Network and Beyond NaB

Jun Yao, the paper's senior author, reminds us that air contains an enormous amount of energy. Yao points to a cloud, which is nothing more than a collection of water droplets that contain a charge. When conditions are right, the cloud can produce a huge amount of electricity in the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98876-researchers-discover-how-harvest-electricity-humid-air-using.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Swimply was founded in 2018 for people looking to use a swimming pool. It gained a lot of traction after many public pools closed down due to the pandemic and has listings in more than 125 markets in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Like Airbnb, users can rent out... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98873-app-people-rent-their-swimming-pools-causing-anger.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

For a few years now, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been sending takedown requests to Google for the company to remove YouTube ripping sites, which allow, among other things, audio to be ripped from YouTube videos and saved as music files. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98862-music-company-wants-google-delist-wikipedia-page-about.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Published by Nacon and developed by its subsidiary, Daedalic Entertainment, Gollum's development was announced back in March 2019 and accompanied by a much anticipated 2021 release date. The game's initial release was later delayed until 2022, and later delayed once again until 2023, this time with no definitive release date.... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98859-lotr-gollum-developer-apologizes-after-panned-reviewers-gamers.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

There are few things as infamous as The Dark Web in the world of technology, but what is it, and why does it have such a bad reputation? Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/article/2660-the-dark-web/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Homeworld 3, one of our most anticipated upcoming PC games, was due to arrive in the first half of 2023. Now, developer Blackbird Interactive has announced that the space opera RTS is being pushed back to February next year. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98841-homeworld-3-has-delayed-again-now-launch-next.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

VideoCardz reports that Japanese stores traditionally open at 10 PM when big launches like a new graphics card take place, which usually results in a queue of people waiting to buy the latest tech. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98828-japanese-stores-open-late-rtx-4060-ti-launch.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Earlier this month, Google updated the Android and Google Devices Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) with a new quality rating system for bug reports and increased the maximum reward for finding critical vulnerabilities to $15,000. The company explained at the time that this would make it easier to fix security flaws... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98808-google-reveals-bug-bounty-program-first-party-android.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Asus announced that several of its products were winners at the Computex 2023 Best Choice Awards. The coveted Computex 2023 Best Choice Golden Award went to the company's new Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED (UX8402) laptop (top), which it says is the world's first 14.5-inch 2.8K 120Hz OLED laptop with a second display. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98791-asus-wins-multiple-computex-awards-while-embroiled-controversy.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Microsoft has updated its Internet Explorer 11 desktop app retirement FAQ, providing new exceptions for companies and organizations still relying on IE's UI elements. The future of Internet Explorer still is in Microsoft Edge, as Redmond says, but customers' feedback forced the company to make yet another U-turn in its... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98777-microsoft-internet-explorer-empty-husk-live-windows.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Responding to a query from Ars Technica about the growing complaints against the SanDisk SSDs, WD said that a firmware fix  to address the issue will be rolled out "soon." The response came after users       thronged social media platforms, online message boards, and the official SanDisk forums to... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98776-sandisk-promises-roll-out-firmware-update-fix-failing.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Welcome back to our GPU pricing update series. We thought this would be an uneventful month until both Nvidia and AMD decided to get the ball rolling with their new mid-range and mainstream GPUs. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/article/2684-gpu-pricing-update/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Asus router users began reporting connectivity issues on May 16th via Asus forums and other social media outlets, quickly establishing a failure pattern too common to be considered a coincidence. Despite user attempts to contact Asus for support, the hardware manufacturer remained silent and provided no statement or guidance for... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98765-asus-apologizes-after-bad-server-update-causes-widespread.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Alex Spiro, who has been Elon Musk's personal lawyer for several years now, has sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on behalf of Twitter. The letter claims that the Redmond corporation abused its relationship with the crumbling social network, violating Twitter's development agreement "for an extended period of... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98753-elon-musk-lawyer-microsoft-abused-official-api-access.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

To celebrate the announcement of the RTX 4060 desktop family, Nvidia is giving away 460 graphics cards as part of its Summer of #RTXON promotional event, the company's biggest ever, according to the website. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98752-nvidia-giving-away-rtx-4060-4060-ti-4080.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Speaking to Tom's Hardware's deputy managing editor Paul Alcorn on the sidelines of the ITF World conference in Antwerp, Belgium, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said that the change will introduce "high-performance cores mixed with power-efficient cores mixed with acceleration." According to the exec, the hybrid designs will be based on... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98738-amd-cto-confirms-adopting-hybrid-architecture-consumer-cpus.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

OCCT (Overclock Checking Tool), one of our 21 apps to analyze and benchmark your hardware, has hit a new milestone with improvements all over. OCCT is all-in-one stability check and benchmark stress test tool. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4665-overclock-checking-tool.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

While plenty of companies are telling their employees to get back into the office following the enforced work-from-home mandates that arrived in 2020, most aren't asking them to return full-time. According to Scoop Technologies (via The Wall Street Journal), a software firm that monitors almost 4,500 workplace strategies, about 58%... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98704-offices-half-empty-companies-opt-hybrid-schemes-over.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A bill introduced by senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) wants to strengthen the cyber-security of US election digital infrastructure, providing new testing requirements for voting machines going through the certification process by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98688-new-bipartisan-bill-wants-improve-cybersecurity-us-voting.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As noted by PC Gamer, the recent launch of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor marks another game that many buyers will spend hours downloading. Its 130GB file size makes it the largest PC title released this year. This is a trend that's become not just annoying for those with slower internet... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98685-game-installs-100gb-or-larger-have-become-standard.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Fusus is designed to provide law enforcement organizations (LEO) and other public safety institutions access to accurate, relevant information via a cloud-based network of authorized video monitoring assets. The company claims the platform "enhances all public safety and investigations assets for law enforcement, first responders, and private security personnel." The... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98682-privacy-civil-rights-groups-warn-against-rapidly-growing.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google held its annual developer's conference, Google I/O, earlier at its Mountain View campus. Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced several topics and announcements during the event's keynote, ranging from updates to Google Maps to its 3D teleconferencing solution, Project Starline. One particular new feature announcement, called "Help Me Write" has... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98678-google-new-help-write-makes-responding-e-mails.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Being one of the largest DRAM chip manufacturers in the world, Samsung is experiencing a rather critical moment in its recent history. The company's revenues suffered a -18% year-over-year drop in the first quarter of 2023, while profits have essentially evaporated with the worst result recorded for the past 14 years (-95%). Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98668-samsung-cut-ddr4-memory-production-endure-harsh-market.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google's Sameer Samat announced that the company would be adding headphones, earbuds, tablets, and other product categories to the Find My Device service over the coming months. Some of these are already supported, but more will be added. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98669-google-find-device-use-billions-android-devices-pinpoint.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Bloomberg reports that Sharp Chief Executive Officer Robert Wu said his company has been working closely with an unnamed firm on developing a gaming console since it was in the R&D phase. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98656-sharp-admission-making-lcds-new-console-points-switch.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates are out for Windows 11 and Windows 10 with several fixes for two operating systems. In the case of Windows 11, the KB5026372 cumulative update introduces no less than 20 changes that improve the user experience as well as fixes for 38 security vulnerabilities and... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98639-microsoft-releases-optional-fix-actively-exploited-secure-boot.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Such is the case with IBM, the most recent entrant to the generative AI product and service world. At their annual Think conference in Orlando, they unveiled a range of new AI offerings that have a clear sense of "IBM-ness" to them under the new moniker watsonx. They reflect the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98621-ibm-unleashes-new-ai-strategy-watsonx.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The International is returning to Seattle. The annual esports world championship for Dota 2 will take place in October at the Climate Pledge Arena (formerly KeyArena), right in Valve's back yard. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98606-dota-2-international-tournament-returning-seattle-year.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

NEO Semiconductor says 3D X-DRAM is the world's first 3D NAND-like technology for DRAM memory, a solution developed to solve DRAM's capacity bottleneck while replacing the "entire 2D DRAM market." The company states its solution is better than competing products, as it's much more convenient than other options on the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98602-neo-semiconductor-launches-3d-x-dram-world-first.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

AppleCORE will be negotiating their proposed requests with the company's labor representatives later this week. The new proposal, as previously reported by Bloomberg, includes several requests to address employee compensation and leave issues. One of those requests, however, has started raising eyebrows ever since it was announced. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98593-unionized-apple-store-employees-propose-tipping-other-benefits.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that Apple is interested in the potential of emerging AI technology in a recent earnings call. However, he also expressed the need for caution as competitors like Google and Microsoft dive into generative AI applications in a way some have called clumsy. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98587-tim-cook-addresses-rising-interest-ai-more-future.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Salesforce, and Microsoft are just some of the many companies that have made massive job cuts this year, the result of a shaky economy, low demand, and overhiring during the height of the pandemic. But one conspicuous name absent from the list is Apple. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98579-tim-cook-apple-only-make-mass-layoffs-last.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Wall Street Journal recently profiled multiple users that have either switched back to a basic flip phone from a smartphone or never made the transition at all. One user, a 23-year-old content strategist living in New York City, splits time 50 / 50 between an iPhone and a flip phone. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98570-flip-phones-experiencing-renaissance-but-smartphones-arent-going.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Back in December, TSMC announced it would pour no less than $40 billion into building two advanced chip factories in Arizona. In other words, the world's biggest chipmaker made the largest direct foreign investment in Arizona history and one of the largest in US history. When they become operational, the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98541-tsmc-may-charge-30-percent-more-chips-made.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

These bite-sized updates are smaller and require less time to download and install. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98528-apple-releases-first-rapid-security-response-update-but.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Nintendo's new Super Mario Bros. movie picked up more than nine million additional views this weekend, but they did not come from ticket-wielding moviegoers at local cinemas. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98512-super-mario-bros-movie-illegally-shared-social-media.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Jack Dorsey's decentralized social media platform was established in 2019 as a Twitter-funded project designed to establish a decentralized social media standard. Bluesky's original goal was to create and bring Twitter onto a new, decentralized platform. The company instead broke away several years later establishing itself as Bluesky PBLLC in 2022. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/98507-jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralized-twitter-clone.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger