Aqara’s Presence Sensor FP2 adds sleep tracking
The innovative Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 that debuted at CES 2023 is getting three significant new features that could make it more useful and more effective as a smart home sensor. Sleep Monitoring Mode, AI Person Detection, and People Counting are all coming to the Wi-Fi sensor, which is one of the first to use…
Binance’s Waning Market Share
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by market volume, has seen its spot market share gradually decline over the year as the company faced an array of charges from regulators that eventually claimed its founder and CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. According to numbers provided by CCData, Binance’s market share so far in December was just…
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2023
Books introducing emerging areas of science, as well as new looks at familiar fields, were among the Science News staff’s favorite science reads this year. Did we overlook your favorite? Let us know at feedback@sciencenews.org. BlightEmily MonossonW.W. Norton & Co., $28.95 HBO’s The Last of Us introduced many people to the dangers of fungi. But…
Best cheap AirPods deals and sales for December 2023
If you know where to look, there are often some great discounts available on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Since Apple launched the third-gen AirPods toward the end of 2021, we’ve seen the starting price of the second-gen, entry-level model slowly dip to around $100. And now that the second-gen AirPods Pro has been on the market…
Coinbase (COIN) Debuts Digital-First Capital Platform ‘Project Diamond’ Built on Base
“Tokenization is an important first step, but the natural conclusion is a transition to digitally native assets,” Shaun Martinak, head of infrastructure development, Coinbase Asset Management, said in an email. “Instead of tokenizing off-chain assets, this digitally-native debt instrument was created and matured fully on-chain, with an automated lifecycle that takes full advantage of next-generation…
Closing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices | MIT News
Photolithography involves manipulating light to precisely etch features onto a surface, and is commonly used to fabricate computer chips and optical devices like lenses. But tiny deviations during the manufacturing process often cause these devices to fall short of their designers’ intentions. To help close this design-to-manufacturing gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University…
Landscape Explorer shows how much the American West has changed
With the click of a mouse, a new mapping tool shows how places in the American West have changed over the last 70 years. With just a Web browser, anyone can open Landscape Explorer, which will pull up a modern Google map of the United States beside a black-and-white aerial image of the western states…
Meta’s AI for Ray-Ban smart glasses can identify objects and translate languages
Meta is finally going to let people try its splashiest AI features for the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, though in an early access test to start. Today, Meta announced that it’s going to start rolling out its multimodal AI features that can tell you about things Meta’s AI assistant can see and hear through the…
SEC Hasn’t Met Legal Requirements to Sue, Binance Says in Latest Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit
Binance and Zhao, more commonly known as “CZ,” filed a reply to the SEC, alongside Binance.US, which submitted its own separate, but similar, filing arguing that the SEC did not show that the exchanges’ U.S. customers had any contracts that would meet the definition of an “investment contract,” or that other elements of the Supreme…
Why do some lizards and snakes have horns?
Horns aren’t just for rhinos and cattle. A fair number of snake and lizard species have heads adorned with spiky, scaly accessories. But how the reptiles snag food may determine whether having horns is an asset or a liability. The overwhelming majority of horned lizard and snake species lie in wait and ambush their prey…