The best XR headset you can buy today The Meta Quest 3 features cutting-edge pancake lenses, a powerful Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 processor, thousands of games, and the ability to easily connect it wirelessly to a Windows PC for work or play. Plus, with streaming services like Xbox Game Pass, GeForce Now, Netflix, and tons … Read more
Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR Citron, one of the last active Switch emulators, just got a big update. Focused on compatibility, the update makes the most popular games play better. Developers claim most games now run perfectly at 30 or 60fps. A Yuzu fork, Citron no longer claims to be a mere homebrew emulator. … Read more
A growing number of doctors are advocating to rename low-grade prostate cancer to reduce unnecessary aggressive treatments that can lead to debilitating side effects. About one-quarter of men diagnosed with prostate cancer have the lowest-risk form, yet studies show 40% opt for surgery or radiation despite recommendations for active surveillance. The push comes amid mounting … Read more
It’s the end of the year for Radar! We hope all of our readers enjoy the holidays. Here’s one prediction for 2025: Is this the end of the road for improving LLM performance by scaling either the number of parameters or the training data? No one knows yet. Regardless of the answer, we expect interest … Read more
For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections could be bypassed using a simple technique. On Tuesday, Microsoft finally patched the vulnerability. The status of Linux systems is still unclear. Tracked as CVE-2024-7344, the vulnerability made it possible for attackers who had already gained privileged access to … Read more
Apple continues to explore the idea of releasing camera-equipped AirPods in the future, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Gurman only briefly mentioned the possibility of AirPods gaining tiny cameras, as part of his Power On newsletter intro this week, focused on Apple’s future wearables ambitions. He did not explain what the cameras would be used … Read more
If you use the popular messaging app WhatsApp on an iPhone, there may be times when you wish you had the ability to add more than one account. The good news is that a recent update for WhatsApp, released via Apple’s TestFlight beta program, includes the feature, suggesting that it could be rolled out soon … Read more
Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but it isn’t—Connections categories can be almost anything, and they’re usually quite specific. If you need a hand getting the answers, we’ve got you covered. What Is Connections? Connections is a game from the … Read more
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANY German Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, … Read more
The tech industry possesses enormous power and influence, touching almost every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and shop, to the way we communicate and travel. Understanding the industry is not only vital to making sense of the world we live in but also the one we will inhabit tomorrow. Yet it … Read more