Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok updates its $6M Effect Creator Rewards fund to add lower eligibility rules, a revamped payout model, and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards — TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: several key ex-Arm staff in China depart for Borui Jingxin, a local government-backed chip design firm, worrying Arm investors over future China sales — – A Shenzhen government agency backs startup Borui Jingxin — Arm China investors are concerned Borui could divert revenue
Read MoreGeoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Hands-on with Best Take for Pixel 8, which uses AI to replace people’s faces, a fun camera tool that worryingly helps AI standardize what happiness looks like — A new AI function called Best Take in Google’s Pixel 8 lets you replace people’s faces, saving memories of moments that
Read MoreImage: The Verge X CEO Linda Yaccarino says the social media platform formerly known as Twitter has identified and removed “hundreds” of Hamas-affiliated accounts, and has “taken action to remove or label tens of thousands of pieces of content” in the wake of terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel. Yaccarino’s letter comes in
Read MoreNoema: Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC — Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
Read MoreBloomberg: How Google Chrome’s Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority — Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere.
Read MoreImage: AVerMedia It’s nearly three years since HDMI 2.1 consoles like the Xbox Series X and PS5 launched and we’re finally seeing HDMI 2.1 capture cards appear on the market. AVerMedia is launching its $299.99 Live Gamer ULTRA 2.1 (what a name) HDMI 2.1 USB capture card today, offering streamers and gamers the ability to
Read MoreClimate change is robbing some hydro dams of water while oversupplying others—forcing managers to employ new forecasting technology and clever strategies to capitalize on what they have.
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro have a new Pixel Troubleshooting app. The system app helps run battery and network diagnostics. It also allows users to contact Pixel support with their diagnostic reports. The Pixel 8 series carries many exclusive features that are not yet available on other Pixel
Read MoreWhen running a server, especially one with mission-critical applications, it’s common practice to use error-correcting code (ECC) memory. As the name suggests, it uses an error-correcting algorithm to continually check for and fix certain errors in memory. We don’t often see these memory modules on the desktop for plenty of reasons, among which are increased
Read MoreReuters: In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more — The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Instagram head Adam Mosseri reiterates Threads’ position on hard news, saying that Threads does not intend to “amplify” news because it’s currently “too risky” — Instagram’s new Twitter-like app Threads is not prepared to truly challenge Elon Musk’s X …
Read MoreWhen working with dependency injection and inversion of control in ASP.NET Core applications, you might often need a IoC container that is simple or lightweight to avoid unnecessary complexity or unnecessary overhead. Most IoC containers consume a lot of resources—not ideal when you don’t need a full-fledged IoC container in your application. In this article
Read MoreIn my recent introduction to LangChain, I touched briefly on LangSmith. Here, we’ll take a closer look at the platform, which works in tandem with LangChain and can also be used with other LLM frameworks. My quick take on LangSmith is that you can use it to trace and evaluate LLM applications and intelligent agents and
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrice A new leak suggests that OnePlus could use a new 6.82-inch 120Hz LTPO display on the OnePlus 12. This display could have a peak brightness of 2,600 nits and come with 2,160Hz PWM dimming. The leak also suggests the OnePlus 12 could resemble the OPPO Find X6 Pro in certain areas. We’re almost
Read MoreYoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Singapore’s biggest tech hopes, Grab, Sea, and Razer, have stumbled, which may show why VCs were premature in calling Singapore the “Silicon Valley of Asia” — The rough journey of an Uber-like ride-hailing company helps explain why the island nation has struggled to become Asia’s Silicon Valley.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Fitbit app is experiencing an outage. The outage is preventing the app from successfully connecting to Fitbit’s servers. It’s unclear how long the outage will last but the company is investigating the matter. Update: October 12, 2023 (2:29 AM): The Fitbit app is still experiencing issues. The company
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority eSIM transfers are finally here, letting you easily migrate your eSIM from an old Android phone to the new Pixel 8 series. You will also be able to convert a physical SIM to an eSIM, which will be required for dual-SIM functionality. However, these features will not work on
Read MoreMultiple users are reporting that their iPhones are shutting down overnight on iOS 17.
Read MoreIllustration by Lucia Pham / The Verge The waning hours of Prime Big Deal Days are upon us. There are still a ton of discounts on all kinds of tech products, but here are the ones that are worth your time. Continue reading…
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Piper Sandler survey of 9,000+ US teens: 29.1% of their daily video consumption time is on YouTube, beating Netflix for the first time at 28.7%, and ~7% on Hulu — – Teenagers in the United States say they watch more video on YouTube than Netflix, according to a new survey from
Read MoreA MIG welder is a great tool to have. With machine fed wire and gas protecting the arc, it can make it easy to weld well without requiring a lot of manual skill from the operator. [PROFESSOR PARDAL BRASIL] decided to build his own MIG welder using scrap parts, and it’s an inspiring bit of
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority We connected an iPhone 15 Pro to the Pixel 8 Pro to see what would happen. The iPhone 15 Pro draws power from the Pixel 8 Pro if it is at a lower power level. If the Pixel 8 Pro is set to control USB, it will charge using
Read MoreKaren Hao / The Atlantic: Sources: the US Department of Commerce is considering new export controls for general-purpose AI programs, a move that experts say could weaken US AI innovation — Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.
Read MoreJacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says Alameda paid $100M to $150M in crypto transfers to Chinese officials to unfreeze its OKX and Huobi trading accounts, worth ~$1B — During the Sam Bankman-Fried trial on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified that the crypto trading …
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