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Google tests blocking news content in Search for fewer than 4% of Canadian users for about five weeks, a potential response to Canada’s proposed Online News Act (Mickey Djuric/The Canadian Press News)

Mickey Djuric / The Canadian Press News: Google tests blocking news content in Search for fewer than 4% of Canadian users for about five weeks, a potential response to Canada’s proposed Online News Act — Google blocking news for some Canadians in test — OTTAWA – Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news

An Amiga Mouse, The Modern Way

When we recently featured an Amiga upgrade project, [EmberHeavyIndustries ] was prompted to share one of their own, an adapter to allow a modern USB HID mouse to be used with the Commodore quadrature mouse port. The first mice simply transferred the rotation of the ball through rollers to switches or optical sensors which passed

Samsung expands Bixby Text Call, which answers calls via text-to-speech, to English and unveils Custom Voice Creator, which clones the user’s voice, in Korean (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Samsung expands Bixby Text Call, which answers calls via text-to-speech, to English and unveils Custom Voice Creator, which clones the user’s voice, in Korean — AI voice clones are already being deployed in podcasts and video games, but how long until they can be harnessed directly by the general public?

Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet and some of its tech and staff will be consolidated into Google Research robotics efforts (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet and some of its tech and staff will be consolidated into Google Research robotics efforts — The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and

Sources: Chinese Luxshare took over AR development team for Apple’s headset in Shanghai from Taiwan’s Pegatron; Foxconn to make second gen, mass market version (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese Luxshare took over AR development team for Apple’s headset in Shanghai from Taiwan’s Pegatron; Foxconn to make second gen, mass market version — Reliance on a Chinese supplier for first-gen gadget a first for iPhone maker — TAIPEI — Apple has for the first time tapped …

Laser Scanner Upgraded to use PCB Motor

[Rik]’s Hexastorm laser scanner project originally used a discrete polygon mirror controller+motor module from Sharp to spin a prism. But the scanner head was a bit difficult to assemble and had a lot of messy wires. This has all been replaced by a single board featuring a PCB-printed motor, based on the work of [Carl Bugeja]. The results

A look at Twitter v. Taamneh and the US Supreme Court’s struggle to determine whether social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at Twitter v. Taamneh and the US Supreme Court’s struggle to determine whether social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism — The US Supreme Court struggled to determine when social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism as the justices heard …

You can now play the original Half-Life with beautiful beams of ray-traced light

Look at that beautiful crowbar. | Screenshot: Valve via game mod by sultim_t It’s time to dust off your trusty crowbar and see it in a new light, complete with colorful reflections. A PC mod of the original Half-Life from 1998 that adds realtime path-traced ray tracing to the game is now available, and it’s

Leaked iPhone 15 CAD files reveal a larger 6.2-inch display, Dynamic Island, a USB-C charging port, and more, after iPhone 15 Pro CAD files leaked last week (Max Weinbach/9to5Mac)

Max Weinbach / 9to5Mac: Leaked iPhone 15 CAD files reveal a larger 6.2-inch display, Dynamic Island, a USB-C charging port, and more, after iPhone 15 Pro CAD files leaked last week — Apple’s iPhone 15 is still months away from being announced, but we have some exciting news to share with you today.

Google is still trying to fix Gmail’s Outlook syncing issues

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you typically access your Hotmail or Outlook account using the Gmail app, there’s a reason you probably haven’t seen any new emails today: Google says it’s investigating an issue it’s having syncing with Microsoft’s servers. According to Google’s status page, the company has been working to figure

Microsoft .NET 8 bolsters Linux support

.NET 8, the next planned version of the Microsoft’s open source software development platform, is set to emphasize Linux accommodations as well as cloud development and containers. A first preview of .NET 8 is available for download at dot.microsoft.com for Windows, Linux, and macOS, Microsoft said on February 21. A long-term support (LTS) release that

The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

A reproduction of the cover page and the second page of Zarya of the Dawn, from the US Copyright Office’s letter. | Image: Zarya of the Dawn — Kris Kashtanova / Midjourney The US Copyright Office has reconsidered the copyright protection it granted last fall to Kristina Kashtanova for her comic book Zarya of the

Nvidia is still making billions in Q4 2023 despite a giant drop in PC demand

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia just reported its fourth quarter and full-year earnings, and it’s not exactly rosy — at least compared to pandemic highs. Last year, Nvidia had record quarterly revenue of $7.64 billion, including $3 billion in pure profit. For Q4 of its fiscal 2023, the company forecast that it

Notion’s now letting anyone use its AI features

You can use Notion AI to generate text from scratch, and to re-write or summarize existing text. | Screenshot: Mitchell Clark / The Verge You can now try out the AI features of the Notion note-taking app, which are meant to help you write and refine text, summarize key points in existing notes, and generate

Here are the dates for the major Steam sales in 2023

The Verge Valve has shared a schedule of when the big sales on Steam will take place in 2023, meaning you now have some advance notice about when you should get ready to open your wallet to snap up some great deals. As established last year, there will be a major sale every season, so

Letter: the US Copyright Office says AI-generated images in a graphic novel, created using Midjourney, should not have been granted copyright protection (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Letter: the US Copyright Office says AI-generated images in a graphic novel, created using Midjourney, should not have been granted copyright protection — Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection …

Tech Trends Shaping Industry in 2023

Digital transformation encompasses all spheres of life and verticals. While the digital world is increasingly connecting with the real one and new challenges arise. DigitialMara has prepared the observation of emerging tech trends. Among them are industry cloud platforms, autonomous systems, Metaverse, Web3, and multi-experience. Businesses strive to add sustainability to operational processes and deliver

Nvidia reports Q4 revenue down 21% YoY to $6.05B vs. $6B est., Data Center revenue up 11% YoY to $3.62B, and Q1 revenue guidance above estimates; NVDA is up 7%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia reports Q4 revenue down 21% YoY to $6.05B vs. $6B est., Data Center revenue up 11% YoY to $3.62B, and Q1 revenue guidance above estimates; NVDA is up 7%+ — – Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday after the company reported slightly higher revenue and net income than Wall Street expected

European Space Agency Launches 12-Month Lunar Farming Study

Artist’s rendering of a Solsys system that mechanically sorts regolith before dissolving nutrients into water. (Image: Solsys/ESA)The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Wednesday that it’s launched a new project that will help determine the feasibility of farming on the moon. The project, “Enabling Lunar In-Situ Agriculture by Producing Fertilizer from Beneficiated Regolith,” will study various

Razer launches new Blade 15, and it’s still 16:9

Unlike the Blade 16, the 2023 Blade 15 keeps the same aspect ratio we’ve seen on Blades past. | Image: Razer Razer has launched a new Blade 15 model refreshed with Intel’s 13th Gen processors and Nvidia’s RTX 4000 GPUs. The company announced a 16-inch Razer Blade a few weeks ago, and some assumed that

Stripe expands Tap to Pay to Android in six countries, supporting payment methods via Google Pay, Mastercard, Visa, and American Express debit and credit cards (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Stripe expands Tap to Pay to Android in six countries, supporting payment methods via Google Pay, Mastercard, Visa, and American Express debit and credit cards — Stripe, the payments and financial services upstart, made waves in the world of mobile commerce last year when it became Apple’s …

Digital Replica of Antique Weather Monitoring Instrument

Computers and digital sensors have allowed for the collection and aggregation of data barely possible to imagine to anyone in the instrumentation scene even sixty years ago. Before that, things like weather stations, seismometers, level sensors, and basically any other way of gathering real data about the world would have been performed with an analog

Netflix’s new NFL docuseries starring Patrick Mahomes debuts this summer

Photo by Cooper Neill / Getty Images Netflix is getting into football. On Wednesday, the streaming giant announced a new sports docuseries, Quarterback, that will focus on three NFL quarterbacks: Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs (who just collected his second Super Bowl win and second Super Bowl MVP award); Kirk Cousins of the

Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots

The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.

eBay reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.47B est., gross merchandise volume down 12% YoY to $18.2B, and a Q1 2023 revenue guidance above estimates (Tiyashi Datta/Reuters)

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: eBay reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.47B est., gross merchandise volume down 12% YoY to $18.2B, and a Q1 2023 revenue guidance above estimates — Ecommerce company EBay Inc (EBAY.O) on Wednesday forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on hopes …

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