Jake Ryan in Asteroid City. | Focus Features Whether there are actually aliens hiding somewhere in Searchlight Pictures’ Asteroid City from director Wes Anderson is up for debate. What’s quite clear, though, is that the movie’s playing to all of Anderson’s strengths and going to give all of his fans exactly what they showed up
Read MoreApple News is getting a new tab dedicated to sports with the iOS 16.5 release.
Read MoreReuters: The UK CMA launches an in-depth probe, which can take up to six months, of Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition, after Broadcom failed to address concerns — Britain said it would investigate Broadcom’s (AVGO.O) acquisition of VMware (VMW.N) in depth after the U.S. chipmaker offered …
Read MoreImage: Naughty Dog I was expecting to write about how The Last of Us Part I arriving on PC is the latest example of a great PC port of a Sony PlayStation title. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The Last of Us Part I arrived on PC yesterday and players aren’t happy. Out of more
Read MoreSam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A US court rules bZx protocol meets the definition of a general partnership and finds token holders of the DAO liable for losses from a $55M hack in 2021 — Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are beginning to look like general partnerships in the eyes of U.S. courts.
Read MoreWith more and more information being delivered via audio sources like voice assistants, the Wikimedia Foundation thought it was time to adopt a so-called “sound logo” for Wikipedia and its other projects. Think of it as Wikipedia’s equivalent of the Netflix “ta-dum,” the HBO “aaaaaaah,” or Intel’s iconic five-note chime. After an exhaustive search via
Read MoreAll-Clad’s stick lets you blend things that are far away from a power outlet. That may not be a good reason to buy it.
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google plans to roll out extreme heat alerts in Search, including informing users about when to expect a heat wave, being safe, and tips to stay cool — Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves,
Read MoreDay One is a great app. It also asks you to trust it in a big way. | Image: Day One I have written in my journal 86 days in a row. It was my New Year’s resolution to actually commit to keeping a diary of my days, and every day since January 2nd, I’ve
Read MoreGoogle is developing a self-managed and downloadable version of its PostgreSQL-compatible AlloyDB fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) in order to further help enterprises to modernize their legacy databases. It is now inviting applications for the private preview, it said Wednesday. Dubbed AlloyDB Omni, the new offering uses the same underlying engine as AlloyDB and can be downloaded
Read MoreIn some cases, Oura says it took up to a month for users’ biometric baselines to return to normal after a covid-19 infection. | Image: Oura At the start of the pandemic, researchers and wearables makers rushed to see whether smartwatches and fitness trackers could detect covid-19. It’s now 2023, and while wearables show promise
Read MoreImage: Insta360 Insta360 is getting into the smartphone gimbal market with a device that aims to make it easier to film slick, stabilized, and well-framed video with your smartphone’s camera. The Insta360 Flow is a $159.99 gimbal with three-axis stabilization that’s available starting today across the US, Europe, and Japan. The obvious competitor for the
Read MoreScott Chipolina / Financial Times: Docs: Binance CEO and other execs hid its links to China for several years, including an office until 2019, despite saying in 2017 that Binance left China — Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017 — Binance hid substantial links
Read MoreDelphine Strauss / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs research: generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and expose 300M full-time jobs to automation globally — Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’ — The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence …
Read MorePhoto by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has lent his voice to a Ukrainian air raid app to warn citizens of incoming attacks during the ongoing conflict with Russia. “Attention. Air raid alert. Proceed to the nearest shelter,” says Hamill over Air Alert, an app linked to Ukraine’s air defense
Read MoreIce can trap pollutants and accelerate their breakdown, with troubling environmental consequences.
Read MoreTo keep up with the speed of AI advances, we need to develop systems that use AI to defend public goods, too.
Read MoreWhile our desktop machines are largely limited to various types of plastic, 3D printing in other materials offers unique benefits. For example, printing with concrete makes it possible to quickly build houses, and we’ve even seen things like sugar laid down layer by layer into edible prints. Metals are often challenging to print with due
Read MoreAs a newly established startup, there are some key elements that your business requires to ensure your short and long-term success. A well-detailed business plan, a launch plan, early funding, and the right talent and equity from founders are all among the basic ingredients that can help get a startup off the ground. Aside from
Read MoreIndu Bhan / The Economic Times: An Indian appellate tribunal upholds the ~$160M fine imposed on Google by the Competition Commission of India in the Android antitrust case — The NCLAT, an appellate authority for orders passed by the CCI, had started its hearing in the Android matter on February 15 following a directive by
Read MoreGalaxy A14 5G in-hand Companies have shrunk the bezels (or borders) around their smartphone displays over the years. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to find only a sliver of a bezel at the top and bottom. In saying so, some brands might take an uneven approach to bezel sizes, with one border noticeably bigger than the
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Hygraph, which offers a federated digital content management service, raised a $30M Series B led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $43.7M — Digital content and how we consume it continue to endlessly evolve, and with that, so too does the tech that helps manage all of it
Read MoreLondon Underground advising people not to travel in record breaking heat on the 19th of July 2022, Picadilly Station, Central London, United Kingdom. | photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images Google plans to roll out new alerts in Search for extreme heat events, the company announced in a blog post today. Eventually, users
Read MoreGood Morning, Daily Authority readers. Wednesdays are usually the sweet spot in the week. The Monday rush is over, and Friday is just around the corner. I quite like the day, especially because I get to compile this newsletter for you guys. Today we have another smartphone brand leaving the game for greener pastures, or
Read MoreTracy Wen Liu / Wired: TikTok, Amazon, and others struggle to adopt China’s livestream ecommerce model in the US, as experts blame differences between US and Chinese consumer behavior — Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China. But Americans just aren’t responding.
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