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The battery pack. Photograph: Philip Pacheco/Getty Images I assumed this external battery pack meant the headset itself would feel as light as a feather, but it still felt hefty. Once I adjusted both a bigger backstrap and the top soft strap, I went through another calibration process, which concluded with an audible chime of approval. …
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Those well-established conventional IT systems, however, can no longer be taken for granted. Companies are accelerating their digital transformation efforts, automating, optimizing, and reinventing their business processes. The pace of change continues to accelerate: Deloitte reports, for example, that 58% of organizations have stepped up their modernization plans due to the covid-19 pandemic. Many ERP …
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According to the cross-section of bans provided to New York, which were issued in the days after the Buffalo mass shooting, 21 bans were imposed for violating US law. Some of those were, as 4chan pointed out to the Attorney General’s Office, for counseling for further terror attacks. The posts encouraged fellow 4chan users to …
In December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in what it said was a privacy-preserving way. Apple then said that its anti-CSAM efforts would instead center around its “Communication Safety” features for children, initially announced in August 2021. And …
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In subjects such as engineering, chemistry, and statistics, which drive significant traffic to Chegg but often involve diagrams, there was a sense that relying too heavily on AI to parse visual information was unreasonable, the former employees say. So the ethics of unleashing an imperfect product gave Chegg pause. “We knew generative was coming down …
the sound team for Diablo IV needed to determine what a Treasure Beast might sound like. In the fiction, it’s a massive, taurus-headed behemoth—complete with rows of yellowed porpoise-like teeth and a cudgel the size of a small town. It looks like something Jabba the Hutt might keep as a pet, or one of those …
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It’s no secret that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange—which has no head office or formal address but processes $12 billion worth of cryptocurrency transactions per day. But the charge sheet filed today by the SEC in the District of Columbia contains a list of 13 …
SEC’s ‘Scathing’ Charges Against Binance Deal a Big Blow to US Crypto Read More »
NameDrop works with AirDrop when you bring two iPhones together (aka Bump!). You’ll see your Contact Poster and you can choose what phone numbers and emails you want to share with your new friend. (It even works when you bring an iPhone near an Apple Watch.) Better yet, if someone is sharing photos or large …
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Shipments of VR headsets declined more than 20 percent in 2022, according to research from the International Data Corporation. IDC chalked this up to the limited number of vendors in the market, a challenging macroeconomic environment, and a lack of mass market adoption from consumers.” According to The Wall Street Journalciting Pitchbook, venture capital investments …
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Samsung makes some of the best Android phones around, and the Galaxy S23 is one of our favorites. Good news! We’re giving a 256-gigabyte model away, along with two cases from Speck (usually worth around $940). The Galaxy S23 does not come with a phone plan, so you’ll need to supply your own. The Galaxy …
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In January 2021, mathematician Hannah Fry was diagnosed with cervical cancer. When she received her diagnosis, the oncologist told her there was still uncertainty whether the cancer was already at stage three and had spread to the lymph nodes. If it hadn’t, Fry’s chances of survival were 90 percent. If it had spread, however, those …
internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has offered the free web security service Project Galileo for nearly a decade, giving human rights and public interest organizations around the world access to defenses against DDoS attacks and other common online hacking techniques. More than 2,271 websites in 111 countries now use the service, including 81 Ukrainian organizations, the …
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Every living thing spreads an invisible signature across its landscape, whether it’s a badger ambling through the grass, an oak growing in the forest, or an eagle soaring overhead. Fur, feathers, skin cells, spores, pollen—all of it is loaded with genetic information that floats away into a data-rich atmospheric soup. Scientists call this information environmental …
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Michele Gomez remembers the exact moment when she realized the problem. It was the fall of 2022. Gomez (who, like me, is a family physician and abortion provider in California) had recently provided a virtual abortion medication to a patient from Texas. The patient had flown to her mom’s house in California, where she had …
I’ve always known my way around a needle and thread. I can reattach a lost button and even take in a dress (just don’t look too closely at the seams). I once hand-sewed hundreds of individual felt scales on some pants to make a Where the Wild Things Are Halloween costume. Yet for some reason, …
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Everyone knows the Spider-Man meme. In it, a cartoon Spider-Man points at an identical Spider-Man who, in turn, points right back. It’s from a 1967 episode of the Spiderman animated series, but it became so popular online in the early ’10s that it’s since been referenced in several big-screen spider-properties, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse …
The Best Gag in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Was 56 Years in the Making Read More »
Today’s the day, folks. Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference begins in a few hours with a keynote address at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific. This is the event that Apple typically uses to preview the software enhancements coming later this year to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and its other products. Although WWDC …
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A shopping mall in Texas, a private school in Tennessee, a bank in Kentucky and a dance studio in California: these are the sites of some of the public mass shootings in the US in 2023 alone, representing just a slice of the presumed safe spaces rocked by these tragedies. As mass shootings in the …
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apple is secretive. The company is known for staying great tight-lipped around upcoming product launches. But we can always rely on the annual Worldwide Developers Conference—which is centered around new software capabilities across Apple’s entire product line—for insight on what to anticipate for its yearly hardware event in the fall. This year’s WWDC starts with …
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In November 2018, an elementary school administrator named Akihiko Kondo married Miku Hatsune, a fictional pop singer. The couple’s relationship had been aided by a hologram machine that allowed Kondo to interact with Hatsune. When Kondo proposed, Hatsune responded with a request: “Please treat me well.” The couple had an unofficial wedding ceremony in Tokyo, …
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