Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Update: October 19, 2023 (4:10 AM ET): We’ve updated this OPPO Find X7 Pro rumor hub with an apparently leaked schematic showing the back and front of the phone. Original article: August 26, 2023 (6:00 AM ET): OPPO’s Find X series are usually among the best Android phones you
Read MoreInitially a pipe dream, AI image generation has come a long way since it arrived a few years ago. Tools like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Jasper Art are all incredibly powerful and allow users to generate just about anything that comes to mind. But OpenAI is stepping things up with the introduction of DALL-E 3, which
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Chainalysis says recent media reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses” — – Chainalysis said some recent reports about the supposed use of crypto by terrorist organizations might be overstating metrics and using “flawed analyses.”
Read MoreWhat The Boys has pulled off is huge — it’s taken what we’ve known and loved on TV for years and criticized it. Superheroes have for the longest time been our unquestionable fictional saviors; our childhood bedrooms cluttered with Captain America and Superman figurines. The Boys took what was undebatable (superheroes are great, right?) and
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Google plans to start assembling the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in India and begin India-made shipments in 2024, but didn’t reveal its local manufacturing partners — Google will start assembling the Pixel smartphone lineup in India, a company executive said, becoming the latest tech giant …
Read MoreNetflix is raising the price of two of its plans. Basic and Premium tiers will now cost users a little more monthly in the US, UK, and France. The Ads tier will soon feature the ability to download content for offline viewing. Netflix‘s rather cheery quarterly shareholder letter is bad news for some consumers. The
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you’ll soon be able to access both from just one device. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to switch between accounts on Android, and you won’t need to lug around an extra device or continuously log out of
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Several users have reported a “screen burn-in” issue on the iPhone 15 series. However, this issue is not a hardware bug but an image retention issue on iOS 17. iOS 17.1 RC build fixes this image retention issue, and Apple will be rolling out iOS 17.1 in the stable
Read MoreOpenAI, the innovative tech company behind ChatGPT, recently announced the upcoming launch of the next major update of DALL-E. For those unfamiliar, DALL-E is an image-generation tool that allows users to create images based on text-based prompts. While the first version launched in January 2021, OpenAI finally launched DALL-E 3 to the general public —
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google is bringing an “At a store” toggle to the At A Glance widget. This will display shopping lists and reward cards when you’re in a store. The feature is apparently available on Pixel 8 phones for now. Google’s At A Glance widget is one of the more handy
Read MoreElahe Izadi / Washington Post: How Only in Dade, started as an Instagram meme page a decade ago, inadvertently became a Miami local news source, including by using its 1.3M followers’ videos — If it’s happening in Miami, locals find out about it through Only in Dade, previously a hub for alligator sightings and nightclub
Read MoreSpare a moment’s pity for the process engineer, whose job it is to keep industrial automation running no matter what. These poor souls seem to be forever on call, fielding panicked requests to come to the factory floor whenever the line goes down. Day or night, weekends, vacations, whatever — when it breaks, the process
Read MoreCredit: WhatsApp WhatsApp is finally rolling out the ability to add a second account on a device. You will need a phone with dual-SIM support, either through dual physical SIMs, eSIMs, or a combination of the two. WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging apps despite not being as feature-rich as some of its
Read MoreBloomberg: TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and expects to spend $32B on growing and upgrading capacity in 2023 — – Sales and capex projections both came in ahead of estimates — World’s most advanced chipmaker is struggling with a downturn
Read MoreNatalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The US GSA plans to add facial recognition tech to Login.gov in 2024 and another digital identity verification option for those who don’t want to use the tech — The General Services Administration is changing its digital identity service to allow users to authenticate themselves by matching …
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Play Protect with real-time scanning at the code level, which prompts users to scan unknown Android apps before sideloading, starting with India — To avoid detection, Google has found that malicious parties are looking beyond the Play Store to infect Android devices with malware.
Read MoreThe funny thing about keyboard end game is that it usually involves more than one keyboard. Rare is the board that is great for both home and away. Having finished their dactyl build, [RalphCoder13] was looking to build something slimmer and more portable, and the Birdy44 was born. This hand-wired beauty uses a pair of
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN’s IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park — The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
Read MoreSusan D’Agostino / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on nuance in headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top researchers may disagree about AI’s potential risks to humanity — Editor’s note: This article was commissioned by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is also published in WIRED.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Mustafa Suleyman, Eric Schmidt, and others propose an IPCC-like International Panel on AI Safety, an objective advisory body to help shape protocols and norms — An International Panel on AI Safety could offer an objective body to help shape protocols and norms
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: Nokia plans to cut up to 14,000 jobs, or ~16% of its 86,000 workforce, and reports Q3 2023 net sales down 20% YoY to €4.98B and profit down 69% YoY to €133M — – Nokia said it would cut up to 14,000 jobs as part of a cost cutting plan following
Read MoreWhat ho, chaps? Look, we know this is a bally nuisance and all, but those desk jockeys at HQ want us all to watch this film about daily insepction of your Spitfire. No Vera and no Greta in this one, more’s the pity, but it is jolly important. We all know that our Spitfires are
Read MoreFinancial Times: The US House’s China committee asks about Sequoia’s investments since 2010 in AI, quantum, and chip companies based, or with “significant operations”, in China — Scrutiny of California VC firm comes amid mounting tension between Washington and Beijing
Read MoreReuters: Honda, GM, and Cruise plan to set up a joint venture in H1 2024 to launch a driverless ride service in Japan in early 2026, using their Cruise Origin vehicles — Honda Motor <7267.T> said on Thursday that it aims to set up a joint venture with General Motors (GM.N) and Cruise to begin
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Sydney-based Employment Hero, which offers a recruitment and HR platform, raised a AU$263M Series F at a AU$2.13B valuation, taking its total funding to AU$650M — Sydney company surpasses billion-dollar (USD) valuation — In a startup world where down rounds prevail and much beyond low-million Series …
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