The New Hot Handset Is a Cute and Transparent Dumb Phone You Can’t Buy
We're only spending more and more time staring at our smartphones, and over the past few years, tech companies have tried to offer salves...
The Download: the problem with police bodycams, and how to make useful robots
When police departments first started buying and deploying bodycams in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a decade...
Qdrant offers managed vector database for hybrid clouds
Open-source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model.Qdrant, the...
ECMAScript 2024 takes shape
ECMAScript 2024, a planned update to ECMA’s standard for JavaScript, is set to include seven new features ranging from array grouping to Unicode strings....
Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession
Ravikant said most of the funding for Airchat has come from his own fund, as well as from Jeff Fagnan, a founding partner at...
The Download: saving Louisiana from sinking, and the promise of thermal batteries
“If you were wondering what they're using to train GPT-5, well, now you know.” —John Levine, creator of a site designed to trap web...
10 Best Retro Game Consoles (2024): Evercade, Polymega, Analogue Pocket, and Controllers
It’s a shame that two of the best retro gaming consoles in recent years, the NES Classic Mini and the SNES Classic Mini, have...
How Israel Is Defending Against Iran’s Drone Attack
On Saturday, Iran launched more than 200 drones and cruise missiles at Israel. As the drones made their way across the Middle East en...
Rust gets security fix for Windows vulnerability
The Rust language team has published a point release of Rust to fix a critical vulnerability to the standard library that could benefit an...
House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized.After months of delays, false starts, and...
