PlayStation console owners who wanted to play online games got a rude start to the weekend. Users started reporting widespread PlayStation Network outages in the early evening on Friday, per Down Detector (a service owned by Ziff Davis, the parent company of Mashable). These things typically don’t last for an especially long time, which made … Read more
Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated solely to works created with AI, an announcement that has been met with mixed reviews. The auction, which Christie’s is calling ‘Augmented Intelligence,’ will feature artwork from artists including Mat Dryhurst, the founder of AI … Read more
After a bit of confusion, we now know that the Galaxy S25 series officially supports Qi v2.1 but without built-in magnets. Now, anyone interested in buying a Qi2 charger for their Galaxy S25 will have to contend with buying a case for the phone, a concession some may not like. I used to be on … Read more
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Last year, I told you about the grueling ordeal I went through to move everything from my old Google account to my new one. Although I did this for many reasons (a digital life reset, consolidating every digital asset under one account, etc.), one of those reasons was that I … Read more
After the powerful solar storm of May 2024, scientists detected two new temporary radiation belts around Earth — one of which contained something we had never seen before: energetic protons. ScienceAlert reports: “These are really high-energy electrons and protons that have found their way into Earth’s inner magnetic environment,” says astronomer David Sibeck of NASA’s … Read more
A mirror proxy Google runs on behalf of developers of the Go programming language pushed a backdoored package for more than three years until Monday, after researchers who spotted the malicious code petitioned for it to be taken down twice. The service, known as the Go Module Mirror, caches open source packages available on GitHub … Read more
Apple’s next-generation low-cost iPhone is almost here, with rumors suggesting we’re going to see it introduced as soon as next Tuesday. With a release happening in the very near future, we thought we’d highlight everything we know about Apple’s newest iPhone. Design The iPhone SE 4 will look like the iPhone 14, featuring a 6.1-inch … Read more
Acer has introduced two new gaming laptops outfitted with the latest chips to enable AI features. The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI and Helios Neo 18 AI were announced at a recent Counter-Strike gaming tournament in Poland, according to Engadget. The laptops can run processors up to Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor and … Read more
Summary Listening to articles while exercising or doing household chores is an ideal way to get through a reading backlog. Speechify or Matter apps can read articles to you, but note the subscription cost for natural sounding AI voices. Speechify can be used for free, if you can tolerate the robotic free voices. Getting through … Read more
If you have an implanted medical device, have been hooked up to a machine in a hospital, or have accessed your electronic medical records, you might assume the infrastructure and data are secure and protected against hackers. That isn’t necessarily the case, though. Connected medical devices and systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks, which could reveal … Read more