If you’ve ever worked in IT support, you’ll be familiar with users calling in to check if the Internet is up every few hours or so. Often a quick refresh of the browser is enough to see if a machine is actually online. Alternatively, a simple ping or browsing to a known-working website will tell
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google may be adding a new feature to Chrome for Android. The feature will allow users to quickly delete 15 minutes of browser data. It’s unclear when the feature would arrive. It’s not uncommon to forget to open up an Incognito window when you’re browsing, especially when on your
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly exploring an antitrust suit against Amazon, although its future remains uncertain. The Wall Street Journal reported the news today, saying that the case could cover an “array” of Amazon business practices. But the agency reportedly hasn’t committed to the suit or heard
Read MoreA screenshot purportedly showing the “new Bing,” inviting users to query an AI chatbot. | Image: Owen Yin Microsoft is reported to be capitalizing on the success of ChatGPT by integrating the AI chatbot into its search engine Bing. But what might that look like? We may now have some idea, thanks to Bing users
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Google invested $300M in Anthropic, taking a 10% stake in the generative AI startup and requiring it to spend the money on Google Cloud — Cash-for-computing deal shows how large tech groups are investing in companies at the vanguard of generative AI
Read MoreSamar Haddad / The Verge If you’ve read through our review of the latest HomePod, you’ll know that one of Apple’s smart speakers alone sounds pretty good. But combining two of them in a stereo pair really takes the listening experience to a different level. It’s not a cheap proposition, but you’ll end up with
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: Inside ChatGPT’s rushed launch, as OpenAI feared that rivals might upstage them; Sam Altman now worries about regulatory backlash and inflated expectations — Even inside the company, the chatbot’s popularity has come as something of a shock. — One day in mid-November …
Read MoreImage: Getty Images The US Treasury Department says it is modifying the electric vehicle tax credit to potentially allow more vehicles to qualify — for now. In a press release, the department said that to determine whether a vehicle is a sedan, SUV, pickup truck, or van, it would use the Environmental Protection Agency’s Fuel
Read MoreSorry, Joel, you’re going to have to wait a bit longer to play the game on PC. | Image: Sony The Last of Us Part I for PC has been delayed to March 28th, developer Naughty Dog announced on Friday. The remake of the first The Last of Us game was originally set to launch
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: Neko Health, founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek and Watty founder Hjalmar Nilsonne, comes out of stealth and plans to build an AI-powered full body scanner — Since conquering the music industry, Spotify founder Daniel Ek has been working on Neko Health for the past four years.
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos met up over thousands of miles to discuss the hottest hacks of the past seven days. There’s a whole lot of news this week, and the really good part is the the small radioactive source that went missing in Australia has been found. Phew! Kristina
Read MoreAlex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of which ~$7B went to originals, live sports, and licensed third-party content included with Prime — The expenses related to video and music content were up 28 percent from 2021, when the tech giant spent $13 billion.
Read MoreImage: Kitfox Games For almost two decades, there was only one programmer working on Dwarf Fortress. Now, following a big launch on Steam and Itch.io, that’s finally changed. Continue reading…
Read MoreVirtual cloud computing is a technology that blends the benefits of two other technologies: cloud computing and virtualization. People often get confused between cloud computing and virtualization, as both these terms are used with each other often. Let’s define both of these terms to put this confusion to rest. Cloud Computing Cloud computing is among
Read MoreThe MCP23017, a 16-bit I2C GPIO expander, has always been a tasty chip. With 16 GPIOs addressable over I2C, proper push/pull outputs, software-enabled pull-ups, eight addresses, maskable interrupts for all pins, and reasonably low price, there’s a reason it’s so popular. No doubt due in part to that popularity, it’s been consistently out of stock
Read MoreOriginal iPhone set to fetch record-breaking $50,000 at auction.
Read MoreThe Beats Fit Pro come in gray and pink (pictured) as well as white and black. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge While there are all kinds of TV and speaker deals running now in the buildup to the Super Bowl, we’ve got some impeccable everyday tech deals for everyday users. The Beats
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Securities and Exchange Commission probe into Activision Blizzard has concluded with the company paying a $35 million penalty. At the heart of the probe were charges that Activision Blizzard did not have adequate procedures in place that allowed it to document employee workplace misconduct complaints. As a
Read MoreNickolas Sharp worked on one of the teams investigating his illegal activities while holding Ubiquiti data ransom for 50 Bitcoin. | Illustration: Beatrice Sala A former employee of network technology provider Ubiquiti pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges on Thursday after posing as an anonymous hacker in an attempt to extort almost $2 million worth
Read MoreiOS 17 should be unveiled at WWDC 2023 ahead of a launch later this year, but what will it bring to the iPhone?
Read MoreIt was removed from the Mac lineup in 2021. Is the iMac Pro about to make a return?
Read MoreEvelyne Ily Juhen as Prisca in Mami Wata. | Image: Fiery Film Company Out of all the films that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, none were quite as visually striking as Nigerian writer / director C.J. Obasi’s Mami Wata, a monochromatic modern-day myth about a small village during a time of upheaval. One
Read MoreForbes: Ex-staffers say Google’s Jigsaw saw its workforce of 50 cut by at least 20 and fear Google is phasing out the altruistic division as it isn’t profit oriented — Jigsaw, which produces tools to protect people from surveillance and other threats, saw its staff slashed by at least …
Read MoreMore media publishers are turning to AI to crank out content. | Image: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Another major publisher is using AI to generate stories in the name of efficiency. Arena Group Holdings, a media firm whose brands include Sports Illustrated, TheStreet, Parade, and Men’s Journal, says it’s partnering with AI language startups Jasper and
Read MoreGitHub Desktop may have stopped working for you yesterday, Febuary 2nd. The reason was an unauthorized access to some decidedly non-public repositories. The most serious bit of information that escaped was code signing certificates, notably used for GitHub Desktop and Atom. Those certificates were password protected, so it’s unlikely they’ve been abused yet. Even so,
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