Author: Wes Davis

In a new Project Taara blog post, Alphabet says it transmitted data at 10Gbps from one Taara chip to another, using only light beamed from the chip’s “hundreds” of software-controlled light emitters — an improvement on the mechanical beam-directing technique used by its traffic light-sized Taara Lightbridge. Derived from Alphabet’s failed balloon-based internet project, Project Taara could enable “10, if not 100 times more bandwidth” than a typical Starlink antenna, Taara lead Mahesh Krishnaswamy tells Wired. [Link: Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light | https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-google-taara-chip-internet-by-light/ | wired.com]

Your dusty old Echo Dots are stuck with normal Alexa.

AI comes to local file search on Copilot Plus PCs.

The feature, which was spotted by MacRumors in the second iOS 18.2 developer beta, uses Live Activities, so you’ll also see Safari download progress in the Dynamic Island (if you have an iPhone 14 Pro or later). Now give me this but for App Store downloads! The iOS 18.2 update is expected to come in December.

They call me mellow yellow.

The Internet Archive’s fight against hackers continues.

The Mac Mini might be almost pocketable, soon.

Or if it does, then it’s very well hidden. There’s no 3.5mm audio port apparent in any of the images shared in a South Korean forum post that UploadVR spotted yesterday. Click through the gallery below to see more, including pictures of the buttons (might one of those be that rumored Action Button?)

Get a load of iFixit’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold X-rays.

Apple Intelligence called for a memory boost in iPhones.