Lenovo’s range of M Series Tiny small desktops is not the easiest to navigate. At the moment it sells boxes in M70, M75, M80 and M90 configurations and four different generations. What you need to know is that machines with odd numbers use AMD chips and those with even, Intel. Gen 4 and 5 boxes … Read more
In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with Meta employees on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, defended recent changes he had made to loosening restrictions on online speech and ending diversity initiatives, and doubled down on embracing President Trump’s new administration. “I want to be clear, after the last several years, we now have an … Read more
Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this head-scratching paradox and could point out ways to better curb pernicious itch in people. First, the bad news: Scratching itchy ears led to a round of inflammation. Itch-provoking substances, … Read more
BBC A friend got Zoe her AI-created book as a Christmas present For Christmas I received an interesting gift from a friend – my very own “best-selling” book. “Tech-Splaining for Dummies” (great title) bears my name and my photo on its cover, and it has glowing reviews. Yet it was entirely written by AI, with … Read more
The Empa spin-off Ionic Wind Technologies has developed its technology to such an extent that ionic wind will no longer be used to “only” dry fruit, but to cool data centers. Credit: Empa Thanks to a new type of airflow booster for ionic wind, completely new fields of application are opening up for the start-up … Read more
Apple today announced financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2025, which corresponds to the fourth calendar quarter of 2024. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $124.3 billion and net quarterly profit of $36.3 billion, or $2.40 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $119.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $33.9 billion, … Read more
Earlier this week, Google made a surprising move by sharing the source code for Pebble OS, the operating system that ran on one of the most beloved and cult-favorite smartwatches. Google had acquired this code when it bought Fitbit, which had bought Pebble earlier, and the code had been lingering in some dark server abyss … Read more
Digital transformation is the most important investment that organizations can make to drive enterprise value. That’s according to 68% of 1,600 business leaders surveyed by Deloitte. And while I largely agree with their thinking, I would take things one very important step further. In my six years as CEO of Argyle, a technology company whose … Read more
Federal agencies across government are gathering and submitting lists of recent hires and, in some cases, asking those employees to explain their backgrounds and justify their roles. The culling of names follows a directive from the Trump administration, through the Office of Personnel Management, issued on its first day, requesting lists of all employees on … Read more
At first glance, the seven mice skittering around their cages look like other mice. But they have an unusual lineage: They were born with DNA from two dads. The mice join an elite group of critters born from same-sex parents, paving the way for testing in larger animals, such as monkeys. Led by veteran reproductive … Read more
