Chromium’s source tree has gained experimental support for packaging the browser as a Flatpak, and the change has already been merged yesterday. It’s a small addition, basically a commit sitting behind a disabled build flag, but it’s the kind of change worth keeping an eye on if you’ve been wantingContinue Reading
Shotcut 26.6 brings powerful High Dynamic Range preview, restored external monitor support, and several useful improvements. A new version of the popular free and open-source video editor Shotcut 26.6.25 is now available. This release brings excellent HDR (High Dynamic Range) preview and export capabilities, brings back the long-missing external monitorContinue Reading
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kids under 18 will soon see a host of changes to their Instagram and Facebook experiences thanks to a historic $18 billion settlement Meta Platforms reached Wednesday with 48 U.S. states. Besides the money, which will be paid out over a decade, Meta has agreed toContinue Reading
Tablets and computers have become crucial school supplies for many students. But the same devices children use to read text, write essays, solve math problems or research history projects can also offer distractions in the form of games, social media and web browsing. It can be a challenge for parentsContinue Reading
Dreame’s automotive project has reportedly experienced multiple rounds of layoffs, while several senior executives have begun looking for jobs elsewhere. Large sections of the company’s office space were also reported to be vacant. The project, known as “Skyline,” was launched as part of Dreame’s plan to develop premium electric vehicles…Continue Reading
Why has Orange EV thrived while other commercial EV startups dropped like fruit flies? The company started by identifying an application that was ideal for EVs—terminal trucks, aka yard dogs—and patiently executed through years of pilots. Today the company has some 2,000 electric trucks in service, and is regularly announcingContinue Reading
Denver Public Schools recently added 25 Blue Bird Vision electric school buses to its fleet, bringing its total number of e-buses to 28. The district chose Kempower to provide DC fast charging infrastructure at its Hilltop Bus Terminal. The project was led by electrical solutions provider Winn-Marion. The terminal featuresContinue 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
Earlier this year, Meta, one of the industry’s loudest AI advocates, was ready to slash up to 60% of the members of some teams and replace them with AI, as part of what it called Project OT (Organization Transformation), an initiative to make Meta “AI native.” But it backed offContinue Reading
Have you heard the buzz? Good vibrations are officially here on Android — at least, on Google’s latest homemade Pixel gizmos. One of the less prominent but more useful additions on the Pixel 11 series is a quietly added option buried deep within the devices’ settings to select from aContinue Reading
Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy mostly ignoredContinue Reading
IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM’s own instruction set and Arm’s — switching between the two in nanoseconds.The chip, which will power the next generationContinue Reading
NYC Russ/Shutterstock The U.S. smartphone industry is one of the hardest to break into. Apple and Samsung have dominated the space for the longest time, and any brand that does make it in has to compete for the scraps they leave. It seemed completely unprecedented for a Chinese startup focusing on enthusiasts to ever haveContinue Reading