How you make it matters: Spintronics device performance tied to atomic interface changes

Spintronics devices will be key to realizing faster and more energy-efficient computers. To give us a better understanding of ...
Lifehacker

How to Tell If a Phone App Is Invading Your Privacy (and How to Limit It)

If you have a smartphone and spend any time on the internet, it's likely that at least some of your personal data has been collected, shared, and sold at some point. Many apps you use every day are ...
CNX Software

ESP32-S3 wide touch display development board features a 640×172 touch LCD, AI voice support

Waveshare has recently introduced ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-3.49, an ESP32-S3-based wide touch display (640×172) development board ...
CNX Software

Elecrow ESP32-S3 rotary displays combine round IPS touchscreen, knob, and press input

Elecrow has added two new ESP32-S3-powered rotary displays to its CrowPanel Advance lineup, which come in 1.28-inch (240×240) and 2.1-inch (480×480) ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police

Plus: Elon Musk tried to persuade Mark Zuckerberg to invest in OpenAI This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...
Android Police

5 apps that excessively track your data

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...
Business Insider

Government data is now in question. Here's where macro investors are turning to fill the gaps.

The firing of the BLS head by President Donald Trump has spooked some macro investors. Trump's nomination of a partisan economist may push investors to rely more heavily on other data. Sources like ...
Hackaday

Off To The Races With ESP32 And EInk

Off to the races? Formula One races, that is. This project by [mazur8888] uses an ESP32 to keep track of the sport, and ...
MIT Technology Review

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers. Google has just released a technical report detailing how much ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Thai Data Center Capacity May Triple on Surging Demand for AI

Thailand’s data center capacity is expected to triple in the next three years as investments of about $6.5 billion pour into the sector to meet surging demand for cloud computing and artificial ...
scmp.com

Apple eyes Douyin Pay for mainland App Store while iPhone 17 ‘leak’ stirs online debate

Launched in January 2021, Douyin Pay is a service under ByteDance-owned domestic short video platform Douyin, the Chinese sibling of TikTok. Douyin had about 766.5 million monthly active users, ...
CNN

GOP governors are sending troops to DC. Their states have 10 cities with higher crime rates

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN ...