Inside, home screen Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google is reportedly considering the launch of a tablet with a folding screen. It’s believed this foldable Pixel tablet could launch as soon as Google I/O next year. Google finally joined the foldable phone party this year thanks to the Pixel Fold. However, it sounds like
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: The Overture Maps Foundation, formed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, releases its first dataset with 59M “points of interest” donated by Meta and Microsoft — – A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies …
Read MoreVictoria Song / The Verge: Samsung announces the $300+ Galaxy Watch6 and $400+ Galaxy Watch6 Classic, powered by Wear OS 4, reviving the Classic’s rotating bezel, and more — The Classic’s rotating bezel is back — and the display bezels are a lot thinner all around. Oh, and here comes Wear OS 4.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority We’ve endured many months of leaks and rumors, but Samsung has finally launched the Galaxy Z Fold 5 at its Unpacked event. Now that you’ve seen the new device, we want to know what you think of it. So vote in the poll below and leave a comment if
Read MoreSam Rutherford / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous — Even with a new hinge, a brighter display and improved multitasking, the Z Fold’s rivals are catching up.
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Samsung has launched three new tablets in the Galaxy Tab S9 series, and they are the first Android slates to feature the overclocked Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. The choice of processor automatically puts them at the top of the pile with other premium tablets like the iPad
Read MoreAre these iterative Flip and Fold updates compelling enough for you? | Image: Samsung Samsung kicked off a new generation of foldable phones at its latest Unpacked event, and it’s already taking preorders for those looking to punch their tickets to hot foldable summer. This time around, the announcements of the Galaxy Z Flip 5
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Given the many impressive features of the new Galaxy Z Flip 5, color is unlikely to be the top selling point for many buyers. It’s certainly less important if you’re planning on throwing a case on the device anyway. But the color makes up part of a beautifully designed
Read MoreCherlynn Low / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 hands-on: the new Flex Hinge seems solid and larger 3.4″ external display has potential but apps may struggle with the odd aspect ratio — Software gets even more complicated with a larger outside screen. — After I reviewed the Motorola Razr+ earlier this year, I grew besotted
Read MoreSamsung launched new foldables and tablets at its Unpacked event, but it also had something for wearable fans as it launched the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic. Do you like what you see with these new smartwatches, though? Let us know by taking our poll below.
Read MoreReuters: A Russian court convicts Group-IB co-founder and CEO Ilya Sachkov of treason and jails him for 14 years over allegations of passing information to spies — A Russian court on Wednesday convicted Ilya Sachkov, a top cyber security executive, of treason and jailed him for 14 years in a case …
Read MoreThe new Galaxy Z Flip 5. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Samsung has just finished up its second Galaxy Unpacked event of the year, where it revealed a whole bunch of updates across its line of folding phones, Galaxy smartwatches, and tablets. If you couldn’t watch the event live, we’ve rounded up
Read MoreHadlee Simons / Android Authority: Evan Blass leaks over a dozen images ahead of Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more — All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details. — • — TL;DR — A
Read MoreGeorge Hammond / Financial Times: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
Read MoreWill Knight / Wired: How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war — Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence …
Read MoreElectronic Frontier Foundation: The FBI’s seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May, part of a raid over unrelated charges, should serve as a wakeup call to fediverse users and hosts — We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Documents detail the struggles of Amazon’s Clubhouse rival Amp, launched in March 2022 with a year-end target of 1M+ MAUs; a source says MAUs sit at 700K today — At the height of the COVID-19 health crisis, when many of us — forced by quarantine rules and social distancing guidelines …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a paper sent to EU policymakers, a group of companies, including GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others, are encouraging more support for the open-source development of different AI models as they consider finalizing the AI Act. EleutherAI, LAION, and Open Future also cosigned the paper. Their
Read MoreCredit: OnLeaks/Smartprix A long-time leaker has posted a ton of screenshots regarding Samsung’s new products. The screens show off new Galaxy foldables, tablets, and watches to be announced at Unpacked. Samsung will hold its long-awaited Unpacked event later today, where it’s expected to reveal new foldable phones and more. We’ve already seen a host of
Read MoreWe all lead digital lives, and we work in and on files of one sort or another. And sometimes we get attached to them. That long manifesto you poured your heart into, but nonetheless probably shouldn’t see the light of day? Love letters from former flames? Your first favorite video game that you can’t play
Read MoreBen Tarnoff / The Guardian: A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity — Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
Read MoreReactive programming takes the functional paradigm and layers on sophisticated programming-in-the-large capabilities. These capabilities allow for using functional-like semantics in application architectures. ReactiveX is one of the strongest projects in the reactive world, providing a set of common specifications for language implementers. This article is a hands-on exploration of RxJava, the Java implementation of ReactiveX. Getting started with
Read MorePython is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for developers because you don’t have to rigorously define and track variable types if you’re just throwing together a quick-and-dirty script. But for bigger
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Planet Express, meet battle royale. As was teased yesterday, a collaboration between Futurama and Fortnite kicked off today, which mostly involves three characters from the show being available in the item shop. You can now fight your way through the game as Fry, Leela, or Bender, and the Planet Express ship is
Read MoreRichard Waters / Financial Times: An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on generative AI, the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, competition among cloud providers offering generative AI services, and more — Head of Amazon Web Services says Microsoft and OpenAI are not way ahead — there will be choice and competition
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