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An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Virtual- and augmented-reality setups already modify the way users see and hear the world around them. Add in haptic feedback for a sense of touch and a VR version of Smell-O-Vision, and only one major sense remains: taste. To fill the gap, researchers at the City […]
“Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.” That’s how Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet ended a post on the Linux kernel mailing list. This was followed by “insufficient action to restore the community’s faith in having otherwise productive technical discussions without the fear of personal attacks,” according to an […]
Meta wants to force Apple and Google to verify the ages of people downloading apps from their app stores, reports the Washington Post — and now Meta’s campaign “is picking up momentum” with legislators in the U.S. Congress. Federal and state lawmakers have recently proposed a raft of measures requiring that platforms such as Meta’s […]
Google is introducing “Restore Credentials,” a feature that simplifies transferring app credentials when switching Android devices to keep you logged into your apps. The Verge reports: While some apps already did this, Google is making it easier for developers to include this experience by implementing a “restore key” that automatically transfers to the new phone […]
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple plans to license some of its Apple TV+ content to competing services in an effort to save money and spread its reach. From the report: Apple has hired an executive to license its original productions to other companies, a strategy designed to increase sales from its film […]
This week Alphabet CEO Sundar Picahi assured investors that their long-term AI focus and investment (and a “commitment to innovation”) “are paying off,” reports the Associated Press. Alphabet’s stock has already soared 20% this year, and it’s “still thriving” as the company “navigates through a pivotal shift to AI and battles regulators…” Alphabet earned $26.3 […]
jojowombl shares a report from The Guardian: Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker — and not its government customers — is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software. The […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There’s a general consensus that we won’t be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It’s still an open question, however, whether we could perform limited but useful […]
Amazon is developing smart eyeglasses for delivery drivers to improve efficiency by offering turn-by-turn navigation. “Such directions could shave valuable seconds off each delivery by providing left or right directions off elevators and around obstacles such as gates or aggressive dogs,” reports Reuters. “With millions of packages delivered daily, seconds add up. The glasses would […]
This week Discover magazine looks at evidence — both old and new — for a ninth planet in our solar system: “Orbits of the most distant small bodies — comets or asteroids — seem to be clustered on one half or one side of the solar system,” says Amir Siraj [an astrophysicist with Princeton University]. […]