The Flipper Zero may be one of the most versatile, and most controversial keychain-sized devices ever put to market. The device can scan, receive, send, and mimic several types of signals. It can scan NFC and RFID signals used by many common products. It can replicate the frequency used for your workplace’s ID card. It’s … Read more
Visitors take photos in front of the Meta sign at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, December 29, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Technology companies are learning an old lesson from Wall Street: maturing means shrinking. Meta and Amazon saw their shares spike on Friday following their fourth-quarter earnings reports. While … Read more
Photo by Julian Chokkattu Julian Chokkattu Last year, a new company called Sightful—founded by former executives of Magic Leap—introduced the world’s first AR laptop. Known as Spacetop, it delivers a virtual 100-inch screen that allows you to display as many windows and apps as you need to get work done from any location. Initially, it … Read more
The gulf between tech and government is legendary. In the 2010s, tech talent flocked to startups and big platforms where they could move fast, break things, and get people to click on ads. Venture capital flowed freely as firms jumped further and faster to stake a claim in businesses that prized user acquisition above all … Read more
Much like Bosch, which is working on a hydrogen car engine, Hyundai has announced that it too is doubling down on hydrogen, presenting what it calls a blueprint for a hydrogen energy ecosystem. Hyundai has the world’s highest market share in hydrogen-powered vehicle sales, though that isn’t nearly as impressive as it sounds, of course. … Read more
There are sure to be splashier announcements at CES, but few will make as much of a subtle difference in your day-to-day life as the new Wi-Fi 7. The Wi-Fi Alliance has released the official certification for Wi-Fi 7, enabling devices that pass its standards to be labeled “Wi-Fi 7 Certified”. We have already reviewed … Read more
Another policy tug-of-war could be emerging around Big Tech’s content recommender systems in the European Union where the Commission is facing a call from a number of parliamentarians to rein in profiling-based content feeds — aka “personalization” engines that process user data in order to determine what content to show them. Mainstream platforms’ tracking and … Read more
Apple Vision Pro (left) and ChatGPT (right) injected new energy into tech in 2023. Jason Hiner/ZDNET Government scrutiny of big tech and a series of iterative upgrades of iconic products such as the iPhone have largely dominated the last decade in tech. Not since the rise of 4G unleashed a wave real-time apps such as … Read more
KISS legends Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are being dragged to court over the COVID death of one of their longtime guitar techs … and his family say it all started with Paul. According to a new lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, the family of late KISS guitar tech Francis Stueber says he died a couple … Read more
Whereas all of the CEOs, union bosses, and civil rights advocates have been requested to lift their palms at factors, one flaw with muzzling senators, based on critics on each side of the proverbial aisle, is that lawmakers weren’t simply capable of recreation out the place their allies are within the Senate. And coalitions are … Read more