While you currently have to say “Hey Siri” to activate the assistant hands-free, that may not be the case for much longer. Bloomberg reports today that Apple engineers are working to drop the “Hey” part of the phrase, so you’d only have to say “Siri” followed by a command to Read more…
If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.
A new article from Wired calls Rust “the ‘viral’ secure programming language that’s taking over tech.” “Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough….” [A] growing movement to write software in a language called Rust is gaining momentum Read more…
Scientists say tht measured over a 20-year period, methane “packs about 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide,” according to the Associated Press. “And according to the International Energy Agency, methane is to blame for roughly 30% of the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.” And Read more…
If you push the “extra ice” button on the soft drink vending machine, you won’t get any ice. If you push the “no ice” button, you’ll get ice, but no cup.
America’s federal government “is planning a post-midterms push for antitrust legislation that would rein in the power of the world’s largest tech companies,” reports Bloomberg, “a last-ditch effort to get a stalled pair of bills through Congress before a predicted Republican takeover in January.” The lame-duck period after Tuesday’s U.S. Read more…
“There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.” — Mark Twain