If you’ve ever been to the dental surgery and found yourself requiring some gum surgery, the chances are you’ll have found your dentist wielding an electronic probe to cauterise the flesh. It’s evidently some form of RF device because you are usually required to hold one of the electrodes while it’s being used, but annoyingly,
Read MoreDaniel Wiessner / Reuters: Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over US citizens and green card holders for some jobs — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will pay $25 million to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the company illegally favored immigrant
Read MoreExperts are finding thousands of examples of AI-created content every week that could allow terrorist groups and other violent extremists to bypass automated detection systems.
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge After Google confirmed yesterday that it gave Spotify a sweetheart deal on Android app store fees, we were curious if dating company Bumble or any of the other 80 or so developers that have joined Google’s “User Choice Billing” program were similarly given an alternative arrangement or other
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge In its Q3 earnings report published Thursday, game development software company Unity announced that it will “likely” be implementing layoffs as part of broader cost saving measures. In the report, the company says it is assessing its product portfolio “to focus on those products that are most valuable
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Internal website: Microsoft restricts employee access to ChatGPT and other external AI services like Midjourney or Replika “due to security and data concerns” — – Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT, CNBC has learned. — “Due to security and data concerns …
Read MoreRed Hat on November 8 announced both the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 and the planned release of RHEL 8.9, which expand the built-in Podman container management capabilities. Both versions natively include the Podman open source daemonless tool for running and sharing Linux containers. The two releases further integrate this functionality
Read MoreNintendo is making a live-action movie adaptation of its beloved Legend of Zelda franchise, a move that points to the company’s long-term goals.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple has agreed to pay up to $25 million to settle claims that it engaged in hiring discrimination. On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that $18.25 million will go toward creating a backpay fund for affected victims, while the remaining $6.75 million is in civil penalties. The DOJ found that Apple
Read MoreCruise set out to win the autonomous car race by starting with urban driving. After a pedestrian was dragged under a robotaxi, the company and its parent GM are cutting jobs and making other changes.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Activision is getting set to launch a new, and dare I say fun, system to counter cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone. As part of an update to the game’s Ricochet anti-cheat system, a new feature called Splat will randomly and without warning plummet detected cheaters straight to
Read MoreImage: Netflix We’ve seen the announcements, then the actors, the teaser, and now the first official trailer for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation is finally here. The trailer was a short but packed affair, offering really good looks at both the main characters and the just-as-beloved side characters. Kyoshi Warrior Suki looks amazing, as
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Arm CEO Rene Haas says Arm is working on a “complex deal” that, if closed by year-end, would boost Q3 revenue, expresses optimism about US-China ties, and more — Arm CEO Rene Haas knows that the first rule of post-IPO earnings is to meet or beat Wall Street expectations.
Read MoreUltraman’s classic powers make him well-equipped to deal with almost any larger-than-life situation threatening the lives of ordinary people. But in the first teaser for Netflix’s new animated Ultraman: Rising feature from co-directors Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima, none of the hero’s incredible powers can prepare him for the challenges of becoming a father… to
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Unity reports Q3 revenue up 69% YoY to $544.2M, missing estimates of $553.7M partly because of the fallout from new rules on video games in China; U drops 15%+ — – Unity’s revenue growth fell short of estimates, partly because of fallout from new rules on video games in China.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach goals for a new audience, aiming to move some staff members to other divisions of parent company Automattic. A leaked memo, which circulated on Tumblr and was confirmed in a Verge comment by Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, says that “the majority” of Tumblr’s
Read MoreWith Netflix’s Umbrella Academy coming to a close with its upcoming fourth season, it seemed like Netflix planned on giving viewers at least a little peek at what to expect during this week’s Geeked Week showcase. Turns out, that’s not quite the case. Every member of The Umbrella Academy’s core cast seems quite excited about
Read MoreStaff at US federal contractor Maximus claim they only get six minutes a day to use the bathroom, are monitored by an AI system that reports them for going off script, and can’t afford health care.
Read MoreLaura Normand / The Verge The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX won a court order preventing the Department of Justice’s hiring discrimination lawsuit from moving forward, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Judge Rolando Olvera ruled that the DOJ’s administrative judges don’t have the authority to review the case. The DOJ
Read MoreOmegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to build public and private datasets that “reflect human society” for AI model training — It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. — Image corpora tends to be U.S …
Read MoreBloomberg: Amazon and Meta are testing a feature that shows shoppers real-time prices and lets them buy from Amazon directly via ads on Instagram and Facebook in the US — – Consumers can link Amazon accounts to social-media profiles — Instagram ads urge users to use Amazon purchase button
Read MoreSoma Biswas / Wall Street Journal: A bankruptcy court allows Celsius Network to end its bankruptcy case, return some of its users’ deposits, and form a new company focused on mining and staking — A bankruptcy judge allowed the onetime crypto lender to return some of its customers’ deposits while forming a new company focused
Read MoreApple is enabling spatial video capture in beta for use on the upcoming Vision Pro headset. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is rolling out its latest beta version of iOS 17, and it includes the ability to record spatial videos on the iPhone 15 Pro for viewing in the upcoming Vision
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat will soon have AR lenses that use ChatGPT. The company announced the update today at Lens Fest, its annual developer event. The new beta of Lens Studio for developers includes the ability to create filters with ChatGPT. In an example lens, Snap shows a solar system-themed filter
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