Category: Design

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Blast from the past? In 1998, Buffalo Japan introduced the “skeleton hard disk,” a drive designed to showcase its inner workings. To mark its 50th anniversary, the company is releasing an updated version of the original HDD. Priced at 100,000 yen...

The votes are in and residents of a small swath of southern Texas are in favor of Starbase becoming a real city. The newly-designated city is home to SpaceX and many of its employees, and it’s where Elon Musk’s company builds rocket engines, launches spacecraft and manufactures other space-related tech. According to the final vote...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! The proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft to facilitate remote connections to Windows machines contains an outstanding security flaw. However, Microsoft has stated that it has no plans to fix the issue, as doing so would break compatibility with many applications....

Lyft is rolling out a new service called Lyft Silver that’s specifically designed to give aging and elderly people a way to get around when driving isn’t an option. The basic pitch is that while getting rides from friends and family is great, it can limit the sense of independence an elderly person has. According...

AI models are riddled with culturally specific biases. A new data set, called SHADES, is designed to help developers combat the problem by spotting harmful stereotypes and other kinds of discrimination that emerge in AI chatbot responses across a wide range of languages. Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at AI startup Hugging Face, led the...

The end-to-end encrypted communication app WhatsApp, used by roughly 3 billion people around the world, will roll out cloud-based AI capabilities in the coming weeks that are designed to preserve WhatsApp’s defining security and privacy guarantees while offering users access to message summarization and composition tools. Meta has been incorporating generative AI features across its...

If a Transformers toy existed for grown women, it would be Parallelle’s Traveller series of toiletry bags. Ribbed on the outside like Optimus Prime’s boots, the Traveller looks like a typical (albeit stylish) makeup bag on the outside, but peer inside and you’ll see a warren of different-sized pockets and loops and adjustable dividers. Unzip...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: The semiconductor industry is approaching a significant milestone as TSMC prepares to expand the physical scale of its chip packaging technology. At its recent North American Technology Symposium, the company detailed plans for a new generation of CoWoS...

Skip to content Image: Zodiac Labs Zodiac Labs is a name you might not know yet—but that’s about to change. For years, Zodiac Labs’ founders have operated behind the scenes—designing and building the esport arenas that fuel competitive collegiate esports programs across the country. Now, they are stepping out of the shadows and into the...

Image: Razer I’m a big fan of gaming mice for productivity applications thanks to their deep customization options. Razer has tried to expand into office-style devices before, but with mixed results. Its second stab at the space includes two new mouse designs, including its first vertical mouse. Both the Pro Click V2 and Pro Click...