Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The internet could soon become a very different place. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The internet could soon become a very different place. Continue reading…
Read MoreTechCrunch: London-based Smart, which helps employers and employees manage their pensions, raised a $95M Series E led by Aquiline; reports said Smart sought to raise $123M — Smart, a London-based startup that helps employers and their employees manage and monitor their pensions, said that it has closed $95 million in Series E funding.
Read MoreDo you want your internet in tube form or whatever that other thing is? | Image: TP-Link The Wi-Fi 7 spec isn’t totally finished yet, but you know TP-Link won’t let a pesky little thing like pending certification stop it, and why should it? Netgear and Asus aren’t. And so, the company is launching its
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Elliptic: North Korean hackers stole $2.3B in crypto from businesses from 2017 to 2022, including $721M from Japan, $497M from the US, and $281M from Hong Kong — Study finds Japan’s $721m loss accounts for 30% of global total since 2017 — According to the Japan External Trade Organization …
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Google’s AI-heavy I/O suggests AI is a sustaining innovation for Big Tech; the true fight will be between major players’ centralized models and open source — Some things in tech are shocking, but not surprising — think of a CEO of a struggling company losing their job.
Read MoreTage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Kenya-based M-KOPA, an asset financing service offering African customers access to “productive assets” and digital payments, raised $55M equity and $200M+ debt — M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African customers access to “productive assets” …
Read MoreNow we know the most streamed song on Apple Music – but also that nothing has yet been streamed a billion times.
Read MoreGoogle is willing to pay huge iPhone trade-in prices to get people to switch to its new Pixel Fold.
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: A survey of 60 major crypto companies in Q1 on the state of governance and controls finds many operate outside the norm; around half engage an external auditor — Before it filed for bankruptcy last November, many of the entities in Sam Bankman-Fried’s colossal FTX empire had never held a board
Read MoreJared Newman / Fast Company: Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin’s Telly opens a waitlist to give away 500,000 55-inch 4K HDR TVs in 2023 with a second screen that constantly shows ads — Would you take a free TV if it constantly ran banner ads beneath everything you watched? — That’s the proposition for Telly
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority OPPO has delisted all products from its German website amid rumors of the company’s exit from Europe. The company is temporarily halting marketing and sales of products in Germany. Existing OPPO users can expect continued software support. Reports of OPPO wiping off products from its German website started doing
Read MoreSudowrite, a tool that uses OpenAI’s GPT-3, was found to have understood a sexual act known only to a specific online community of Omegaverse writers.
Read MoreKhari Johnson / Wired: At I/O 2023, Google Assistant was an afterthought, superseded by Bard, a notable omission after Assistant took center stage at multiple previous I/O keynotes — Google’s generative AI chatbot Bard took center stage at the company’s I/O conference. The company’s answer to Siri was left backstage.
Read MoreAssociated Press: The TSA is testing facial recognition tech at 16 US airports, calling the pilot voluntary and accurate, as critics raise bias, privacy, and consent concerns — A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen.
Read MoreImage: Telly There’s a new type of TV coming for Samsung, LG, and Vizio, and it’s completely free — if you don’t count the price of your attention. Telly, a company created by Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin, offers up a TV that makes up for its nonexistent price tag by showing constant advertisements in
Read MoreYour CEO knows what a database is and probably thinks a data warehouse is a large data vault used for reporting and analytics. They know little about NoSQL data stores, why they need a Spark cluster, or how data lakes are used to ingest structured and unstructured data. CEOs and business leaders focus on the
Read MoreRandall Chase / Associated Press: A Delaware judge rules in favor of Oracle founder Larry Ellison in a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company overpaid for Netsuite’s $9.3B acquisition in 2016 — A Delaware judge has ruled in favor of Oracle founder Larry Ellison in a shareholder lawsuit alleging that he coerced …
Read MoreStefania Palma / Financial Times: US crypto tsar Eun Young Choi says the DOJ is targeting exchanges alongside “mixers and tumblers” to stop illicit behavior, aiming to “send a deterrent message” — The justice department is stepping up scrutiny of an industry wracked by scandal and volatility
Read MoreCredit: PTT The HTC U23 Pro has leaked online via a message board. HTC’s upcoming handset looks like a mid-range proposition. Update: May 15, 2023 (3:20 AM ET): HTC has officially announced a launch date for its new U series phone. The company tweeted on May 13 that the device would launch later this week
Read MorePlastic welding isn’t a new idea. But a recent video from [The Maker] shows an interesting twist. Given a broken piece of plastic, he secures it together with tape, machines out a channel around the cracks, and then melts zip ties into the channels. Honestly, although he mentions plastic welding and soldering, we aren’t sure
Read MoreMalcolm Harris / Wired: A profile of Douglas Rushkoff, an internet theorist since the 1990s and a former techno-optimist who all but renounced being a digital revolution spokesperson — The former techno-optimist has taken a decisive political left turn. He says it’s the only human option.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority OnePlus is apparently testing a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 phone with a periscope camera. The device in question may be the OnePlus 12. A periscope arrangement could greatly improve zoom photography on OnePlus flagships. The next OnePlus flagship phone could bring a significant camera upgrade. According to Weibo leaker
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Pixel users are reporting severe battery drain and overheating issues on their phones. The problem seems to be affecting Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series users. A recent Google app update may be to blame. Several Pixel users are currently reporting severe battery drain and overheating issues on
Read MoreNobody in the EU can access Google’s Bard chatbot. But the 50,000 penguins who live on a dormant volcano in the South Atlantic can sign up right now.
Read MoreA government effort to collect people’s internet records is moving beyond its test phase, but many details remain hidden from public view.
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