Bloomberg: Masayoshi Son owes SoftBank ~$5.1B on side deals he set up to boost his compensation, as his unrealized losses grew ~$400M from three months before — Masayoshi Son is now personally on the hook for about $5.1 billion on side deals he set up at SoftBank Group Corp. to boost his compensation …
Read MoreCredit: Google Blog Chrome on desktop is getting biometric authentication support for the password manager. This means you can access your credentials and autofill passwords with a biometric scan. Google Chrome introduced a new biometric authentication feature for Android last week, letting you lock incognito tabs behind a fingerprint. Now, Chrome on desktop is getting
Read MoreWIRED got two hours behind the wheel of a preproduction prototype of what might be the ultimate high-end EV. It wasn’t enough.
Read More[Jacek Fedorynski] had an old Magellan/SpaceMouse 3D mouse with a serial interface which made it impossible for him to use with modern hardware and software. The problem he faced was two pronged – the absence of serial interfaces in the hardware and the lack of appropriate drivers for the operating system. So he built a
Read MoreSatya Nadella CEO Microsoft | Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge 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 would be powered by OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT. There’s also a new version of
Read MoreDan Robinson / The Register: Synergy Research: enterprise cloud spending in Q4 grew 21% YoY to $61.6B, but was “substantially hampered” by a strong US dollar and a restricted Chinese market — The big get bigger — Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services slowed in the fourth quarter of 2022 …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Tinder now allows you to browse through profiles while staying hidden — but you’ll have to pay for it. In a post on Tinder’s newsroom, the dating app announced a new incognito mode that you can use to swipe through profiles without showing up in their recommendations feed unless you “like” them
Read MoreReuters: Filing: eBay plans to lay off ~500 employees, or ~4% of its workforce, to create “space” to invest in “new technologies, customer innovations, and key markets” — E-commerce firm eBay Inc (EBAY.O) said on Tuesday it will lay off 500 employees globally, representing 4% of its total workforce.
Read MoreHindu nationalists claim that the chatbot has insulted their deities, sparking an online uproar.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Magic, a code-generating tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot, raised a $23M Series A led by Alphabet’s CapitalG; Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, and Amplify also invested — Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot, today announced that it raised $23 million …
Read MoreHindu nationalists claim that the chatbot has insulted their deities, sparking an online uproar.
Read MoreDevil Dinosaur and Moon Girl dancing together. | Disney ‘When I watched cartoons as a kid, there was a lot of serious orchestration. A lot of funk, a lot of R&B, and a lot of soul — all kinds of different styles of music. I wanted that for Moon Girl, too.’ Continue reading…
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Source: Microsoft plans to release software to help large companies create and customize their own chatbots using ChatGPT technology later this year — – Microsoft plans to release technology to help big companies launch their own chatbots using the OpenAI ChatGPT technology, a person familiar with the plans told CNBC.
Read MoreCredit: Harley Maranan / Android Authority There is no denying some selfies are better than others. Are you trying to take the best selfies you can? There is more to it than simply pointing the camera at your face and pressing the shutter button. Today we’ll show you how to take a good selfie in
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: The Samsung Galaxy S23 series has a Game Booster setting that lets a plugged-in phone bypass the battery to use power directly from the charger, reducing heat — Gamers using the Galaxy S23 series are in for a bit of a treat, as a new feature on Samsung’s latest flagships allows
Read MoreThe second-ranked search engine is getting a new chatbot interface that attempts to synthesize information from sites across the web.
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Hey, everybody! Nice to be back, though I do miss the sunshine and sick waves (that I did not ride) of Hawaii. I also, quite literally, ate too much tuna. It was worth it. Thanks to Jake for covering on a particularly busy week. Anyway, on
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Voice actors say they are increasingly being asked to sign away their voices’ rights so clients can make synthetic AI versions that may eventually replace them — Motherboard spoke to multiple voice actors and advocacy organizations, some of which said contracts including language around synthetic voices are now very prevalent.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Meta is adding several new features to WhatsApp status, which lets you post disappearing pictures and other media. Once the features roll out over the coming weeks, you’ll be able to react to people’s posts with an emoji, limit who can see your status, and post voice messages. According to an announcement
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google says it will remove a feature that allowed users to play podcasts directly from the Google Search results on February 13, after launching it in 2019 — Google confirmed it’s putting an end to a feature that allowed users to access playable podcasts directly from the Google Search results …
Read MoreJoanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Hands-on with the new AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for the 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a minute; search will never be the same — Our columnist got an early look at the software’s new ChatGPT-like powers — Bing with AI: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Read MoreFOX runs various brands that are among the bigger broadcast channels, chief among them FOX News and FOX Sports. Even after selling much of its entertainment division to Disney, the company still airs several scripted shows too. But what if you’ve embraced the streaming revolution? Can you still watch FOX. Yes, you can. Below, we
Read MoreOnePlus has long since shed the guise of a scrappy startup, operating now as a closely aligned subsidiary of Chinese megafirm Oppo. Perhaps as a result, the last few OP release cycles have been lackluster, but 2023 is shaping up to be a banner year. OnePlus has unveiled the OnePlus 11 5G, as well as
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Qustodio: kids aged 4 to 18 used TikTok for 107 minutes per day on average in 2022, up from 82 minutes in 2020, and 60% longer than YouTube’s 67 minutes per day — For another year in a row, TikTok has found itself as the social app kids and teens are
Read MoreCamera shutter speed is an essential adjustment in photography – along with the aperture, the shutter moderates the amount of light entering the camera. Older cameras (and some newer ones) use mechanical shutters that creep out-of-spec over the years, so [Dean Segovis] built a handy shutter speed tester. With just a handful of basic components,
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