Recently, the European Commission (EC) adopted a new proposal intended to enable and promote the repair of a range of consumer goods, including household devices like vacuum cleaners and washing machines, as well as electronic devices such as smartphones and televisions. Depending on how the European Parliament and Council vote in the next steps, this
Read MoreThe proposed court order follows a lawsuit opened by the FTC last year that sought to charge operators of an “extended vehicle warranty” telemarketing scam. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Regulators in the US are cracking down on operators of an “extended vehicle warranty” telemarketing scam with action that could see the
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence. In a blog post published on Monday, the company announced a partnership with OpenAI that brings AI-generated summaries, message drafts, and more to the video conferencing app through its Zoom IQ AI-powered assistant. While Zoom
Read MoreAmazon Web Services on Monday said it is adding call analytics capabilities to Amazon Chime SDK offering in a bid to reduce the time and cost of generating insights from real-time audio calls, transcription, and voice analysis. Amazon Chime SDK is a software development kit used by developers to add messaging, audio, video, and screen-sharing
Read MoreLarry DiTore / The Block: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company now holds ~$4.14B worth of BTC — – MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers. — MicroStrategy scooped …
Read MoreReuters: Sources: Jack Ma returned to China after more than a year; sources: China Premier Li Qiang urged Ma to return since late 2022 to allay private sector fears — Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed as reflecting …
Read MoreBloomberg: Huawei says it has built tools to design chips as advanced as 14nm, about four generations behind the latest available, to help Chinese firms replace US tech — Huawei Technologies Co. has developed software tools capable of designing chips as advanced as 14 nanometers …
Read MoreThese powered speakers work well for both TV and vinyl in my modern living room.
Read MoreSpotify is rapidly moving away from what made it great – music. These are some of the best music streaming alternatives to the green circle.
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Series 9 isn’t going to have a blood glucose monitor, nor will the next few models according to a report.
Read MoreMatt Burgess / Wired: Porn creators in Germany face fines and imprisonment as regulators use AI to spot porn not protected by age verification tech on social media and messaging apps — Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences.
Read MoreIt’s hard to design the perfect, infinitely bingeable game. This is one of them.
Read MoreThe $249 speaker streams in stereo, and it comes with some of the best room-tuning software I’ve ever heard.
Read MoreDeveloped by Jordi Bruin, this new update brings new features that extend ChatGPT beyond the Mac menu bar.
Read MoreSome Apple employees are reportedly unsure whether the rumored Reality Pro headset is a good idea.
Read MoreAI-powered chatbots are clearly the future of computing, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ll see them appear on every internet-connected gadget. If you thought you were safe from this by sticking to an ancient MS-DOS PC though, think again: [Yeo Kheng Meng] has recently written a ChatGPT client that runs on DOS.
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority OPPO and its sub-brands, including OnePlus, are reportedly exiting large parts of Europe. According to reports, the smartphone maker will first exit the UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. OPPO first shared a vague statement with Android Authority, then said “Our business in the EU is normal at present.”
Read MoreRichard Milne / Financial Times: Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is hit by a TikTok data center using all spare electricity, as energy demand from data centers and others grows in the Nordics — Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity
Read MoreStartups say Microsoft and its Bing chatbot—not just Google—are stifling competition when it comes to creating better search engines.
Read MoreThe latest online shopping trend: paying to watch someone pack your order.
Read MoreSimon Sharwood / The Register: The French government bans TikTok and all other recreational apps from staff phones, claiming none have sufficiently robust security for government devices — Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action — The government of France has banned TikTok – and all other recreational apps – from phones issued to its employees.
Read MoreTrue wireless earbuds are available at a variety of price points, but some of the biggest names in the industry frequently charge $100 and much more for their offerings. We recently went through the pros and cons of buying cheap earbuds over these more expensive buds, also asking readers whether they’ve bought cheap earbuds before.
Read MoreAlex Hern / The Guardian: Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan says crypto does not “bring anything useful for society” and other processing power uses like AI are more worthwhile than crypto mining — Tech chief says the development of chatbots is a more worthwhile use of processing power than crypto mining
Read MoreAI-driven software development is no longer a futuristic dream. With GitHub Copilot, more than 1.2 million developers already rely on artificial intelligence to generate code on their behalf, saving them time (and their companies money). But while we tend to focus on Copilot for its impressive, if still nascent, code-generation capabilities, there are even better,
Read MoreDevops teams build their infrastructure as code, automate deployments with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and establish continuous testing as some of the steps to avoid technical debt. Too much technical debt smells like rotting cheese and slows down agile development teams seeking to deliver features and improve application reliability. “In small amounts, technical debt is
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