Browsing the web on Android sure ain’t what it used to be. Earlier this week, we talked about how the Vivaldi web browser is bringing support for Chrome extensions to Android. Vivaldi has the same Chromium code foundation as Chrome but with lots of extra features and options. I’ve beenContinue Reading
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in FloridaContinue Reading
This side-view image of McGetchin crater encompasses an area about 1.5 miles wide. Credit: NASA The moon may look desolate and calm, but a lot happens on that dusty landscape. With zero atmosphere, space rocks of all sizes regularly bombard the lunar surface. Most of the debris is microscopic, but astronomers estimate around 140 coffeeContinue Reading
Mozilla and Mistral have announced a partnership that brings the Mistral Small 4 model to Firefox Smart Window, the browser’s AI-powered window that lets users chat their way through a web browsing session. Both companies portray this as pushback against a browser ecosystem increasingly dominated by a few large companies.Continue Reading
GNOME is still the initial desktop environment for most people who step into the world of Linux, trying their first distribution. I say that because the mainstream picks like Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation both ship it by default, bringing new users directly into the GNOME ecosystem. While we are seeingContinue Reading
NSW now has 150,000 registered electric vehicles, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The figure dropped this week as part of World EV Day, following a renewable energy milestone the week before as Australia passed 500,000 total EVs nationally and with battery EVs taking about a quarter of new-carContinue Reading
The pause doesn’t affect cameras already in place, including more than 900 operated by the Texas Department of Public Safety., The pause doesn’t affect cameras already in place, including more than 900 operated by the Texas Department of Public Safety., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III on Thursday urged senior leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia to make sure that artificial intelligence remains under control and in the service of people and the planet. The gathering in Scotland was convened to discuss how AI can benefit society, andContinue Reading
Day 4 of the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering brings 6 free live webinars, starting at 8:45 AM EDT. Register now to join any session live on Zoom or watch the recording afterward. Every session is recorded and posted to its page within hours. Thursday, September 17: today’s scheduleContinue Reading
DB HiTek has completed reliability qualification for its 1,200 V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET process on 8-inch (200 mm) wafers, and the South Korean foundry is preparing for volume production in 2027. It says it has established the world’s first complete 1,200 V 8-inch SiC foundry process flow, giving itContinue Reading
Edit, Microsoft’s open-source command-line text editor, added syntax highlighting, improved regex handling in Find & Replace and new editing shortcuts in its v2.0.0 update. Microsoft open-sourced Edit last year. It’s a small, cross-platform text editor with VS Code-style keybindings, mouse support, handles LF and CRLF line endings and lets youContinue Reading
There’s a new development in a Microsoft antitrust case, originally filed in England’s High Court in April 2021, and it doesn’t look good for the tech giant. A consent order from the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal is demanding documents from past and present Microsoft executives that may have a bearingContinue Reading
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