August 23, 2023 WhatsApp lets you create groups without naming them WhatsApp will now let you create small groups without first naming them. Mark Zuckerberg announced the new feature in a Facebook post (viaTechCrunch). You…
August 23, 2023 IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes Enlarge / COBOL 73, as seen (inside Windows) in the IRS’s Austin, Texas, offices in 2022. (credit: Washington Post / Getty Images) There are…
August 23, 2023 X-Ray Analysis of Pompeii Victims’ Bones Suggest They Suffocated to Death Researchers studying the remains of six individuals from Pompeii concluded they asphyxiated during the volcanic eruption that doomed the town nearly 2,000 years ago….
August 23, 2023 Malaysian Cave Art Appears to Depict Colonial-Era Conflicts Researchers recently dated charcoal drawings in Borneo’s Gua Sireh Cave to around the 18th century CE, giving a colonial context to the artwork. Read…
August 23, 2023 Bitstamp halts ETH staking in the United States The crypto exchange is ending staking services for U.S.-based users on Sep. 25; the decision came a few weeks after Bitstamp halted trading for…
August 23, 2023 IBM has a new solution to get your business off COBOL One for the ancient immortal computing demons still among us: COBOL, one of the first programming languages to fall into favor, but long succeeded…
August 23, 2023 New Asahi Linux Mac GPU drivers just did something even Apple couldn’t manage Fans of using Linux on their Mac just got a major boost, especially if they also like to play their games that way as…
August 23, 2023 One of Star Wars’ Most Influential Games Is Getting Remastered Dark Forces is a classic game for a reason—not just a great licensed game that told a new, original story in a beloved franchise,…
August 23, 2023 Bitcoin: Short-term holders remain underwater Bitcoin’s SOPR for its short-term holders fell below 1 following last week’s price decline. This meant that these investors have since traded at a…
August 23, 2023 University of California BCI study enables paralyzed woman to ‘speak’ through a digital avatar Dr. Mario did not prepare us for this. In a pioneering effort, researchers from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, in partnership with Edinburgh-based…