Alba Mora

147 published news

September 2024

1. 18 September
2. How to Set Up Your Wi-Fi Network Securely Using the SSID and Authentication Method
3. 08 September
4. Content Delivery Network, Explained: How a Group of Servers Helps the Web Load Faster

August 2024

1. 25 August
2. Cobalt Is One of the Highly Sought-After Metals on Earth. The Reason? Its Crucial Role in Lithium Batteries
3. We've Long Wondered Why the Chernobyl Wild Boars Were So Radioactive. It Turns Out It Has Nothing to Do With the Nuclear Disaster
4. 24 August
5. Four Vision Pro Users Share Their Experiences After Five Months With the Headset: A Promising Future, a Limited Present
6. The Alternative to Air Conditioning Doesn’t Require Electricity: All You Need Is Clay and a Good Design
7. Awkward Silence: A Breakdown of the Emotional Intelligence Technique That Transformed the Responses of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Jeff Bezos
8. 23 August
9. Dawn Aerospace’s Rocket-Powered Aircraft Has Successfully Completed a Crucial Flight Test. It’s Now Setting Its Sights on Breaking an Enormous Record
10. A Grad Student Discovered a Forgotten 'Fat Mac' at His Mom's House. He Plugged It in After 30 Years and Got a Big Surprise
11. 21 August
12. This Apple Designer Received an Original ‘Apple Watch’ From 1998. It's Waterproof and Has a Watch Dial That's Upside Down
13. I’ve Tested the Boox Palma: A Promising Concept, but a Disappointing Fusion of a Phone and E-Ink Screen Reader
14. 19 August
15. The Nostalgia Industry Is Still Going Strong. A Familiar Face Is Reaping the Benefits: Fujifilm
16. ‘I Swear It’s There.’ Apple CEO Claimed There Was an iPhone in a 1670 Painting. He Didn't Know How to React
17. These Colors Aren't for Show: A Breakdown of Green, Brown, Blue, and Turquoise Hydrogen
18. 18 August
19. This Employee Has Been Working at Apple His Entire Life. He Started at 14 and Now Has Twice as Much Experience As Steve Jobs
20. This Phone Promised to Revive Nokia 15 Years Ago, Had Amazing Hardware, and Was a Strong Competitor to the iPhone. I’m Still in Love With the Nokia N900
21. 17 August
22. The Romans Had a Major Industry That Played a Crucial Role in Their Conquest of Britain: Beer and Salt
23. The Best Weather Apps for Your Phone
24. All Black Mirror Episodes Ranked: From Best to Worst
25. 16 August
26. The Webb Telescope Has Successfully Penetrated the Nucleus of a Neighboring Galaxy, Which Is Home to a Fiercely Active Black Hole
27. New Tool for Creating Deepfakes for Free Rekindles Debate on the Dangers It Poses
28. Former Google CEO Claimed Remote Work Won’t Help Win the AI Race. He Apologized 48 Hours Later
29. Warren Buffett Sold Half of His Apple Shares. The Tax Bill on the Sale Is the Same as Spotify’s Annual Revenue
30. China Produces More Batteries Than Any Other Country. The Problem: They’re Not Storing Energy Efficiently
31. 15 August
32. A New Study Says 94% of Excel Tables Contain Errors: How a Formula Can Cause an Economic Disaster
33. This Instagram Photo of People Doing Yoga on the Deck of a Ship Reveals a Nuclear Secret India Was Trying to Hide
34. Developing Error Correction for Quantum Computers Is Becoming Increasingly Complex, But There’s Still Hope
35. An Increasing Number of North Korean Spies Are Carrying Out Remote Work for U.S. Companies to Finance Their Nuclear Weapons
36. China’s Constellation of Satellites Is Unsettling the Pentagon. It Can Track a Fighter Jet as Well as an Asteroid
37. 14 August
38. Quantum Teleportation Is a Reality and Holds the Potential to Revolutionize the Way We Transfer Information
39. Japan Was the Dominant Force in the Chip Industry in the 1980s. This Is How It Plans to Reclaim Its Former Glory
40. Japanese Researchers Reveal the First Prototype of Magnetically Levitated Cars. It’s as Promising as It’s Experimental
41. The New Gemini Showcases Google’s Ambition: To Have Us Continuously Talk to Our Phones
42. 13 August
43. Google Pixel Watch 3: Google’s New Smartwatch Is Available in Two Sizes and Doesn't Fear the Sun
44. Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL: Available in Two Sizes and Armed With the New Tensor G4, They Want to Be the Best Android Phones of the Year
45. Google Pixel 9: It May Not Have the ‘Pro’ Name, But It’ll Once Again Be One of the Smartest Purchases
46. TSMC and Samsung Have a New Rival That Promises to Surpass Them in Terms of Efficiency. It’s Located in Japan and Is Preparing 2 nm Chips
47. A Serious Vulnerability Is Affecting AMD Processors. Not All of Them Will Receive a Patch to Fix It
48. 12 August
49. A Recent Lab Accident Has Produced ‘Wonder Wood,’ a Super-Black Material That Can Absorb More Than 99% of Light
50. The World Is Obsessed With ‘Perfect Teeth,’ Despite the Prevalence of Fake Teeth in Movies and Television
51. EssilorLuxottica Used to Be a Traditional Eyewear Company. Now, It’s Embracing Technology, and Meta and Google Want a Slice of It
52. The U.S. Needs to Get Rid of Its Diesel Trains. It’s Rapidly Replacing Them With Hydrogen Trains
53. 11 August
54. A Brief History of Paul Otlet, the Little Known Grandfather of the World Wide Web
55. A Google Engineer Moved Into a Truck Parked on the Company’s Campus. He Avoided Paying Rent and Kept 90% of His Salary
56. 09 August
57. The U.S. Wants to Triple Its Solar Panels. To Reach Its Goal, It Has a Brilliant Idea: Using an Army of Robots
58. SpaceX Is Already Testing a New Engine for Starship Described As ‘A Work of Art.’ Yet, the Competition Is Skeptical
59. Beware of Falling in Love With Your Chatbot: OpenAI Warns That GPT-4o May Reduce Users' Need To Socialize With Humans
60. Google Has Gone 20 Months Without Being Able to Address One of Its Biggest Threats in History: ChatGPT
61. Humane Is Struggling to Survive. The Problem: More Users Are Returning Its AI Pin Instead of Buying It
62. The DMA Has Accomplished What Was Once Thought Impossible: Apple Will Now Allow Various Types of External Links in Apps
63. Nicolás Maduro Intensifies His Battle Against Elon Musk and Orders 10-Day Ban on X in Venezuela
64. 08 August
65. Some Americans Are Brewing Beer Using Water From Showers and Toilets. And There’s Good Reason for It
66. 80 Trillion Watts: A UK Startup Has Fired the World’s Most Powerful Cannon to Demonstrate Nuclear Fusion
67. Microsoft Wants Its Engineers in China to Leave the Country. They're Not So Sure
68. Winning a Gold Medal in Countries Like South Korea Is Better Than Winning the Lottery. Some Olympic Athletes Will No Longer Have to Worry About Money
69. This Object Has Been Puzzling Astronomers. All They Know Is That It’s Traveling at 1.2 Million Mph Toward the Center of the Milky Way
70. The Golden Age of AI Is Experiencing Its First Significant Slowdown: A Market Correction or a Bursting Bubble?
71. 07 August
72. Google Has Killed Off the Chromecast. Farewell to a Friendly and Affordable Product That Helped Us Enjoy TV Like Never Before
73. Paper Straws Are Often Touted as a Great Alternative to Plastic, But There's a Small Problem: They’re Toxic
74. Apple Accidentally Leaves Some of Its AI Prompts Out in the Open: ‘Do Not Hallucinate’
75. Google TV Streamer (4K): Say Goodbye to Chromecast and Hello to the New Premium Set-Top Box With Google TV
76. NASA Has Asked SpaceX to Postpone Its Next Flight. It Could Potentially Need It to Rescue the Boeing Crew
77. Advertising Revenue on Elon Musk’s X Has Dropped Dramatically, So the Platform Decided to Sue a Group of Advertisers
78. Samsung Has Just Revolutionized Electric Car Batteries, Improving Their Range, Charging Time, and Lifespan
79. Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra Review: The Watch Samsung Needed to Face Off Against the Apple Watch Ultra on Equal Footing
80. 06 August
81. How Much Money Did Tech Giants Lose on Monday? The 'Magnificent Seven' Had One of the Worst Days in Their History
82. Pegasus Is a Revolutionary Hybrid Flying Car: It Can Travel on the Highway and Fly for up to Three Hours
83. In China, an Increasing Number of Young People Are Dissatisfied With the Future That Awaits Them, So They’re Pretending to Be Birds
84. Safari Aims to Revolutionize the Web Browsing Experience. How? By Enabling Users to Eliminate Distractions
85. Google’s New Monopoly Status Has Unexpected Collateral Damage: Apple
86. Google Has Just Suffered a Major Loss in a U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit: The Search Giant Staggers
87. Elon Musk Is Suing OpenAI and Sam Altman Again: Microsoft’s Multibillion-Dollar Deal Is in the Spotlight
88. 05 August
89. The Millionaire Heir to Hermès Adopted His Gardener. His Fortune Evaporated Before It Could Reach His Garden
90. Scientists Have Unveiled the Origin of the Mysterious Gas Enveloping the Moon. The Culprit: Very Tiny Rocks
91. In 1904, the U.S. Hosted the Worst Olympic Games in History. It Featured a Marathon Winner Who Won With the Help of a Car and Events for ‘Primitive' People
92. Arc, I’m Sorry for What I Said About You. You’re the Best Browser in the Whole World
93. OpenAI Has Developed an AI Text Detector That Works Almost Flawlessly. It Doesn't Want to Bring It to the Market
94. Logitech's Controversial 'Forever Mouse' Doesn’t Need Subscriptions. It Needs to Be Repairable
95. 04 August
96. Say Goodbye to Spam Calls With This Google Feature. I’m Never Going Back After This
97. Scientists Have Discovered Supplements That Can Enhance Memory in the Elderly: Prebiotics
98. 03 August
99. For Decades, People Visited This New York City Skyscraper Without Knowing That the Joints Holding It Together Couldn't Handle the Weight
100. 02 August
101. Toyota Is in the Eye of the Storm: The Company Acknowledges That It Sold 14 Models With Fake Safety Tests Over the Last Decade
102. Boeing’s Attempt to Compete With SpaceX’s Dragon Has Failed: Starliner Has Just Lost Another $125 Million
103. It's Not the Olympic Games, It's a Casting Call for John Wick 5: Shooters Are the Sensation of Paris 2024
104. Intel Is Laying Off More Than 10,000 Workers. The Semiconductor Giant Is Facing Challenging Times
105. 01 August
106. There’s a Lot of Buzz About Nvidia, But Another AI Company Is Even More Profitable in 2024 (With Some Nuances)

July 2024

1. 31 July
2. Nothing Phone (2a) Plus: A Powerful Mid-Range Phone That Keeps Its Distinctive Look
3. Want to Have as Much Money as Jeff Bezos? You’d Need to Work for 45 Years Earning $2.1 Million per Hour
4. Friend Is an AI Wearable That Listens to You 24/7 and Wants to Be Your Best Friend
5. Meteorologists Warn That Debby, the Next Tropical Storm in the Atlantic, Could Be on the Horizon
6. Logitech Has a Clear Vision for the Mouse of the Future: It Has a Lifetime Subscription
7. OpenAI Has Started to Roll Out One of the Most Anticipated (and Revolutionary) ChatGPT Features: Its New Voice Mode
8. 30 July
9. Smartphones Appeared to Have Replaced Cameras for Good, Until the Rise of Mirrorless Cameras
10. Apple Is Starting to Roll Out Its AI to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. So Far, It’s Everything But Revolutionary
11. Ford Wanted to Compete With Tesla in the Electric Car Market. It’s Facing an Issue Called ‘A $5 Billion Loss’
12. Marvel Needed an Extraordinary Plot Twist to Revive the MCU. Its (Risky) Bet Is Robert Downey Jr.
13. Apple TV+ Has Finally Given In: The Platform Is Reportedly Planning on Introducing Ads Into Its Programming
14. 29 July
15. The Internet Is Fuming Over the 'Satanic' Parody of the Last Supper at the Olympics, But It's Actually Another Painting
16. This Is a Ferrari Executive's Method to Avoid Deepfake Scams: Ask the Scammer a Question That Only the CEO Would Know the Answer to
17. ChatGPT Is Now Integrated Into Synchron’s Brain Implants, a Potentially Life-Changing Mental ‘Click’
18. Elon Musk Posted a Deepfake of Kamala Harris. The X CEO Has Violated the Platform’s Rules
19. Marvel Revolutionizes Comic-Con With the Surprise Return of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom and Sneak Peaks of Avengers and Fantastic Four
20. Apple Intelligence Will Reportedly Not Be Available With the Launch of iOS 18
21. Trump Vows to Transform the U.S. Into a Haven for Crypto: ‘Never Sell Your Bitcoin’
22. 27 July
23. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Review: The Flip Format Is Starting to Make Sense in a Foldable Phone That Improves Its Cameras Significantly
24. 26 July
25. OpenAI Just Announced SearchGPT, a Direct Challenge to Google’s Search Engine
26. 25 July
27. Elon Musk Has Activated the World’s ‘Most Powerful AI Training Cluster.’ It’s Equipped With 100,000 Nvidia GPUs
28. Astronauts Have Relied on Diapers for Decades During Their Missions. They Finally Have an Alternative: Drinking Their Own Urine
29. ‘They Are Inoperable': Toyota Is Facing a Class Action in the U.S. Over Problems With Its Hydrogen Car
30. Paris Created a QR Code System to Enhance Security for the Olympic Games. It’s Resulted in Widespread Frustration
31. OpenAI Will Reportedly Lose $5 Billion This Year. Without Investment, It’s Impossible to Sustain the Ruinous AI Business
32. 24 July
33. Deadpool & Wolverine Is the Best Character Film and Oxygen for Marvel, but Not the Revolution the Genre Needs
34. U.S. Makes Huge Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Research by Managing to Confine Plasma in a Magnetic Mirror
35. Scientists Have Been Studying Magic Mushrooms for Years Without Fully Understanding How They Worked. Until Now
36. Spotify Plans to Introduce a New Deluxe Plan as Part of a New Tech Trend: Base, Body, and the Cherry on Top
37. Meta Has Unveiled the ‘World’s Largest and Most Capable’ AI Model, Surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4o in Various Aspects
38. Engineers Are Developing Nuclear Spacecraft Again. NASA Says We're Going to Need Them
39. 23 July
40. China Banned Mukbang in 2020. Now, a Streamer Reignited the Debate When She Died While Binge Eating in a Live Stream
41. We Suspected Consuming Caffeine While Being Sleep Deprived Wasn’t Very Healthy. A New Study Has Just Confirmed It
42. Elon Musk Sets a Date for the Arrival of Optimus at Tesla Factories. It's the First Step Before Selling Them to Other Companies
43. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones Changed the Way We Look at Fantasy. And Not Just for the Better
44. Bill Gates Predicts a Near-Term Decline for Current AI. His Bet on the Future? ‘Metacognitive’ AI
45. This Is What the New Google Chromecast Will Reportedly Look Like: Goodbye to the Dongle, Hello to the Set-Top Box
46. 22 July
47. We Spend Too Much Time Sitting and Are Just Now Beginning to Understand How Detrimental It Is for Our Health
48. This Airline Went 32 Years Without Updating Windows. It Was the Only One That Escaped the Global CrowdStrike Outage
49. Amazon Has Revised Its Return-to-Office Policy. Going to the Office for Coffee Isn’t Enough: Employees Need to Stay
50. To No One’s Surprise, a Recent Study Has Revealed That Money Does Indeed Bring Happiness. The More Money, the Better
51. Kernel Mode, Explained: This Is How Windows Security Operates and How CrowdStrike ‘Bypassed’ It to Cause Chaos
52. The First Floating Solar Park in the Swiss Alps Has Paid for Itself in Just 2.8 Years. The Key: Its High Altitude
53. You've Never Sat on a Toilet Seat This Pricey: This Throne Is Made Out of Old Phones and Is One of Only Two in Existence
54. 20 July
55. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 Review: An Evolution as Contained and It Is Logical for the Foldable Phone With the Best Software on the Market
56. Canon EOS R1 and Canon EOS R5 Mark II: Four Years Later, Canon Finally Showcases How It’ll Revolutionize Autofocus
57. 19 July
58. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Accidentally Cracked Open a Rock on Mars, Revealing a Yellow Treasure
59. GPT-4o Mini Is Now Available on ChatGPT for Free. OpenAI Is Using Muscle Against Google and Anthropic With This Small Model
60. From Hospitals to Small Businesses: How the CrowdStrike Incident Brought Global Paralysis to Unexpected Places
61. NASA Just Paid SpaceX $267,000 to Develop an Emergency Plan to Rescue Astronauts on the ISS
62. The Glitch That Demonstrated the Fragility of Airports Worldwide: How CrowdStrike Became the Biggest Story on a Dramatic Summer Day
63. How to Fix the CrowdStrike and Microsoft Bug on an Affected Computer
64. What Does CrowdStrike Do? Here's What You Need to Know About Microsoft's Cybersecurity Provider, Which Is Behind the Global IT Outage
65. 18 July
66. Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI Co-Founder and Former Head of AI at Tesla, Has a New Mission: Transform Education With AI-Powered Teachers
67. SpaceX Is Building a Spacecraft to Destroy the International Space Station. It’s Four Times More Powerful Than the Dragon
68. 17 July
69. ‘Be Careful With Chinese Students:’ The U.S. Warning to ASML and Dutch Universities
70. Volvo Wanted to Make It Big by Selling Cars Online Like Tesla, But 0% of Its Customers Have Gone This Route
71. TikTok Attempted to Circumvent the DMA by Claiming It Was Illegal. The EU Court Isn't Buying It
72. Claude Is ChatGPT's Biggest Rival, and You Can Now Download It on Your Android Phone
73. An Astronaut Took a Picture of a Red Sprite From the ISS. It’s an Extremely Difficult Phenomenon to Photograph
74. The U.S. Ban on Kaspersky Generates Its First Casualty: All Employees in the Country Will Be Laid Off