Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge With stick drift plaguing so many controllers these days, it’s nice to see Sony making faulty thumbsticks a bit easier to repair on the PlayStation Portal. In a teardown video posted by iFixit, the team finds that only a little tinkering is required to access and
Read MoreImage: Tesla Tesla announced a new “Powershare” vehicle-to-load charging capability, only available on the new Cybertruck. The feature will allow Cybertruck owners to power their camping equipment, power tools, or even their entire home during a blackout, just by using their electric truck as a mobile generator. The truck also features a 240-volt outlet in
Read MoreReports of a mysterious breakthrough called Q* at OpenAI sparked anxious rumors. AI experts say it’s probably just a conventional attempt to make ChatGPT a little smarter.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta expands the keyword search feature of Threads to all markets where the app is available, with support for “all languages” — Instagram’s Twitter/X rival, Threads, is becoming more competitive with the expansion of its keyword search feature to all markets where the app is available.
Read MoreWelcome to the third edition of What’s New in AI, our weekly update where we bring you all the latest AI news, tools, and tips to help you excel in this new AI-driven future.
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Apple releases emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to fix two zero-days that may have been exploited, reaching 20 zero-days patched in 2023 — Apple released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and impacting iPhone, iPad …
Read MoreFour years after its debut, the Tesla Cybertruck has finally reached its first batch of customers. The truck was delivered to about a dozen people during a lavish event at the company’s headquarters in Austin, Texas, at which Elon Musk predicted the truck would usher in a new, more exciting future. The company also provided
Read MoreThe Raspberry Pi line is full of capable compact computers, but they’ve never been the strongest in the bunch when it comes to graphical output. Nor have they been particularly expandable in that regard. However, that’s all beginning to change, with [Jeff Geerling] reporting success getting external GPUs to work on the Raspberry Pi 5.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta expands the keyword search feature of Threads to all markets where the app is available, with support for “all languages” — Instagram’s Twitter/X rival, Threads, is becoming more competitive with the expansion of its keyword search feature to all markets where the app is available.
Read MoreJust three years after the iconic magazine abandoned its print version and went all-digital, Popular Science is now halting its subscription service entirely. The brand itself will live on — their site will still run tech stories and news articles, and they have two podcasts that will keep getting new episodes — but no more
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: How OpenAI’s low-key ChatGPT launch a year ago kickstarted a generational shift in the tech industry and what it means for the future of AI and the world — OpenAI didn’t mean to kickstart a generational shift in the technology industry. But it did. Now all we have to decide
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is giving employees an extra month, until January 5, to decide whether they want to sell shares in the company through a tender offer — – Concerns over the tender had arisen amid tumult over Altman — AI startup is giving staff an extra month to opt into the sale
Read MorePhoto: David Pierce / The Verge Valve’s Steam Link app, which lets you stream games from your Steam library to another device, is out now for the Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets, according to a news post from Valve. Having Steam Link available on Quest devices means that you can more easily play
Read MoreDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – NOVEMBER 30: COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber during the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Namely, should they even have a future?
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A teardown of the latest version of Android’s Google Photos app shows code suggesting the Google Pixel 8 Pro Video Boost feature is coming very soon. This feature allows for computational AI smarts to boost the visual look of a video. Google said this was coming in December, and
Read MoreFilm cameras can be complex and exquisitely-crafted masterpieces of analogue technology. But at their very simplest they need be little more than a light-proof box with a piece of film at the back of it, and some kind of lens or pinhole with a shutter. [ChickenCrimpy] adds the most basic of 35 mm cartridge to
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: An interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity with generative AI, women’s health tech, and more — By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses …
Read MoreImage: Larian Studios Christmas miracles are rare, they are beautiful, and with Patch 5 of Baldur’s Gate 3 out now, they have come early. Patch 5 is a massive update that adds new difficulty modes, patches a notorious slowdown bug, lets you wear armor that gives the Wavemother’s Robe a run for its money, and
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: TikTok plans to spend €12B over 10 years in Europe, including on three data centers and a security audit, as the company begins work on its Norway data center — TikTok says it will spend €12 billion as part of an ongoing push to ingratiate itself with European regulators …
Read MoreGoogle is rolling out the Android Feature Drop for Q4 2023. There are new features for Google Messages, Wear OS, Google TV, and more. You should see these features rolling out in the coming days and weeks to supported Android devices. Each quarter, Google rolls out a feature drop for the world of Android. Today
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google has revealed a variety of new additions to its Messages app. One feature lets you clip subjects from images to use them as reactions. Other notable features include Voice Moods and full-screen animated effects. Google Messages is the preloaded texting app on loads of Android phones around the
Read MoreInstagram’s Threads is reportedly ready to launch in the EU as X owner Elon Musk continues to alienate just about everyone.
Read MoreSheena Vasani / The Verge: TikTok launches verified artist accounts, offering various tools to deepen engagement and improve discoverability, seemingly inspired by Spotify — These accounts can be activated by any musician and come with tools to help artists reach new fans and increase engagement with existing ones.
Read MoreImage: Toho Toho’s latest Godzilla film from writer / director Takashi Yamazaki takes the kaiju king back to its roots to tell a sobering story about reckoning with the present. Continue reading…
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Google says RCS in Google Messages now has over 1B MAUs, and adds Photomoji, Screen Effects, Custom Bubbles, and other features — First, the number: according to Google, over 1 billion monthly active users are using RCS in Google Messages. That’s huge considering support was scarce …
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