Sheila Dang / Reuters: A survey of 167 researchers shows 104 studies about X have been canceled, suspended, or changed after X ended free academic access to its API and sued the CCDH — Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Intel is the leading candidate to potentially receive billions under the US Chips Act to build secure facilities producing chips for the US military — Company has emerged as a potential top winner of Chips Act funding — Intel is the leading candidate to potentially receive billions …
Read MoreThe new PS5. | Image: Sony The new PlayStation 5 hasn’t come out yet — it doesn’t even have a specific release date — but a few YouTubers have gotten their hands on it, including Dave Lee from the Dave2D channel. Lee posted his teardown of the console yesterday, and if you’ve been curious about
Read MoreAndroid 14 wreaked havoc on some Pixel phones with multiple user profiles. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google’s November update should be coming very soon to Pixel phones, providing some relief for a critical bug affecting people with multiple user profiles on their devices. The update — spotted by 9to5Google — contains
Read MoreDaniele Lepido / Bloomberg: Italy seizes ~€779M from Airbnb over some allegedly unpaid taxes, after reportedly investigating Meta earlier in 2023 regarding an alleged ~€870M in unpaid VAT — Italy’s Finance Police is seizing about €779 million ($835 million) from the home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. after it allegedly failed to pay some taxes.
Read MoreWith a new M3 processor inside that juices performance across the board, the latest edition of Apple’s world-class laptop smokes the competition.
Read MoreJacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Meta says there are now 1M active subscriptions to Instagram creators, just over a year after launching the subscriptions feature, and unveils new creator tools — There are now 1 million paid subscriptions to creators on Instagram, slowly transforming the platform into a space where creators can get paid directly
Read MorePersonal Electric Vehicles (PEVs) all contain the same basic set of parts: a motor, a battery, a motor controller, some sensors, and a display to parse the information. This simplicity allowed [casainho] to develop a custom controller setup for their own PEVs. Built around the venerable VESC motor controller, [casainho]’s addition is the EBike/EScooter board
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority OpenAI has introduced customizable versions of ChatGPT called GPTs. If you are a ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise user, you can start trying out example GPTs today. OpenAI plans on launching a GPT store later this month. Today, OpenAI held its developer conference, where it made several ChatGPT announcements. Among
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund will come to an end on December 16th, 2023, the company told users today. Creators in the US, UK, Germany, and France will no longer be able to monetize their content through the original fund, TikTok spokesperson Maria Jung says. TikTokers in Italy
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches GPT-4 Turbo with a context length of 128K tokens, an April 2023 knowledge cutoff, JSON mode, new modalities in the API, cheaper token cost, more — Today at its first-ever developer conference, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Turbo, an improved version of its flagship text-generating AI model …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to test generative AI features for Premium users, including a comments summarizer and conversational tool, starting with Android devices in the US — YouTube will begin to experiment with new generative AI features, the company announced today.
Read MorePython pandas creator Wes McKinney has joined Posit as a principal architect, a move that signals the company’s increasing seriousness about being a key player in the Python universe as well as the R ecosystem. “I will advocate for the needs of the PyData ecosystem in Posit’s work as well as continue advancing critical open-source
Read MoreThe Marvel Spotlight logo. | Image: Marvel Studios In an effort to help viewers understand which of its spinoff projects will have significant connections to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe and which are really meant to work as standalone stories, Marvel’s rolling out a new kind of branding just in time for its upcoming Echo
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches a DALL-E 3 API, with moderation to help protect against misuse, and a text-to-speech API that offers six preset voices and two model variants — OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day. — DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model …
Read MoreThe collective erosion of X, Instagram, and Facebook marks a turning point for millennials, who are outgrowing a constant need to be plugged in.
Read MoreThe Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly has been updated with new HTML capabilities. The latest updates enhance documentation and client-side navigation in both Deno and the Fresh web framework. Unveiled November 2, Deno 1.38 offers “significant” improvements to the deno doc command, highlighted by an ability to produce documentation using a new deno
Read MoreThe burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own.
Read MoreContinuous blood pressure monitoring has always been a major challenge for the biohacking community. Those giant arm cuffs aren’t exactly the kind of thing you want to wear all day and the wrist monitors aren’t super great either. So, [Kaan] and his research team set out to create a better continuous blood pressure monitor. This
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has filed a patent for potential smartwatch sensors. The patent suggests the next Pixel Watch could have new gesture recognition sensors. It appears Google is looking for ways to control the smartwatch without obscuring the already limited screen space. When you look at the Pixel Watch and the
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won’t be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles. “As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and
Read MorePhoto by Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Vox Media Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down from the chief executive role of Bumble Inc., the company announced on Monday. Wolfe Herd will be succeeded by Lidiane Jones, the current CEO of Slack, who took the role at that company in January.
Read MoreCredit: Luke Little / Android Authority Razer has decided to retire the classic and beloved Viper mouse in favor of the Viper 8K Hz, an e-sports mouse that polls higher than other gaming mice that top out at 1,000Hz. What does that mean to you, and is this a worthy successor? I’ve been testing it
Read MoreRight now, just weeks before Black Friday, you can pick up the Philips Hue Signe Floor Gradient Lamp at a 12% discount.
Read MoreApple has today announced a big update to Logic Pro with some major updates.
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