Richard Lawler / The Verge: WhatsApp introduces Keep in Chat, an option that allows recipients of disappearing messages to save them if the sender consents — Something to consider before sending a risky text via WhatsApp is that now, disappearing messages are a bit more optional. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing …
Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: WhatsApp introduces Keep in Chat, an option that allows recipients of disappearing messages to save them if the sender consents — Something to consider before sending a risky text via WhatsApp is that now, disappearing messages are a bit more optional. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing …
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: The US Department of Homeland Security announces a task force to explore potential uses of AI to protect the country, including better cargo screening systems — – The Department of Homeland Security will establish a new task force to examine how artificial intelligence technology can be used …
Read MoreThe transition to low carbon energy is an important part of mitigating climate change, and the faster we can manage, the better. One project looking at how we could reduce the energy requirements of the web to more quickly adopt renewable energy is Solar Protocol. Instead of routing requests to the fastest server when a
Read MoreThe high court has maintained access to a drug used in medication abortion while it weighs a final decision on the pill.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla has won a lawsuit that tried to blame the company’s Autopilot driver assist software for a 2019 crash, Reuters reports. The jurors in the case found that the software wasn’t at fault in a crash where the car turned into a median on a city street while
Read MoreMatt Binder / Mashable: In a campaign called #BlockTheBlue, some Twitter users, including popular ones like @dril, are asking people to block anyone who subscribes to Twitter Blue — After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users’ checkmarks, Twitter’s biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources and analysts share insights on Apple’s plans in financial services, as the company lays the technical groundwork for taking a bigger share of the market — The tech giant’s ventures into financial services signal greater ambitions to take on Wall Street
Read MoreThe transition to low carbon energy is an important part of mitigating climate change, and the faster we can manage, the better. One project looking at how we could reduce the energy requirements of the web to more quickly adopt renewable energy is Solar Protocol. Instead of routing requests to the fastest server when a
Read MoreThe high court has maintained access to a drug used in medication abortion while it weighs a final decision on the pill.
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: The US Department of Homeland Security announces a task force to explore potential uses of AI to protect the country, including better cargo screening systems — – The Department of Homeland Security will establish a new task force to examine how artificial intelligence technology can be used …
Read MoreWith a few steps, you can put live sports scores on your iPhone lock screen and stay on top of your team’s race to the playoffs. | Samar Haddad / The Verge With iOS 16, Apple added a feature called Live Activities as part of a broader update to notifications and the lock screen. Live
Read MoreThere are so many apps in the Google Play Store. The last time we checked, there are over an estimated 3.5 million of them. Not every app is meant for popularity. After all, there can only be so many note-taking apps. This list is going to cover stuff that’s a bit more niche. We have
Read MoreReuters: A California jury clears Tesla of any blame for a 2019 crash involving Autopilot as the company’s user manual warned against using the system on city streets — A California state court jury began deliberating on Thursday in what appears to be the first trial related to a crash involving …
Read MoreTLA+ (Temporal Logic of Actions), a programming language for modeling programs and systems, particularly concurrent and distributed ones, is moving from Microsoft’s jurisdiction to the Linux Foundation and getting its own, separate foundation to promote it. The TLA+ Foundation, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the adoption and development of the language, was launched
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes
Read MoreCredit: Google The Pixel Tablet was spotted at Google’s Shaped by Water exhibit. The images show the Pixel Tablet in two known colors and one new color. Earlier this week, there was a big leak involving the Pixel Tablet. Included in the details was the reveal that there could be four colorways. While we already
Read MoreEmily Baker-White / Forbes: Documents, photos, and videos show TikTok’s US datacenters have faced security failures and use servers made by Inspur, which the US sanctioned in March 2023 — Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier.
Read MoreDin Grogu piloting IG-12. | Image: Lucasfilm / Disney Plus Rather than dotting every single i and crossing all of its t’s The Mandalorian spent its extremely adequate third season trying to forge new lore for lore’s sake. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays are at the New York Yankees on Apple TV Plus at 7:00 PM EST tonight. Here’s how to watch.
Read MoreWith fresh scrutiny on the banking system following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, there is another aspect of the financial system that often gets less attention: the vulnerability of the technology systems that global financial institutions operate on. While the end-user experience of financial services, both in institutional and retail settings, has transformed significantly
Read MoreThe Houston Astros play the Atlanta Braves on Apple TV Plus at 7:00 PM EST tonight. Here’s how to watch.
Read MoreThe Pixel Tablet in a coral color. | Image from @saori_vj’s video on Instagram The Pixel Tablet is supposed to launch sometime this year — Google I/O in May feels like a pretty good venue! — and ahead of its eventual release, somebody captured a video of the tablet in real life at Google’s “Shaped
Read MoreJennifer Elias / CNBC: Sources: Google halted construction of its 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase, and doesn’t plan to revive the project soon — – Google has halted construction of its proposed 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase.
Read MoreGrowing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in minature. Cars, horses, little Lego houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreation of the glorious Hoover Dam from the [Creative Construction Channel] could change all that for the next generation. The build starts with
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