Month: October 2023
French company claims to have produced world’s smallest fanless PC based on Intel’s N100 — and it’s surprisingly cheap even in red
Bleu Jour, maker of some of the best mini PCs to cross our desks, is seeking significant interest from backers to produce the latest version of its KUBB mini PC. Measuring 8cm x 8cm, the firm claims this device is the smallest fanless PC powered by the Intel N100 CPU…
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The Meta glassholes have arrived
It’s happening: people are once walking into public places wearing a video-recording face computer on their heads. Only this time, the faceputer is sold by Meta, not Google. Say hello to Meta’s Glassholes. Over the weekend, as buyers got their first uninterrupted stretches of time with the new Meta Quest…
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Sam Bankman-Fried was a bad friend, too
In September 2022, when he found out that Alameda had been using FTX customer funds, Nishad Singh said he asked to speak with the founder of Alameda and the CEO of FTX. They were both, of course, Sam Bankman-Fried. Singh and Bankman-Fried met on the balcony of the penthouse they…
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Pixel 6 owners who use multiple profiles run into problems with Android 14
Some Pixel 6 users are reporting strange issues after updating their devices to the new Android 14 OS, which launched on October 4th for Pixel devices. One critical-sounding bug that seems to have spread to multiple users is losing access to internal storage, which ends up in a complete loss…
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Disney’s Gargoyles may live again — for real this time
Gargoyles, one of Disney’s weirdest and best ’90s cartoon experiments, is coming back. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Gary Dauberman and James Wan, who also made the whole Annabelle series of scary movies, are adapting the series as a live-action show for Disney Plus. Dauberman will write, executive produce,…
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Remember T1000 from Terminator 2? Scientists are planning something similar but with a cuter name – SMARTLET
Self-assembling ‘living technology’ is now within reach, thanks to researchers who’ve developed a form of microbotic electronic units called SMARTLETs that can behave like biological cells. The team at the Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) has built these tiny modules with silicon chiplets between folds. These…
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