Apple’s AirPods are notorious for becoming e-waste when their batteries no longer hold a charge thanks to a design that makes them extremely hard to repair, but not impossible to repair, thanks to the efforts of Swiss hardware hacker Ken Pillonel who’s shared his solutions online.
Apple Settles Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit for $50 Million, Denies Allegations of Wrongdoing
Posted in: Today's ChiliApple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit relating to the Butterfly keyboard found in various MacBook models between 2015 and 2019. The customers who sued Apple alleged the company sold laptops with defective keyboard mechanisms that were unresponsive, felt sticky, or caused characters to…
Google Wants to Test Augmented Reality Glasses in Public—What Could Go Wrong?
Posted in: Today's ChiliLess than a foot of water currently stands between European business as usual and a German supply chain crisis. Amid a record-breaking, continent-wide heat wave, the Rhine river has dropped to levels so low, that shipping on the waterway may soon become economically untenable or even impossible.
Amazon is hosting its annual Alexa developers annual conference, called Alexa Live, today. The event will introduce a heaping of new APIs for developers to build with, meaning new abilities coming to an Echo speaker or smart display near you. Many of the tools being introduced are there to drive the idea of Amazon’s…
A new investigation from the Hollywood Reporter has uncovered the kind of compensation that character creators are receiving from Marvel, and the figures are staggeringly low—with the co-creator of Black Widow’s breakout character Yelena Belova, played by Florence Pugh, serving as just one example.
Like millions of people around the world, Valve’s Steam Deck console is struggling to beat the heat. As temperatures reach record-breaking highs across Europe, the company warned customers that its handheld console will throttle, or slow down, when it gets too hot.
The Targaryen family had a rough time of it in Game of Thrones, but they never had to fight each other. But that’s exactly what will happen in House of the Dragon, HBO’s prequel to the hit fantasy series, which depicts the civil war which erupted in Westeros 200 years in the past over the rule of the Seven…
GOP senators are dodging the question of whether to codify protections for marriage equality following the Supreme Court ruling overturning abortion rights.
It's Really Hot Everywhere
Posted in: Today's ChiliIt’s summertime in the Global North, which already comes with increased temperatures. But as heatwaves sweep across different parts of the globe, heightened temperatures are wreaking havoc across the world.