Cybersecurity Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Why it matters: Dropped calls and dead zones may soon be a thing of the past if AT&T can keep its promises. Along with its commercial partner AST SpaceMobile, it will provide satellite coverage to ordinary cell phones. The partners...
Ohio The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have gone from bad to worse this week after a United States Trustee filed an emergency motion on Wednesday. The trustee is asking to convert the company’s debt reorganization Chapter 11 bankruptcy into a liquidation Chapter 7, according to court documents. The trustee wrote that the need...
Cybersecurity Enlarge / The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas. Boeing...
Cincinnati Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: It seems EA is suffering from the kind of insanity described by Far Cry 3’s Vaas Montenegro. The gaming giant is considering placing ads in its full-price AAA games, again, and presumably expects the outcome to be different this...
Cincinnati Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s District Attorney, wants to meet with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan to discuss why the website allows the posting of videos on how to manufacture “ghost guns” and why its algorithm is pushing them to underage viewers who watch video game content. Ghost guns are firearms assembled using 3D-printed parts or components...
Ohio Threads is testing the option to automatically hide your old posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the feature is only available to a “small number” of users for now, but it will let you choose to archive individual posts manually or have them automatically archived after a certain amount of time. You can see...
Ohio Tomorrow’s AI PCs may not only have a Copilot key on their keyboards — Logitech is introducing its own way to summon ChatGPT, too. It’s called the Logi AI Prompt Builder, and it’ll use a dedicated button on your mouse or keyboard. The Logi AI Prompt Builder doesn’t just present you with a chatbot,...
Ohio Ohio MAID sought to provide energy-efficient disk storage with quicker access times than tape. Estonian startup Leil wants to supplant tape with green storage spin-down SMR drives By Antony Adshead, Storage Editor Published: 16 Apr 2024 10:45 Leil means “steam” in Estonian – although it’s a bit more involved than that. It’s the steam...
Cybersecurity The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to propose new regulations that would require data brokers to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In a speech at the White House earlier this month, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said the agency is looking into policies to “ensure greater accountability” for companies that buy and sell...
Ohio This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A plan to charge Toronto homeowners and businesses for paved surfaces on their properties is creating a public backlash, a deluge of negative international media attention, and even derisive comments from Donald Trump Jr. The outcry reached such...