Brandon Kashani, a former student of Brain’s and startup mentor at NC State’s entrepreneurship clinic, recalled to the Technician about how he met with Brain on November 15. “He felt like his reputation was tarnished, like everything he worked for was ruined, and the root of all that was he didn’t get any support from […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, Biz & IT, futurism, futurist, HowStuffWorks, Marshall Brain, NC State, NC State University, NCSU, Obituaries, obituary, Robotic Nation, robots, Tech, transhumanism, wired | No comments
Zipcar’s rep declined to specify how many people were affected by the outage. A warning against total app reliance Zipcar’s app problems have not only cost it money but also traumatized some users who may think twice before using Zipcar again. The convenience of using apps to control physical products only exists if said apps […]
December 3, 2024 | apps, outage, software, Tech, Zipcar | No comments
Turnover at the top of the company isn’t stopping Intel from launching new products: Today the company is announcing the first of its next-generation B-series Intel Arc GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570. Both are decidedly midrange graphics cards that will compete with the likes of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD’s RX 7600 […]
December 3, 2024 | Alchemist, arc b570, arc b580, battlemage, Gaming, Intel, Intel Arc, rtx 4060, rx 7600 xt, Tech | No comments
The drawer-sized label maker that will convert you My quirky wireless keyboard can keep up to three Bluetooth connections memorized. Can I, a human being, remember which of those three connections corresponds to which device and which number? No, I cannot. That’s why there is a little label on the back of my keyboard, reminding […]
December 3, 2024 | cable management, cable wrangler, flic buttons, home automation, label maker, label makers, Shopping, Tech, USB-C accessories, usb-c charging | No comments
One of the key differences between Apple’s Macs and the iPhone and iPad is that the Mac can still boot and run non-Apple operating systems. This is a feature that Apple specifically built for the Mac, one of many features meant to ease the transition from Intel’s chips to Apple’s own silicon. The problem, at […]
December 3, 2024 | Apple, Apple M1, Apple M2, Apple M3, apple m4, Apple silicon, arm linux, asahi linux, Fedora, Linux, Tech | No comments
In a surprise move, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has stepped down as head of the company after less than four years, as reported by Reuters and other outlets. The change caps a chaotic year for Intel, which is poised to report its first annual financial loss since 1986 and announced layoffs of at least 15,000 […]
December 2, 2024 | CEO, foundry, idm 2.0, Intel, pat gelsinger, Policy, Tech | No comments
Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicated digital or film cameras. It’s not surprising that, perhaps as a reaction to the ubiquity of the phone, some young creative photographers are leaving their handsets in their pockets in favor of compact point-and-shoot digital cameras—the […]
November 29, 2024 | digicams, digital photography, syndication, Tech | No comments
Brown notes that the predecessor Mac LC and LC II had the correct connections, as did the LC 475, which uses the same power supply scheme. This makes him “confident that Apple made a boo-boo on the LC III,” or “basically the hardware equivalent of a copy/paste error when you’re writing code.” Making sure rehabbers […]
November 29, 2024 | Apple, Macintosh, Tech | No comments
Makers of smart devices that fail to disclose how long they will support their products with software updates may be breaking the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned this week. The FTC released its statement after examining 184 smart products across 64 product categories, including soundbars, video doorbells, breast pumps, smartphones, home […]
November 27, 2024 | Smart Home, Tech | No comments
A recent firmware pushed to QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices left a number of owners unable to access their storage systems. The company has pulled back the firmware and issued a fixed version, but the company’s response has left some users feeling less confident in the boxes into which they put all their digital […]
November 26, 2024 | Biz & IT, firmware updates, NAS, network attached storage, QNAP, Security, Tech | No comments