Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S23 FE will reportedly pack a 50MP main camera. This sensor is tipped to be similar to the base Galaxy S23’s primary camera. There have been conflicting reports about the existence of the Galaxy S23 FE, but it sounds like the device will arrive late in
Read MoreNothing beats a laser cutter and a sheet of Baltic birch plywood or MDF when it comes to making quick, attractive enclosures. Burning out all the pieces and fitting them together with finger joints is super satisfying — right up until you realize that you didn’t quite get the kerf allowance right, and your pieces
Read MoreQuickly create text-to-video clips using this dedicated app from the artificial intelligence startup.
Read MoreIllustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s VR social platform is getting a new feature to help you show off what a fun time you’re having in the so-called “metaverse” with all your Instagram and Facebook followers. With its v108 update, Horizon Worlds can now share photos and videos directly to your story on either
Read MoreSonia Faleiro / Rest of World: How on-demand home services startup Urban Company became the biggest employer of women in India’s gig economy, creating a rare opportunity for social mobility — By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility.
Read MoreMicrosoft is supplementing its Semantic Kernel SDK for integrating AI large language models (LLM) into applications with an open source Copilot Chat sample app, allowing developers to more easily build chatbots using features such as natural language processing, file uploading, and speech recognition. Unveiled May 1, Copilot Chat demonstrates how developers can integrate AI and
Read MoreDealing with asynchronous code, meaning code that doesn’t execute immediately like web requests or timers, can be tricky. JavaScript gives us two ways out of the box to handle asynchronous behavior: callbacks and promises. Callbacks were the only natively supported way for dealing with async code until 2016, when the Promise object was introduced to
Read MoreNone other than Bill Gates recently called AI “as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet.” He’s right, of course. But the challenge for business today is to harness AI in a way that meets enterprise standards. Take software development. Developers have already discovered AI coding assistants, which reduce tedium by completing lines of code
Read MoreYou can now set up Echo devices in a Matter smart home on your iPhone, making for a more seamless experience.
Read MoreThe Nintendo Wii can run Mac OS 9, albeit not very well.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on
Read MoreNothing beats a laser cutter and a sheet of Baltic birch plywood or MDF when it comes to making quick, attractive enclosures. Burning out all the pieces and fitting them together with finger joints is super satisfying — right up until you realize that you didn’t quite get the kerf allowance right, and your pieces
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S23 FE will reportedly pack a 50MP main camera. This sensor is tipped to be similar to the base Galaxy S23’s primary camera. There have been conflicting reports about the existence of the Galaxy S23 FE, but it sounds like the device will arrive late in
Read MoreBobby Allyn / NPR: In an unprompted email to an NPR reporter, Elon Musk asked if NPR planned to start posting on Twitter again, “or should we reassign @NPR to another company?” — Elon Musk has threatened to reassign NPR’s Twitter account to “another company.” — In a series of emails sent …
Read MoreIf you’ve travelling via bike, you’ll know there’s a certain advantage to packing light. But what if you need to take your beefy desktop-replacement laptop with you on one of these trips? These power hungry machines can’t go far without their chargers (or a place to plug them in), which generally makes them poor traveling
Read MoreJustin Sink / Bloomberg: Kamala Harris is meeting CEOs of Alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic on May 4 at the White House to discuss risks in current and near-term AI development — Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting Thursday with the chief executive officers from top artificial intelligence firms Alphabet Inc. …
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Foretellix, an Israeli startup that offers companies tools to verify autonomous vehicle tech at any level, raised a $43M Series C led by 83North — Startups working on driverless cars fully may no longer attract the kind of nine-figure acquisition or funding offers that were prevalent just a few years ago.
Read MoreAlthough ARM CPUs have been making headway in several areas of computing over the last decade or so, the vast majority of desktop, laptop and server CPUs are still based on the x86 architecture. How that came to be is no secret, of course: IBM chose the Intel 8088 to power its model 5150 PC
Read MoreLane Brown / Vulture: A look at So-Vits-SVC, free and open-source software that launched in March and was used to create the AI-generated vocals for viral song Heart On My Sleeve — The software that cloned Drake and the Weeknd is easy to use—and impossible to shut down. — In 2021, five musicians from Hastings,
Read MorePixel 7 Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google is reportedly working on loud sound alerts for the Pixel line. This feature could arrive in the At A Glance Widget for Pixel phones. Google would be following Apple in offering loud sound notifications. Google’s Pixel phones pack a variety of useful features, including call screening,
Read MoreBefore the US cracked down on China’s tech sector, the country’s investors chased deals in California with Maseratis and Michelin-starred food.
Read MoreSarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Unity is slashing ~600 jobs, or ~8% of staff, its largest round of cuts in the past year, after laying off 500+ workers in January and last June — Software company’s move to let go about 600 employees follows string of job cuts in tech industry and
Read MoreStephen Alpher / CoinDesk: Balaji Srinivasan “settles” his $1M bet from mid-March, predicting one BTC would be worth $1M+ within 90 days, ahead of time, by giving $500K to three entities — Amid the initial bank failures in the U.S., the tech entrepreneur in mid-March had bet $1 million that bitcoin would hit $1 million
Read MoreCredit: Media Peanut Samsung‘s Galaxy Z Flip series has been the most popular clamshell foldable phone for several years now, even though Motorola technically beat the Korean brand to the punch with its Razr line. Nevertheless, we’re expecting both brands to offer new clamshell foldables in the global market in 2023. Samsung is set to
Read MoreAkash Sriram / Reuters: Match Group reports Q1 revenue down 1% YoY to $787M, vs. $794M est., paying users down 3% YoY to 15.9M, revenue per paying user up 2% YoY; announces $1B buyback — Match Group (MTCH.O) on Tuesday forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts’ expectations, but said it is seeing signs …
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