Credit: WinFuture The Motorola Razr 40 Ultra, aka the Razr Plus (2023), has leaked in all its glory. The phone is believed to cost between €1,169 to €1,199 in Europe. A full spec sheet of the device has also leaked. An extensive and reliable Motorola Razr 40 Ultra leak just popped up, disclosing all of
Read MoreFlying a glider, or similarly piloting a paraglider or hang glider, can all be pathways into aviation with a lower barrier of entry than powered flight. Sacrificing one’s engine does generate a few complexities, but can be rewarding as the pilot searches for various means of increasing altitude like ridge soaring or thermaling. You’ll need
Read MoreAja Romano / Vox: A look at how puritanism took over fandom communities, the growing “anti-fandom” movement, and how the US’ FOSTA-SESTA worsened sex positivity discourse online — Puriteens, anti-fans, and the culture war’s most bonkers battleground. — How did the internet become so puritanical?
Read MoreIndirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots.
Read MoreGrace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia: Regulatory filings: Indonesia-based eFishery, which provides software and financing to fish farmers, raised a $108M Series D at a $1.3B post-money valuation — Indonesian agritech startup eFishery has raised US$108 million in series D funding, pushing its post-money valuation to US$1.3 billion …
Read MoreAnna Gross / Financial Times: Sources: after closing Arm Research last year, Arm plans to limit “blue sky” research and focus on commercially viable products, ahead of this year’s IPO — UK chip designer faces criticism after closing flagship unit to sharpen focus on commercial products
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A new type of attack can easily guess the fingerprint authentication on some Android phones in as little as 45 minutes. Researchers tested it on phones from Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus, HUAWEI, OPPO, vivo, and Apple. iPhones seem immune to the attack. Security researchers have developed a new attack
Read MoreBloomberg: Memo: Grab co-founder Tan Hooi Ling plans to exit operational roles and give up her board seat by the end of 2023, as the company fights to reverse losses — Grab Holdings Ltd. co-founder Tan Hooi Ling is stepping down from her operational roles by the end of the year …
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: An SEC filing shows OpenAI closed a $175.3M fund to invest in startups, 75% higher than the money raised when the fund launched in May 2021, from 14 investors — OpenAI has closed a $175.3 million fund to invest in other startups, according to a securities filing.
Read MoreJoe Coscarelli / New York Times: Q&A with Grimes, who invited anyone to make Grimes songs using AI tools, on open-sourcing her voice, her obsession with AI, and five GrimesAI-created tracks — The producer and pop singer, long a proponent of technological experimentation, has “open-sourced” her voice using new A.I. tools.
Read MoreImage: Remedy Entertainment Alan Wake 2 just got an official release date — October 17th — but you won’t be able to buy a physical copy of the game, developer Remedy Entertainment revealed in an FAQ on Wednesday. Remedy has three arguments as to why: it says that many players have shifted to only buying
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: Filing: the Biden administration says SCOTUS should let stand a 2022 appeals court ruling favoring Google over its alleged theft of Genius’ lyric transcriptions — The Biden administration’s U.S. solicitor general said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court should not review a ruling won …
Read MoreElizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signs the broadest-yet right-to-repair bill, with exceptions including game consoles and cybersecurity tools, effective July 1, 2024 — Today, the fight for our right to repair everything we own just scored a huge victory: the US state of Minnesota just passed the broadest-yet Right to Repair
Read MoreIf many millions of years of evolution is good for anything, it is to develop microscopic structures that perform astounding tasks, such as the marvelous biology of insects. One of these structures are the ears of the lesser wax moth (Achroia grisella), whose mating behavior involves ultrasonic mating calls. These can attract the bats which
Read MoreOliver Whang / New York Times: A study describes how a patient who was paralyzed from waist down was able to walk naturally again with brain and spine implants using an AI thought decoder — In a new study, researchers describe a device that connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to his physical movements.
Read MoreLaunching his White House bid on the social network revealed the technical and political limitations of Musk’s platform.
Read MoreCoco Feng / South China Morning Post: Amazon is closing its Appstore in China on July 17, 2023, following the company’s announcement last year that it would shutter its Kindle e-bookstore in China — Amazon.com will close its official app store in China in July, the latest retreat from the Chinese market by the US
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: Filing: the Biden administration says SCOTUS should let stand a 2022 appeals court ruling favoring Google over its alleged theft of Genius’ lyric transcriptions — The Biden administration’s U.S. solicitor general said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court should not review a ruling won …
Read MoreKevin Breuninger / CNBC: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces suffers crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches on Twitter that prevented him from declaring his candidacy.
Read MoreIt’s confusing, so I had to ask. | Image: Konami Sony and Konami just revealed a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, but it has a curious logo that reads Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater. While preparing our article about the announcement, I assumed that triangle symbol translated to Metal Gear Solid Delta, but when
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Elementl, which offers data orchestration services based on Dagster, raised a $33M Series B led by Georgian, bringing its total funding to $48.8M — Elementl, a startup that is building a data platform based on the popular Dagster orchestrator, today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series B round
Read MoreInnocent-seeming apps can be trojan horses for your information. | Image: Amar Toor / The Verge An Android recording app called iRecorder Screen Recorder began as an innocent screen recording app but turned evil nearly a year after it was first released, as detailed by Ars Technica. The app first came out in September 2021,
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google expands Play Games Beta on PC to Europe and New Zealand, bringing the offering to 56 countries total and over 100 Android games — As telegraphed earlier this year, the Google Play Games on PC Beta is now available in Europe and New Zealand. … This is a big expansion
Read MoreIt’s confusing, so I had to ask. | Image: Konami Sony and Konami just revealed a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, but it has a curious logo that reads Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater. While preparing our article about the announcement, I assumed that triangle symbol translated to Metal Gear Solid Delta, but when
Read MoreFew things hold as much promise as the old coin jar. Unfortunately, what’s generally promised is tedium, as one faces the prospect of manually sorting, counting, and rolling the accumulated change of cash transactions past. Unless, of course, you’ve got a fancy automatic coin sorter like this one. True, many banks have automatic coin sorters,
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