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Image: Apple Apple’s new platform is going to have some new — and maybe weird — apps. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Apple Apple’s new platform is going to have some new — and maybe weird — apps. Continue reading…
Read MoreIf you are a Samsung fanboi, you might have attended the Galaxy Unpacked 2024 event today. At the event, the company announced its Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. Samsung Galaxy S24 series will only have flagship smartphones, all of which are ‘AI Phones’. So, after witnessing the rise of AI, we are now stepping towards
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Game Studios A few years after it was first announced, we finally have a glimpse at the Indiana Jones game from Bethesda studio and Wolfenstein developer MachineGames. It’s called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and the gameplay reveal was shown during Microsoft’s Developer Direct event. It’s an action-adventure game that takes place
Read MoreParallels Desktop has been officially authorized by Microsoft to run ARM versions of Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise on Macs with M3 processors. Parallels Desktop brings ARM Windows 11 to Mac ARM versions of Windows 11 were already authorized by Microsoft to run on Parallels Desktop for M1 and M2 Macs in 2023. However, Apple
Read MoreWhen you set out to build a 60,000-volt power supply and find out that it “only” delivers a measly 50,000 volts, you naturally have to dive in and see where things can be improved. And boy, did [Advanced Tinkering] find some things to improve. First things first: if you haven’t seen [Advanced]’s first pass at
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung is spinning off SmartThings Find into its own app called Samsung Find. Samsung Find can be downloaded on devices with One UI 6.1, but comes preloaded on devices that launch with the most recent OS. The “notify when left behind” feature is currently missing, but will be added later. Samsung’s SmartThings Find
Read MoreDuring our work hours, we usually receive messages that often go unnoticed. The sender, expecting a response from you, is left waiting. It’s pretty normal for office goers and working individuals to miss a few text messages, but does the iPhone have a solution for that? You can set up auto-reply to text messages on
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad / The Verge When it comes to filing and paying your federal and state taxes for 2023, there’s good and bad news. The good news is that if you live in Maine or Massachusetts, you have until Wednesday, April 17th, because of the Patriots’ Day and Emancipation Day holidays. The bad news
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: World leaders at the 2024 World Economic Forum fret over AI-powered misinformation and job displacement, following excitement about ChatGPT at the 2023 WEF — Between wine tastings and sledding excursions, world leaders fret over AI-powered misinformation and job displacement
Read MoreSamantha Cole / 404 Media: Pornhub changes its performer verification policy, requiring performers to upload proof of consent from scene partners, in addition to IDs, starting January 23 — Pornhub is introducing an even more stringent performer verification policy, and will soon require performers upload proof …
Read MoreIt was believed that the Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus would only be available in North America and parts of Asia. A spokesperson for Qualcomm says the Snapdragon versions will be available in more regions than just the US at the very least. Qualcomm will not say which regions are getting the Snapdragon
Read MoreIBM on Thursday said that it was acquiring application modernization assets from Advanced in an effort to enhance the mainframe application and data modernization services of its consulting business. Advanced, which is headquartered out of Birmingham, UK, provides mainframe modernization and OpenVMS and VME migration services. The assets and services acquired from Advanced are
Read MoreWithin a few hours of this post going live, Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft is expected to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere — a disappointing end to a mission that was supposed to put the first US lander on the Moon since the Apollo program ended in 1972. In their twentieth mission update since Peregrine was
Read MoreWall Street Journal: How investors in China skirt strict crypto trading rules by using VPNs and brokers; Chainalysis says traders received $86B net between July 2022 and June 2023 — Cryptocurrency trading remains widespread in China despite a ban — Small investors in China are using an underground network …
Read MoreLike the rest of the S24 lineup, Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra comes in four color options. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge As expected, Samsung introduced the new Galaxy S24 phone lineup during its Galaxy Unpacked event on January 17th. The Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus start at $799.99 and $999.99, respectively,
Read MoreFigure unveiled its first prototype humanoid robot (pictured) in October 2023, just one year after the company was founded. | Image: Figure Robotics startup Figure has signed a “commercial agreement” with BMW to introduce its “general purpose” humanoid robots to BMW’s manufacturing facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, as it tries to identify use cases in
Read MoreGitHub’s Innovation Graph, a repository containing structured data files of public activity on GitHub, counts more than 20 million US software developers using the platform. Just-released findings incorporating data from Q3 2023 provide a comprehensive breakdown of global developer activity including top languages, numbers of users by country, and economy collaborators, GitHub said. GitHub released
Read MoreImage: Klobrille (Twitter / X) Get your first look at the new Indiana Jones game and more. Continue reading…
Read MoreNate Raymond / Reuters: Robinhood settles with Massachusetts regulators for $7.5M over claims of using “gamification” strategies to encourage inexperienced users to place risky trades — on Thursday agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine and overhaul its practices to resolve allegations …
Read MoreNvidia’s cyberpunk ramen shop is back. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge What if you could just… speak… to video game characters? Ask your own questions, with your own voice, instead of picking from preset phrases? Last May, Nvidia and its partner Convai showed off a fairly unconvincing canned demo of such a
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft makes Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available for free on the web — Microsoft today made Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account.
Read MoreAlex Heath / The Verge: Zuckerberg says Meta wants to build and open source AGI, and brings AI group FAIR closer to the generative AI team; Meta will own 340K+ H100 GPUs by 2024’s end — And he wants Meta to open source it. Eventually. Maybe. … Fueling the generative AI craze is a belief
Read MoreAndy Baio / Waxy.org: A history of Ello, which defined itself as an alternative to ad-driven social media, from its 2014 launch and funding to its quiet sale and sudden death in 2023 — Ello launched on August 7, 2014 with big dreams and big promises, a new social network defined by what it wouldn’t
Read MoreMasimo showed up with the Freedom (right), a prototype for a smarter watch featuring its blood oxygen tech. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge In the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard something about the Apple Watch getting banned. Something to do with a sensor, with some medical tech company accusing Apple of
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Filing: Apple details new US App Store rules letting devs link to external payments, says apps in its Video Partner and News Partner program are not eligible — Apple this week updated its App Store rules to comply with a court order after the Supreme Court declined to hear …
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