Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | Image: Universal Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer epic offers a series of visceral glimpses into the life of the father of the atomic bomb but gets too busy to reach its full potential. Continue reading…
Read MoreCillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer and Margot Robbie as Barbie in Barbie. | Image: Universal / Warner Bros. Pictures After all the mermaids, superheroes, talking robots, and superspies that have already invaded theaters over the past few weeks, you might have gotten the sense that this year’s season of summer blockbusters was
Read MoreJagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Meta launches a WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3 smartwatches, letting users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without having their connected phone — WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing.
Read MorePhoto by Roland Krivec / DeFodi Images via Getty Images Starting tomorrow, my sleep schedule is going to be in complete disarray. The 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off in Australia and New Zealand on July 20th, which means that I’ll be getting up very early — and staying up pretty late — in order
Read MorePhoto by Roberto Baldwin for The Verge Nissan is announcing support for Tesla’s winning charging connector for the North American market. The automaker is not only the first Japanese brand to agree to add the charger but also the first Asian one. Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) is the port that many major automakers,
Read MorePhoto by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Federal antitrust enforcers released new draft guidelines for evaluating anti-competitive mergers Wednesday, redoubling their aggressive scrutiny over digital markets. The rules, proposed by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, direct enforcers to examine mergers by online platforms more broadly than ever before. The proposal doesn’t explicitly name
Read MoreZ Fold 4 (unfolded) Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Update, July 19, 2023 (01:42 PM ET): We’ve updated this Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 rumor hub with a leaked marketing image that shows a phone case with an S Pen holder.
Read MoreSahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Netflix told advertisers in the last two weeks that its ad-supported tier has around 1.5M subscribers in the US; Hulu’s ad tier has ~30M US subscribers — Around 1.5 million people in the U.S. have signed up to pay for Netflix’s tier of service that carries ads …
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple built a framework called Ajax to build LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and aims for a consumer product in 2024 — – Company builds large language models and internal chatbot — Executives haven’t decided how to release tools to consumers
Read MoreImage: The Verge Apple is creating its own AI-powered chatbot that some engineers are calling “Apple GPT,” according to a report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly doesn’t have any solid plans to release the technology to the public yet. As noted by Bloomberg, the chatbot uses its own large language model (LLM) framework called “Ajax,”
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when users are still furious over things like Reddit’s API pricing that forced beloved third-party apps to shut down, the company’s decision to remove chat
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Michael Moritz leaves Sequoia Capital to focus on the firm’s wealth management business; source: Mike Vernal is also leaving; Daniel Chen left in recent months — Sequoia Capital has shaken up its senior ranks, the latest indication of how its leader, Roelof Botha, is reshaping …
Read MoreImage: Nick Barclay / The Verge The first part of Meta’s augmented reality glasses it sells to the public won’t come with the high-end displays originally planned for the device, according to a new report from The Information. Sources tell the outlet that Meta’s AR glasses will instead feature older glass lenses and display technology.
Read MoreSamsung is first out of the gate with GDDR7, but it might be a while before we see it installed into market-ready products. | Image: Samsung On Wednesday, Samsung announced that it has completed the development of the industry’s first GDDR7 DRAM, the next generation of graphics memory that will feature in future computing, vehicle,
Read MoreWhatsApp is now a Wear OS 3 app. | Image: Meta First teased at Google I/O, Meta just announced that WhatsApp is officially rolling out to Wear OS smartwatches starting today, provided you have a Wear OS 3 smartwatch. The app itself isn’t complicated. It’ll allow users to start new conversations, reply to messages, and
Read MoreRita Liao / TechCrunch: p0x labs, which develops Manta Network, a privacy-preserving protocol running on the Polkadot blockchain, raised a $25M Series A at a $500M valuation — Even amid the crypto winter, some web3 companies are racking up hefty valuations. P0x Labs, the team behind Manta Network …
Read MoreYueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Nasdaq says it’s halting the launch of its digital-asset custodian business in the US and a license related to it, citing a shifting regulatory environment — The exchange operator is also halting its efforts to pursue a license related to the business but will continue to build out its technological capability
Read MoreWe always love to see projects where you can build your own lab equipment so [CompactDIY’s] homemade seismograph caught our eye. The design uses an Arduino with an accelerometer and builds on one of their earlier projects. You can see a video of the device below. The principle is simple. A hobby servo controls a
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Unstructured.io, which offers a service to extract and stage enterprise data in a way that LLMs can understand, raised $25M across a Series A and seed — Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 are the building blocks for an increasing number of AI applications.
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Read MoreImage: Vox Media During the development of the Tesla Model S, one top engineer would tick off certain milestones in his mind whenever the tiny, almost bankrupt startup would hit certain goals. A particular number of cars built, for example. And one milestone he distinctly remembers is when the Tesla team completed more than 9,000
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Microsoft will make 31 security logs available for free to its lower-cost cloud service licensees from September, after criticism about China hack disclosures — Company says it will make security logs available to customers with lower-cost cloud services — Microsoft said it plans …
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: Review of $350 Beats Studio Pro headphones: nice transparency mode, lossless USB-C audio, native iOS and Android support, but subpar build quality for the price — They look like a lazy refresh from the outside, but the noise-canceling Studio Pros include a ton of new features like transparency mode and
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreBrandy Betz / CoinDesk: RISC Zero, which is developing the Bonsai computing platform to let developers build zero-proof software, raised a $40M Series A led by Blockchain Capital — The startup creates developer tooling that helps build zero-proof software for improved security and computational power.
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