Alex Konrad / Forbes: Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that’s more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer” — Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that’s already raised $225 million and claims to run …
Read MoreIf you’re like us, one of the appeals of retro tech is the tactile feedback you get from real buttons. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a new method for bringing haptic feedback to touchscreen devices. Using an array of miniaturized electroosmotic pumps, the current prototype devices offer 5 mm of displacement from a 5
Read MorePhoto by: Villa Elio / AGF / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early last week, barely anyone had heard of Bluesky. On Wednesday, it was just one of many alternatives vying for attention as users grow increasingly dissatisfied with how the new regime is running Twitter. By Thursday, Bluesky — still in an invite-only
Read MoreThe fourth-gen Echo smart speaker is now a Thread Border Router. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Today is a make-or-break day for Matter as Amazon rolls out a big update to its support for the new smart home standard. The company has now switched on Matter in over 100 million Echo smart
Read MoreStock up on carpet cleaners, pet cameras, and beds for your four-legged friends.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok’s head of trust and safety for the US, Eric Han, is leaving the company on May 12th, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal memo to employees I’ve seen. His departure comes as TikTok is still trying to clench a deal to avoid
Read MoreAlex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Eric Han, TikTok’s head of trust and safety for the US, is leaving the company on May 12; Han played a key role in TikTok’s proposal to avoid a US ban — TikTok’s head of trust and safety for the US, Eric Han, is leaving the company on May
Read MoreGeorge Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is close to securing $250M in funding from backers including Nvidia and Salesforce, at a ~$2B post-money valuation — Round with potential backers including Nvidia and Salesforce will give it a valuation of about $2bn
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Photos on the web is experimenting with a “more powerful search.” Users can now use phrases and ideas for prompts to find photos. It appears the update has yet to make its way to Android. One of the most useful tools in Google Photos is getting an upgrade.
Read MoreThere is a lot to be learned from the experience of building something functional, and even better if doing so doesn’t break the bank. [Sergej Stoetzer]’s 20€ DIY-Eyetracker aims to be an educational process that covers everything from hardware to functional software in an accessible way. Hardware based on an economical USB endoscope, and can
Read More| Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images Google is still turning a buck on climate disinformation on YouTube. The company pledged not to sell ads on content that rejects mainstream climate science more than a year ago. And yet, in April, researchers were able to find hundreds of videos promoting misinformation about climate
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Law enforcement agencies from around the globe arrested 288 people suspected of buying or selling drugs on the dark web. In a pair of press releases posted on Tuesday, the US Department of Justice and Europol said the joint effort also resulted in the shutdown of the
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snap begins testing sponsored links in My AI conversations, reveals Spotlight grew 170% YoY to reach 350M MAUs, launches its “First Story” ad product, and more — After Snap’s stock took a hit from its weak first-quarter earnings, the company today made its pitch to advertisers …
Read MoreKim Zetter / Wired: An in-depth look inside the US DOJ and Volexity’s investigation into the SolarWinds hack, one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage campaigns of the decade — The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
Read MoreiCloud Shared Photo Libraries let up to six people contribute photos and videos to a single place. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Almost everyone has been guilty, at some point or another, of forgetting to send a picture or video to friends and family. The good news is that iOS 16 now
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The right-click menu in Windows 11 is an essential shortcut to a host of features and tools, adapting to the context of what you’re clicking on along the way. You can use it to copy and paste files, edit images, interact with the clipboard, pull up the properties
Read MoreOperation SpecTor likely drew on leads from multiple dark web market busts, including the secret takedown of Monopoly Market in 2021.
Read MoreScale VC, a Missouri-based venture capital fund, expanded its support on April 5, 2023, with a $5 Million Fund II. The fund is the largest venture capital fund raised in Columbia, Missouri, to date. Anchored by the University of Missouri System and Columbia-based Shelter Insurance, Fund II also includes 34 limited partners. Forming a Student
Read MoreImage: Snowman The latest game release on Netflix manages to capture the thrill of flying — while somehow also turning it into something chill. Laya’s Horizon is the newest game from Snowman, the studio best known for serene snowboarding games like Alto’s Odyssey. And in many ways, it’s an experience that builds on what the
Read MoreZac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft has seemingly stopped work on bug fixes or features for the Surface Duo after the Android 12L update in October 2022, possibly due to recent layoffs — Lack of resources and recent layoffs aren’t helping. — Microsoft’s dual-screen foldable smartphone has seemingly been abandoned.
Read MoreLast time, we’ve looked over FET basics, details, nuances and caveats. Basics aren’t all there is to FETs, however – let’s go through real-world uses, in all their wonderful variety! I want to show you a bunch of cool circuits where a friendly FET, specifically a MOSFET, can help you – and, along the way,
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta adds Reels to the top of the Facebook Watch tab and introduces controls that let users customize what type of Reels they want to see more or less often — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing new features that make it easier for users to
Read MorePhoto by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Ford is reopening orders for its all-electric Mustang Mach-E while also bumping up the crossover’s EPA-estimated range and slashing prices all the way down the lineup. The move comes as EV prices remain in flux amid Tesla’s own price cuts and ongoing uncertainty around the federal tax credit.
Read MoreKinetica, a relational database provider for online analytical processing (OLAP) and real-time analytics, is harnessing the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to let developers use natural language processing to do SQL queries. Kinetica, which offers its database in multiple flavors including hosted, SaaS and on-premises, announced on Tuesday that it will offer the ChatGPT integration at
Read MoreImage: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge A phony AI-generated attack ad from the Republican National Committee (RNC) offered Congress a glimpse into how the tech could be used in next year’s election cycle. Now, Democrats are readying their response. On Tuesday, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced a new bill to require disclosures of AI-generated content
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