Facebook parent company Meta today announced the upcoming expansion of Meta Horizon OS, a virtual and augmented reality operating system that will be available to third-party hardware manufacturers that want to design their own headsets. Right now, Meta sells the Quest line of headsets, but the company wants to provide the software for third-party VR … Read more
Environmentally conscious search engine Ecosia has lifted the wraps off a new cross-platform browser designed to cater to sustainable audiences. Having already planted north of 205 million trees as a result of users’ online browsing activity, Ecosia’s latest effort involves a browser that works across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. Just like the search engine’s … Read more
The Nanoleaf Skylight Smarter Kit is Nanoleaf’s first hardwired, permanent light, and it’s also the first light that Nanoleaf designed specifically to be installed on ceilings. As with Nanoleaf Light Panels, the Skylight is modular. A 3-panel starter kit is priced at $250, and each add-on panel is $70. Nanoleaf sells kits with more panels … Read more
Today is Earth Day, and it’s as good a time as any to think about the way we use technology and how we can use it better and more sustainably given the myriad challenges it represents to our environment. Major computer manufacturers like Acer, Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and many others have all started moving … Read more
Running limited-time flash sales seems to be Dell‘s favorite thing right now and as if on cue it’s back with another one this week. A new selection of laptop deals is up for grabs until Thursday, including savings of up to $400 on its popular Inspiron and XPS devices. Jump through to browse the full … Read more
Last week, several Galaxy owners took to the internet to complain about seeing a distracting green line going down their phone’s screen. It was unclear if Samsung would address this issue or ignore it. As it turns out, the tech giant is going to help people fix the problem, but it’s not making it easy. … Read more
The first time I heard Taylor Swift’s Fortnight, a new song off the Tortured Poet’s Department featuring Post Malone, it was through an FM radio built into a 22-year-old Sony Walkman CD player, but even with the poor reception, the lyrics resonated with this almost forgotten technology: “I was supposed to be sent away But … Read more
April 22, 2013: The world gets its first Apple car. Well, kind of. In reality, the iBeetle is a collaboration with German automaker Volkswagen that offers a car “stylistically linked” to Apple. This means Apple-inspired colors, a built-in docking station for your iPhone, and a special app that lets you control the car’s features. The … Read more
Many system designers are exploring chiplet-based SiPs that move beyond the limitations and costs of huge single-die implementations, but which depend heavily on silicon interposers as substrates for mounting and interconnecting the dies. Silicon interposers deliver a higher data rate than organic substrates, but are not without drawbacks. They are costly, proprietary and limit the … Read more
Previous research has shown that our perception of time is linked to our senses.Credit: Karol Serewis/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty How the brain processes visual information — and its perception of time — is heavily influenced by what we’re looking at, a study has found. In the experiment, participants perceived the amount of time they had spent looking … Read more