Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle
Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it’s flexing its legal muscles.
Read MoreApple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it’s flexing its legal muscles.
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/Evan Blass ASUS Zenfone 10 renders have leaked online, giving us a good look at the device. The images also show the phone in a variety of color options. ASUS will launch the Zenfone 10 later this month, and it’s already given us a fleeting glimpse at the phone while confirming a few specs.
Read More[Adrian Smith] recently scored an avionics module taken from a British Aerospace 146 airliner and ripped it open for our viewing pleasure. This particular aircraft was designed in the early 1980s when the electronics used to feed the various displays in the cockpit were very different from modern designs. This particular box is called a
Read MoreMarah Eakin / Wired: How Pixar used neural style transfer, a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks, to animate Ember, a lead character in its movie Elemental — It’s harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible. — Pixar had
Read MoreLisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools, as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm — Artificial intelligence raises difficult questions about who makes the call in a health crisis: the human or the machine?
Read More[Prof. Marvin Minsky] is a very well-known figure in the field of computing, having co-founded the MIT AI lab, published extensively on AI and computational intelligence, and, let’s not forget, inventing the confocal microscope and, of course, the useless machine. But did you know he also was a co-developer of the first Logo “turtle,” and
Read MoreWelcome to our guide on the best microwaves under $100. If you’re looking for an affordable yet reliable microwave that fits within your budget, you’re in the right place. While microwaves come in various price ranges, there are plenty of options available under $100 that offer excellent performance and essential features. In this article, we
Read MoreAmazon delivery drivers strike for the first time. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, Motherboard reported that Amazon delivery drivers in Palmdale, California have gone on strike, a first for the company. The drivers, who unionized with the Teamsters in April and were recognized by Amazon “Delivery Service Partner” (DSP) Battle-Tested
Read MoreWill it or won’t it? That’s the question much on the minds of astronomers, astrophysicists, and the astro-adjacent this week as Betelgeuse continued its pattern of mysterious behavior that might portend a supernova sometime soon. You’ll recall that the red giant star in the constellation Orion went through a “great dimming” event back in 2019,
Read MoreMegan Graham / Wall Street Journal: Duolingo says the company significantly scaled back TV ads, and its DAUs growing 62% YoY to 20.3M in Q1 2023 is due in part to efficient social media marketing — The language-learning app now relies more on memes—helping it climb to 20 million daily active users
Read MoreAmazon delivery drivers strike for the first time. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, Motherboard reported that Amazon delivery drivers in Palmdale, California have gone on strike, a first for the company. The drivers, who unionized with the Teamsters in April and were recognized by Amazon “Delivery Service Partner” (DSP) Battle-Tested
Read MoreGarmin Epix Pro review: At a glance What is it? The Epix Pro is the half-step successor of the Epix Gen 2. Not quite an Epix 3 but boasting major upgrades, the device is referred to as the Epix Pro, or the Epix Pro (Gen 2). A welcome update to one of Garmin’s top smartwatch families
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge After Baylor microbiology professor and public health advocate Peter Hotez, MD Ph.D. tweeted out a Motherboard article about Spotify’s lack of moderation of Joe Rogan’s misinformation after a podcast episode with guest Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Rogan challenged him to debate Robert F Kennedy, Jr, proposing a $100,000 donation to
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown This year hasn’t been great for Android so far. In two recent reports, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) showed that more people than ever are jumping ship from Android to iOS. The agency says that most of these folks — about 53%
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Investors of Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found “financial irregularities” at the health care startup, which has raised ~$23M from Sequoia India and others — Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the Indian health and wellness startup and are moving …
Read MoreIf you want to simulate a tic-tac-toe game, that’s easy. You can evaluate every possible move in a reasonable amount of time. Simulating antennas, however, is much harder. [Rosrislav] has been experimenting with using simulated annealing to iterate antenna designs, and he shares his progress in a recent blog post. For many problems, it simply
Read MoreMichael Holden / Reuters: The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which Warner Music acquired in 2017 — The British government said on Sunday that tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth would head its new taskforce to look at the safety risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Read MoreMicrosoft Outlook was subjected to a DDoS attack. | Illustration: The Verge In early June, complaints began cropping up on Twitter that Outlook was down for as many as 18,000 users at the peak of what, it turns out, was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, according to a story in The Associated Press (AP) this
Read MoreMichael Holden / Reuters: The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which Warner Music acquired in 2017 — The British government said on Sunday that tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth would head its new taskforce to look at the safety risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Read MoreGarmin Epix Pro review: At a glance What is it? The Epix Pro is the half-step successor of the Epix Gen 2. Not quite an Epix 3 but boasting major upgrades, the device is referred to as the Epix Pro, or the Epix Pro (Gen 2). A welcome update to one of Garmin’s top smartwatch families
Read MoreMarissa Newman / Bloomberg: Intel agrees in principle to build a $25B chip manufacturing plant in Israel, which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035 — Intel Corp. has agreed in principle to build a new manufacturing plant in Israel, part of a push by the US semiconductor
Read MorePhoto by: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images Three huge subreddits, r/pics, r/gifs, and r/aww, now only allow posts about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver. The subreddits have reopened after participating in the ongoing protests toward Reddit, and after each community polled users, the new rules are now in place. “As many of
Read MoreThe e-commerce landscape is constantly evolving. With more ways to access the world of online shopping than ever before, consumers continue to seek new and innovative ways to purchase their favourite products. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has begun to revolutionise the e-commerce industry. After being rapidly adopted as the globe’s newest preferred method of
Read MoreOpinion post by Rita El Khoury We can’t talk about the best wireless earbuds or best headphones on the market today without mentioning Sony. The company has found a winning formula and churned one success after the other with its WH and WF series. Two things have stopped me from trying its products so far,
Read MoreWhether you’re snoozing in a campground or schlepping up to an alpine valley, we’ve tested the perfect pads for you to rest your legs.
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