Smart displays can do a lot, but even in the busiest households, they tend to sit unused for long stretches of time. You can opt to have most displays show various clock faces or famous artworks while they're idle, but

It's that time of year again: Spotify Wrapped is back. Providing a playlist of your own personal greatest hits of the previous 12 months, Wrapped has fun features and provides interesting insights into your listening habits. As long as you

"Red Hat is going to do away with the X.Org server and support Wayland and XWayland for apps that currently (or only) run on X11," writes Slashdot reader motang. Red Hat's Carlos Soriano Sanchez confirmed on the Red Hat blog:

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: As the host of global climate talks that begin this week, the United Arab Emirates is expected to play a central role in forging an agreement to move the

Combustors that drive propulsion systems are often volumetric in nature, typically in the form of cylinders, and convert chemical to thermal and mechanical energy through oxidation of fuels. This deflagrating combustion approach is now beginning to be challenged by detonation-based

British airline Virgin Atlantic on Tuesday piloted the first long-haul flight powered entirely by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), an event environmental groups labeled "greenwashing".

Advertising content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is perceived as being of higher quality than content produced by human experts, according to a new research paper in Judgment and Decision Making.

An Austrian activist group filed a complaint against tech giant Meta on Tuesday arguing that the firm's scheme allowing Europeans to pay to opt out of data sharing was illegal.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Who censored Robert De Niro? The "Killers of the Flower Moon" actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday's Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage he discovered that the speech

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Hackers who compromised Okta's customer support system stole data from all of the cybersecurity firm's customer support users, Okta said in a letter to clients Tuesday, a far greater incursion than the

According to Reuters, Unity Software will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce as part of a company "reset." It will also end an agreement with Peter Jackson's visual effects company Weta FX. From the report: Tuesday's announcement

Enlarge / The Amazon Q logo. (credit: Amazon)On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled Amazon Q, an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that is tailored for corporate environments. Developed by Amazon Web Services

Enlarge / Kaboom! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)Game engine-maker Unity has announced plans to lay off 265 workers—or just under 4% of its roughly 7,000-person workforce—as it winds down

The tech industry has largely recovered from the downturn, but Silicon Valley learned a long-lasting lesson: how to do more with less. From a report: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms have been cutting dozens or a few hundred employees