IDC: Global smartphone shipments declined 3.2% YoY to 1.17B units in 2023; Apple gained the top spot for the first time with 234.6M, followed by Samsung with 226.6M — The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010, and for 2023 it is now Apple.
Read MoreCredit: Microsoft Microsoft has launched Copilot Pro, a premium AI plan. This plan offers priority access, improved image generation, and more. The announcement comes hours after we spotted references to Copilot Pro in the Edge app. We spotted code inside the Edge browser for Android that suggested Microsoft was working on a subscription-based Copilot Pro
Read MoreWall Street Journal: John Deere plans to use SpaceX’s Starlink service to provide satellite internet connections for tractors, harvesters, and other equipment in remote areas — Farm machinery maker hires SpaceX’s Starlink service to provide satellite internet connections for tractors, harvesters and crop sprayers in remote areas
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly, which had operated “independently within the Uber family” since its $1.1B acquisition three years ago — Uber has decided to shutter Drizly, an alcohol delivery service it bought three years ago for $1.1 billion, Axios has learned.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Yesterday TikTok presented me with what appeared to be a deepfake of Timothee Chalamet sitting in Leonardo Dicaprio’s lap and yes, I did immediately think “if this stupid video is that good imagine how bad the election misinformation will be.” OpenAI has, by necessity, been thinking about the same thing and today
Read MoreAfter [David Lovett] of [Usagi Electric] was donated a few cars full of DEC PDP-11 minicomputers of various flavors and vintages, he passed on most of them to loving homes, but kept a few of them himself. One goal of this being to put together a PDP-11 system that could be more easily taken to
Read MoreDavid Segal / New York Times: A look at music streaming fraud, including bot farms and pirates relabeling musicians’ work to steal revenue; Beatdapp estimates fraud costs musicians $2B/year — Bad Dog, a group from D.C., was forced to take a crash course in streaming fraud, a shadowy realm that costs musicians $2 billion a
Read MoreIt might seem a little bit counterintuitive, but one of the more carbon-neutral ways of heating one’s home is by burning wood. Since the carbon for the trees came out of the air a geologically insignificant amount of time ago, it’s in effect solar energy with extra steps. And with modern stoves and well-seasoned wood,
Read MoreIt might seem a little bit counterintuitive, but one of the more carbon-neutral ways of heating one’s home is by burning wood. Since the carbon for the trees came out of the air a geologically insignificant amount of time ago, it’s in effect solar energy with extra steps. And with modern stoves and well-seasoned wood,
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The blood oxygen feature is about to disappear from new Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 devices. While Apple itself has not released a statement or responded to our request for comment, both Bloomberg and 9to5Mac are reporting that the feature will be going away
Read MoreOpenAI: OpenAI shares its plans ahead of 2024 elections, including image provenance tools, not letting users make tools for impersonation or political campaigning, more — We’re working to prevent abuse, provide transparency on AI-generated content, and improve access to accurate voting information.
Read MoreHartley Charlton / MacRumors: Gurman: Apple prepares to split its App Store in two to serve the EU, as the deadline for the DMA, which mandates sideloading support, looms on March 7 — Apple is preparing to split the App Store “in two” in the coming weeks ahead of European Union requirements that will force
Read MoreThe freezing temperatures are bad news for most of us, but gamers will see it as an excuse to get back the screen. There are few better display upgrades to your gaming rig than the Samsung 49-inch Odyssey Neo G9 curved gaming monitor, although it’s no small outlay at its $2,200 retail price. But an
Read MoreHartley Charlton / MacRumors: Gurman: Apple prepares to split its App Store in two to serve the EU, as the deadline for the DMA, which mandates sideloading support, looms on March 7 — Apple is preparing to split the App Store “in two” in the coming weeks ahead of European Union requirements that will force
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft first launched its AI-powered Office features for businesses in November, but just two months later the company is already offering them to consumers. Copilot Pro is launching today as a $20 monthly subscription that provides access to AI-powered features inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alongside priority access to the
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is unlocking the doors for all businesses to get access to its AI-powered Office features. Microsoft’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 launched in November with enterprise customers having to commit to at least 300 users and pick up the phone to get on the list. That was an additional $9,000 cost minimum for
Read MoreThe Faraday cage constructed by Jasper Devreker. As part of a team reverse-engineering the binary blob driver for the ESP32’s WiFi feature at Ghent University, [Jasper Devreker] saw himself faced with the need to better isolate the network packets coming from the ESP32-under-test. This is a tough call in today’s WiFi and 2.4 GHz flooded
Read MoreChinese military bodies and state-affiliated groups have acquired Nvidia chips despite a US ban on the export of the commodity to China. As reported by Reuters, small batches of the semiconductors have slipped through the net, believed to have been passed on in sales by lesser-known Chinese suppliers. The findings show the difficulty facing US
Read MoreBarry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft debuts Copilot Pro for $20/mo./user, offering access to the latest models and features, like custom Copilot GPTs and integration into Office products — Copilot Pro, the most advanced and fastest version of Copilot, has been released today by Microsoft.
Read MoreIf you were a fan of 2022’s best game, Elden Ring then this is going to be an exciting read. A short while ago a new file was added to the Steam backend in the Elden Ring section, and the clever money is on it being Shadow of the Erdtree – the first Elden Ring expansion
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Filing: as part of the Masimo patent fight, US CBP decides that Apple can avoid a ban and sell the Apple Watch Series 9 by removing its pulse oximetry features — The U.S. Customs agency has handed down its decision on whether Apple’s proposed redesign of the Apple Watch Series 9
Read MoreHaiku is one of those open source operating systems that seem to be both exceedingly well-known while flying completely under the radar. Part of this is probably due to it being an open source version and continuation of the Be Operating System (BeOS). Despite its strong feature set in the 1990s, BeOS never got much
Read MoreGameStop has announced that effective February 2, its non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace will be shut down, and users will no longer be able to buy, sell, or create NFTs using the platform. 2021 was a wild year for GameStop as it became one of the most popular meme stocks in the world and announced its
Read MoreThe Alogic Matrix Ultimate combines convenience and portability for a great charging experience on the go.
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, January 17 at noon Pacific for the Neutrino Hunters Hack Chat with Patrick Allison! It’s a paradox of science that the biggest of equipment is needed to study the smallest of phenomena. The bestiary of subatomic particles often requires the power and dimension of massive accelerators to produce, and caverns crammed
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