Image: Worldcoin via Twitter Kenya is pumping the brakes on Worldcoin — the eyeball-scanning crypto project launched by OpenAI founder Sam Altman. The Kenyan government has ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting data in the country while it reviews the project for potential privacy and security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters. Worldcoin is a project
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video. If you’ve enabled the AI-based SGE feature in Search Labs, you’ll now start to see more multimedia in the colorful summary box at the top of your search results. Google’s also working on making that summary box appear
Read MoreThe Chrome downloads tray is moving to the address bar after years of clogging up browsing windows. | Image: The Verge Google is rolling out some updates to its Chrome web browser that should make it easier to quickly find the information you need, whether you’re downloading a bunch of files or just browsing the
Read MoreExposure to excessive heat during pregnancy has been linked to everything from preterm labor to low birth weight, and those risks are rising as the world warms.
Read MoreChina is proposing a law that would limit smartphone usage for children. Smartphone OEMs and software developers might need to implement a so-called “minor mode” to be in compliance. China previously forbade children from gaming for more than three hours a week. China is making it clear that it sees children using smartphones excessively as
Read MoreApple’s iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models are coming and here’s what they’ll cost.
Read MoreiPhone 15 could get Touch ID back – but not as you know it.
Read MoreFortune: A look at Katie Haun’s $1.5B crypto fund, launched in spring 2022 just before the crypto crash, which has now deployed ~30% of its cash to ~24 startups — On a sunny morning in April, Katie Haun trudged up a winding path around the Stanford Dish in the hills over Palo Alto.
Read MoreDeveloper Aggro Crab is taking other developers (like From Software) to accessibility school, and it’s making games better for everyone.
Read MoreLawmakers say it uses the App Store to “reduce the utility of apps” to increase its own profits.
Read MoreJen Christensen / CNN: An early-stage study of 80,000 women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram in 2021 and 2022 finds AI-supported screening increased breast cancer detection by 20% — Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors’ mammogram …
Read MoreLawmakers say it uses the App Store to “reduce the utility of apps” to increase its own profits.
Read MoreWeb search promised to resolve questions. Instead, it’s brought on soft apocalypse of a truth that’s reduced to trivia.
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: Microsoft rolls out spatial audio for Teams on Windows and macOS after a few months of testing; the audio of each person on a call now has a distinct position — After a few months of testing the feature, Microsoft has widely rolled out spatial audio for its Teams desktop
Read MoreImage: The Verge Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for Twitter and avoid
Read MoreAlex Pasternack / Fast Company: An interview with Google Jigsaw engineer Lucy Vasserman on how OpenAI and others use Jigsaw’s AI tool Perspective for flagging toxic speech to evaluate LLMs — OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are using Jigsaw’s Perspective—designed to moderate toxic human speech—to evaluate their large language models.
Read MoreAnton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Bernstein analysts estimate that nearly 10% of servers worldwide are powered by Arm SoCs and 40% of those are in China — The rise of Arm-based servers us clear and consistent, Bernstein says. — Due to increasing difficulty in obtaining high-performance x86 servers …
Read MoreBloomberg: The Cyberspace Administration of China releases draft rules to curtail smartphone use by minors, although it is unclear how the rules will be enforced — – Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors
Read MoreCredit: Raz Mobility US company Raz Mobility has released an Android phone for visually impaired users. It comes with a T9 keypad, navigation keys, and a Google Assistant button. The phone also offers wireless charging, a 3.5mm port, and microSD card expansion. Today’s top Android phones come with plenty of accessibility enhancements, including several features
Read MoreAnton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Bernstein analysts estimate that nearly 10% of servers worldwide are powered by Arm SoCs and 40% of those are in China — The rise of Arm-based servers us clear and consistent, Bernstein says. — Due to increasing difficulty in obtaining high-performance x86 servers …
Read MoreIt’s a story we’ve heard so many times over the years: breathless reporting of a new scientific breakthrough that will deliver limitless power, energy storage, or whichever other of humanity’s problems needs solving today. Sadly, they so often fail to make the jump into our daily lives because the reporting glosses over some exotic material
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: SoftBank’s Arm is targeting an IPO at a valuation of between $60B and $70B as soon as September 2023, a sign of bullish interest in AI chips — – Chip design firm may raise as much as $10 billion in debut — Nvidia, Intel are in discussions to be anchor investors
Read MoreThere are many applications for particle accelerators, even outside research facilities, but for the longest time they have been large, cumbersome machines, not to mention very expensive to operate. Here laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) are a promising alternative, which uses lasers to create accelerate particles along the wake in a plasma field. One of the
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Read MoreSam Metz / Associated Press: A federal judge dismisses an industry group lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users — A Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users will remain in effect after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit
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