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Friday August 30, 2024. 02:50 AM
According to The Information (paywalled), Meta plans to ship an extremely light mixed reality headset in 2027, codenamed Puffin. It follows a report that the company canceled a high-end headset planned for the same year, which previous reports speculated as being a Quest Pro ...
Spotify claims Apple may be again in violation of European regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires interoperability from big technology companies dubbed 'gatekeepers.' From a report: This time, the issue isn't about in-app purchases, links or pricing...
Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century – today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of alien intelligence.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Every day for the last four years, dozens of people have shown up in the comments of one particular YouTube, declaring their love and appreciation for the content. The content: two minutes and six seconds of deep, low buzzing, the kind...
But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly VMware Explore I’ve attended VMware’s annual conference every year since 2007 and this year the event had a very different flavor.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from overkill.wtf: The team behind popular emulation tool EmuDeck is today announcing something rather special: they've spent the first half of 2024 working on their very first hardware product, called the EmuDeck Machine, and it's due to...
Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats The US government has indicted two men for allegedly reporting almost 120 fake emergencies or crimes in the hope of provoking action by armed law enforcement agencies.…
Scientists are harvesting genetic data from microorganisms in a North Yorkshire quarry, fueling a global debate over ownership and profit-sharing of natural genetic resources. Researchers from London-based startup Basecamp Research are collecting samples and digitizing...
Thursday August 29, 2024. 11:30 PM
Apple has laid off about 100 employees in its services group (source may be paywalled; alternative source), primarily affecting roles associated with the Apple Books app and Apple Bookstore. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The impacted employees at the Cupertino-based...
Midjourney, the AI image-generating platform, announced on Wednesday that it's 'officially getting into hardware.' TechCrunch reports: As for what hardware Midjourney, which has a team of fewer than 100 people, might pursue, there might be a clue in its hiring of Ahmad Abbas ...
The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists Nvidia has confirmed earlier reports that its Blackwell generation of GPUs suffered from a design defect that adversely impacted the yields of the hotly anticipated accelerators.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A controversial bill aimed at enforcing safety standards for large artificial intelligence models has now passed the California State Assembly by a 45-11 vote. Following a 32-1 state Senate vote in May, SB-1047 now faces ...
Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has spotted an interesting pattern: A Kremlin-linked cyber-espionage crew and commercial spyware makers exploiting specific security vulnerabilities in pretty much the same ...
A new study of broadband reliability finds a top-two finish that you might not expect from recent surveys of ISP customer satisfaction: Charter's Spectrum and Comcast's Xfinity, the two largest cable operators in the US. From a report: Opensignal's report, published...
Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull Hot Chips Speaking at Hot Chips this week, AMD president Victor Peng addressed one of the biggest challenges facing the semiconductor industry as it grapples with growing demand for ...
What’s the best way to make sure your phone always has power, no matter where you are or how many YouTube videos you watch? Carry a portable charger (also known as a power bank) with you! And if you still don’t have one, here’s a great opportunity for you: this Baseus...
Sordid search history 'evidence' in case that could see him spend 35 years for extortion and wire fraud A former infrastructure engineer who allegedly locked IT department colleagues out of their employer's systems, then threatened to shut down servers unless paid a ransom,...
Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI, a move that would cement ties to a partner integral to its efforts to gain ground in the artificial-intelligence race. WSJ: The investment would be part of a new OpenAI fundraising round that would value the ChatGPT maker above $100...
A few hours before the opening ceremony, we spoke with the former sprinter, who today is the European Space Agency’s first para-astronaut.
A new national survey reveals a concerning trend in school engagement among Gen Z students aged 12-18. The joint Gallup and Walton Family Foundation study [PDF] found that middle and high school students find classes less interesting than last year, with only half feeling...
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