Author: Zach_Wilson
Switching to electric vehicles would be fantastic for kids’ health
A wholesale switch to electric vehicles would be a tremendous boon to the health of many people around the world. But a new report from the American Lung Association highlights the particular advantages for children, especially those vulnerable to respiratory illness. Based on a model in which all new vehicles…
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WhatsApp working on a way to stop users from screenshotting your profile pic
Meta may be releasing yet another layer of privacy protection to WhatsApp that will prevent people from taking screenshots of your profile photo on the service. This upcoming feature was discovered in the most recent WhatsApp beta on Android by WABetaInfo. It’ll be housed within the Privacy section of the…
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Yes, Amazon gift bags have handles now
As skeptical as I am of Amazon the company, it knows its packaging. Its paper-tape cardboard boxes are wonderfully easy to rip apart for recycling, its paper mailers are promising (though missing firm commitment), and its gift bags are far too good to toss in the trash. Especially these new…
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Cox Communications won’t have to pay $1 billion to record labels after all
In the seemingly endless fight between record labels and ISPs over music piracy, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia decided Tuesday that $1 billion is too much for Cox Communications to pay record labels in damages. Instead, as reported by Reuters, a new trial should be set…
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It’s about to get even harder to buy some of Disney’s weirdest movies on Blu-ray
Disney is ending Disney Movie Club, the subscription service and online store where fans could buy Blu-ray or DVDs of films from the House of Mouse. The Digital Bits is reporting that the closure follows a new deal that Disney has signed with Sony, under which Sony Pictures Home Entertainment…
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‘Virtually unhackable’ chip could make GPU more power efficient and much faster at AI – by combining light and silicon for a fundamental mathematical operation
A groundbreaking new chip developed by Penn Engineers uses light waves instead of electricity for AI computations, marking a possibly significant leap in processing speeds and energy efficiency. The chip, based on silicon-photonics (SiPh), blends esteemed Penn Professor Nader Engheta’s research on manipulating materials at the nanoscale to perform mathematical…
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