It’s all relative, but if you want to scope out the likely shape of the tech device industry in five years’ time, you have to think of the likely shape of the replacement cycle, and right now it seems to be shifting toward Apple. That’s going to become more importantContinue Reading
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 AI models have been used to write the new Cutefish Desktop for CutefishOS, a distro that was in the news a few years ago. Reion Wong, the creator and developer of CutefishOS, who also runs the project’s X account, announced the desktop, showing itContinue Reading
Last week, we saw a wave of developers determined to reverse engineer everything with AI. This week, there’s a new wave, and to be honest, I like this one better. Some people have found an unusual way of using AI for something that actually matters to them. They are makingContinue Reading
The consensus reached between China and the European Union (EU) on hybrid and electric vehicle trade has helped prevent an escalation of trade frictions, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Monday. The spokesperson made the remarks in response to speculation by some foreign media outlets over details of the trade arrangements…Continue Reading
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Spyware from an Israeli company was used to target the phone of the rector of the Belgrade university who has played a prominent role in nearly two years of protests against Serbia ‘s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic, a digital rights group said on Monday. The BalkanContinue Reading
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat. “I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a Toronto-basedContinue Reading
December’s Linux Mint 27 release will include a brand new system monitor tool preinstalled. The app is called Superlight (well, that’s the project and package name; the user-facing label is just System Monitor). It shows hardware, app and process usage, relays battery stats and has an interactive storage page toContinue Reading
In olden days — last year, say — employees using unsanctioned AI tools might copy-and-paste sensitive data that could end up in the AI company’s training data set. Today, an unsanctioned AI can hack into another company for an employee even if they didn’t explicitly ask it to. This doesn’tContinue Reading
PlayStation 6 likely to have Sony’s own take on Frame Generation, according to latest patent For better or worse, AI upscaling and frame generation are the future of gaming. NVIDIA’s DLSS, AMD’s FSR, and Intel’s XeSS upscaling technologies have been part of PC gaming for more than 5 years, and their frame-generation technologies for 3Continue Reading
An artist’s concept of JAXA’s MMX spacecraft at Mars. (Image credit: JAXA) Japan’s mission to Mars is one of the most ambitious in spaceflight history. It aims to become the first spacecraft to return to Earth from Mars orbit, carrying with it the first-ever samples from the Red Planet system. The mission, known as MartianContinue Reading
Local Indigenous guides were critical to finding ‘Victoria colombiana.’ Image: Carlos Magdalena One cold December day in 2021, Colorado carnivorous plant grower Jeremiah Harris shared some pictures of wild Amazonian giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) plants in the Inírida River in Guainía, Colombia to Instagram. There’s just one problem. No known Victoria water lily speciesContinue Reading
Qantas is the flag carrier of Australia, and it dominates the long-haul market, partly due to its chief rival, Virgin Australia, being heavily restricted when competing on international routes. New Zealand and Australia feature prominently on lists of the world’s longest flights.Continue Reading
It has been over two decades since the operations of commercial supersonic services ceased due to Concorde’s withdrawal. However, it appears that commercial supersonic flights are returning amid Boom Supersonic’s advancements in design and flight testing. While the manufacturer is faced with questions regarding its suitability for the market andContinue Reading