A visitor to a ceremony celebrating the commissioning of a research plant has a bottle of e-fuel in his hand at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). | Image: Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images Luxury carmakers’ push for synthetic e-fuels has weakened the European Union’s plan to get internal combustion engines off the road
Read MoreWith the realization of what data can do in catering to users in providing a unique experience of a product or service, businesses are collating data from all sources. The collected data is huge in volume and is shared with many stakeholders to derive meaningful insights or to serve the customers. This data sharing results
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s latest baffling change makes replies a lot more difficult to sift through. Now, when you’re looking at replies, tweets don’t actually show who the user is replying to, making them look like a confusing string of out-of-context missives. The change muddies up the ever-worsening Twitter experience in a
Read MoreImage: The Verge Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, has been charged with yet another crime: bribery. In an indictment filed on Tuesday, the Department of Justice claims Bankman-Fried “authorized and directed a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials.” The bribe was an alleged
Read MoreCredit: AppleToolBox Google is bringing a variety of fact-checking tools to Google Search. The new “Perspectives” feature will add a carousel right below Top Stories. Perspectives will present a range of journalists, experts, and other relevant voices to the user. Google Search may look a little different in the near future. The search engine is
Read MoreChatGPT might be making the news these days for being able to answer basically any question it’s asked, those of us who are a little older remember a much simpler technology that did about the same thing. The humble “Magic 8 Ball” could take nearly the same inputs, provided they were parsed in simple yes/no
Read MoreApple has released a raft of software updates for iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV.
Read MoreMaat Mons is displayed in this computer-generated 3D perspective of the surface of Venus. | Image: NASA/JPL The recent discovery of volcanic activity on the planet should have been a cause of celebration. But instead, the scientific community is in shock after NASA delayed funding for a key mission to Venus. Continue reading…
Read MoreIf you were anywhere near Hackaday over the weekend, you certainly noticed that we launched the tenth annual Hackaday Prize! In celebration of the milestone, we picked from our favorite challenges of years past and came up with four of our favorite, and even one new one just to keep you on your toes. But
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Spotify has launched a new feature called Niche Mixes. The feature allows users to create personalized playlists with just a few words. Mixes are updated daily. A big part of the Spotify experience is getting recommendations and discovering new artists. To this, the company offers what it calls
Read MoreImage: Nintendo As the high from watching Nintendo’s Tears of the Kingdom gameplay video fades, I’m left with a staggering thought: “this game is going to ruin lives.” As much as I enjoy The Legend of Zelda, it’s never really been a series that I get out of bed for. Before today’s TotK (pronounced “tok”)
Read MoreDina Bass / Bloomberg: To compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with Replit, which used AI to make coding tools and will now rely on Google’s LLMs for its Ghostwriter product — Alphabet Inc.’s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software …
Read MoreBBC: Clearview AI’s founder says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users consent from sites like Facebook — Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
Read MoreZac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and better security, to better compete with ChromeOS — Windows “CorePC” is the spiritual successor to Windows “Core OS.” — What you need to know
Read MoreAn iPhone showing Apple’s Pay Later interface. | Image: Apple Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company’s take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business. The company has announced that users can use the service to apply for Pay Later loans of $50 to $1,000 and then repay those loans through four
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more — After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity.
Read MoreStratechery: Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way to becoming the next major consumer tech platform — Yesterday’s episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering.
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Apple begins a multi-month roll out of its Apple Pay Later service in the US, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 — Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company’s take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business. The company has announced that
Read MoreGary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Discounting AI’s short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared — Superintelligence may or may not be imminent. But there’s a lot to be worried about, either way. — Is AI going to kill
Read MoreImage: Getty Images The US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division say they’ll scrutinize the new field of artificial intelligence-powered tools for signs of anti-competitive behavior. FTC Chair Lina Khan and Justice Department antitrust head Jonathan Kanter made remarks about the issue at the agencies’ joint Enforcers Summit, raising the fear
Read MoreKari McMahon / The Block: EigenLabs, working on an ETH “restaking” protocol, raised a $50M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital among investors — – EigenLabs, the team behind restaking protocol EigenLayer, closed its $50 million Series A funding round.
Read MoreRunning a debugger like gdb with real-mode 16-bit code on the x86 platform is not the easiest thing to do, but incredibly useful when it comes to analyzing BIOS firmware and DOS software. Although it’s possible to analyze a BIOS image after running it through a disassembler, there is a lot that can only be
Read MoreThe new tool aims to deliver the network insights and coordination that “AI” security systems have long promised.
Read MoreThe prized retro audio components are mostly manufactured in Russia and China. Now, a small Georgia company is rebooting US production.
Read MoreNintendo Tears of the Kingdom is only a scant 44 days away. To celebrate the game’s impending arrival, Nintendo dropped a 13-minute mini Direct featuring gameplay and a sneak peek at Link’s new abilities. Tears of the Kingdom, formerly known as The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, was originally slated
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