Enlarge / Apple’s Vision Pro scored 0 points in US PIRG’s self-repairability analysis. Kyle Orland reader comments 26 In December, New York became the first state to enact a “Right to Repair” law for electronics. Since then, other states, including Oregon and Minnesota, have passed similar laws. However, a recent analysis of some recently released ..
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Cooling pipes at a Google data center in Douglas County, Georgia. reader comments 76 Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48 percent in the past five years due to the expansion of its data centers that underpin artificial intelligence systems, leaving its commitment to get to “net zero” by 2030 in doubt. The Silicon Valley ..
Getty Images | stefanamer reader comments 106 It’s clear that streaming services are the present and future of video distribution. But that doesn’t mean that cable companies are ready to give up on your monthly dollars. A sign of this is Comcast, the US’s second-biggest cable company, debuting a new streaming service today. Comcast already ..
Enlarge / Preparing to install the floppy disk edition of FreeDOS 1.3 in a virtual machine. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 65 Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994. The first is that Microsoft released MS-DOS version 6.22, the last version of its long-running operating system that would ..
Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo. reader comments 38 Apple’s Vision Pro headset went on sale outside the United States for the first time today, in the first of two waves of expanded availability. The $3,499 “spatial computing” device launched back in February in the US, but it ..
Enlarge / A movable robotic face covered with living human skin cells. reader comments 170 In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence have unveiled a technique for creating lifelike robotic skin using living human cells. As a proof of concept, the team engineered ..
Enlarge / The logo for PaLM 2, a Google large language model. reader comments 42 Google announced today that it has added support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, nearly doubling the number of languages that can be translated. The company used the PaLM 2 large language model to facilitate these additions. In a ..
reader comments 43 The streaming-only Xbox would have looked like a smaller, squarer relative of the Series S. The console had cutouts on the bottom and back, presumably for air cooling. Front-mounted Xbox button and USB port, much like the Series S. Rear-mounted Ethernet, HDMI, and power. The console would likely have worked over Wi-Fi, ..
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. Samuel Axon reader comments 26 OpenAI’s official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all users for the first time, provided they’re running macOS Sonoma or later. It was previously being rolled out gradually to paid ..
Enlarge / The 2024 iPad Pro. Samuel Axon reader comments 89 Apple has added the ability to format external drives in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, the major software updates for iPhones and iPads due later this year. While the feature likely won’t be tapped by all that many users, its inclusion is fascinating in ..
