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Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive: the feature hallucinated emails, made wrong travel plans, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive: the feature hallucinated emails, made wrong travel plans, and more — The chatbot now pulls information from a user’s Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive accounts. The feature leaves a lot to be desired.

T-Mobile blames latest data leak on ‘temporary system glitch’

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Numerous customers on Reddit and X, formerly Twitter, reported having spotted third-party information in the official T-Mobile app. This information includes credit balance, purchase history, last four digits of their credit card, expiration date, phone numbers, and addresses. T-Mobile says the incident happened because of a system glitch. Update:

The developer behind AstroPepeX details using ChatGPT to name and launch the ERC-20 memecoin, which has raked in $12.9M in trading volume over the past 24 hours (Andrew Throuvalas/Decrypt)

Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: The developer behind AstroPepeX details using ChatGPT to name and launch the ERC-20 memecoin, which has raked in $12.9M in trading volume over the past 24 hours — An anonymous Ethereum developer has released code that he says instructs artificial intelligence tools to deploy new ERC-20 tokens.

Fujifilm’s new Instax Pal is a $200 palm-sized digital camera bundled with a smartphone printer

Image: Fujifilm Polaroid recently tried pushing the envelope with the new Polaroid I-2 instant camera, and now Fujifilm’s taking a stab at it, too. On Wednesday, the company announced it’s releasing a new kind of instant film product geared for kids, the Instax Pal digital camera bundle, for $199.95 in late October. The Instax Pal

Aluminum Battery is Sustainable

If you think of metals in a battery, you probably think of lithium, mercury, lead, nickel, and cadmium. But researchers in Australia and China want you to think about aluminum. Unlike most battery metals, aluminum is abundant and not difficult to dispose of later. Their battery design uses water-based electrolytes and is air-stable. It is

Sources: Apple spent billions of dollars developing a modem chip for the new iPhones to cut ties with Qualcomm, but the chip was slow and prone to overheating (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple spent billions of dollars developing a modem chip for the new iPhones to cut ties with Qualcomm, but the chip was slow and prone to overheating — The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter

Android 14 QPR1’s new screen search gesture is inspired by Google Now on Tap

Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Google Now on Tap let you search your screen just by holding the home button. Unfortunately, Now on Tap was killed off and never got a true replacement. Android 14 QPR1 hints at what could be the spiritual successor to this beloved feature. Remember Google Now on Tap? For

The DOJ removes public access to Google’s emails, charts, and internal presentations that had come out as evidence in the antitrust lawsuit against the company (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The DOJ removes public access to Google’s emails, charts, and internal presentations that had come out as evidence in the antitrust lawsuit against the company — Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court … Google had challenged the government’s posting …

A look at AI-generated geometric art crafted using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet, a neural network structure that adds extra conditions to diffusion models (Keisha Oleaga/nft now)

Keisha Oleaga / nft now: A look at AI-generated geometric art crafted using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet, a neural network structure that adds extra conditions to diffusion models — This past weekend, a new kind of artwork made waves across the Internet: AI-generated spiral art.

Hollywood’s writers’ strike might come to an end soon

Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images Well-connected CNBC anchor David Faber cites people close to negotiations between the major Hollywood studio producers and striking writers, saying the sides “hope” to finalize a new deal tomorrow. The WGA strike began in early May before the actors (SAG-AFTRA) also went on strike in mid-July, marking the first time

Atari Gets Semi-Modern Video Output

The Atari 2600 is a historical enigma in many ways. On one hand, it was the most popular gaming console of its era, but it was also at the center of the video game crash of 1983 due to the poor quality of its games at the time. It is a fascinating system in many

A consortium led by Japan Industrial Partners gains 78.65% of Toshiba via a tender offer, setting the company up to be taken private as early as December (Makiko Yamazaki/Reuters)

Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: A consortium led by Japan Industrial Partners gains 78.65% of Toshiba via a tender offer, setting the company up to be taken private as early as December — A consortium led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) gained 78.65% of Toshiba (6502.T) through a tender offer …

Iconic League of Legends team TSM replaced by Shopify in pro league

Image: TSM Shopify is entering the League of Legends arena. On Wednesday, Shopify announced that its Rebellion esports brand will be acquiring TSM’s spot in the League Championship Series (LCS), the pro circuit for US League of Legends esports. The move marks a major change of the guard in the LCS. TSM, one of the

Facebook changed its logo — see if you can tell the difference

The old logo (left) vs. the new one (right). You might be able to guess the meme I’m linking to before you click it. | Logos: Meta; Image by Jay Peters / The Verge Meta is updating Facebook’s “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo. Just kidding! It’s basically exactly the same as

Amazon’s Autumn Hardware Event, a Futuristic Gadget Extravaganza

Today, September 20, 2023, Amazon introduced an impressive lineup of over a dozen new products at their autumn hardware event. This diverse array of devices is designed to elevate the smart home experience, ranging from smart speakers, entertainment systems, and fashionable wearables, to advanced routers and security solutions. To celebrate this exciting launch, Amazon is

Silencing a 3D Printer With Acoustic Foam Isn’t That Easy

3D printers are supremely useful tools, but their incessant whining and droning can be distracting and tiresome. [Handy Bear] decided to try some simple ways to quieten down their printer using acoustic foam, with mixed results. The video starts by exploring two different acoustic foams; one black, one white. The latter was found to hold

GitHub expands Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to individual subscribers, after launching the tool for business users in July 2023 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub expands Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to individual subscribers, after launching the tool for business users in July 2023 — Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it available …

Google rolls out Android 14 QPR1 beta despite stable version delay

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has released Android 14 QPR1 for Pixel phones. Google has yet to release the stable version of Android 14. The stable version of the QPR1 update is expected to launch in December. Google was expected to release the stable version of Android 14 weeks ago, but the company

Amazon confirms it’s backing away from charging an extra seller fee

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has officially halted its plans to extract a two percent fee from Prime sellers who don’t use its in-house fulfillment. The company reportedly planned to start collecting the fee on October 1st, on top of the 8-to-15-percent commission it already gathers from merchants. After Bloomberg broke the

With blistering public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator and investors, Y Combinator appears curiously on the defensive lately (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: With blistering public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator and investors, Y Combinator appears curiously on the defensive lately — Y Combinator has been on the defense as of late. — This past weekend, leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X (formerly known as Twitter) …

Facebook changed its logo — see if you can tell the difference

Android 14 QPR1 will let you keep apps open when you close the Pixel Fold

A new setting in Android 14 QPR1 will change the way the Pixel Fold behaves when you fold it. Today, only Google Maps and full-screen videos transition from the inner to the outer display when folding the device. The new QPR1 beta allows you to keep the Fold unlocked after it’s folded. One of the

Shiny R web framework arrives in Wasm

The Shiny web framework for R is now officially available in a WebAssembly (Wasm) version that runs in-browser and doesn’t require a back-end Shiny server, Posit CTO Joe Cheng announced at the Posit::conf(2023) user conference today. There are currently three ways to use this new R version of Shinylive (a Python version of Shinylive was

Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys

Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk said earlier this month that “no monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant,” but an alarming new report from Wired seems to contradict Musk’s statement. Public documents obtained by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and seen by Wired indicate that Neuralink’s

Android 14 release date: When is the next update?

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google revealed its Android 14 schedule in February 2023, with the first developer preview going live the same day as the reveal. The timeline the company has planned out is very similar to the one the tech giant had for Android 13. On September 6, Google released Android 14 beta

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