Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US — Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China — Britain is to ban the Chinese
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: Parker, which offers a corporate credit card for e-commerce brands doing $3M to $100M in annual sales, emerges from stealth with $37M in equity and $120M debt — Parker, a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million …
Read MoreImage: David Pierce / Camo I have tried every webcam solution you can imagine. Built-in webcam: mushy, blurry mess practically no matter what device you’re using. Cheap webcam from Logitech: slightly better, but basically the same. Fancy webcam from Opal: looks great, infuriatingly finicky. DSLR on a tripod: looks even better, often even more finicky.
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Read MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly taking over a lot of human jobs, including manufacturing, some aspects of medicine, and customer service. As AI becomes more and more sophisticated, many are naturally concerned that it will replace all human jobs. Businesses staffed entirely by AI machines isn’t a likely outcome, however. While pop culture may have
Read MoreMia Sato / The Verge: TikTok adds a Refresh button to the For You feed, resetting recommendations to those shown to new signups, after testing the feature in February 2023 — TikTok is adding a way for users to “refresh” For You page content when they want to switch up their feed.
Read MoreSam Kessler / CoinDesk: The Arbitrum Foundation, which develops the Ethereum Layer 2 platform Arbitrum, plans to airdrop its long-awaited ARB token on March 23 and transition to a DAO — The long-awaited ARB token will grant holders the ability to vote on changes to the leading Ethereum layer 2 network.
Read MoreImage: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Shortly after coming into office, President Joe Biden moved to restore net neutrality. He signed a sweeping executive order to promote competition, calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bring back the Obama-era internet rules rolled back by the Trump administration. But close to two years
Read MoreKim Si-A and Jeon Do-yeon in Kill Boksoon. | Image: Netflix Retiring as an assassin is never easy, and that’s definitely the case in the upcoming Netflix film Kill Boksoon. The movie follows Gil Boksoon (Jeon Do-yeon) as a killer with a perfect success rate but a rough relationship with her teenage daughter (Kim Si-a).
Read MoreKeanu Reeves as John Wick. | Image: Lionsgate John Wick 4 is a supersized all-you-can-eat buffet of the franchise’s signature dishes: bullet-riddled revenge, teeth-chattering action sequences, and gossamer-thin characters. Continue reading…
Read MoreEarly research aims to look for patterns in an individual’s sleep sounds using deep neural networks—with potential applications for health care.
Read MorePhoto by Brandon Sloter / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The next time a coach or umpire calls for a review, they’ll get the results beamed in from the Major League Baseball (MLB) replay center in New York over Zoom, creating one more meeting that could’ve been an email. Starting this season, umpire crew chiefs
Read MoreThis week, we ask ourselves what our reliance on smartphones tells us about our wants and fears.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft is holding a special “future of work with AI” event today, where the company says it’ll be “reinventing productivity with AI.” Microsoft is expected to demonstrate how its ChatGPT-like AI will work in Microsoft 365 and Office apps like Teams, Word, and Outlook. CEO Satya Nadella and head of Microsoft 365
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Washington Post: How San Francisco’s Hayes Valley, or “Cerebral Valley”, became a hotbed for “hacker houses” and AI events, as the AI gold rush revives the Bay Area’s tech scene — The money and power flooding into AI are warping and intensifying the typical Silicon Valley gold rush, now set to explode
Read MoreStu Woo / Wall Street Journal: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says divesting from ByteDance won’t fix US concerns, rules out an IPO, and claims the app is unprofitable due to data security spending — Shou Zi Chew goes to Capitol Hill next week, as Biden administration demands a divestiture from app’s Chinese owner
Read MoreReuters: Sources: Samsung’s planned chip plant in Taylor, Texas, will now cost over $25B, up from its $8B initial forecasts, due to inflation and rising material costs — A chip plant that South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is building in Taylor, Texas, will cost …
Read MoreIf history is any indication, society will continue to favor the artistic output of people.
Read MoreUsers appear to be experiencing some issues with the App Store, as the service goes down for as yet unexplained reasons.
Read MoreJen Wieczner / New York Magazine: Q&A with Signature Bank board member Barney Frank on the bank’s downfall, the impact on crypto, weakening Dodd-Frank in 2018, tougher regulation, and more — The sudden string of bank failures over the past week conjured traumatic flashbacks of the 2008 financial crisis for many a banker.
Read MoreSnapchat’s latest safety feature allows parents to filter out sensitive content on their children’s devices. | Image: Snapchat Snapchat has rolled out new parental Content Controls to help prevent minors from being exposed to potentially inappropriate content while using the app. Announced on Tuesday, parents and guardians can now access new content filtering capabilities through
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Investor presentation: SVB Capital, which manages $9.5B, invested $234M in Sequoia Capital as of May 2022, $173M in a16z funds in 2018 and 2021, and more — As potential buyers circle the remnants of Silicon Valley Bank and its affiliates, one asset could be particularly appealing: the company’s venture capital
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC founder Morris Chang says chip industry globalization “is dead” and he “agrees” with US embargoes on China’s chip sector, which is five years behind Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. founder Morris Chang declared globalization for the chip industry …
Read MoreJesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US Federal Reserve plans to activate its real-time FedNow Service payments system in July, seeking to improve clearing transactions between institutions — The new government-operated payments system – often used as an argument against the need for crypto’s payments innovations …
Read MoreMore than a trillion insects are raised each year as high-protein, low-carbon animal feed, but the practice might have an ethical blind spot.
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