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Insomniac’s new PlayStation 5 exclusive feels like an interactive blockbuster. Here’s some advice to help you swing into the action.
Read MoreInsomniac’s new PlayStation 5 exclusive feels like an interactive blockbuster. Here’s some advice to help you swing into the action.
Read MoreFor the first time, researchers are testing an approach that involves replacing a mutated gene in the inner ears of children with severe hearing loss.
Read MoreEdge computing emerged as a revolutionary tool to address the rising demand for real-time data processing. By enabling data processing at the edge of the network, closer to where it’s generated, edge computing significantly reduces latency and bandwidth use. That’s the story we’ve been told for years, but how will it evolve with the new
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: Filing: EU antitrust regulators resume their investigation into Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition, setting a February 5, 2024 deadline for their decision — European Union antitrust regulators have resumed their investigation into Photoshop maker Adobe’s (ADBE.O) $20 billion bid …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Tim Cook’s China trip, unannounced ahead of time, shows Apple’s complex relationship; Cook told an official Apple was committed to growing with local partners — CEO’s visits with senior officials, local stores and a supplier come amid cooling demand for the company’s high-end phones
Read MoreWhether you want to call yourself a birder, bird-watcher, or twitcher, here’s everything you need to get started with this peaceful pastime.
Read MoreAsteroids are rich with the metals used in clean energy technologies. As demand soars, advocates argue that mining them in space might be better than mining them on Earth.
Read MoreNew York Times: News publishers scramble to adjust to declining referral traffic, as Meta, X, and even Google become less dependable at amplifying and supporting journalism — News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.
Read MoreThe Commodore 64 has been pulled apart, reverse engineered, replicated, and improved upon to no end over the last four decades or so. The Amiga 500 has had less attention, in part due to its greater level of sophistication. However, you can now order a brand-new Amiga-compatible PCB if you’re looking to put together a
Read MoreJane Zhang / Bloomberg: Beijing-based generative AI startup Beijing Zhipu Huazhang has raised ~$342M from Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Group, Xiaomi, HongShan, Meituan, and others in 2023 — – Zhipu has raised $342 million this year from investors — Chinese AI firms are raising hundreds of millions for US race
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all features, but no reduction in ads, and a more expensive tier with no ads — Elon Musk today said that X (formerly Twitter) is going to soon launch two new premium tiers, confirming previous
Read MoreOkay, now this is just plain fun. [Linus Åkesson] modified a Commodore Datassette player to move its “mouth” and, when quadrupled, sing a clever barbershop tune called “Sweet End of Line” that’s a play on “Sweet Adeline“, a top hit from the summer of 1903. What? Let us explain. Those with Commodore 64s who lacked
Read MoreWilliam D. Cohan / Washington Post: Writers and publishers need to band together to lobby against OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, fighting for proper compensation and a share of AI’s value — William D. Cohan is a best-selling author and a founding partner of Puck News. — The other day someone sent …
Read MoreNew York Times: Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ show abruptly ends, sources say over creative differences; source: Stewart said potential China and AI topics concerned Apple executives — Mr. Stewart and Apple are parting ways because of creative differences over “The Problem,” people with knowledge of the decision said.
Read MoreWith a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats.
Read MoreOn the surface, a programmable logic controller (PLC) might seem like nothing more than a generic microcontroller, perhaps outfitted to operate in industrial settings with things like high temperatures or harsh vibrations. While this is true to some extent, PLCs also have an international standard for their architecture and programming languages. This standard is maintained
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is retiring its status account on X that previously shared updates about issues and outages on the platform, the company announced on Thursday. “We made the decision to retire the @SlackStatus account in order to consolidate our communications around incidents and focus resources on those most widely used
Read MoreJesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US Treasury’s FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors — Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …
Read MoreDrew Harwell / Washington Post: Source: X removed the main New York Times account’s “verified” badge on October 17 without notice; source: X traffic to the NYT is down ~50% since August 2023 — The unexplained decision removes the only symbol distinguishing the news organization from impostors and comes amid …
Read MoreThe ferroelectrical properties of materials have found a variety of uses over the years, including in semiconductor applications. Ferroelectric memory is among the most interesting and possibly world-changing as it could replace today’s fragile and (relatively) slow NAND Flash with something that’s more robust and scalable. Yet as with any good idea, finding the right
Read MoreMark Hachman / PCWorld: AMD unveils the Radeon RX 7900M, a rival to Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and the first laptop GPU to use a chiplet design, available in Dell’s new Alienware m18 laptop — It will debut in the new Alienware m18, launching today. — AMD is setting its sights on Nvidia’s RTX 4080 mobile
Read MoreNew York Times: Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ show abruptly ends, sources say over creative differences; source: Stewart said potential China and AI topics concerned Apple executives — Mr. Stewart and Apple are parting ways because of creative differences over “The Problem,” people with knowledge of the decision said.
Read MoreIllustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The war in Israel presents content moderation challenges for the most popular social media sites. Continue reading…
Read MoreJon Stewart on the set of The Problem With Jon Stewart. | Image: Apple Snagging Jon Stewart to host a new political talk show after his departure from The Daily Show was one of Apple TV Plus’ biggest achievements when The Problem With Jon Stewart was first announced back in 2020. But ahead of production
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: 23andMe is investigating a possible new data leak of 4M users’ records on BreachForums; the hacker claims the stolen dataset includes info on people from the UK — The same hacker who leaked a trove of user data stolen from the genetic testing company 23andMe two weeks ago has now leaked
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