Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is reportedly planning several new AI features in Search and other products that could debut at Google I/O 2023 next month. The company reportedly hit the panic button because Samsung has considered switching to Microsoft Bing as the default search engine on its phones. Google is also said
Read MoreCredit: OnLeaks/MySmartPrice Motorola is apparently working on a second foldable phone for 2023. This is a more affordable phone that could be called the Motorola Razr Lite or Razr 2023. It would purportedly be positioned below the so-called Razr Plus 2023. Motorola was the first smartphone brand to launch a clamshell phone with a folding
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Apple will announce a headset and new Mac laptops at WWDC 2023, according to a trusted journalist. The Mac laptops will apparently be powered by an M2 chip instead of an M3 processor. Apple is widely expected to reveal its first mixed-reality headset at its World Wide Developer Conference
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple could be overhauling iOS to allow sideloading apps on iPhones. iOS 17 is expected to lay the groundwork for this groundbreaking change. We could hear more about Apple’s sideloading plans at WWDC 2023. Sideloading apps is one of the many comforts Android users have enjoyed for years. It’s
Read MoreOne of the problems with designing things on a chip is finding a good way to talk to the outside world. You may not design chips yourself, but you care because you want to connect your circuits — including other chips — to the chips in question. While I2C and SPI are common solutions, today’s
Read MoreCredit: Vivo The vivo X Fold 2 is expected to be the powerhouse flagship with a book-style foldable form factor. The vivo X Flip will be a clamshell foldable with modest specifications that will appeal to mainstream audiences. The foldables will launch in China on April 20. Vivo is gearing up to launch two new
Read MoreCredit: Andy Walker / Android Authority Google is reportedly instructing users to uninstall the old Meet app in favor of the new Meet. The company renamed Duo to Meet last year, so it’s now seemingly killing off the old Meet app. Google is no stranger to killing products and services, and we’ve seen plenty of
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google will release new AI-powered search tools next month, with even more features coming in the fall, reports The New York Times. The new features will be available exclusively in the US, and will be released initially to a maximum of one million users, says the NYT. It’s not clear exactly what
Read MoreJenni Reid / CNBC: Sega acquires Rovio, best known for its Angry Birds franchise, for €706M — – The deal would be for the entirety of Rovio’s outstanding shares and options, valuing them at 9.25 euro per share, a roughly 19% premium to their closing price before the announcement, Sega said.
Read MoreTwo months ago, Amazon didn’t make a single mention of AI on its earnings call (Google and Microsoft mentioned AI dozens of times each). This past week, by contrast, the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), could talk about little else. As announced by Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of database, analytics, and machine learning at
Read MoreAt first glance, building a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 into your code might seem simple. The API is a single REST call, taking in text and returning a response based on the input. But in practice things get much more complicated than that. The API is perhaps better thought of as a domain
Read MoreApple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro, announced earlier this year. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s long-anticipating mixed reality headset won’t be the only piece of hardware it announces at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who’s published a new overview of the event. Expected launches
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple could be overhauling iOS to allow sideloading apps on iPhones. iOS 17 is expected to lay the groundwork for this groundbreaking change. We could hear more about Apple’s sideloading plans at WWDC 2023. Sideloading apps is one of the many comforts Android users have enjoyed for years. It’s
Read MoreSam Biddle / The Intercept: Contract docs reveal the Georgia National Guard plans to use location-based phone surveillance to target ads using geofences around 67 local public high schools — The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices — military recruiting at schools …
Read MoreApple will launch new MacBooks at WWDC 2023 in June, in addition to its XR headset, according to Mark Gurman.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix ran into significant issues with its second-ever live event on Sunday evening. Love is Blind: The Live Reunion failed to start streaming at its planned 8PM showtime, leading to major consternation from the show’s fans across social media. Netflix acknowledged the problem on Twitter soon after and
Read MoreIf you’ve tried FreeCAD, you know that it has a daunting number of workbenches and options. [MangoJelly] has a large number of video tutorials on FreeCAD, and the latest one, below, covers working with STEP and STL with the tool. If you’ve ever wondered why designers like to work with STEP files and not STL,
Read MoreNoise is all around us, and while acoustic noise is easy to spot using our ears, electronic noise is far harder to quantify even with the right instruments. A spectrum analyzer is the most convenient tool for noise measurements, but also adds noise of its own to whatever signal you’re looking at. [Limpkin] has been
Read MorePatience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Microsoft’s CVP of ads on keeping Bing Chat results from becoming too promotional, AI-powered search threatening publishers’ ad revenue, and more — Kya Sainsbury-Carter, who recently was named to head the company’s ad business, offers an inside look at Microsoft’s game plan
Read MoreThe dystopian future you’ve been expecting is here now, at least if you live in New York City, which unveiled a trio of technology solutions to the city’s crime woes this week. Surprisingly, the least terrifying one is “DigiDog,” which seems to be more or less an off-the-shelf Spot robot from Boston Dynamics. DigiDog’s job
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A US House Committee publishes a draft stablecoin bill proposing a moratorium on stablecoins backed by other cryptocurrencies, requesting a CBDC study, and more — The stablecoin bill is the first major piece of crypto legislation in 2023. — The U.S. House Financial Services Committee published …
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Netflix’s second ever livestream hit technical issues, leading to a 75+ minute delay and the company taping the Love is Blind reunion episode for later viewing — Netflix had some serious issues with the livestream of its “Love is Blind” reunion episode. We always knew the livestream would be messy …
Read MoreNico Grant / New York Times: Sources detail Google’s project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi — The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans
Read More[Jack]’s design for a 3D-printable foaming nozzle works by mixing air with a fluid like liquid soap or hand sanitizer. This mixture gets forced through what looks like layers of fine-mesh sieve and eventually out the end by squeezing the bottle. The nozzle has no moving parts but does have an interesting structure to make
Read MoreTed Lasso wasn’t the most popular thing on Apple TV Plus this week, according to Reelgood’s top 10 most-watched streaming weekly report.
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