Credit: Evan Blass Motorola has confirmed that the cover display of the new Razr will be the largest amongst current flip phones in the market. The company has equated the bigger outer screen to the size of the first-generation iPhone. The Chinese launch of the new Razr seems imminent. Motorola has confirmed that the upcoming Razr
Read MoreChloe Xiang / VICE: A look at AI Hub, a Discord community focused on AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists — On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it.
Read MoreChloe Xiang / VICE: A look at AI Hub, a Discord community focused on AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists — On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it.
Read MoreCredit: Evan Blass Motorola has confirmed that the cover display of the new Razr will be the largest amongst current flip phones in the market. The company has equated the bigger outer screen to the size of the first-generation iPhone. The Chinese launch of the new Razr seems imminent. Motorola has confirmed that the upcoming Razr
Read MoreXerox Newsroom: Xerox announces the donation of the Palo Alto Research Center, which it founded in 1970 and established as an independent company in 2002, to SRI International — PARC researchers to continue developing pioneering technologies while Xerox focuses on core print, digital and IT services to support clients’ hybrid workplace needs.
Read MoreMax Tani / Semafor: With Facebook’s pivot away from news and Twitter’s decay, media outlets return to digital media’s foundational concepts of the early 2000s like homepage traffic — What year is it? Consider the following: — The Drudge Report is the biggest political website in the country.
Read MoreFinancial Times: As a cottage industry of Chinese scammers target TikTok, three employees say cleaning up fraudulent content has fallen by the wayside amid a push for growth — Parent company ByteDance struggles to police video promoting dubious products such as ‘enzyme’ weight loss coffee
Read MoreAndré Beganski / Decrypt: Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations — The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July. … Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote …
Read MoreIf one is serious about testing the stiffness of materials or parts, there’s nothing quite like doing your own tests. And thanks to [JanTec]’s 3-Point Bending Test rig, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel should one wish to do so. The dial caliper can be mounted to a fixed height, thanks to a section
Read MoreMophie 3-in-1 Travel Charger with MagSafe review: At a glance What is it? The Mophie 3-in-1 Travel Charger with MagSafe is a lightweight, foldable, multi-device wireless charging pad designed for portability. It is compatible with Apple’s iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. What is the price? The Mophie 3-in-1 Travel Charger with MagSafe is priced at
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge Substack CEO Chris Best may have not really answered Nilay Patel’s Decoder questions about whether racist speech would be allowed on its new Twitter-like Substack Notes platform. But last Friday — more than a week after Best’s interview on the Decoder podcast — co-founder Hamish McKenzie shared a firmer statement in
Read MoreMatthew Gault / VICE: Common ChatGPT phrases like “as an AI language model” and “I cannot generate inappropriate content” are appearing in and exposing fake Amazon reviews and tweets — The phrase ‘as an AI language model’ is starting to flood Amazon user reviews and Twitter bot accounts.
Read MoreThanks to 3D printing and inexpensive controllers, a robot arm doesn’t need to break the bank anymore. Case in point? [Build Some Stuff] did a good-looking compact arm with servos for under $60. The arm uses an interesting control mechanism, too. Instead of the traditional joystick, the arm has a miniature arm with potentiometers at
Read MoreChristian Vasquez / CyberScoop: A group of operational technology cybersecurity vendors launches ETHOS, an open-source portal to share early warnings about threats to critical infrastructure — The biggest companies working in industrial cybersecurity are building an early-warning platform called ETHOS to share threat intelligence.
Read MoreJames Hercher / AdExchanger: On April 23, a Meta ad system glitch caused some campaigns to overspend beyond their daily cost cap; agencies say they have had “next to no feedback” from Meta — Hope you had a peaceful Sunday. — If you’re a Facebook advertiser, though, that may not have been the case.
Read MoreThanks to 3D printing and inexpensive controllers, a robot arm doesn’t need to break the bank anymore. Case in point? [Build Some Stuff] did a good-looking compact arm with servos for under $60. The arm uses an interesting control mechanism, too. Instead of the traditional joystick, the arm has a miniature arm with potentiometers at
Read MoreAlong with cloud syncing, Google Authenticator is also getting a new logo. | Image: Google Google Authenticator is adding a long-standing customer request: you can now sync your two-factor authentication codes to your Google account. So when you set up a new phone and log in to your account, Authenticator will be ready to go
Read MoreCassette players and tapes are fertile hacking ground. One reason is that their electromechanical and analog nature provides easy ways to fiddle with their operation. For example, slow down the motor and the playback speed changes accordingly. As long as the head is moving across the tape, sound will be produced. The hacking opportunities are
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Sources: Twitter signed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd’s murder; Twitter stopped paying and is trying to sell the stakes — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — With Twitter expected to default on millions still due …
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge “Thousands” more of Disney’s employees are being fired this week in the second of three rounds of company-wide layoffs meant to help get the entertainment giant back on solid financial footing. Following CEO Bob Iger’s announcement back in March that Disney was seeking to lay off some 7,000 of
Read MoreKris Holt / Engadget: BeReal claims 20M+ DAUs and is testing letting users post three snapshots per day; Apptopia: BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022 — BeReal, Apple’s iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it’s still going strong.
Read MoreAmericans are on track to receive a record-breaking 150 billion robotexts in 2022, according to Robokiller’s Mid-Year Report. Well, 2023 is about to shatter 2022 by 100+%, as Americans are expected to have over 180 billion robotexts and 80 billion robocalls and spam in 2023. These figures will mark record-setting increases of 100+% and 10%,
Read MoreTim Keary / VentureBeat: Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft’s GPT-4-based Security Copilot — Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench …
Read MoreJoaquin Phoenix as Beau Wassermann. | Image: A24 The production designer behind A24’s Beau Is Afraid knew that the Ari Aster film was going to leave people bewildered as soon as she started reading the script. Continue reading…
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud — Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities …
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