ADT Self Setup is a new DIY smart home system that can integrate with Google Home devices and the Google Home app. | Image: ADT Three years after Google invested $450 million in home security company ADT, the two companies finally have an integrated offering for customers looking for a DIY smart security setup. ADT’s
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face — Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models …
Read MorePhoto by Tim Stevens for The Verge Lucid, the EV startup behind the Air sedan that competes with the Tesla Model S, has announced that it’s laying off around 1,300 employees, or 18 percent of its workforce, within the next few months. According to an email from CEO Peter Rawlinson, which was attached to a
Read MoreImage: Tesla The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is currently investigating (pdf) two separate non-crash-related seatbelt failures that occurred in newer Tesla Model X vehicles (via NBC News). NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) notes two complaints from Model X owners saying their front safety belts failed to stay connected to the seat
Read MoreCrew members of the USS Cerritos. | Paramount Plus In case anyone was worried whether Star Trek: Lower Decks or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds might be on the chopping block, Paramount Plus wants you to know that there’s no reason to be alarmed. Deadline reports that, ahead of their upcoming returns this summer, Star
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers — A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
Read MoreImage: Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Adnan Syed’s murder conviction has been reinstated just months after he was freed from prison, as reported earlier by the Associated Press and The Baltimore Sun. Syed, whose case was featured in the popular Serial podcast, was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google is adding a new carousel in search results to help you see different perspectives on certain search topics. The feature, called “Perspectives,” is a new box showing “insights from a range of journalists, experts, and other relevant voices” that will appear under the “Top Stories” box in results. In a blog
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches — Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.
Read MoreImage: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s a busy news day, so I won’t waste time: Adnan Syed’s murder conviction has been reinstated, NPR cancels some of its standalone podcasts, and Slate takes its podcasts to YouTube.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that Instagram has become a popular social media platform for businesses across all industries. Instagram stories, in particular, offer businesses an opportunity to engage in creative and interactive storytelling to promote their services, products, and values. Many companies have already used Instagram Stories Highlights for Healthcare Marketing. This feature expands their reach
Read MoreCredit: Luke Pollack / Android Authority Lenovo’s Legion gaming phone business is dead. A spokesperson for Lenovo said the move is “part of a wider business transformation and gaming portfolio consolidation.” The decision won’t effect Lenovo’s other gaming-related products. There’s been some speculation surrounding Lenovo and its Legion gaming phone business recently. Rumors claimed that
Read MoreThe Nintendo Switch OLED Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition is available to preorder for $359.99. | Image: Nintendo After months of rumors, Nintendo has finally confirmed it’s releasing a Zelda-inspired Nintendo Switch OLED on April 28th. The special-edition console will retail for $359.99 and commemorates one of this year’s most anticipated video games, The
Read MoreA proposal floating in the Java community would improve application performance by extending the ZGC (Z Garbage Collector) to maintain separate generations for young and old objects. This would allow ZGC to more frequently collect young objects, which tend to die young, Java’s developers said. Specific goals of the OpenJDK Java Enhancement Proposal (JEP) for
Read MoreI’ve got an order ready for Saul A. Is there a Saul A here? | Image: Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images If you’ve received a cryptic notification from the Starbucks app, you’re not alone — dozens of people say they got a message reading “Hello test1 from seank” from the coffee app on Tuesday. It’s unclear how
Read MoreImage: Substack Substack is desperate, huh? That’s what I understand from their fundraising email, anyway. They’re now hitting up retail investors for millions of dollars after they failed to raise last year. After certain recent historical events, I have become skeptical of the term “financial inclusion,” a set of buzzwords for making financial services more
Read MoreWe’re not sure, but the number of recognizable alphanumeric characters that a seven-segment display can manage seems to have more to do with human pattern recognition than engineering. It takes some imagination, and perhaps a little squinting, to discern some characters, though. Arguably better is the fourteen-segment display, which has been pressed into service in
Read MoreTitmouse’s 5 Second Night 2023 poster. | Image: Titmouse Animation studio Titmouse’s annual showcase of shortform stories returns this month with a new batch of original cartoons created during artists’ time off. Continue reading…
Read MoreZac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first “touch-enabled board” to run Teams Rooms on Windows — “Teams Rooms on Windows” will ship on the new Surface Hub 2S. — What you need to know
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Filing: a California court grants Twitter’s request to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code — Twitter Inc. moved closer to finding the individual responsible for leaking parts of its proprietary source code …
Read MoreImage: Kia Kia is ready to pull the wraps on its next big electric vehicle (emphasis on big): the EV9 three-row SUV. The EV9 will have a proper North American debut at the New York International Auto Show next week, but before it does, the automaker is rolling out a list of key specifications to
Read MoreImage: Spotify / The Verge Spotify has launched Niche Mixes, a new set of personalized playlists that combine familiar songs and new recommendations into weirdly specific categories. Niche Mixes is an expansion of the music platform’s existing Spotify Mixes playlist feature (such as Mood Mixes or Decades Mixes) that grants users more precision to shape
Read MoreLena Masri / Reuters: Review of 2K+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and surveillance systems to find and arrest scores of protesters and even prevent them from protesting — A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin’s opponents.
Read MoreObligatory “the truth is out there.” | Fox Ryan Coogler, the director of Creed and both Black Panther films, may be eying another franchise for adaptation. Bloody Disgusting noticed that, in a recent interview with CBC’s On The Coast, X-Files creator Chris Carter mentioned Coogler was looking to “remount” the franchise. He told On The
Read MoreNew York Times: On TikTok, #TikTokBan had 1.7B views on March 27, up from 983M views on March 18, as users post hundreds of videos arguing the app shouldn’t be banned in the US — After lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive last week, the app’s users argued that the platform should not be banned …
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