Admins see snags as macOS Sonoma 14.4 hits Macs
There appear to be a couple of snags in the latest iteration of macOS Sonoma that are upsetting to Apple admins: Some USB hubs are no longer recognized by the Mac and a popular command…
Ultrablack Coating Unleashes New Era for Telescopes
The team’s ultrablack coating can be applied to curved surfaces and magnesium alloys to trap nearly all light. Credit: Jin et al. Thin film coating can be applied to magnesium alloys for aerospace and optics…
Quick Tips to Save Time on the Telephone
With everything a smartphone can do these days, it’s often easy to overlook one of the device’s most basic functions: voice calls. Communicating by telephone has become more complicated in a world of robocalls and…
The EU browser wars have begun as Apple opens up
Now that Apple has opened up choice to third-party browsers as part of its efforts to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, we can expect a new focus on browser market share in the…
How MIT Is Revolutionizing Electronics With 3D-Printed Solenoids
MIT researchers modified a multi-material 3D printer so it could produce three-dimensional solenoids in one step by layering ultrathin coils of three different materials. It prints a U.S. quarter-sized solenoid as a spiral by layering…
New AI copyright lawsuit targets Nvidia
Three authors, Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene, and Stewart O’Nan, are part of a new copyright infringement lawsuit against Nvidia, the latest such suit to challenge generative AI providers’ reliance on the “fair use” doctrine to…
Next-Gen Electronics Transformed: MIT’s 2D Integration Breakthrough
This artist’s rendition shows a new integration platform developed by MIT researchers. By engineering surface forces, they can directly integrate 2D materials into devices in a single contact-and-release step. Credit: Courtesy of Sampson Wilcox/Research Laboratory…
Why should Apple trust Epic Games?
(Editor’s note: On March 8, 2024, two days after this post appeared, Apple reinstated Epic’s developer account.) Citing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union (EU) has requested “further explanations” from Apple regarding its…
Revolutionizing Computing: Inside Princeton’s Trailblazing AI Chip Technology
Princeton researchers have totally reimagined the physics of computing to build a chip for modern AI workloads, and with new U.S. government backing they will see how fast, compact and power-efficient this chip can get….
AIs may be better at prompt optimization than humans
With prompt engineers among the workers most in demand in the wake of generative AI’s arrival in the enterprise, it was inevitable that someone would investigate whether their role, too, could be automated, or at…