The iPhone 14 range will not use physical SIM cards in the United States. The change has some benefits but might not suit users who travel internationally. The US models of the full iPhone 14 line-up will instead use an eSim. That involves software on a chip built into the phone itself, rather than a […]
Didn’t watch the yesterday’s big Apple event and want a quick recap of everthing that happened during the presentation? Here’s everything you need to know about the new iPhones, Airpods, and Apple Watches in a condensed format. Most of these devices are not availble yet, but Amazon has some Apple Watches (Series 8) here. Please […]
Controlling smart devices from different manufacturers may be about to get a whole lot easier. An industry standard called Matter has been publicly displayed and could mean an end to clogging up your phone with multiple apps. Matter, a joint effort involving device-makers Amazon, Apple and Samsung, plus Zigbee, a protocol behind many smart devices […]
https://youtu.be/bulNXhYXgFI A music video for Hotel California by The Eagles… but all visuals have been generated by the Midjourney AI bot. [Daara]
We’ve featured Engineered Arts’s Ameca robot ealier this year on Geeks are Sexy, but since then, the company has added 12 new actuators to the robot’s face, allowing it to express a wider range of facial expressions Check it out! [Engineered Arts | Via BIS]
A woman who died last June has answered questions at her own funeral. Although Marina Smith’s “responses” were pre-recorded, a chatbot-like system selected them to fit the spontaneous questions asked by mourners. Smith was the founder of the National Holocaust Center in the United Kingdom and campaigned to educate on the topic. Her funeral “appearance” […]
The latest installment of “Can It Run Doom?” has some unusual twists. The hacking of John Deere tractor screens brings both legal and societal implications. You’d be wrong to assume tractors are not high-tech items: modern internet-connected models can include features from auto-steering to 3D mapping to sensors that gather data about crop yields and […]
A computer used by Bill Gates in his last major work as a software developer is up for auction. The TRS-80 Model 100 was one of the earlier notebook computers. Although Gates had performed management roles since Microsoft’s founding in 1975, he continued as an active member on development teams until 1983. While he occasionally […]
In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn’t activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages— causing one company to see a 40% rise in sausage sales. So, what could sausages do that gloves couldn’t? In other words, how do touchscreens actually work? Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini […]
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