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The sun’s back from its long vacation. What better time to invest in a little self-care?
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Read MoreIn an effort to keep listeners’ attention, teams behind “My Favorite Murder” and other shows are creating IRL happenings for fans—and they dig it.
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Canva debuts AI-based tools, including Magic Design that makes personalized templates from images and Magic Presentation that creates slideshows from prompts — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — The ten-year-old Australian startup led by Melanie Perkins said annualized revenue …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Arm seeks to raise prices for its chip designs by charging device makers based on the value of a device instead of chipmakers based on a chip’s value — SoftBank-owned group aims to charge more for each chip design in radical shake-up of business model
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Sources: Toshiba plans to accept a ~$15.3B takeover offer from a coalition including Japan Industrial Partners; JIP is expected to take Toshiba private — Board approves offer and present delisting plan to shareholders — TOKYO — Toshiba is set to accept a takeover offer …
Read MoreIn the last few decades, building engineers and architects have made tremendous strides in improving the efficiency of various buildings and the devices that keep them safe and comfortable to live in. The addition of new technology like heat pumps is a major factor, as well as improvements on existing things like insulation methods and
Read MoreEllen Huet / Bloomberg: A look at Replika’s decision to block adult content in its AI companion chatbot; 60% of paying customers had a romantic element in their Replika relationship — Eugenia Kuyda didn’t set out to build sexting chatbots. The startup she ran was struggling to find direction when her best friend died in
Read MoreHey there! I took Monday and Tuesday off, and I’m still trying to get back into the swing of things. Woe is me, right? Anyway, we’ve got a lot to cover in today’s edition of the Daily Authority. Pebble’s compact phone ambitions
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Munich-based IntegrityNext, a service that helps companies audit supply chains for ESG compliance, raised €100M from EQT Growth, its first outside investment — The funding landscape remains very tough for technology startups, but there are still some pockets, and specific companies …
Read MoreAn object-database mapper for .NET Core, Entity Framework Core is the open-source, cross-platform counterpart of the Entity Framework ORM (object-relational mapper) for .NET. Among the notable features of EF Core is the ability to carry out migrations to update your database schemas and ensure they are kept in sync with the data models of your
Read MoreTauri is a cross-platform framework that turns JavaScript or TypeScript code into a native application for virtually any operating system. While it is similar to Electron or React Native, Tauri is able to handle a wide range of front-end technologies. It combines with the front end to derive a native application for the required operating system.
Read MoreStu Woo / Wall Street Journal: A profile of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporean army reservist and an ex-Goldman Sachs banker, as he prepares to defend TikTok before a skeptical Congress — Singapore army reservist and ex-Goldman banker says misconceptions about Chinese-owned app need to be clarified — How TikTok Could Become a
Read MoreNew York Times: A look at RightWingGPT, an experimental AI model fine-tuned to manifest conservative viewpoints, made by a researcher who claims ChatGPT has a left-leaning bias — After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.
Read MoreCredit: Samsung The Samsung Galaxy M54 has been released in the Middle East. It’s a Galaxy A54 with a bigger battery and higher resolution main camera. It does see a couple of downgrades compared to the Galaxy A54, though. Samsung just recently launched the Galaxy A54, bringing a squarely mid-range experience to the table. Now,
Read MoreGovernments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
Read MoreDentists hate this one easy trick. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung’s recently caught some flak after widespread reports that its camera software fakes zoom pictures of the moon, but things may be about to get way more unsettling. A Verge reader wrote in on Wednesday to tell us that the company’s
Read MoreRapidly analyzing samples for the presence of bacteria and similar organic structures is generally quite a time-intensive process, with often the requirement of a cell culture being developed. Proposed by Fareeha Safir and colleagues in Nano Letters is a method to use an acoustic droplet printer combined with Raman spectroscopy. Advantages of this method are a
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Singapore-based Kredivo Holdings, formerly called FinAccel, whose services include BNPL, loans, and neobanking, raised a $270M Series D led by Mizuho Bank — The funding landscape in Southeast Asia is still wintery, but one fintech managed to land a major round.
Read MoreAkash Sriram / Reuters: Sam Altman says OpenAI has fixed a “significant issue” in ChatGPT after a bug in an open-source library let some users see titles of other users’ chat history — ChatGPT-owner OpenAI said on Wednesday it had fixed a bug that caused a “significant issue” of a small set of users …
Read MoreMeta: WhatsApp unveils an updated app for Windows that it says loads faster and enables group video calls with up to eight people and audio calls with up to 32 people — Takeaways — We’re launching a new WhatsApp app for Windows desktop that loads faster and enables group video calls …
Read MoreTracy Wang / CoinDesk: Court filings: FTX will recover assets worth $460M, including $404M in cash, of the $475M seed capital transferred by Alameda to hedge fund Modulo in 2022 — Alameda Research seeded little-known Bahamas-based hedge fund Modulo Capital with $475 million in 2022. The recovery includes $404 million in cash.
Read MoreImage: Canva Web-based design platform Canva is introducing a colossal suite of new brand management products and AI-powered design tools focused on helping entire workplaces streamline their content creation process. Announced today at Canva’s Create event, most of these new features are designed to make creating content like social media graphics, presentations, and advertising materials
Read MoreIn the late 80s and into the 90s, [Cameron Kaiser] aka [ClassicHasClass] was an aspiring journalist, first becoming interested in the career in elementary school and then working on various publications into university. At some point, he started using a piece of software for laying out newspapers called The Newsroom which, he admits, was lacking
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Big mobile carriers have a lot to offer, but sometimes it’s better to get back to the basics and go with a prepaid plan. MVNO carriers usually have the best options. These tend to provide fewer bells and whistles, but they also cost less. Today we’ll compare two of
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Crypto exchange Bitget acquires a controlling stake in crypto wallet company BitKeep with a $30M investment at a $300M valuation — – Bitget has invested $30 million in BitKeep at a $300 million valuation. — The crypto exchange is now the controlling stakeholder of the wallet provider.
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