Credit: Lumafield A firm specializing in CT scanning has put Apple’s AirPods Pro (2nd gen) and a couple of fakes under the X-ray. The scans show that Apple’s product is far more complex than any counterfeit version. When a company makes a popular, high-quality product — like the AirPods Pro — ripoffs are sure to
Read MoreOpenAI announced a slew of new products and features at Monday’s DevDay conference in San Francisco, including new tools to customize chatbots, build applications and handle speech that are meant to foster a robust developer communty around its generative AI technology. To read this article in full, please click here
Read MoreIt’s that time of year when you can’t believe how early it gets dark, and you’ve fished out your big sweaters. With months of staying home in the comfort of movies and sports ahead, it’s worth giving your entertainment center an upgrade. Best Buy has some TCL smart TV bundles that perfectly fit the bill,
Read MoreBrian Fung / CNN: Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar’s Senate testimony: Meta execs ignored warnings about harms to teens, using carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue — Meta’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …
Read More.NET 8, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s cross-platform, open source development platform, is set to improve identity management, authentication, and authorization thanks to enhancements in the security vein delivered by the ASP.NET Core team. Identity features in .NET 8 are positioned to make it easier to secure applications. Developers can add authentication and authorization to
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge WhatsApp might still deploy ads on the platform alongside the app’s Instagram Stories-like Status feature, company head Will Cathcart recently said in an interview. As pointed out by TechCrunch, Cathcart stated that WhatsApp ads could show up in different places within the app, including the newer Channels feature and statuses, though no
Read MoreThe Sony A9 III features the company’s first global shutter in a full-frame mirrorless camera. | Image: Sony Sony has announced the latest in its line of popular professional mirrorless cameras: the A9 III. It’s a $5,999 full-frame camera with a stacked 24.6-megapixel sensor that succeeds the A9 II released four years ago. But the
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge Though negotiators from both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) met this past weekend in hopes of bringing Hollywood’s ongoing labor strike to an end, contract talks have reportedly stalled once again due to the desire of studios to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority When asked how he feels about green bubbles on his iPhone, Barack Obama indicates he couldn’t care less. Google has been highlighting iMessage’s problems with Android phones a lot recently. Obama also reveals his iPhone dock is pretty standard, and he spends too much time playing Words With Friends.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered why something like a radio or a TV could command a hefty fraction of a family’s yearly income back in the day, a likely culprit is the collection of power transformers needed to run all those hungry, hungry tubes. Now fast-forward a half-century or more, and affordable, good-quality power transformers are
Read More© 2023 Stellantis Stellantis is making a new electric-propelled Ram truck with a large EV battery pack linked to a gasoline engine that can extend range for long trips without frequent charging stops. The automaker’s new pickup, the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger, claims to go up to 690 miles on a full tank and charge.
Read MorePaayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Austin-based Black Ore, which builds AI tools for the financial services industry, emerges from stealth with a $60M combined Seed and Series A led by a16z — Financial technology startup Black Ore is coming out of stealth with a major investment. … Austin-based Black Ore is the latest AI startup …
Read MoreWaze will warn you when a route is crash-prone. | Image: Waze Waze has a new safety feature that launches an alert when drivers are coming up on a particularly crash-prone section of their route. Waze’s blog post says the feature, which has been in beta since last year, uses “historical crash data and key
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: An analysis of OpenAI’s DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins toward GPTs, Microsoft’s role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O …
Read MoreA complaint filed with the EU’s independent data regulator accuses YouTube of failing to get explicit user permission for its ad blocker detection system, potentially violating the ePrivacy Directive.
Read MoreCaptain Velvet: The Jump+ Dimensions. | Image: Crunchyroll Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. The anime streaming service, which has previously published a handful of mobile titles, is adding mobile games to its offering in a move similar to Netflix’s ongoing foray into gaming. The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault
Read MoreFigJam AI includes three tools for now, but Figma teases there are “more to come.” | Image: Figma Figma, best known for its product design applications, has announced FigJam AI — a new suite of generative AI tools for its collaborative whiteboard service FigJam that creates ready-to-use templates for common design and planning projects. The
Read MoreCNBC: Cloud monitoring company Datadog’s stock jumps ~30% after reporting Q3 revenue rose 25% YoY to $547.5M, vs. $524M est., and forecasted Q4 sales beat estimates — – Datadog surged nearly 30% in Tuesday trading after the company reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings and full-year guidance.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google Home’s web script editor is getting a new “Help me script” feature. The generative AI feature creates all the code for you from scratch when you tell it what routine you want. It’s currently rolling out as an experimental feature in Public Preview on Google Home web.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple paused development last week of iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and will end the pause this week — – Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
Read MoreStefania Palma / Financial Times: The CFPB proposes new powers to oversee companies offering digital wallets and payment apps that facilitate 5M+ transactions per year, currently ~17 companies — Proposal would subject tech companies such as Apple and Google to new rules — The top US consumer finance regulator is seeking …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge A group of Google contract workers who helped train the company’s Bard AI chatbot and write Google Help articles voted overwhelmingly to form a union on Monday. The workers, who are contracted to work for Google through Accenture, unionized to secure better working conditions and protections. The contractors will join the Alphabet
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As YouTube tightens its restrictions on ad blockers, privacy advocates in the European Union are betting that government regulations can put a stop to the crackdown. One privacy expert, Alexander Hanff, filed a complaint in October with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Hanff argues that YouTube’s ad blocker
Read MoreGreenland’s northern ice shelves have lost more than a third of their volume since 1978, new research finds.
Read MoreAamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: Google Photos’ Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — – Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to
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