Punch, meet counterpunch. The Pixel 7 Pro became Google’s most complete, refined flagship smartphone to date, racking up end-of-year awards in the process. With its incredible photography processing and smooth, intelligent software, it put plenty of 2022’s early-year launches out of our minds. Now, Samsung has a chance to respond. As always, it’s kicking off
Read MorePatrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: US sportswear outlet Fanatics plans to launch livestreamed shopping unit Fanatics Live in H2 2023 and hires ex-Google executive and Snap VP Nick Bell as its CEO — Sports-merchandise company plans to focus on creators who sell trading cards — Sports merchandise retailer Fanatics Inc …
Read MoreForeign Affairs: CISA Director Jen Easterly and Executive Assistant Director Eric Goldstein say incentives for developing and selling tech should not eclipse customer safety — Despite a global multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry, the threat from malicious cyber-activity, from both criminal and state actors, continues to grow.
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Sony announces a beta version of Discord for the PlayStation 5 in the US, Canada, Japan, and the UK, adds Variable Refresh Rate support for 1440p, and more — Beta testers will be able to join Discord voice calls on a PS5 console in the US, Canada, Japan, and UK
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons The Samsung Galaxy S23 series is finally here, which means we no longer have to endure a constant stream of leaks and rumors — until the Galaxy S24 leaks start in two weeks, ha! Nevertheless, the phones seem to be interesting, though minor, upgrades
Read MoreSubrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: After a big decline in 2022, Meta’s stock has risen 72%+ since November 3, one of the S&P 500 Index’s best-performing stocks, adding $200B+ to its market cap — A spectacular turnaround in Meta Platforms Inc.’s stock is bringing back flashes of Big Tech heydays.
Read MoreLaura Pitel / Financial Times: US chipmaker Wolfspeed plans to spend €3B to build a factory in west Germany on the site of a decommissioned coal plant, producing chips for EVs and industry — Wolfspeed factory will produce silicon carbide chips for electric vehicles and industrial use
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Chainalysis plans to cut under 5% of its staff as part of a reorganization; in January, its CEO said the company plans to grow staff by 11% and expand globally — Chainalysis Inc., a company that specializes in tracking crypto transactions and the entities behind them, said it’s made layoffs affecting
Read MorePranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: A look at why human hands generated by Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 look strange, often with extra fingers, mostly due to the training datasets — It all comes down to the images AI is learning from. — Earlier this month, Miles Zimmerman, a 31-year-old programmer from San Francisco
Read MoreTheo Wayt / The Information: After a splashy launch, sources say Amazon Prime Air made drone deliveries to <10 houses between December 29 and mid-January; records: the FAA limits the drones — Amazon in December announced with great fanfare that, after nearly a decade of work, it had finally launched drone delivery in the U.S.
Read MoreSingleStoreDB 8.0 brings more cutting-edge features to the unified database—supporting both transactional and analytical processing—that runs in real time. The even faster analytics and greater ease of use in SingleStoreDB empowers developers to truly own all aspects of their data while helping to lower costs and reduce coding. The new features in this release address
Read MoreRussian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. How does Putin’s regime seem to know their every move?
Read MoreMost artificial intelligence today is implemented using some form of neural network. In my last two articles, I introduced neural networks and showed you how to build a neural network in Java. The power of a neural network derives largely from its capacity for deep learning, and that capacity is built on the concept and execution
Read MoreJohn Kell / Fortune: How Delta, JetBlue, Swiss, Lufthansa, and other airlines are using and investing in AI to boost flight operations, plane maintenance, fuel management, and more — When Swiss International Air Lines began to use A.I. technology to boost efficiency, the carrier was able to better optimize more than half the flights in
Read MoreJames Somers / New Yorker: A look at OpenAI’s open-source speech recognition software Whisper, which can transcribe speech in more than 90 languages, outperforming humans in some of them — ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it’s Whisper—OpenAI’s open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going.
Read MoreDiscord integration for PS5. | Image: Sony Beta testers will be able to join Discord voice calls on a PS5 console in the US, Canada, Japan, and UK starting today. The integration allows PS5 owners to join Discord calls by linking accounts and then using the Discord mobile app to transfer calls to the PS5.
Read MoreFor the past decade, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8-series processors have been leading the charts for Android performance flagships. If you want to get the absolute best-performing Android flagship, you have to look at the phones powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Since the chip was launched in November 2022, we’re still waiting on many
Read MoreAside from being one of the best music streaming services, Pandora is a great music discovery tool. What happens when you want to list your own songs and play them without suggestions? Today we’ll show you how to make a playlist on Pandora so you can rock to your own tunes. The option is a
Read MoreBloomberg: Sony reports Q3 sales rose 13% YoY to ~$26.4B as operating profit drops 8% YoY to ~$3.3B, beating analyst estimates; PS5 sales were 7.1M, up from 4M YoY — Sony Group Corp. revised up its full-year profit outlook after earnings beat estimates and the company had its best quarter of PlayStation 5 sales.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) demanded that Apple and Google “immediately” remove TikTok from their app stores in a letter addressed to the companies’ chief executives, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, Thursday. Bennet’s push to restrict downloads of the app is just the latest in a series of mounting
Read MoreSamantha Cole / VICE: Netflix Japan used AI art in the anime short “The Dog & The Boy”, citing a “labor shortage” in the industry, which has long faced labor abuses and poor wages — A new short film called ‘The Dog & The Boy’ uses AI-generated art for its backgrounds. — Samantha Cole
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority OpenAI has launched a paid version of ChatGPT called ChatGPT Plus. The subscription to ChatGPT Plus costs $20 and gives users access to a faster, more capable chatbot. OpenAI’s genius conversational AI chatbot — ChatGPT — now has a paid version called ChatGPT Plus. For $20 per month, you
Read MoreMarissa Newman / Bloomberg: Legal documents: Meta paid Bright Data to scrape data from other websites for years while publicly condemning the practice and suing companies over scraping — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. for years paid a contractor to scrape data from other websites while publicly condemning …
Read MoreFor the past decade, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8-series processors have been leading the charts for Android performance flagships. If you want to get the absolute best-performing Android flagship, you have to look at the phones powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Since the chip was launched in November 2022, we’re still waiting on many
Read MoreKrystal Hu / Reuters: UBS study: ChatGPT reached ~100M MAUs with ~13M daily unique visitors in January, two months after launch, becoming the fastest-growing consumer app ever — ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch …
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