Russian President Vladimir Putin Contributor/Getty Images Russia is suffering from a lack of soldiers as Ukraine racks up a series of victories in the war. Putin could solve his military’s personnel problem by declaring a formal state of war and conscripting men. But doing so would force Putin to acknowledge his country’s failures thus far,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Oppo is apparently getting ready to launch the F21s Pro 5G in India tomorrow, and ahead of that a bunch of details about the device have been leaked. We’re talking specs, targeted price point, and some new renders showing the upcoming phone in both of its colorways, which are called Starlight Black and Dawnlight Gold….
The iPhone 14 Pro includes a clever new Dynamic Island that obscures the front-facing TrueDepth camera hardware, and third-party app developers are already experimenting with ways to take advantage of the new iPhone capabilities. Apple is allowing third-party developers to create Dynamic Island experiences, which might end up including games. Kriss Smolka, the developer behind…
iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models arriving to customers starting this Friday will have a day-one software update available with bug fixes, according to Apple. “This update provides bug fixes for your iPhone and addresses an issue that may cause some photos to appear soft when zooming in landscape orientation on iPhone 14 Pro…
New Relic’s Observability Forecast said 78% of C-suite executives saw observability as a key enabler for achieving core business goals.Read MoreRead More
Samar Haddad / The Verge While there has — rightly — been a great deal written and broadcast about how to deal with attacks and privacy violations online and via social media, there is now increasing attention being paid to helping people stay safe in their homes and out in the world. Two features offered…
Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge We’re about to see a lot more electric vehicle chargers in the US. The Biden administration just announced the approval of $900 million in funding to 35 states to install EV chargers across approximately 53,000 miles of highway across the country — the first tranche from a $5…
Inventor organization US Inventor (USI) and Ron Katznelson—the author of a widely cited study detailing the link between Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judges’ decisions and their compensation—have filed separate amicus briefs supporting New Vision Gaming and Development, Inc. in its most recent appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit…
Enlarge / Images generated by ERNIE-ViLG from the prompt “China” superimposed over China’s flag. (credit: Ars Technica) China’s leading text-to-image synthesis model, Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG, censors political text such as “Tiananmen Square” or names of political leaders, reports Zeyi Yang for MIT Technology Review. Image synthesis has proven popular (and controversial) recently on social media and…
A sign at a march to force government action on climate change. Pexels/Markus Spiske A new multi-agency report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has a stark and dire warning for the entire planet: we are heading in the wrong direction on climate change. “The science is clear. Urgent action is needed to mitigate emissions…