Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority There’s a new feature for Google Home called custom clips. This allows you to download any clip you want from your video history. Google is also bringing a few other new features to the Public Preview program. When it comes to security cameras, Google’s Nest cams are some
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts Titan Image Generator, an AI model that can create images from text and add invisible watermarks to them, in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock — Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done
Read MoreThis is an official press screenshot from TinyLetter. Throwback! | Image: TinyLetter Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters. The service will be discontinued on February 29th, 2024, according to a message I see when logged into my TinyLetter account. A
Read MoreJason Koebler / 404 Media: Plex users express alarm after receiving a “week in review” summary that showed what their friends had watched, part of Plex’s opt-out Discover Together tool — “I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex’s Week
Read MoreOn the surface, the electric grid might seem like a solved piece of infrastructure. But there’s actually been a large amount of computerized modernization going in the background for the past decade or so. At a large scale this means automatic control of the grid, but for some electric utility customers like [Alex] this means
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says it’s focused with Goldman Sachs on providing “an incredible experience” for customers, after a report that Apple plans to end their partnership — Apple is quietly disputing a headline by The Wall Street Journal that claims the tech giant has “pulled the plug” …
Read MoreWASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 13, 2022: (L-R) U.S. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, U.S. First Lady Jill Biden U.S. President Joe Biden, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), stand onstage after the conclusion of an event celebrating the passage of the Inflation
Read MoreCAR-T cell therapy harnesses the immune system to attack blood cancers. Six years after approving the first treatment, the FDA is investigating whether it can give rise to secondary cancers.
Read MorePhoto by Noah Berger / Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon is joining the AI image generation fray with the release of its Titan text-to-image AI model. Announced during the AWS re:Invent conference, Titan Image Generator can create “realistic, studio-quality images” and is supposed to have built-in guardrails against toxicity and bias. Titan isn’t
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy for its users at no extra charge on December 14 in its mobile app or on the App Store and Google Play — The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition” will be available Dec. 14
Read MoreAfter reasonable success with last year’s Nothing Phone, the fledgling brand is back once more with the Nothing Phone 2. This time around, Nothing is spreading its reach further, formally bringing its phones to the US for the first time. Just like the Pixel 7a, the Nothing Phone 2 promises a high-end experience while keeping
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Code within the Link to Windows app suggests that Microsoft could let you use your Android phone as a video stream for your laptop, possibly acting like a webcam. The video stream has been spotted with features like filters and effects like auto-framing. The feature could potentially compete against
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S23 FE brings a lot of the best Galaxy S23 features while dramatically cutting down the price tag. It’s a great phone out of the box, but there are certainly plenty of Android apps that can help make it an even better experience. Whether you’ve already pre-ordered the S23 FE or
Read MoreCredit: YouTube The Grand Theft Auto trilogy is coming to Netflix Games. The package includes remastered mobile versions of GTA III, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas. Netflix subscribers can pre-register for access to the titles starting November 30. In a massive win for gamers, Netflix is bringing the Grand Theft Auto trilogy to
Read MoreIllustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge Google Drive users on Android have had the ability to scan documents and save them as PDFs for a while now. However, recently Google has upgraded that feature for Android users, adding automatic captures, among other upgrades, and is also rolling out the feature for iOS users. As soon
Read MoreLast time, I assembled a Python object representing a Rigol oscilloscope. Manipulating the object communicates with the scope over the network. But my original goal was to build a little GUI window to sit next to the scope’s web interface. Had I stuck with C++ or even C, I would probably have just defaulted to
Read MoreMichael Peel / Financial Times: Google DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures using GNoME, more than 45x larger than all substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists — Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation
Read MoreRaphael Satter / Reuters: Elliptic and Corvus Insurance: the “Black Basta” ransomware group, suspected of being a Conti offshoot, extorted at least $107M in bitcoin since early 2022 — A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked …
Read MoreThese days, you have to be careful what you buy. Counterfeit hardware is everywhere, especially when you’re purchasing things sight unseen over the Internet. [Jon Bruner] recently set out to look at a bunch of fake AirPod clones, and found that the similarities between the imposters and the real thing are only skin deep. A
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has answered everyone’s prayers and given us a Pixel Watch fully charged notification. Your phone will now tell you when your Pixel Watch has reached 100%. We know it works on a Pixel Watch 2, but are unsure about the original Pixel Watch. At the beginning of the
Read MoreHere’s a photo of compact mode on a ROG Ally. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft’s new “compact mode” that makes the Xbox PC app a little easier to use on handheld gaming PCs is now available. The company had been testing the compact mode, but thanks to an update to the
Read MoreBloomberg: Rover, an online marketplace for pet care services, agrees to be acquired by Blackstone in a $2.3B all-cash deal, or $11 per share; ROVR jumps 28%+ — – Shares surge as much as 31%, most since company’s IPO — Pet economy exploded in pandemic with wave of adoptions
Read MoreImage: Netflix Netflix is adding the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition to its ever expanding, ever impressive roster of games just in time for the holiday need-a-20-minute-break-from-the-family season. Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition (which we’re going to call the GTA Trilogy for simplicity’s sake) is a remaster
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The stable OnePlus 10 Pro Android 14 rollout has started. So far, it’s live in India with version number NE2211_14.0.0.202(EX01). Other global variants will likely come in the next few days. OnePlus has already pushed out Oxygen OS 14 — based on Android 14 — to its current flagship,
Read MoreNew York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien in 2022. | Photo by Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images We’re reporting live from DealBook Summit 2023, where leaders in tech, media, and policy are sitting for interviews. Continue reading…
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