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Apple Chip Expert Leaves Company to Join Samsung
A chip expert who worked for Apple for nine years has left the company to join rival Samsung, Business Korea reports. Kim Woo-Pyeong, according to the report, worked for Apple since 2014 after working for Texas Instruments and Qualcomm in prior years. The report is vague on what Kim's responsibilities were at Apple, only saying he was a semiconductor expert.
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Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses
A decade after Google Glass, Google is getting back to testing smart glasses in public again. The company announced its own smart glasses initiative earlier this year at Google's I/O developer conference, a project that's aimed at assistance rather than entertainment. Google's now starting to publicly test those smart glasses, the company announced today, beginning with dozens of pairs in field use and ramping up to several hundred by the end of the year.
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BMW’s Heated Seats as a Service Model Has Drivers Seeking Hacks
THERE’S BEEN A bit of a backlash to the news that BMW will now charge owners a subscription to use the heated seats in their cars if they weren’t a paid-for option when new. The German carmaker has been putting extra features like high-beam assist behind a paywall for a couple of years now, and you pay to access the pre-installed software feature.
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The Computer Folder Is 40: How the Xerox Star Created the Desktop
In 1981, Xerox released the 8010 Information System, the first commercial computer to use the graphical desktop metaphor with folders and icons that we still use today. 40 years later, we take a look at why it was special.
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Nuclear power plants are struggling to stay cool
Climate change is reducing output and raising safety concerns at nuclear facilities.
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Making the Android lock screen busier is a bad, bad idea
Putting content on the lock screens of Android phones is a bad idea for many reasons. Here's why companies should leave it alone.
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Blood pressure e-tattoo promises continuous, mobile monitoring
Blood pressure is one of the most important indicators of heart health, but it's tough to frequently and reliably measure outside of a clinical setting. For decades, cuff-based devices that constrict around the arm to give a reading have been the gold standard. But now, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University have developed an electronic tattoo that can be worn comfortably on the wrist for hours and deliver continuous blood pressure measurements at an accuracy level exceeding nearly all available options on the market today.
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Amber Heard’s Spokeperson Calls Out ‘Twitter Bonfires’ As The Actress’ Legal Team Files Notice To...
Almost immediately following the verdict in the dueling defamation lawsuits between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, Heard’s legal team announced plans to appeal the verdict. Now, the notice to appeal has been officially been filed, so everybody is likely preparing for the social media firestorm to begin anew.
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How batteries will supercharge the renewable revolution
Renewables are a promising tool in the fight against climate change, but they have an essential bedfellow. “The only thing that’s holding those resources back from becoming 100 per cent of our total electricity generation is the ability to store that energy and dispatch it as needed,” Matt Harper, co-founder and CCO of Invinity Energy Systems, tells Euronews Green from the US.
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Why Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become so widespread that an entire generation of consumers may not be able to remember a time without it.
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NOØN - La La Land (EDM)
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Microparticles could be used to deliver “self-boosting” vaccines
MIT engineers developed microparticles made of a biocompatible polymer that can deliver a payload at different time points and could be used to create “self-boosting” vaccines.
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Netflix Lost 970,000 Subscribers in Q2, Beating Its Estimate by More Than 1 Million Subs
Netflix reported its second-quarter 2022 earnings Tuesday, revealing it lost 970,000 subscribers during the three-month period that included the launch of the first part of “Stranger Things…
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AI art is challenging the boundaries of curation
Artists working with programs like DALL-E do more than push a button.
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Thailand admits to using phone spyware, cites national security
A Thai minister has admitted the country uses surveillance software to track individuals in cases involving national security or drugs, amid revelations that government critics' phones had been hacked using the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware.
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Are forum platforms dead?
It feels that every other week a new article is written proclaiming the death of the venerable forum platform.
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Apple settles US butterfly-keyboard legal action for $50m
Apple will pay $50m (£41.6m) over claims its laptop keyboards were unresponsive and unreliable.
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Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
It’s almost like the internet should have been regulated as a commodity years ago.
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RSS is on fire again, and it's all down to SlackOps
RSS is the API they couldn't kill. It's back stronger than ever as an underpinning of SlackOps in many organizations.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different...
This quote, often misattributed to Einstein, is a very silly quote. Isn't "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" the very definition of training, practise and exercise. Would we have sport or music without people doing this very thing?
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Loss of male sex chromosome leads to earlier death for men
According to recent study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, the loss of the male sex chromosome as men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can result in fatal heart failure. The discovery could provide some insight into why males often pass away at an earlier age than women.
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Secret Service’s January 6 text messages story has shifted several times, panel is told
Explanation for how the messages from 5 and 6 January 2021 were deleted has gone from software upgrades to device replacements
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When it comes to data on your phone, deleting a text isn't the end of the story
The Secret Service may have deleted texts that were being sought by a government investigator. But data on a device isn't necessarily gone when it's been deleted.
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Samsung announces 24Gbps GDDR6 memory for next-gen graphics cards
In brief: Samsung is improving its GDDR6 portfolio with a new module capable of data transfer rates of 24Gbps per pin. This is mostly aimed at high-end graphics cards and AI accelerators, but the company will also be making low-power variants for other applications.
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Report: Microsoft will return to releasing new Windows versions once every 3 years
But the Windows-as-a-service era is far from over.
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Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram for search instead of Google, according to...
A Google executive said the company's data shows TikTok and Instagram are a threat to Google Search with Gen Z, and Google is working to keep up.
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Nikon is reportedly dropping out of the market for SLR cameras
Optics and imaging giant Nikon will stop making new single lens reflex cameras — once the technological mainstay of professional photography — according to a report from Nikkei. The death of SLR cameras has been coming for quite some time, as mirrorless alternatives have increased in image quality while offering consumers the option to use lighter and smaller products.
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Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent
RING, AMAZON’S PERENNIALLY controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended its cozy relationship with law enforcement by pointing out that cops can only get access to a camera owner’s recordings with their express permission or a court order. But in response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., the company stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone without either.
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No, BMW is not making heated seats a subscription for US cars
In Korea, BMW will let owners subscribe to options instead of buying them outright.
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Abe's killing haunts Japan with questions on handmade guns
The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent shudders through low-crime, orderly Japan
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