There’s a new cat-eye frame called the Skyler. | Image: Meta Meta just announced a slew of new updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped an Instagram reel showing off a new cat-eye frame style for the glasses and a video calling feature. You can also now connect the glasses
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Don’t kick yourself if you missed out on Samsung’s free TV preorder promo from earlier this month. The company is now offering a much better cash discount on one of its most notable new models: the glare-free Samsung OLED S95D TV. The smallest TV in the lineup, the
Read MoreThis gaming laptop combines the display of your rich friend’s TV and the chassis of a Macbook Air with a powerful graphics card and a beefy battery.
Read Moreprisoninmate writes: Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released — powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series, and featuring the GNOME 46 and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environments, reports 9to5Linux: “Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.8 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 40 release ships with the GNOME 46 desktop environment for
Read MoreMacworld Apple doesn’t participate in big industry-wide events such as CES or E3. The most valuable company in the world holds its own events, thank you very much. Several times a year, Apple invites the press and industry professionals to Apple Park to hear all about its latest products and services. Apple calls these ‘events,’ and streams
Read MoreMacworld You may have arrived at this article because you have just encountered the nightmare scenario of having your Mac fail without a backup, or perhaps you know someone who has had such a dreadful situation befall them and you want to make sure it doesn’t happen to you. Or maybe you just messed up
Read MoreThe U.S. publishing industry is driven by celebrity authors and repeat bestsellers, according to testimony from a blocked merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Only 50 authors sell over 500,000 copies annually, with 96% of books selling under 1,000 copies. Publishing houses spend most of their advance money on celebrity books, which
Read MoreApple is holding a special event on May 7 that will most likely focus on new models of the iPad Air and iPad Pro. Here’s what to expect from the “Let Loose” event. iPads are expected at Apple’s next event Apple has not made a meaningful update to the iPad lineup since October 2022, with
Read MoreAlongside its main logo promoting the forthcoming iPad event, Apple’s homepage is rotating through half a dozen variants. Three of the Apple logos being used to promote the May iPad event When Apple announced its May 7, 2024, event where it’s expected to launch new editions of the iPad Air and iPad Pro, it did
Read MoreOverall, pulling out your phone is still faster, but it is handy for identifying things when you’re out and about. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It can be handy, confidently wrong, and just plain finicky — but smart glasses are a much more comfortable form factor for this tech. Continue reading…
Read MoreChinese tech giant Kuaishou is laying off employees in their mid-30s as part of a company-wide restructuring plan dubbed “Limestone,” FT reported Tuesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The move highlights the pervasive ageism in China’s tech sector, where younger workers are favored for their perceived willingness to work long hours and
Read MoreThe readability, maintainability, and usability of switch statements and expressions in Java would be improved by a proposal to allow exceptions to be handled in the switch block. The current OpenJDK proposal, “Exception handling in switch (Preview),” would be part of the Standard Edition of Java, although no specific version Java SE has been designated
Read MoreWe’re not certain whether [Paul Gould]’s kid’s prosthetic elbow joint is intended for use by a real kid or is part of a robotics project — but it caught our eye for the way it packs the guts of a beefy-looking motorized joint into such a small space. At its heart is a cycloidal gearbox,
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is the best premium Android phone you can buy, but it was also the model in the latest generation of the Galaxy S line that got a price bump. Retailing for $1,299.99, some shoppers may have thought twice about upgrading. But patient buyers have now been rewarded , with the
Read MoreAndroid 14 was publicly launched with the Pixel 8 series back in October 2023. We’re a few months into the new year, and Google has begun testing the next version of Android, now up to the Android 15 beta 1.1. This is still only intended for early adopters, but things are coming along. In this
Read MoreIn a surprise move, Apple has announced a new iPad event for May 7, with the iPad Pro and iPad Air expected to debut. The event called “Let Loose” is on May 7. However, it is scheduled a bit earlier in the day than normal, happening at 10AM Eastern time. Like other Apple events, it
Read MoreAt first glance, Netflix’s upcoming action thriller Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, seemed like it was going to be a rather serious movie about a mech pilot fighting to survive on an inhospitable planet. That could still be the case, but the movie’s latest trailer makes it out to be a bit more of a sci-fi
Read MoreApple executive Alex Rofman says Apple Arcade was not set up to make the company money, but also insists that game developers are getting an income. Apple Arcade Apple Arcade launched in 2019, and was then included in the Apple One bundle in 2020. Today, as it approaches its fifth anniversary, Apple Arcade is also
Read MoreThe new park will be dedicated to the protection and restoration of the area’s significant biodiversity, while also preserving the archaeological heritage of the region. Read more: Kerry chosen to host Ireland’s first marine national park
Read MoreMacworld We’d given up hope for a Spring event this year, but Apple has just issued invites to an event on May 7, 2024. So it turns out that big things are brewing at Apple Park after all, and we will find out what they are very soon. In this article, we explain what you
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is bringing back free(ish) grocery deliveries for orders over $35 in the form of a new monthly subscription program the company announced today. It’s $9.99 per month for Prime members and includes unlimited one-hour grocery delivery where it’s available, as well as unlimited 30-minute grocery pickups, with a half-cost option for low-income
Read MoreResidents clean debris of their destroyed houses at the Khaung Dote Khar Rohingya refugee camp in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 15th, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. | Photo by Sai Aung Main / AFP via Getty Images No other region on Earth experiences more climate, weather, and water-related disasters than Asia, according to
Read MoreMicrosoft has launched Phi-3 Mini, a lightweight AI model with 3.8 billion parameters, as part of its plan to release three small models. Phi-3 Mini, trained on a smaller data set compared to large language models, is available on Azure, Hugging Face, and Ollama. Microsoft claims Phi-3 Mini performs as well as models 10 times
Read MoreThe OnePlus 12 launched globally back in January, but we’ve already seen some OnePlus 13 leaks and rumors start to trickle in. So what do we know about the upcoming flagship phone? Read on to find out all the major details and leaks we’ve managed to gather. OnePlus 13: At a glance
Read MoreThe OnePlus Watch 2 Nordic Blue Edition features a dual-tone dial and a blue-colored fluoro rubber-leather hybrid strap with white stitching accents. The OnePlus Watch 2 Nordic Blue Edition costs £30 more than the regular OnePlus Watch 2. OnePlus is also bringing the OnePlus Pad Go to Europe. The OnePlus Watch 2 is a great
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