Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Sources: around 20 leaders at Clubhouse have left over the past year, including hires from Meta, Google, and others; Clubhouse continues to add “top talent” — Roughly 20 leaders have departed Clubhouse over the past year or so, including many of the notable hires …
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company’s 50th anniversary, making use of its traditional IP, plans to focus on retro gaming hardware, licensing, and more — Wade Rosen wants Atari to come back as one of the most valuable gaming brands. After all, there aren’t many 50-year-old game companies.
Read MoreConvenience, not cost, drives open source adoption. That’s the primary finding of a new report from The Linux Foundation on the economic value of open source, and it’s a bit counterintuitive. In an interview with Professor Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and author of the report, he stressed that while cost is a significant
Read MoreFilm photography may now be something so outdated as to be unknown to our younger readers, but as an analogue medium it has enjoyed a steady enthusiast revival. There is still a bonanza of second-hand cameras from the days when it was king to be found, but for some photographers it’s preferable to experiment with
Read MoreJustin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: A study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation — A new study based on a massive dataset of posts collected from Facebook pages and groups in the runup to the 2020
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Some users report that their Pixel Watch alarm is going off late. It can be delayed by up to 10 minutes in some cases. Most complaints are about morning alarms firing up late, which could have something to do with the watch waking up from Bedtime Mode. Have you
Read MoreXiaomi Mi Band 7 Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Images of the Xiaomi Mi Band 8 have appeared online via a Korean regulator. The pictures show a device that looks similar to the Mi Band 7. Xiaomi’s Mi Band series of fitness trackers constantly ranks among the most popular trackers around, bringing plenty of
Read MoreReuters: Sources: SoftBank’s Arm hopes to raise $8B+ at a $50B+ valuation in its US IPO, which is expected later in 2023 after a confidential filing in late April — Arm Ltd, the British chip designer owned by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), is likely to aim to raise at least $8 billion …
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Some users report that their Pixel Watch alarm is going off late. It can be delayed by up to 10 minutes in some cases. Most complaints are about morning alarms firing up late, which could have something to do with the watch waking up from Bedtime Mode. Have you
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority A trusted journalist has dished out more details regarding upcoming Mac computers. It’s claimed that the first Arm-powered Mac Pro will launch in H2 2023. Three more Mac computers are apparently tipped to arrive in 2023. Apple’s Mac computers are among the most powerful and critically acclaimed machines around,
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Nothing could soon enter a new product category with its first speaker. A render of the alleged device has leaked, showing a peculiar design. Nothing is currently teasing a new product launch. While all signs point at the Nothing Ear 2 buds, we might see another surprise entry
Read MoreNew refreshed 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models are on the way, scheduled to launch between spring and summer of this year, according to Mark Gurman.
Read MoreWhen it comes to SDR, you can usually find cheap products that receive and expensive products that can also transmit. The YARD Stick One bucks that trend. It can send and receive from 300 MHz to 928 MHz, thanks to the onboard TI CC1111 chip. [Wim Ton] on Elektor put the device through its paces. While
Read MoreA new iMac is in an advanced stage of development, expected to launch in the second half of 2023 at the earliest, according to Mark Gurman.
Read MoreCharlie Warzel / The Atlantic: An interview with Ask Jeeves co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original conception was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build — Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.
Read MorePeter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying out his vision to steer artificial intelligence toward “human flourishing.”
Read MoreImage: Valve Valve’s on the precipice of launching a major update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, according to a report from esports journalist Richard Lewis (via Forbes). Sources close to the situation tell Lewis that Valve could finally release a new version of the game on the company’s Source 2 engine as early as this month.
Read MorePranshu Verma / Washington Post: Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it — Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
Read MoreWell, we guess it had to happen eventually — Ford is putting plans in place to make its vehicles capable of self-repossession. At least it seems so from a patent application that was published last week, which reads like something written by someone who fancies themselves an evil genius but is just really, really annoying.
Read MoreDave Lee / Financial Times: Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don’t work” — Teams working on the ecommerce giant’s voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company’s history
Read MoreJason Mikula / Fintech Business Weekly: Internal docs appear to show executives at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5% to 5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresented Eco’s lending practices to users — a16z- and Thiel-Backed Startup’s Future Uncertain As It Loses Bank Partner, Pays User Interest With Own Funds — Hey all, Jason here.
Read MoreWell, we guess it had to happen eventually — Ford is putting plans in place to make its vehicles capable of self-repossession. At least it seems so from a patent application that was published last week, which reads like something written by someone who fancies themselves an evil genius but is just really, really annoying.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources and docs: Binance and Binance.US have been more intertwined than disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to buy and sell crypto — The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent. Now, regulators are circling.
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge DJI’s no longer producing AeroScope, the drone-detecting system accused of helping Russians target and attack Ukrainian drone pilots, as first spotted by UAV Hive (via DroneDJ). The device’s product page now displays a pop-up that reads: “The Aeroscope is no longer in production. For the latest in DJI
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown I recently retrofitted my rented house with a few smart home products from SwitchBot. It’s been revolutionary using SwitchBot’s various tools, including its mechanized button-pushing SwitchBot Bot, infrared blasts from the Hub Mini, temperature control through the Meter Plus, and saving floor
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