In the study of genealogy it’s common to find people who will go to great lengths involving tenuous cross-links to establish royalty or famous figures such as George Washington or William Shakespeare in their family tree. There’s no royal blood and little in the way of fame to be found in my family tree, but
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Read MoreThe new Xbox Home UI. | Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft has reworked its Xbox Home UI to better accommodate background images and simplify access to key parts of the Xbox dashboard. The software giant halted a test of an upcoming Xbox Home UI last month to rework it, and the result
Read MoreEmily Mason / Forbes: Sources: Apple’s high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in ~$990M in deposits over its first four days and nearly $400M on launch day — Apple’s AAPL freshly launched high yield savings account brought in as much as $990 million in deposits over its first four days …
Read MoreThe Motion X600 from Soundcore is a lovely Bluetooth speaker, and its Spatial Audio is remarkably competent for something that’s less than $300.
Read MoreBrains are the most complex systems in the universe, but their basic building blocks are surprisingly simple — the complexity arises from billions of neurons, axons and synapses working together. Simulating an entire brain therefore requires vast computing resources, but if it’s just a few cells you’re interested in, you don’t need much: a handful
Read MoreDrawing, doodling, note-taking, or looking cool while you wield your big tablet. The Apple Pencil has many uses. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The latest Apple Pencil is back on sale for its lowest price of $89. You can pick one up, saving $40 in the process, from Amazon, Best Buy,
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge SwiftKey recently received Bing AI integration that puts Microsoft’s chatbot right at the fingertips of users who’ve installed the software keyboard. But now, the OpenAI-based search tool is making its way automatically onto pretty much every modern Samsung Galaxy device, SamMobile reports. You see, Samsung Galaxy devices use their own One UI
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is hosting another gaming showcase for its Quest VR headsets on June 1st, the company announced on Monday. The event will feature “over 40 minutes of content,” according to a blog post, including game announcements, first looks, updates, and a preshow and postshow. The show will
Read MoreThe payments app works in the US and Canada. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching a payments system inside Microsoft Teams that lets small businesses earn money from appointments, classes, one-on-one sessions, webinars, and much more. Teams business users in the US and Canada will now be able to collect payments during a meeting, opening
Read MoreBecky Ferreira / VICE: Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from a subject, essentially reading a person’s thoughts — An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
Read MoreZ Fold 4 (unfolded) Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Update, May 1, 2023 (10:48 AM ET): We’ve updated this Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 rumor hub with new renders of the Fold 5 and information related to the phone’s measurements.
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The New York Police Department is turning to Apple AirTags to combat a rise in stolen vehicles it blames on a TikTok car theft challenge. In a press conference on Sunday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city is handing out 500 free AirTags to help residents
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Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A redesigned Halo service was due this fall with an AI-powered personal trainer, celebrity-led fitness classes, and even Apple Watch support. But Amazon threw in the towel on Halo before it got there. Continue reading…
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Read MoreHit Apple TV Plus series The Morning Show is coming back for a fourth season even before season three’s debut.
Read MoreThe ThinkPhone is a successful collaboration nine years in the making and a step in the right direction for Motorola. Continue reading…
Read MorePatents are the murky waters where technical jargon and legalese meet, and in this vast grey area of interpretation, DJI now owes Textron $279M. At issue in the case were two patents issued to Textron (#8,014,909 and #9,162,752) regarding aircraft control systems for relative positioning to other vehicles and automatic hovering. The jury found that
Read MoreCade Metz / New York Times: An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI’s risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more — For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will
Read MoreDavey Alba / Bloomberg: NewsGuard finds 49 websites populated by generative AI posing as news outlets with generic names like News Live 79; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads — The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …
Read MoreImage: Elgato Stream Deck fever has hit The Verge — here are some of the uses that we put ours to. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is furious. Last week, a surprise decision from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) left its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard blocked in Britain, thanks to concerns about the future of cloud gaming. Microsoft president Brad Smith was awake at 2AM that morning hastily writing
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: Despite scary warnings by the FBI, FCC, and more about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases ever of an attack in the wild — Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
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