Technology News for Wednesday 24th July 2024

1. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6, Z Flip6, Watch Ultra, Watch 7, Buds3 now available in India; see pricing and offers

Galaxy Watch7: Starts at Rs 29,999 for the 40mm variant. Galaxy Buds3: Available for Rs 14,999. Sweetening the Deal. Samsung is offering enticing deals to make this launch even more irresistible. Customers ...

2. iOS 18 Beta: Keep Your Notes App Organized With Collapsible Sections

The beta update brings a handful of new features, like customizable home and lock screens, to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. It also makes your Notes app easier to organize with collapsible sections.

3. Esports for old folks: Nintendo turns classic games into bite-sized challenges

Over the years Nintendo has constantly referenced, remixed and republished the 8-bit games of its NES console, including at the 1990 Nintendo World Championships (a USA-only event despite the name) from which this newest celebration takes its name and logo ...

4. AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry

A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI for game development.

5. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Review: Enhanced Cameras, Frivolous AI

New AI features, an improved camera and better battery life have given the new iteration spiffy upgrades compared to its predecessor. And, after testing the device for over a week in France, I can see exactly why that is—but some software components have ...

6. Playing Dungeons & Dragons Is Great For Social Development

Playing Dungeons & Dragons provides participants social connection, a creative outlet, and a sense of control that benefits their mental health. The Loneliness Epidemic. Rates of social isolation have been rising to ...

7. AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense

Training artificial intelligence (AI) models on AI-generated text quickly leads to the models churning out nonsense, a study has found. This cannibalistic phenomenon, termed model collapse, could halt the improvement of large ...

8. Carving Out Nanostructures Beneath the Surface of Silicon

A new laser system makes it possible to build photonic elements inside wafers ... Edd Gent is a Contributing Editor for IEEE Spectrum. ... Dr. Rana Asgari Sabet performs nanofabrication experiments inside silicon using the laser writing setup in Photonic ...

9. 'No Man's Sky' has refreshed its universe with Worlds Part 1 update (video)

After a pretty rough launch back in 2016, with critics and players alike criticizing a video game that felt almost nothing like what was promised during the marketing campaign, it's been evolving over the years through meaty free updates that seemingly won ...

10. CrowdStrike to improve testing after 'bug' caused outage

CrowdStrike has promised to improve how it tests software after its faulty content update for Windows systems caused a mass global IT outage on Friday. The cybersecurity company's mistake resulted in problems for banks, hospitals and airlines as ...

11. Rice researchers develop innovative battery recycling method

A research team at Rice University led by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, is tackling the environmental issue of efficiently recycling lithium ion batteries amid their ...

12. CrowdStrike offers $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for the outage

Latest CrowdStrike betrayal just dropped: The Uber Eats voucher in the email to partners stating 'your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us' fails with 'We're sorry, this voucher has been cancelled by the issuing party and is no longer valid' ( ...

13. CrowdStrike losses may be biggest test yet of cybersecurity insurance risk warning from Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway's top insurance executive warned this year about the potential for massive losses from cyber insurance policies. The CrowdStrike-caused global IT outage will be a key test for cyber insurance underwriters, ...

14. Electrically tunable space–time metasurfaces at optical frequencies

By impressing a spatial phase gradient on the metasurface, we can diffract selected combinations of sideband frequencies. Combining active temporal and spatial variation can enable unique optical functions, such as frequency mixing, harmonic beam steering ...

15. Scientists monitor the Outaouais' bat population to fight back against white-nose syndrome

Several research projects are tracking the region's bat population after it was reduced by the disease. Jodie Applewaithe · CBC News · Posted: Jul 24, 2024 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: in 8 hours. Bat with white-nose syndrome.