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Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: Microsoft faces a formal EU antitrust investigation next week over tying Teams with Office, after concessions to appease concerns proved insufficient — Investigation will centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software
Read MoreClothilde Goujard / Politico: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting August 4 or face a daily fine of €89,500 — Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August. — 3 MINUTES READ
Read MoreMillions of years ago, retroviruses invaded the human genome. Today some of these viral remnants threaten the developing embryo, while others fight to defend it.
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Android 14 introduces new APIs for letting app stores claim “update ownership” over the updates of apps. This could have tilted the scales in favor of the Play Store once again, but it seems Google has balanced it well. Play Store has claimed update ownership over only Google Play
Read MoreThe more experience I have with generative AI (GenAI), the more I become simultaneously optimistic and cautious. The optimism is perhaps obvious: GenAI has the potential to significantly improve productivity whether you’re a developer or a white-collar office worker. In fact, I knew the GenAI moment had truly arrived when my social worker sister-in-law told me
Read MoreIn a previous article, I introduced Google’s PaLM 2 foundation model by building a simple application to generate a blog post. In this article, we will explore how to build a chatbot with the PaLM 2 API available on Google Cloud Vertex AI. For a detailed guide on setting up the environment and configuring the
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Samsung is holding its Unpacked event on July 26, and we’re expecting the Galaxy Watch 6 series to debut here as well. Earlier leaks point to the new watches bringing back the rotating bezel, which was missing on the Galaxy Watch 5 line. Fellow Android Authority member Kaitlyn Cimino
Read MoreFor those who wish to go beyond through-hole construction on perfboard for their circuit boards, a printed circuit board is usually the next step up. Allowing for things like surface-mount components, multi-layer boards, and a wider array of parts, they are much more versatile but do have a slight downside in that they are a
Read MoreAlex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: Brussels-based telecom operator Proximus Group plans to acquire 58% stake in Indian cloud communication service provider Route Mobile for $721M — – Proximus to make open offer for further 26% stake in Route — Route founders to reinvest $336 million in Proximus Unit
Read MoreSteve Lohr / New York Times: A look at the Artificial Inventor Project, which has filed pro bono test cases in the US and elsewhere seeking patent protection for AI-generated inventions — A group of legal experts are pressing patent agencies, courts and policymakers to address the question as generative A.I. seems …
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple could launch the first Macs with M3 chips in October, a journalist has suggested. We could see a 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and a new iMac on the day. Apple launched the 15-inch MacBook Air in June, bringing the M2 chip and plenty more to the
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to the Nothing Phone 2 update hub. Here you’ll find the latest information about the software of the phone and all the updates it gets over time. If you’re still considering buying the phone, here’s our Nothing Phone 2 review to help you decide whether to buy
Read MoreRight-wing groups in India are policing social media and reporting minorities for allegedly offending their religion.
Read MoreUkraine’s technology industry grew in 2022, adapting to do more than survive under constant disruption.
Read MoreCredit: SnoopyTech The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series has leaked yet again. The new images give us an in-depth look at the design of the different Galaxy Watch 6 variants. The smartwatches are expected to launch next week at Samsung’s Unpacked event. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series is coming in hot. The company is
Read MoreA first-generation 4GB iPhone has sold for just over $190,000 at an auction. The phone is reportedly considered a holy grail due to a limited production run. First-generation iPhones are hot commodities among tech collectors these days, often selling for thousands of dollars in mint condition. Now, it turns out that one of these models
Read MoreBrandy Zadrozny / NBC News: Research: Meta’s ban on anti-government “Boogaloo” content initially worked, but after 18 months, in late 2021, the volume had nearly returned to pre-ban levels — Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement who found each other online joined armed protests against Covid lockdowns.
Read MoreWater is heavy, so if you think about it, a moving ocean wave has quite a bit of energy. Scientists have a new way to use triboelectric generators to harvest that power for oceangoing systems. (PDF) Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are nothing new, but this new approach allows for operation where the waves have lower amplitude
Read MoreBloomberg: Antenna: June 2023 was Netflix’s best US growth month in years, with a gross ~3.5M signups, 100%+ above its recent averages, amid its password sharing crackdown — Netflix just had its best month in years and Disney is looking to sell its TV assets. What does that mean for the future of Hollywood?
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube is getting a new feature called Stable Volume in the video settings. The feature is expected to even out the volume across videos on YouTube. It hasn’t been rolled out to all YouTube users yet. It seems YouTube is rolling out a new “Stable Volume” feature on its
Read MoreIllumos is an OpenSolaris-derived Unix system, and no Unix is complete without a C compiler or two. And with a name like Portable C Compiler (PCC), you would think that would be a great bet to get up and running on Illumos. That’s probably what [Brian Callahan] thought, too, but found out otherwise. PCC already
Read MoreThe Apple Silicon M3 is going to debut in October 2023, with a new iMac, with the MacBook Air and Pro coming later, says a new report.
Read MoreLast week, we noted an attempt to fix a hardware problem with software, which backfired pretty dramatically for Ford when they tried to counter the tendency for driveshafts to fall out of certain of their cars by automatically applying the electric parking brake. This week, the story is a little different, but still illustrates how
Read MoreLast week, we noted an attempt to fix a hardware problem with software, which backfired pretty dramatically for Ford when they tried to counter the tendency for driveshafts to fall out of certain of their cars by automatically applying the electric parking brake. This week, the story is a little different, but still illustrates how
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