Credit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Several Samsung, Google Pixel, and OnePlus users on Verizon have reported that their phones’ hotspot feature stopped working after their respective Android 14 updates. Workarounds suggested include switching hotspot on while toggling airplane mode, creating a hotspot Routine, and more. The issue could be related to an improper version
Read MoreThe Verge / Image courtesy of Apple TV We’re four years into the existence of Apple TV Plus, and the network still feels like it’s punching above its weight class. It doesn’t have nearly the expansive library of its competitors, but the shows (and occasional film) it does have are really, really good —usually. I’ve
Read MoreIt’s not every day we get to take a good look inside a high-level exploit chain developed by an unnamed APT from the western world. But thanks to some particularly dedicated researchers at Kaspersky, which just happens to be headquartered in Moscow, that’s exactly what we have today. The name Operation Triangulation was picked, based
Read MoreAria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Source: Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech, raised $300M in equity and debt at a $2.8B valuation, bringing its Series F to $500M — Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images A federal judge has denied X’s (formerly Twitter) attempt to temporarily halt a California law that pushes social media platforms to disclose their strategies for moderating harmful content. Passed last year, AB 587 requires large social media companies to share descriptions of how they moderate content
Read MoreJohn Gruber / Daring Fireball: Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive — There’s a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they’ve been playing — and no surprise,
Read MoreWe all have a folder full of images whose filenames resemble line noise. How about renaming those images with the help of a local LLM (large language model) executable on the command line? All that and more is showcased on [Justine Tunney]’s bash one-liners for LLMs, a showcase aimed at giving folks ideas and guidance
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority There were loads of smartphones launched in 2023, from Apple and Google to Samsung and Xiaomi. But what did Android Authority readers think of these devices at launch? We posted polls throughout the year asking whether you thought a newly launched device was “hot or not.” Now, we can
Read MoreAmazon’s new Echo Show 8 brings a faster chip, better speakers, and the most important update of all: widgets. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Happy Friday, folks! Well, now that Christmas is officially behind us, the deals are quickly drying up. Nonetheless, there are still a few deals worth busting out
Read MoreA Miami family tracked their lost luggage to a thief’s home on Christmas Day finding other stolen suitcases in the process.
Read MoreApple’s smartphone had a huge year across iPhone 15 and iOS 17.
Read MoreSlow Horses is one of the most popular TV shows on streaming right now as Apple TV Plus spy thriller smashes into top 10.
Read MorePocket Yoga is a fuss-free way to practice yoga daily, just by looking at your wrist.
Read MoreApple TV has gone from strength to strength since its debut in 2007 — but how can it go to the next level in 2024?
Read MoreDroughts, heat, and extreme weather are pushing crops to their limits. The race is on to innovate faster than the Earth warms.
Read MoreA maxim for anyone writing a web page in the mid 1990s was that it was good practice to bring the whole thing (including graphics) in at around 30 kB in size. It was a time when the protocol still had some pretence of efficient information delivery, when information was self-published, before huge corporations brought
Read MoreSteven Scheer / Reuters: IVC: Israeli startups raised ~$1.5B in Q4 2023, down 15% QoQ, despite increased foreign investor participation, and ~$7B in all of 2023, vs. nearly $16B in 2022 — Israeli high tech firms raised $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, preliminary data showed on Thursday …
Read MoreThe 10 best iPhone apps to help you stick to your New Year’s resolutions.
Read MoreBenjamin Mullin / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC on the price and terms of licensing their content — Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
Read MoreFrom OpenAI to Ozempic, test your knowledge about some of the biggest science and technology stories from this year.
Read MoreIt was a year of devastating cyberattacks around the globe, from ransomware attacks on casinos to state-sponsored breaches of critical infrastructure.
Read MoreEating organic and switching to low-energy light bulbs feels like the green thing to do, but are people missing the bigger opportunities right in front of them?
Read MoreFrom The Last of Us and The Bear to Cunk on Earth and The Curse, the best shows of the year shared an ability to surprise viewers.
Read MoreThe LucidDreamer project ties a variety of functions into a pipeline that can take a source image (or generate one from a text prompt) and “lift” its content into 3D, creating highly-detailed Gaussian splats that look great and can even be navigated. Gaussian splatting is a method used to render NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields), which
Read MoreReuters: A Beijing court fined Alibaba ~$141M in a lawsuit brought by JD.com alleging Alibaba’s Tmall adopted monopolistic practices known as “choosing one from two” — Chinese online retailer JD.com (9618.HK) said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba (9988.HK) …
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