The Happy Hacking Keyboard line from PFU America is aimed at users who want a compact, but powerful and customizable keyboard with a great typing feel. The latest version of the HHKB (as it’s abbreviated) is the HHKB Studio, designed to compress both keyboard and mouse functionality into the most compact footprint possible. Like its
Read MoreDiane Bartz / Reuters: In a letter to Elon Musk, 27 US lawmakers, all Democrats, express concern that X seems to be profiting from anti-Israel propaganda via ads and subscriptions — A group of 27 U.S. lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday to express concern the platform seemed to be
Read MoreWall Street Journal: OpenAI insiders and other sources describe the turmoil within OpenAI following Sam Altman’s ousting and how Altman’s supporters rallied behind him — A fired CEO, middle-finger emojis and the battle royale over the future of artificial intelligence — Sam Altman was in Las Vegas …
Read MoreElon Musk cofounded OpenAI but left after his own failed coup. Now he has shared an unsigned letter containing unverified accusations against the recently fired CEO, Sam Altman.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Happy Thanksgiving week! I will be out tomorrow making twice baked potatoes, putting together holiday baby outfits (many tiny overalls will be worn!!), and attempting a night drive to Long
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: before his ousting, Sam Altman made a move to push out board member Helen Toner because he thought a paper she had co-written was critical of OpenAI — Sam Altman attacked a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed about who should fill board vacancies open
Read MoreTurn signals in most of the world are mandated to be a flashing orange light, distinct from other bulbs on a vehicle. However, there has been a trend in the modern era to go for fancier animated turn signals using great numbers of LEDs. [ssh16] decided to whip up a set of their own to
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission has recently filed a complaint against the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. According to Protos, the SEC alleges that Kraken has been functioning as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing house. Kraken’s Monday announcement has sparked a strong rebuttal from the company, which is prepared to fiercely contest these allegations.
Read MoreThe Information: Tiger Global Management’s Scott Shleifer will transition from his role leading private investments to a senior adviser role, effective January 1, 2024 — Scott Shleifer, a key architect of Tiger Global Management’s aggressive private tech dealmaking during the 2020-2022 startup boom …
Read MoreA groundbreaking AI system, which can diagnose autism in children between 24 and 48 months with a remarkable 98.5% accuracy rate, could revolutionize early autism detection, according to a report by New Medical. Researchers recently presented this significant development at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Developing the AI diagnostic tool
Read MoreMichael Acton / Financial Times: Nvidia expects strong growth in most regions to offset a “significant” drop in sales to China because of recently tightened AI chip rules — US chipmaker forecasts higher than expected revenues on strong demand for its AI processors — Nvidia forecast higher than expected sales …
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Users on Reddit and Hacker News are complaining that YouTube seems to have inserted an intentional five-second delay before video pages will load in Mozilla’s Firefox and occasionally some other browsers. YouTube tells The Verge that these users are right about the delay, but the browser has nothing to
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Read MoreWinston Cho / Hollywood Reporter: A US district judge dismisses most claims in a lawsuit by Sarah Silverman and other authors against Meta’s use of copyrighted material to train Llama models — The ruling builds upon findings from another federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against AI art generators, who similarly delivered …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge ChatGPT’s voice feature is now available to all users for free. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI announced users can now tap the headphones icon to use their voice to talk with ChatGPT in the mobile app, as well as get an audible response. OpenAI first rolled out the ability
Read MoreReuters: The US FTC approves a new resolution to streamline investigations of cases where AI is used to break the law — Investigations of cases where artificial intelligence (AI) is used to break the law will be streamlined under a new process approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency said on Tuesday.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Former OpenAI President Greg Brockman announces that ChatGPT’s voice narration feature is now available to all free users — Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman — who, as far as we’re aware, isn’t currently employed at OpenAI in any capacity — is posting updates about OpenAI products on X …
Read MoreIf we’re honest, many of us know that we’re only around six weeks away from starting out on some 2024 fitness goals. A fitness tracker will come in handy if you’re going to motivate yourself in the winter months, and the Fitbit Black Friday sale leaves you with little reason not to invest. There’s as
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Read MoreChangpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, will step down and plead guilty to violating money-laundering requirements as part of a DOJ settlement. The company will also pay $4.3 billion in fines.
Read MoreFlipboard Flipboard is the latest company to end its presence on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a Medium post published Tuesday, the company said it would no longer be “actively monitoring or posting updates on X,” save for the occasional retweet. Instead, Flipboard will be refocusing its efforts on Mastodon and other
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B — – Nvidia’s results surpassed analysts’ projections for revenue and income in the fiscal fourth quarter.
Read MoreJon Swartz / MarketWatch: HP reports Q4 revenue down 6.5% YoY to $13.8B, vs. $13.8B est., Personal Systems revenue down 8% YoY to $9.4B, and Printing revenue down 3% YoY to $4.4B — HP Inc.’s stock initially dipped more than 3% in extended trading Tuesday after the computing giant reported generally solid results …
Read MoreKara Swisher / @karaswisher: Sources: fruitful negotiations between OpenAI’s board and Sam Altman’s side are taking place; Microsoft is being kept apprised and is likely to get board seats — Update on @OpenAI situation: Many sources tell me fruitful negotiations are taking place now between @sama side (he has a crew of well known outside
Read MoreAs the company has strongly hinted in recent weeks, Sonos will indeed release its first-ever pair of headphones next year. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who pegs a release as early as April. The over-ear headphones are rumored to cost between $400 and $500 — very premium territory for a company that’s brand new
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