There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to shunt wagons or chuff around our domain. Envy [Otis Rowell] then, because he’s made himself a garden railway with the laudable purpose of moving wood
Read MoreOpinion post by Hadlee Simons HUAWEI has been subject to a US trade ban for over four years now, resulting in the company losing access to key hardware suppliers, Google services, 5G connectivity (until recently), and more.
Read MoreFeaturing a bump up in memory and storage, Apple’s upgraded M3 MacBook Pro 14-inch is $200 off with free 2-day shipping within the contiguous U.S. The MacBook Pro model that’s on sale for $1,599 at Apple Authorized Reseller B&H Photo is equipped with Apple’s M3 chip that has an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU. According
Read MoreFrom a blog post by Greg Kroah-Hartman: As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux. This is a trend, of more open source projects taking over the haphazard assignments of CVEs against their project by becoming a CNA so that no
Read MoreAndroid and iPhone compete closely, each with its strengths: Android wins in some areas, whereas iPhone dominates in others. Just like on Android, you get the freedom to install endless counts of apps on your iPhone. Apple App Store gives you the freedom to install as many apps as you want, and as a result,
Read MoreIn the high-stakes world of AI, “The fundamental agreement behind robots.txt [files], and the web as a whole — which for so long amounted to ‘everybody just be cool’ — may not be able to keep up…” argues the Verge: For many publishers and platforms, having their data crawled for training data felt less like
Read MoreApple has released a new ad spot on Instagram, using Lionel Messi and other footballers to promote the Major League Soccer Season Pass on Apple TV. ‘You’ve never seen MLS like this’ ad spot promo [Apple TV] The Instagram Reel titled “You’ve Never Seen MLS Like This” was released on Sunday, all to market the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority We’ve all been there: You found a phone plan that you’re reasonably happy with, and then suddenly your carrier changes it all up with new offerings. The good news is that carriers typically don’t force consumers to change phone plans every time they update their options. There are a
Read MoreThe TRS-80 Model 100 was released in 1983, featuring an 80C85 CPU that can run at 5 MHz, but only runs at a hair under 2.5 MHz, due to 1:2 divider on the input clock. Why cut the speed in half? It has a lot to do with the focus of the M100 on being
Read MoreA new bug in Apple Podcasts neither displays the latest episode of a podcast nor lets the app automatically download it for users. Apple Podcasts The Apple Podcasts app is supposed to alert users to new episodes of their favorite shows, and if configured to do so, download and store it on the iPhone or
Read MoreImage: The Verge Apple will reportedly have to pay around €500 million (about $539 million USD) in the EU 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 MoreGoogle and Samsung competing for the title of best Android camera phone is a tale as old as time. On one side, we have the Pixel 8 Pro with its trio of cameras and Tensor G3-powered processing. On the other, Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra counts on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and a mountain
Read MoreIn the latest Apple Crime Blotter, a viral Apple Store theft check-in, AirTag may have been used to plan a murder, and a lack of major Apple Vision Pro crimes. The Apple Store on Bay Street in Emeryville, CA The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime. Continue Reading
Read MoreIllustration: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 26, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome. So psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been playing with the redesigned
Read MoreBy rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.
Read MoreApple may be the target of a 500 million euro ($538 million) fine from the European Commission, with the regulator expected to impose the charge following its competition probe into how it treats Apple Music’s competitors. EU flags The European Commission has been investigating whether Apple broke antitrust laws following a 2019 complaint from Spotify,
Read MoreWhy are all phone cases so boring? Let Hailey Bieber’s slick-looking lip balm phone case inspire us all.
Read MoreHow fast is the gas coming out from those little duster tubes of canned air? Perhaps faster than one might think! It’s supersonic (video, embedded below) as [Cylo’s Garage] shows by imaging clear shock diamonds in the flow from those thin little tubes. Shock diamonds are a clear indicator of supersonic flow. Shock diamonds, normally
Read MoreSince the crew at [CPSdrone] likes to build underwater drones — submarines, in other words — they need to 3D print waterproof hulls. At first, they thought there were several reasons for water entering the hulls, but the real reason was that water tends to soak through the print surface. They’ve worked it all out
Read MoreLots of people make replica lightsabers from Star Wars or tricorders from Star Trek. Not so many people have tried to recreate the binoculars from The Last Jedi, but [The Smugglers Room] whipped up a pretty rad pair from old parts. It’s more of an inspired build rather than screen-accurate, but they’re still pretty neat. A Bell & Howell
Read MoreThese days, just about anyone with a pulse can fall on a keyboard and make an AI image generator spurt out some kind of vaguely visual content. A lot of it is crap. Some of it’s confusing. But most of all, creators hate it when their hand-crafted works are compared with these digital extrusions from
Read MoreThe secret to cranking out a furniture-sized metal frame in minutes is Liquid Metal Printing (LMP), demonstrated by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’ve demonstrated printing aluminum frames for tables and chairs, which are perfectly solid and able to withstand post-processing like drilling and milling. The system heats aluminum in a graphite crucible,
Read MoreMacworld We’re all in agreement that Apple Watches are incredible, but their power and tech innovation isn’t any good when they’re slacking on battery power. Now, you can charge your Apple Watch anywhere and anytime. How? With the PowerBand, which is only $39.99 (reg. $49) during this limited-time Presidents’ Day sale. The innovative Apple Watch band has
Read MoreWindows 11 has a native screen capture and a recording tool called Snipping Tool. You also have other screen capture programs on Windows 11, like an Xbox Game Bar, but the Snipping Tool is solely designed for taking screenshots. The new Snipping tool of Windows 11 can even record your screen. Snipping tool is a
Read MoreChase customers are having problems using Apple Pay on Saturday, with attempts to pay using Apple’s payment platform failing while an “unexpected upgrade” is allegedly underway. Apple Pay, the iPhone’s payment platform. A number of iPhone users who use Chase cards with Apple Pay discovered on Saturday that their payments were declining in stores while
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