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Read MoreiPhone Roadside Assistance has just added a new major partner: Verizon.
Read MoreA new Apple patent has revealed the company has studied a MacBook keyboard with force feedback that the user can customize.
Read MorePopular YouTuber Marques Brownlee gave the iPhone 15 Pro his ‘Best Camera’ award but it was the Google Pixel 8 that took the top honor.
Read MoreSome iPhone owners are reporting that their alarms aren’t working. The issue seems to affect a variety of old and new iPhones running iOS 17 to iOS 17.2. Pretty much all smartphones have built-in alarm clocks, and millions of people rely on this feature to get their day started. Unfortunately, it sounds like plenty of
Read MorePhoto by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The electric bike company’s new leadership outlines its post-bankruptcy plan to relaunch and expand into more areas of e-mobility. Continue reading…
Read MoreEllen Huet / Bloomberg: A look at the tech sector’s longevity obsession, with Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Larry Page, and others pledging millions of dollars to firms pursuing longer life — Tech titans, venture capitalists, crypto enthusiasts and AI researchers have turned longevity research into something between the hottest science and a tragic comedy.
Read MoreUS Vice President Kamala Harris (right) and Michael Regan (left), administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on Friday, January 27th, 2023. | Image: Jemal Countess / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency named 11 “grantmakers” today, universities
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Media monitoring and analytics company Meltwater raised ~$65M from PE firm Verdane for an 11% stake at a $592M valuation, down from $1B+ in December 2020 — Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and big data analytics techniques, is
Read MoreSaritha Rai / Bloomberg: Researchers say AI robot CyberRunner outmaneuvers humans in the maze game Labyrinth, in a breakthrough for AI beating humans at direct physical applications — – Robot learned in record time to guide a ball through a maze — The AI robot used two knobs to manipulate playing surface
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority OPPO has confirmed that the Find X7 series is coming. The company also said the series will use the Sony LYT-900 one-inch camera sensor. OPPO delivered a great phone in the admittedly China-only Find X6 Pro, and we’ve already seen several leaks regarding the Find X7 series. Now, OPPO
Read MoreCissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: A profile of PDD, the parent of Pinduoduo and Temu, which has grown rapidly since its founding in 2015 despite allegations over malware and counterfeit goods — Efforts to surpass Alibaba at home and chase Amazon abroad come with human cost — HONG KONG — It was 2006 …
Read MoreJohn Herrman / New York Magazine: OpenAI’s deals with publishers are a hedge against a scenario in which scraping becomes harder, training material more expensive, and real-time data more scarce — This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” …
Read MoreBloomberg: Bird files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Florida, listing $100M-$500M in liabilities; the NYSE began delisting the e-scooter rental company in September 2023 — The Miami, Florida based company listed assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million in a court filing.
Read MoreCredit: Apple Verizon’s roadside assistance program now works via satellite on recent iPhones. The program is available for $4.99 a month or on a pay-per-use basis. Apple introduced roadside assistance via satellite on the iPhone 15 series, teaming up with AAA to offer this service. Now, Verizon is taking advantage of the iPhone’s satellite tech
Read MoreNeural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is a method of reconstructing complex 3D scenes from sparse 2D inputs, and the field has been growing by leaps and bounds. Viewing a reconstructed scene is still nontrivial, but there’s a new innovation on the block: SMERF is a browser-based method of enabling full 3D navigation of even large scenes,
Read MoreJon Victor / The Information: Source: Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30K-person ad sales unit, as the company relies more on ML techniques to help customers buy even more ads — Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, an executive told some staff last week,
Read MoreSarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu takes over for e-commerce business head Trudy Dai, one of Alibaba’s earliest employees, who will now help oversee non-core assets globally — – Two-decade veteran Trudy Dai will help set up a holding firm — Alibaba’s growth has fizzled out in recent years as PDD arose
Read MoreEveryone knows that the most important part of a tech demo is to make the right impression, and the team over at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) definitely had this part nailed down when they showed off streaming a cat video from deep space using laser technology as part of NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communication
Read MoreHarry McCracken / Fast Company: An interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about the moderator rebellion, limiting free access to the company’s API, AI’s role in Reddit’s future, and more — Rebellious moderators. Large language models’ peril and promise. Maybe a long-awaited IPO. Amid it all, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the web megacommunity is
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung is adding new devices to its self-repair program. You’ll soon be able to fix your own Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 using repair guides, parts, and tools from iFixit. Samsung has also added the Galaxy S23 series to the program and is expanding the service to
Read MoreJagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google introduces a range of new features and updates for Google Maps in India, including Live View walking navigation, ML-powered Address Descriptors, and more — Google Tuesday introduced a range of new features and updates for its mapping service in India as it wraps up for the year and sets the
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Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: NIST seeks public input by February 2, 2024 for setting guidelines in order to evaluate the safety of generative AI systems as directed by President Biden’s EO — The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was taking the first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the safe deployment …
Read MoreLEGOs are the first window into making something in your head become real for many makers. The Verge dug into how a LEGO set itself goes from idea to the shelves. While most sets come from the minds of LEGO designers, since 2008, fans can submit their own sets to LEGO Ideas for the chance
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