The program allows you to enter text in Morse code by opening and closing the laptop lid
Jesse Lee’s open-source Linux program called Open and Shut, which is available on GitHuballows you to enter messages in Morse code by opening and closing the laptop lid. It was demonstrated on a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop. Of course, not every laptop can withstand prolonged input in this way.
Korean robot commits suicide after a year in public service
South Korea’s city council says its robot administrator killed himself by jumping down a flight of stairs last week — local media is now mourning the loss as the country’s first «suicidal robot».
A shooter with a shotgun shoots down Russian drones from a Ukrainian Yak-52 aircraft — close look from the sky
Photos and videos of a Ukrainian Yak-52 aircraft, which is known for hunting down Russian drones in the Ukrainian sky, have been posted on social media. Markings on the fuselage of the Yak-52 indicate the number of drones shot down.
IBM's leading scientist, Ukrainian Lyubomyr Romankiv, dies in the US — what he invented and how he helped create Apple
At the age of 93, Ukrainian scientist and engineer Lubomyr Romankiv, who worked at IBM for more than 50 years, has passed away in the United States. During his life, he wrote more than 150 scientific articles and patented 67 inventions.
«Nobody will guess»: Finnish nuclear waste repository for 100,000 years of storage will have no external signs
The world’s first permanent repository for nuclear fuel waste will open later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated Finnish island with lush forests in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki. The «Onkalo» (Finnish for «cavity» or «cave») is one of the most modern facilities of its kind, designed to store nuclear waste 450…
China has created a «super SIM card» for the Internet of Things - with a RISC-V core, 10 times more memory and NFC support
China Mobile has announced its upcoming «super SIM card» CC2560A. This is the world’s first SIM card with a RISC-V core. In fact, the CC2560A — is a product for the Internet of Things that improves all aspects of a traditional SIM card. It has more memory, better security algorithms, and new features such as NFC support.
Researchers have created a Kirigami mechanical computer ─ it works without electricity
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a computer that uses the art of kirigami, origami art combined with cutting, to create and control 3D shapes. It is therefore a fully mechanical computer that does not require electricity to operate.
Apple Pay mistakenly charges users without any purchases - up to dozens of payments and up to $1500 in losses
Several users in Hungary have reported that Apple Pay is malfunctioning, charging thousands of dollars in fees without any purchases. The problem seems to be a widespread issue for a wide range of Apple Pay customers.
NASA astronauts on the ISS hid from the debris of a Russian satellite — it crashed
American astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to take cover for about an hour after a Russian satellite collapsed nearby. NASA reports that on Thursday evening, American crews took refuge in their spacecraft due to the satellite’s disintegration. NASA’s instruction to take cover was a precautionary measure. An hour…
«Portal to hell — opened». OceanGate founder to lead expedition into unexplored «blue hole» in Bahamas
Guillermo Sonline founded OceanGate in 2009 — together with Stockton Rush, who died last year with four other passengers during an underwater expedition to the wreck of the Titanic.
The upcoming Galaxy Watch Ultra, Galaxy Watch 7, Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Galaxy Buds 3 have been leaked in official renders
There are less than two weeks left until the next Samsung Unpacked presentation. And on the eve of this event, well-known insider Evan Blass shared official marketing images of the upcoming Galaxy Watch Ultra, Galaxy Watch 7, Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, and Galaxy Buds 3.
Meet CriticGPT — «teacher» ChatGPT, which will search for errors in chatbot answers
«I’m still putting a deuce in pencil!» (c)
Boeing says Starliner «mission is going well» — despite two astronauts stuck on ISS
Boeing’s first commercial spacecraft, the Starliner, remains on the International Space Station with no confirmed return date. Boeing is currently conducting damage control.
Asteroid Bennu broke away from a small ocean planet — scientists analyze samples
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a capsule with carbon regolith to Earth, collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The samples were obtained after the probe made a seven-year journey through the solar system.
Founder of «uncensored Wikipedia» Julian Assange released from prison after «14 years of court battles» for leaking US military secrets
After ending his 14-year legal battle, the Wikileaks founder has finally returned home. Julian Assange landed in Canberra, Australia on Wednesday evening (local time). His return was made possible after the US court in Saipan agreed to release him under a plea deal. Assange, 52, admitted to having obtained and published US military secrets.
South Korean telecom attacked 600,000 torrent users with malware — customers of a cloud company were affected
South Korean television company JTBC discoveredthat KT Corporation (Korea Telecom), one of the largest telecommunication providers in the country, deliberately infected more than 600 thousand users with malware through their use of torrents.
Awadhi, Marwadi, and Cantonese — Google Translate has learned 110 more languages thanks to artificial intelligence
Google has added 110 new languages to its translator — it previously supported 133 languages in total, so this is a big progress for the service.
Gravitational waves from warp drive will help detect highly advanced civilizations — scientists are working on a method
In the 1990s, Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a new hypothetical type of warp drive that would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than light. It causes the fabric of space to expand in front of the ship and contract behind it. The ship would be «the warp bubble», which would protect space travelers.
Last year, the world spent $91.4 billion on nuclear weapons — more than $250 million daily
Humanity is once again raising the stakes in the nuclear race. In 2023, the world spent more than $91.4 billion on nuclear weapons — that is more than $250 million daily, $174 thousand per minute, or almost $3 thousand per second. Data taken from the new report The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which considers these…
«But we are better than Google and OpenAI»: Meta prevents AI from training on Facebook and Instagram posts
Meta Corporation has announced that starting today, it will start training its AI on Facebook and Instagram posts published by citizens of the UK or the European Union.
«Just Space»: GUR reports on the work of the «Prytula satellite» ICEYE — 4173 images of hostile objects
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine told about the results of using the «people’s satellite» ICEYE, whose work in the interests of Ukraine was ensured by «Serhiy Prytula’s Charitable Foundation», blogger Igor Lachenkov and donations from Ukrainians on «people’s bayraktar». Satellite supplies data to Ukrainian intelligence…
The world of mobile technology before the Apple iPhone: the best phones of 2007 (final)
The first Apple iPhone went on sale only in mid-2007, so many manufacturers were still following their developments after the announcement. After the unprecedented success of the apple phone, the world of mobile technology changed dramatically, and iPhones were swept off store shelves. For 17 years in a row, the Apple iPhone has remained the…
Boss of AI startup Anthropic hangs a poster with a robot destroying the world in the office
Just don’t show Elon Musk, or he’ll file a lawsuit.
ChatGPT is now available for all Mac users
OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT application has been made available to all Mac users. Previously, only users with a ChatGPT Plus subscription could use the application on Mac.
The characteristics of 9 Intel Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) processors are known — chips will appear in September, there will be more models
The leak of the 9 processor lineup of Intel Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake), which includes the flagship Core Ultra 9 288V processors, was shared by the website VideoCardz. In the coming weeks, more information about Intel’s new processors is promised.
Google has scheduled the presentation of Pixel 9 and Pixel Watch 3 for August 13
Google has announced that its annual Pixel event will take place on August 13. This is incredibly early for 2024, as Made by Google usually takes place in October.
Google Maps «revealed a top-secret US underwater drone
A top-secret prototype of a US military unmanned submarine called the Manta Ray has been spotted by Google Maps users and remains available for viewing. Satellite photos show the ship, which looks like a sci-fi starship, moored at the Port Washington Naval Base in California, its futuristic shape hard to miss in the location.
Startup Etched announces the most powerful chip for AI Sohu based on the ASIC principle — 8 of them will supposedly replace 160 NVIDIA H100
Etched is one of NVIDIA’s competitors in the AI processor market. The startup offers a different approach to their creation, which is similar to the production of ASICs for mining — specialization in a specific type of generative AI, namely the so-called transformers. The chips will not work with other models, but will have orders of…
The Beats Pill speaker is back—with better speakers, universal USB-C, and IP67 for $150
After several months of rumors The Beats Pill wireless speaker is back. The updated portable Bluetooth speaker can be ordered for $149.99 and will be available in stores on June 27.
Motorola razr 50 ultra foldable smartphone gets industry's largest external display, Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 and artificial intelligence features
Motorola has introduced the new motorola razr 2024 foldable smartphones. The razr 50 ultra and razr 50 models offer a variety of artificial intelligence features, and the ultra version boasts the industry’s largest external display.
OnePlus removes SuperVOOC charger from Nord CE 4 Lite in Europe
With the release of the new Nord CE 4 Lite smartphone, OnePlus has decided to join the rest of the industry and remove the charger from the package. This «limited» package will be offered in some markets.
When everything goes off schedule. Ukrainian IT specialists have created an application for light monitoring
Senior Android Developer Andriy Bulanov and iOS/Android/Flutter Developer Konstantin Mededenko have created the «Svitlobot» application that automatically monitors the state of electricity.
Updated: Durov boasts that Telegram employs «about 30 engineers» ─ security experts call this a «red flag» for users
Last weekend, X (formerly Twitter) posted a video of a recent interview with Telegram founder Pavel Durov. In the video, Durov tells Tucker Carlson that he is the only product manager in the company and that he only employs «about 30 engineers».
Part of a Long March 2C rocket with toxic fuel crashes near a Chinese village
A video has appeared on the Internet showing a part of a Chinese launch vehicle falling on a settlement. Residents flee, and a thick orange cloud stretches high up from the object.
What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks are drowning in fakes, and generated photos are labeled as real
You’ve probably come across posts on Facebook lately asking you to like your handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine or your grandmother who tied up the tankand baked the world’s largest cake — and if you are familiar with the art of neural networks, you can easily recognize a fake. However, tens of thousands of users actually believe…
EcoFlow Delta Pro 3 is a 4 kW charging station with a capacity of 12 kWh at a price of $3.7 thousand.
EcoFlow has launched the new Delta Pro 3 portable charging station, which can be scaled up to provide power to an entire home during a power outage. It can also be used for other purposes, such as powering the electrical system of a van, motorhome, beach party, or recharging an electric vehicle.
Federal Google Pixel owners must update their smartphones within 10 days or stop using them - US government demand
The update for Google Pixel smartphones released earlier this month received a large number of security fixes. Among them was the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-32896. Google labeled it as «high risk» and warned users that this vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to attack the device.
Microsoft Defender antivirus marks a text file with the words «This content is no longer available» in English as a Trojan
Microsoft Defender, Windows’ built-in antivirus, is considered reliable enough that the average user does not need a third-party program. Error, detected by Twitter user X yappy, demonstrates that sometimes Defender is overzealous in its function.
120 «Shaheeds» and other UAVs destroyed in Russian Yeysk — Ukrainian Navy clarifies strikes on the night of June 21
Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clarified data on the attack on UAV depots in Yeysk, Russia, on the night of June 21. According to the new information, 120 drones, «Shahedis» and others, as well as instructors and technical personnel of the base were destroyed.
Apple becomes the first company to be accused of violating the EU Digital Markets Act
Apple’s App Store policy violates the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to promote competition, regulators said in a preliminary ruling on Monday. The European Commission has also launched a new investigation into Apple’s support for alternative iOS marketplaces in Europe, including the core technology fees it charges…
Ratel RAT ransomware attacks old Android smartphones, encrypting data and demanding ransom
Cybercriminals have started attacking older Android devices using open source malware called Ratel RAT. In fact, it is a type of Android ransomware that encrypts or deletes data, locks the device, and demands payment on Telegram.
Microsoft Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X Elite battery didn't lose a single percentage point in 10 hours of sleep — user testimonial
Windows laptop batteries have always drained even with the lid closed in standby mode. Microsoft didn’t seem to pay attention to this, but that changed in Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor. While the lack of software improvements can be blamed, the inefficiency of traditional system logic was also an important factor.
Perplexity artificial intelligence started hallucinating about mushrooms instead of summarizing simple text
Perplexity, the artificial intelligence model that has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars from bigwigs like Jeff Bezos, takes «hallucinations» AI to the next level. The Perplexity-based search engine, designed to compete with Google, has a strong tendency to come up with inventions that seem to come out of nowhere and are not driven by the…
Microsoft closes its underwater data center after 11 years of operation — experiment recognized as useful
Microsoft has ended its Project Natick underwater data center experiment, which started in 2013, without announcing it. The company confirmed the news, and Microsoft Cloud Operations head Noelle Walsh said: «My team worked on this and it worked. We’ve learned a lot about working below sea level, vibration, and the impact on servers. So, we…
NVIDIA is not among the top 100 recognizable brands, despite its rapid growth — the company is known only to gamers
Four of the five most valuable companies in the world, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, are also the most recognized public brands. NVIDIA, which this week briefly overtook Microsoft and became the most valuable company in the world (now only third), is not among the top 100 most famous names in the latest list Interbrand.
Huawei has announced its own programming language Cangjie
During the HDC 2024 developer conference, Huawei introduced its own Cangjie programming language. This language is positioned as a next-generation solution for smart applications for all scenarios.
We installed Windows XP on a 2011 Apple MacBook touchscreen — it was difficult, but it works perfectly
YouTuber Michael MJD installed Windows XP on a not-so-new modified 2011 Apple MacBook with a touchscreen, which he previously made a separate video about. The idea was to install a tablet version of Windows XP and make the touchscreen interface work.
US bans Kaspersky Lab software and business — some operations will be available until September 29
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced to prohibit Kaspersky Lab, Inc. a US subsidiary of the Russian software manufacturer, from directly or indirectly providing anti-virus software and cybersecurity products or services in the United States or to US persons. The prohibition applies to branches,…
YouTube on iOS will ask for tracking permission to show more personalized ads
Starting with iOS 14.5, Apple required app developers to notify users about broader tracking so that they could opt-in or opt-out. In 2021, Google apps have stopped certain tracking methods (IDFA) to comply and do not have to show this notification. However, YouTube will soon start asking iOS users if they want to enable «more personalized ads»…
DRAM and NAND memory will become cheaper, video cards and processors will rise in price by 5-20% — TrendForce
The latest report TrendForce shows that spot prices for memory DRAM and NAND are unlikely to rise in price — on the contrary, conditions may develop for a price reduction. First, there is a large stock on the market. Second, as it turned out, the Chinese government’s actions to combat smuggling of refurbished memory have a significant…
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