If you left Earth in a rocket ship in the 1820s, headed for Jupiter, I guess that would be pretty incredible by itself. What I want to talk about today, though, is something I continue to find mind-bending. On your journey, as you moved between Mars and Jupiter, you would pass four other planets: Vesta,…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Amazon Prime Day doesn’t officially kick off until tomorrow, July 12, but that hasn’t stopped early deals from appearing today. For starters, we’re tracking a new all-time low price on the Apple Watch Series 7. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase,…
Amazon has announced an updated version of its smart Dash Cart — a shopping cart that lets users scan and pay for their purchases as they shop to avoid waiting in checkout lines. The original Dash Cart launched in 2020 and Amazon has been slowly rolling them out (ho ho) to its Fresh grocery stores…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’re on the cusp of a new generation of wireless headphones that are more power-efficient, sound better, and support novel new features like being able to connect an “unlimited” number of devices to a single source. That’s thanks to Bluetooth LE Audio, an umbrella term for a collection…
Enlarge / Bose’s QuietComfort 45 wireless noise-canceling headphones. (credit: Jeff Dunn) Today is Amazon Prime Day, which is both a made-up holiday a corporate giant manufactured to promote its subscription service and a genuinely good time to pick up some quality gadgets on the cheap. We’re keeping a big roundup of every good Prime Day…
Southeastern pocket gophers live in the sandy soils of longleaf pine forests. USDA Forest Service The southeastern pocket gopher is a fist-sized, chubby cheeked, elusive neighbor, but landscapers (not to mention golf course groundskeepers) in the sandy plains of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida despise the rodent for its tendency to burrow into lawns. “People go…
After more than a year of planning and training, a volunteer-led project has produced an open source language model that they claim is as powerful as OpenAI’s GPT-3, but free and open for anyone to use (if they have the computing power). Dubbed Bloom, the model is available in open source along with the code…
If you’re looking to the Prime Day phone deals for a great discount, you’re going to be in for a mixed bag. Seasons like Amazon’s discount days or Black Friday never bring as great discounts as they do on things like Kindles or robot vacuums. That being said, there are still Prime Day deals on…
As inflation continues to rise, investors still have limited safe havens. Darren415/Getty Images Global shares sank on Tuesday, under pressure from investor concern over the chances for recession. The start of Q2 earnings season and a key read of US consumer inflation this week added to the nervousness. The euro threatened to break below $1…