James Cameron tells Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton that his experience with Apple’s Vision Pro “was religious. I was skeptical at first. I don’t bow down before the great god of Apple, but I was really, really blown away… I think it’s not evolutionary; it’s revolutionary. And I’m speaking as someone who has worked in VR
Read MoreThe first teardown of the Apple Vision Pro has been performed, with the mixed-reality headset found to be a very complex and difficult-to-disassemble device. A teardown of the Apple Vision Pro [iFixit] A teardown of Apple’s latest hardware release is a typical event in the launch cycle, and there’s no difference for the Apple Vision
Read MoreSometimes, you have a piece of hardware that just up and stops working on you. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to toss something broken and move on. [BuyItFixIt], as you imagine, makes it their purpose to, well, fix things instead. Their latest efforts involved resurrecting a dead AVerMedia Live Gamer 2 Plus capture device
Read MoreA video by Casey Neistat explores the potential of using the Apple Vision Pro in everyday life, as well as ways it could cause problems for other people. Casey Neistat [YouTube] The Apple Vision Pro offers promises of being the gateway to spatial computing, which could be a big shift in how people use technology
Read MoreJames Cameron tells Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton that his experience with Apple’s Vision Pro “was religious. I was skeptical at first. I don’t bow down before the great god of Apple, but I was really, really blown away… I think it’s not evolutionary; it’s revolutionary. And I’m speaking as someone who has worked in VR
Read MoreThe first teardown of the Apple Vision Pro has been performed, with the mixed-reality headset found to be a very complex and difficult-to-disassemble device. A teardown of the Apple Vision Pro [iFixit] A teardown of Apple’s latest hardware release is a typical event in the launch cycle, and there’s no difference for the Apple Vision
Read MoreJames Cameron tells Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton that his experience with Apple’s Vision Pro “was religious. I was skeptical at first. I don’t bow down before the great god of Apple, but I was really, really blown away… I think it’s not evolutionary; it’s revolutionary. And I’m speaking as someone who has worked in VR
Read MoreWithin a day after the release of the Apple Vision Pro, a security researcher claims to have created a kernel exploit for visionOS, opening the way towards a potential jailbreak and malware creation. A forced restart of the Apple Vision Pro [x/0xjprx] The first releases of new hardware is often accompanied by a gold rush
Read MoreThe Verge reports that Threads is “booming,” according to figures shared by Mark Zuckerberg on Meta’s earnings call, with 130 million active users a month. TechCrunch reports: Threads is continuing to grow, having tripled its downloads month-over-month in December, which gave it a place in the top 10 most downloaded apps for the month across
Read MoreThe VC fund Neo “identifies awesome young engineers, includes them in a community of tech veterans, and invests in companies they start or join,” TechCrunch explained in 2018. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes that Neo is also benefiting from the education non-profit Code.org: Eleven years ago, Neo Founder and CEO Ali Partovi together with twin
Read MoreImage: iFixit We’ve already found out a few hidden tidbits of Apple’s Vision Pro over the last week, like the revelation that it has not one, but two different kinds of Lightning-esque connectors. But now you can see so much more in iFixit’s first teardown video, offering some answers to questions like what contributes to
Read MoreImage: iFixit We’ve already found out a few hidden tidbits of Apple’s Vision Pro over the last week, like the revelation that it has not one, but two different kinds of Lightning-esque connectors. But now you can see so much more in iFixit’s first teardown video, offering some answers to questions like what contributes to
Read MoreWhen you just can’t 3D print something as a monolithic part, you’re going to have to join pieces together. In such cases, most of us instinctively include threaded inserts or nut slots in the design, or even reach for a tube of CA glue. But perhaps you should be thinking more along the lines of
Read MoreSave $100 on Apple Watch Series 9 models at Best Buy this weekend, with prices dipping to just $299. Save $100 on Apple Watch Series 9 styles this weekend. Best Buy has rolled out an enticing offer this weekend that’s hard to pass up: the Apple Watch Series 9 for $299. This deal marks a
Read MoreThe BBC reports: Police in Washington state say an old rusted rocket found in a local man’s garage is an inert nuclear missile. On Wednesday, a military museum in Ohio called police in the city of Bellevue to report an offer of a rather unusual donation. The police then sent a bomb squad to the
Read More“In the last few years, the U.S. has seen a boom in cryptocurrency mining,” writes Ars Technica. But they add that the U.S. government “is now trying to track exactly what that means for the consumption of electricity. Specifically, a crucial branch of the U.S. Department of Energy. “While its analysis is preliminary, the Energy
Read More“My goal is to have a firewall that I trust,” writes Slashdot reader eggegick, “not a firewall that comes from the manufacture that might have back doors.” I’m looking for a cheap mini PC I can turn into a headless Linux-based wireless and Ethernet router. The setup would be a cable modem on the Comcast
Read MoreWhen you think of a robot getting around, you probably think of something on wheels or tracks. Maybe you think about a bipedal walking robot, more common in science fiction than our daily lives. In any case, researchers went way outside the norm when they built an avocado-shaped robot for exploring the rainforest. The robot
Read MoreAn ongoing antitrust lawsuit has finally been granted class-action status, one accusing Apple of using its App Store monopoly to keep prices high. App Store icon An antitrust case against Apple that has rolled along in various forms for 12 years has been given a break by a federal judge, who allowed it to be
Read MoreThere was some drama on social media suggesting that you couldn’t connect an Apple Vision Pro to a desktop Mac like a Mac mini or Mac Studio. You can, but it’s not quite as simple as connecting a MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro. Here’s how to do it. Mac Virtual Display for Apple Vision Pro
Read MoreNicholas Wise is a fluid dynamics researcher who moonlights as a scientific fraud buster, reports Science magazine. And last June he “was digging around on shady Facebook groups when he came across something he had never seen before.” Wise was all too familiar with offers to sell or buy author slots and reviews on scientific
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you spend $3,500 on a laptop, it’s a near guarantee you know exactly what you’re getting and you’re probably going to be happy with it. But you have to… think different when you spend that kind of money on a new platform like the Vision Pro,
Read MoreUnlike with a Mac or iPhone, it appears that it’s not possible for everybody to buy AppleCare coverage for an Apple Vision Pro on device. Without AppleCare, Apple Vision Pro repair costs can be up to $2,399 Users who have bought an iPhone and elected not to get AppleCare will know that the iOS Settings
Read MoreThe tech industry is evolving at a rapid pace, especially after the arrival of AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Google Bard. While Google Bard is less popular than ChatGPT or Copilot, it’s still a great chatbot to use. If you’re a Google search user, you may be very familiar with the Search Generative Experience
Read MoreLinus Torvalds had “some robust exchanges” on the Linux kernel mailing list with a contributor from Google. The subject was inodes, notes the Register, “which as Red Hat puts it are each ‘a unique identifier for a specific piece of metadata on a given filesystem.’” Inodes have been the subject of debate on the Linux
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