After over a year of rumors, Apple has finally announced the Apple Watch Ultra — a rugged, premium smartwatch that now sits atop Apple’s smartwatch lineup. The watch introduces a new design with a bigger display as well as a new design for exploration and outdoors activity. There’s a new button guard on the side,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Enlarge / Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York. (credit: Getty Images | Angela Weiss) Two weeks after Elon Musk made a commitment to buy Twitter for $44 billion, he wrote in a May 8 text message to one of his…
Enlarge / An example of the Monocraft font in action, which is based on Minecraft. (credit: Idrees Hassan) North Carolina-based developer Idrees Hassan loves Minecraft so much that he recently created a monospaced font for programming based on the typeface found in the wildly popular video game. The result, Monocraft, gives programmers the feel of…
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of Tebo 1 in life. (credit: Jose Garcia (Garciartist) and Griffith University.) Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a young adult buried 31,000 years ago in a cave called Liang Tebo. Surprisingly, the person’s left leg ended a few inches above the ankle, with clean diagonal cuts severing the ends of…
The first images of the chromosphere taken with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. National Solar Observatory (NSO), AURA, NSF It’s certainly been an exciting few months for telescopes. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just released stellar new images of the sun’s face, courtesy of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii….
Nextdoor is partnering with Vote.org to encourage people to participate in the U.S. midterm elections this November, the company announced on Wednesday. The neighborhood social network says the partnership aims to simplify political engagement and increase voter turnout. The app will encourage users to verify their voter registration status and find their polling place. Leading…
A lot of doctors consider body temperature – and changes in body temperature – a vital sign. That’s true both to track illnesses, but also natural processes in the body, such as ovulation data and menstrual cycle tracking. Apple added cycle tracking three years ago, and in today’s event, it shared that it has helped…
The new Apple Watch Series 8 features an improved gyroscope and accelerometer that can detect if you’re in a car crash. That was one of the many announcements out of Apple’s event this morning in Cupertino, where the company showcased its latest technical and service innovations. Car crash detection on the Series 8 — which…
It’s a good day for PlayStation 5 owners with way too many games installed on their consoles. The latest system software update is out for the PS5 and it introduces a couple of big new features for folks who play on gaming monitors or simply need to clean up their system menus. Yes, 1440p support…
(Image credit: Future) Right, it’s nearly time – we’re here, in the auditorium, with Lance Ulanoff and me, Gareth Beavis, bringing you all the information as it happens. If you’ve been with us since the early hours, the build up is now over and it’s time to see what Apple’s going to show off. We’re…