Pawport’s indoor smart door with a wood finish. | Image: Pawport The Pawport might be the most elaborate way to let your dog enter and exit your home. The smart dog door connects to a Bluetooth tag that straps to your dog’s collar. When your dog approaches, its double doors swing open to let your … Read more
The Lifx Luna Smart Lamp offers user-controlled colors. | Photo: Lifx Smart lighting brand Lifx is introducing its first smart lamp at CES 2025: the Lifx Luna. It uses Matter over Wi-Fi, so it’ll integrate with an existing smart home setup easily — or it’s a low-stakes way to add some smarts to your non-smart … Read more
The Vision Prestige smart lock has two cameras: a 2K one to stream a view of your front door to the back of the lock and an infrared camera it uses for facial recognition unlocking. | Image: Lockly Lockly is one of the more innovative smart lock makers. Last year at CES, the company debuted … Read more
Investors are boosting Bitcoin allocations as a hedge against geopolitical uncertainty, the bank said.
Let’s take a moment to think about learning to drive. Any one of us can learn the basic principles of driving from just a few demonstrations, and once we understand concepts like steering, acceleration, and braking, we can apply those skills to any car — from a compact sedan to a large truck. With these … Read more
The creators behind the Bird Buddy smart feeder have taken the wraps off a camera that keeps tabs on the activity in your garden, whether it’s a seed sprouting or a bee visiting one of your flowers. The Petal camera is launching under new Wonder branding, and features a bendable stem alongside a universal clip … Read more
The 2024 Kindle Scribe has a new look and new features, but you can stick to the older model if you already have one. Amazon released a new version of its Kindle Scribe in October with an improved pen and new AI-powered writing features. It’s appropriately Amazon’s most expensive Kindle by far, but thankfully, you … Read more
JavaScript is currently one of the most popular programming languages, according to many platforms. However, does popularity equate to being the most advanced or beloved language? It lacks certain constructs that are considered integral parts of other languages, such as an extensive standard library, immutability, and macros. But there is one detail that, in my … Read more
The U.K’s competition authority already has a lot on its plate in terms of tackling Big Tech’s growing reach across the technological spectrum, but closer to home it’s dealing with a different kind of anti-competitive threat — one it reckons AI is well-equipped to address. As per a Financial Times’ report this week, the Competition … Read more
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Yat Siu has seen a lot in his decade of investing in crypto as a venture capitalist. The Hong Kong-based venture studio and game developer Siu co-founded, Animoca Brands, has grown to be one of the most powerful names in Web3 culture, with data provider CoinGecko pegging the market cap of tokens issued by Animoca’s … Read more
Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro. | Image: Samsung Samsung has announced new Galaxy Book 5 Pro and 360 laptops featuring the NPU-packing (but not CoPilot Plus-qualifying) Arrow Lake Core Ultra processors Intel announced earlier today as an upgrade to the Lunar Lake-powered devices Samsung launched in September. Samsung says the new Book 5 Pro and … Read more
1. Introduction Many times, we need to back up certain claims we make in software development. More often than not, we need to show it very clearly to stakeholders, businesses, and management, the value of our claims. Many times we see a true value in changing some technology, and we see long-term benefits in doing … Read more
1. Introduction The concept of reactive programming can be traced way back to the mid-60s. It’s a declarative programming model or programming paradigm that is mainly concerned with the handling of asynchronous data streams and the propagation of data through transformations with certain determined orders of execution. The term was invented by Erik Meijer probably … Read more
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What do all of the crypto industry’s 2024 recap/2025 prediction reports have in common? And what are they all missing? For the sake of brevity and holiday cheer, this issue will round up a series of recently published crypto industry reports. Some of the reports look back at what happened in 2024, while others look … Read more
Digital asset prices may still see substantial gains before the market corrects, the analyst said.
Image: HDMI Forum The HDMI Forum is using CES — the annual showcase of all things home theater — to announce the new HDMI 2.2 specification. In a press release this morning, the trade association confirmed that the new spec will up total bandwidth significantly to a new high of 96Gbps. And yes, that means … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 6, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail publicly demonstrated their telegraph for the first time in 1838, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in 2016, … Read more
Qualcomm is making a move for the mid-range PC market with a new system-on-chip. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon X, the latest chip in its Snapdragon X Series of PC processors. The company claims that the chip, built on a 4nm fabrication process, delivers up to “multi-day” battery life … Read more
Seasons greetings, Hackers! Welcome to the third and final winners announcement, for the #bitcoin Writing Contest, presented by Rootstock and HackerNoon. What a ride it’s been! Since launching in May, the contest has seen developers, writers, Bitcoin maximalists, blockchain enthusiasts, and everyone in between tackle a range of creative and technical challenges centered around the … Read more