On Tuesday evening local time, Motier Ventures, an early stage tech investment firm based in Paris, unveiled a startup hub called La Maison. This relatively new investor in the French tech ecosystem is the family office of the Houzé family — the owners of upmarket fashion retailer the Galeries Lafayette Group. As the Galeries Lafayette … Read more
What you need to know OnePlus China head Li Jie Louis showcases BOE’s upcoming display, which will likely be used for the OnePlus 13. The display will likely measure 6.82 inches and be curved on all sides. The OnePlus 13 is also rumored to launch soon after this month’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is revealed. … Read more
TL;DR Motorola has launched the ThinkPhone 25 smartphone. The new device is effectively a smaller ThinkPhone with mid-range performance and a telephoto camera. The phone costs ~$552 in Europe and won’t be available in the US. Update: October 2, 2024 (3:50 AM ET): Motorola has confirmed to Android Authority that the newly announced ThinkPhone 25 … Read more
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law giving the California Energy Commission the authority to require bidirectional charging in electric vehicles (EVs) in the future — although no timeline is set. Bidirectional charging allows EVs to not only charge from the grid but also supply electricity back to the grid, potentially enhancing grid resiliency, supporting … Read more
Can anything that is programmable have an embedded LLM? Apparently so. llama.ttf is a plain old font that looks like Open Sans—you can download it and install it. We don’t know whether this is a massive vulnerability or a way to embed AI in almost any text-based application. Probably both. It may just be a … Read more
Benj Edwards On Monday, OpenAI kicked off its annual DevDay event in San Francisco, unveiling four major API updates for developers that integrate the company’s AI models into their products. Unlike last year’s single-location event featuring a keynote by CEO Sam Altman, DevDay 2024 is more than just one day, adopting a global approach with … Read more
Each year, the developers behind well-known iPhone camera app Halide take an in-depth look at the new camera technology that Apple has introduced. This year, Sebastiaan de With took more than 1,000 photos with the iPhone 16 Pro to examine changes to the camera setup, Apple’s image processing, and more. Apple added an upgraded 48-megapixel … Read more
China Unveils Moon-Landing Spacesuit for First Time China is aiming to put its first citizens on the moon by 2030, and it’s just unveiled the newly designed spacesuit they’ll be wearing when they perform the historic feat. Revealed by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) at a special ceremony in Chongqing at the weekend, the … Read more
Sony dropped the second-generation of its unique open-style LinkBuds today: LinkBuds Open and LinkBuds Fit. LinkBuds Open have a hole punched through their center to let ambient sound in, just like the previous model from 2022. LinkBuds Fit are more traditional with their soft rubber tips. LinkBuds Open shares the concept with the original LinkBuds—an … Read more
On 28 October 1904, on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) was founded by a group of young men led by Maurice L. Carr, whose vision was to create an honor society that recognized electrical engineers who embodied the ideals of scholarship, character, and attitude and to promote the … Read more