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OpenText agrees to divest its app modernization and connectivity business to Rocket Software for about $2.28B in cash, expected to close by June 30, 2024 (Denny Jacob/Wall Street Journal)

Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: OpenText agrees to divest its app modernization and connectivity business to Rocket Software for about $2.28B in cash, expected to close by June 30, 2024 — The deal reinforces and expands its focus on the cloud and artificial intelligence, Open Text says — Open Text agreed to divest …

Google Registry launches a new .meme top level domain, adding to .dad, .boo, .ing, and its other unconventional domain names (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google Registry launches a new .meme top level domain, adding to .dad, .boo, .ing, and its other unconventional domain names — If you ever wanted to make your website sound a little more silly, now’s your chance. Google Registry just released a new top-level domain that lets you slap a

Who needs a smartwatch? This tech uses your selfie camera to track your health

Credit: NEC Japanese company NEC has revealed the ability to track your well-being via your selfie camera. The solution apparently analyzes your face and pupils to track various metrics. This isn’t the only solution that claims to offer health insights via a phone’s selfie camera. We’ve seen plenty of smartphones capable of measuring your vitals

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky takes a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft at re:Invent: “You don’t want a cloud provider that’s beholden primarily to one model provider” (Financial Times)

Financial Times: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky takes a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft at re:Invent: “You don’t want a cloud provider that’s beholden primarily to one model provider” — Adam Selipsky says companies ‘don’t want a cloud provider that’s beholden primarily to one model provider’

Apple could pull the plug on future in-house iPhone upgrade as 5G modem development “winding down”

After months of setbacks, a new report claims Apple is winding down its investment in developing an in-house 5G modem for its iPhone.

Amazon executive John Boumphrey says selling pre-owned goods in the UK and Europe is now a $1.3B business and Amazon sold 4M+ used items in 2022 in the UK (James Davey/Reuters)

James Davey / Reuters: Amazon executive John Boumphrey says selling pre-owned goods in the UK and Europe is now a $1.3B business and Amazon sold 4M+ used items in 2022 in the UK — Consumer demand for refurbished and pre-owned goods in Britain and across Europe has created a billion pound ($1.3 billion) business for

This 10-year-old wants Apple to change the “offensive and insulting” “nerd” glasses emoji

A young boy from the UK launches a petition for Apple to change its “nerd” emoji as it is “offensive and insulting.”

Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science

From data access to scientific merit, Dr. Norman is working to make astronomy—and all STEM fields—more inclusive.

Fresh Bitcoin Hype Shows Crypto Just Can’t Help Itself

After crashes, scandals, and SBF’s guilty verdict, many hoped the crypto industry would grow up. Speculation around the arrival of a spot bitcoin ETF shows old hype dies hard.

OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets

Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.

Q&A with Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami on Wix’s embrace of AI, how the business models of the web can survive AI, Israel-Hamas war content moderation, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami on Wix’s embrace of AI, how the business models of the web can survive AI, Israel-Hamas war content moderation, and more — The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he’s not too worried that it might destroy the business models

Apple to cancel credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs

Questions remain, including if Apple has a new credit-card partner lined up?

Glowing proteins help MIT scientists illuminate cellular mysteries

A team of MIT researchers has developed a groundbreaking new imaging technique that enables scientists to observe up to seven different molecules at once inside living cells. This new method, described in a study published today in Cell, will give researchers an unprecedented view into the complex molecular signaling networks within cells. According to a

Apple might be testing FOUR new Vision Pro headsets including a cut-price model

Apple is reportedly testing four new models of Vision Pro including one that will cost much less to build.

Poll: Would you still buy the Galaxy S24 Ultra if it had no 10x camera?

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung‘s Ultra phones have offered a dedicated 10x periscope camera for a few generations now, dating back to 2021’s Galaxy S21 Ultra. That could change in 2024, though. Numerous leaks point to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra skipping out on a 10x periscope camera. Instead, the firm is tipped

Google beefs up Drive’s document scanning feature and brings it to iPhone

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Drive users on iOS are getting a new scanning feature that lets them quickly photograph documents and add them to their libraries, the search giant has announced. The feature has been available for Android for over a decade, but until now iPhone and iPad users haven’t had

Get started with Java’s new structured concurrency model

Structured concurrency is a new way to use multithreading in Java. It allows developers to think about work in logical groups while taking advantage of both traditional and virtual threads. Available in preview in Java 21, structured concurrency is a key aspect of Java’s future, so now is a good time to start working with it. Why

How to use Pandas for data analysis in Python

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for massaging tables of data. But what if you want more control, precision, and power than Excel alone delivers? In that case,

Microsoft ML.NET 3.0 expands deep learning capabilities

Microsoft has released ML.NET 3.0, the latest version of the company’s open-source, cross-platform machine learning framework, which enables the integration of machine learning models into .NET applications. Announced November 27, ML.NET 3.0 can be accessed from dotnet.microsoft.com. ML.NET 3.0 includes new deep learning capabilities in object detection, named entity recognition, and question answering. Support for

Didi blamed a “low-level” software glitch for an outage that disrupted its car-hailing service in China and added the outage wasn’t the result of a cyberattack (Sarah Zheng/Bloomberg)

Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Didi blamed a “low-level” software glitch for an outage that disrupted its car-hailing service in China and added the outage wasn’t the result of a cyberattack — – The company discovered a ‘low-level’ software systems glitch — Didi trying to stage a comeback and list in Hong Kong in 2024

AMD unveils its largest global design center, housing ~3,000 engineers, in Bengaluru as part of the company’s planned $400M investment over five years in India (Vikas SN/Moneycontrol)

Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: AMD unveils its largest global design center, housing ~3,000 engineers, in Bengaluru as part of the company’s planned $400M investment over five years in India — AMD’s new Bengaluru facility is part of the $400 million India investment announced by the chip design firm at Semicon 2023.

Sources: Jack Ma praised PDD Holdings while urging Alibaba to change and “correct its course”, in a rare reply to a staff post on Alibaba’s internal forum (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Jack Ma praised PDD Holdings while urging Alibaba to change and “correct its course”, in a rare reply to a staff post on Alibaba’s internal forum — – The billionaire replied to an employee on an internal forum — Ma congratulated archrival for pushing the boundaries

IKEA launches three new smart home sensors that anyone can afford

Credit: IKEA IKEA has launched three useful smart home sensors for less than $10. They will be available starting January 2024. The new lineup includes a window and door sensor, a wireless motion detector, and a water leakage detector. IKEA has launched three new smart home sensors: Parasoll, Vallhorn, and Badring. The names don’t immediately

Investigation: Palestinians are excluded from or face barriers when trying to monetize via Google services, bringing the region’s digital divide under scrutiny (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Investigation: Palestinians are excluded from or face barriers when trying to monetize via Google services, bringing the region’s digital divide under scrutiny — YouTube’s revenue sharing for creators and other Google services are shut off or hard to access for people in Palestinian territories.

PSA: You should update Chrome on your PC due to this serious flaw

Google has released an important update for the Chrome web browser on computers. This update patches a zero-day vulnerability that could be used to hack users. Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser, and the Mountain View company has been hard at work to patch vulnerabilities in 2023. Now, the company has released

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