Container ships moored off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Long Beach, California, on November 16th, 2021, as a historic traffic jam started to ease. | Image: Bing Guan / Bloomberg via Getty Images Report cards are out for retailers’ climate goals, specifically when it comes to tackling the pollution from their
Read MoreWhen search engines first emerged in the digital landscape, we all marveled that you could get answers to any question in a matter of seconds. And, to be fair, it was a marvel. But two decades later, it’s become more difficult for internet users to find the best information in their moments of need. Brand
Read MoreSoon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, sensors in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone reported radiation spikes. A researcher now believes he’s found evidence the data was manipulated.
Read MoreWe’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. Pulse oximeters are handy little instruments that measure your blood oxygen saturation using photoplethysmography (PPG) and are a topic we’re no strangers to here at Hackaday. Given PPG
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is adding a way to give a thumbs-up, double thumbs-up, or thumbs-down to a show or movie while you’re watching it on mobile, which could give you an easier way to teach the streaming service’s algorithms about your viewing preferences. With this new change, when you tap
Read MoreOAuth (Open Authorization) is the standard protocol of numerous digital platforms for delegated authorization. It’s the technology that enables users, for example, to click on a “Continue with Facebook” button on a website — thereby using Facebook to verify their identity. Despite its wide adoption and convenience for both developers and users, OAuth comes with
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok will host a music contest similar to popular talent shows like The Voice, the company announced today. The competition, called Gimme the Mic, will be held on TikTok livestreams and will incorporate live voting from fans as part of the contest. The competition is split into three
Read MoreSince 2018, a dedicated team within Microsoft has attacked machine learning systems to make them safer. But with the public release of new generative AI tools, the field is already evolving.
Read MoreMartin Matishak / The Record: White House unveils cyber initiatives to bolster the defenses of K-12 schools, including $200M over three years from the FCC, amid increasing ransomware attacks — The Biden administration on Monday will announce a host of federal and private industry initiatives to strengthen the digital defenses …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom doesn’t train its artificial intelligence models on audio, video, or text chats from the app “without customer consent,” according to a Monday blog post from Zoom’s chief product officer, Smita Hashim. She also writes that “our customers continue to own and control their content.” The company’s handling
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bing Chat, which previously was only available in Microsoft products like the Edge browser and Bing app, is coming to third-party browsers, including on mobile — In late July, Microsoft confirmed its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat was testing in third-party browsers like Chrome and Safari …
Read MoreThe Demon’s Souls remake is one of many exceptional games on sale right now. | Image: PlayStation After this weekend kicked off some unprecedented deals across PlayStation 5 consoles, DualSense controllers, and even some colorful console covers, Sony and other retailers are also discounting some of the PS5’s biggest titles and exclusives. We’ve seen many
Read MoreRed Dead Redemption 2. | Image: Rockstar Games Looks like Red Dead Redemption is moseying onto the Switch and PS4 (and the PS5 via backward compatibility). Rockstar Games announced today that the “new conversion” is courtesy of Double Eleven, which was founded by former Rockstar developers in 2009. The game launches for the two systems
Read MoreAlex Webb / Bloomberg: How bringing Lionel Messi to the MLS could help Apple, which has almost no content made in non-English-speaking markets, attract international TV+ subscribers — Messi+ Apple TV+ has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. The streaming service won an Academy Award for best picture with CODA.
Read MoreReuters: Researchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read emails and more — An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year …
Read MoreForget Gonzalez v. Google. There’s another dispute that will come before the justices in the next year and this time they will have to directly deal with issues involving platforms and speech.
Read MoreIt’s a big update year for Samsung’s flip-style foldable — and a much larger cover screen makes all the difference. Continue reading…
Read MoreAnna Irrera / Bloomberg: PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually — – PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability — It’s a big update year for Samsung’s flip-style foldable — and a much larger cover screen makes all the difference.
Read MoreAnna Irrera / Bloomberg: PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually — – PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector
Read MoreGenerative AI is a kind of artificial intelligence that creates new content, including text, images, audio, and video, based on patterns it has learned from existing content. Today’s generative AI models have been trained on enormous volumes of data using deep learning, or deep neural networks, and they can carry on conversations, answer questions, write
Read MoreCredit: 9to5Mac Apple could start sales for the new iPhone 15 series on September 22. The launch of the new iPhones is expected to take place on September 12 or September 13. Apple is expected to launch the new iPhone 15 series in September. Now, Bloomberg journalist and Apple insider Mark Gurman reports that sales
Read MoreThe world’s first quartz wristwatches were miles ahead of electric and mechanical wristwatches by most standards of the time, their accuracy was unprecedented and the batteries typically lasted somewhere on the order of a year. Modern smart watches, at least in terms of battery life, have taken a step backwards — depending on use, some
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority ASUS has apparently withdrawn the ability to unlock the bootloader on its phones. As per the company’s technical support team, Zenfone 10 and Zenfone 9 users won’t be able to root their phones. We’ve asked ASUS for clarity on the matter. ASUS is apparently taking away the ability to
Read MoreFilipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: China’s Hua Hong Semiconductor raises $2.96B in its Shanghai listing, the largest in the Asia Pacific region this year; the firm is already listed in Hong Kong — – Company raised nearly $3 billion through the share sale — It is the largest listing in the Asia Pacific region this year
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