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4 Software Tools Solopreneurs Need in 2023

Solopreneurs may be the pluckiest type of entrepreneur there is. They decide to bring their business idea to life on their own without the assistance of a team. Solopreneurs can start their companies as side hustles to develop additional career interests. Or they may go all in, hoping to reap the rewards of flexibility and

Amazon’s latest layoffs cut 9,000 more jobs in divisions including Twitch and AWS

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is laying off another 9,000 workers, according to a memo to employees CEO Andy Jassy sent to workers on Monday. The employees affected by the cut include those in roles in AWS, Twitch, advertising, and human resources. In his memo, Jassy cites the “uncertain economy” as the

AirPods Pro 2 vs AirPods 2 vs AirPods 3: Which earbuds are the best for you?

Apple’s divisive AirPods have staying power, even if some stay in your ears better than others. The noise-cancelling AirPods Pro 2 boast all the bells and whistles. But not everyone wants earbuds that block out the world. That’s where the AirPods 3 and AirPods 2 come into play. Let’s look at the differences between these three

United Nations warns 2050 net-zero climate goals are already outdated

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (L) speaks next to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (R) at the start of The International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva on January 9th, 2023. | Image: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images When it comes to tackling climate change, achieving “net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050” has become a

Netflix Games Is Still Happening. Just Don’t Hold Your Breath

The streaming giant gave an update on upcoming releases and why it’s (ahem) playing the long game.

The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card

There are few devices that better exemplify the breakneck pace of modern technical advancement than the mobile phone. In the span of just a decade, we went from flip phones and polyphonic ringtones to full-fledged mobile computers with quad-core processors and gigabytes of memory. While rapid advancements in computational power are of course nothing new,

Microsoft plans to launch a mobile app store for games as soon as 2024 if the Activision bid is cleared and the EU’s DMA rules for app stores come into effect (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Microsoft plans to launch a mobile app store for games as soon as 2024 if the Activision bid is cleared and the EU’s DMA rules for app stores come into effect — Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard

I really want a ChatGPT-like voice assistant in my Google Nest speakers

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury The past few months in the tech world have been a whirlwind. One minute we’re amazed but not so impressed by Dall-E’s low-quality AI-generated images, the next we’re somehow chatting with Bing, our favorite new search engine. I can barely keep up. Every

Runway, which helped create Stable Diffusion, announces its Gen 2 system to generate three second snippets of video from prompt words, available via a waitlist (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Runway, which helped create Stable Diffusion, announces its Gen 2 system to generate three second snippets of video from prompt words, available via a waitlist — Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images. For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion …

Microsoft Edge vs Google Chrome: Is it finally time to switch browsers?

Internet browsers are one of the staple uses of any computer. After all, they are gateways to the internet and facilitate everything that you can do with it. So choosing an internet browser becomes an important task, but one that many people do not spare a second thought towards. For instance, you’ve probably heard numerous

Ikea adds stock-counting drones to more of its stores

Image: Ingka Ikea has enlisted more drones to keep tabs on its inventory. In a blog post shared last week, Ikea’s parent company, Ingka, says the retailer now has a total of 100 autonomous drones counting stock in its warehouses during nonoperational hours. Ikea first partnered with the drone-making company Verity in 2020 to deploy

Oracle’s Container Engine for Kubernetes to offer managed virtual nodes

Oracle on Monday said it is adding virtual nodes to its managed Kubernetes service called Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) in an effort to let enterprises run their development operations without having to manage any infrastructure. Nodes, which are one of the most fundamental building blocks of Kubernetes, are physical or virtual machines that

Netflix is adding Monument Valley next year as part of its continued gaming push

Monument Valley II. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In 2024, Netflix will be adding two of the most revered mobile titles of all time to its fledgling gaming service. The company announced that both Monument Valley and its sequel will be available to Netflix subscribers starting in 2024. It’s a big

The Untold Tale of Why ‘Cart Life’ Disappeared—and Its Resurrection

Cart Life was a lauded indie darling. Then it vanished from Steam. Its creator finally opens up about why he pulled it, and why it’s coming back.

Netflix wants to make its games ‘playable on every Netflix device that you have’

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is still working on its cloud gaming service, which could make its burgeoning games lineup easier to play and available across more devices. The company’s VP of games, Mike Verdu, announced in October that Netflix was “seriously exploring” a cloud gaming service, and work on the project is

Apple’s new Mumbai “retail landmark” is finally going to open next month

Apples’ retail landmark store in Mumbai is reportedly set to open next month.

Remote Water Quality Monitoring

While it can be straightforward to distill water to high purity, this is rarely the best method for producing water for useful purposes. Even drinking water typically needs certain minerals in it, plants may need a certain pH, and wastewater systems have a whole host of other qualities that need to be measured. Measuring water

An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI’s GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more (ABC News)

ABC News: An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI’s GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more — “This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.

Apple Pay comes to Korea but still faces critical infrastructure challenges

Apple Pay is coming to Korea on Tuesday, March 21 but some are worried that the infrastructure isn’t ready to support it.

OpenAI’s GPT-4 failed a CFA Institute exam, the finance world’s self-styled toughest test, scoring eight out of 24, despite the answers being available online (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: OpenAI’s GPT-4 failed a CFA Institute exam, the finance world’s self-styled toughest test, scoring eight out of 24, despite the answers being available online — Artificial intelligence versus arbitrary irrelevance — It’s an algorithmic mystery box that inspires fear, awe and derision in equal measure.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance data: chip exports to China and Hong Kong fell 31.3% YoY in February, the worst decline since 2009 and above January’s 27.1% fall (Yoshihiro Sato/Bloomberg)

Yoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance data: chip exports to China and Hong Kong fell 31.3% YoY in February, the worst decline since 2009 and above January’s 27.1% fall — Taiwan’s exports of integrated circuit chips to China and Hong Kong fell for a fourth month in February as Washington-Beijing tensions simmer …

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