Arc did a lot right, but Gemini changed the equation.

The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars learn and adapt to their surroundings.

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. Thats why weve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapesteven phones that foldto find the ones worth your money.

All your snaps come with metadata containing more information than you might realize.

Everyone needs a good pair of ANC earbuds. These are the best of the bunch.

So far no major issues reported, but a few smaller problems are still known.

Veteran designers in the auto industryand Jony Ivetell us how hard it is to make a functional yet beautiful steering wheel.

With ePub support, NotebookLM becomes a private encyclopedia for tracking plots, characters, and lore.

One of Android's most fundamental features isn't compatible with mouse actions in desktop mode.

Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk Bees and hummingbirds are effectively day-drinking on the job because their lunch is quietly fermenting.

These chest straps and watches will help you keep your finger on your pulseand many other heart-related metrics.

Luno Malaysia has expanded its digital asset offering with the addition of 29 newly approved crypto assets, bringing its total to 51. According to its latest announcement, this is the largest batch of new listings on the platform to date, and all assets have received approval from the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC). With this expansion, []

The highly anticipated arrival of the Samsung Galaxy A57 and Galaxy A37 went down this week. Both share the core specs of their predecessors but with subtle 2026 improvements - new chipsets, better build quality, and some more AI. The Samsung Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 will be available from April 9 or 10 (it varies by region). In the US, the A37 will start at $450, while the base A57 option will cost $550. In Europe, the prices are 430 and 530, respectively. In some regions, you will get the ..

This sale spans almost an entire week, and its full of fake deals. We hunted to find truly good prices on gear weve tested.

I turned my car screen into a coloring in book, and I wish I hadnt.

Get a refurbished Apple MacBook Pro (2020) for $429.97, featuring 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD storage, and a Retina display.

It's been nearly a year since we had word of NVIDIA's N1 SoC for laptops, and about two years since its CEO said it live that it was working with Dell to create the laptop using a dedicated CPU from the brand. Now, according to Taiwanese news outlet, CTEE, that day could be during Computex [] The post NVIDIA Could Announce N1 SoC At Computex 2026 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Just six days ago and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora Disney's team was "blindsided" with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI's move as "a big rug-pull." Even some Sora employees were surprised by the cancellation. It was just 14 weeks ago Disney announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI's AI-powered video generation tool plus a three-year licensing deal. But that deal "never closed," ..

Sony has recently announced that it is suspending memory card sales. In a statement made through the Sony Japan website, the company declared that it is no longer accepting orders for nearly all the products in its CFexpress and SD memory card lines. Among the affected products are CFexpress Type A, Type B, and SDXC/SDHC [] The post Sony Temporarily Halts Memory Card Sales In Japan Due To Shortages appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Cleansers, serums and moisturisers dominate the conversation when it comes to looking after our skin, while one of the most frequently used objects in our daily lives is almost entirely overlooked: your phone. Read full story

"Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching," reports Computer Weekly: Microsoft's emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose after installing the mandatory cumulative updates pushed live on Patch Tuesday earlier this month. According to Microsoft, it has since emerged that many users experienced problems signing into applications with a Microsoft account, seeing a "no ..

Chatbots may give a helpful boost in confidence to anxious restaurant diners, but are they offering better wine advice? Read full story

In North America and Western Europe, young people are much less happy than 15 years ago, and over the same period, social media use has greatly increased. Read full story

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: ClickFix attacks are ramping up. These attacks have users copy and paste a string to something that can execute a command line like the Windows Run dialog, or a shell prompt. But MacRumors reports that macOS 26.4 Tahoe (updated earlier this week) introduces a new feature to its Terminal app where it will detect ClickFix attempts and stop them by prompting the user if they really wanted to run those commands. According to MacRumors, the warning readers ..

The Oppo Find N6 will be a very popular phone and it could have been even more popular, but Oppo decided not to offer it in Europe. Otherwise, the N6 could have hit an impressive 50% positive vote in last weeks poll or gone even higher, assuming the phone reviews well (we have a review unit and were already testing it). The phones predecessor, the Find N5, impressed us last year and the N6 brings several important upgrades like the zero-feel crease, the 200MP main camera and the larger ..

The open-world fantasy Crimson Desert looks like the latest example of South Korea's evolution into a gaming powerhouse. Read full story

It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight" after he'd added the optional birthDate field for systemd's user database: Critics saw it not merely as a technical addition, but as a symbolic capitulation to government overreach. A crack in the philosophical foundation of freedom that Linux is built ..

"IBM says its quantum computer can now simulate real magnetic materials and match actual lab experiment results," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "which is something people have been waiting years to see." Instead of just theoretical output, the system reproduced neutron scattering data from a known material, meaning it lines up with real world physics. It still relies on a mix of quantum and classical computing and this is a narrow use case for now, but it is one of the first times ..

Microsoft and Nvidia deploy AI and Digital Twins to reduce bottlenecks, streamline permitting, and improve operational efficiency for nuclear projects.

A new trailer has given us our best look yet at the upcoming The Ghost in the Shell anime. While it might not tell us all that much about the direction the show will go in plot-wise, it sure is aesthetically pleasing, with a throwback art style that looks a lot more like the original manga than we've seen with other adaptations. The series will be released on Prime Video this July. The Ghost in the Shell is being produced by Science Saru. The studio hasn't revealed much about its story, only ..

Memory and storage shortages and price hikes have "steadily rippled outward across all kinds of consumer tech," reports Ars Technica. "Today's bad news comes from Sony, which is raising prices for PlayStation 5 consoles in the US just eight months after their last price hike." The drive-less Digital Edition will increase from $500 to $600; the base PS5 with an optical drive will increase from $550 to $650; and the PS5 Pro is going up from $750 to a whopping $900. At the beginning of 2025, these ..

Its one of the hottest trends in tech that has only been around for a few months. Its called OpenClaw, and it was created by an Austrian developer named Peter Steinberger.

In a new 4,000-word article, CNN tells the story of a retired appellate paralegal and grandmother in her early 70s who was treated for depression with psilocybin. CNN notes there's now retreats featuring psilocybin in a few countries and while psilocybin is illegal under United States federal law, "In Oregon, 5,935 clients received psilocybin services through Oregon's state- regulated program in 2025." High doses of psilocybin are effective in treating depression, a growing body of research ..

Austria is the latest country to prepare a social media ban for its children, but it's going even further than others by including anyone under 14. In a press release , the Austrian government said it has introduced a comprehensive catalogue of measures meant to shield minors from the harms of social media. According to the press release, an official bill will be introduced by the end of June. Andreas Babler, a vice chancellor and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, said the ..

Huawei launches Atlas 350 with Ascend 950PR, offering high FP4 compute, improved memory performance, and competitive positioning against Nvidia H20 hardware.

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman tells The Register that AI-driven code review has "really jumped" for Linux. "There must have been some inflection point somewhere with the tools..." "Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. "All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real." Security teams across major open source projects talk informally and frequently, he ..

Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro. The venerable desktop computer had a twenty-year run and served as the flagship model in the company's lineup for most of its lifetime. The company has since removed the product from its website. The Mac Pro first launched in 2006 as a replacement for the then flagship Power Mac G5. Similar to its predecessor, the Mac Pro was a desktop tower PC with a modular design that allowed the user to replace the CPU, memory, optical and storage drives, and PCI ..

The Trump T1 smartphone has felt fake every step of the way, but a new FCC listing implies that it's actually a real product.