Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge; photo by Anthony Hamboussi Tevina Willis taped up her windows as Superstorm Sandy neared her Red Hook, Brooklyn, home. Outside her apartment, hurricane winds pushed a wall of water into the city. The storm surge swept boats from the harbor onto streets turned into rivers. Willis rode
Read MoreImage: Venmo Venmo is introducing a new service that allows parents to open a Venmo account for children between the ages of 13-17 to send and receive money via the app. Venmo Teen accounts also come with a debit card and controls for parents to monitor transactions and manage their child’s privacy settings — important
Read MoreNew York Times: After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in May 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still do not identify gorillas — Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software — and despite big advances …
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Australian blockchain-based fitness app Stepn says iOS users can now buy and sell NFTs from its app, signaling perhaps Apple has softened its stance on crypto — – Stepn users will be able to buy, sell and trade the game’s NFT sneakers without having to leave the app.
Read MoreCadillac Escalade IQ nameplate. | Image: GM GM has announced it’s working on an all-electric version of the luxury full-size Cadillac Escalade SUV, called the Escalade IQ. The Escalade IQ joins Cadillac’s other EVs, which include the ultra-luxury and limited Celestiq and the more attainable Lyriq SUV, which starts at $64,000. It’s all part of
Read MoreThe company famous for its colorful, wavy grips adds a light, durable option to its great lineup.
Read MoreThe $350 price tag is scary, but the comfort and convenience of this wearable breast pump is worth it.
Read MoreThe series has come a long way from Final Fantasy VII’s infamous blood-free death-by-impalement.
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources and analysis: Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s under secretary for human rights, was targeted with Pegasus while investigating the country’s military — While looking into abuses by the armed forces, the country’s top human rights official was targeted with Pegasus, the world’s most notorious spyware, The Times found.
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: NYC-based FlowX.ai, which helps financial companies port and modernize legacy software, raised a $35M Series A led by Dawn Capital, following a $9M seed in 2021 — “Digital transformation” and AI remain very buzzy terms in the world of enterprise software, and today a startup operating …
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Australian blockchain-based fitness app Stepn says iOS users can now buy and sell NFTs from its app, signaling perhaps Apple has softened its stance on crypto — – Stepn users will be able to buy, sell and trade the game’s NFT sneakers without having to leave the app.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: China’s Micron ban means South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix could fill the void, an uncomfortable position because of their exposure to China and US pressure — Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron’s void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice
Read MoreOne of Apple’s main suppliers, Quanta Computer, has likely been told to kickstart production for the as-yet-unannounced MacBook Air.
Read MoreA ten-year-old spent over $3000 on her mom’s credit card via the App Store and Apple refused a refund.
Read MorePaul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD silicon, up 29% YoY; the AMD-based Frontier supercomputer retains its top spot — AMD’s silicon churns out the flops. — The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today …
Read MoreSam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months — Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data
Read MoreThe rise of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4, with their ability to generate highly fluent, confident text has been remarkable, as I’ve written. Sadly, so has the hype: Microsoft researchers breathlessly described the Microsoft-funded OpenAI GPT-4 model as exhibiting “sparks of artificial general intelligence.” Sorry, Microsoft. No, it doesn’t. Unless, of course, Microsoft meant the tendency
Read MoreComputer vision is an increasingly important industrial technology, not only for managing product lines or stock control, but also for safety. It’s a powerful technology, able to quickly classify objects and identify anomalies. But there’s a problem that comes with using it at the edge of your network: latency. When people’s lives are on the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta has been hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine (€1.2 billion) by EU data regulators, and ordered to stop transferring the Facebook data of EU citizens to the US. EU courts believe such data transfers expose EU citizens to privacy violations — a complaint that stems back
Read MoreFinancial Times: Experts say a ban on “forever chemicals”, considered toxic for humans and the environment, could derail the EU’s chip plans as there are no safe alternatives — When Mark Newman walked into the lobby of a Tokyo hotel for a customer conference late last year …
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is adding a new dynamic theming option to Wear OS 4. When enabled, it will apply Android’s Material You color scheme across the Wear OS UI. That means icons in settings and other elements in the UI will be accented in the colors of the watch face.
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority China has banned US memory chip company Micron from selling chips in the country. Micron produces a wide variety of chips such as RAM, DRAM, and storage. The Chinese tech sector has been subjected to US trade sanctions in recent years, with the US barring the sale of various
Read MoreKellen Browning / New York Times: Email: Uber suspends its diversity head Bo Young Lee for hosting sessions on race titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC — The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.
Read MoreCredit: Qualcomm A leaker has claimed that Samsung’s monopoly on an exclusive Snapdragon chip is over. The tipster adds that this Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chip could come to other brands soon. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is an impressive return to form for Qualcomm after last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 turned
Read MoreIf you have three hours and you want to learn the fundamentals of semiconductors, [Tiny Tapeout] has something for you: An introduction to SiliWiz. You’ll also need the SiliWiz software (or use it online), which resembles the kind of tools that chip designers use but is meant for students to use as a learning tool
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