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To comply with the EU DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more details on EU ad targeting, increase researcher access, and more (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: To comply with the EU DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more details on EU ad targeting, increase researcher access, and more — Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work …

Your new iPhone 15 could be coming with a slow USB-C charging cable

New rumors have emerged that the USB-C charging cable boxed with iPhone 15 could come with USB 2.0 speeds.

A vessel should repair the West Africa Cable System, which runs ~10K miles from Europe to Africa, by September, after disruption to all South African networks (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A vessel should repair the West Africa Cable System, which runs ~10K miles from Europe to Africa, by September, after disruption to all South African networks — – Cable-layer vessel Leon Thevenin moored in Cape Town — Rock fall in Congo Canyon damaged West Africa cable system

Intel’s 14th Gen processors leak out thanks to MSI

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is getting ready to launch its 14th Gen desktop processors later this year and now MSI has accidentally spilled all the details. VideoCardz spotted a training video on MSI’s YouTube channel that includes important details on Intel’s unannounced 14th Gen processors, codenamed Raptor Lake-S Refresh. MSI says

Pixel 8 could gain these new AI camera features as per Google survey

Pixel 7 camera bump Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A Pixel Superfans survey suggests Google is mulling new AI photography features. These features could first appear on the upcoming Pixel 8 series. The survey also hints at improvements to camera launching speeds on Google’s phones. A survey going out to Pixel Superfans may

Filings: FTX wants to begin selling, staking, and hedging its crypto holdings, valued at over $3B, and seeks to hire Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy as an advisor (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Filings: FTX wants to begin selling, staking, and hedging its crypto holdings, valued at over $3B, and seeks to hire Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy as an advisor — The bankrupt exchange wants to return funds to creditors in dollars without denting value. — Register Now

Bixby’s voice cloning feature is getting a wider rollout

Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Samsung has begun rolling out Bixby Voice Cloning to more Galaxy smartphones with the One UI 5.1.1 update. The feature lets you train Bixby on your voice and then have the voice assistant reply to your queries back in your own voice. Samsung has its own voice assistant in

Amazon launches Amazon Luna on LG smart TVs released between 2021 and 2023 and running webOS 6.0 or later, after debuting Luna on Samsung TVs in August 2022 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Amazon Luna on LG smart TVs released between 2021 and 2023 and running webOS 6.0 or later, after debuting Luna on Samsung TVs in August 2022 — LG is teaming up with Amazon to bring the Amazon Luna cloud-based game streaming service on its smart TVs.

TikTok and Instagram Beauty Filters Aren’t Trying to Fool Anyone

Augmented reality filters on TikTok and Instagram are the most surprising way to be yourself online.

Epic Games announces the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch games exclusively on the Epic Games Store (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget: Epic Games announces the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch games exclusively on the Epic Games Store — Games and apps in the Epic First Run program will also benefit from extra exposure on the storefront.

We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which performs better than the average human in some tasks but is not enough and is expensive to train (Irregular Ideas)

Irregular Ideas: We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which performs better than the average human in some tasks but is not enough and is expensive to train — On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a

Pixel Tablet’s stylus capabilities are about to get a whole lot better

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It looks like Google is about to roll out new stylus handwriting options for the Pixel Tablet. Gboard’s new stylus handwriting settings will let users adjust the handwriting speed and stroke width. New stylus handwriting gestures will also be added. Google’s Pixel Tablet comes with USI 2.0 stylus

Doppler Speed Sensor Puts FFT and AGC to Work

Some people hate to revisit projects that are done and dusted. We get that; it’s a little like reading a book you’ve already read when there are so many others to choose from. But rereading a book sometimes reveals subtle nuances you missed the first time around, and revisiting projects can be much the same,

How LLMs designed for chat interactions turned AI into a general purpose tool, as AI undergoes transformation much like semiconductors gave rise CPUs and GPUs (Haomiao Huang/Ars Technica)

Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica: How LLMs designed for chat interactions turned AI into a general purpose tool, as AI undergoes transformation much like semiconductors gave rise CPUs and GPUs — Until recently, AI models were specialized tools. Modern LLMs are different. — The chief technology officer of a robotics startup told …

OPPO confirms Find N3 Flip and Watch 4 Pro launch, here are official renders

Credit: OPPO on Weibo OPPO has announced that the Find N3 Flip and the Watch 4 Pro will launch in China on August 29, 2023. The Find N3 Flip could see a global launch some months later, though we aren’t as hopeful about the smartwatch reaching other markets outside China. The OPPO Find N3 Flip

We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which performs better than the average human in some tasks but is not enough and is expensive to train (Irregular Ideas)

Sources say TikTok plans to bar links to Amazon and other e-commerce sites in a bid to force people to use TikTok Shop to buy items they see on the app (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources say TikTok plans to bar links to Amazon and other e-commerce sites in a bid to force people to use TikTok Shop to buy items they see on the app — The cost of TikTok’s online shopping expansion in the U.S. is beginning to add up. — TikTok Shop,

Details leak about Apple’s USB-C cable for the iPhone 15 series

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple’s UBB-C cable for the iPhone 15 series may only support USB 2.0 data transfer speeds. Previous rumors have suggested that the Pro iPhone 15 models could feature higher-speed transfers. The bundled cable is expected to be longer, more durable, and have no MFi restrictions. Images of alleged Apple-made

Custom Font Generation Means Boss Embossing

[Attoparsec] loves learning languages, but says they have a hard time retaining anything. We find that hard to believe given the number of tongues that [Attoparsec] was able to translate into embossing plastic. That’s right, this project is about making custom font wheels for an embosser, formerly known as a label maker. If you think

Naver unveils its generative AI product HyperCLOVA X, including chatbot app CLOVA X available in beta, and AI search service Cue, launching in beta in September (Ju-min Park/Reuters)

Ju-min Park / Reuters: Naver unveils its generative AI product HyperCLOVA X, including chatbot app CLOVA X available in beta, and AI search service Cue, launching in beta in September — South Korean internet giant Naver (035420.KS) unveiled on Thursday its own generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool …

Research teams from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Research teams from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar — Scientists use electrodes and AI programs to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar

Sources and documents: China quietly revived its initiative to recruit top foreign-trained scientists, which was stopped in 2018, to boost its tech proficiency (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources and documents: China quietly revived its initiative to recruit top foreign-trained scientists, which was stopped in 2018, to boost its tech proficiency — For a decade until 2018, China sought to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists under a lavishly funded program that Washington viewed …

Crypto exchange Bitstamp says it is ending its Ethereum staking service for US customers from September 25, citing “current regulatory dynamics in the US” (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Crypto exchange Bitstamp says it is ending its Ethereum staking service for US customers from September 25, citing “current regulatory dynamics in the US” — The crypto exchange said it made the decision due to “regulatory dynamics” in the States.

This Car Has Wooden Performance

If you were to take a look at the car parked closest to where you are sitting, there’s an overwhelming probability that its main structural parts are made of steel. A few might be aluminium and fewer still composite materials, but by and large that’s it for automotive structures. This hasn’t stopped the inventive Russians

An analysis finds 37 sites that are using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles, which first appeared in outlets like CNN, the NYT, and Reuters, without credit (NewsGuard)

NewsGuard: An analysis finds 37 sites that are using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles, which first appeared in outlets like CNN, the NYT, and Reuters, without credit — NewsGuard has identified 37 sites that use artificial intelligence to repackage articles from mainstream news sources without providing credit

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