Credit: Media Peanut The Galaxy Z Flip 5 will reportedly bring major camera and battery improvements via software. The phone is tipped to arrive with similar cameras and battery hardware as last year’s phone. Samsung is gearing up to launch the Galaxy Z Flip 5 next month, and it’s getting at least two major upgrades
Read MoreTesla coils are beautiful examples of high voltage hardware, throwing sparks and teaching us about all kinds of fancy phenomena. They can also be quite intimidating to build. [William Fraser], however, has come up with a design using just three components. It’s a simplified version of the “Slayer Exciter” design, which nominally features a transistor,
Read MoreBelt drive, removable battery, smooth automatic shifting, and built to be serviced anywhere. This Dutch e-bike checks all the boxes. Continue reading…
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the company adding experiences for people aged 17+, its aging users, its social graph, young developers, Robux, and more — Roblox, the virtual world and game platform, has 66 million daily users who spent 14 billion collective hours on it in just Q1
Read MoreA Swedish platform promises to help fund your favorite artists while making you rich and saving the music industry.
Read MoreJesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: FTX sues former compliance officer Daniel Friedberg, alleging he was Sam Bankman-Fried’s “fixer” who made “hush money” payments to two potential whistleblowers — The lawsuit claims the former compliance officer paid whistleblowers to stop them from exposing the “true fraudulent nature” of the exchange.
Read MoreAlexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: How Shein’s influencer tour of its Guangzhou factory, potentially aimed at fostering goodwill and improving the company’s image before a rumored IPO, backfired — In recent days, Chinese fast fashion giant Shein took a handful of influencers on a tour of its Guangzhou factory.
Read MoreThese days Bluetooth-based gadgets are everywhere, including for car and solar batteries. After connecting them up to the battery, you download the accompanying app on your smartphone, open it up and like magic you can keep tabs on your precious pile of chemistry that keeps things ticking along. Yet as [haxrob] discovered during an analysis,
Read MoreMiranda S. Spivack / New York Times: Experts say there is a growing need to build data centers in the US, which had 2,701 data centers in 2022 per Statista, but finding land may be a challenge — The need for data centers has soared, fueled by remote work and the growth of high-speed streaming.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Reka, which is building custom AI models for the enterprise, emerges from stealth with $58M in funding led by DST Global Partners and Radical Ventures — Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are all the rage these days, owing to their unparalleled ability to analyze and generate text.
Read MoreBloomberg: China is racing to catch the US in AI, but demos show China has far to go; Preqin: AI investments in the US were $26.6B in the year to mid-June vs. China’s $4B — China’s tech sector has a new obsession: competing with US titans like Google and Microsoft Corp. in the breakneck global
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is laying off employees at Waze, CNBC reported on Tuesday. The company is moving Waze over to Google’s ads system, and that change will mean cuts at Waze in “sales, marketing, operations and analytics,” Chris Phillips, VP and GM of Google’s Geo unit, wrote in an
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even prevent sales of Nvidia’s A800 chip without a license — Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking
Read MoreThe field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made tremendous strides in recent years, expanding the capabilities of computers. DeepMind, a Google subsidiary known for innovative innovations, is one of the most important companies in this space. Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, recently announced a new initiative called Gemini, which aims to outperform OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Augmedics, which develops an FDA-approved AR navigation system for spinal surgery, raised an $82.5M Series D led by CPMG, bringing its total funding to $148M — Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now approaching 8 million.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, and national security is no exception. Israel’s Shin Bet security service, often compared to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations or Britain’s MI5, has successfully incorporated AI into its operations, leveraging generative AI technology to thwart significant threats. This article delves into the groundbreaking work of Shin Bet,
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Augmedics, which develops an FDA-approved AR navigation system for spinal surgery, raised an $82.5M Series D led by CPMG, bringing its total funding to $148M — Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now approaching 8 million.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even prevent sales of Nvidia’s A800 chip without a license — Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking
Read MoreAn EVgo charging station that has each DC fast-charging cable option including CCS, CHAdeMO, and Tesla. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge North America has a fragmentation problem when it comes to EV charging. Tesla’s making a bid to solve it and cement the advantages of its Supercharger network — all while EV buyers
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU countries and lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the Data Act, establishing rules on how Big Tech and other firms use EU consumer and corporate data — EU countries and EU lawmakers on Tuesday agreed on rules that govern how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and
Read MoreA class action complaint has been filed against Apple Inc., alleging that CEO Tim Cook misled investors by hiding the fact that iPhone sales were declining in China. The complaint, spearheaded by a British pension fund, claims that Cook misled investors about Apple’s sales in China in a comment he made on an analyst call
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has caught on with software developers who build APIs, with 60% of respondents to a recent Postman survey saying they are using generative AI in their jobs. This was just one of the key findings in Postman’s 2023 State of the API Report, which is based on a survey of 40,000 developers and
Read MorePatience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Adalytics: ~80% of Google’s video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company’s promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims — About 80% of Google’s video-ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards, new research shows; Google disputes claims
Read MoreSapna Maheshwari / New York Times: TikTok admits that it’s funding the TikTok creators’ lawsuit in Montana challenging the state’s ban of the app, but says it’s not paying the creators directly — The popular video service had deflected questions about its involvement in the creators’ lawsuit for more than a month.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hope everyone is gearing up for the dog days of summer. Today’s issue includes a Q&A I did with Chris Morrow, the newly hired head of audio at Plan B
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