Rashida Jones in Silo. | Image: Apple Apple has another dark drama coming to its streaming service. Today, the company showed off the first teaser trailer for Silo, a dystopian series based on the novels by Hugh Howey. It starts streaming on Apple TV Plus on May 5th. The show follows the story of the last
Read MoreWe’ve been following the open, royalty-free RISC-V ISA for a while. At first we read the specs, and then we saw RISC-V cores in microcontrollers, but now there’s a new board that offers enough processing power at a low enough price point to really be interesting in a single board computer. The VisionFive 2 ran
Read MoreTesla Model S Oct18 Tesla Model S (Credit: Tesla)Elon Musk announced at Tesla’s investor day last week that the company is now cutting prices on its top two electric vehicles, the Model S and Model X, CNBC reports. “The desire for people to own a Tesla is extremely high. The limiting factor is their ability
Read MoreMatthew Goldstein / New York Times: How buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies having a loose underwriting process for applications — Seung Song said his identity was stolen and used to buy $5,000 worth of gun components from an online dealer using a buy now, pay
Read MoreUK brand Nothing announce the announcement date of the new Nothing ear 2, its AirPods rival.
Read MoreAntoine Gara / Financial Times: US private equity firm Silver Lake and a Canadian pension fund offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as majority owner SAP looks to divest its 71% stake — Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year — US private equity group Silver Lake and one of
Read MoreiOS 16.4 beta has added the ability to change your Always-On Display settings with different Focus modes.
Read MoreThe iPad paired with the Apple Pencil makes it easy to start sketching – here are some of our favorite apps.
Read MoreDina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI’s tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out in preview — Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology …
Read More(Credit: Alain Pham/Unsplash)Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing tool. Scientists at MIT have found that AI design systems that seek feedback from human experts can be more effective than independent AI systems or manual design, suggesting that collaboration might be a more productive means of generating high-quality infrastructure. Civil and environmental engineers Dat
Read MoreWired: An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam’s Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
Read MoreCompanies like SoFi and Chipper offer to help people manage their college loans. But they’re not likely to fix the flawed economics of education.
Read MoreAssociated Press: German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
Read MoreThe Valve Steam Deck isn’t the most powerful gaming machine, but it makes up for that by being a whole lot more portable than your gaming PC. Despite the modest power, Valve has managed to add one of today’s most demanding graphical technologies: ray tracing. This feature is live in the latest beta software, but
Read MoreThis backpacking tent isn’t too heavy and uses a new ecofriendly, sag-resistant rain fly.
Read MoreCredit: SmartPrix/Steve Hemmerstoffer Nothing has announced a March 22 launch event. The Nothing Ear 2 earbuds will make an appearance here. We already got our first look at the Nothing Ear 2 true wireless earbuds back in October 2022, followed up by another look and some specs in January. The company started teasing the Ear
Read MoreReuters: The EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more — Meta Platforms’ (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority A Qualcomm executive may have accidentally revealed that the Nothing Phone 2 will pack a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC. The information was posted by the chipmaker’s SVP and GM of the Mobile division on his Linkedin page. The post has since been edited to remove the mention
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI’s evolution and safeguard humanity’s future — Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying …
Read MoreJust as the art world is filled with wildly divergent opinions about what makes a great work of art, programmers often disagree upon what makes for great code, at least beyond the basic requirement that it shouldn’t crash. Every developer has their own set of rules and guidelines. When a developer says not to do
Read MoreShaji Mathew / Bloomberg: Abu Dhabi-based data analytics firm Presight AI, owned by AI and cloud computing company G42, plans to raise $495M at a ~$2B valuation in an IPO on March 13 — Presight AI Holding Plc, a data analytics firm owned by Abu Dhabi’s G42, plans to raise $495 million from an initial
Read MoreLaurie Chen / Reuters: At the National People’s Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China’s crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent …
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome to a new week, a fresh edition of the Daily Authority! Paula here, covering for Andy, and tomorrow I’ll be leaving you in Hadlee’s capable hands. Today we’ve got some excellent headlines for you, including our take on Samsung’s Galaxy S23, everything we know about Google’s Pixel Watch 2, and a
Read MoreKeith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country’s data stores, shifting from multiple ministries, seeking to streamline its regulatory structure — Beijing’s plan to streamline regulatory structure would bring all data-related issues under a single agency
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla has lowered the price of its most expensive EV models in the US, reducing the cost of a new Model S by up to five percent and Model X by up to ten percent. The pricing updates are already reflected on the Tesla website, and as Reuters
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