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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR A new light-based communications standard meant for Li-Fi technology has rolled out. The emerging wireless technology relies on infrared light instead of radio waves. It’s said that Li-Fi could offer speeds 100 times faster than current Wi-Fi. The next generation of Wi-Fi — Wi-Fi 7 — is coming soon, with Wi-Fi 7 routers …

Bloomberg: Sources: Dutch export control rules will bar ASML from maintaining, repairing, and providing spare parts for controlled equipment without government approval  —  – ASML will be limited in repairing restricted machines in China  — China’s production capabilities and capacity to be affected

The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag across the political divide.

Printers cannot be reformed. They must be destroyed, once and for all. Help Desk Strategy Editor Updated July 14, 2023 at 12:58 p.m. EDT|Published July 14, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. EDT (Illustration by Elena Lacey/The Washington Post; Monique Woo/TWP; iStock) Comment on this storyComment This article is a preview of The Tech Friend newsletter. Sign up here to get it …

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Nothing Phone 2 is a major step up for the fledgling company. With a good spec sheet and an eye-catching transparent design, Nothing is attracting the right attention from consumers and competition alike. How does the Nothing Phone 2 compare against the mid-range champion from Samsung, the Galaxy A54 5G? Are there enough …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta unveils CM3leon, an image generation transformer model requiring five times less compute and a smaller training dataset than past transformer-based methods  —  Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of …

The new Apple TV+ series Silo is set in a massive underground complex full of mystery and danger. Screenwriter Rafael Jordan was immediately gripped by the concept of the show. “When I saw the initial marketing, I was very excited for it, because I just love bunkers,” Jordan says in Episode 545 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. …

These days ads and subscription services seem to be seeping into every nook and cranny of the digital space. At least we were safe from those annoyances when using our appliances. But even that safe haven may be gone once LG starts enacting its new business strategy. As part of an initiative to increase global annual revenue from $51 billion …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter plans to reduce DM spam with a setting that moves messages from verified users you don’t follow back to the Message Request inbox instead of main inbox  —  As Twitter fends off new competition from Instagram Threads, the company today announced a change designed to cut down on spam in users’ inboxes.

That expression doesn’t look nice, but at least now the energy calculation is in terms of things that we actually know or can estimate. All we need to do is convert our estimates from imperial units to metric and we are all set. Using a wave traveling at 20 miles per hour, with these estimations I get a wave energy …