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New parental controls and insights are coming soon Dear parent, We’ve been working on a series of important changes that we’ll be making to your child’s account, ____________, next month. About Roblox accounts with parent privileges Next month, we’re changing the way parents manage their child’s experience on Roblox by introducing Roblox accounts with parent … Read more

Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 — and claims his company has already been testing the service in the Bay Area with employees. The comments, made Wednesday on Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, go farther than what Musk … Read more

I wrote an initial Google Pixel Watch 3 review following its September 10 launch. Based on two weeks of testing time for myself and two colleagues with their own Pixel Watch 3s, I called it “Stronger than ever” and rated it highly. In the ensuing weeks, fellow editors Derrek Lee and Nick Sutrich didn’t need … Read more

TL;DR BlueStacks has launched the BlueStacks Store for buying games on the Android emulator platform. Users can get access to 20% cashback, discounts, exclusive games, and more. BlueStacks is one of the best emulators and cloud gaming platforms for Windows and macOS users. It’s officially licensed by Google, making it a legitimate option for gamers. … Read more

Ancient Slashdot reader szo shares a report from Phoronix: Quietly merged into this week’s Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers. […] [Greg Kroah-Hartman who authored the patch] simply commented in there: … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, TED AI 2024 kicked off its first day at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater with a lineup of speakers that tackled AI’s impact on science, art, and society. The two-day event brought a mix of researchers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and other experts who painted a complex picture of AI with fairly minimal hype. The … Read more

Apple released the first iOS 18.2 beta for developers today, and while it’s only available on devices that support Apple Intelligence, there are a slew of features that will be available for everyone when the software eventually sees a release. This guide highlights all of the new features we’ve found in iOS 18.2 so far. … Read more

The Vision Pro made a big splash when it launched earlier this year, but a new report shows just how quickly interest has died down. It’s only been out for eight months, but The Information is reporting that production is being suspended next month because of “weak demand,” with some suppliers having “already halted manufacturing … Read more

Printing an Excel spreadsheet perfectly can sometimes be more difficult than creating it. Data could get cut off or move to a different page, which wastes your time and incurs extra costs for reprinting. If you frequently encounter this issue, here are some tips to ensure you get it right the first time. 1 Adjust … Read more

Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. After growing up in Plainfield, N.J., Don joined the U.S. Navy during World War II as an 18-year-old. He served aboard the … Read more