Good morning! One of my favorite things to do these days is to play bird videos for my cat via the laptop. She can’t grasp that they aren’t real and winds up looking for the critters behind the screen. Anyway, we’ve got quite a few stories to cover today, so let’s get on with it.
Read MoreThe OnePlus 11 is now globally available, bringing upgraded ultrawide and telephoto cameras, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, and a much better software support promise to the masses. You may not notice too many visual differences from the OnePlus 10T, but like its predecessor, you will want to get a case for your new
Read MoreWhen the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University expanded in the 1970s, this created a massive issue for certain individuals who now found that they had to walk quite a distance to the one single Coke machine. To their dismay, they’d now find that after braving a few flights of stairs, they’d find that
Read MoreJillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Twitter’s voluntary report to EU regulators on how it was tackling disinformation lacked data and didn’t include commitments on empowering fact-checkers — Twitter Inc. was the only tech platform that didn’t send a complete report to the European Union detailing how it was tackling disinformation …
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority Android 14 has a new safety feature that protects against memory bugs. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro don’t have compatible hardware to support the feature. We might see it debut on the Pixel 8 series before it reaches other Android phones. Google has released the first Android
Read MoreForbes: Google’s fraught history with AI ethics, a backlash after Duplex’s unveiling, and a talent drain has left the company playing catch up with OpenAI and Microsoft — With Bard, its newly launched “experimental conversational AI service,” Google is scrambling to ship AI products.
Read MoreBloomberg: Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US” — Coinbase Global Inc.’s head Brian Armstrong escalated his war of words with the Securities …
Read MoreNicholas Megaw / Financial Times: Shanghai-based lidar maker Hesai raised $190M in its Nasdaq IPO, becoming the first Chinese company to raise $100M+ in the US since October 2021, per Dealogic — Hesai Technology is largest China-based company to go public in US since 2021 — A Shanghai-based maker of sensors for cars …
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Netflix is expanding its account and password-sharing restrictions to Canada and three other countries. Adding a sub-account for someone who doesn’t stay with you will now cost you extra in those regions. After a test run in Latin America, Netflix’s new password-sharing restrictions have come to Canada and three other countries, including New
Read MoreNew York Times: Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too — Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives.
Read MoreForbes: Google’s fraught history with AI ethics, a backlash after Duplex’s unveiling, and a talent drain has left the company playing catch up with OpenAI and Microsoft — With Bard, its newly launched “experimental conversational AI service,” Google is scrambling to ship AI products.
Read MoreIs your Venmo account frozen? We can understand how frustrating, or even scary, a situation like this can be. After all, this is money we’re dealing with. We’re sure you’ll want to resolve the issue as soon as possible, which is why we’ve put together this guide to unfreeze your Venmo account. Read more: Is
Read MoreDid you mistakenly send a Venmo payment you shouldn’t have? Maybe you paid the wrong person. Today we’ll talk about how to cancel a Venmo payment, as well as the ins and outs of dealing with such a situation. Read more: Link to a related high-value Evergreen post
Read MoreThe news is full of speculation about chatbots like GPT-3, and even if you don’t care, you are probably the kind of person that people will ask about it. The problem is, the popular press has no idea what’s going on with these things. They aren’t sentient or alive, despite some claims to the contrary.
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: The CISA publishes a recovery script for the ESXiArgs ransomware, which affected more than 3,800 organizations in the US, France, Italy, and other countries — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a process for recovering files for organizations affected …
Read MoreBlocking a sender in Microsoft Outlook can help reduce the number of unwanted emails in your inbox. However, if you’ve accidentally blocked a sender or no longer want to block them, you can easily unblock them in just a few steps. Here’s how to unblock a sender in the Microsoft Outlook desktop app and the
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, using AI in a search engine, the competition with Google, and more — I’m coming to you from Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Bing search engine …
Read MoreMichael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Many Twitter users reported issues with the site on Wednesday, and couldn’t tweet, except via an API or by scheduling tweets; the issues seem to be almost fixed — Shortly after Twitter launched its huge increase in max character count to 4,000 today, many users aren’t able to tweet this afternoon.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The latest Nintendo Direct had all the big names — well, aside from Mario. But we got a fresh trailer for the next Zelda game, a surprise launch of the original Metroid Prime, a release date for Pikmin 4, and the addition of Game Boy games to the
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The developer preview of Android 14 has rolled out. Android 14 DP1 has a hidden “apps installed in the background” menu. The feature lists every app installed in the background and allows you to delete them. If there’s anything we can all agree on, it’s that bloatware can be
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter appears to be recovering from having technical issues that prevented people from tweeting, though problems with DMs, and accessing TweetDeck are still seemingly persisting. Downdetector reports that the problems started around 4:30PM ET, and the unfettered ability to tweet came back around an hour and a half
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: Meta says it has completed its acquisition of Within, originally announced in October 2021, after a judge denied the FTC’s request to stop the deal — The held-up acquisition has gone through, adding a major fitness platform to Meta’s toolkit. — As the VR headset race heats up in 2023 …
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Disney reports 161.8M Disney+ global subscribers in Q1, down 1% QoQ, its first drop since launching in 2020; Hulu had 48M and ESPN+ had 24.9M, both up 2% QoQ — Overall, Disney posted revenue of $23.51 billion (up 8%) and adjusted earnings per share of 99 cents for the quarter ended
Read MoreThese days, humans have gotten all fancy-schmancy with their gas and electric water heaters. Heck, some are even using heat pumps to do the work as efficiently as possible. [HowToLou] got back to basics instead, with his simple wood-fired water heater design. The design is straightforward, featuring 100ft of quarter-inch copper tubing wrapped directly around
Read More@twitterdev: Twitter says its free APIs will work until February 13, when it launches a low-usage plan for $100/month and a limited free plan, and deprecates its Premium API — We have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you can continue to build and innovate with us. We’re excited to announce
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