Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority There is now a Google Bard waitlist for users based in the US and UK. Google will grant access to users on a rolling schedule, so the sooner you sign-up, the sooner you’ll get to use it. The company will be looking for feedback to make Bard better. If
Read MoreBloomberg: How Elon Musk acquiring and running Twitter, adding to SpaceX and Tesla, became a headache for the Biden administration, which worries over foreign influence — Argentina was headed toward its thrilling victory over France at the World Cup in Qatar, and Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. CEO and Twitter owner …
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Read More$58 at Amazon When the consumer audio world took the path of AirPods mimicry, Jabra stayed true to itself, refusing to slap stems onto its earphones. Jabra’s efforts met great success with the Elite 75t series. Since then, though, the company has carried on with a spray-and-pray mission. Six sets of nearly indistinguishable wireless earbuds
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Image Creator to Edge, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E and accessible via Bing Chat, letting users create images from text prompts — Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat.
Read MoreJacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Adobe announces Firefly, a “family” of creative generative AI models, and releases a DALL-E-like image generator and a WordArt-like stylized text generator — Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” …
Read MoreApple is looking to up the shipments of its 20W USB-C charger as iPhone 15 series debuts, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Read MoreJacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: OP3N, which develops the blockchain chat app Superapp and aims to be the “Web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon”, raised a $28M Series A at a $100M valuation — OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared
Read MoreSamsung is set to release its latest mid-range phone in the Galaxy A series later this month, the Galaxy A54 5G, just one year after the Galaxy A53 5G launched. While the A54 5G has a lot in common with its predecessor, there are a few notable upgrades that make it a serious contender in
Read MoreKrystal Hu / Reuters: Unlearn.AI, which creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials, raised $15M at a $265M valuation and adds OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to its board — Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials …
Read MoreA new bot has entered the chat. But Google warns that, like its competitor, it will sometimes “hallucinate.”
Read MoreIllustration by Vincent Kilbride / The Verge Dedicated creators have built their own communities and spaces in Meta’s Horizon Worlds. But they feel the company isn’t supporting them as well as it could. Continue reading…
Read MoreThese stylish shades let you listen to music and come with a variety of lenses. But you better open up your wallet (and have a small head).
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Tech industry group NetChoice, founded by Google and Meta, launches a litigation center to combat state laws and local lawsuits, modeled on Chamber of Commerce — NetChoice’s new center is designed to respond to the threat of state laws and local lawsuits — NetChoice, a tech industry group funded …
Read MoreWyze makes affordable security cameras and video doorbells. Right now they’re even cheaper.
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies. The rules on what content can be posted and promoted are largely unchanged but include new restrictions on sharing AI deepfakes, which have become increasingly popular on the app
Read MoreGoogle’s Pixel A-series smartphones have always been a great value recommendation. They make sense for the average user who just wants a good phone with a good display and a good camera. While there are undoubtedly better options in the mid-range Android phone segment, devices like the Google Pixel 5a and the Pixel 6a have
Read MoreOne of the interesting areas in the world of new parts recently has been at the lower end of the microcontroller market. Not because the devices there have new capabilities or are especially fast, but because they are cheap. There are now quite a few parts from China under 10 cents apiece, but have the
Read MoreSankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple lobbied for changes to India’s labor law in the Tamil Nadu state, where Foxconn has its largest iPhone plant, to help expand local production — Apple Inc. is seeking changes in India’s labor laws as part of its effort to expand local production, and regional governments …
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: TikTok refreshes its Community Guidelines, expanding a section to cover “synthetic and manipulated media”, or deepfakes, as pressure from the US increases — As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies.
Read MoreThe hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that.
Read MoreNoam Scheiber / New York Times: A year after its Staten Island win, the Amazon Labor Union has endured setbacks and conflicts, including between president Chris Smalls and longtime organizers — Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict.
Read MoreAs the US boosts production of silicon chips, a WIRED journalist goes inside the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
Read MoreAt a time when software is consuming us, we crave hardware—the material anchors of our immaterial realities.
Read MoreDerek B. Johnson / SC Media: Research: 14% of new Fortune 500 board members in 2022 had cybersecurity experience, down from 17% in 2021; the SEC is finalizing new cyber risk reporting rules — The Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of finalizing new rules that would push publicly traded companies …
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