Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The new AI-powered version of Bing can produce hilarious resignation letters, information on current news events, and mistakes. Continue reading…
Read MoreWe love LEGO here at Hackaday, but did you know that LEGO spun off a parallel product line made for architectural models called Modulex? [Peter Dibble] takes us on a deep dive through the history of Modulex, starting with Godtfred Kirk Christiansen needing a better way to model actual buildings after trying to design a house
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is expanding its paid password sharing to subscribers in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain starting Wednesday, the company announced in a blog post. The company had already started testing the change — in a few different forms — in some countries in Latin America. Now, Netflix
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company’s AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor — For the past few years, Google’s AR and VR efforts have been led by Clay Bavor. The longtime executive is now set to
Read MoreOn February 8, 2023, Google officially launched the first developer preview of Android 14. Over the next few months, Google will allow developers and the general public to test this software as it gears up for the formal launch. If you want to give it a shot, you might be wondering how to install Android
Read MoreOne of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional command line tools, everything is a stream of bytes. Granted, modern software has blurred this a bit, but at the command line, everything is text with certain loose conventions about what separates fields and records. This lets you do things like
Read MoreA windmill and the smoke from the Doel Nuclear power plant are seen from Antwerp harbor on February 7th, 2023, in Antwerp, Belgium. | Image: Thierry Monasse / Getty Images Nearly all of the world’s new electricity supply over the next few years will come from renewable and nuclear energy, pushing out fossil fuels and
Read MoreCriminals have always held people hostage to get what they want. In the modern digital world, they prefer stealing data to force consumers or corporations to pay top dollar for its return — and unfortunately, ransomware isn’t going away anytime soon. Often, victims need their data back; but without backups, their options typically dwindle to
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge And Biden calls for Big Tech regulation in his State of the Union. Continue reading…
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Twitter launches its Blue service in India, Indonesia, and Brazil; in India, the subscription costs ~$10.9/month on iOS and Android and ~$7.8/month on the web — Twitter has rolled out its subscription service, Twitter Blue, to users in India, Brazil and Indonesia, it said on Wednesday …
Read MoreAll I wanted was affordable multiroom audio. Instead, I got an ordeal. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge About a year or so ago, I decided to network all my speakers together to be able to do multiroom audio. I gave myself a set of simple parameters. Namely: It must be able to
Read MoreYou can barely blink in 2023 without a conversational AI worming its way into one of your favorite products. Well, “favorite” might be pushing it, but as previously rumored, Bing now has ChatGPT integration. There’s a waitlist to access the new features, but you can get closer to the front of the line if you’re
Read MoreScyllaDB, the company behind the ScyllaDB database for data-intensive applications that require high performance and low latency, announced that it is achieving staggering performance results on the new AWS I4i instances powered by the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. Recent benchmarks compared ScyllaDB performance on AWS i4i.16xlarge vs.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft Edge’s new PDF viewer is powered by Adobe, and it won’t let you forget that. In an announcement on its website, Microsoft says it’s replacing Edge’s existing PDF viewer with one from Adobe Acrobat, which includes some “advanced” features that are available if you’re willing to pay for them. Microsoft markets
Read MoreNot only is AI-driven natural language processing a thing now, but you can even select from a number of different offerings, each optimized for different tasks. It took very little time for [Bloc] to mod a computer game to allow the player to converse naturally with non-player characters (NPCs) by hooking it into ChatGPT, a
Read MoreDataStax on Wednesday said that it was launching a new cloud-based service, dubbed Astra Block, to support building Web3 applications. Web3 can be defined as a decentralized version of the internet where content is registered on blockchains, tokenized, or managed and accessed on peer-to-peer distributed networks. Astra Block, which is based on the Ethereum blockchain
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The first Nintendo Direct of the year is almost upon us — and it sounds like it might be a big one. While Nintendo hasn’t provided any real details, the company did say to expect “roughly 40 minutes of information” about games coming out in the first half
Read MoreHi-Fi Rush. | Image: Tango Gameworks Director John Johanas explains how the rhythm action game was inspired by everything from Radiohead to the Dreamcast. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe hand-wringing over the employer-employee dynamic has been non-stop ever since the pandemic sent people scurrying for home-office cover nearly three years ago. The cycle has played out almost like the stages of grief. The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting Won’t Help the Tech Workplace Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. They’ve taken various forms — including
Read MoreWindows devices will need to run Windows 10 or later to continue receiving future Chrome releases. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re currently using Google Chrome on an old or outdated PC, then you might want to consider upgrading your hardware. With the public release of Chrome 110 on February 7th,
Read MoreFor their first custom, hand-wired keyboard, [terryorchard] aka [70rch] didn’t want to mess with making a total split, and we don’t really blame them. However, as you can see, they ended up with a monoblock split, which aside from being our own personal preference, looks fantastic, and also happened to be what fit on the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk will present his third “Master Plan” during Tesla’s Investor Day event on March 1st, the CEO announced on Twitter last night. The plan will outline “the path to a fully sustainable energy future for Earth,” he said, adding that “the future is bright!” Musk has been
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Google’s AI demo event in Paris paled in comparison to Microsoft’s “new Bing” announcement, highlighting Google’s need to widely release its ChatGPT competitor — Google demoed its latest advances in AI search at a live event in Paris on Wednesday — but the features pale …
Read MoreImage: Warner Bros. Discovery Just a few weeks ago, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav claimed that things were going so well over at the company that it was expediting its plan to merge HBO Max and DIscovery Plus into a not-so-secret third thing with an unimaginative name. Now, though, those plans are changing for
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Update February 8th, 10:18AM ET: The presentation is over and Google has told us a recording will be available soon, but we have the details from Google’s Bard chatbot demo, as well as its other AI search updates and new features for Google Maps. The original post is below. Google, the company
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