Characters from Fortnite. | Image: Epic Games Epic Games’ annual State of Unreal presentation will take place on March 22nd, the company announced on Wednesday. The event and many additional sessions about Epic’s hugely popular Unreal Engine are happening alongside the Game Developers Conference, which is scheduled for March 20th through 24th. Epic is keeping
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X75 modem, adding expanded 5G support, carrier aggregation, upgraded software, and more, rolling out in devices in H2 2023 — Qualcomm is warming up for Mobile World Congress by announcing its newest modem: the Snapdragon X75.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: US DOJ has ramped up work in recent months on a potential antitrust complaint into whether Apple has monopoly power through the App Store and iOS — Justice Department is adding litigators, seeking more data and studying Kanter’s possible role in its investigation
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Read MoreUnderneath thousands of feet of Thwaites Glacier’s solid ice, a bot filmed peculiar features, where melting is much faster. It’s an ominous sign for rising sea levels.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Microsoft is slowly scaling its limited preview of Bing with ChatGPT. The company is prioritizing those who have signed up on the waiting list and have Bing and Edge as their default search engine and browser. A Microsoft executive says the company “intends” to bring Bing with ChatGPT to
Read MoreWe’ve seen many DIY headphones projects on these fair pages over the years, but not many that are quite as DIY as the Ploopy Headphones. What makes this project interesting is the sheer depth of the construction, with every single part being made from what we might call base materials. Materials such as 3D printer
Read MoreJenny did an Ask Hackaday article earlier this month, all about the quest for a cheap computer-based audio mixer. The first attempt didn’t go so well, with a problem that many of us are familiar with: Linux applications really doesn’t like using multiple audio devices at the same time. Jenny ran into this issue, and
Read MorePast years have yielded very few options when looking for the best foldable phones. Samsung has, pretty much, had its exclusive pick of the premium market, but that’s all changing this year. Having spent time perfecting their designs on home soil, Chinese brands are ready for Western prime time, including OPPO. You’ve no doubt seen
Read MoreAn Israeli startup targets software code vulnerabilities with advanced agentless filtering technology.
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Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Superplastic, which creates “synthetic” influencers and other virtual characters, raised $20M led by Amazon’s Alexa Fund and plans to work with Amazon Studios — Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram …
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Oligo Security, which offers security and observability tools to find and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, raised $28M in seed and Series A — Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect …
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft opened up the waitlist for its Bing AI preview last week, and after 1 million people signed up in 48 hours the company is now explaining why it’s taking some time to unlock it for millions of people. Microsoft is testing the Bing AI service in 169 countries around the world, and
Read MoreKatharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: After requests by regulators, the European Commission will review Adobe’s $20B Figma deal, citing antitrust concerns, despite being under its revenue threshold — Adobe Inc.’s proposed $20 billion takeover of design firm Figma Inc. risks a lengthy European Union probe after the bloc’s …
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: FTX lawyers and hedge fund Modulo are negotiating the return of Sam Bankman-Fried’s $400M investment in Modulo, currently sitting in a JPMorgan account — The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Descope raised a $53M seed from Lightspeed, GGV, and others to build a “developer-first” authentication and user management service — Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard.
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Read MoreA market analysis firm has conducted a bill-of-materials analysis on Apple’s latest flagship smartphone. Although the base model of the iPhone 14 Pro Max phone starts at $1,100, it costs less than half that to make the thing. According to this firm’s analysis, the total cost of materials is $464 for the base model with
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon, showing how AI can “hallucinate” to convey emotions, not facts — This was originally published as a Stratechery Update — Look, this is going to sound crazy.
Read MoreThe immense weight of the electric Hummer prompted a crash test expert to stage a bizarre experiment—and wonder if EVs will make roads more dangerous.
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Read MoreThe face of a man who will be increasing interest rates again. | Image: Julia Nikhinson/Getty Images You notice that flop sweat the tech industry has been in lately? Welcome to the new economic environment. In November 2021, in response to inflation, the Fed announced it would hike interest rates. It’s not done, either —
Read MoreThe FDA’s new anti-obesity medications, like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, sound like silver bullets. Bariatric surgery did once too.
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