Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft says it is exploring placing ads in Bing Chat and sharing the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response — It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: ads are coming to Bing’s AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The experience of finding answers on the new Bing Chat powered by AI will now include ads. Microsoft says ads will be variable in nature, so different users could see different types of ads. The company also wants to drive traffic to publishers from where Bing sources its responses
Read MoreNeural interfaces have made great strides in recent years, but still suffer from poor longevity and resolution. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a biohybrid implant to improve the situation. As we’ve seen before, interfacing electronics and biological systems is no simple feat. Bodies tend to reject foreign objects, and transplanted nerves can
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Bard hasn’t exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested in changing the fortunes of its AI chatbots, it’s forcing its DeepMind division to help the Google Brain team beat OpenAI with a new initiative called Gemini. The
Read MoreEmily Olsen / MobiHealthNews: Paris-based Inato, which offers a marketplace to connect pharmaceutical companies with clinical trial sites, raised a $20M Series A2 led by Cathay Innovation — The startup previously raised $14 million in 2020. — Clinical trial startup Inato scooped up $20 million in a Series A2 funding round led by Cathay Innovation.
Read MoreAshley Belanger / Ars Technica: Reddit says in 2022 it removed 473% more subreddits and permanently suspended 244% more users accounts violating its policy on non-consensual intimate imagery — Reddit also launched a transparency center to help users assess platform safety. — A year after Reddit updated its policy …
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Netflix’s iOS app code suggests the company may expand its video game service to TV sets for the first time, using phones as controllers — Netflix Inc. is working to bring its nascent video-game service to television sets for the first time, moving beyond smartphones and tablets in a sign of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is working on a feature that would let you use your iPhone to control games on your TV, according a new report from Bloomberg and code shared by MacRumors contributing writer Steve Moser. Netflix recently said that it wants to make its games “playable on every Netflix
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter details new API access tiers: Free with 1.5K tweets/month at app level, Basic for $100/month, and Enterprise; old APIs will stop working within 30 days — Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API.
Read MoreJames Reddick / The Record: The FDA says approval for medical devices now requires meeting certain cybersecurity standards issued in the omnibus spending bill signed in December 2022 — The Food and Drug Administration affirmed Wednesday that medical device manufacturers must now prove their products meet certain …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority We finally have our hands on Google’s long-awaited Bard chatbot. It takes aim at the increasingly popular ChatGPT and Bing Chat, both of which are based on the same foundation. Meanwhile, Google has developed its own large language model for Bard, codenamed LaMDA. This is our first encounter with
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: ads are coming to Bing’s AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog on Wednesday that the company is “exploring placing ads in the chat experience,” and when we asked for more details, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that you might
Read MoreJon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, after Bard’s stumble — OpenAI’s success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past …
Read MoreThe White House is providing $25 million to Costa Rica, after giving Albania similar aid following aggression by hackers linked to Iran.
Read MoreAuthorities ordered Twitter accounts blocked and the internet shut down as they hunt for Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh Sandhu.
Read MoreWhether you’re making coffee or beer or complex chemicals, weighing your ingredients carefully and tracking them is key to getting good results. [Tech Dregs] decided to build a logging scale that would work seamlessly with his smartphone, and shared the design on YouTube. The deisgn begins with a Greater Goods manual electronic scale, which
Read MoreEpic’s Deserted: Domination has nearly 3,000 players as of this writing. | Image: Epic Games Fortnite’s Discover tab, which lets you pick from Epic Games-made modes like Battle Royale or experiences from non-Epic creators, now show how many players are currently participating in any given experience. The change was officially rolled out on Wednesday, and
Read MoreMeghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded — Disney and Microsoft both closed projects tied to the digital realm this month — Watch: What’s the Future of
Read MoreCredit: Tech Deals Learning a new language in your free moments can be a joy if you have the right guidance. Babbel revolutionizes language learning to make it feel, well, less like learning. This Babbel deal means there’s never been a better time to sign up, with a recent price drop on the app giving
Read MoreNew York Times: How NetEase and Activision’s 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China’s tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue — Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games in
Read MorePricing hasn’t been revealed yet, nor have any hardware specifications. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced a second generation of its Surface Hub 2S interactive whiteboard will be arriving later this year, equipped with new features built around Microsoft’s Teams conferencing software. The updated enterprise device features the same 50-inch and 85-inch design as the
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran — Google is launching a new ad transparency center that will let users search for verified advertisers and their campaigns across …
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge Instagram is building off of its existing collections feature by allowing you to create libraries of posts that you share with friends. In an announcement on Twitter, Instagram says that you can now save content into “collaborative collections” that both you and your friends can view and contribute to, as
Read MoreTom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) came out in opposition to a bipartisan effort to ban TikTok, condemning Republicans and Democrats for a move he said could chill First Amendment-protected speech. “I hope saner minds will reflect on which is more dangerous: videos of teenagers dancing, or the
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re one of the people brave enough to use Google Fi with an iPhone, your experience is about to get a lot better, as Google announced on Wednesday that you can finally use 5G instead of being stuck with LTE (via 9to5Google). According to Google’s documentation,
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