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News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool to generate article summaries, while noting users should still read the full articles due to occasional errors (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool to generate article summaries, while noting users should still read the full articles due to occasional errors — Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram’s founders is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles

Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Product Manufacturing

For years, the manufacturing industry has been on the crest of a technological wave. Manufacturing has taken the reins in introducing robotics on the manufacturing floor and produced innovative software that simplifies managing products. But where has manufacturing led us with the deployment of Artificial Intelligence in both product and production? Gone are the days

Leak: TikTok is launching generative AI avatars and here’s what they look like

Matt Navarra discovered the feature in a TikTok build. | Images: Matt Navarra TikTok is working on a feature that will create AI-generated profile pictures, according to social media consultant Matt Navarra, who shared images and video of the tool with The Verge. At first glance, the tool creates headshots that look a lot like

Apple took 49% of the global refurbished smartphone market in 2022, as refurbished iPhone sales grew 16% YoY; Samsung had 26%, Oppo 3%, Vivo 3%, and Huawei 2% (Glen Cardoza/Counterpoint Research)

Glen Cardoza / Counterpoint Research: Apple took 49% of the global refurbished smartphone market in 2022, as refurbished iPhone sales grew 16% YoY; Samsung had 26%, Oppo 3%, Vivo 3%, and Huawei 2% — – Apple captured 49% of the global refurbished smartphone market in 2022 followed by Samsung at 26%.

Insulin Pump Teardown Shows One Motor Does Many Jobs

Modern insulin pumps are self-contained devices that attach to a user’s skin via an adhesive patch, and are responsible for administering insulin as needed. Curious as to what was inside, [Ido Roseman] tore down an Omnipod Dash and took some pictures showing what was inside. A single motor handles inserting the cannula into the skin,

Artifact can now summarize and explain articles to you like you’re five

You can compare this summary to the actual article if you’d like. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Artifact, the recently launched news app from Instagram’s co-founders, announced a new AI feature on Tuesday that can summarize articles for you. But the best part about the feature is that it can summarize in

Nick Clegg says TikTok’s presence in the US, while China bars Meta, isn’t a level playing field, and new tech like AI shouldn’t be based on autocratic values (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Nick Clegg says TikTok’s presence in the US, while China bars Meta, isn’t a level playing field, and new tech like AI shouldn’t be based on autocratic values — Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, called into question the values of TikTok by invoking …

You can play all of Jedi: Survivor in bullet time

Image: Respawn Entertainment Ahead of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s launch in a few days, the developers at Respawn Entertainment are showing off some of the accessibility features they’ve added to the game. There is, of course, the typical subtitle size toggle and visual options including a colorblind mode and field of vision options. You can

Here’s How the Cloud is Revolutionizing Health Tech and FinTech

During the first phase of the pandemic, many companies were forced to drastically rethink the way they worked. Rapid digital transformation became necessary to survive financially, support evolving consumer needs, and help keep workers connected. Overcoming the Model of Office and Lab Work With Cloud Computing Cloud computing systems have allowed enterprises, schools, and government

Alphabet reports Q1 Google ad revenue of $54.55B, vs. $54.66B YoY, the second straight decline after a 3.6% drop in Q4 2022, and the third since going public (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Alphabet reports Q1 Google ad revenue of $54.55B, vs. $54.66B YoY, the second straight decline after a 3.6% drop in Q4 2022, and the third since going public — Search giant tries to jump-start growth amid volatile digital ad market and competition in AI — Google reported a second

Microsoft reports Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 16% YoY to $22.08B, vs. $21.94B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 27% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft reports Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 16% YoY to $22.08B, vs. $21.94B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 27% YoY — – Microsoft surpassed expectations on the top and bottom lines and beat estimates on quarterly revenue guidance.

The best SNES emulators for PC and Mac

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES, is one of the most popular consoles in history. Many people want to continue playing games for it for a variety of reasons. Nostalgia, speedrunning, and playing old classics they were too young to enjoy top the reasons. Luckily, there is a swath of SNES emulators out there

Inside Meta’s scramble to catch up on AI: slow to adopt pricey AI-optimized systems, scrapping a custom AI chip for a more ambitious model in 2025, and more (Reuters)

Reuters: Inside Meta’s scramble to catch up on AI: slow to adopt pricey AI-optimized systems, scrapping a custom AI chip for a more ambitious model in 2025, and more — As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection …

In the latest macOS Ventura beta, Apple removes the Virtual Scanner II app including Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper that shipped with macOS Mojave and up (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In the latest macOS Ventura beta, Apple removes the Virtual Scanner II app including Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper that shipped with macOS Mojave and up — A few weeks ago, users discovered that every copy of macOS has the original Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its internal files.

Google ups Chromebook privacy with new camera and mic switch

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is adding new systemwide camera and microphone access toggles in ChromeOS settings that can instantly block all apps and sites from being able to use them. The new systemwide privacy controls cut off the rest of the computer’s access to the hardware, which, for all intents

Japan’s first Moon landing has ended in failure

The Hakuto-R lunar lander. | Image: Getty Images What would have been the first private Moon landing has ended in failure after Japanese startup ispace lost contact with its lunar lander, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. As the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander inched closer to the Moon’s surface, engineers found that they were

Yelp announces a series of updates, including AI-powered search suggestions and review highlights, and the ability to upload short videos up to 12 seconds long (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Yelp announces a series of updates, including AI-powered search suggestions and review highlights, and the ability to upload short videos up to 12 seconds long — Yelp announced today that it’s introducing a series of new updates, including an enhanced AI-powered search experience and the ability to add videos to reviews.

China’s Metaverse Is All About Work

The government wants the metaverse to be less about having fun and shopping and more about health care and industry.

You can play all of Jedi: Survivor in bullet time

YouTube’s advertising revenue declined for the third consecutive quarter, by 2.6% YoY to $6.69B in Q1 2023, slightly beating analyst estimates of $6.6B (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube’s advertising revenue declined for the third consecutive quarter, by 2.6% YoY to $6.69B in Q1 2023, slightly beating analyst estimates of $6.6B — Ad sales at YouTube declined 2.6% year over year in the first quarter of 2023, to $6.69 billion. Analysts expected it to come in at $6.6 billion,

Google’s search business is feeling the heat

Illustration: The Verge Google’s search revenues inched upward in the first quarter of 2023 after years of rapid growth, suggesting the tech giant might be facing some difficulties with its golden goose. In an earnings release today, Google reported its “search & other” revenues were up 1.87 percent year over year (jumping from about $39.6B

This Microsoft Edge feature is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Microsoft added a feature to its Edge browser that allows users to follow content creators. The feature appears to be malfunctioning, and the latest Edge update has the feature on by default. Now Edge is sending the URLs from every website you visit to Bing API servers. Just as

YouTube’s advertising revenue dropped for the third consecutive quarter, by 2.6% YoY to $6.69B in Q1, above analyst estimates of $6.6B (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube’s advertising revenue dropped for the third consecutive quarter, by 2.6% YoY to $6.69B in Q1, above analyst estimates of $6.6B — Ad sales at YouTube declined 2.6% year over year in the first quarter of 2023, to $6.69 billion. Analysts expected it to come in at $6.6 billion, per FactSet.

The 13 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now

Even if you signed up purely for Ted Lasso, there’s a lot more you should check out on the streamer.

Voyager Digital says Binance.US terminated an agreement to acquire the bankrupt crypto broker for $1B (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Voyager Digital says Binance.US terminated an agreement to acquire the bankrupt crypto broker for $1B — Voyager Digital Ltd said Binance.US had terminated an agreement to purchase the bankrupt crypto broker. — “While this development is disappointing, our chapter 11 plan allows …

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