Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A Google employee testified that the firm’s revenue-sharing deals are meant to help OEMs against iOS. Google also pays Apple as part of these deals, though. This defense is nevertheless at odds with charges that Google pays OEMs and Apple for search exclusivity. Google has long come under fire
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority ChatGPT is still experiencing outages for many users. OpemAI is investigating a possible DDoS attack. Users are unable to access ChatGPT on the web or use the new GPT Builder. ChatGPT has been experiencing outages for the past 24 hours. A major outage brought the AI chatbot down for
Read MoreSam Nussey / Reuters: Sony reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$18.5B, operating profit down 29% YoY to ~$1.74B, chips division profit down 38%, and 4.9M PS5 sales, vs. 3.3M in Q2 2022 — Sony’s (6758.T) operating profit fell 29% in the July-September quarter as the company was hit by a weaker performance at
Read MoreRussia’s most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine’s power grid for the third time last year. And in this case, the blackout coincided with a physical attack.
Read MoreCredit: Ice Universe OnePlus has announced that the OnePlus 12 will come with the new Sony LYT-808 sensor, a variation of the foldable-centric Sony LYT-T808 sensor from the OnePlus Open. The phone will also have a 64MP periscope zoom camera with a 1/2-inch sensor, f/2.6 aperture, and OIS. It has also been confirmed to sport
Read MoreHit something with a hammer, and it makes a sound. If you’re lucky, it might even make a pleasant sound, which is the idea behind the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Luray Caverns, Virginia. The organ was created in 1954 by [Leland W. Sprinkle], who noticed that some stalactites (the ones that come down from the
Read MoreKate Irwin / Decrypt: Game developers, voice actors, writers, and others criticize Inworld AI and Xbox partnering to create AI game development tools, after layoffs in the industry — Microsoft is making more AI tools, but game industry talent are very concerned that the Xbox AI push will lead to more job losses.
Read MoreFinancial Times: SoftBank reports an adjusted ~$300M investment gain for its Vision Funds in Q2, as Vision Fund 1 gained $2.5B thanks Arm’s IPO while Vision Fund 2 lost $2.1B — Japanese tech conglomerate hit by falling valuations in portfolio companies — SoftBank Group posted an unexpected ¥931bn …
Read MoreJoe Brennan / The Irish Times: A key advisor to the CJEU recommends setting aside a 2020 EU ruling that said Apple did not owe Ireland €13B+ in back taxes, a major blow to Apple and Ireland — Opinion of key advisor to European Court of Justice (ECJ) comes months ahead of final ruling on
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Signal is publicly testing letting users add usernames to their accounts so they don’t have to share their phone number to connect via the encrypted messaging service. The test was announced via a post on the Signal forums by VP of engineering Jim O’Leary, who referred to the
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Read MoreYou might think that Apple’s Swift is a programming language for macOS and iOS only. It’s a natural conclusion, as Swift is closely tied to Apple’s own Xcode development environment. But one part of the Swift story is often overlooked: Swift is a cross-platform programming language, with support for Linux, Android, and Windows. Much of
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority ChatGPT has quickly turned into one of the most visited websites on the internet, and it’s not hard to see why. The chatbot can write essays, brainstorm ideas, and even generate code, making it an important resource that many now rely on. But what if it’s not working for
Read MoreGoogle and some European carriers say Apple should be forced to open iMessage up to other platforms — like Android.
Read MoreBackbone One’s latest version tweaks the D-Pad and introduces a magnetic connection.
Read MoreBlack Friday is coming, but there are already some great deals on monitors for your MacBook.
Read MoreBessie Liu / Blockworks: Ritual, which is building a network for decentralized AI models, emerges from stealth with a $25M seed led by Archetype, and plans to launch in early 2024 — The Ritual platform is set to launch in early 2024 — Decentralized AI platform Ritual came out of stealth after securing $25 million
Read MoreBloomberg: OpenAI says it’s grappling with “abnormal traffic” and has spotted signs of a DDoS attack resulting in periodic outages of its services — – OpenAI says on its site it’s grappling with “abnormal traffic” — The US startup introduced a preview version of GPT-4 Turbo
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp head Will Cathcart has confirmed ads may be headed to the platform’s Status page and Channels. He promised the company wouldn’t pump ads into the main inbox. WhatsApp head Will Cathcart has confirmed that the platform is working on showing ads to its users. Catchcart’s comments come weeks
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Bob Iger says Disney “would like to stay” in India as Hotstar struggles to avoid churn; Hotstar lost ~23M subscribers in the past year including 2.8M in Q4 2023 — Bob Iger said Wednesday that Disney “would like to stay” in India and is considering its options in the world’s …
Read MoreWhile the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments They did enjoy a peak of popularity in the 90s during the “wild west” era of windowed operating systems, though. This was a time when there
Read MoreWashington Post: Tech executives and officials detail how the Indian government used new rules, censorship, and law enforcement to break Twitter’s resistance to takedown orders — NEW DELHI — For years, a committee of executives from U.S. technology companies and Indian officials convened every two weeks …
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Epic v. Google: Google exec Purnima Kochikar says Google offered to pay Epic $147M over a three years period ending in 2021 to launch Fortnite on Play Store — Google has confirmed in court that Epic was offered a $147 million deal to launch its hit game Fortnite on Android’s
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Android 14 includes changes that allow third-party app developers to build new foldable experiences, presuming the phone maker incorporates these changes. These new foldable experiences include dual-screen mode, where both displays can be used simultaneously by one app, and rear-screen mode, where the rear screen is used even when
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority According to a new bill of materials analysis, the iPhone 15 Pro Max costs only $37.7 more to make compared to the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The A17 Pro processor, the new camera system, and the Titanium frame are the costliest components on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Meanwhile,
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