Kate Lindsay / The Verge: As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they’re human — Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day,
Read MoreLike the incandescent bulb before it, the compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb is rapidly fading into obscurity as there are fewer and fewer reasons to use them over their LED successors. But there are plenty of things to do with some of the more interesting circuitry that made these relatively efficient light bulbs work, and [mircemk]
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more — Neal Stephenson’s science-fiction writing has predicted (and inspired) innovations from cryptocurrency to Alexa.
Read MoreCredit: Thomas Triggs / Android Authority Despite frequently hopping between some of the best wireless earbuds, I still don’t feel like I’ve found my perfect pair. It’s not that any models I’ve used are bad in their own right. It’s more that I like each of them for different and specific reasons. Between the Samsung,
Read MoreMorgan Meaker / Wired: Experts: the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond to hand over more control to AI, creating a slippery slope — Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.
Read MorePlay music, audiobooks, and more for your children with one of these WIRED-tested gadgets.
Read MoreTabby Kinder / Financial Times: Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen’s board after the startup offered a “pay to play” deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round — Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals
Read MoreThere are plenty of reasons to devote oneself to the care of houseplants — after all, a room full of bright, glossy-leaved plants can be a joy to behold, and that’s not even one of the more tangible benefits they bring. But as any green thumb knows, there’s a fine line between a healthy, vibrant
Read MoreImage: Trae Patton / Paramount Plus The first episode of Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season is available to stream online for free, as spotted earlier by Gizmodo. You can either watch the full, hour-long premiere on YouTube or from the Paramount Plus website, but it’s only available for a limited time. Star Trek:
Read MoreAnton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; Chinese companies accounted for 55%, US companies 26%, and UK companies 0.26% — The U.K. only accounted for 0.26% of the global total. — China is neither the world’s largest developer of chips nor the world’s largest maker
Read MoreThere are plenty of reasons to devote oneself to the care of houseplants — after all, a room full of bright, glossy-leaved plants can be a joy to behold, and that’s not even one of the more tangible benefits they bring. But as any green thumb knows, there’s a fine line between a healthy, vibrant
Read MoreTabby Kinder / Financial Times: Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen’s board after the startup offered a “pay to play” deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round — Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Washington Post: The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased — ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing — Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns …
Read MoreApple’s M2-powered Macbook Air is on sale for $1,049. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Just in case you woke up this morning feeling like spending a thousand bucks, we’re starting off the weekend with a terrific deal on Apple’s latest MacBook Air. Right now, the M2-powered model with 8GB of RAM, an
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft has once again accidentally offered the Windows 11 upgrade to PCs with unsupported hardware. Twitter user PhantomOcean3 spotted the mistake earlier this week, where Microsoft was showing fullscreen prompts on unsupported hardware. Microsoft has now explained the mistake, noting that PCs that didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11 weren’t able
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 233rd edition is here, with a hefty Pixel Fold rumor, a creepy (or cool) new Bixby feature, the price of eggs, and more… Happy weekend! It’s Andy here, unusually finding myself on Weekly
Read MoreWelcome to the 473rd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google rolled out an update this week that sort of fixes an Android Auto problem. You can’t normally open Google Maps on your phone when Android Auto is active. This latest Google Maps update makes it possible
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22, claims users will be able to replace its battery in around 5 minutes and screen in 20 minutes using a kit from iFixit — HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen,
Read MoreImage: Comedy Central Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Paramount for allegedly “stealing” South Park content it claims it should have the exclusive streaming rights to, as reported earlier by Variety. In a lawsuit filed on Friday, HBO Max’s parent company claims Paramount worked with South Park’s creators and its MTV subsidiary to “divert as much
Read MoreModern WiFi-enabled microcontrollers have made it affordable and easy to monitor everything from local weather information to electricity usage with typically no more than a few dollars worth of hardware and a little bit of programming knowledge. Monitoring one’s own utility data can be a little bit more difficult without interfering with the metering equipment,
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22, claims users will be able to replace its battery in around 5 minutes and screen in 20 minutes using a kit from iFixit — HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen,
Read MoreImage: Comedy Central Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Paramount for allegedly “stealing” South Park content it claims it should have the exclusive streaming rights to, as reported earlier by Variety. In a lawsuit filed on Friday, HBO Max’s parent company claims Paramount worked with South Park’s creators and its MTV subsidiary to “divert as much
Read MoreAs Tom quipped on the podcast this week, if you have an idea for a program you’d like to write, all you have to do is look around on GitHub and you’ll find it already coded up for you. (Or StackOverflow, or…) And that’s probably pretty close to true, at least for really trivial bits
Read MoreScott Chipolina / Financial Times: Elliptic: pro-Ukraine causes received $200M+ in crypto donations in the last year, with $80M+ sent directly to Ukraine’s government; Russian entities got ~$5M — Plus updates on all the big names, including Binance and FTX … Crypto’s impact on geopolitical issues does not often make for uplifting reading.
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: News Corp says attackers behind a data breach the company disclosed in February 2022 gained access in February 2020, stealing some personal data including SSNs — Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access …
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