Photo by James Bareham / The Verge A motorcyclist in Draper, Utah, was killed early Sunday morning when a Tesla driver using Autopilot slammed into the rear of his bike. It is the latest crash involving Tesla’s advanced driver-assist system to draw scrutiny from federal investigators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: TikTok plans to give “selected researchers” access to its platform and moderation system, helping them “assess content and trends or conducts tests” — The move comes hours after a report reveals TikTok’s efforts to distance itself from China
Read MoreGTA V was released almost nine years ago. | Image: Rockstar Grand Theft Auto VI, the next entry in Rockstar’s blockbuster open-world franchise, will reportedly be the first to let you play as a female character in its story mode. That’s according to a new report from Bloomberg, which just published a lengthy feature on
Read MoreHere we go again. Just when rumors about Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs’ power consumption had returned to sanity, now they’re going in the opposite direction. This time, it’s rumored Nvidia has a moonshot GPU waiting in the wings. Its job is simple: make sure AMD doesn’t take the top-speed crown this generation. This will be a
Read More(Photo: Charles Deluvio/Unsplash)In a last-ditch effort to avoid criminal prosecution, Uber has admitted to concealing a massive data breach from six years ago. The breach occurred in October 2016 when a group of hackers used stolen credentials to obtain an internal access key, which they then used to gain hold of approximately 57 million user
Read MoreCredit: Mika Baumeister / Unsplash Google Maps has added new features in its latest update, including a piece of its immersive view package. The most visual update is new 3D aerial viewpoints of over 100 major global landmarks. Other feature additions include improved cycling features and sharing location notifications. Back at Google I/O 2022 in
Read MoreMinecraft Super Duper Graphics Pack. Image by Microsoft. Minecraft developer Mojang announced earlier this week that it was banning blockchain and NFT technology from the popular block-based game. The general response from the community has been positive, but the purveyors of NFTs are feeling the sting. NFT Worlds, which has made a business of selling
Read More(Photo: Bram Van Oost/Unsplash)In a major blow to anyone who wants their car to actually have its advertised features, all new Teslas will require a paid subscription to access navigation and other features after the first eight years. Up until this summer, all Teslas came with Standard Connectivity, which drivers could enjoy throughout the lifetime
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Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Madrid-based Seedtag, which offers a cookie-less contextual advertising engine to brands, raised €250M from Advent, following a ~€39M Series B in September 2021 — Having already championed Europe and Latin America with its cookie-less proprietary machine-learning contextual …
Read MoreAaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft asks Google, Oracle, and others to help pressure the US into spreading its cloud spending across more services, challenging AWS’ dominance — Software companies trying to get the U.S. to share its cloud-spending more widely by embracing multicloud approach
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, let’s talk about a settled question that Meta has decided to re-open: what should the company do about misinformation related to COVID-19? Since the earliest days of the pandemic, Meta has sought to remove false claims about the disease from Facebook and Instagram. And for just as
Read MoreRStudio is changing its corporate name to Posit, signaling the company’s plans to expand its focus beyond R to include users of Python and Visual Studio Code. The public announcement came this morning at the company’s annual user conference in Washington, D.C. The company has been stressing that its commercial products are “bilingual” for both
Read MoreJason Schreier / Bloomberg: Interviews with 20+ people describe GTA developer Rockstar’s attempts to change its male-heavy workplace culture, starting in 2018, after complaints and burnout — In the summer of 2020, after a police officer killed George Floyd, Rockstar Games quietly shelved a mode of play it had planned …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreGuillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. | Image: Netflix After some teasing on Twitter, Netflix has released the latest trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, showing a dark and beautiful rendition of the classic tale — with the gorgeous attention to detail the director is known for. We first got a glimpse at the stop-motion film through
Read MoreThe Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Ek says Spotify plans to reduce the pace of hiring by 25% as “things could get worse”; Spotify’s stock rises 10%+ — As the music streaming giant’s stock jumps, CEO Daniel Ek addresses macro-economic challenges, saying “only the prepared survive, and we’re preparing as if things could get worse.”
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats, Hulu will begin accepting political issue and candidate ads, according to a new report from Axios on Wednesday. Disney, a majority owner of Hulu, made the decision amid a controversy over the streaming platform’s decision to ban ads discussing abortion, gun
Read MoreRy Crist / CNET: Like Amazon’s Ring, Google’s Nest will comply with emergency US law enforcement requests for footage without a warrant or explicit user consent — The law lets Ring and Google share user footage with police during emergencies without consent and without warrants. Here’s everything you should know.
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Read MoreApple and headphone-maker Koss have settled a patent dispute relating to the wireless technology that powers AirPods and Beats accessories.
Read MoreLab-grown meat seems to be everywhere these days. Last year, cultured meat and seafood companies raised $1.38 billion in investment, and more and more startups are popping up to develop their own products. A lot of people are betting that cultured meat is part of the future of food — and we wanted to find
Read MoreEverything is supposedly a “public health” issue in the US, but this buzzword does little to address real challenges.
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