Bloomberg: BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF passes $1B in investor inflows, with $358M in inflows on January 17; Fidelity is close behind with about $880M in assets — – Fidelity is close behind with about $880 million in assets — Grayscale fund remains the largest even with outflows
Read MoreJoseph Cox / 404 Media: Google News surfaces sites that use AI to rip-off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn’t focus on whether articles are by humans or AI — 404 Media reviewed multiple examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News. Google said it doesn’t focus on how
Read MoreThe Apple Vision Pro is one the way and a handful of spatial games have already been announced, taking advantage of all that computing power. Here’s everything we know about them so far.
Read MoreDo you wear glasses? ZEISS lenses are essential when wearing Apple Vision Pro.
Read MoreImage: Bose / Kith Well, this is certainly an unconventional way to introduce what looks like a very unconventional product. Bose just announced the Ultra Open Earbuds, an open-style pair of buds with a very unique design that leaked earlier this month. They’re meant to clip onto your outer ear to preserve total environmental awareness
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S24 is now available for pre-order through all major retailers and carriers. The Samsung Galaxy S24 series focuses more on AI and design refinement than major hardware changes, despite a price increase this year of around $100 for the Ultra model. The result is a device with the beastly power you’d expect
Read MorePolitico: A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears — In a deal to let companies keep trading transatlantic data, the White House built an opaque new forum that could affect national security …
Read MoreApple Vision Pro is here. Here’s how Apple has vowed to keep users safe and secure while using it.
Read MoreChainalysis: Illicit crypto addresses received $24.2B in 2023, down from $39.6B in 2022, and stablecoins accounted for the majority of the transaction volume, replacing BTC — 2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency, as the industry rebounded from the scandals, blowups, and price declines of 2022.
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Samsung has revealed plenty more Galaxy S24 camera features and improvements. This includes an overhauled Director’s View mode, a faster camera, and improved portraits. Samsung touted a variety of camera features during the Galaxy S24 series launch. This included generative AI photo editing, image expansion, and improved zoom. Now,
Read MoreApple has turned the Las Vegas Sphere into a cat bubble backpack to advertise Argylle, its latest movie.
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: Google’s TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption — Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking group — tracked as “Cold River” …
Read MoreThe cover of the infamous issue of Astounding, March 1944 There’s an upcoming movie, Argyle, about an author whose spy novels are a little too accurate, and she becomes a target of a real-life spy game. We haven’t seen the movie, but it made us think of a similar espionage caper from 1944 involving science
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S24 series, headlined by the Galaxy S24 Ultra, is an iterative update over its predecessor for the most part. Instead of changing too much on the hardware side of things, apart from the expected update to the processor, there’s a larger focus on AI-driven software this time around. But, with Samsung going
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is getting sued by the state of Iowa over claims that it’s lying to parents about the presence of sexual content, drugs, alcohol, profanity, and other inappropriate material in the app. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird claimed TikTok is making this
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Read MoreCollage by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Getty Images How one cover of one mostly unknown song became the soundtrack of terrifying vertical videos. Continue reading…
Read MoreEverything you need to know about EyeSight on Vision Pro: what it does and how it does it.
Read MoreFor many consumers, there are few genuine reasons to upgrade a flagship smartphone bought within the last three years. This is still true if you own a Samsung Galaxy S22 from 2022. Nearly two years later, Samsung hopes to court users with the Galaxy S24, but does the phone do enough to be a convincing
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority By Darcy LaCouvee At the crossroads of innovation and technology, CES 2024 brought together some of the brightest minds in the tech world, including Zhao Jun, the CEO of TCL CSOT.
Read MoreImages: Rabbit CES 2024 presentation (YouTube) With artificial intelligence being so prevalent across, well, just about everything these days, it’s no small feat for AI developers to make their products stand out among the deluge. Very few have managed to capture as much attention as Rabbit, the AI startup that’s managed to sell 40,000 units
Read MoreReuters: Sources: Reddit has drawn up detailed IPO plans to launch in March 2024, with a public filing in late February, the first major social media IPO since Pinterest — Social media platform Reddit has drawn up detailed plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March …
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Read MoreAccess Now: Gaza’s internet and telecoms have been fully shut down for seven straight days, the longest time since October 2023; 12 of its ISPs are down since October 2023 — For seven consecutive days, internet and telecommunications services have been fully shut down in the Gaza Strip.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Rumors are swirling that Microsoft has been considering bringing some Xbox exclusives to rival PlayStation and Nintendo Switch platforms. Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush have both reportedly been under cross-platform consideration, and when you combine the rumors with recent comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox
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