Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft updates Copilot with OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-4 Turbo, and adds a new code interpreter feature and “Deep Search” functionality for Bing — Microsoft is detailing a number of new features coming to its Copilot service soon, including OpenAI’s latest models.
Read MoreJimmy Stewart as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life. | Republic Pictures It’s a Wonderful Life culminates the disembodied spirit of Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey realizing the value of his life after seeing how his friends and family would suffer if he wasn’t around. It’s a Wonderful Life’s celebration of the human spirit is
Read MorePhilips Hue’s Festavia lights can add festive cheer during the holidays or really any time of the year. | Image: Phillips Hue Whether you want to outshine your neighbors with the best light display or simply bring some holiday cheer into your home, Philips Hue’s Festavia string lights can help you do both. And right
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge While many of us rely on cloud storage these days for backing up photos, videos, and other files, every iPhone that can run iOS 17 also supports external storage devices: that’s every iPhone back to 2018, so it includes the iPhone XR, the iPhone XS, and the iPhone
Read MoreJacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Beeper debuts an Android app, Beeper Mini, to let users send iMessages with E2EE, without having to use a new number or log in with an Apple ID, for $2/month — Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky’s DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered
Read MoreWe have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machine that combined both of these things. Now thanks to [Usagi Electric] we can see just such a board, in the form of his UE-0.1, a roughly
Read MoreImage: New World Interactive New World Interactive, developer of Day of Infamy and the Insurgency series, is the next studio affected by Embracer Group layoffs. Earlier today, there were unconfirmed rumors that Embracer Group had completely shuttered the studio, but in an email to The Verge, New World’s parent company, Saber Interactive, clarified the studio
Read MoreCredit: Withings Withings has just announced a luxury hybrid smartwatch called the ScanWatch Nova. The ScanWatch Nova comes with a variety of health-focused features. The ScanWatch Nova is available starting today for $599.95. It was only a few months ago that health device maker Withings launched the ScanWatch 2. Off the heels of that launch,
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Read MoreMartin Coulter / Reuters: Amazon tells the UK CMA in a letter that Microsoft uses business practices that restrict customer choice in cloud computing, after a similar complaint by Google — Amazon (AMZN.O) has told Britain’s antitrust authority its rival Microsoft (MSFT.O) uses business practices that restrict customer choice …
Read MoreThe Butterfly has a pretty minimal footprint on a bedside table. | Image: Twelve South Twelve South is making a new 2-in-1 wireless charger for Apple Watches and MagSafe iPhones, and it might just be one of the best designs I’ve seen in a magnetic charger. The $129.95 Twelve South Butterfly consists of two aluminum-clad
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: OnePlus launches the OnePlus 12 in China, offering up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, 100W wired charging, for ~$606, ahead of an “early 2024” global launch — OnePlus has officially launched the OnePlus 12 in China, and its highest-specced model comes with more RAM …
Read MoreGlobes Online: Israeli data privacy and governance startup Mine, which counts Reddit and HelloFresh as clients, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures and PayPal — Mine, which develops B2B and B2C solutions in the field of data privacy, and governance, has 150 customers including Reddit, HelloFresh SE, Fender, Guesty, Snappy, and Data.ai.
Read MoreThe new app Beeper Mini lets Android users send texts that show up as blue bubbles on iPhones. We talked to the 16-year-old high school student who wrote the code to make it possible.
Read MoreScreenshots of Beeper Mini’s contact list, chat interface, and reactions. | Image: Beeper Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky’s DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered Apple’s iMessage, allowing any device — Android, Windows, whatever — to send messages as a blue bubble. Migicovsky didn’t believe what he was
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge | Photo by IBM What’s a qubit? Are quantum computers useful yet? And how wrong was Ant-Man, anyway? Continue reading…
Read MoreEarlier in this series, we made the case for copper being “the metal that built technology.” Some readers took issue with that statement, noting correctly that meteoric iron and gold were worked long before our ancestors were able to locate and exploit natural copper outcroppings, therefore beating copper to the historical punch. That seems to
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Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is detailing a number of new features coming to its Copilot service soon, including OpenAI’s latest models. Copilot will get support for GPT-4 Turbo soon, alongside an updated DALL-E 3 model, a new code interpreter feature, and deep search functionality inside Bing. Copilot will soon be able to respond using OpenAI’s latest
Read MoreHow to turn off NameDrop in iOS 17 so you have more control over your iPhone’s file sharing.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google’s Files app is testing a handy new upgrade that could make finding documents on your phone a lot easier. As first spotted by Android Police, the app’s listing on the Google Play Store says it’s testing a new Smart Search capability you can use to search for images and PDFs based
Read MoreImage: Apple The universe of Foundation is set to expand. Apple announced that the sci-fi streaming series, based on the classic stories by Isaac Asimov, will be coming back for a third season. There aren’t many details yet on what to expect — or when to expect it — but in a statement, showrunner David
Read MoreEmanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Leaked docs show concern at OctoML over helping its customer Civitai make AI images; OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said some “could be categorized as” CSAM — OctoML, the engine that powers a16z funded Civitai, thought the images could qualify as “child pornography,” …
Read MoreThe way that companies like Apple store information in data centers might be about to change in a big way thanks to ceramic tiles.
Read MoreAn Apple patent suggests that the company is planning a revamped Magic Mouse complete with a familiar feature.
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