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Bird ends its operations in San Francisco saying the city’s fines are five to six times higher than any other city and “has the most onerous regulations” (Heather Knight/San Francisco Chronicle)

Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle: Bird ends its operations in San Francisco saying the city’s fines are five to six times higher than any other city and “has the most onerous regulations” — If San Francisco City Hall had a Department of the Nonsensical, it would be a very robust agency touching all corners

Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long says she warned law enforcement of crypto frauds beforehand and blames regulators for “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” (Caitlin Long)

Caitlin Long: Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long says she warned law enforcement of crypto frauds beforehand and blames regulators for “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” — Before 1940, investing in mutual funds was like wading into a cesspool. The same is true today of crypto.

Microsoft says Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic — Microsoft says it’s implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails

Fail of The Week: Epic 312 Weeks Of Fixing A Broken Project

If a hacker guardian angel exists, then we’re sure he or she was definitely AWOL for six long years from [Aaron Eiche]’s life as he worked on perfecting and making his Christmas Countdown clock. [Aaron] started this binary clock project in 2016, and only managed to make it work as expected in 2022 after a

Microsoft plans to increase the price of using Bing Search APIs by up to 10x starting on May 1, including for image and news search, and adds APIs with LLMs (Pradeep Viswanathan/BigTechWire)

Pradeep Viswanathan / BigTechWire: Microsoft plans to increase the price of using Bing Search APIs by up to 10x starting on May 1, including for image and news search, and adds APIs with LLMs — Microsoft Bing Search APIs allows developers to build web-connected apps and services that find webpages, images, news, videos, and more

Google says users will be able to manage tasks created across Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Assistant from within Google Tasks, starting in March 2023 (Sheena Vasani/The Verge)

Sheena Vasani / The Verge: Google says users will be able to manage tasks created across Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Assistant from within Google Tasks, starting in March 2023 — Beginning May 22nd, Google will automatically move reminders created in the Google Assistant and Calendar apps to Tasks …

OpenSea briefly removes marketplace fees to compete with no-fee marketplace Blur, which topped OpenSea in daily trading volume on February 15 for the first time (Cam Thompson/CoinDesk)

Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: OpenSea briefly removes marketplace fees to compete with no-fee marketplace Blur, which topped OpenSea in daily trading volume on February 15 for the first time — The top NFT marketplace’s policy shift stems from competition with popular zero-fee marketplace Blur.

Bird ends its operations in San Francisco saying the city’s fines are five to six times higher than any other city and “has the most onerous regulations” (Heather Knight/San Francisco Chronicle)

Google Cloud Flex Agreements woo users during a slowdown in demand

As macroeconomic uncertainty continues to slow enterprise spending on public cloud services, Google Cloud is offering a new type of contract, dubbed Flex Agreements, to incentivize enterprises to move workloads to its data centers. As the name suggests, Flex Agreements offers enterprises the option to migrate their workloads to Google’s data centers with no up-front

Microsoft limits Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft says it’s implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users. Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session after the search engine was seen insulting users, lying to them, and emotionally

Google Cloud Flex Agreements woo users during a slowdown in demand

Sources: Twitter plans to unveil a new policy that only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer)

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Sources: Twitter plans to unveil a new policy that only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication — NEW: Twitter is planning to unveil a new policy as soon as this afternoon that only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication, according to company sources.

Looking ahead in the Energy Sector

It’s fairly accepted that the use of fossil fuels is damaging our environment. Moving away from those energy sources and transitioning to renewable, sustainable energy sources is humankind’s best chance at slowing or even reversing the damage already caused. This past year also saw an energy crisis unfold in much of Europe. Russia’s invasion of

Amazon’s Alexa app gets more Sonos-y with new multiroom audio controls

Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon is making its multiroom audio platform more convenient to control with your phone. A recent update to the Alexa mobile app introduced a new capability that lets users manage and move their music between Echo devices (or groups of multiple speakers) within the app itself. (Previously, you needed

The NBA app is going to let you digitally possess a live player

Photo by Amanda Loman / Getty Images The NBA app is getting a way to overlay yourself on another player in a live game so that it looks like you are that player. Yes, it’s as strange as it sounds. Here’s how it works — at least, as shown in an on-stage demo with NBA

Sources: Blockchain.com, which lent $270M to 3AC, is attempting to sell off assets, as it seeks to raise capital even at a severely lowered valuation (Decrypt)

Decrypt: Sources: Blockchain.com, which lent $270M to 3AC, is attempting to sell off assets, as it seeks to raise capital even at a severely lowered valuation — The crypto exchange and wallet provider had major exposure to Three Arrows Capital and conducted more layoffs last month.

Google’s long-awaited Tasks and Reminders consolidation starts in March

Illustration: The Verge Putting a timetable on the move it announced in September, Google says users will be able to manage all tasks created across various Google apps from Google Tasks starting in March. Beginning May 22nd, Google will automatically move reminders created in the Google Assistant and Calendar apps to Tasks, though users can

F-22 May Have Shot Down Harmless Ham Radio Balloon Over Canada

Less than 50 percent of F-22 Raptors are available and ready for service. The recent hyper-focus on the Chinese “spy balloon” that drifted over the US earlier this month has everyone gazing skyward. While they were looking, the US Air Force spotted a few more suspicious objects, including one that it and Canadian forces shot

Giant 3D Printed Excavator Is Awesome, But Needs Work

Many of us adored big construction machinery as children. Once we got past the cute, tiny age, it became uncool to gasp with shock and awe at diggers and bulldozers for some reason . [Ivan Miranda] still digs the big rigs, though, and built himself a giant 3D printed excavator that looks like brilliant fun.

Microsoft offers Visual Studio IDE extension for .NET upgrades

Microsoft is previewing a Visual Studio IDE extension to upgrade older .NET-based applications to the latest versions of the .NET software development platform. Downloadable from the Visual Studio Marketplace and called .NET Upgrade Assistant, the extension works with .NET Framework or .NET Core web and desktop apps to move apps to .NET 6, introduced in

T-Mobile just gave its customers Apple TV MLS Season Pass for free

T-Mobile has today announced that it is giving all of its subscribers ree access to Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass.

Asus Unveils Beefy W790 Motherboards for Sapphire Rapids Workstations

Now that Intel has announced its workstation-grade Sapphire Rapids CPUs, we’re beginning to see the arrival of the motherboards they will plug into. The first out of the gate is Asus, with a pair of “Pro” motherboards containing more ports and connections than the West Coast. The company has unveiled its Ace and Sage SE

Like Chording But Not

Repetitive strain injuries (RSI) can be a real pain. You’ve got a shiny new laptop, and everything’s going smoothly, but suddenly you can’t use it without agonizing (as in typing-speed reducing) pain caused by years of keyboard bashing or just plain bad posture. All of us hacker types will likely have or will experience this

The Apple Watch could be banned in the US unless President Biden steps in

The Apple Watch could be banned in the United States after infringing upon AliveCor’s patents — unless President Biden gets involved.

M3gan’s unrated cut is coming to Peacock

M3gan, the doll. | Image: Universal The theatrical version of Universal’s M3gan was already a delightfully deranged romp as is, but Peacock’s just called dibs on an unrated cut that might just make you want to check the movie out again just to see how much wilder it could be. Universal announced today that both

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