Credit: Qualcomm A leaker has claimed that Qualcomm could offer more complicated Snapdragon processor names. The company could purportedly offer names like Snapdragon 7 Gen 2P and 7 Gen 2T.
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Tinder rolls out incognito mode, a step up from fully hiding profiles, for Tinder+, Gold, and Premium users, profile blocking, and other safety features — Tinder is rolling out new features aimed at making it easier for users on the dating app to control how they interact with others.
Read MoreMIT recently announced its research on toroidal propellers to create quieter drones. That got [Major Hardware] thinking about noisy PC fans. The obvious solution was to adapt the toroidal shape for a PC fan. He was familiar with the idea from similar screws on boats that are commercially available. You can see his tests in
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu’s stock jumps 15%+ after the company announced plans to add its ChatGPT-like service “Wenxin Yiyan”, or “Ernie Bot” in English, to search in March 2023 — Baidu Inc. surged more than 15% after affirming it’s on track to publicly roll out its ChatGPT-like service in March …
Read MoreAlexander Onukwue / Semafor: Google Play began requiring local regulatory approval for loan apps in Nigeria and Kenya on January 31, matching rules in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines — Google has toughened its screening process for African digital lending companies that wish to have their apps on Play Store …
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Samsung Galaxy S23 users say the smartphone uses ~60GB of its storage for Android and pre-installed apps, four times more than the Google Pixel 7 Pro’s ~15GB — Samsung’s Android build is 4x bigger than Google’s—twice the size of Windows 11. — As a smartphone operating system …
Read MoreMasha Borak / Wired: A look at Moscow’s Safe City, an AI surveillance system with 217K connected cameras designed to catch criminals that is now seen as a tool of digital repression — Moscow promised residents lower crime rates through an expansive smart city project. Then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Read MoreJohn Ourand / Sports Business Journal: The Super Bowl won’t have crypto ads in 2023 as FTX and others back out after buying several spots early; crypto companies had around five spots in 2022’s game — Fox Sports officially sold out Super Bowl LVII inventory, selling its final in-game spot in the week before the
Read MoreWhen it comes to portable power, lithium-ion batteries are where it’s at. Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of work being done to better understand how to maximize battery life and usable capacity. Red electrolytic solution, which should normally be clear. While engaged in such work, [Dr. Michael Metzger] and his colleagues at Dalhousie University opened up
Read MoreHaving an enclosure around an FDM 3D printer is generally a good idea, even when printing only with PLA, as it keeps the noise in, and the heat (and smell, with ABS) inside. With all the available options for enclosures out there, however, [David McDaid] figured that it should be possible to make an enclosure
Read MoreMonday’s massive earthquake has triggered a swarm of aftershocks, which will make a humanitarian disaster even more devastating.
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter on iOS and Android now defaults to the timeline the user had open last, instead of the algorithmic feed, after making the change on the web in January — Twitter’s iOS and Android app will now default to showing you the last timeline tab you selected, whether it’s the
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter’s iOS and Android apps now default to the timeline the user had open last, instead of the algorithmic feed, after a similar web update in January — Twitter’s iOS and Android app will now default to showing you the last timeline tab you selected, whether it’s the algorithmic “For
Read MoreHaving an enclosure around an FDM 3D printer is generally a good idea, even when printing only with PLA, as it keeps the noise in, and the heat (and smell, with ABS) inside. With all the available options for enclosures out there, however, [David McDaid] figured that it should be possible to make an enclosure
Read MoreCNBC: Gemini will contribute up to $100M to Genesis’ bankruptcy recovery, mainly for its Earn users, who had ~$900M of assets frozen when Genesis paused withdrawals — – Crypto exchange Gemini will contribute $100 million in cash to a recovery plan for bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.
Read MorePhoto by Dylan Buell / Getty Images Last year, Super Bowl LVI was effectively the crypto bowl for companies like FTX, Crypto.com, Coinbase, and others. Now, with only a week to go until the Eagles versus Chiefs matchup, Sports Business Journal reports that while FTX and other crypto businesses bought Super Bowl LVII ad spots
Read MoreCredit: Harley Maranan / Android Authority Director Ridley Scott produced a short film with the Galaxy S23 Ultra. The film, Behold, is a four-minute project that’s meant to showcase the phone’s 200MP camera. It also displays the camera’s performance under low light conditions. Samsung is pretty proud of the camera setup on its Galaxy S23
Read MoreThe search giant’s new chatbot is in testing and will be launched “in the coming weeks.” An API will make it available for developers to build on.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for the Apple Watch. Unfortunately, this means you’ll no longer be able to conveniently log in to your connected accounts using just the wearable, as reported earlier by MacRumors. While the app’s 6.7.3 iOS update states that it “removes Microsoft Authenticator from
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is rolling out a new chat history feature that should make it a lot easier to catch up on what’s been going on in a streamer’s chat. When you jump into a stream, you’ll be able to see either the last 50 messages or the last hour
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Internal doc: just ~180K US users paid for Twitter subscriptions like Blue as of mid-January, implying annual revenue from subscriptions globally of around $28M — Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission will not appeal a recent federal court order allowing Meta to purchase VR startup Within, an agency official told reporters on Monday. The FTC sued to stop Meta’s acquisition of Within, the company behind the popular fitness app Supernatural, last July. The agency argued
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / CNBC: Pinterest reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $877M, vs. $886.3M est., $17M net income, and global MAUs up 4% YoY to 450M; stock drops 10%+ on a weak Q1 forecast — – Pinterest said it expects sales in the first quarter to increase in the “low single digits” from a
Read MoreStartup founders and employees find that achieving work-life balance can be challenging. 43% of entrepreneurs agree that work-life balance is one of their biggest challenges. As the start-up grows, demands will also grow. Founders and employees need constant motivation and fresh ideas to keep up. As challenging as a good work-life balance is to achieve, it
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: ChatGPT users are finding various “jailbreaks” that get the tool to seemingly ignore OpenAI’s evolving content restrictions and provide unfettered responses — – Reddit users have engineered a prompt for artificial intelligence software ChatGPT that tries to force it to violate its own programming on content restrictions.
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