Credit: Apple Apple has announced a host of accessibility features coming later this year. Personal Voice might be the most innovative feature of them all. This replicates your own voice with 15 minutes of audio recordings. Android phones bring loads of accessibility features to the table, from Live Caption and Sound Amplifier to Live Transcribe
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Volkswagen has held talks to use Huawei software in its cars in China, after its software unit Cariad was hit by budget misses and development delays — Turmoil at German carmaker’s in-house tech arm threatens to affect market share — Volkswagen has held talks to use Huawei software …
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Dash cams are incredibly handy to have in your car, potentially saving you loads of cash in the event of a crash. But it looks like Google wants to reduce your reliance on a standalone dash cam by turning your Android phone into one. Google seems to have
Read MoreCredit: Apple Apple has announced a host of accessibility features coming later this year. Personal Voice might be the most innovative feature of them all. This replicates your own voice with 15 minutes of audio recordings. Android phones bring loads of accessibility features to the table, from Live Caption and Sound Amplifier to Live Transcribe
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins raise concerns over Google’s new .zip and .mov TLDs, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing and malware — Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google’s new ZIP and MOV Internet domains …
Read MoreFully autonomous vehicles seem to perennially be just a few years away, sort of like the automotive equivalent of fusion power. But just because robotic vehicles haven’t made much progress on our roadways doesn’t mean we can’t play with the technology at the hobbyist level. You can embark on your own experimentation right now with
Read MoreFinancial Times: As Chinese companies recruit South Korean tech talent more aggressively, Seoul creates a database to monitor South Korean chip engineers’ international travel — Seoul says US export controls have made Chinese companies more aggressive in acquiring expertise
Read MoreEnvironmental DNA sampling is nothing new. Rather than having to spot or catch an animal, instead the DNA from the traces they leave can be sampled, giving clues about their genetic diversity, their lineage (e.g. via mitochondrial DNA) and the population’s health. What caught University of Florida (UoF) researchers by surprise while they were using
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Maryland-based Huntress, a managed security platform focused on SMBs, raised a $60M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$160M — Managed cybersecurity platform startup Huntress Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $60 million in new funding …
Read MoreCNBC: Google Cloud launches two AI-powered tools that aim to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery and advance precision medicine — – Google Cloud launched two new AI-powered solutions that aim to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery and advance precision medicine.
Read MoreKevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Belkin says the company won’t patch a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Wemo Mini Smart Plug V2 disclosed on March 14 as the device is at the end of its life — Tricking a plug with a too-long name could lead to buffer overflows, injections. — I once co-owned a
Read MoreEnvironmental DNA sampling is nothing new. Rather than having to spot or catch an animal, instead the DNA from the traces they leave can be sampled, giving clues about their genetic diversity, their lineage (e.g. via mitochondrial DNA) and the population’s health. What caught University of Florida (UoF) researchers by surprise while they were using
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Consider it a rite of passage: Valve has finally become successful enough at building gaming hardware that it’s getting sued by Immersion Corporation. Immersion — the haptic feedback company that’s purchased, developed, or otherwise accumulated so many patents on rumble tech that almost every major tech company has
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images In an interview aired on CNBC, Elon Musk called remote work “morally wrong” and “bullshit,” arguing it was unfair to those workers who can’t work from home. Musk, who banned remote work at Twitter after acquiring the company, has not been shy about sharing his disdain about work
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla might be getting into advertising, Elon Musk announced in a shareholder meeting on Tuesday. Tesla has long been a holdout on traditional advertising, and has found extensive growth over the years through mostly word of mouth. But now Musk has seemingly discovered the importance of the advertising business
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A federal judge in the Ripple lawsuit rules the US SEC cannot seal docs tied to former official William Hinman, who said ether isn’t a security in a 2018 speech — The order deals a blow to the SEC in its longstanding procedural fight against Ripple. — A federal judge ruled
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: Elon Musk says working from home is “morally wrong” when service workers still have to show up, calling tech workers the “laptop classes living in la-la-land” — – Elon Musk called Silicon Valley engineers a part of “laptop classes living in la-la land” …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images During an interview on CNBC, Elon Musk defended his right to say inflammatory things on Twitter, even if those statements lose him money. He appeared to disassociate briefly after being asked why even bother tweeting. And he eventually quoted The Princess Bride to explain his cavalier
Read MoreCNBC: In an interview, Elon Musk discussed buying Twitter, defended his inflammatory tweets, called tech workers the “laptop classes living in la-la-land”, and more — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a sprawling interview with CNBC anchor David Faber on Tuesday following .
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Zürich-based ANYbotics, which develops autonomous legged robots for industrial inspection, raised a $50M Series B led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital — ANYbotics this week announced a $50 million Series B. The round, led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital, comes as the firm is pushing …
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images In an interview with CNBC Tuesday evening, Elon Musk defended spreading conspiracy theories about the deadly mass shooting in Texas earlier this month. On May 9th, open-source intelligence research group Bellingcat posted a story with details about the shooter that indicated he held white supremacist and neo-Nazi views.
Read MoreBrian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Researchers bought phones from PropertyRoom.com, a top auction house for US police departments, and found many of them were not wiped and had no PIN or passcode — Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without …
Read More[Joren] recently did some work as part of an electronic music heritage project, and restored an 80s-era NeXTcube workstation complete with vintage sound card, setting it up with a copy of MAX, a graphical music programming environment. But there was one piece missing: MIDI. [Joren] didn’t let that stop him, and successfully created hardware to
Read MoreBill Peters / Marketwatch: Rumble says it has acquired podcasting and livestreaming app Callin, and Callin’s co-founder David Sacks will join Rumble’s board of directors — ‘I strongly support Rumble’s unwavering commitment to free speech in the face of growing censorship and government overreach,’ Sacks says in plans to join right-wing video platform
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: IBM says it has acquired cloud data protection company Polar Security, a source says for around $60M, and plans to integrate Polar into its Guardium unit — Update: IBM has now confirmed the news and said Polar will be integrated into its Guardium unit (itself based on an acquisition from way
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