Is a glassy tech product launch complete without a destructive JerryRigEverything video?
He highlights a big difference between Apple’s smartphones and the Vision Pro: The front cover succumbs to scratches at a Mohs hardness level of 3 (The iPhone 15 Pro’s glass screen scratches at 6). That’s because, as iFixit also pointed out over the weekend, the Vision Pro’s glass sits under a plastic layer.
Apple doesn’t seem to have posted this ad in any of the usual channels — one X user says they spotted it on Snapchat.
Anyway, this person had a good idea picking Napoleon to watch, considering its 2-hour-and-38-minute runtime is more or less the same as the the Vision Pro battery pack’s.
Leaked Nothing Phone 2A renders from OnLeaks apparently weren’t for real, despite showing two vertically aligned cameras and a design that hints at its innards.
Shortly after the leak was published, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis posted a cryptic “...” and a few days later, SmartPrix retracted the leak.
Correction February 12th, 11:08AM ET: SmartPrix and OnLeaks now say this leaked photo wasn’t accurate.
Pop culture predicted a lot about 1997 that didn’t happen. The Terminator’s Skynet didn’t become self-aware and nuke the world. Snake Plissken didn’t sneak into a bleak, walled-off New York City to rescue the President as Escape From New York imagined.
And Apple didn’t release the Vista Mac 2 — the VR glasses it lightheartedly predicted in this goofy Apple User Group Connection video, and that I now demand a Vision Pro mod of.
Axon, the company that provides most police body cameras and stores their recordings, holds over 100 petabytes of footage, according to ProPublica.
Some departments are reportedly turning to AI to find patterns in the footage. Washington State University researchers and Truleo, a company that uses AI for body cam audio analysis, each found officer behaviors that lead to violence. The story quotes Truleo co-founder Anthony Tassone:
“There are certain officers who don’t introduce themselves, they interrupt people, and they don’t give explanations. They just do a lot of command, command, command, command, command,”
[ProPublica]
That’s how Gladys Anderson describes living with noise from a crypto mine that was built by her Arkansas home, in a story published today in The New York Times.
The noise prompted her and almost two dozen others to sue the site’s owners in July. The suit alleges they suffer issues like anxiety and high blood pressure because of noise from the cooling fans necessary for the power-hungry computing that crypto mining demands.
Linux fans and regular macOS Terminal users are more likely than anyone to be familiar with the “sudo” command. Short for “superuser do,” it tells your system to elevate your privileges to root access when you’re bopping around your system using command line — that is, text-only — control.
Bleeping Computer writes that this concept is coming to Windows Server 2025, according to a newly-leaked preview build reported by Windows Latest. Wild times.
Update February 4th, 2024, 4:11PM ET: Added Windows Latest link.
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iFixit’s Charlie Sorrel wrote up a deeper dive blog to complement the teardown video the repair experts published yesterday. This is the most detailed photography of the Vision Pro’s bits and bobs we’ve seen online so far.
iFixit says it has “more detail on the lens system and silicon coming in a few days.”
