American households are becoming increasingly digital as the rise of automated technology enables more families to use smart devices to make their at-home living more comfortable and convenient. The most recent home statistics revealed that more than 60.2 million American households are actively making use of smart home devices as of 2023; this represents a three percent
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is introducing a host of new product features aimed at steering its customers toward greener choices. The product features, which were unveiled at an event in London today, are also intended to boost the company’s chances of reaching its sustainability goals, which have it going completely carbon
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast tool that is “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment services in the future — June 8, 2023 … The newest feature in WhatsApp brings a very different kind of messaging to the world’s most popular chat app.
Read MoreApple Vision Pro is set to benefit from a guest mode that will let you share the headset with another user.
Read MoreASUS has confirmed the Zenfone 10 launch date. The device will debut at the end of the month. It also shared an official render of the phone’s front design. The smartphone world is in dire need of small, powerful flagship phones. Last year, we welcomed the launch of the Zenfone 9 as one of the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android TV 14 beta includes strings that indicate that users will be able to remap a blank “star” button on their remote. The button can be remapped to open favorite apps or switch between inputs for your TV. This feature is likely to be made available to new TV
Read MoreDanielle Abril / Washington Post: Some software providers and startups are promoting AI-based monitoring tools at the workplace to combat burnout, reduce stress, and improve productivity — AI companies suggest they can help workers boost sales, lower stress and feel more connected. But some workers worry about data collection and privacy.
Read MoreThese days modern cars are nothing if not a grouping of networked software held together by bits of hardware. This is reflected not only in the rapidly increasing number of ECUs, but also infotainment systems and all-glass cockpits. For better or worse, this offers many exciting hacking possibilities, which [greenluigi1] was more than happy to
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Google will reportedly retire Android TV 13 in favor of Android TV 14. The company is also said to have skipped an Android version for Wear OS 4. Google’s Android platform is available for a variety of form factors, including TV and smartwatches. The company is hard at work
Read MoreCamomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK FCA plans to introduce tough crypto advertising rules, classifying crypto as “restricted mass market investments”, banning incentives to invest, and more — The Financial Conduct Authority said it will treat crypto like a high risk investment, and will consult on new guidance for its rules on promotions.
Read MoreIsaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: A radio host files a defamation lawsuit against OpenAI over ChatGPT’s hallucination, alleging it generated a false legal complaint accusing him of embezzlement — OpenAI LLC is facing a defamation lawsuit from a Georgia radio host who claimed the viral artificial intelligence program ChatGPT generated …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge The newest feature in WhatsApp brings a very different kind of messaging to the world’s most popular chat app. It’s called Channels, and it’s designed specifically for one-to-many broadcasts rather than conversation. The Meta-owned company calls it “a private way to follow what matters,” and names local and sports updates among the
Read MoreImage: OpenAI OpenAI is improving ChatGPT on iPad today with a new update designed to take advantage of the entire iPad screen. The updated ChatGPT app for iOS and iPadOS also includes drag and drop, Siri support, and Shortcuts integration. iPad support means ChatGPT will now run full-screen on Apple’s tablets, instead of as an
Read MoreThe first Android TV 14 beta is now live. The OS could allow users to receive call notifications and take calls from supported apps. Other additions include more HDR controls and energy management. If you ever wanted to receive calls on your big screen, Android TV 14 could soon open that option to you. The
Read MoreGPS has changed the way we get around the globe. But if you command a warship, you must think about what you would do if an adversary destroyed or compromised your GPS system. The Royal Navy and Imperial College London think a quantum navigation system might be the answer. Of course, Heisenberg says you can’t
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: DeepMind’s AlphaDev, an AI for discovering enhanced algorithms, devised new C++ sorting algorithms that are up to 70% faster and have been added to the language — The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. — DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues.
Read MoreSapna Maheshwari / New York Times: In a letter, two US senators accuse TikTok of misleading the Congress on handling of US user data, demanding answers to 12+ questions by the end of next week — Two senators sent a letter to TikTok’s C.E.O. on Tuesday with questions about how user data may be stored
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: Court filings: Binance’s lawyers allege SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the company in March 2019 when he was teaching at MIT Sloan — – According to a new filing from Binance’s lawyers, SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the crypto exchange in
Read MoreMiles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Internal email: Google plans to include office attendance records in performance reviews and consider new requests to work remotely full-time as an exception — Search giant, which asks most workers to be in an office 3 days a week, will consider attendance as part of performance
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A survey of 472 corporate board directors ahead of the SEC’s cyber-risk regulations: 76% have at least one expert, 62% say risk awareness is improving, and more — Board expertise depends very much on the industry and the company size — Are boards of directors capable of cybersecurity oversight?
Read MoreNew testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. For millions of others, the internet simply doesn’t exist.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: TikTok is aiming for a global e-commerce GMV of $20B in 2023, up from $4.4B in 2022, after rapid growth of its e-commerce business in Southeast Asia — ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok aims to more than quadruple the size of its global e-commerce business to as much as $20 billion …
Read MoreColin Wilhelm / The Block: Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by Changpeng Zhao between 2019 and 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Binance and Binance.US of redirecting over $12 billion in customer assets …
Read MoreAnton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: SK Hynix says it has started mass producing its 238-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips, promising speeds of 2400MT/s, up from last gen’s 176 layers and 1600MT/s — The new memory promises speeds of up to 2,400 MT/s. — SK hynix said late on Wednesday that it had begun mass
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Digibee, a low-code service that helps enterprises build integration workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Goldman Sachs, taking its total funding to $90M+ — Low-code enterprise integration platform provider Digibee Inc. said today it has closed on a $60 million round of funding.
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