The widespread use of mines has left Ukrainians scrambling to find ways to clear the explosives. New efforts to develop mine-clearing technology may help them push back Russia’s invading forces.
Read MoreFounded by Michael Guerin and Adele Keane in 2021, Dublin-based Imvizar wants to change the way we tell stories using the power of augmented reality tech. Read more: Imvizar: Dublin start-up on its way to becoming the Netflix of AR
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Strings and flags within Google Messages highlight upcoming features, such as camera effects for the internal Camera activity within the app. Flags also indicate that Google could be experimenting with removing the top contacts during search and deprioritizing drafts from the main chat screen. Google Messages finds its way
Read MoreA few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag — but like traditional RFID tags, “a counterfeiter could peel the tag off a genuine item and reattach it to a fake,” writes MIT News. “The researchers have now surmounted this security vulnerability by leveraging terahertz waves to develop an antitampering ID tag that
Read MoreLike every smartphone brand, you get a dedicated recycle bin on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. The trash folder of Samsung phones stores the photos, videos, contacts, messages, files, and other files you delete. The trash folder of a Samsung smartphone is of great use since it stores all deleted items, allowing you to review them later.
Read MoreMore and more biomarkers that can help in the early diagnosis of diseases like cancer are being discovered every year, but often the effective application relies on having diagnostic methods that are both affordable and as least invasive as possible. This is definitely true in the case of breast cancers, where the standard diagnostic method
Read MoreBy 2022 the VC firm Sequoia Capital had about $85 billion in assets under management, according to Wikipedia. Its successful investments include Google, Apple, PayPal, Zoom, and Nvidia. And now the VC firm “plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually,” according to TechCrunch, which notes it “a continuation of a program
Read MoreSomewhere in most engineering educations, there’s a class on induction motors. Students learn about shaded-pole motors, two-phase and three-phase motors, squirrel cage motors, and DC-excited motors. It’s a pre-requisite for then learning about motor controllers and so-called brushless DC motors. [Jim Pytel] takes this a step further in a series of videos, in which he
Read MoreWhether you need to save a document for sharing, preserve a webpage, or compile images in a single file, creating a PDF in macOS Sonoma is a breeze. Here’s how you can do it. How to create a PDF using macOS Sonoma With its intuitive design and enhanced features, macOS Sonoma lets users transform documents,
Read MoreThe great libraries of the ancient classical world are “legendary… said to have contained stacks of texts,” writes ScienceAlert. But from Rome to Constantinople, Athens to Alexandria, only one collection survived to the present day. And here in 2024, “we can now start reading its contents.” A worldwide competition to decipher the charred texts of
Read MoreSo it turns out that walking around with $4,000 worth of hardware on your head isn’t quite the peak technology experience that some people thought it would be. We’re talking about the recently released Apple Vision Pro headset, which early adopters are lining up in droves to return. Complaints run the gamut from totally foreseeable
Read More“Apple will reportedly have to pay around €500 million (about $539 million USD) in the EU,” reports the Verge, “for stifling competition against Apple Music on the iPhone. Financial Times reported this morning that the fine comes after regulators in Brussels, Belgium investigated a Spotify complaint that Apple prevented apps from telling users about cheaper
Read MoreThe great libraries of the ancient classical world are “legendary… said to have contained stacks of texts,” writes ScienceAlert. But from Rome to Constantinople, Athens to Alexandria, only one collection survived to the present day. And here in 2024, “we can now start reading its contents.” A worldwide competition to decipher the charred texts of
Read MoreOwners of the Apple Vision Pro may get a lot more basketball content to watch using the headset, with the NBA Slam Dunk Contest offering a close look at a camera used to capture the immersive video. A 3D camera with the 2024 NBA Slam Dunk Contest judges [Youtube/House of Highlights] One of the key
Read More“I feel things fraying,” says Nick Hilton, host of a neo-luddite podcast called The Ned Ludd Radio Hour. But he’s one of the more optimistic tech skeptics interviewed by the Guardian: Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience — taking things
Read MoreIf there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are passionate about, it’s the search for the perfect sine wave. Oscillators without any harmonics are an important part of spectrum hygiene, and while building a perfect oscillator with no distortion is a practical impossibility, this twin-tee audio frequency oscillator gets pretty close. As [Alan Wolke (W2AEW)]
Read MoreHigh-capacity DNA data storage “is closer than you think,” Slashdot wrote in 2019. Now IEEE Spectrum brings an update on where we’re at — and where we’re headed — by a participant in the DNA storage collaboration between Microsoft and the Molecular Information Systems Lab of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and
Read More“I feel things fraying,” says Nick Hilton, host of a neo-luddite podcast called The Ned Ludd Radio Hour. But he’s one of the more optimistic tech skeptics interviewed by the Guardian: Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience — taking things
Read MoreThe Sony Xperia 5 V was one of the most powerful compact phones released in 2023 and yet for many of us, it wasn’t even an option, as Sony chose to only launch the Sony Xperia 1 V in the United States. While there’s still a possibility that the Xperia 5 V might come to
Read More“For nearly a year now, a bizarre heating event has been unfolding across the world’s oceans,” reports Wired. “In March 2023, global sea surface temperatures started shattering record daily highs and have stayed that way since…” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami. “It’s really getting to be strange that we’re just
Read MoreThe Sony Xperia 5 V was one of the most powerful compact phones released in 2023 and yet for many of us, it wasn’t even an option, as Sony chose to only launch the Sony Xperia 1 V in the United States. While there’s still a possibility that the Xperia 5 V might come to
Read More“Dutch motorist Tim Hansenn was fined 380 euros for using his phone while driving,” reports the Jerusalem Post. “But there was one problem: He wasn’t using his phone at all…” Hansenn, who works with AI as part of his job with the firm Nippur, found the photo taken by the smart cameras. In it, he
Read MoreA new “Shot on iPhone” video has been released by Apple, one showing highlights from Usher’s Apple Music Halftime Show from Super Bowl LVIII. Super Bowl Halftime Show from Super Bowl LVIII [Apple] Lasting over 10 minutes, the video released on Apple’s official YouTube channel offers a view of “the epic show, like you’ve never
Read MoreA charging station outside of a Toyota Store in Blauvelt, New York, on February 5th, 2024. | Image: Kena Betancur / VIEWpress / Getty President Biden’s administration plans to pull back on strict new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that would have forced US automakers to turn EVs into their main business by 2032. That’s
Read More“Dutch motorist Tim Hansenn was fined 380 euros for using his phone while driving,” reports the Jerusalem Post. “But there was one problem: He wasn’t using his phone at all…” Hansenn, who works with AI as part of his job with the firm Nippur, found the photo taken by the smart cameras. In it, he
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