NitroFix wants to use electricity to make ammonia without the pollution
Ammonia may conjure thoughts of off odors, but the world is entirely dependent on the smelly stuff as a fertilizer and for use in myriad other industries. Problem is, nearly all the ammonia produced today is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Making the compound releases more than 450 million metri
Apple Intelligence is coming to the EU in April 2025
Remember when Apple blamed EU tech rules — and more specifically the Digital Markets Act — to justify the fact that Apple Intelligence wouldn't be available in the European Union? Maybe that was just an attempt to turn EU users against their regulators as Apple Intelligence is coming to the
Apple updates iMac with M4 Chip, 16GB RAM starting at $1,299
Apple kicked off “Mac week” by unveiling a refresh to its perennial favorite all-in-one, the iMac. The big news here is the addition of the newish M4 chip, which the company says is 2x more powerful than the original M1 iMac. The new desktop notably arrives alongside the general availability of
Apple Intelligence goes live with iOS 18.1 update
Apple on Monday confirmed the general availability of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. The point update is most notable for its inclusion of the first batch of Apple Intelligence features, which the company announced at WWDC back in June.
However, only select Apple devices are equipp
Google expands AI Overviews in Search to more than 100 countries
Google Search’s AI Overviews, which display a snapshot of information at the top of the results page, are beginning to roll out in more than 100 countries and territories, the company announced on Monday.
Google first launched the feature in the United States in May before slowly rolling ou
Apple's Magic Mouse, Keyboard, and Trackpad finally get USB-C
Apple's EU-mandated transition from Lightning to USB-C has already affected most of its hardware. There have been a few stragglers, however. Near the top of the list are its desktop accessories, the Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad. On Monday, the company finally addressed the is
Generative AI could cause 10 billion iPhones’ worth of e-waste per year by 2030
The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of more than 10 billion iPhones per year by 2030, researchers project.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers from Cambridge University and the Chines
Stacklok donates its Minder supply chain security project to the OpenSSF
Stacklok, the open source software supply chain company founded by Kubernetes co-creator Craig McLuckie and Sigstore creator Luke Hinds, is donating Minder, one of its key projects, to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Minder helps development teams set up a system of proactive checks
How to enable Apple Intelligence on your iPhone
Apple is finally releasing some of the Apple Intelligence features it announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
After releasing Apple Intelligence features in developer beta and then public beta over the last few months, the company has released these features through iOS 18.1 to a
Police operation claims takedown of prolific Redline and Meta password stealers
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies say they have disrupted the operations of two prolific infostealers that stole the sensitive data of millions of people.
The Dutch National Police, who led the so-called “Operation Magnus” takedown, reports it gained “full access”
Read AI raises $50M to capitalize on strong demand for its AI summary bot
Now that we have so many startups offering AI bots that can do everything from listening to your meetings and transcribing them, to taking notes and surfacing insights, companies in the space are being forced to differentiate themselves by offering additional feature sets and integrations.
One suc
Remote ropes in Carta to simplify equity grants for distributed teams
A few months after acquiring equity management company Easop, Remote, an HR platform for managing geographically distributed teams, is doubling down on its focus on managing equity compensation with a new product, Remote Equity.
Remote already makes it easy for companies to work with talent all ar
We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI
There’s finally an “official” definition of open source AI.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, today released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID). The product of several
Elon Musk’s xAI adds image understanding capabilities to Grok
Elon Musk-owned xAI has added image-understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. This means that paid users on his social platform X, who have access to the AI chatbot, can upload an image and ask the AI questions about it.
An xAI employee and the official @grok handle posted to X about the up