IT News 8 months ago

Survey Shows Extent of Digital Device Use Among America's Youngest - A Pew Research Center survey, released today, found that TV remains the dominant s... -

Survey Shows Extent of Digital Device Use Among America

A Pew Research Center survey, released today, found that TV remains the dominant screen for American children aged twelve and younger. 90% of paren...

#ai

IT News 8 months ago

Weaving Circuits from Electronic Threads - Though threading is a old concept in computer science, and fabric computing has b... -

Hackaday

Weaving Circuits From Electronic Threads

Though threading is a old concept in computer science, and fabric computing has been a term for about thirty years, the terminology has so far been...

#flexiblecircuitboard #flexiblecircuits #wearablehacks #e-textiles #stm32duino #e-textile #knitting #wearable #weaving #thread #fiber #stm32

IT News 8 months ago

Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Live — The Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more - Here is live coverage of the best Amazon Prime Big Deals Da... - https://www.tomshardware.com/gift-guides-seasonal-sales/live/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-live-the-best-tech-and-pc-hardware-deals-on-gpus-cpus-ssds-and-more #giftguidesandseasonalsales

IT News 8 months ago

Amazon's Prime Video Rolls Back Controversial 'Stylized' James Bond Thumbnails Without Guns - "When someone searches for 'James Bond' on Prime Video now, all of the classic fil... -

Amazon

"When someone searches for

#movies

IT News 8 months ago

UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software - Officers and staff are finding creative ways to trick the s... -

Tom

UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software

It was my cat, I swear.

#cybersecurity

IT News 8 months ago

Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game - A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL ... -

Tom

Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game

But it makes the old 90s Nokia dumb phone edition feel luxuriously high-res.

#videogames

IT News 8 months ago

Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware - Google Japan’s Gboard team have designed and open-sourced a... -

Tom

Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn

Google won’t manufacture this device, but has generously made all the design resources available on GitHub.

#peripherals #keyboards

IT News 8 months ago

India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering - AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs Feature  Shubh Kumar graduate... -

theregister

India

Feature: AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can

IT News 8 months ago

Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought - Last month, federal investigators said they dismantled a China-linked plot that ai... -

Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought - Slashdot

Last month, federal investigators said they dismantled a China-linked plot that aimed to cripple New York City

#cellphones

IT News 8 months ago

Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has 'a lot of work to do' — would consider it for Tenstorrent AI chip production, already in talks with TSMC, Rapidus, and Samsung for 2nm tech - Chip design startup Tenstorrent has announced it'll work wi... -

Tom

Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has

Also working with Japanese firm, Rapidus, to get swift access to the smallest process nodes possible.

IT News 8 months ago

Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects - Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humani... -

theregister

Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

Updated: Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity

IT News 8 months ago

Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine - The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over ... -

Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine

The image-hosting platform - which is widely used to make memes - was facing a fine over its use of children's data.

IT News 9 months ago

Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic - Microsoft's Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models... -

Ars Technica

Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Microsoft will end OpenAI's exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.

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IT News 9 months ago

Amazon reportedly developing augmented reality glasses for consumers and delivery drivers - (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon is getting into the augmented reality g... -

GeekWire

Amazon reportedly developing augmented reality glasses for consumers and delivery drivers

(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon is getting into the augmented reality glasses market, according to a report from The Information. The Seattl...

#augmentedreality #glasses #amazon #ar

IT News 9 months ago

UW computer science leaders push back on AI job fears: ‘The sky is not falling’ - The 2025 Allen School graduating class inside Alaska Airlines Arena at the University of... -

GeekWire

UW computer science leaders push back on AI job fears: ‘The sky is not falling’

The 2025 Allen School graduating class inside Alaska Airlines Arena at the University of Washington. (Kerry Dahlen Photo via UW) Breathe easy, comp...

#paulallenschoolofcomputerscienceandengineering #universityofwashington #magdalenabalazinska #computerscience #dangrossman #education

IT News 9 months ago

Jagar Land Rover U-turns to confirm 'some data' affected after cyber prang - Systems offline as specialists continue to comb through wreckage Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/jagar_land_rover_breach/

IT News 9 months ago

Everything in a Linux Terminal - Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. Bu... -

Hackaday

Everything In A Linux Terminal

Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to run any GUI program inside a Linux ...

#softwarehacks #linuxhacks #terminal #wayland #linux #cli

IT News 9 months ago

Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI - Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how YouTube ... -

The Atlantic

Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI

Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools

IT News 9 months ago

Microsoft's first preview of Visual Studio 2026: Deeper AI and a design refresh - New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework Microsoft ha... -

theregister

Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2026: Now with deeper AI

: New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework

IT News 9 months ago

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies - Editor’s note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how YouTube vid... -

The Atlantic

AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators

At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.