Month: March 2023

The UK’s CAT said that Apple won an appeal against the CMA’s decision to investigate the company’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming (Paul Sandle/Reuters)

Paul Sandle / Reuters: The UK’s CAT said that Apple won an appeal against the CMA’s decision to investigate the company’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) won its appeal against the decision by Britain’s antitrust regulator to launch an investigation into its mobile browser …

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Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global  —  The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.

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Visual Studio Code 1.77 previews GitHub Copilot chat

Visual Studio Code 1.77, published March 30 as the March 2023 version of Microsoft’s extensible code editor, introduces a preview of deeper integration with the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including inline suggestions and chat capabilities. The VS Code update also brings TypeScript/JavaScript switch case completions, helping users scaffold out switch statements over literal types

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This is what a plant sounds like when it’s stressed

A gardener facing water shortages checks his tomato plants in southern France in August 2022. | Image: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP via Getty Images New research challenges assumptions that the plant kingdom is silent. Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they’re stressed. Other plants and animals might even be able to interpret those sounds.

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A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he’s too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he’s too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution  —  The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia

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The best Google Pixel Watch faces

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Google Pixel Watch has a lot to offer Android users, including a sleek, minimalist design perfect for pairing with a personalized watch face. From native options to third-party picks, we round up the best Pixel Watch faces to add to your device. How to change your Google Pixel

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Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India’s most valuable startup Byju’s from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy’s valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India’s most valuable startup Byju’s from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy’s valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B  —  Some of the biggest Indian startups are taking a haircut in their valuations, at least in the eyes of their investors …

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The ‘Truckla’ DIY Tesla pickup truck is still trucking

Simone Giertz pulls up in her freshly detailed and upgraded Truckla. | Image: Simone Giertz Remember that Tesla Model 3 that was chopped up to make an all-electric pickup truck many years ago? Well, it’s still alive! Inventor and YouTuber Simone Giertz — the self-described “queen of shitty robots” — uploaded a new video on

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Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm  —  As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …

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Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials’ accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials’ accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks  —  The White House will not pay to have its staff’s official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers

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Move Aside Yoda, it’s Furby’s Turn On Luke’s Back

When you want a backpack that turns heads and gets people talking, you can get ahead of the conversation with a talking backpack. [Nina] created a rucksack with the legendary babbler itself, the infamous Furby. Believe it or not, no actual Furbies were sacrificed in the making of this backpack. The build uses an Arduino

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GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches  —  General Motors’ electric future doesn’t include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.  —  The automaker’s upcoming lineup …

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Apple suffers setback as GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay with Google’s help

Credit: Apple General Motors and Google are working on designing onboard navigation and infotainment systems for future GM electric vehicles. Future GM EVs will no longer offer Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will still be offered on GM’s combustion vehicles. The biggest manufacturer of cars in the US, General Motors

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Hackaday Podcast 212: Staring Through ICs, Reading Bloom Filters, and Repairing, Reworking, and Reballing

It was quite the cornucopia of goodness this week as Elliot and Dan sat down to hash over the week in hardware hacking. We started with the exciting news that the Hackaday Prize is back — already? — for the tenth year running! The first round, Re-Engineering Education, is underway now, and we’re already seeing

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Vampire Survivors’ new fantasy-themed expansion launches in April for just $2

Image: Poncle Vampire Survivors is getting a second expansion, and like the previous one, it will cost $2. The new fantasy-themed DLC, Tides of the Foscari, includes eight new characters, 13 weapons, and a new stage, and it comes out on April 13th. Developer Poncle is already teasing characters like a mage and a swordsman

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Google updates Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer math and logic questions and promises that coding capabilities are “coming soon” (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Bard by incorporating some of its PaLm models to better answer math and logic questions and promises that coding capabilities are “coming soon”  —  To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue …

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Why A Community Hackerspace Should Be A Vital Part Of Being An Engineering Student

Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of former students who are now technology professionals, sharing a city with a university anxious to own all the things in the technology space and actively

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GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs

The 2024 Chevy Blazer EV will be the first GM vehicle to restrict access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. | Image: GM General Motors’ electric future doesn’t include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. The automaker’s upcoming lineup of electric vehicles won’t support the popular smartphone projection systems in favor of a native Google infotainment

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How AI Overcomes the Professional Services Industry’s Challenges

The rise of technology-based business models is disrupting market dynamics, intensifying competition, and transforming the landscape of the professional services industry. Professional services firms must incorporate technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to enhance agility and streamline workflows. Adopting technology can help businesses effectively manage resources — accurately bid on projects, and

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