As any radio amateur will tell you, the world of radio abounds with exciting possibilities. Probably the simplest pursuit of them all is that of the SWL, or short wave listener, who scours the airwaves in search of interesting stations. SWLs will often have fully-featured setups with high-end general-coverage communications receivers and tuned antenna arrays,
Read MoreMaureen Farrell / New York Times: SVB’s collapse is a tale of ambition, management mistakes, and focusing on innovation over the mundane work of managing risk and ensuring financial prudence — While its leader extolled innovation and the future of tech, the bank paid less attention to risk management and was caught flat-footed by economic
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: An interview with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman on GPT-4 being “different” to GPT-3, training on images and text, a “slow and intentional” rollout, and more — OpenAI shipped GPT-4 today, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work.
Read MoreBloomberg: T-Mobile plans to acquire Ryan Reynolds-backed budget wireless provider Mint Mobile for as much as $1.35B, seeking to expand its pay-as-you-go marketshare — T-Mobile US Inc. is buying Mint Mobile, the budget wireless provider part owned by actor Ryan Reynolds, for as much as $1.35 billion …
Read MoreAutomakers are adding cameras and algorithms that monitor and nudge drivers to improve safety and ensure people supervise automated driving aids.
Read MoreFLIR’s latest professional-grade thermal camera works with any phone and connects over Wi-Fi for extra-flexible temperature sensing.
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Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Samsung responds to the controversy over moon photography on Galaxy devices, explaining its “Scene Optimizer” feature, “AI deep learning model”, and more — The post’s content isn’t exactly new — it appears to be a lightly edited translation of an article posted …
Read MoreFinancial Times: PwC partners with AI startup Harvey to launch a chatbot for its 4,000 lawyers, built using OpenAI’s GPT-4, as law firms rush to find ways to integrate AI — Technology from start-up Harvey aims to make contract analysis and due diligence quicker — PwC has announced a chatbot experiment …
Read MoreCredit: How To I Solve/Steve Hemmerstoffer A leaker has claimed that the Pixel Fold will retail for $1,300 to $1,500. The tipster further adds that the Pixel 7a will cost $450 to $500. A recent leak points to Google launching the mid-range Pixel 7a smartphone and the Pixel Fold foldable at the Google I/O conference
Read MoreNew York Times: How Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google’s Assistant fell behind in the AI race despite a decade headstart, hampered by clunky design and miscalculations — The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.
Read MoreTo lure back workers and compete with the convenience of home, companies are offering more substantial perks and giving architects freedom to experiment.
Read MoreResearchers seek to develop advanced propulsion systems that can transform long-distance space exploration.
Read MoreThe threat of scammers using voice deepfakes in their cons is real, but researchers say old-school voice-impersonation attacks are still the more pressing concern.
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Read MoreGareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: FBI report: US citizens lost $10.3B to online scammers in 2022, up from $6.9B in 2021, with losses from crypto investment fraud reaching $2.57B, up from $907M — Cryptocurrency investment fraud nearly tripled in 2022 from the year before — Americans lost more than $10 billion …
Read MoreBloodPop with Lady Gaga at the 2023 Oscars. | Image: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images The confluence of gaming and music continues as BloodPop — a producer known for working with the likes of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé — has announced a new game studio. Called Genpop Interactive, the studio’s ambitious goal is to
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Read MoreWe are no longer racing to upgrade the device that sits at the center of our lives. What’s next for the phone?
Read MoreTwo life-altering treatments could soon be available, but questions remain about how accessible and affordable they’ll be.
Read MoreRussia, North Korea, Iran, and China have been caught using fake profiles to gather information. But the platform’s tools to weed them out only go so far.
Read MoreThanks to its high orbital inclination, the International Space Station (ISS) eventually passes over most inhabited parts of the Earth. Like other artificial satellites, though, it’s typically only visible overhead during passes at sunrise and sunset. If you’d like to have an idea of where it is beyond the times that it’s directly visible, take
Read MoreA Samsung smartphone identified a blurry photo of the Moon and added detail to create the above image. | Image: u/ibreakphotos Samsung has published an English-language blog post explaining the techniques used by its phones to photograph the Moon. The post’s content isn’t exactly new — it appears to be a lightly edited translation of
Read MoreThe App may look worse than ever, but Spotify users can rest easy that Spotify HiFi is coming at some point. But they’ll probably have to pay extra for it.
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