You could soon be able to control your lights with an Apple Watch like a Jedi
Thanks to a patent, you could soon use an Apple Watch to point at a light to turn it off, or wave at a fan to switch it on.
Read MoreThanks to a patent, you could soon use an Apple Watch to point at a light to turn it off, or wave at a fan to switch it on.
Read MoreMeta is giving up on NFTs, ending support on Facebook and Instagram, once considered a big part of its metaverse-tied rebrand.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple delays some employee bonuses as the company moves to once-a-year payouts, slows down hiring more, keeps more positions open, and reins in travel — Apple Inc. is delaying bonuses for some corporate divisions and expanding a cost-cutting effort, joining Silicon Valley peers …
Read MoreDevin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired integrates GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a Virtual Volunteer feature in closed beta — OpenAI has introduced the world to its latest powerful AI model, GPT-4, and refreshingly the first thing they set the new system to was helping
Read MoreYusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs: Microsoft says the new Bing is “running on GPT-4, which we’ve customized for search” and was using an early version of the model over the past five weeks — Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today. — We are happy to confirm that the
Read MoreMax Abelson / Bloomberg: A look at the history of Signature Bank, a lender once tied to Jared Kushner and founded in 2001 that leaped into crypto, ultimately leading to its downfall — Signature Bank was flying high when co-founder Scott Shay mused about success on a podcast early last year.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s recent Azure Open Source Day showed off a new reference application built using cloud-native tools and services, with a focus on Microsoft’s own open source tools. The app was built to be a service to help owners reunite with lost pets. It uses machine learning to quickly compare photographs of a missing animal with
Read MoreNetworking can be an annoying problem for software developers. I’m not talking about local area networking or browsing the web, but the much harder problem of ad hoc, inbound, wide area networking. Suppose you create a dazzling website on your laptop and you want to share it with your friends or customers. You could modify
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy A34 (left) and A54 (right). | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy A34 and A54 are the latest additions to its popular midrange A-series. Although both phones offer a number of upgrades over last year’s models, the most striking thing for me is how much they both look like
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft announces Build 2023 will run from May 23 to May 25 digitally and in person from Seattle, with updates on Windows 11, Bing, AI, and more expected — Microsoft Build is back, and this time, it’s taking place both digitally and in person from Seattle, Washington.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: US prosecutors were investigating Signature’s work with crypto clients before regulators seized the bank, including over detecting money laundering — US prosecutors were investigating Signature Bank’s work with crypto clients before regulators suddenly seized the lender this past weekend …
Read MoreAdam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: Arkham: net redemptions of Circle’s USDC reached $4.5B since March 10, including a single $723M redemption that was later burnt, after Signature and SVB fell — Circle’s stablecoin continues to struggle to win back confidence, and the biggest redemption on record just occurred as $723.5 million …
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: Foxconn reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$64.5B and $1.3B net income, slightly below estimates, and forecasts slumping consumer electronics demand in 2023 — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported profit that fell just shy of expectations and offered a cautious outlook for this year.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority The Nothing OS 1.5.3 update is now rolling out to users. It comes with new wallpapers, bug fixes, the February security patch, and more. After rolling out the stable Android 13 update last month, Nothing is pushing another software update to the Phone 1. The OTA is termed Nothing
Read MoreWhat is it about pi that we humans — at least some of us — find so endlessly fascinating? Maybe that’s just it — it’s endless, an eternal march of digits that tempts us with the thought that if we just calculate one more digit, something interesting will happen. Spoiler alert: it never does. That
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Abu Dhabi-based G42 acquired a $100M+ stake in ByteDance at a ~$220B valuation, down from $300B set in a recent buyback, as the US weighs a TikTok ban — ByteDance Ltd. was valued at around $220 billion in a recent private-market investment by Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 …
Read MoreReuters: Samsung Electronics plans to invest ~$230B through 2042 in South Korea to build one of the world’s largest chipmaking bases, including five chip factories — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) expects to invest $230 billion over the next 20 years to develop …
Read MoreSamsung has posted a trailer for another short film shot on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. The short action film Faith was shot on the phone by director Na Hong-jin. Director Ridley Scott made an appearance at the Samsung Galaxy S23 series launch event earlier this year, shooting a short film with the Samsung Galaxy S23
Read MoreIn an ideal smart home, the explosion of cheap WiFi and Bluetooth chips has allowed hundreds of small wireless devices to control the switches, lights, and everything else required for a “smart home” at a relatively low price. But what if you don’t want hundreds of internet-connected devices in your home polluting the wireless spectrum
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung has issued a statement regarding its phones’ ability to shoot images of the Moon. The statement comes after a Redditor spoofed the feature using a blurry photo of the Moon. Some Samsung phones, including the Galaxy S23 Ultra, offer the ability to shoot more detailed, zoomed-in snaps of
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Zürich-based Verity, which offers autonomous inventory management drones to logistics providers, retailers, and manufacturers, has raised a $32M Series B — The Swiss company plans to use the capital to speed up the rollout of its autonomous inventory drone system to meet a growing backlog of deployments.
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: After the ALPHV ransomware group claimed to have hit Amazon’s Ring, the company says it was not breached but a third-party vendor has been hit with ransomware — The group is blackmailing Ring on its site: “There’s always an option to let us leak your data,” they posted.
Read MoreJagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based HealthPlix, which offers health records software for doctors, raised a $22M Series A, $20M in equity and $2M in debt, co-led by Avataar and SIG — HealthPlix, an Indian startup offering its in-house platform for doctors to help record patient data digitally …
Read MoreBrian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Two US members of the ViLE cybercriminal group have been charged for a May 2022 hack into a DEA portal that taps into 16 federal law enforcement databases — Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into
Read MoreWashington Post: Interviews with 20 people detail the Biden administration’s response to SVB’s collapse, amid lobbying from tech execs and investors to protect all depositors — It seemed like a simple question: Did the treasury secretary have any concerns about the economic risks posed by Silicon Valley Bank?
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