Every few months (or years, depending upon how old you are), there is a new “anti-smartphone” device that comes with a physical keyboard and a tiny screen and focuses on doing one thing well. Freewrite did it for writers. PicoCalc did it for tinkerers. Now Talisman Design, an independent hardwareContinue Reading
The Steam Machine’s swappable front panel just got a very useful upgrade that Valve has put out for free under an MIT License. Called the Inkterface, the e-ink faceplate replaces the stock panel with a small Bluetooth-connected display. NaKyle Wright is the person behind this project, who has published allContinue Reading
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote the company has become too bloated and its investments were losing money., Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote the company has become too bloated and its investments were losing money., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Austria-based Easelink has developed a hands-free, automated conductive charging system. Engineers at Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE) have been studying vehicle-to-grid technology for over a decade. Now the two organizations are working together on a UK-based research project that combines bidirectional AC charging with automated conductive charging technology. NTCE’s fieldContinue Reading
EV charging station cable theft is an infuriating problem. By some accounts, repairing and recommissioning a vandalized charging station can cost as much as $8,000 per charger, not including lost revenue and customer frustration—all for $#%&@ thieves to fence a few dollars’ worth of copper. How to deal with thisContinue Reading
TL;DR: Get Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $34.99 (reg. $499.99) with code JULY30. Offer ends July 5. If your code has to run on more than just macOS, Visual Studio Professional 2026 earns its keep. It’s built for teams juggling Windows, Linux, and containerized environments, and it’s on sale for $34.99 with code JULY30…Read MoreContinue Reading
Facing a billion-dollar loss in 2024, a storied British sports-car brand is cutting nearly half its workforce. To stabilize, the manufacturer is repurposing its underutilized Hethel factory as a shared production space, partnering with Zenos Cars to assemble track-focused roadsters at the site. The manufacturer’s initial strategy centered on capturing the luxury electric vehicle market…Continue Reading
Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU production…Continue Reading
An illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gaia23bra b. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system. The technique relies on a phenomenon introduced by Einstein in his 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, called gravitational microlensing.Continue Reading
An illustration of a black hole at the heart of a dust cloud blasting out neutrinos. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Mysterious “little red dots” discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic “ghost particles” through the cosmos. Neutrinos are referredContinue Reading
Jagger, 82, told the publication that he attempted to use AI to help come up with a title for the Rolling Stones’ most recent album, 2023’s “Hackney Diamonds.”, Jagger, 82, told the publication that he attempted to use AI to help come up with a title for the Rolling Stones’Continue Reading
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business. The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganization designed to “reset” Xbox as it facesContinue Reading
In Larry Sanger’s recent failed attempt to start a “WikiProject Intellectual Diversity”, he tried to recruit his followers to help him change Wikipedia’s rules around representation of viewpoints, religions, parties, and nationalities (a version of his earlier “Nine Theses”). The draft WikiProject was not itself a bannable offense, but hisContinue Reading