Harry McCracken / Fast Company: An interview with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston on new AI features, the challenge of not annoying loyal users, embracing a virtual-first workplace culture, and more — In October 2020, as it became clear COVID-19 wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, Dropbox made a big bet.
Read MoreSome of us remember HyperCard, an interesting branch in the evolutionary tree of programming languages. If you’re of a certain age, you might even have learned programming with HyperCard. Hyperscript is a newer technology that takes some of the benefits of HyperCard, especially its simplicity and English-like syntax, and applies it to the browser environment. It’s a kind
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development environment, delivering end-to-end support for the application development lifecycle. It’s a powerful tool, but it remains dependent on Windows and it can be overkill for many development tasks. That’s where Visual Studio Code comes in. Able to run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, exceedingly extensible, with excellent support
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mozilla is testing a new built-in “Review Checker” feature for its Firefox browser that rates how reliable a product’s customer reviews are. The experimental feature was initially spotted by MSPowerUser, and Firefox’s senior director of product management Byron Jourdan confirmed that the company is testing the functionality “with
Read MoreShaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Sam Bankman-Fried wrote a series of unpublished posts in 2022 announcing Alameda’s closure due to the “burden” of “FUD around Alameda’s relationship with FTX” — He had hoped to continue Alameda Research as an investment firm and infrastructure developer …
Read MoreBloomberg: Apple spent $200M to $250M on Killers of the Flower Moon, debuting October 20, the first test of Apple’s plans to spend $1B per year on movies for theaters — The tech giant is hoping the big screen will help sell little ones. — At the Cannes Film Festival, red carpets are unfurled to
Read MoreMike Butcher / TechCrunch: Munich-based Orbem, which uses an MRI scanner and AI to determine the sex of an egg, raised a €30M Series A led by 83North, taking its total funding to €40M — Germany, France, and Italy are among the countries which last year enacted laws to stop the practice of culling male
Read MoreReuters: The UK CMA invites comments on Vodafone’s $19B Three UK merge, which would reduce major networks from four to three; the EU blocked a similar deal in 2016 — Britain’s antitrust watchdog is examining whether a $19 billion tie-up between Vodafone’s (VOD.L) UK operation and CK Hutchison’s …
Read MoreThe BBC has an interesting article on Point Nemo, AKA the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, AKA the spacecraft graveyard. This is the place in the ocean that is furthest from land, in the middle of the usually stormy South Pacific. It’s as far out there as you can get without leaving the planet: about 2,688
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: several startups, VCs, and PE firms are exploring investments in Indian banks, which may help cut capital acquisition costs for local fintech startups — More than two dozen startups, VCs and PEs are exploring investment in banks in India, sources say.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority According to a new report, Google could be paying Apple anywhere between $18 billion to $20 billion a year to remain the “dominant search engine in the iPhone.” Apple completely controls the iPhone, which estimatedly generates over $60 billion in advertising revenues. If regulators take a hard stance, this
Read MoreYoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung reports Q3 operating income fell 78% QoQ to ~$1.8B and revenue fell 13% QoQ to ~$49.6B, suggesting the global chip market may have started to recover — – Profit fall of 78% smaller than prior quarter’s record plunge — AI-related demand seen key to memory chip price recovery
Read MoreIf you want to add sound to something these days, you usually store it digitally. Microcontrollers are cheap and fast, and you can hold a lot of audio on a small flash card or in a ROM. But back “in the day,” storing audio was often done with tape. If you wanted something you could
Read MoreParesh Dave / Wired: How Google’s Project Green Light is using AI to analyze Maps data to suggest how cities can adjust traffic light timing to cut wait times and vehicle emissions — Google is analyzing data from its Maps app to suggest how cities can adjust traffic light timing to cut wait times and
Read MoreCredit: Samsung California Governor has signed the state’s landmark Right-to-Repair bill into law. The legislation requires manufacturers to ensure the availability of repair materials for up to seven years. The law will go into effect on July 1, 2024. California is now leading the Right-to-Repair movement with its newly signed law. Governor Gavin Newsom officially
Read MoreFinancial Times: Some chemicals suppliers to TSMC plan to enter Europe, claiming EU chipmakers’ manufacturing processes have become inefficient and their supply chains atrophied — Chemical companies in Asia have cornered cutting-edge chipmaking market as EU supply chain atrophied
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrice A Weibo leaker has dished out apparent OnePlus 12 camera specs. The phone will get a slightly larger main camera than the OnePlus 11. It’ll also get a 3X 64MP periscope camera, following a recent trend. We’ve seen loads of OnePlus 12 rumors already, and this stream of leaks is slowly turning into
Read MoreAndrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google announces enhanced search results for EVs, home heating, and cooling systems, and expands AI tools to better predict floods, wildfires, and extreme heat — People shopping for electric vehicles, heat pumps, or air conditioning units will see enhanced search results on Google in a series …
Read MoreReuters: Filings: India’s Enforcement Directorate arrests a Vivo executive, who is also a Chinese national, in relation to a 2022 case over alleged money laundering — India’s financial crime agency on Tuesday arrested four industry executives including one Chinese national working for smartphone maker Vivo …
Read MoreEmilia David / The Verge: Adobe developed a new symbol, called “an icon of transparency”, as part of the C2PA, hoping to encourage the tagging of AI-generated data in media content — Adobe and other companies have established a symbol that can be attached to content alongside metadata, establishing its provenance …
Read MoreSpiegel Online: An investigation details the Intellexa Alliance, a shady group of European companies that marketed and sold spyware like Predator to authoritarian regimes — The Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons.
Read MoreIllustration by Lucia Pham / The Verge It’s that time of the year again. Amazon’s latest Prime Day event, Prime Big Deal Days, is now upon us. The exclusive sales event unofficially kicks off the early, early holiday shopping season, and with it comes a cavalcade of deals and discounts. Some are bound to be
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Research: Palestinian Islamic Jihad-linked crypto wallets received ~$93M from August 2021 to June 2023; Hamas-linked ones received ~$41M over a similar period — Digital currency transactions highlight how U.S. and Israel have struggled to sever the access of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah to foreign funding
Read MoreThe Amazfit Band 7 is an inexpensive fitness tracker with an OLED display and a killer feature set for the price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s second Prime Day event of the year, Prime Big Deal Days, is well underway, offering you yet another chance to save on everything from
Read MoreIn what reads somewhat like a convoluted detective story, the events unfolding at the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) in Ukraine during late February had the media channels lighting up with chatter about ‘elevated gamma radiation levels’, which showed up on the public CEZ radiation monitoring dashboard for a handful of gamma radiation sensors. This happened
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