There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground. A year after Musk officially took over the platform, both he and recently installed X CEO Linda Yaccarino held a joint all-hands Thursday to address some of the changes at the…
Source: Gizmodo – Elon ‘Back to the Office’ Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands
Jupiter will accompany this weekend’s Hunter’s Moon as the duo parade across the night sky together. The Hunter’s Moon gets its name from the Algonquin Native American tribe and was used to remind native American cultures that it was time to hunt and store up meat for the winter.
The October Hunter’s Moon might also be called the Falling
Source: Hot Hardware – Full Hunter’s Moon Will Bring Jupiter Into View, How To Watch The Spooktacular Event
The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has delivered a petition to Microsoft calling on the company to rethink the impending abandonment of Windows 10 in the face of millions of PCs potentially being rendered eligible for landfill overnight. From a report: There are now less than two years until Microsoft is due to cut support for Windows 10, and at current estimates, 400 million PCs can’t make the jump to Windows 11. The petition, addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, criticizes its plans and states that customers expect their devices to last rather than be rendered obsolete by an arbitrary decision. PIRG warns that tipping that much hardware into landfills is somewhat at odds with the company’s stance on the environment.
The petition reads: “All software reaches a point at which it’s no longer supported, but when the consequences to our environment are this large we shouldn’t accept it.” As a reminder, while Windows 10 was largely backwards-compatible with computers running older operating systems, Microsoft slapped hardware requirements on Windows 11 that rendered machines even just a few years old unable to upgrade — the main issues center on the CPU and TPM requirements.
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Source: Slashdot – PIRG Petitions Microsoft To Extend the Life of Windows 10
This is the last weekend before Halloween, which means stores will fully pivot from spooky decorations to Thanksgiving and Christmas-themed displays (which are already up, naturally). Before that happens, however, you can bolster your PC games library with some scary titles. Additionally, Blizzard Entertainment is hosting a free trial of Diablo
Source: Hot Hardware – Score Evil Within 2 And More Spooky Games For Free Plus A Diablo IV Trial
Apple’s M2-powered 12.9-inch iPad Pro with 256GB of storage is $150 off its regular price at Amazon. That drops the tablet down to $1,050 just a few days ahead of Apple’s Scary Fast event. The company is widely expected to reveal its first M3 chipsets but it’s not certain that Apple will offer M3-powered iPad Pros immediately. You may have to wait until next year for a high-end tablet with the upcoming chipset.
Still, the M2 iPad Pro is our top pick for the best tablet you can buy right now. Even if Apple does announce an M3 iPad Pro in the coming days, it’s hard to go wrong with the current model. It runs on the same chipset as MacBooks, so you’d be hard pressed to find a faster or more powerful tablet.
We gave the M2 iPad Pro a score of 87 in our review. Apple didn’t give the tablet many upgrades compared with the M1-powered model, other than a few small tweaks and, of course, plugging in a more powerful chipset. However, the iPad Pro already had arguably the best display of any tablet around with the 120Hz ProMotion mini-LED screen. The design remains top notch, while battery life is strong.
Accessories such as the Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil are helpful for productivity too. The 12.9-inch M2 model is our pick for the best iPad for power users thanks to the extra real estate compared with the 11-inch variant.
The 128GB version of the M2 iPad Pro, meanwhile, is available for a record low price. It has dropped by 10 percent to $990 at Amazon for a model without cellular connectivity.
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Source: Engadget – The M2 12.9-inch iPad Pro is 0 off ahead of Apple’s Scary Fast event
GM-owned Cruise suspended its driverless taxis, the company said in a post on X, formerly called Twitter. This comes after the California DMV’s temporary ban on Cruise robotaxis earlier this week. Cruise says it’s working to “rebuild public trust” and will examine its operational processes and systems.
Source: Gizmodo – Cruise Abruptly Pulls Its Robotaxis After California Says They’re ‘Not Safe’
Do sweet and salty foods taste good to you? Is your sleep maybe not the best? Do you have some belly fat? The answer to these questions is probably yes, because you are human, but that’s not important right now! TikTok influencers would like you to consider another possibility: that your cortisol is too high, and that…
Source: LifeHacker – TikTok Myth of the Week: All Your Problems Are Due to High Cortisol
The launch of the Ryzen 3000 series in 2019 led not just to a dramatic rise in the performance of AMD CPUs, but also temperatures. Since then, it hasn’t gotten any better—the latest Ryzen 7000 series has even pushed the normal operating temperature to 95C, so that the flagship Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X could run at full bore. The heat won’t
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Explains Why Future Ryzen Chips Might Run Hotter in Wide-Ranging Interview
Everyone loves a weird little guy. Maybe it’s Danny DeVito, maybe it’s cats, maybe it’s Turgle, Meat Boy, or the Prince of All Cosmos. The longer the list of gaming’s weird little guys, the more Nintendo shows up on it. It’s been churning out weird little guys for decades. Goombas. Midna. Basically everyone in Animal…
Source: Kotaku – Mario Wonder Proves Nintendo Has Perfected Weird Little Guys
In a monthly update post, the Linux Mint team announces some exciting developments, such as an unstable repository, updates to Hypnotix, the TV viewer application, and ambitious plans for Wayland support.
The post Linux Mint Enables Testing Repo and Plans for Wayland appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Linux Mint Enables Testing Repo and Plans for Wayland
Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, promised to scrap the hidden fees plaguing its ticketing service earlier this year. But one senator says the company’s not doing nearly enough. From a report: In a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino Wednesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called on the company to turn on an “all-in” pricing filter that it added this year by default. Klobuchar said it’s “still too difficult” for users to turn on the filter that’s “buried within a tab that gives no indication that it contains” the option in the first place.
“Millions of Americans rely on your company for the chance to see their favorite artist, band, or sports team,” Klobuchar wrote. “In return for their business and trust, your customers expect a transparent and honest ticket buying process free from hidden fees.” Back in June, Live Nation, along with AirBnB, SeatGeek, and DICE, pledged to disclose the full price of their tickets and services as part of an agreement with the White House to reduce “junk fees.” At the time, Live Nation said that these new rules would start applying to events in September.
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Source: Slashdot – Ticketmaster’s Still Hiding Ticket Fees, Senator Says
M. Night Shyamalan’s next thriller might have found its stars. The Looney Tunes’ first ever fully-animated theatrical movie is a sci-fi buddy comedy. Go behind the scenes on the songs of the Hunger Games prequel. Plus, a new look at the return of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Spoilers now!
Source: Gizmodo – Chucky and M3GAN Could Stage a Frightful Crossover
There was a time when most folks weren’t on Google Docs or Word. There was a time when every grade schooler thought the best way to make their essays pop was with garish Word Art. There was a time when Microsoft Word wasn’t turning into just another AI playground for Microsoft’s unending crusade to stick a generative…
Source: Gizmodo – Microsoft Word Is 40 Years Young and Here to Make You Feel Old
Welcome to Training Diaries, a new Lifehacker series about my journey to the 2023 TCS New York City Marathon. This series will cover all the ups, downs, and hill repeats on my journey to the biggest marathon in the world. Leading up to race day on Sunday, Nov. 5, I’ll go over proper fueling, injuries and setbacks,…
Source: LifeHacker – Meredith’s Training Diary: Nothing New on Race Day
On Thursday, Leica Camera released the first camera that can take pictures with automatically encrypted metadata and provide features such as an editing history. The company believes this system, called Content Credentials, will help photojournalists protect their work and prove authenticity in a world riddled with AI-manipulated content.
Leica’s M11-P can store each captured image with Content Credentials, which is based on the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity’s (C2PA’s) open standard and is being pushed by the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). Content Credentials, announced in October, includes encrypted metadata detailing where and when the photo was taken and with what camera and model. It also keeps track of edits and tools used for edits.
When a photographer opts to use the feature, they’ll see a Content Credentials logo in the camera’s display, and images will be signed through the use of an algorithm.
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Source: Ars Technica – Leica camera has built-in defense against misleading AI, costs ,125
The United Nations created a 39-member advisory body to guide the world through governance issues around artificial intelligence, announced United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday.
Source: Gizmodo – The UN Wants to Figure Out Just How Dangerous AI Is
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As the generative artificial intelligence gold rush intensifies, concerns about the data used to train machine learning tools have grown. Artists and writers are fighting for a say in how AI companies use their work, filing lawsuits and publicly agitating against the way these models scrape the internet and incorporate their art without consent.
Some companies have responded to this pushback with “opt-out” programs that give people a choice to remove their work from future models. OpenAI, for example, debuted an opt-out feature with its latest version of the image-to-text generator Dall-E. This August, when Meta began allowing people to submit requests to delete personal data from third parties used to train Meta’s generative AI models, many artists and journalists interpreted this new process as Meta’s very limited version of an opt-out program. CNBC explicitly referred to the request form as an “opt-out tool.”
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Source: Ars Technica – It’s a “fake PR stunt”: Artists hate Meta’s AI data deletion process
Double Tap is arguably the killer feature in the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2. The gesture is Apple’s answer to the problem of using a smartwatch when your opposite hand is holding a bag of groceries, dog leash, flashlight or anything else. In addition, it can be a splendid accessibility feature for people with disabilities that could limit arm or hand mobility. Although the company only offers limited customization of the feature at launch, you can tweak a couple of settings to fine-tune Double Tap to your liking.
Before you can use Double Tap, you’ll need to ensure your Apple Watch is up-to-date. It requires at least watchOS 10.1, which Apple rolled out to customers on October 25. First, you need to update your paired iPhone to at least iOS 17.1, which became available the same day. You can do that on your phone in Settings > General > Software Update.
After upgrading your phone’s firmware, open the Apple Watch app on your paired phone, and then go to General > Software Update. Tap “Install” and wait for the update to complete. Your watch must be charged to at least 50 percent while on its charger to initiate the installation.
Although Apple may offer more customization in future software updates, Double Tap currently only lets you change how it handles audio playback and the Smart Stack. The latter, new in watchOS 10, is the pile of widgets you view from your watch face by swiping up from the bottom of the screen or scrolling up with the Digital Crown.
First, open the Apple Watch app on your paired iPhone to customize these categories. Select Gestures > Double Tap, and then choose from the available options:
Playback lets you choose between pinching your fingers to play / pause (the default) or skip to the next track while listening to music or podcasts.
Smart Stack chooses how Double Taps navigates the pile of widgets. “Advance” means each tap moves to the next widgets (default), while “Select” will select the first widget with a subsequent tap.
After activating Double Tap, you can play around with all the things it can do. They include:
Audio playback: Pause / resume or (after changing the setting above) skip to the next track.
Phone calls: Answer or hang up a call.
Notifications: Initiate the primary action from any alert. For example, reply to a message or snooze a reminder. (It works with third-party apps too.)
Smart Stack: Scroll through widgets from any watch face.
View messages: Read a full message when you receive a new text.
Reply to messages: Reply with voice dictation when you get to the end of the message. Another Double Tap will confirm sending after you finish speaking.
Read longer notifications: After opening an alert that doesn’t fit entirely on the screen, double-tap again to scroll through one that’s too long to display on your Apple Watch’s screen. You can repeat this until you’re at the end.
Alarm: Snooze an alarm.
Stopwatch: Stop or resume a stopwatch.
Timers: When viewing a timer, pause (if it’s running), resume (if paused) or end the timer.
Remote shutter: Take a photo on your iPhone when using the Apple Watch’s Camera Remote.
Workout: Start or stop automatic Workout reminders if it detects that you’re exercising without having started a workout on your watch.
When you use Double Tap, a blue hand icon appears at the top of your watch’s screen. If you try double-tapping on something that isn’t compatible with the feature, the icon will appear and shake back and forth like it’s saying, “No.”
If you navigate back to Settings > Gestures > Double Tap on your paired iPhone, you’ll see an option to disable the feature if you’re in a situation where you worry about triggering it accidentally. If you do that, you can always return to the same settings screen to re-enable Double Tap.
If you’re still on the fence about the Apple Watch models that support Double Tap, you can visit Engadget’s Apple Watch Series 9 review and our impressions of the Apple Watch Ultra 2.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apple-watch-is-now-live-with-double-tap–heres-how-to-customize-the-gesture-on-watchos-101-133021753.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Apple Watch is now live with Double Tap — here’s how to customize the gesture on watchOS 10.1
For those who missed the great Roomba deals on October Prime Day, you’ve got another shot: Currently, Amazon is selling the iRobot Roomba i4 EVO for 48% off at $209.99 (normally $399.99). This is the same low price it hit during Prime Day, which is the lowest price it has been, according to Camelcamelcamel’s price…
Source: LifeHacker – The iRobot Roomba i4 EVO is 48% Off on Amazon Right Now
There has been a lot of talk about Arm encroaching onto x86 territory (more so than it already has), especially on the heels of Qualcomm unveiling its Snapdragon X Elite platform, which is perhaps the biggest threat to x86’s dominance to date. Don’t tell that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, though. While addressing Intel’s latest earnings, Gelsinger
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Shrugs Off ‘Insignificant’ Arm As Q3 Earnings Beat Smokes Expectations
