Photo by Michael Short / Getty Images Ford said it is hiring Peter Stern, the former Apple vice president of services who helped build up the company’s streaming TV operation, to lead its effort to improve customers’ software experience. Stern left Apple at the beginning of the year after a six-year tenure heading up the
Read MoreAshley Capoot / CNBC: PayPal appoints Intuit SVP Alex Chriss as CEO, replacing longtime CEO Dan Schulman on September 27; the board cited Chriss’ work acquiring Mailchimp for $12B — – Alex Chriss, the executive who runs the Small Business and Self-Employed group for Intuit, is the new CEO of PayPal, members of PayPal’s board
Read MoreAndrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Ford hires former Apple VP of Services Peter Stern to lead its customer software team and improve the user experience, part of the Ford+ plan — / Stern will oversee an effort to ‘create and market innovative customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services.’
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The Google Pixel Watch 2 was spotted in FCC listings, revealing its strap options and band support. The reports indicate that Google has a new slim metal strap as an option for the Watch 2. Further, the connectivity bands of the Watch 2 have also been revealed. We’re
Read MoreApple TV +’s Hijack has quickly one of the service’s most popular TV Shows.
Read MoreVoice actors with disabilities are only now getting a seat at the table in the gaming industry. But regressive policies on remote work and a desire for Hollywood names have put that all in danger.
Read MorePrachir Singh / Counterpoint Research: Mobile phone shipments crossed 2B cumulative units under the “Make in India” initiative between 2014 and 2022, a 23% CAGR, for 98% of local shipments in 2022 — – India’s mobile phone production grew at a CAGR of 23% during 2014-2022 to cross a cumulative 2bn units.
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is currently testing a new Office default theme that will roll out to all subscribers of Microsoft 365 next month. Microsoft says it’s refreshing the default Office theme with the new Aptos font, a new color palette, styles, and updated default line weights. Aptos, the new default font for apps like Word,
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority New OPPO Find N3 Flip design scheme renders showcase a different rear camera layout than what had previously leaked. The three rear cameras share their camera island and also have Hasselblad branding. Specs and the launch timeline of the device have also leaked. We’re seeing more and more foldables
Read MoreDefense satellites used to be big, costly, and “juicy” targets for attack. Now the Pentagon is aiming for a more resilient network of nearly 1,000 mini orbiters.
Read MoreThe huge diversity of sensors and other hardware which our community now has access to seems comprehensive, but there remain many parts which have made little impact due to cost or scarcity. It’s one of these which [Enginoor] has taken for the sensor in a 3D scanner, an industrial laser displacement sensor. This sensor measures
Read MoreSan Francisco ride-hail drivers are about to share the roads with robot competitors. They say that the self-driving cabs need to work on their traffic skills—and watch out for bodily fluids.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Some iPhone 14 series users have recently complained about battery degradation. However, this degradation seems broadly in line with Apple’s own, long-standing guidance. There are a number of ways to slow down battery degradation, though. We’ve seen a number of iPhone 14 series users expressing concern over battery degradation
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority New OPPO Find N3 Flip design scheme renders showcase a different rear camera layout than what had previously leaked. The three rear cameras share their camera island and also have Hasselblad branding. Specs and the launch timeline of the device have also leaked. We’re seeing more and more foldables
Read MoreThe latest Apple Silicon specs have been leaked, and there are some big numbers for M3.
Read MoreFinancial Times: How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues — Geopolitical tensions and new laws requiring companies to monitor environmental and human rights abuses in their supply networks drive interest
Read MoreGoogle Cloud has released Pricing API for its cloud services in order to help enterprises optimize their cloud expenditure as they continue to face macroeconomic uncertainty. The new API, which is currently in public preview, is an improvement over Google’s existing Billing Catalog API, the company said. While the Billing Catalog API only provides an inventory
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has advanced significantly since its inception in the 1950s. Today, we are seeing the emergence of a new era of AI, generative AI. Businesses are discovering a broad range of capabilities with tools such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, and AI adoption is accelerating among businesses of all sizes. In fact, Forrester
Read MoreWell, that was awkward. In July I wrote about shifts in the open source licensing landscape, arguing, “It’s not that open source doesn’t matter, but rather it has never mattered in the way some hoped or believed.” The furious backlash was sanctimonious and condemning. But, according to HashiCorp last week, it was also wrong. For those
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Firefox’s Android app will soon support an “open ecosystem of extensions,” developer Mozilla has announced, allowing users to customize the browser with a wide range of third-party addons. An exact release date for the feature is yet to be announced, but in a blog post Mozilla’s Scott DeVaney
Read MoreLorena O’Neil / Rolling Stone: A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today — Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along — T —
Read MoreA tiny literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It’s a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.
Read MoreEmma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian: In Taiwan, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and other lifestyle and shopping apps are increasingly becoming part of China’s information war, aided by a shared language — Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing’s information war against its neighbour — Emma Graham-Harrison and Chi-Hui Lin in Taichung
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple could be working on substantial upgrades to its smartwatch for its tenth anniversary in 2024. Dubbed the Apple Watch X, it could feature upgrades like a newer magnetic band attachment mechanism, blood pressure monitoring tech, and a mircoLED display. For this year, though, you can expect only a
Read MoreRemember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate the extraordinary claim that a room-temperature semiconductor had been discovered? We sure do, and if it seems like it was just yesterday, it’s probably because it pretty much was. The news of LK-99, a copper-modified lead apatite compound, hit at
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