An AI Filter Revealed My Secret Self
Yes, they’re problematic. They can also reflect an alternate reality that feels eerily close to the truth.
Read MoreYes, they’re problematic. They can also reflect an alternate reality that feels eerily close to the truth.
Read MoreApple’s second take on the HomePod doesn’t stray far from the original, but it’s better all around. Continue reading…
Read MoreSchlage’s new smart lever lock is designed to secure interior and other single-hole doors. | Image: Schlage Schlage has a new smart lock, but it’s not for your front door. The $309.99 Schlage Encode Smart WiFi Lever lock is coming this spring and is designed for doors with a single hole and no deadbolt. These
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes sustainable, modular consumer electronics, raised €49M in “growth capital”, bringing its total funding to ~€86.6M — Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes modular and — the claim is — more sustainable …
Read MoreParmy Olson / Bloomberg: EU Commission changes, triggered by human rights group ICCL, mean regulators in Ireland and elsewhere will report six times a year on GDPR, violations, and more — It’s well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of
Read MoreOld rivals Red Hat and Oracle have teamed up for RHEL-based virtual machines running in Oracle’s OCI service.
Read MoreSure, every influencer owns these buds. They’re still pretty great.
Read MoreA few weeks ago at CES, we were surprised by the paucity of PCIe 5.0 drives at the show. The technology has been talked about for at least a year, it’s now supported by both AMD and Intel, and we, the speed-obsessed PC-building crowd, have our wallets out. Sadly, we were left to conclude that
Read MoreHaomiao Huang / Ars Technica: A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers — A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. — Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical.
Read MoreCredit: SmartPrix/Steve Hemmerstoffer New Nothing Ear 2 renders have appeared online. The renders show a similar design to the earlier Ear 1. The earbuds are also said to come with dynamic ANC and more. The Nothing Ear 1 was the first product by the new startup, and we thought the company delivered a great pair
Read MoreClearML, an open source MLops platform announced its new research report: “MLOps in 2023: What Does the Future Hold?” This study polled 200 machine learning decision-makers in the United States, examining key trends in machine learning and MLops (machine learning operations). Putting the potential vendor self-serving bias aside for now, ClearML’s study found that MLops
Read MoreSpotify’s graph showing subscriber and user growth. | Image: Spotify Spotify’s number of premium subscribers increased to 205 million as of December 31st, the company announced in today’s earnings release, representing a 14 percent increase year-on-year. That helped increase its monthly active users (MAUs) to 489 million, a 20 percent rise. That’s above its guidance
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority. It’s the last day of the month and though January hasn’t been a bad one, today we’ve got not one but two top stories for you, including some Facebook controversy. Facebook’s battery controversy
Read MoreAnna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to €3.2B and a €270M loss, up from €39M YoY, as operating costs rose 44% YoY; paying subscribers were up 10M to 205M — Music streaming group adds subscribers but is hit by rise in operating expenses — Spotify’s losses ballooned …
Read MoreMichael King / Search Engine Land: An in-depth analysis of Yandex’s leaked source code shows 17,854 ranking factors, scraping Google, Bing, YouTube, and TikTok, “Vital Hosts” boosts, and more — Yandex isn’t Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.
Read MoreGoogle says it’s planning to add Microsoft 365 integration to ChromeOS later this year making it easier for users to install the app and open files. ChromeOS already supports the Microsoft 365 and OneDrive Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), but there’s a promise of “new integration later this year on ChromeOS, making it easier to install
Read MoreTwo women in British Columbia were found by search and rescue after using the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS feature.
Read MoreJanuary saw a slew of security patches for iOS, Chrome, Windows, and more.
Read MoreBiological amino acids could have celestial or terrestrial roots. An experiment simulated their formation in deep space—but the mystery isn’t solved yet.
Read MoreA render of Project Ghost. | Image: Logitech Logitech, perhaps known best for its personal computer accessories like the webcam I have used (and loved!) for nearly every workday for three years, is revealing an ambitious new prototype on Tuesday: an elaborately designed video chat booth it calls “Project Ghost” that’s designed to be a
Read MoreAs the smartphone has eaten ever more of the gatgets with which we once surrounded ourselves, it’s with some sadness that we note the calculator becoming a less common sight. It’s with pleasure then that we bring you [Nekopla]’s keychain calculator, not least because it’s a little more than a conventional model. This is a
Read More(Image: ISRO/ISSDC/Justin Cowart/Wikimedia Commons)NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been faithfully capturing the Red Planet’s surface and atmosphere for nearly 17 years. Normally the data MRO sends to scientists on Earth is relatively mundane, relating to things like variations in ozone or climate. But MRO recently captured something that’ll make just about anyone smile: a
Read MoreApple doesn’t advertise using AirTags to track your pets and there’s a reason why.
Read MoreAudacious plans to resurrect the long-extinct bird could be lucrative. But the moonshot raises thorny philosophical questions.
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Instagram launches Notes, its AIM-like text status feature, in Europe and Japan, delayed to comply with local laws, expanding on Asia, North America, and LatAm — Instagram Notes, the social network’s recently launched text status feature that reminds me of the AOL Instant Messenger away messages …
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