Apple Watch wearers can download watchOS 9.5.1 but Apple’s being coy about it
Apple has released watchOS 9.5.1 but its lack of release notes has so far left people guessing what’s new.
Read MoreApple has released watchOS 9.5.1 but its lack of release notes has so far left people guessing what’s new.
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Filing: Ontario Securities Commission opened an investigation on May 10 into Binance over trying to skirt regulations; Binance withdrew from Canada on May 12 — Crypto exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. said it has received an order from one of Canada’s securities regulators to investigate whether …
Read MoreForbes: A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company prepares to battle Nvidia over AI chips — AMD’s CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker’s stock price up nearly 30-fold in less
Read MoreAs the latest entry-level Alexa smart speaker, the $40 Echo Pop packs a lot of value into a small package. It’s not as good as the Echo Dot, but it’s got looks on its side. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe latest tiny addition to the Alexa family focuses on style rather than sound.
Read MoreWith few exceptions, every field has a pretty modest set of tools that would be considered the minimum for getting most jobs done. A carpenter can make do with tools that would fit in a smallish bag, while a mechanic can handle quite a few repairs with a simple set of socket wrenches and other
Read MoreMany have predicted the death of the iPhone. We’ve been at Peak iPhone a bunch of different times. We’ve seen “stagnant growth,” “looming trouble,” and prognostications that other companies would steal Apple’s market share or that wearables or hearables or AR or VR or XR or SomethingElseR would usurp the smartphone. And yet, the iPhone
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Toronto-based Hostaway, which offers vacation rental management tools, raised $175M led by PSG Equity, after raising under $3M since its founding in 2015 — Tourism and travel have come roaring back into business post-pandemic, and today a startup called Hostaway that’s building technology …
Read MoreImage: Netflix Black Mirror’s sixth season will land on Netflix on June 15th. The streamer revealed the release date in a new trailer on Wednesday, which gives us a more detailed look at what to expect from the mind-bending series, as opposed to the teaser we saw last month. The upcoming installment will consist of
Read MoreAs a teenager, Vincent Richardson became a Chicago legend after successfully impersonating a police officer. He got caught — so why did he do it over and over? Well, when you’re really good at something… Continue reading…
Read MoreIn the decade-and-a-bit since the first Raspberry Pi was launched we’ve seen an explosion of affordable single-board computers (SBCs), but as the prices creep up alongside user expectation and bloat, [Christopher Barnatt] asks where the industry will go next. The Pi started with an unbeatable offer, $35 got you something similar to the desktop PC
Read MoreWhenever an ecommerce team wants to spark intentional, targeted revenue growth, they must choose between two distinct paths: broadening their target audience or deepening their investment in their current customers. Each of these has its pros and cons, and often circumstantial factors can help a team decide which one to pursue. If your company is debating
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: the Biden administration is split on regulating generative AI; some prefer an EU-style model while others worry over losing a competitive advantage — Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated …
Read MoreIain Withers / Reuters: Monzo reports £356M in FY2023 revenue, up from £154M in FY2022, and a £116M net loss, down from £119M YoY; CEO TS Anil says an IPO is “some ways down the road” — British digital bank Monzo marginally narrowed its annual loss in the year to February 2023 …
Read MoreNew laws in Minnesota and Vermont understand that allowing people to test their drugs reduces harm—and is a vital public health measure.
Read MoreBloomberg: A profile of Plaid, valued at $13.4B, and founder Zach Perret, after a $58M data scraping settlement in 2022, as the company expands and fights a lawsuit by PNC — Over the past decade, Plaid’s digital pipes have enabled 1 in every 3 people with a US bank account to connect it to the
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs’ inner workings — The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
Read MoreCredit: Andy Walker / Android Authority Samsung has confirmed that the One UI 5 Watch beta has been delayed. The beta software was originally scheduled to launch in May. The company hasn’t disclosed a new date for the beta release. Samsung launched a One UI Watch beta program last year, allowing Galaxy Watch 4 and
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: the Biden administration is split on regulating generative AI; some prefer an EU-style model while others worry over losing a competitive advantage — Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated …
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Surface Duo 1 and 2 owners are reporting random reboots after the May 2023 security update. There’s no word from Microsoft regarding this issue just yet. Microsoft’s Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 launched with a variety of bugs, although the company issued a stream of updates in the
Read MorePsychedelics are hot, but flawed studies mean a lot of the health claims could be hype. To get better evidence, scientists are trying unusual methods.
Read MoreDisplay Analyst Ross Young has seemingly leaked the specs of the Apple VR displays.
Read MorePriya Anand / Bloomberg: An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more — If you’ve been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of
Read MoreRecent changes to Twitter’s API access have “made it impossible for Block Party’s Twitter product to continue in its current form.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Block Party, an anti-harassment service designed to combat abusive content on Twitter, is the latest third-party app to leave the platform in light of Twitter locking
Read MoreMia Sato / The Verge: After a fake Pentagon “explosion” image went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images, including “recent and future matching images” — Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly after a fake image went viral claiming to show an “explosion” near the Pentagon.
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