[Jason Winfield] had a nemesis: the Defender arcade machine. Having put quite a number of coins into one during his childhood, he’s since found himself as a seasoned maker, and decided to hold a rematch on his own terms. For this, he’s recreated the machine from scratch, building it around the guts of a Dell
Read MoreNoah Bierman / Los Angeles Times: San Jose-based Vintra, whose software is used by the IRS, police, and more, claims its “co-appearance” AI can mark interactions between people caught on camera — A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Some UK officials and SoftBank staff blame onerous FCA rules, complexity and cost, inflexibility, and political chaos for Arm’s decision to shun London listing — Onerous rules said to have influenced rejection of UK float for chip designer in favour of New York
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with OpenAI’s Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more — Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT …
Read MoreGoogle’s apps like Earth, Street View, and Maps have entirely changed how we navigate and lets us find, look at, and “visit” places worldwide from the comfort of our own home. While people use Maps and Street View more frequently, Google Earth is for the casual “traveler.” It opens up the world with satellite and
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with OpenAI’s Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more — Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Alphabet, Google’s parent company, should be considered a joint employer for a group of YouTube Music contractors. The workers are currently attempting to organize with the Alphabet Worker’s Union, and the NLRB’s decision could mean that the tech giant has
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a 40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the company — The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk’s buyout, people familiar with the
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a 40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the company — The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk’s buyout, people familiar with the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Alphabet, Google’s parent company, should be considered a joint employer for a group of YouTube Music contractors. The workers are currently attempting to organize with the Alphabet Worker’s Union, and the NLRB’s decision could mean that the tech giant has
Read MoreSharper, the new Apple TV Plus series starring Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, broke into the top ten on streaming last week.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI seeks to raise money at around a $4B valuation after raising a $101M seed at a ~$1B valuation in October 2022 — With artificial intelligence booming, one key player in the fast-growing space is talking to investors about raising more money …
Read MoreAndroid 15’s dessert-themed code name has dropped. The next major OS update after Android 14 is known internally as Vanilla Ice Cream. The code name was found in the AOSP as a series of code changes. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been a month since Google released the first Developer Preview of Android 14.
Read MoreImage: @MaxWinebach Apple partnered with a bank in 2021 to let small businesses lease new M1 Macs for as low as $30 per month, with easy options to upgrade if and when more powerful devices are released. Now that’s no longer being offered, and businesses that had signed up will now have to sign up
Read MoreOf course, there’s nothing unusual about using 7-segment displays, especially in a clock. However, [Edison Science Corner] didn’t buy displays. Instead, he fabricated them from a PCB using 0805 LEDs for the segments. You can see the resulting clock project in the video below. While the idea is good, we might have been tempted to
Read MoreCoinDesk: Silvergate says it’s discontinuing the Silvergate Exchange Network, an instant settlement service that its clients could use to move money to crypto exchanges — Crypto bank warned this week about its ability to remain in business. — Silvergate Bank, which warned this week about its ability …
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Sources: last month, Amazon threatened to withhold payments for advertising it runs on Twitter, as the social network refused to pay its AWS bills for months — Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter
Read MoreAaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Apple has approved a ChatGPT-powered version of the BlueMail app, after its creator Blix assured Apple that the update includes content moderation — Tech giant’s review of email app comes as concerns grow over AI’s potential harm — Apple Inc. AAPL 3.51%increase; green up pointing triangle …
Read MoreCristiano Lima / Washington Post: Sources: Google hired a law firm for a civil rights and racial equity audit into its services and policies, after years of pressure from advocates and Democrats — Advocacy groups have long called on the tech giant to follow companies like Meta and Apple and vet its products for racial
Read MorePaul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel moves to a two-year cadence for data center GPU releases, canceling the Rialto Bridge series and delaying its next release, Falcon Shores, to 2025 — Intel takes its GPU ambitions down a notch. — Image 1 of 2 — Intel’s VP and GM of the super compute group announced
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Character.AI, which uses LLMs to let users chat with famous people like Shakespeare, raised between $200M and $250M led by a16z at a ~$1B valuation — Pioneering tech venture capital firm makes first big foray into generative artificial intelligence sector
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The electric and digital transformation of the car industry comes with a lot of promises for a better tomorrow. Electric vehicles could dramatically reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector; connected cars will give us access to services and features we don’t currently enjoy; over-the-air software updates could
Read MoreSharper, the new Apple TV Plus series starring Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, broke into the top ten on streaming last week.
Read MoreRecently, you might have noticed a flurry of CH552 projects on Hackaday.io – all of them with professionally taken photos of neatly assembled PCBs, typically with a USB connector or two. You might also have noticed that they’re all built by one person, [Stefan “wagiminator” Wagner], who is a prolific hacker – his Hackaday.io page
Read MoreImage: Team Ninja The developers are marketing Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty all wrong. I’m sure the fact that it’s a Soulsborne-like released in the midst of the Great Elden Ring DLC winter is no doubt appealing. As is the fact that Team Ninja, the game’s developers, got Masaaki Yamagiwa — a producer on Bloodborne and
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