One year after Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse and seizure, “Regional bank stocks remain volatile compared to other types of financial institutions,” reports the Observer, “indicating investors’ lingering worries about the sector.” But not everyone suffered: Benefiting from the crisis were big players, like JPMorgan Chase. After acquiring First Republic’s $212.6 billion in loans and $92.4
Read MoreAt some point, you might have felt the need for a dedicated Image to PDF converter for iPhone. Actually, you don’t need any third-party tools to convert your images into PDFs, as the built-in tools are enough for this need. You can utilize the Files, Photos, or Apple Books app to convert any image into
Read MorePolice who wrongly raided and ransacked an elderly woman’s home looking for a stolen truck and guns with Apple’s Find My have cost the city of Denver $3.76 million in compensation and damages. Denver police seeking to recover a stolen truck loaded with guns, ammo, and cash back in January of 2022 used Apple’s Find
Read MoreUbuntu-based Linux Mint includes HexChat software by default “to offer a way for users of the distro to talk to, ask questions, and get support from other users,” according to the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. But in February HexChat’s developer announced its final release… That got devs thinking. As is, IRC isn’t user-friendly. It’s a
Read MoreMarch 10 is Mario Day, and Nintendo is celebrating with all sorts of deals.
Read MoreThere’s no doubt the venerable internal combustion engine is under fire. A recent patent filing from Ford claims it can dramatically reduce emissions and, if true, the technology might give classic engines a few more years of service life, according to [CarBuzz]. The patent in question centers on improving the evaporative emission system’s performance. The
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Talk about building a smart home online and I can almost guarantee that someone will call you lazy for not wanting to get off the couch and manually flip a light switch. But what most don’t realize is that home automation can save energy, and money too! While adding
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader garote writes: It’s the year 1991. You’re a teenage computer geek. You’ve just upgraded to an Apple IIgs, your first “16-bit” computer. To relieve the crushing boredom of your High School coursework, you and your friends embark on the computer geek equivalent of forming a heavy metal band: Making your own video
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs “Move fast and break things,” Zuckerberg’s early Facebook motto perfectly encapsulates the need to dispense with convention to pursue innovation in a quickly evolving industry. After a slow start, Google appears to have unofficially adopted the same sentiment as it rushes into the AI
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung unveiled its stunning new 2024 TV lineup at CES in January, and the range of displays will become available for pre-order later this month. If there’s even a chance that you might be in the market for one of the latest displays, taking 30 seconds of your day to sign up to
Read MoreImage: Universal Pictures The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a huge hit for Nintendo, raking in over $1 billion at the box office, so producing a follow-up movie was an easy decision to make. In a new video, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination Entertainment’s Chris Meledandri shared that the next movie is in development, with
Read MoreFor something that many of us handle all day long, it sure would be nice if mice came in more sizes and shapes, wouldn’t it? Until that day, we’ll just have to find something passable or else design and build a custom-shaped mouse from scratch like [Ben Makes Everything] did. First, [Ben] played around with
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omEfAYO7w0c It was only a little more than a year ago that I started hearing about Stable Diffusion and Midjourney and the ability to create images from nothing. Just string a few words together, and a generative AI model sitting on a server transforms those written words into a graphic image. Magic. Everything has progressed
Read MoreSlashdot reader ArchieBunker shared this article from NBC News: Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States, a new study estimates. The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on people born before 1996 — the year the U.S.
Read MoreAfter the release of MacBook Air with M3, a report insists that updated iPad models are still on the way, accompanied by new accessories. Apple was expected to launch a number of new products in quick succession, with the MacBook Air and iPad Pro changes arriving at around the same time. Though MacBook Air with
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons Just when you thought manufacturers had their fill of slapping “AI” on everything, generative AI is quickly becoming one of the biggest battlegrounds in the smartphone world today, The technology already enables a ton of nifty features. But you know what? As cool as
Read MoreMacworld More than four months after unveiling the M3 chip in the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, Apple has finally updated the other laptops in its family, the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air. The new machines are essentially a spec-bump that should make buying a laptop a simpler process. Apple’s three plain-Jane M3 machines range in
Read MoreApple is working on a new feature that will allow iPhone users to easily switch to an Android smartphone to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple To Allow iPhone Users To Easily Switch to Android In The EU For those unaware, the DMA is a set of European Union (EU) regulations that
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 29, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I promise I don’t always complain about music streaming, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this article from the Washington Post: A much-debated theory holds that 4 billion years ago, give or take, long before the appearance of dinosaurs or even bacteria, the primordial soup contained only the possibility of life. Then a molecule called RNA took a dramatic step into the future: It made a
Read MoreErasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more easily.
Read MorePhoto by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars will gather in the Dolby Theatre tonight for the 96th annual Academy Awards. It’s a sign things are starting to get back to normal following last year’s monthslong writers and actors strikes. In between the award announcements, we’ll also get to see performances
Read MoreInfluencers on TikTok and Reddit earn a cut of the counterfeit goods trade by promoting high-quality “replicas” sourced from ecommerce sites in China.
Read MoreThe game’s ending prompts heated discussion online about whether it does justice to its most iconic moment.
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