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Sunday January 5, 2025. 02:28 PM
Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.…
AlphaTheta’s new cheap option gives you reliable basics without cutting too many corners.
Brazil ended daylight saving time in 2019, reports the Washington Post, adding that some Brazilians loved the change, 'particularly those who commute long distances and are no longer forced to leave their houses in pitch blackness.' But 'In the heavily populated southeast,...
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
This week at CES, companies of all sizes will show off all their new AI-enabled gadgets. Here’s hoping they don’t all just do stuff your phone already excels at.
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate more detailed differences between ancient DNA data has proved its worth this week after a paper describing human population movements in Europe in the ...
Harassment, hate, and other social harms feel like an online inevitability, but developers are finally addressing their impact in a meaningful way.
TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, 'and shielding them from unauthorized access,' Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to...
TL;DR: Kickstart your New Year with daily learning—get 80% off Headway Premium for just $59.99, and gain lifetime access to a library of 1,500+ book summaries. You’ve probably heard about Headway on various podcasts, but what is it? Headway is the app that makes daily...
'Private space stations have been raising billions of dollars in an effort to build future hubs — and even one day cities — in orbit,' according to a recent report from the U.K. newspaper, the Telegraph: Axiom Space, a US business aiming to build its own station, has raised m...
Today 34-year-old chess champion Magnus Carlsen married 26-year-old Ella Victoria Malone, 'in a ceremony packed with guests on a sunny winter day in Oslo,' reports Chess.com. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, a film crew from Netflix was also present. The streaming ...
Lutron Electronics announced on Monday the incorporation of DIY smart window shade products into its Caséta smart lighting brand. Drawn from Lutron’s Serena smart shade product line, the window coverings have long been controlled by Lutron’s Caséta smart hub, apps, and ...
'My feet are already in the crosswalk,' says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn't. Waymo's position? Their...
Saturday January 4, 2025. 11:59 PM
I’d like to write a full-fledged blog post about these adventures at some point, but for now I’m going to focus on one particular side quest: getting acceptable video output out of the 1000H when it’s running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. By default, Windows 3.x renders using ...
James Thomson, developer of, originally, DragThing and now PCalc, also happens to be the developer of the very first publicly shown version of the Mac OS dock. Now that it was shown to the world by Steve Jobs exactly 25 years ago, he reminisces about what it was like to...
'Electric vehicles are expected to outsell cars with internal combustion engines in China for the first time next year,' reports the Financial Times, calling it 'a historic inflection point that puts the world's biggest car market years ahead of western rivals.' China is set ...
Belkin has introduced a new design for its existing BoostCharge Pro MagSafe Power Bank 5K to celebrate the Year of the Snake. This refreshed version of the popular power bank features a colorful snake-themed pattern symbolizing intelligence and elegance, inspired by the...
It's 'what some experts consider the most advanced military AI initiative ever to be deployed,' reports the Washington Post. But the Israeli military's AI-powered intelligence practices are also 'under scrutiny. Genocide charges against Israel brought to The Hague by South...
'Robots and AI models share one crucial characteristic,' writes the Washington Post. 'Whether to move around, conduct conversations or solve problems, they function by constantly taking in and computing increasingly vast quantities of data. It's a brute-force approach to...
It's weighs less than 15 pounds. It's 17 inches wide. And in June Elon Musk said it was 'easily carried in a backpack. This product will change the world.' And now, CNET reports: Calling all digital nomads and van-lifers: SpaceX's Starlink Mini is now available everywhere in ...
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