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Read More“Loab” was just the beginning. Artificial intelligence will soon dredge up all kinds of secret fascinations and fears.
Read MoreSecurity researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people’s messages, photos, and call history.
Read More(Image: Chevrolet)For better or worse, touch-screen displays are almost as inherent to auto design as seatbelts and rear-view mirrors. Automakers are increasingly incorporating touch screens into base models as analog interfaces become a symbol of the past. But as ubiquitous and intuitive as touch screens have become, they carry a caveat: the dreaded fingerprint. General
Read More(Image: Altan Adem/AFP via Getty Images)Efforts are still underway to locate and rescue people trapped under rubble following Turkey’s devastating series of earthquakes. Though the death toll across Turkey (as well as Syria’s and Lebanon’s borders) is estimated to have crossed 46,000, and with a new 6.3-magnitude aftershock just yesterday, search-and-rescue teams are continuing to
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Read MoreMatt Burgess / Wired: Building on ForcedEntry, Trellix researchers find now-fixed bugs in iOS and macOS, which focus on NSPredicate and could let attackers bypass Apple’s sandbox — Security researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people’s messages, photos, and call history.
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Microsoft partners with Web3 infrastructure company Ankr to offer blockchain node services on Azure’s marketplace, letting users deploy smart contracts and more — – Tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Ankr to offer a blockchain node service for enterprise clients.
Read MoreRobert Barnes / Washington Post: A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, stemming from an Islamic State attack in Paris in 2015, and Twitter v. Taamneh on Wednesday — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that argues tech companies should be
Read MorePart of the ruins in which the toilet was found. (Image: China Academy of Social Sciences)We often consider flushing toilets a modern marvel, rivaled only by other essential comforts such as electricity and on-demand hot water. But while we may have perfected the flushing toilet, it’s anything but new technology. Archaeologists in China have uncovered
Read MoreMia Sato / The Verge: TikTok plans to let more researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access “public, anonymized” data through its API, after testing in November 2022 — TikTok will let researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access public data, the company announced today …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft and Sony’s gaming chiefs are both preparing to meet with EU regulators today in a showdown over Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The closed-door hearing in Brussels will see Xbox chief Phil Spencer and other senior Microsoft executives argue the case for the $68.7 billion deal to proceed, with PlayStation
Read MoreA man says that his Apple Watch saved his life after it detected unusual heart rate readings. He was later found to have severe internal bleeding.
Read MorePowered by obsessed film buffs, it’s a crowdsourced juggernaut that’s older than Google and Wikipedia. Now AI is threatening to steal the starring role.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon’s stock decline over the past year has roiled its stock-heavy compensation plans, causing pay in 2023 to drop by 15%-50% below Amazon’s targets — Stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Nothing Phone 1 has started receiving the stable Android 13 update. It comes with Nothing OS 1.5.2 and brings a host of improvements to the phone. Nothing has since confirmed the release on its blog. Update: February 21, 2023 (6:26 AM ET): Nothing has finally made it official, publishing
Read MoreA new kind of “edgeless” engineered tissue can fit any irregular shape, paving the way for hand and face grafts that look and move better.
Read MoreIt’s fair to say that among the new product launches we see all the time, anything new from the folks at Raspberry Pi claims our attention. It’s not that their signature Linux single-board computers (SBCs) are necessarily the best or the fastest hardware on paper, but that they’re the ones with meaningful decade-plus support. Add
Read MoreJonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: Sony rolls out its GT Sophy AI to Gran Turismo 7, an experiment announced in February 2022, letting players race against Sophy in GT Sophy Race Together mode — GT Sophy beat the world’s best players in 2022; now you can race it yourself. — Last year, Sony AI
Read MorePatrick McGee / Financial Times: A look at Apple’s smartphone dominance among Gen Z, who make up an estimated 34% of all US iPhone owners, as Samsung and Android struggle against iMessage — Younger Americans prefer an iPhone over Android by huge margins, creating unusual pressure over how they communicate
Read MorePowered by obsessed film buffs, it’s a crowdsourced juggernaut that’s older than Google and Wikipedia. Now AI is threatening to steal the starring role.
Read MoreSoftware developers who have been caught up in the recent surge of tech layoffs can expect to find plenty of job opportunities—they just might have to look beyond tech. Career experts say hiring remains steady in transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and other sectors. All are looking for developers with the skills to create innovative products and
Read MoreIt’s always healthy to take a critical view of any new technology or approach, and cloud finops (financial operations) is no different. As we’re learning about what finops does well, we’re also learning about what needs to be worked on. While some people will find a great deal of value from finops, mostly by doing
Read MoreKarlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Ampere: streamers will spend $8.5B on sports rights across 17 countries in 2023, up 64% YoY; DAZN accounted for 54% of streamers’ 2022 sports rights spending — Subscription OTT services’ global spend on sports rights in 17 major markets around the world will reach $8.5 billion in 2023 — up 64%
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple launches an unlisted Car Key Tests app on the App Store, letting manufacturers test integration with Apple’s Car Key feature, announced in July 2020 — Apple’s Car Key feature was originally announced in July 2020 as a way to unlock your car using the Wallet app on your iPhone.
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