It isn’t clear to us how [mrsylvain59] came into possession of a late-model piece of military gear from the German airforce, but we enjoyed watching the teardown below anyway. According to the documentation, the thing has a huge price tag, although we all know that the military usually pays top dollar for various reasons, so
Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Lincoln, Nebraska-based Spreetail, which offers logistics, customer support, and content services to e-commerce brands, raised $208M — Nebraska is not known for large funding announcements, but that did not hinder Spreetail from securing some serious funding.
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: London-based Metomic, which uses AI to detect data leaks in SaaS apps like Slack and Jira, raised a $20M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners — As more companies shift to work-from-home or hybrid environments, it becomes increasingly important to make sure that employees …
Read MoreAlex Pasternack / Fast Company: Experts say combining deepfake audio and video, virtual avatars, and large language models like GPT could turbocharge the work of scammers and propagandists — Dozens of startups are using generative AI to make shiny happy virtual people for fun and profit. Chatbots add a complicated new dimension.
Read MoreCredit: Evan Blass The launch date of the Motorola Razr 2023 has leaked. The phone is expected to be one of the two foldables Motorola is planning this year. It could launch well ahead of the competing Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5. Motorola is expected to launch two new foldable phones this year. One of
Read MoreThe amount of information the humble seven-segment display can convey is surprising. There are the ten numerals, dead-ringers or reasonable approximations for about half the alphabet, and even a few not-quite-canonical symbols. But when you put 12,288 segments to work, you get all that and much more. Behold Sea of Segments, an art piece by
Read MoreIf you’re in the market for a compact Android phone, you’ve probably come to the realization that your options are fairly limited. You can opt for something like the Asus Zenfone 9, or go for the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S23. Google also has a “small” flagship in the form of the Pixel 7 —
Read MoreThe amount of information the humble seven-segment display can convey is surprising. There are the ten numerals, dead-ringers or reasonable approximations for about half the alphabet, and even a few not-quite-canonical symbols. But when you put 12,288 segments to work, you get all that and much more. Behold Sea of Segments, an art piece by
Read MoreImage: KO_OP Sony’s first State of Play of 2023 gave fans a little bit of everything. Some neat VR games were shown off. Resident Evil 4 made a brief appearance, along with a new puzzle game from the makers of Tetris Effect, a heaping helping of the Suicide Squad, and more. Here are some of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Binance.US’s proposed deal to purchase the assets from the collapsed cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital is facing scrutiny from federal and state regulators, as reported earlier by CoinDesk. In a set of court filings submitted on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York’s financial regulator expressed
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has confirmed that it’s experimenting with a higher-quality 1080p option for Premium subscribers after some Reddit users noticed a new “1080p Premium” option in the quality settings menu. The option is currently available to “a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers,” according to Paul Pennington, a spokesperson
Read MoreBloomberg: The US says the focus of its $39B chip making fund, a part of the $52B CHIPS Act, is on strengthening national security, not subsidizing struggling companies — As President Joe Biden’s administration prepares to accept requests for $39 billion in funding to jumpstart US production of microchips …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has confirmed that it’s experimenting with a higher-quality 1080p option for Premium subscribers after some Reddit users noticed a new “1080p Premium” option in the quality settings menu. The option is currently available to “a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers,” according to Paul Pennington, a spokesperson
Read MoreThe Emporía EV Charging Station is a Level 2 Electric vehicle charger that charges any EV — up to 40 amps. It comes with a 24-foot cable with an SAE J1772 connector. 22″ NEMA 14-50P or up to 48 amps with hardwired installation. Whether you want a charger now or you want to guarantee you
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav touted the success of the company’s turbulent megamerger during the company’s earnings call on Thursday, with repeated assurances that things are “working” — even though the company axed several shows and lost another $2.1 billion over the past few months, according to
Read MoreBloomberg: Source: the DOJ is preparing to file an antitrust suit to block Adobe’s Figma acquisition as soon as next month; Adobe says it expects to close the deal in 2023 — The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Adobe Inc.’s $20 billion acquisition of startup Figma Inc., people familiar with
Read MoreImage: New Line Cinema Warner Bros. Discovery will be working on “multiple Lord of the Rings movies” with the production company behind the original film trilogy, New Line Cinema. The deal was announced by Warner Bros.’ CEO David Zaslav during the company’s Q4 earnings call on Thursday, though he didn’t provide any additional details about
Read MoreTabnine, maker of an AI-powered coding assistant for developers, has launched a tool to provide automatic code testing. Introduced February 22 and now in beta, Tabnine Test Generation uses artificial intelligence to generate unit tests for code automatically, with the goals of ensuring fewer bugs and more stability in code. Supported programming languages include Python,
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: A reporter says he used an AI-generated replica of a voice to get past the voice verification system of UK’s Lloyds bank and accessed an account’s information — Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it’s possible to
Read MoreImage: Capcom Capcom just released a new trailer for the Resident Evil 4 remake as part of Thursday’s PlayStation State of Play presentation, and to me, it’s looking more and more like it will be an excellent recreation of an all-time classic. The trailer is chock-full of iconic moments from the original game, making me
Read MoreImage: Rocksteady Games During Sony’s first State of Play of 2023, we were offered an extended look at Rocksteady’s first game in a handful of years — Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. In Kill The Justice League, the titular doomed heroes are tasked with saving Metropolis from a Justice League corrupted by Brainiac. Despite
Read MoreMacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Block reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $4.65B, vs. $4.61B est., Square gross profit up 22% YoY to $801M, and Cash App gross profit up 64% YoY to $848M — – Block stock rose slightly in extended trading after the payments company reported fourth-quarter revenue and gross profit that beat
Read MoreBrian Fung / CNN: Filing: DOJ seeks court sanctions against Google in its antitrust suit, citing Google’s policy of deleting certain employee chats automatically after 24 hours — ” data-check-event-based-preview= “” data-network-id=”” data-details=””> — Google should face court sanctions over …
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Doc: NFT startup Dapper Labs, which raised $600M+, lays off 20% of staff, after laying off ~134 staff, or ~22% of it’s workforce, in November 2022 — – Dapper Labs lays off another 20% of staff. — CEO says company is restructuring and has a “strong cash position.”
Read MoreAlmost all applications contain at least some open source code, and 48% of all code bases examined by Synopsys researchers contained high-risk vulnerabilities.
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