Enlarge (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) HP continues to pay for abruptly blocking third-party ink from its printers. The company has agreed to pay compensation to additional customers impacted by HPs use of DRM to prevent third-party ink and toner from working in its printers. The settlement pertaining to customers in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
As more European cities adopt LED lights, the shift from yellow to blue is visible from the ISS. Pixabay Leaving the lights on at night makes it hard to sleep, and it also may endanger our health and local ecosystems. A new study published today in Science Advances reconstructed nighttime light pollution in Europe and…
A worker at the CDC tests samples for polio in 2018. James Gathany The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that polioviruses found recently in Rockland County, New York, meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) criteria for circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), which means that the pathogen continues to be transmitted in the county…
In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, AMD and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer to as a common interchange format for AI. While voluntary, the proposed “8-bit floating point (FP8)” standard, they say, has the potential to accelerate AI development by optimizing hardware memory usage and…
Disrupt is just a few short weeks away. Alongside our return to a live, in-person show, we’ve beefed up the Battlefield program. Two hundred companies have been hand selected by the TechCrunch editorial staff to grace the expo hall, 20 of which will launch their company for the first time live on our stage. The…
For those of us who love customization, the lock screen widgets feature on iOS 16 is super exciting. But it’s on developers to engineer their very own app widgets, and with iOS 16 only out for a few days so far, there aren’t a ton of options outside of native Apple apps. Fortunately, companies like…
When my husband and I bought our 1950s bungalow in Austin, Texas, we were two carefree, twenty-somethings. Flash forward a few years and one life-altering global pandemic, and now we have two tiny humans dragging their treasures across every room in the house while we mix our work and personal routines in the same square…
The Linux Foundation has announced plans to form a new entity, the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), which will provide the basis for companies to create digital wallets on an open source platform. “The mission of the OWF is to develop a secure, multi-purpose open source engine anyone can use to build interoperable wallets,” the organization explained….
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a primary election night event hosted by the North Carolina Democratic Party in Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 17, 2022. Ben McKeown, file/AP Photo North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper asked GOP state legislators to waive taxes on student-loan forgiveness. He said the relief should be treated like the…
The ‘Golar Igloo’ natural gas tanker arrived in the Netherlands on September 4. Siese Veenstra/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Europe is hoping that a troop of floating gas terminals will help to solve its energy crisis. The specialist vessels reheat superchilled liquid fuel, converting it into gas that can be pumped onshore. At least 25 are…