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Zoom did not set us free. But solidarity can strengthen the porous boundary between home and workplace.
Read MoreZoom did not set us free. But solidarity can strengthen the porous boundary between home and workplace.
Read MoreAt a congressional hearing senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad.
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $196M Series B led by Japan’s Tokio Marine at a $1.6B valuation — Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. The company, which started in Singapore …
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: Ripple acquires Swiss custody startup Metaco for $250M in cash and stock and plans to keep the brand and CEO Adrien Treccani — David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images — Crypto payments firm Ripple shelled out $250 million for Swiss custody startup Metaco.
Read MoreApple’s best now includes an always-on display, a killer chipset exclusive to the Pro entries in the 14 series and the allure of that new Dynamic Island. And it’s still yet to be beaten in the big-phone stakes.
Read MoreApple Tap to Pay has launched in Australia so small businesses can get paid more easily using nothing but an iPhone.
Read MoreReuters: Since April 6, the Cyberspace Administration of China closed 107K online accounts that misrepresented the news media and took down 835K pieces of content — China has intensified efforts to clean up the internet from false news and rumours, closing more than 100,000 online accounts …
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge It’s time to talk about my good buddy RJ. RJ45, that is. Well, technically, we’re going to talk about how ethernet cables, which tend to use an RJ45 connector, are glue that once bound so many of us together in multiplayer gaming bliss (before then, too, but my
Read MoreStableStudio is effectively DreamStudio, only with a new plug-in system and no DreamStudio branding. | Image: Stability AI Stability AI is releasing an open-source version of DreamStudio, a commercial interface for the company’s AI image generator model, Stable Diffusion. In a press statement on Wednesday, Stability AI said the new release — dubbed StableStudio —
Read MoreSankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: India announces a ~$2B incentive scheme to entice makers of laptops, tablets, and other hardware, running for six years, following the 2021 smartphone program — India is unveiling a 170 billion rupee ($2 billion) financial incentive plan to draw makers of laptops, tablets and other hardware …
Read MoreApple says its App Store prevented more than $2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year as it comes under continued antitrust scrutiny.
Read MoreDouglas MacMillan / Washington Post: An investigation finds some US public housing agencies use surveillance cameras with facial recognition and AI to evict residents, sometimes for minor breaches — Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A university professor has reportedly punished students for using AI to write their papers. However, the professor used ChatGPT to determine whether these papers were AI-generated. It’s not unheard of for students to cheat on their homework by using generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT. However, the likes of
Read MoreWe talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology.
Read MoreStarting in 2024, trucks bought for use in California ports and railyards must be zero emission—a move to cut pollution that is also vexing some operators.
Read MoreWhile computers have become ever faster and more capable over the years, it’s hard to say they’ve become any more exciting. In fact, they’ve become downright boring. Desktop, laptop, or mobile, they’re all more or less featureless slabs of various dimensions. There’s not even much in the way of color variation — the classic beige
Read MoreTelly TV tracks you and bombards you with ads on a dedicated second screen. It could help normalize smartphone-style surveillance in your living room.
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Symantec says an APT called Lancefly used custom malware to attack governments, telcos, and other organizations in Asia from the middle of 2022 through Q1 2023 — A government-backed hacking group known as “Lancefly” has been seen using custom-made malware to attack governments, telecoms and other organizations across Asia.
Read MoreCredit: OnLeaks/MySmartPrice Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra renders have leaked online. The images show a tablet that looks similar to last year’s model. Samsung is still far and away the top Android tablet maker by market share, with its Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra being the most impressive slate in its portfolio right now. We’ve already
Read MoreMicroStream is one of the most interesting projects in the Java space currently. It takes a fresh approach to Java persistence, acting as a kind of seamless object persistence data layer. MicroStream eliminates the friction of figuring out how to persist an application’s runtime graph. I’ve introduced MicroStream in a previous article, so this time
Read MoreAfter spending the last decade investing in devops, many companies are experiencing a hangover of sorts: tool sprawl. While their software delivery processes have become more streamlined, more efficient, and more reliable, they also have many more tools to license, maintain, and manage. Tool sprawl is often seen as a natural result of the flexibility
Read MorePython’s rich ecosystem of data science tools is a big draw for users. The only downside of such a broad and deep collection is that sometimes the best tools can get overlooked. Here’s a rundown of some of the best newer or lesser-known data science projects available for Python. Some, like Polars, are getting more
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$21.4B, above estimates and the fastest growth in over a year, and net income up 10% YoY to ~$3.6B, below estimates — Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s earnings missed estimates despite the fastest pace of revenue growth in more than a year …
Read MoreMicrosoft-owned GitHub, which provides a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration, faced three disruptions in its services last week, following 13 such incidents in the past three months. “Last week, GitHub experienced several availability incidents, both long-running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally,”
Read MoreSometimes antennas can seem like black magic. However, when you see things like a dish antenna, it sort of makes sense, right? Just like a mirror focuses light, the parabola of a dish focuses RF energy. But [IMSAI Guy] shows another common-sense antenna arrangement: a corner reflector dipole. He had built one years ago and
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