Photo by Umar Shakir / The Verge Remember how rising gas prices weren’t a concern to electric car owners? Electrify America is giving users of its DC fast charging network a reminder about one of the biggest frustrations of owning internal combustion engine cars again — by increasing electricity rates at its stations (via Ars
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia says there’s a fix for a recently discovered issue where Discord being open in the background limited the performance of some graphics cards. According to a tweet from the company, the patch will download automatically when you log into Windows, so you won’t have to go through
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Plus fresh details on Meta’s next AI headset, and another smart home company begins its Matter transition. Continue reading…
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images A jury deliberated for about an hour, then found Tesla CEO Elon Musk is “not liable” for losses incurred by investors who accused him of fraud based on his tweets in August 2018 that he was thinking of taking the company private, adding “funding secured,” according to reports
Read MoreAisha Majid / Press Gazette: An analysis of 68 news domains: 45 ranked worse in UK Google search results in January 2023 vs. January 2022; those with non-news content saw the biggest gains — Data from SEO experts Sistrix reveals big losses for news domains in organic search in 2022. — News websites saw a
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The question of whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk committed fraud when he tweeted in August 2018 that he was thinking of taking the company private, adding “funding secured,” is now up to a jury. With Musk in attendance, the jury in the billionaire’s securities fraud trial heard closing
Read MoreMany are celebrating Australia’s decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain.
Read MoreIt’s currently unclear what the government wants removed from the site. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wikipedia has been blocked in Pakistan over “sacrilegious” content on the site, according to a report from Bloomberg. The ban comes after the government ordered the site to remove offending content within 48 hours, and the
Read MoreA deal on a TCL 6-Series TV offers a whole lot of bang for the buck. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s almost time for the Super Bowl, the only game that functions more akin to an annual holiday in the US than a mere sporting event. This means there are bound
Read MoreWe gotta love hacker Dads and Moms for being so awesome. Sooner or later, their kids get to play with some amazing toy that every other kid on the block is jealous of. [Meanwhile in the Garage aka MWiG] is one of those super hacker Dads who built a frickin’ Tank for his son (video, embedded
Read MoreFor the iPhone 14 Apple asked its customers, “Do you like big phones, or bigger phones?” In 2022 Apple decided to change its iPhone lineup for the first time in years. Instead of offering a standard-sized phone and a mini version, it went in the opposite direction and made a bigger phone instead of a
Read MoreJanus Rose / VICE: Court document: a Colombian judge used ChatGPT to ask legal questions about a case and included its responses in his decision, to save time writing the judgment — The case is the first time a court has admitted to using the AI text generator’s answers in a legal ruling. — Janus
Read More[Tom Verbeure] recently found himself lamenting the need to take screen grabs from an Advantest R3273 spectrum analyzer with a phone camera, as the older gear requires you to either grab tables of data over an expensive GPIB interface card, or print them to paper. Then he realized, why not make a simple printer port
Read MoreIt’s more regulatory pressure on the deal. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is seemingly facing more regulatory opposition to its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. According to Politico, the European Union has issued a formal antitrust warning against Microsoft regarding the $68.7 billion deal. Politico didn’t share exact details about the
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy’s privacy watchdog orders San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker Replika to stop processing local users’ data over concerns its tech poses risks to minors — San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker, Replika — which operates a freemium ‘virtual friendship’ service based …
Read MoreWe all know the age-old adage: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s largely the reason why gaming mice have remained the same size and shape for so long, with barely any noticeable changes. We might get a sensor with a higher DPI here and there, but there’s usually not much difference on the
Read MoreHarmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: Global smartphone shipments declined 12% YoY to 1.2B units in 2022, the lowest since 2013; Apple took 18% share, 48% revenue, and 85% operating profit growth — – The global smartphone market declined by 18% YoY to reach 304 million units in Q4 2022. — Apple replaced Samsung …
Read MoreForbes: Q&A with Sam Altman on AI systems replacing search engines, Microsoft’s OpenAI investments, how artificial general intelligence may “break capitalism”, and more — In a rare interview, OpenAI’s CEO talks about AI model ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence and Google Search.
Read MoreMike Masnick / Techdirt: Twitter cuts off API access to Movetodon, a useful tool for finding and following one’s Twitter followers on Mastodon; it’s unclear if the tool broke any rule — from the trying-to-lock-the-barn-doors dept — People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring Elon Musk …
Read MoreThe competitive bottleneck has driven brands to overhaul their email marketing strategy at regular intervals. That has led to a tremendous metamorphosis and turned it into an effective and scalable communication channel. If we look at the past decade, there have been multiple new entrants in email marketing trends. In 2023, we expect some other
Read MoreKamran Haider / Bloomberg: Pakistan’s telecommunication authority blocks Wikipedia in the country, saying the site failed to remove “sacrilegious” content — Pakistan has blocked Wikipedia services in the South Asian nation after the platform failed to remove “sacrilegious” content.
Read MoreImage: Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk says that Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified. (According to Musk, “legacy” verified marks will be going away in “a few months.”) He says the program will start today, though there are currently very few details
Read MoreAlexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group is working with AI startups Jasper and Nota to help produce articles from its own content library and pitch journalists — Arena Group uses the technology to help produce Men’s Journal pieces such as workout tips — The publisher of Sports Illustrated …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge The competition between Google and Microsoft over tech’s AI future continues to heat up. While Microsoft is firmly entangled with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Google may have turned to a company founded by former OpenAI employees: the little-known Anthropic. According to a report from the Financial Times, in late 2022, Google invested around
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified, but doesn’t share any details — Elon Musk says that Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified.
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