go on sale in August. Samsung’s highly anticipated Galaxy Ring is set for a summer debut, and the company
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident. So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his
Read MoreOver 15,000 Roku customers were hacked and used to make fraudulent purchases of hardware and streaming subscriptions. According to BleepingComputer, the threat actors were “selling the stolen accounts for as little as $0.50 per account, allowing purchasers to use stored credit cards to make illegal purchases.” From the report: On Friday, Roku first disclosed the
Read MoreIt isn’t that unusual for a home lab to have a microscope, but wouldn’t it be cool to have a CT scanner? Well, you probably won’t anytime soon, but if you are interested in scans of vertebrates — you know, animals with backbones — a group of museums have you covered. The oVert project is
Read MoreAccording to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is reportedly considering buying TikTok. PCMag reports: Kotick floated the idea at a dinner at an Allen & Co. conference earlier this week with a group of potential partners, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the Journal says. Kotick left Activision in late December
Read MoreAuto-generated podcast transcripts are now available in the Apple Podcasts app, and is one of the most useful features of the recent iOS and iPadOS 17.4 update. Here’s how to try it out for yourself. The release of iOS 17.4 brought a number of new features to Apple device users, including one for podcast listeners.
Read MoreApple is reportedly experimenting with an AI-driven advertising platform, partnering with a select group of collaborators, according to Business Insider. This cutting-edge tool is allegedly designed to optimize ad placements within the App Store, potentially enhancing the performance of App Store Search Ads. While AI in advertising is not new, with giants like Google and
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any
Read MoreSurgeons in the United Kingdom have performed the first operation in the country using Apple’s Vision Pro headset. TechSpot reports: During a recent operation to repair a patient’s spine at the private Cromwell Hospital in London, a scrub nurse working alongside the surgeon used the Vision Pro to help prepare, keep track of the procedure,
Read MoreOpenAI has officially responded to Elon Musk’s legal actions with a sharp retort, describing the billionaire’s allegations as based on “convoluted — often incoherent — factual premises.” This statement, according to Bloomberg, came as part of a court filing in San Francisco in response to a lawsuit Musk filed against the AI research company, its
Read MoreApple released new MacBook Pro models with M3 in October 2023, but the company isn’t ready to slow down yet. Rumors suggest that the M4 MacBook Pro lineup is already in development. Apple is already working on the M4 MacBook Pro The transition to Apple Silicon from Intel left many unknowns, like how often Apple
Read MoreJess Weatherbed reports via The Verge: Midjourney says it has banned Stability AI staffers from using its service, accusing employees at the rival generative AI company of causing a systems outage earlier this month during an attempt to scrape Midjourney’s data. Midjourney posted an update to its Discord server on March 2nd that acknowledged an
Read MoreAccording to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, AirPods Pro will gain a new “hearing aid mode” with the release of iOS 18 later this year. MacRumors reports: Writing in the subscriber edition of his regular Power On newsletter, Gurman claims that the “big news” for AirPods Pro in the near term will be support for a hearing
Read MoreControversial eyeball scanning startup Worldcoin has failed to get an injunction against a temporary suspension ordered Wednesday by Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD. TechCrunch: The authority used emergency powers contained in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to make the local order, which can apply for up to three months. It said
Read MoreThere’s little denying that iPads are the best tablets around, especially in terms of app support. Although I prefer Android phones, I’ll admit my household has a combination of Android and iPad tablets. While the tablet experience on Android has improved a little in recent years, the reality is that it still trails behind iPadOS in
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software. Announcing its decision in a press release today, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said the Commission infringed
Read MoreReports of another fake bitcoin wallet in the App Store are claiming that “Leather Wallet & Hiro Bitcoin” took over $120,000 in a single fraudulent transaction. The App Store is meant to be safe from scam apps Apple claims the EU is weakening App Store security, and executives including Craig Federighi stress that users are
Read MoreMacworld You can turn any type of document into a PDF on iPhone in seconds, and since the functionality is built into the Share option you don’t need third-party apps to get started. Here’s how to convert to PDF on iPhone or iPad. For most documents (web pages and more) you can chose the Markup
Read MoreThe FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are working with gaming community platforms to track ‘extremist content’.” Thanks to a new government report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), it’s been revealed that the FBI and the DHS are working with gaming companies like Roblox, Discord, Reddit, and others. These platforms share
Read MoreComposite output shield with audio driver and controller inputs for Arduino Uno (Credit: Scott Porter) Although it seems many have moved on to 32-bit MCUs these days for projects, there is still a lot of fun to be had in the 8-bit AVR world, as [Scott Porter] demonstrates with a recent Arduino Uno project featuring
Read MoreDozens of people have been injured by what officials described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean flight from Australia to New Zealand. From a report: In a statement on Monday, Chilean LATAM Airlines blamed the injuries on “a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement.” It is just the latest in
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