Wall Street Journal: Source: Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, the $10/month AI assistant with 1.5M+ users, loses an average of $20+/month per user and as much as $80/month for some users — Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools
Read MoreBritish fact-checkers are racing to debunk a suspicious audio recording of UK opposition leader Keir Starmer.
Read MoreAs [Matt Stele] prepared to bike a local 300-mile (~480km) race in addition to training, he had to prepare for food. A full day of riding was ahead on gravel trails, and one of the best options for him was Casey’s General Store pizza. However, as it was a race, other riders were much faster
Read MorePeople who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
Read MoreApple’s reputation for producing incredible hardware is matched only by its thrift in not offering significant discounts on its products. In a break from that convention, a new MacBook Air 2023 deal just slashed the asking price of the laptop to $1,049 for the first time ever. Apple MacBook Air (2023, 8GB, 256GB) for $1,049
Read MorePhoto by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Last week, Walmart made headlines with a claim that new weight loss drugs might be making people buy less food. Walmart US CEO John Furner told Bloomberg that people taking Wegovy, Ozempic, and similar drugs showed a “slight change” in their purchasing habits: “just less units, slightly less
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Meta Quest 3 review: comfortable with improved displays and snappy performance, but there isn’t much MR content and passthrough isn’t quite sharp enough — Meta’s new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there’s more to do in mixed reality …
Read MoreMeta’s new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there’s more to do in mixed reality, this won’t be the headset that gets everyone wearing headsets. Continue reading…
Read MoreAdding mixed reality to virtual reality makes for a dramatically improved headset, but Meta’s virtual worlds are still ghost towns.
Read MoreGoogle took its second swing at making a great Wear OS smartwatch in recent years with the launch of the Pixel Watch 2. But the Pixel Watch 2 enters a category that has long been dominated by Samsung with its Galaxy Watches. The Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro are not the newest
Read MoreBrian McGleenon / The Block: As the UK FCA widens its crypto marketing rules, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies, expecting to continue serving UK customers — – Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved. — At the same time …
Read MoreDuncan Miriri / Reuters: Netflix ends its free mobile plan in Kenya, which offered access to a quarter of its shows and movies, after two years and rolls out a $6 per month ad tier — Netflix (NFLX.O) said on Monday it is ending its free mobile plan in Kenya, which has allowed users to
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers — Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X …
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: An investigation details FTX staff’s all-night race to stop a crypto heist as the exchange collapsed, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers — The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.
Read MoreOnline designers are upset over what appears to be an AI-generated stock image in the poster for Loki’s second season. | Image: Disney / Marvel A promotional poster for the second season of Loki on Disney Plus has sparked controversy amongst professional designers following claims that it was at least partially created using generative AI.
Read MoreThe Pixel 8 Pro is here and it’s an impressive bit of kit. Now it’s time to start taking Google devices seriously.
Read MoreHarmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft aspires to be a new kind of post-movie non-film, but for something featuring a neon-orange Travis Scott on a speedboat full of mercenaries in demon masks, it’s just boring.
Read MoreDon’t leave your photos languishing in your camera roll. Printing them out and sticking them to paper is a fun hobby and a nice walk down memory lane.
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Buds Live have received a good $60 discount ahead of Prime Big Deal Day.
Read MoreThe Apple Watch’s latest operating system, watchOS 10, is full of neat features. But it’s changed the Fitness app beyond recognition, and that’s a bad thing.
Read MoreRachel Read / Blooloop: Merlin Entertainments partners with Immersive Gamebox to test AR games based on TV shows Paw Patrol and Squid Game, starting at venues in Australia and Germany — Deal to “bring people together through technology-enabled shared play”. — Merlin Entertainments and Immersive Gamebox …
Read MoreWashington Post: Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and policy experts via posts on X — The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi
Read MoreReuters: Investors and analysts: Intel, Nvidia, and others in Israel are set to fortify security and face disruptions after Hamas attacks; Nvidia cancels an AI summit — Tech companies operating in Israel are expected to fortify security as they could face disruptions, said investors and analysts …
Read MoreAlphabet-owned Google is adding new healthcare and life sciences capabilities to its Vertex AI Search offering to help enterprises find accurate clinical information more efficiently and ask questions about patient records. Vertex AI Search, which allows enterprises to set up a Google Search-like experience via applications powered by foundation models, was last updated in August
Read MoreThe atmosphere is rapidly warming, but the soil is also prone to heat waves. Scientists are racing to understand the consequences.
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