With Silicon Valley in the West and Shenzhen in the East having long dominated the tech scene, Europe’s leaders have been calling on the need for the EU to achieve technological sovereignty….
Month: October 2021
WhatsApp’s new button will let you join calls directly from the group
WhatsApp‘s group calls have been a blessing in the pandemic to connect with friends and family. The company has rolled out many features related to it, including increasing the limit to eight…
Sorry Apple fans: The notch is here to stay
Though I’ve dabbled with macOS and iOS here and there, I’m partial to Windows and Android. I like choices, and I like flexibility. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned reporting on…
Everything Apple announced at its 2021 MacBook Pro event
The moment many a Mac power user has been waiting for has finally arrived: Apple today announced its new ARM-powered 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, including an all-new design and superpowered versions of…
How atomic time-travel could reveal the mysteries of dark matter and more
Physicists from the University of Colorado have created an atomic clock so precise it can measure gravitational time dilation over distances as small as one millimeter. This record-breaking measurement could have implications…
Where are all the robotaxis and autonomous cars we were promised?
We’re a couple weeks away from All Hallows Eve and there are plenty of things that go bump in the night for us to fear this year. Things such as dumb cars…
Still driving a gas-powered car? Use it to help change driver behavior
Are you still driving a gas-powered car? As you no doubt know by now, it’s YOUR fault that the planet is getting hotter and the world is ending. But don’t worry, there’s…
It’s ridiculously hard to find EV chargers — hopefully this hackathon will fix it
Ok, there’s a lot of bullshit hackathons that mine people for their IP. There’s also situations where people swap a weekend of sleep deprivation and unpaid labor for little more than swag…
Facial recognition to eat lunch? Why stop there, you cowards!?
Facial recognition has arrived in school canteens. Nine schools in Scotland have started taking lunch payments from schoolchildren by scanning their faces, the Financial Times reports. The system reportedly speeds up the…
This handheld gaming console will make you nostalgic for the 90s, even if you weren’t there
TLDR: This Handheld 3″ LCD Video Game Console comes with 400 built-in games to relive the glory days of 8-bit gaming today. In this age of nostalgia and retro gaming, few consoles…