[Moritz v. Sivers] has a knack for making his own displays, which are typically based on some obscure physical effect. Magnetic viewing films, those thin plastic sheets that change color in response to a magnetic field, are his latest area of interest, as you can see in his Magnetic Kinetic Art Display. The overall idea
Read MoreMorgan Meaker / Wired: As governments adopt third-party automated fraud-detection algorithms, researchers say the companies running the systems are overpaid and lack accountability — When systems designed to catch welfare cheats go wrong, people find themselves trapped between secretive governments and even more opaque private companies.
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LA-based Believer, a studio founded by ex-Riot executives, which plans to build open world games using generative AI, raised a $55M Series A led by Lightspeed — Gaming is at a crossroads these days: A decades-old business that has had remarkable staying power banked around classic concepts …
Read MoreHarry McCracken / Fast Company: An oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others — Social media, for work? The world was skeptical. But 20 years and a few white-knuckle moments later, LinkedIn has become synonymous …
Read MoreA long-running story in the world of electronic security has been the reconstruction of on-screen data using RF interference from monitors or televisions. From British TV detector vans half a century ago to 1980s scare stories about espionage, it was certainly easy enough to detect an analogue CRT with nothing more than an AM broadcast
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control — ChatGPT-style AI model adds vision to guide a robot without special training. — On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Facebook is testing the ability to access your inbox without the Messenger app. This would mark a major U-turn after seven years. Facebook first removed the ability to access your message inbox in the main Facebook app back in 2016. This was part of a ham-fisted attempt to get
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy- and speech-protecting service a year after it launched — Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.
Read MoreEduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Acer confirms that one of its document servers was breached, after a hacker listed 160GB of data for sale allegedly containing confidential documents and files — Electronics giant Acer has confirmed getting hacked after a hacker offered to sell 160 Gb of files allegedly stolen from the company’s systems.
Read MoreEllen Huet / Bloomberg: How effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios, like killer rogue AI, became Silicon Valley obsessions — Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan fiction …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had its eye on Twitter since well before Elon Musk bought the outfit, but now we have a better idea about what questions it’s been asking lately. Not only have the investigations continued, but the FTC has been looking into the company’s abilities
Read MoreThe desktop manufacturing revolution has been incredible, unleashing powerful technologies that once were strictly confined to industrial and institutional users. If you doubt that, just look at 3D printing; with a sub-$200 investment, you can start making parts that have never existed before. Sadly, though, most of this revolution has been geared toward making stuff
Read MoreIDC: Global spending on AI, including software, hardware, and services for AI-centric systems, is forecast to reach $154B in 2023, up 26.9% compared to 2022 — Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide shows that global spending on artificial intelligence (AI), including software, hardware …
Read MoreBarbara Ortutay / Associated Press: Elon Musk apologizes after mocking a laid-off Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined Twitter in 2021 after the company acquired his startup Ueno — If you’re not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: San Diego-based marketing automation service Soci, used by Ace Hardware, Ford and others, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to ~$238M — Soci (pronounced “soh-shee”), a marketing automation platform with customers including Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike’s …
Read MoreSam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: Kresus, which is developing a Web3 app to let users buy NFTs, access financial services, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures — Kresus’ SuperApp aims to bridge more everyday consumers to digital goods, NFTs and other Web3 products and services. — 259 Total views
Read MoreGlen Allsopp / Detailed: A look at the 16 companies behind 562 brands dominating Google Search results, their take on AI and SEO, their niches and the ones they’re taking over, and more — In the Academy Award-nominated Food Inc, filmmaker Robert Kenner reveals how the extensive range of products we see on supermarket shelves
Read MoreBarbara Ortutay / Associated Press: Elon Musk apologizes after mocking a laid-off Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined Twitter in 2021 after the company acquired his startup Ueno — If you’re not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want
Read MoreEduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Acer confirms that one of its document servers was breached, after a hacker listed 160GB of data for sale allegedly containing confidential documents and files — Electronics giant Acer has confirmed getting hacked after a hacker offered to sell 160 Gb of files allegedly stolen from the company’s systems.
Read MoreWhen it comes to lower-energy home heating, it’s accurate in all senses to say that heat pumps are the new hotness. But unless you happen to work with them professionally, it’s fair to say their inner workings are beyond most of us. Help is at hand though courtesy of [petey53], who made his own ground
Read MoreThe iPhone took eight of the top ten spots for global smartphone sales in 2022.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources describe how Google stalled the release of a powerful chatbot for years due to the risk AI demos could pose to its reputation and search ads business — Researchers developed a powerful chatbot years before rival ChatGPT went viral. After management stalled its release, they quit.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources describe how Google stalled the release of a powerful chatbot for years due to the risk AI demos could pose to its reputation and search ads business — Researchers developed a powerful chatbot years before rival ChatGPT went viral. After management stalled its release, they quit.
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics, a parcel-handling robotics vision system for warehouses, raised a $50M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners — Another industrial automation firm is bucking VC slowdown, as Plus One Robotics this morning announces a $50 million raise.
Read MoreRyan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: Docs: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages about Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records — Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter’s compliance with settlement
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