Spiderweb Thread Inspires Ultrasmall Microphones
Sound recording could take a cue from arachnid acoustics.....»»
iPhone 14 demand will be much higher than iPhone 13 in China, Kuo says
The demand for Apple's upcoming iPhone 14 may be stronger than the already popular iPhone 13 lineup, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.iPhone 13 modelsIn a tweet thread on Thursday, Kuo says his latest survey of Chinese distributors and retailers ind.....»»
Clashes of inference and perspective explain why children sometimes lose the plot in conversation
Children who suddenly appear to lose the thread of an otherwise obvious conversation often do so because they cannot combine two key communicative skills until surprisingly late in their development, researchers have found......»»
Destiny of science modeled and explained in new study
What is the common thread among mRNA vaccines, genomic drugs, NASA's mission to the moon and the harnessing of nuclear power? They all have been products of science convergence, where knowledge from multiple scientific disciplines is integrated into.....»»
Mistletoe berries may hold the secret for creating a biological super glue
Each mistletoe berry can produce up to two meters of a gluey thread called viscin. It allows the seeds of this parasitic plant to stick to and infect host plants. Since ancient times, mistletoe berries have been explored as treatments for everything.....»»
Meeting Owl videoconference device used by govs is a security disaster
No patch yet for easy-to-hack access point that leaks data and exposes networks to hacks. Enlarge (credit: Owl Labs) The Meeting Owl Pro is a videoconference device with an array of cameras and microphones that captures 360-de.....»»
Eve Outdoor Cam brings HomeKit Secure Video to outdoor floodlights for the first time
Eve’s HomeKit products have been some of my favorites for many years. Between products like the Eve Water Guard and the popular Thread enabled , its commitment to HomeKit has made it a fan favorite for people building a smart home around HomeKit......»»
This 50-inch TV with Fire TV and Alexa is $340 at Best Buy
The 50-inch Amazon Omni Series 4K TV, which features built-in microphones to listen to your voice commands, is currently on sale from Best Buy at $160 off......»»
Jeffrey Snover Claims Microsoft Demoted Him For Inventing PowerShell
PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover has aired some grievances about how his indispensable tool once got him demoted. The Register reports: The Microsoft Technical Fellow discussed the incident in a weekend Twitter thread that started when controversia.....»»
Did the Pandemic Normalize Employee-Monitoring Software?
"Employee monitoring software became the new normal during COVID-19..." writes Australia's public broadcaster ABC, "logging keystrokes and mouse movement, capturing screenshots, tracking location, and even activating webcams and microphones." And no.....»»
Twitter testing new conversation thread button for Spaces
Twitter continues to enhance its Spaces live audio platform with new features, and now the social network has announced another change that will bring even more ways to interact with other users. The company is testing a new conversation thread butt.....»»
Bilayer graphene inspires two-universe cosmological model
Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by astronomical measurements. Others linger on as mere.....»»
Utopia-likeness that utilizes the energy of true utopias activates regional development
Utopia literally means an imaginary ideal place that in principle can never be realized. However, in practical regional development, utopia-likeness is needed, because it promotes, involves and inspires social reforms, says Mikko Karhu, Licentiate of.....»»
Cisco"s Webex App Phoned Home Audio Telemetry Even When Muted
Boffins at two US universities have found that muting popular native video-conferencing apps fails to disable device microphones -- and that these apps have the ability to access audio data when muted, or actually do so. The research is described in.....»»
Meta Teases Web Version of Horizon Worlds
In a Twitter thread earlier today, Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth teased a web version of Horizon Worlds, the company's virtual reality platform that's an integral part of their plan for creating a "metaverse." Boz was responding to criticism from Ma.....»»
Spiderweb galaxy field: Feasting black holes caught in galactic spiderweb
Often, a spiderweb conjures the idea of captured prey soon to be consumed by a waiting predator. In the case of the "Spiderweb" protocluster, however, objects that lie within a giant cosmic web are feasting and growing, according to data from NASA's.....»»
Aqara"s new thermostat, iRobot Siri support & more on the HomeKit Insider podcast
This week iRobot updated its Roomba smart vacuums with support for Siri, Aqara introduced a new thermostat, and we reviewed a pair of new Thread-enabled devices on HomeKit Insider.HomeKit InsiderNews was light again since our last episode, with only.....»»
A strange monopole observed in diamond: When string theory inspires quantum simulation
Theoretical physicists routinely introduce fictitious particles and fields in their calculations, in view of completing a theory or simply to make it more elegant. A striking example concerns the magnetic monopole imagined by Dirac in 1931: a point.....»»
"US College Education Is Nearer To Collapsing Than It Appears"
According to OpenAI CEO and former president of Y Combinator, Sam Altman, college education in the U.S. "is nearer to collapsing than it appears." He writes in a Twitter thread: Most of all, it's clearly a bad deal for many students, or we wouldn't h.....»»
Marine snail inspires fast-acting injectable insulin for better diabetes control
For millions of people with diabetes, insulin is essential medicine. But for some ocean-dwelling predators, insulin is a weapon. With a burst of venom, a fish-hunting cone snail can drop the blood sugar of its prey so precipitously that it quickly be.....»»
The Best Clip-On Mics
Clip-on microphones, otherwise known as lavalier lapel microphones, are small mics that generally feature a small clip that can be attached to your shirt, blouse, or suit lapel. Even though they're tiny, they're mighty in their ability to cap.....»»