What SoundCloud Created Can Never Die
News broke this week that SoundCloud was looking to be bought. Even in the hands of different owners, its legacy—from Kehlani to “Old Town Road”—remains.
Read MoreNews broke this week that SoundCloud was looking to be bought. Even in the hands of different owners, its legacy—from Kehlani to “Old Town Road”—remains.
Read MoreDavid Karpf / The Atlantic: OpenAI’s GPT Store debut is reminiscent of Facebook Platform’s 2007 launch, which allowed Facebook to use third-party developers’ products to boost stickiness — The immediate future of generative AI looks a bit like Facebook’s past. — ChatGPT has certainly captured the world’s imagination since its release at the end of
Read MoreThe iPhone that recently survived a 16,000-foot drop from an Alaska Airlines flight, has been identified to have had a $65 Spigen Cryo Armor case on.
Read MoreThe creep of conducting our day-to-day interactions over screens has reached a breaking point—and it threatens to push out everyone but those with the “right” access.
Read MoreNews broke this week that SoundCloud was looking to be bought. Even in the hands of different owners, its legacy—from Kehlani to “Old Town Road”—remains.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is shutting a 121-person San Diego team of the Data Operations Annotations group, responsible for improving Siri’s accuracy, and moving staff to Austin — – Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin — Employees who can’t transfer or find other jobs will be let go
Read MoreCrosley was a famous name in radio for more than one reason. The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting has a video telling [Powel Crosley Jr.’s] story, and the story behind the 500 kW WLW transmitter. WLW was an AM broadcast station often called the nation’s channel since its signal covered most of the United States.
Read MoreFor the handful among us who have an iPad tablet from Apple, some may have figured out by now that it lacks a feature that has come standard on any operating system since roughly the early 90s: a calculator application. Its absence on the iPad’s iPadOS is strange since the iPhones (iOS) have always had
Read MoreCrosley was a famous name in radio for more than one reason. The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting has a video telling [Powel Crosley Jr.’s] story, and the story behind the 500 kW WLW transmitter. WLW was an AM broadcast station often called the nation’s channel since its signal covered most of the United States.
Read MoreCrosley was a famous name in radio for more than one reason. The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting has a video telling [Powel Crosley Jr.’s] story, and the story behind the 500 kW WLW transmitter. WLW was an AM broadcast station often called the nation’s channel since its signal covered most of the United States.
Read More[Oskitone]’s Hardware Hustle is a printable roll-and-write tabletop game that can be played on a single sheet of paper. It simulates attempting to run a small hardware business sustainably. Buy parts, make products, and sell them without burning yourself out! If you’re not familiar with roll-and-write games, it’s a genre in which players take turns
Read MoreEmilia David / The Verge: CES 2024 was all about “AI”, with many companies rebranding anything involving algorithms as AI and running the risk of overpromising to consumers — This year at CES was the year AI took over. … It was a little too much. — It may be the year of AI at
Read MoreIf you’re lucky, reverse engineering can be a messy business. Sure, there’s something to be said for attacking and characterizing an unknown system and leaving no trace of having been there, but there’s something viscerally satisfying about destroying something to understand it. Especially when homemade fuming nitric acid is involved. The recipient of such physical
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Peacock is the only source for tonight’s playoff game between Miami and Kansas City, and the most surprising result is that through three quarters, the service is mostly holding up to the task. The game just entered the fourth quarter, which is going to be “commercial free,” but
Read MoreFinancial Times: SIA expects global semiconductor sales to recover and grow 13% in 2024 to $588B thanks to high-priced AI chips, but some analysts question the speed of recovery — Analysts see a ‘turning point’ this year for the $600bn market but question the speed of recovery
Read More[DaveMakesStuff] uses 3D printed test tubes for plants and similar purposes, and he’s shared how to make them on a 3D printer, complete with different models each optimized for different nozzle sizes. The slots in the model are a means of manipulating how the slicer creates a toolpath when printing in spiral vase mode. These
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors — Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they’re
Read MoreAre we showing our age if we remember the good old days when phones had physical keyboards on them? Maybe, maybe not. There was just something special about feeling your way across rows of keys and typing in the dark without even looking at your phone. Well, what’s old has suddenly become new again. A
Read MoreUsing WowMouse to control a computer mouse. | Image: Doublepoint A company called Doublepoint announced a new app during CES this week called WowMouse that turns Android smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch into a gesture-based mouse for your computer. That means waving your arm around to move the mouse and pinching your fingers to
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Interoperability across ecosystems was one of CES 2024’s main themes, with widespread support for Qi2 wireless charging perhaps being the most significant shift — Last year, you couldn’t mention CES without bringing up Matter. It was a pivotal year for the smart home standard …
Read MoreFrom AI-powered robots to face-scanning smart locks, the gadgets that will power the homes of the future are here and were on display at CES 2024, the annual consumer tech show in Las Vegas. This is where tech companies show off their latest innovations in cars, TVs, laptops, smart home gear, and more. The Verge
Read MoreNarwal’s three new floor cleaning solutions are more efficient and capable than any robot vacuum we’ve seen before. World’s first innovations offer tangle-free vacuuming, smart mopping, and advanced security, resulting in a convenient and capable multi-surface floor cleaning solution. The flagship Narwal Freo X Ultra is a familiar looking circular robot vacuum at first glance.
Read MoreThe Quest 2 offers lower specs than Meta’s latest headset, true, but it also costs half the price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In case you haven’t heard, the Meta Quest 2’s $249 holiday pricing is sticking around for good. That’s a natural progression for the second-gen VR headset, which launched
Read MoreWe know what you’re thinking: with so many wireless modules available for just pennies, trying to create a physical data link using ultrasonic transducers like [Damian Bonicatto] did for a short-range, low-bitrate remote monitoring setup seems like a waste of time. And granted, there are a ton of simple RF protocols you can just throw
Read MoreNarwal’s three new floor cleaning solutions are more efficient and capable than any robot vacuum we’ve seen before. World’s first innovations offer tangle-free vacuuming, smart mopping, and advanced security, resulting in a convenient and capable multi-surface floor cleaning solution. The flagship Narwal Freo X Ultra is a familiar looking circular robot vacuum at first glance.
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