Marshall portable speakers are up to 25 percent off right now

Marshall portable speakers are up to 25 percent off right now

Marshall portable speakers are up to 25 percent off . The sale includes the attractive and highly useful Middleton speaker, . This is a discount of 21 percent and marks a record low for the portable Bluetooth device. Marshall The Middleton made our list of the , and for good reason. It’s the company’s flagship … Read more

Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds

Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds

Credit: Erik S. Lesser/AP/Alamy Frans de Waal made an early but influential entrance onto the international scientific stage with his first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982), which documented the intricate social manoeuvring of chimpanzees in Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, during his PhD and postdoc years. de Waal showed that the chimpanzees often acted in … Read more

iOS 17.5 Adds New ‘Quartiles’ Word Game for Apple News+ Subscribers

iOS 17.5 Adds New ‘Quartiles’ Word Game for Apple News+ Subscribers

While the first iOS 17.5 beta is slim on new features, there is one fun addition for Apple News+ subscribers: a daily word game called Quartiles. Quartiles tasks you with combining tiles to form words and earn points. Each puzzle starts with a grid of 20 tiles, and words can be formed with one to … Read more

Steve Jobs loses control of Mac division

Steve Jobs loses control of Mac division

April 10, 1985: During a fateful meeting, Apple CEO John Sculley threatens to resign unless the company’s board of directors removes Steve Jobs as executive VP and general manager of the Macintosh division. This triggers a series of events that will ultimately result in Jobs’ exit. The marathon board meeting — which continued for several … Read more

scientists wake up to the mental-health toll of climate change

scientists wake up to the mental-health toll of climate change

Every year for six years, Laureen Wamaitha hoped that her fields in Kenya would flourish. Every year, she’d see drought wither the crops and then floods wash them away. The cycle of optimism and loss left her constantly anxious, and she blamed climate change. “You get to a situation where you have panic attacks because … Read more

TSMC’s Next-Generation Chip Technology for Apple Silicon on Schedule

TSMC’s Next-Generation Chip Technology for Apple Silicon on Schedule

Apple chipmaker TSMC is making progress toward manufacturing 2nm and 1.4nm chips that are likely destined for future generations of Apple silicon, DigiTimes reports. The manufacturing time frames for mass production of 2nm and 1.4nm chips have now apparently been determined: Trial production of the 2nm node will begin at in the second half of … Read more

Roku releases its line of premium-ish TVs with Mini LED backlighting

Roku releases its line of premium-ish TVs with Mini LED backlighting

Roku has released a line of TVs after first . These televisions are packed with tech, with the standout feature being Mini LED backlighting for better brightness and contrast. The 4K TVs also boast QLED panels, HDR10+, Dolby Vision and a responsive refresh rate of 120Hz. The company’s calling them the “ultimate TVs” for streaming. … Read more

Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 works with HomeKit

Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 works with HomeKit

The new Thread- and Matter-enabled Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 came out Tuesday for use with HomeKit and other smart-home platforms, the company said. “In the rapidly expanding global market for Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors, Aqara has achieved remarkable success, distributing over 100,000 units last year,” noted Cathy You, Aqara’s senior VP of Global … Read more