The clicky part doesn’t do anything aside from help you take the pen out of the phone. There’s no shortage of great smartphones out there, from the Samsung Galaxy S23 series to the Google Pixel 7 line and beyond. In saying so, quite a few device families have come and gone over the years. So
Read MoreCNBC: Riot reports earning $31.7M in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT to curtail its usage in August, dwarfing the ~$8.9M worth of bitcoin mined — – Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo has reportedly demonstrated the Nintendo Switch 2 behind closed doors at Gamescom last month. Eurogamer reports that some trusted developers got an early look at the Switch 2 and some tech demos of how games run on the unannounced system. There was reportedly a demo of an
Read MoreRichard Milne / Financial Times: Norway’s $1.4T oil fund, which owns ~1.5% of all listed companies, details its three concerns over AI: board responsibility, transparency, and risk management — Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority YouTube is testing longer but fewer ad breaks on smart TVs and connected TV experiences, in line with how viewers watch content on these platforms. The company is also exploring displaying the countdown timer for the ad break in a more prominent fashion. YouTube has become the go-to platform
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Read MoreHere’s how to request that your personal information not be used to train Meta’s AI model. “Request” is the operative word here.
Read MoreTom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Source: at Gamescom in August, Nintendo demoed the Switch 2 running a souped up version of Breath of the Wild to developers; the device is expected in 2024 — Ahead of widely-expected launch next year. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — In Cologne last month …
Read MoreTrisha Thadani / Washington Post: Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes angst over driverless cars to anti-robot bias, saying “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized” — Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown
Read MoreThe Boy and the Heron. | Image: Studio Ghibli The festival is led by Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron, but there will be plenty more to see when things kick off in Toronto on September 7th. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe $599 I-2 is Polaroid’s newest camera. | Image: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Polaroid cameras are notoriously finicky. If you buy one of the 37,000 vintage Polaroid cameras on eBay, the likelihood of it working properly is slim. And if you can get it working, the likelihood of a photo being properly
Read MoreBloomberg: SK Hynix opens an investigation into the Huawei Mate 60 Pro using its LPDDR5 and NAND flash memory, some of the few materials in 60 Pro sourced outside China — – Korean maker says it hasn’t worked with Huawei since sanctions — Mate 60 Pro handset uses Hynix memory and flash storage chips
Read More2024 Mustang Mach-E Rally in Grabber Yellow. | Image: Ford This new Mach-E Rally is what you’d get if you could cross Ford’s most performant Mustang Mach-E electric SUV trim, the GT, with the company’s discontinued Focus RS rally sport monster. Ford initially revealed the Mustang Mach-E Rally at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in
Read MoreBruce had kind eyes and dressed well. Evelyn fell for him on Hinge, and then he stole $300,000. Now, she’s following the money trail.
Read MoreWhen the internet confused her with a Covid truther, the author journeyed down the rabbit hole to understand why.
Read MoreGene Park / Washington Post: Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America, describes the company’s evolution from a gaming company to a broader entertainment company, including live events — For decades, Nintendo was synonymous with video games. Now in its second century, the Japanese company wants to be much more.
Read MoreJoe Coscarelli / New York Times: Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while
Read MoreTwo new studies of the potential of text- and image-generating algorithms suggest they could add scary new scale and power to online disinformation campaigns.
Read MoreMicrosoft Loop is an intriguing tool, one that promises a lot but has yet to deliver more than a framework for running collaborative applications. The intent is to have a common data framework for collaboration, exposed as a canvas, with content in sync wherever you view it, be it in the dedicated Loop app, the
Read MoreThe uses of WebAssembly, aka Wasm, have grown far beyond its initial target of web applications, according to The State of WebAssembly 2023 report. But some developers remain skeptical. Released September 6 by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and SlashData, in collaboration with the Linux Foundation, the report finds mostly optimism among software developers
Read MoreHybrid cloud, meaning some on premises and some off premises, is already the default architecture for IT and has been for a while now. However, until this point, hybrid has been seen as that interim state on a journey to what many might condescendingly call “cloud maturity” en route to full public cloud. But now
Read MoreZeke Faux / New York Magazine: An excerpt from the book Number Go Up details an April 2022 FTX conference in the Bahamas, where writer Michael Lewis lavished Sam Bankman-Fried with praise — Three years ago, nobody knew who you were. And now you’re sitting on the cover of magazines. And you’re a gazillionaire.
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority MediaTek has announced that a future flagship chip is using a TSMC 3nm process. This chip is likely the Dimensity 9400, which is expected to be used in 2025’s phones. MediaTek is widely expected to announce the Dimensity 9300 flagship chipset in Q4, and it will power some high-end
Read MoreDylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com: Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5 — Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
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