The 80 Black Friday Deals to Shop Right Now
The season of gifting—and therefore shopping—begins. Get started with these discounted iPads, TVs, and bed sheets.
Read MoreThe season of gifting—and therefore shopping—begins. Get started with these discounted iPads, TVs, and bed sheets.
Read MoreOur favorite coffee machines, accessories, and even coffee beans are on sale. That includes tons of Fellow gear too.
Read MoreAnthropic gives Claude more abilities. | Image: Anthropic While OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, there’s a new chatbot update from Anthropic, the Google-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI engineers who left over disagreements about the company’s increasingly commercial direction as its Microsoft partnership went on. Anthropic has announced that the
Read MoreScott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter: EAO: global streamers spent €4.9B on European original content in 2022, up 70% YoY; Netflix spent €2.2B, Amazon €1.1B, Disney €500K, and HBO and Apple €400K — Global streamers spent $5.4 billion on original European content last year, but still account for just under a quarter of total spend
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android 14 QPR2 beta 1.1 is rolling out now to Pixels enrolled in the beta program. It brings just a few bug fixes but no new features. This beta is a sneak peek at what the Pixel feature drop in March 2024 will include. Last week, Google surprisingly rolled
Read MoreAnel Islamovic / Stability AI: Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion in research preview, its first foundation model for generative video based on the Stable Diffusion image model — Today, we are releasing Stable Video Diffusion, our first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion.
Read More@cz_binance: Changpeng Zhao says he is stepping down as CEO of Binance and that Richard Teng, formerly the Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named CEO — Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do.
Read MoreImage: Getty As Tesla prepares to deliver its first Cybertrucks to customers, a new report paints a grisly picture of the Texas factory where the truck is being built, including a casting machine explosion and a robot allegedly goring a worker. The Information reported some of the gruesome incidents that have occurred at the Gigafactory
Read MoreFrom Russia to Iran, the feds have charged Binance with allegedly conducting well over $1 billion in transactions with sanctioned countries and criminal actors.
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the owner and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has agreed to step down and plead guilty to breaking anti-money laundering laws, according to papers filed in a Seattle court on Tuesday. This comes as part of the major settlement the Department of Justice announced this afternoon,
Read MoreSemafor: Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, one of the most prominent backers of “effective altruism”, now questions the merits of running companies based on the philosophy — One of the most prominent backers of the “effective altruism” movement at the heart of the ongoing turmoil at OpenAI …
Read MoreDave Filoni in April at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London. | Photo by Jeff Spicer / Getty Images for Disney Dave Filoni just got rewarded for the success of Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, and other Star Wars shows with a promotion to chief creative officer of Lucasfilm. According to details in a new Vanity Fair
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I’ve written once or twice (or a hundred times) about how I’m not really a smartwatch guy. I don’t like having to charge one more device each day, and I can’t be bothered to type out a text message from the confines of my wrist. Give me a reliable
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: LucidLink, which helps teams work on files without having to download or sync them, raised a $75M Series C and says it has nearly 5x ARR growth over two years — LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos to make a long-awaited push into headphones with a $400 model coming as early as April, is working on a video service and streaming device, more — – Company plans to compete with Bose and Apple with headphones — New Roam speaker, high-end sound bar and video service coming
Read MoreCNBC: Court docs: Binance’s Changpeng Zhao to plead guilty to federal charges and step down as part of a ~$4B DOJ settlement; the DOJ suggests the court fine him $50M — – The U.S. Department of Justice has brought criminal charges against Binance and its billionaire founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao.
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Internal emails show that Google was considering buying a controlling stake in Epic Games even before Stadia launched. Google reportedly wanted to influence Epic’s approach to Android. Stadia lead Phil Harrison suggested just buying Epic Games out entirely. Currently, Google is in a court fight with Epic Games, being
Read MoreSam Tobin / Reuters: A London tribunal rules Sony must face a lawsuit alleging it abused its dominance by forcing digital games and add-ons to be bought and sold only via its store — Sony (6758.T) must face a mass lawsuit worth up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims the PlayStation maker abused
Read MoreNeed some smart home gadgets or toiletries? Target started its holiday sale early, with a price-match guarantee.
Read MoreA second Starship test flight advanced a bit further than the first, with the rocket reaching the edge of space but blowing up soon after. Industry experts say it’s still a step forward.
Read MoreMusk has filed his “thermonuclear” suit against Media Matters for America at the same time the Texas Attorney General launched an investigation into the nonprofit.
Read MoreAnalog computers have been around in some form for a very long time. One very obvious place they were used was in military vehicles. While submarine fire computers and the Norden bombsight get all the press, [msylvain59] has a lesser-known example: an M13A1 ballistic computer from an M48 tank that he tears down for us
Read MoreVideo conference service Google Meet is adding gesture recognition to make it easier to ask a question during a video call. | Image: Google Google Meet can now recognize when your physical hand is raised on camera during group video calls and alert the host. This means you don’t have to fiddle with clicking the
Read MoreSam Tobin / Reuters: A London tribunal rules Sony must face a lawsuit alleging it abused its dominance by forcing digital games and add-ons to be bought and sold only via its store — Sony (6758.T) must face a mass lawsuit worth up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims the PlayStation maker abused
Read MoreNicolas Cage as Paul Matthews. | Image: A24 Writer / director Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario capitalizes on Nicolas Cage’s status as a living legend to tell a brilliant story about the perils of fame. Continue reading…
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