Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Samsung has announced its Samsung Gauss generative AI suite. This consists of Language, Code, and Image tools. We’re expecting Gauss to arrive on the Galaxy S24 series in early 2024. Samsung has hinted at generative AI features for future products, most notably confirming that the Exynos 2400 processor
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple has released the WatchOS 10.1.1 update for Apple Watch devices. This update addresses the rapid power drain reported by users in recent days. Apple Watch users recently reported battery drain issues after updating to the WatchOS 10.1 firmware. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait long for the company
Read MoreMike Isaac / New York Times: In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg positioned WhatsApp as a “next chapter” for Meta; WhatsApp now has more than 225 Channels that each have 1M+ followers — The messaging app, which Meta bought nearly a decade ago, was an asset that Mr. Zuckerberg largely left alone for a while. No
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Epic v. Google: internal documents show Activision Blizzard accepted $360M in incentives from Google in 2020 to ensure its games launched on the Play Store — – Testimony focused on efforts to lure developers to Google Play — Billions in revenue are at stake in San Francisco jury trial
Read MoreAt first glance, getting a computer program to run faster than the first electronic computers might seem trivial. After all, most of us carry enormously powerful processors in our pockets every day as if that’s normal. But [Mark] isn’t trying to beat computers like the ENIAC with a mobile ARM processor or other modern device.
Read MoreHarri Weber / TechCrunch: Ann Arbor-based autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility, backed by Toyota and BMW, raised a $105M Series D led by NTT Group, taking its total funding to $300M+ — May Mobility has raised hundreds of millions from some of the biggest names in the auto industry, but if you haven’t heard …
Read MoreCho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: Samsung unveils a generative AI model called Gauss, which is being used for employee productivity internally and will be expanded to product applications — Samsung has for the first time publicly unveiled its own generative AI model dubbed Samsung Gauss on Wednesday.
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Nintendo is making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie. The film will be directed by Wes Ball, known for adapting the Maze Runner books to the big screen. There’s no word on a release date for the Zelda film. After the success of the Super Mario Bros. movie, Nintendo
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Milan-based Qomodo, which offers multiple payment services to consumers and retailers, including BNPL options, raised a €34.5M pre-seed led by Fasanara Capital — Milan-based payment aggregator Qomodo raises €34.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, offering a variety …
Read MoreVery clickable good dogs. | Image: Google Google is rolling out new generative AI tools for creating ads, from writing the headlines and descriptions that appear along with searches to creating and editing the accompanying images. It’s pitching the tool for use by both advertising agencies as well as businesses without in-house creative staff. Using
Read MoreIt’s wide. | LG LG has a pair of new 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitors. That sounds very wide to me, though LG says it’s the equivalent of two 24-inch monitors, which sounds almost compact compared to the 49-inchers from Samsung and LG, or the gargantuan Samsung Odyssey Ark we tested last year. The UltraGear 45GR65DC
Read MoreMatt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: Google adds generative AI features to its Performance Max ad platform, rolling out first as a beta to all US advertisers by the end of the year — Google launches generative AI in Performance Max to help marketers easily create customized text and image ads at scale.
Read MoreSo, let’s say you’re good at DOTA. Like, world-class good. How good do you think you’d be on a keyboard that’s 16 feet long, with a space bar the size of a person? Well, you’d need the rest of your team, that’s for sure. Alienware have created the world’s largest mechanical keyboard and mouse, which
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Document: Coatue cut the value of its $120M stake in OpenSea to $13M as of Q2 2023, implying a valuation of $1.4B or less, down from $13.3B in January 2022 — One of OpenSea’s biggest investors has marked down by 90% its stake in the struggling non-fungible-token marketplace …
Read MorePlatformer: Sources: employees at X are increasingly being asked to spend time working on xAI initiatives, as xAI is using GPUs that once belonged to Twitter — Today, some notes on how the tech industry’s tectonic shift toward artificial intelligence is playing out inside X — and raising questions …
Read MoreAnissa Gardizy / The Information: Source: Amazon is developing a new LLM, codenamed Olympus, which could be announced by December and may power new features for the online store, Alexa, and AWS — Uber is finally on the right road. That could be Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s motto today, as the ride-hailing …
Read MoreYoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Coupang reports Q3 net revenue up 21% YoY to $6.2B, vs. $5.9B est., net income of $91.3M, vs. $119M est., and active customers up 14% YoY to a record 20.4M+ — – Despite disappointing profit, revenue beats projections — Korea’s top online mall is stepping up investments in Taiwan
Read MoreMost of us will have at some point have bought a long power cable to charge the bike on the deck, but [Slava G. Turyshev] has a slightly more ambitious idea. In this recent paper, he outlines how an advanced civilization could use a star or two to transmit power or send signals over an
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has confirmed that the Pixel-exclusive Home Panel will be heading to more Android devices with Android 14. Home Panel brings Spaces and Favorites from the Google Home app to the Android lock screen. Google announced several updates for Google Home and Nest devices yesterday. While the highlight of
Read MoreReuters: Bumble reports Q3 revenue up 18.4% YoY to $275.5M, vs. $277M est., net earnings down 13% YoY to $23.1M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; BMBL drops 6%+ — Bumble (BMBL.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, in a sign that sticky inflation …
Read MoreEmily Bary / MarketWatch: Toast reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $1.03B, matching estimates, and lowers the upper range of its FY 2023 revenue forecast; TOST drops 18%+ — Profit outlook moves higher, but one analyst is concerned about the new top-line forecast — Shares of Toast Inc. were getting singed …
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently. One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle is considering an IPO early in 2024; Circle was valued at $9B when it tried to go public via SPAC in 2022 — – Backers include Goldman Sachs, General Catalyst and BlackRock — Circle had tried to go public via blank-check deal in 2022
Read MoreABC: Australian mobile network Optus is suffering an outage impacting millions of customers, including major hospitals and Melbourne’s Metro Trains — Loading… Optus mobile services are down across the country, affecting millions of Australian customers and businesses. — Key points:
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Barack Obama on regulating social media and AI, privacy bills, Biden’s EO on AI, incumbents embracing AI regulation, generative AI IP issues, and more — The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his
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