Finally! After a 7-year wait, this monitor could well be the best pro-level 8K display ever — will Asus be able to break the curse of failed 8K monitor launches with the PA32KCX Mini LED pro screen?

Mini LEDs are typically found in gaming monitors. Unlike LCD backlights, they offer a broad contrast range, with deeper, near-OLED quality levels of black, that enrich and enhance the dynamism of both SDR and HDR content. Asus has brought Mini LED technology to the ultra-high-end business monitor market for the first time with its new … Read more

Galaxy AI: Break language barriers with One UI 6.1 Live Translate and Interpreter

With the Galaxy S24, Samsung introduced Galaxy AI, a suite of AI-powered features useful in everyday tasks. Some of its features allow you to converse freely with people who don’t speak your language. It is handy when traveling outside your country or having international meetings. This article will explain how you can use Galaxy AI’s … Read more

Gut bacteria can break down artery-clogging cholesterol

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A new drug consists of pieces of mRNA encased in a fatty envelope (artist’s impression).Credit: Kateryna Kon/SPL A therapy that extends mRNA technology beyond vaccines has shown early success in treating a rare genetic disease, propionic … Read more

Gut bacteria break down cholesterol — hinting at probiotic treatments

Scientists have pinpointed human gut bacteria that have a useful tool: an enzyme that can convert artery-clogging cholesterol into a more harmless form that is not absorbed by the body. The finding points towards possible treatments for high cholesterol levels. Although the newly described bacterial species can metabolize cholesterol in the laboratory, whether they can … Read more

How AI could make or break your career

These are already turbulent times for employees in the technology sector. Depressingly we’ve seen a fall in advertised vacancies and several mass layoffs initiated by both major companies and smaller startups. Yet, on the plus side we’ve also witnessed inflation-busting salary rises tough to fill positions. Now, in its predictions for 2024, the research and … Read more

iOS 18 might break the iPhone’s iconic app grid, and it’s a change no one asked for

The iPhone and iOS are not messy. Throughout their nearly 20-year life they’ve embodied precision and consistency, with no design element left to chance. There’s never a detail unexplained or unaccounted for; and one thing you absolutely will not find, on either the phone itself or in its operating system, is wasted space. This is … Read more

Want to break the geekiest world record of them all? Here’s how engineers spent 75 days to calculate Pi to 105 trillion digits — just in time for Pi day

Engineers at StorageReview decided to do something incredibly geeky for this year’s Pi day (March 14 – 3/14) – beat their own record for calculating Pi. Considering that the previous record, achieved last year, was 100 trillion digits, the challenge was no mean feat. While – spoiler alert – they smashed the record, it did … Read more