New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Source OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to...
iOS 18.3 fixes an annoying Calculator app problem on iPhone
Apple has just released iOS 18.3. The release isn’t the most feature-packed, but it does come with some small AI updates and also something for the math crowd. There’s a key Calculator app fix that’s been asked for often and that iOS 18.3 deliver...
iOS 18.3: Here are Apple’s full release notes
As we reported earlier, iOS 18.3 is now available to everyone. While we’ve already gone in-depth on everything new, head below for the full details from Apple on the release notes for iOS 18.3 more…
IYKYK: The secret language of memes
Dr. Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar and a lover of words. She is the host of Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and a professor of writing and rhetoric at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. You can find her at @eri...
