Apple has hired away an advertising executive from NBCUniversal, as it continues to build out its rumored video ad business for Apple TV+. Apple TV+ logo Apple has been rumored to be adding advertising to Apple TV+ for a while, which could help raise Apple’s revenue for the streaming service. It appears that it is
Read MorePlus: Reddit helps brands find all your comments, Dodge debuts an electric muscle car, and Nikon buys the cinematic camera company Red.
Read MoreIt’s the weekend, you don’t have much planned, the Switch is on charge and you need a new game No way are you going to pay full price for a Mario game though. And Nintendo? They never lower the prices of its main character’s games, do they? WRONG! It’s Mar10 Day/weekend and there is a
Read MoreFarmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Police: Seven years ago, Google announced that it would phase out all Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux by 2018 (it would actually take until 2023). In its place would be what the company called Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), web apps that can be installed on
Read MorePiggyMeter is a wonderful example of a device that you never knew you needed – simple, elegant, easy to build, and accompanied by amazing documentation. It’s a snap-on interface for electric meters, dubbed so because its 3D printable shell looks like a pig nose, and it works with IEC62056-21 compliant meters. If you want to
Read MoreApple knows iPhone users would never want to miss a notification, so they made sure the iPhone screen lights up whenever you get one. This is a very useful feature since it draws all your attention to the iPhone screen, but it can be irritating if you want to rest in the dark. How to
Read MoreLongtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: Akira Toriyama, the influential Japanese manga artist who created the Dragon Ball series, has died at the age of 68. He died on March 1 from an acute subdural haematoma. The news was confirmed by Bird Studio, the manga company that Toriyama founded in 1983.
Read MoreMacworld There is no shortage of PDF editors on the market, and too many of them focus on simply turning your finicky PDFs into another kind of document. PDF Reader Pro has a legion of users (over 90 million, in fact) because it goes the extra mile to make your PDF files better – and
Read MoreSocial robots for older adults might not be new, but now they’re recording, listening—and talking back.
Read MoreMacworld Whether you’re a professional, student, or home user, you can always benefit from productivity tools that can help you achieve your goals. Now, the world’s leading productivity suite, Microsoft Office, is an extra 20% off with code ENJOY through March 10. While this deal is not for the latest version of Microsoft Office, you might
Read MoreSex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of the time, it’s sexism.
Read MoreSudoku is one of the older puzzles, and it is over 100 years old. However, it’s still quite popular today as both a brain teaser and a relaxing activity. Newer folks may recognize puzzle games from newspapers, but you can buy full books on puzzles on Amazon. Of course, you can also get them in
Read MoreMicrosoft Authenticator is a security app for two-factor authentication. It competes directly with Google Authenticator, Authy, LastPass Authenticator, and others. You may run into the app when updating your Microsoft account settings or enabling two-factor authentication there. Alternatively, you may want to have a TFA available for your own security purposes. You can download Microsoft
Read MoreThe only thing makers like more than building things is making systems to build things. [Eric Hunting] has compiled a list of these modular building systems. You’ve certainly heard of LEGO, grid beam, and 80/20, but what about Troxes or Clickaloo? The 70 page document has a helpful index at the beginning arranged in families
Read MoreLindsay Clark reports via The Register: Palantir has won a US Army contract worth $178.4 million to house a battlefield intelligence system inside a big truck. In what purports to be the Army’s first AI-defined vehicle, Palantir will provide systems for the TITAN “ground station,” which is designed to access space, high altitude, aerial, and
Read MoreSpace.com describes it as “a nearly 3-ton leftover tossed overboard from the International Space Station” — which crashed back to earth today. One satellite tracker claims to have filmed it passing over the Netherlands… “A couple minutes later reentry and it would have reached Fort Meyers” in Florida, posted astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Read MoreGoogle’s swanky new office building located on the Alphabet’s Mountain View, California headquarters has been “plagued for months by inoperable, or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi,” reports Reuters citing six people familiar with the matter. “Its recliner-laden collaborative workspaces do not work well for teams carting around laptops, since workers must plug into ethernet cables at
Read MoreThe Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the end of its final voyage. Ships at sea and the land-based stations that supported them used Morse code for decades, but with the growing use of satellites, maritime Morse code ended in 1999. With one notable exception. [Saahil Desai] writing
Read MoreMichael McWhertor reports via Polygon: Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games
Read MoreAs reported by The Information (paywalled), OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the company’s board along with three new directors. Reuters reports: The company has also concluded the investigation around Altman’s November firing, the Information said, referring to the ouster that briefly threw the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence company into chaos. Employees, investors
Read MoreThe cheap little RC cars are abundant anywhere you are, and if you’ve ever disassembled one, you are familiar with how the PCB looks. A single-sided phenolic paper PCB with a mystery chip driving a bunch of through-hole transistors, a sprinkle of through-hole capacitors, and a few supporting components for the wire antenna. It might
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from MobileSyrup: Google’s new smart assistant, Gemini, is available on multiple devices but Gemini Nano, the multimodal large language model, isn’t coming to all Pixel smartphones. Gemini Nano is only available on the Google Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S24 series; however, we’ve recently learned that it’s
Read MoreThe Verge Around 600 workers in Activision Publishing’s quality assurance department have formed a union. Assisted by the Communications Workers of America, the employees completed their vote with the results certified on Friday, March 8th. With that, Activision Quality Assurance United – CWA becomes the latest union to arise out of Microsoft’s gaming division and
Read MoreAs reported by The Information (paywalled), OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the company’s board along with three new directors. Reuters reports: The company has also concluded the investigation around Altman’s November firing, the Information said, referring to the ouster that briefly threw the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence company into chaos. Employees, investors
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