MIT scientists propose power storage using cement blocks (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years
A group of researchers said they have found a way to hack the hardware underpinning Tesla’s infotainment system, allowing them to get what normally would be paid upgrades — such as heated rear seats (techcrunch.com)
The researchers will present their research next week at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas....
Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)
I mean, he’s not wrong that the app wasn’t ready. Which begs the question why they didn’t un-roll-it-out. >.>
Child predators are exploiting kids on OnlyFans despite vows of safety (www.usatoday.com)
Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books (docs.google.com)
Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)
On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.
Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say (arstechnica.com)
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jesus, again already?
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. (jezebel.com)
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.
Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage (www.propublica.org)
Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox (soapbox.pub)
A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. (news.yahoo.com)
A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage.::The flight system allows a plane to be remote operated by a pilot on the ground, which could streamline pilot airline operations in the future.
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years
A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time (www.businessinsider.com)
A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is “locking” in customers::undefined
An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python (spectrum.ieee.org)
An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python::The students also learn how to design board games and video games
The worst passwords of 2023 are also the most common, "123456" comes in first (www.techspot.com)
The worst passwords of 2023 are also the most common, “123456” comes in first::undefined
4 futuristic things the Humane Ai Pin can do as a smartphone alternative (mashable.com)
Google Fiber is increasingly going by ‘GFiber’ (9to5google.com)
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves (www.sciencealert.com)
A 50-year-old Swedish woman who lost her hand in a farming accident has been fitted with a cutting-edge prosthesis that has proved transformational.
Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare (www.wired.com)
The Google Pixel 8 is official with 7 years of updates (arstechnica.com)
FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers (arstechnica.com)
