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What’s in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you’re Waymo.For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute “brain” housed in the trunk of its robotaxis, including chip architecture, processor specs, and internal component details. The details, published in a blog post today, also includes a list of hardware suppliers that Waymo uses to build the computers that power its driverless fleet.It’s a revealing look at the world’s leading player in driverless technology. Waymo…

We’ve received reports of a small percentage of Framework Laptop 13 7040 Series BIOS updates resulting in non-bootable boards and are investigating the root cause of the issue. In the meantime, in addition to replacing in-warranty Mainboards, we are making exceptions for out-of-warranty replacements where we can confirm a stable-release BIOS update caused the board to become non-bootable.In parallel to this, we’re introducing “Crisis Recovery Mode” BIOS functionality to enable a path for failed updates to be directly recoverable. Our latest Framework Desktop BIOS release includes this functionality, and we are actively bringing it to Framework Laptop 12, 13, and…

Google’s new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you’re interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then, it can only glow one of five colors!This is a massive wasted opportunity for a feature that used to be so beloved on older Android phones, so developers have wasted no time doing what Google won’t.X user Dhananjay_Tech developed a new app called HiLight Studio, which lets you do practically…

Well, it’s about time. Sennheiser has bucked the trend for wireless earbuds becoming e-waste once their batteries expire by giving suitably equipped listeners the ability to replace them when the time comes. The new Momentum True Wireless 5 also introduce an all-new design, support for lossless playback and head-tracking spatial sound. Each earbud has been sculpted into a shape that 73% of testers was more comfortable than the outgoing pair. They slot into a charging case that’s narrower and has a more pocket-friendly, with a low-friction finish. I love the clean lines and that there’s no giveaway these are some…

Every car I test, whether it’s an EV or Aston Martin, now arrives wireless CarPlay (some even come with CarPlay Ultra). The press releases always makes a big deal of it. If you’re buying a car, the salespeople mention it before they mention the boot space. And every single time, after a week of trying it out, I dig my trusty USB-C cable back out of the glovebox. I’m not a luddite about this like I am about somethings (let’s bring back physical buttons and proper doorhandles, amirite?) I like wireless everything else – headphones, speakers, err, keyboards… the lot.…

Amazon’s speedy drone delivery service will soon reach 500 cities across the US — but that might just mean there are more pools to drop packages into. On Wednesday, ABC7 News Bay Area shared a video showing an Amazon delivery drone hovering over a customer’s pool in Texas, before opening its hatch and plopping the package directly into the water.This isn’t the first time Amazon’s drones have delivered soggy packages. A video shared last July shows a Prime Air drone dropping a package right next to a customer’s pool in Arizona, but air sent downward by the drone’s propellers blew…

Is Amp Crash a guitar amp or a guitar pedal? Yes.Death By Audio’s latest is, in fact, both. While it’s in a guitar pedal enclosure, Amp Crash is actually a tiny 3-watt amp hooked up to a 2-inch speaker. You can even connect an external speaker if you want. This isn’t a digital re-creation of a classic Fender or Marshall like you might get from a Universal Audio amp sim pedal or a Neural DSP Cortex. This is an actual amp with an original design that moves air.The tone you get out of this tiny thing is, unsurprisingly, harsh and…

Apple is reportedly planning to bring back the well-liked and sought-after ceramic material option when the Apple Watch Series 12 is announced next month. The leaker Kosutami (via 9to5Mac) reckons Apple is planning on bringing back the material last used in an Apple Watch Series 5 ‘Edition’ that had a niche fan following, but was ultimately dropped by Apple the following year. The last ‘Edition’ was released way back in 2019. You might even call it retro tech! The highly-polished version was notorious for its scratch resistance and the attractive and unique all-white design still looked great years after Apple…

Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their routers into motion sensors. Many people reacted with fear and anger.“I am not enabling this. I am also seriously considering replacing my leased gateway with my own equipment, because a device I do not control sitting in my living room measuring the motion of my family is not a feature I asked for,” wrote one customer on the r/Comcast subreddit Some concerns stem from a clause on the support page for the feature, called WiFi Motion, which says Comcast might share…

Even if you love DJI’s drones and cameras, you might not love the company’s bloated closed-source apps that phone home to its cloud servers. But they’re the only way to easily review, manage, and wirelessly download your pocket camera’s footage on the go.Osmosis, a free open-source app built by DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe (with help from Claude) is an attempt to change that. By reverse engineering the protocol DJI’s cameras use to talk to the official Osmo app, he built his own — which not only lets you download files, but also see thumbnails, stream low-res previews, trim clips down…

Apple will not be launching a new set of AirPods earbuds equipped with cameras during the iPhone launch event likely to take place next month. After a video demonstrating the unannounced product appeared within the macOS 27 release candidate earlier this week, hopes were raised for a rapid release of the next-generation of AirPods Pro. While it seems certain Apple is indeed gearing up for launch, it won’t be until 2027 according to in-the-know Apple watcher Mark Gurman. The Bloomberg reporter is sticking with his original prediction, saying the earbuds release “remains on track for 2027.” Gurman was reiterating his…

You might associate Amazon with Alexa or its Prime Video streaming service, rather than rockets and satellites. It doesn’t matter what you think, though. Because it’s true. Amazon is – rather rapidly – building a new internet network in space. It’s called Amazon Leo, and it is, in essence, Amazon’s answer to Starlink – Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet service. Like Starlink, rather than relying on fibre cables, phone lines or nearby mobile towers, Leo uses satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth to provide an internet connection. That’s more than a little useful in rural and remote areas where…