Will Life Be Better in the Metaverse?
WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on the lure of augmented reality and what may get left behind here on earth.
Read MoreWIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on the lure of augmented reality and what may get left behind here on earth.
Read MoreThe OA had the kind of fans who held flash mobs to protest its cancelation. Now its creators are back with A Murder at the End of the World, and a warning about tech’s influence on people’s lives.
Read MoreMillions of older adults likely have minor memory issues that can later become dementia. But only a fraction of them are diagnosed early enough for new treatments to stand a chance.
Read MoreOne of the unexpected success stories in the world of hi-fi over the past decade has been the resurgence of the vinyl LP as a musical format. What was once old hat is now cool again, but for freshy minted vinyl fans there’s a snag. Hi-fi itself has moved on from the analogue into the
Read MoreJohn D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware — Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam — Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Code within the Snapchat app suggests Snapchat is working on a new “Friends & Family Plan.” This is likely to be a group subscription plan that extends the benefits of the Snapchat Plus subscription to selected friends. The plan is expected to be available under monthly and annual subscription
Read MoreRyan Heath / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, Discord, Vimeo, and others sign up to the Christchurch Call to Action, established after a 2019 mass killing to moderate extremist content — Ardern sat down with Axios in Paris Friday to explain how AI is changing her approach to extremist content.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube’s recent sweeping ban on ad blockers is a hot topic of debate these days. On one hand, there are folks who refuse to break under Google’s pressure and sign up for an ad-free YouTube experience, and on the other, there are people who swear by YouTube Premium and
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Dee Dwyer for The Verge The US is the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas. Can Granholm chart a path to a more sustainable future? Continue reading…
Read MoreI’ve always wanted a set of pretty, cheap speakers that sound great. Creative delivered with the Pebble V3.
Read MoreCombustion’s “countdown to doneness” timer, which is informed by its sensor-packed probe, makes roasting and grilling a stress-free joy.
Read MoreAxios: The Block sells an 80% stake to Singaporean VC Foresight Ventures, valuing the crypto outlet at $70M and freeing the business from financial ties to FTX — Crypto media company The Block sold a majority stake to Singaporean venture capital firm Foresight Ventures in a deal valuing the crypto outlet at $70 million.
Read MoreCredit: vivo Chinese brand vivo has announced the X100 and X100 Pro. The two phones share features like a Dimensity 9300 chip, IP68 rating, and more. The X100 Pro also offers a ~4.1x periscope camera with a sun mode. Chinese manufacturer vivo has made major strides in the last few years as far as cameras
Read MoreIllustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California’s right-to-repair law. But software locks and other obstacles seem to signal that the fight is far from over. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Ryan-Thomas Shaw / Android Authority The smartphone industry has mostly switched to OLED screens, with LCD panels generally confined to low-end devices these days. It’s a sharp contrast from six or seven years ago when even some of the best phones offered LCD screens. That got us thinking about whether you’d ever buy a
Read MoreEarly video games like Pong were not computer-controlled. They used discrete logic to generate the TV signals. As you might expect, the market exploded when you could get all the logic on a chip. Many of those games used the General Instrument AY-3-8500-1 chip, and [Jeff Tranter] shows us the chip and the many different
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority ASUS’s bootloader unlock tool has been unavailable for many months now. The company previously denied reports that its phone could no longer be bootloader unlocked, assuring users that the policy had not changed. However, the situation has not changed, and for phones like the Zenfone 10, users have not
Read MoreTom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Microsoft EVP of Business Development Chris Young on the AI hype, Microsoft making a business out of AI, the non-tech early adopters of AI, and more — Top strategy executive views nontech customers as artificial intelligence’s big untapped market
Read MoreDid GitHub just jump the shark? At GitHub Universe last week, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke declared, “Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot,” essentially telling developers, from here on, we’re all AI, all the time. Dohmke was selling a bold future intended to keep GitHub at the center of
Read MoreSince the proliferation of large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, and Google’s PaLM 2, we have seen an explosion of generative AI applications in almost every industry, cybersecurity included. However, for a majority of LLM applications, privacy and data residency is a major concern that limits the applicability of these technologies.
Read MoreReuters: Didi reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to ~$7B, a ~$14.7M net income, up from a ~$274M loss in Q3 2022, and plans to buy back $1B in shares over the next 24 months — Didi Global, China’s largest ride-hailing company, on Monday reported its first quarterly profit since 2021 …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google is suing scammers who are trying to use the hype around generative AI to trick people into downloading malware, the company has announced. In a lawsuit filed today in California, the company says individuals believed to be based in Vietnam are setting up social media pages and running ads encouraging users
Read MoreByron Kaye / Reuters: Australian telecom Optus says the recent massive outage that impacted 10M+ was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” — Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% …
Read MoreMadhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sam Altman says he expected “to raise a lot more” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs — Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up’s mission to create software as intelligent as humans
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Colleague Rita El-Khoury used the Nothing Phone 2 and came away feeling that monochrome themes aren’t actually boring.
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