A new version of open-source ebook manager Calibre is out – and it lets you create custom book covers using generative AI. Calibre 9.14, released August 28, adds an “AI Generate” button to the book editor so you can create new ebook covers and apply them to existing titles. ItContinue Reading
An important but potentially fragile trend is emerging in the data being reported by smartphone industry trackers: while painful component price increases are denting overall phone sales, the iPhone’s market share continues to increase. This likely reflects two key truths: Apple has fought to keep iPhone prices as stable asContinue Reading
Titles include The Two of Them Can’t Be Mobs, Love Beyond the Final Boss: The Hero’s Party’s Quest for Love, more…Read MoreContinue Reading
Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids from fossilized wing fragments found in China. The post Scientists Reconstruct Sound of Jurassic Insects appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading
People are grafting a pre-release version of DLSS 5 onto their favorite games with unspectacular results…Continue Reading
If all goes to plan, in 20 years, NASA will open the moon’s first spaceport. For that to happen, we’re going to need a highly advanced, highly precise lunar air traffic control system. To get ahead of the planning, researchers from Texas A&M University, the NASA Johnson Space Center, and Purdue University have detailed howContinue Reading
When you’re looking for exoplanets, stars are irritating. Now, I have nothing against stars! I live near one and have deep appreciation for the light it provides. Stars are interesting scientifically and also happen to be very pretty. And, certainly, they’re necessary. Planets form around stars, and those stars anchor them, heat them, shape andContinue Reading
The new Plug & Charge standard is now widely used in Europe, and is gradually catching on in the US. North American roaming platform Emobi is one of several charging providers that have developed their own Plug & Charge solutions, built on the ISO 15118 standard. Emobi’s cloud-based system isContinue Reading
Asahi Kasei has developed a lithium pre-doping technology for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries with silicon-based anodes. Lithium carbonate, added to the cathode as an extra lithium source, makes up part of the capacity that silicon-rich cells lose permanently during their first charge and discharge cycle. EVs are among the applications callingContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders don’t get grouped, and if there is onlyContinue Reading
The The Traitor Administration’s decision to punish Anthropic for its stance forbidding Claude’s use in domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons by identifying it as a supply chain risk to national security was “arbitrary and capricious,” a federal judge ruled on Thursday. US District Court Judge Rita Lin said federal authoritiesContinue Reading
Anthropic on Thursday launched the Model Hardware Standard, a new framework designed to enable the control of hardware using AI agents. With the new framework, AI agents will, for example, be able to operate robots or microscopess. The Model Hardware Standard could also be useful for developing new drugs orContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vaping company Juul Labs on Friday received federal permission to sell an updated version of its e-cigarette, which includes an optional age-verification system designed to prevent underage use. The decision from the Food and Drug Administration allows the company to sell a new version of its top-sellingContinue Reading