Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Scientists make AI laser turret for killing cockroaches - What could possibly go wrong? (mybroadband.co.za)
Scientists have developed a laser with artificial intelligence (AI) designed to neutralise cockroaches as a new form of pest control....
Ireland plans build of datacenter powered by fuel cells (www.theregister.com)
Good, inexpensive fitness trackers?
I’m looking for a watch that can track my heart rate, stay on my tiny wrist, and that doesn’t cost a lot only to break frequently. Fitbit is….no longer meeting that criteria and was honestly out of my budget to begin with, but i am nervous about spending money again on something random that could also break just as...
GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5592397...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now supports prompting with voice and images (www.theverge.com)
TL;DR: OpenAI’s ChatGPT has added voice and image prompting for plus users, coming to everyone else “soon after”. You can now ask questions by speaking or uploading images. It uses advanced text-to-speech and image recognition technology, but with controlled limitations to prevent misuse.
Problems with firefox 116 and/or cloudflare
Yesterday i upgraded ff to the current version and since today i experienced problems with a bunch of different sites. Either the cloudflare verification sends me into a loop or i get through and the site’s not working correctly. Some others work, though. Disabling add-ons (noscript, ublock) and allowing all cookies didn’t...
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives (www.youtube.com)
Figma Is A File Editor (digest.browsertech.com)
A high level but interesting write up of how Figma (a browser-based collaborative design tool) behaves like a file editor (their term), and how it overcomes the natural affinity of web apps to RDBMS-backed CRUD persistence patterns.
Bear 2 is a terrific notes app — and it only took forever to build (www.theverge.com)
Bear 2 is a major update to the popular note-taking app Bear, which was an immediate hit when it launched in 2016. The new version has taken a long time to build, over 5 years, as the developers decided to completely rewrite the underlying text editor to enable features like tables, GIFs, and footnotes. The developer says...
‘AI’ Journalism Continues To Be A Lazy, Error-Prone Mess (www.techdirt.com)
Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)
G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites....
[VERGE] Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/32518...
Looking for a privacy friendly chromecast alternative
Title says it all, I’m looking for something as user-friendly as a chromecast but not made by a company like google. I’m familiar with linux and if some open source software exists that can do this I would love it....
what do you guys think ? (www.youtube.com)
Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics (spectrum.ieee.org)
Do you love robots?
Amazon Is Rolling Out a Generative AI Feature That Summarizes Product Reviews (m.slashdot.org)
Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem (www.technologyreview.com)
The Low Code Wall (www.spiffworkflow.org)
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse (www.wired.com)
HP to move production of millions of PCs to Thailand, Mexico (archive.is)
Open source alternatives for gallery app
Hello this is my first post on Lemmy, I have been disgruntled with Xiaomi’s stock gallery app and wish to switch to an alternative that will not steal my data.