The Verge / Photos by Chris Welch A lot happened in the headphone world this year. 2023 gave us the usual serving of big new products, but it also continued that story of earbuds and headphones growing smarter and more advanced — while audio quality keeps reaching new heights. And for better or worse, the
Read MoreMicrosoft used the developer-focused parts of its Ignite 2023 event to introduce a series of AI development tools. Azure AI Studio supports large-scale AI development for cloud-hosted applications, using Azure OpenAI models or others, while Copilot Studio extends the older Power Virtual Agents low-code AI tools with OpenAI-powered “boosts.” To read this article in full,
Read MoreA recent report shared that the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max models are likely to see a huge camera upgrade, with better zoom capabilities.
Read MoreLauren Leffer / Scientific American: In five experiments, encouraging people to use search engines to evaluate the veracity of fake news posts increased the likelihood of them being rated as true — Data voids in search results can lead down rabbit holes that bolster belief in fake news — Politics
Read MoreTechCrunch: Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity no longer offers its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil, and France, months after a “limited time access” launch — Worldcoin is no longer offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil and France, just months …
Read MoreThe ITC has denied Apple’s bid to pause a ban on Apple Watch imports to the U.S. ahead of online sales being suspended Thursday.
Read MoreBird was once valued at more than $2 billion—now it has filed for bankruptcy. This is the untold story of the contractors who risked it all to try to make the micromobility dream a reality.
Read MoreDaniel Boffey / The Guardian: Privacy campaigners say the UK quietly introduced legislation to let police run facial recognition searches on 50M+ driving license holders without oversight — Exclusive: Privacy campaigners say clause in new criminal justice bill will put all UK drivers on ‘permanent police lineup’
Read MoreWhen crypto exchange FTX collapsed, it left behind a hole in the market. From Backpack to OPNX, faces new and old are vying to fill it.
Read More[Trent M. Wyatt]’s CPUVolt library provides a fast way to measure voltage using no external components, and no I/O pin. It only applies to certain microcontrollers, but he provides example Arduino code showing how handy this can be for battery-powered projects. The usual way to measure VCC is simple, but has shortcomings. The classical way
Read MoreMorgan Meaker / Wired: How excess heat from Meta’s hyperscale data center in Odense, opened in 2020, helps heat roughly 11,000 homes in the Danish city — Big Tech data centers are not only being used to power the internet but also to heat people’s homes. But who’s really winning when Facebook keeps you warm
Read MoreChatGPT can answer questions about a wide range of technology subjects, including how to write R code. That means ChatGPT’s power is available to every R programmer, even those who know little about large language models. An ecosystem is forming around ChatGPT and R, making it easy to incorporate AI technology into your R language
Read MoreThe C# programming language provides excellent support for working with collections of data. C# includes several classes and interfaces that can help you query collections of data efficiently. The most commonly used interfaces for working with collections are IEnumerable, ICollection, IList, and IQueryable. In this article we will examine each of these interfaces and discuss
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Social media is a huge part of our lives. Whether you’re trying to have some fun, keep in touch with others, or promote your next big project, Twitter not working is sure to mess with your day. Especially when Twitter is a common place to go to talk about
Read MoreImage: The Verge Elon Musk’s X platform, previously known as Twitter, mostly stopped working for more than an hour. In mobile apps, the timelines wouldn’t refresh, and on the web, a placeholder message proclaimed, “Welcome to X! This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to
Read MorePatrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Most big brands haven’t yet created AI-specific roles despite many marketers fearing AI will change their jobs; Coca-Cola promoted two execs to new AI roles — Many marketers believe artificial intelligence will change their jobs forever. But most big brands haven’t created roles to oversee that process …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority X is down for many users across the world. The problem seems to have wiped content from people’s timelines, feeds, bookmarks, and other sections on the platform. Update: December 21, 2023 (3:06 AM ET): X is back up after a global outage. Users are once again able to access
Read MoreWill CarPlay be adopted by more or less cars manufacturers in 2024?
Read MoreCredit: OnLeaks via Smartprix Reliable leaker Evan Blass has posted an official-looking Galaxy S24 series spec sheet. The sheet notes that the S24 Ultra has a “quad telephoto” system, which seems like a marketing term on Samsung’s part. The specs also illustrate a growing gap between the S24 and S24 Plus. We’ve already seen a
Read MoreReuters: Samsung plans to invest ~$280M over five years in a chip packaging research facility in Yokohama, Japan, and will receive up to ~$140M in government subsidies — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) will invest around 40 billion yen ($280 million) over five years in a facility …
Read MoreBloomberg: NYC-based Vestwell, a SaaS workplace savings and investment management platform, raised a $125M Series D led by Lightspeed, sources say at a ~$1B valuation — – New York fintech gets $125 million in series D funding round — Lightspeed, Blue Owl and HarbourVest are among investors
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/Arsene Lupin Roughly 100 official-looking renders of the Galaxy S24 series phones have leaked online. The images show the phones off from a variety of angles and also show the Ultra model’s S Pen. Expect flat edges for the Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus. We’ve seen a host of Galaxy S24 series leaks already,
Read MoreSarah Wynn / The Block: A US appeals court finalizes a mandate for the forfeiture of 69,370 BTC and other crypto connected to Silk Road, handed over by a hacker named “Individual X” — – Judgment was first made in August but will now take effect, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court
Read MoreMoneycontrol: Email: Meta’s India policy head Shivnath Thukral says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta’s OTT services at a “future date” — Meta’s India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, ‘Govt could have sufficient discretion …
Read MoreMichael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Apple AI researchers publish papers on using human gaussian splats to generate animated 3D avatars and deploying LLMs on devices with limited memory — Apple, a company practically synonymous with technological innovation, has once again positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
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