Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more — Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. … Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago …
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: Twitch updates adult nudity policy to ban synthetic non-consensual exploitative images, after a streamer accidentally revealed paying for deepfakes of streamers — Twitch already forbids explicit deepfake images and videos, but it’s taking a tougher position against them today.
Read MoreCredit: Fone Arena A new leak suggests the A54 and A34 could get a price bump in the EU. The A54 may come in at €519, while the A34 could have a price tag of €419. It’s unclear if this price increase will come to the US as well. Last week we got our best
Read MoreIf you’re looking to upgrade your data management system to the cloud in the near future, you’re not alone. Companies worldwide spent nearly $84 billion on cloud storage technology in 2022, a substantial increase from the $70 billion spent in 2021. Total spending is expected to increase to over $375 billion by 2029, representing a
Read MoreSmall in size, low-resolution, blocky segments, and a limited color palette — all characteristics of the typical vacuum fluorescent display, any of which would seem to disqualify them as the display of choice for a lot of applications. But this is Hackaday, and we don’t really pay much attention to what we’re supposed to do,
Read MorePC gamers know the risk and rewards of downloading the latest graphics drivers. On the one hand, you want them because they are designed to offer the best performance possible at the time. However, sometimes they can also cause unanticipated issues. Though Nvidia is generally held in high esteem on this front, its latest GeForce
Read MoreClare Duffy / CNN: Meta tests returning messaging capabilities to the Facebook app, years after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” the services from TikTok — New York CNN — — Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features …
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Meta stands by its release strategy after LLaMA, an LLM the company gave to approved organizations and researchers, was apparently leaked as a torrent on 4chan — The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.
Read MoreImage: Niantic Niantic, the studio behind Pokémon Go, is releasing its next big game very soon. The developer announced that the virtual pet game Peridot, which was first announced last year, will be available on both iOS and Android on May 9th. It’ll be a global launch. I had the chance to check out Peridot
Read MoreThe Ultra was great at detecting when I arrived and left a track. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Apple’s automatic track detection feature is impressively accurate and convenient, even without any calibration. Continue reading…
Read MoreSwatch’s new limited-edition Omega collaboration is on sale for just one day, but it’s not the luxury-busting timepiece we were hoping for.
Read MoreFilipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Sources: the upcoming 15″ and 13″ MacBook Airs, as well as a refreshed 13″ MacBook Pro, will feature the new M3 chip, which will have 8 cores like the M1 and M2 — We’ve been hearing rumors about a new MacBook Air for a while, but some details about it remain
Read More(Credit: Robina Weermeijer/Unsplash)Becoming a heart transplant patient is no small feat. Not only are waitlist times lengthy with no guaranteed end, but the actual transplant procedure is one of the riskiest surgeries performed today. After surgery, there’s the potential for the patient’s body to reject its new organ thanks to antigen discrepancies. But what if
Read Moreillustration: William Joel / The Verge Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. Continue reading…
Read MoreLast time, I’ve shared my experience on why you might want to consider a laptop motherboard for a project of yours, and noted some things you might want to keep in mind if buying one for a project. Now, let’s go through the practical considerations! Making It Boot Usually, when you plug some RAM and
Read MoreStep aside AI; a new buzzword is in town: Video Super Resolution (VSR). It’s a new technology that uses your GPU’s hardware to upscale video content viewed in a browser. Nvidia was first out of the gate with RTX Video Super Resolution, which launched a week ago. Then it was discovered that some Intel GPUs
Read MoreAmazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale for $34.99 ($20 off) at multiple retailers today. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sad you missed out on all the good Amazon streaming device deals we saw before the Super Bowl? Turn that frown upside down, because today, they’re back on sale again
Read MoreSonos isn’t about to make the same mistake twice. In hindsight, its transition in 2020 to a major new software platform, S2, could’ve been communicated better and handled with more consideration for longtime customers. A few very old products were left behind, though only one speaker was affected: the first-generation Play:5. For those devices, Sonos
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Overhaul, which uses AI to help secure physical supply chains for freight companies, raised a $38M Series A led by Edison Partners and $35M in debt — Businesses dependent on the physical supply chain face a number of potential roadblocks. Customers expect fast deliveries with visibility into each step …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is working on a TikTok-esque feature and splitting text and video posts into separate feeds, the company announced today. Video content on Reddit will be pulled into the Watch feed view, while text content will appear in the Read feed. The feeds will have a combination of
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Eight out of the top 10 phones in 2022 were iPhones, according to a new report. Two budget Samsung phones were the only Android devices to crack the list. Apple’s iPhones are constantly ranked among the top 10 most-popular smartphones each year, with seven iPhones in the top 10
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: In 2023, almost all TV streaming boxes suck, turning into ever-cheaper, ad-supported commodity items and failing to surpass smart TVs, themselves hardly great — There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. … Streaming boxes had so much potential.
Read MoreUsernames have been reserved for current Medium subscription members until March 20th. | Image: The Verge Popular publishing platform Medium is now fully embracing the Twitter alternative Mastodon by opening up its new me.dm instance to paying Medium community members. Joining the Mastodon server requires a subscription to Medium for $5 per month (or $50
Read MoreThis beautiful electric scooter only works for shorter, lighter riders. Also, the kickstand is a fail.
Read MoreKids today face problems far larger than their social media usage. Restrictions feed into a moral panic without addressing the root cause of their anxiety.
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