As we are long past the stage of AI hype, it’s becoming apparent that the technology’s biggest issues revolve around gaining profits rather than figuring out how to make it useful. With the growing number of AI experts and machine learning services, AI is capable of providing immense value for many organizations. However, when it
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: OpenAI unveils DALL-E 2, the successor to its text-to-image neural network, built using its CLIP language model and available to researchers in preview — Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
Read MoreSamantha Cole / VICE: Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple’s AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners — Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. — Samantha Cole
Read MoreElizabeth Holmes as Wanda Maximoff in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. | Marvel Studios Though Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ earliest trailer strongly implied that a Stephen Strange variant is going to be the movie’s big bad, the Scarlet Witch’s presence in the story and the way that WandaVision came to
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Read MoreSeverance stars Adam Scott as a worker drone who surgically divides his work and home personalities | Apple Severance, the creepy Apple TV Plus drama about workers who find work-life balance by surgically altering their brains, has been renewed for a second season, the streamer announced Wednesday. The show starring Adam Scott as Mark S.,
Read MoreA decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades attempted to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. In Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone, Dieter Bohn talks to the visionaries at Handspring
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is adding a new “step-by-step guided tour” of privacy and security settings in Chrome to sift through the many available controls, the company announced Wednesday. The new guide will include separate pages about some settings, each containing descriptions of what happens when a feature is turned on.
Read MoreGame in comfort with the HyperX Cloud II headphones, now in pink. I’m at my desk for a good chunk of the day for work during most of the week. To help me tune things out and focus on what I need to do, I often wear headphones and just listen to my favorite music.
Read MoreEmma Agyemang / Financial Times: The SEC sides with Amazon shareholders asking for a vote on greater tax disclosures, one of the first times the regulator has granted such a request — US regulator decides issue of disclosure can be put to shareholder vote after institutional pressure — Amazon investors who want the tech giant
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Discounts don’t usually arrive quickly for the latest Apple tech, but you can enjoy a steep price cut on Apple’s latest iPad Air, which has the M1 processor and a generous 256GB of storage. It normally costs $749 for that tablet configuration, but Walmart and Amazon are
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Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: London-based Fidel API, which offers identity, data, and payments tools, raises a $65M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its total funding to $88M — Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Ask anyone with a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and they’ll probably be able to attest that AirDrop is often a lifesaver. The ability to wirelessly and easily transfer files between Apple devices takes the friction out of sharing. You don’t have to figure out how to email
Read MoreCredit: PC Mag OnePlus has now shared the first official image of the OnePlus Nord N20. The company has also shared some official specs. The phone will launch at some point in April 2022. Now that OnePlus has finally gotten the OnePlus 10 Pro out of the way, it’s time to move on to the
Read MoreDavid Uberti / Wall Street Journal: The Ronin Network hackers have so far moved ~$32M of the $600M+ stolen funds, highlighting how the blockchain’s ledger makes tracking money laundering easier — Thieves netting massive sums in cybercrime have limited options for laundering the funds — Many eyes in the crypto world …
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Read MoreAlthough every electrical grid begins with the production of electricity, there are times when storing this power in some form instead of using it immediately is highly convenient. Today’s battery-powered gadgets are an obvious example of such time-shifting, but energy storage plays a major role on the grid itself, too, whether in electrochemical, mechanical or
Read MoreThe OnePlus 10 Pro aims to challenge the best in flagship photography with its second-generation “Hasselblad Camera for Mobile” system. The company makes bold claims about the new camera, particularly concerning its 10-bit “billion color solution” and new 150-degree ultrawide camera. We’ve made our initial judgment about the phone and its general camera performance in
Read More“It has been a long road bringing ‘Severance’ to television. I first read Dan’s pilot over five years ago. It has always been a multi-season story, and I’m really happy we get to continue it.” What you need to know Apple has confirmed that ‘Severance’ is getting a second season. The workplace thriller is fast-becoming
Read MoreDALL-E 2 results for “Teddy bears mixing sparkling chemicals as mad scientists, steampunk.” | OpenAI Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program. DALL-E 2 features a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of the original system, which produces pictures depicting descriptions written by users. It also includes new
Read MoreTiffany Hsu / New York Times: Pinterest will ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, as searches about sustainability rise on the service — The virtual pinboard service will remove content that denies climate change after also blocking ads about politics, weight loss and anti-vaccine sentiment.
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Read More“Of the 150 total police reports mentioning AirTags, in 50 cases women called the police because they started getting notifications that their whereabouts were being tracked by an AirTag they didn’t own.” What you need to know Motherboard has carried out analysis of police records pertaining to AirTags. 50 out of 150 incidents that mentioned
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