Image: The Game Awards Developers are upset that The Game Awards featured very few awards or opportunities for winners to celebrate their achievements in favor of ads and celebrity guests. Continue reading…
Read MoreIs there anything more discouraging to the reverse engineer than to see a black blob of epoxy applied directly to a PCB? We think not, because that formless shape provides no clue as to what chip lies beneath, and that means a lot of detective work if you’re going to figure out how to use
Read MoreCNN: A US GAO review of nearly two-dozen agencies’ AI usage details 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI, despite little guidance or planning — The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies to responsibly acquire …
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus China has spoken out regarding the OnePlus 12’s quality control and build quality complaints. The company says a gap between the camera housing and the rest of the phone isn’t a design or quality issue. OnePlus and Xiaomi executives nevertheless traded verbal blows regarding the issue. Update: December 12, 2023 (8:55 AM
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Let’s face it, times are tough for some of us, and the current holiday season just makes things even tighter. The cost of living has greatly jumped in the last few years. This has prompted many of us to cut costs wherever we can by switching to cheaper prepaid
Read MoreThe Multalk mouthpiece claims to channel your words clearly to a Bluetooth microphone but muffle them for anyone close by. It’s as bizarre as it looks.
Read MoreGene Park / Washington Post: The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after over 20 years, following a collapse caused by new competitors, partner withdrawals, and more — The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry — The Electronic Entertainment Expo …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 14 QPR 2 Beta 2 has broken the fingerprint sensor on the Pixel 7 Pro, according to user reports. One community-suggested solution is to try out the fingerprint recalibration tool from the official Pixel Repair website. Google recently released Android 14‘s latest beta in the form of QPR
Read MoreKomatsu’s 930E mining truck | Image: Komatsu General Motors announced a new partnership with Japanese construction vehicle manufacturer Komatsu to build heavy-duty mining trucks powered by the automaker’s hydrogen fuel-cell technology. The company will work with the Japanese firm to install its Hydrotec-branded “power cubes,” each containing 300 individual hydrogen fuel cells with an output
Read MoreReuters: Seychelles-based crypto exchange KuCoin agrees to pay $22M and block New York users to settle a lawsuit brought by New York AG Letitia James in March 2023 — New link at Reuters
Read MoreWe’ve seen a lot of AI tools lately, and, of course, we know they aren’t really smart, but they sure fool people into thinking they are actually intelligent. Of course, these programs can only pick through their training, and a lot depends on what they are trained on. When you use something like ChatGPT, for
Read MoreDaryna Antoniuk / The Record: Ukraine’s largest telco Kyivstar says it’s mitigating a cyberattack that led to a “large-scale technical failure” denying millions internet and cell service — Kyivstar customers began complaining about network and internet outages in the early morning.
Read MoreImage: Free Radical Design Free Radical Design, the Nottingham, UK-based studio that had been working on a revival of the PS2-era TimeSplitters franchise, has shut down. “Today, we have to confirm the official closure of Free Radical Design, and say goodbye to many remarkable, talented and hard-working people,” parent company Plaion posted on LinkedIn. “We
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Sometimes there’s the world you wish existed, and there’s the world as it is. Over the last week, Apple and the messaging app Beeper have been locked in a battle for users’ souls and security. The bones of the story are this: Beeper released a new app, Beeper
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro E3 is dead for good. While the video game industry had already largely given up on E3 — once the largest video game trade show in the industry and the biggest video game showcase event of the year — there was always the chance it would return after multiple years of
Read MoreAlexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: Memo: The New York Times has hired Quartz co-founder Zach Seward to work with the newsroom leadership in establishing principles around the use of generative AI — Quartz co-founder Zach Seward tasked with establishing principles for how the Times will and won’t use generative AI
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Jitjatjo, a gig marketplace with 40K+ workers who businesses can book with as little as an hour’s notice, raised a $30 Series B, bringing total funding to ~$65M — Jitjatjo, a gig marketplace through which businesses can book workers with as little as an hour’s notice …
Read MoreThe Beats Studio Pro are $170 off in all colors. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge What’s with all of our favorite Black Friday deals resurfacing lately? First, it was the Sonos Era, as we highlighted yesterday. Now, both the AirPods Pro and the Apple-owned Beats Studio Pro are just $10 shy of
Read MoreWith Apple’s latest WatchOS update, you can now read a text or stop an alarm with two quick finger taps.
Read MoreA company working with Tesla’s main US battery supplier has silicon-based tech that could soon give electric cars 500-mile ranges and charge refills in just 10 minutes.
Read MoreLi Yuan / New York Times: A profile of Li Ying, a Chinese graduate who used his X account to tell the world about protests in 2022 and now lives in exile after losing his livelihood — Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year’s protests. Now in exile, he
Read MoreApple’s macOS Sonoma 14.2 update is now available for download and it focuses on some key areas.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google’s Video Boost feature is slowly rolling out to users. Several users who have received the feature have posted Boosted Videos, giving us a fair look at what to expect when the feature rolls out widely. Google has recently rolled out the December 2023 Pixel Feature Drop, but
Read MoreWashington Post: Discord staff, moderators, and researchers say its rules and culture let a racist and antisemitic community flourish, after the April classified documents leak — After white supremacists used Discord to plan the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, company executives promised to clean up the service.
Read MoreThese popular Wi-Fi systems are easy to use, but the product lineup is confusing. Here’s how to choose the right one for your home.
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