Julia Love / Bloomberg: Google cuts most of the Area 120 team and will graduate three of the incubator’s projects in 2023; sources: staff not involved in those projects were laid off — Alphabet Inc.’s Google has cut most of the jobs at Area 120, its in-house incubator for new projects, as part of a
Read MoreDRS, or the Drag Reduction System, has become a key part of Formula 1 in the past decade. [Engineering After Hours] decided to implement the same system on an RC car instead. The DRS system was implemented in Formula 1 to increase passing in the series. By moving a flap in the rear wing of
Read MoreParesh Dave / Wired: Tech companies like Google and Microsoft have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran, prompting side projects by employees to fight censorship and more — Companies like Google have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran. Grassroots coders are tackling internet censorship on their own.
Read MoreCreatives disagree about the ethical uses of these tools, but one thing is clear: AI art identification is about to become a whole lot harder.
Read MoreMost governments work off incomplete or inaccurate information, but it’s time to plug the gaps.
Read MoreWhether you’re hitting the slopes or planning a spring trip later this year, there are plenty of discounts on gear that can help.
Read MoreOne of the most common types of beekeeping hive is based around the Langstroth hive, first patented in the United States in 1852. While it does have some nice features like movable frames, the march of history has progressed considerably while this core of beekeeping practices has changed very little. But that really just means
Read MoreCan Duruk / Margins: The main reason ChatGPT is a threat to Google is because the latter’s monopoly position allowed search to degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape — I hate monopolies and welcome our AI overlords … I don’t really cook often, but I do love making pasta aglio e olio.
Read MoreDietrich Knauth / Reuters: US prosecutors provide a list of ~$700M worth of Sam Bankman-Fried’s seized assets, including ~$525M in Robinhood stock and $94.5M cash at Silvergate Bank — Federal prosecutors have seized nearly $700 million in assets from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in January, largely in the form of Robinhood stock …
Read MoreFascinated by art generated by deep learning systems such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion? Then perhaps a wall installation like this phenomenal e-paper Triptych created by [Zach Archer] is in your future. The three interlocking frames were printed out of “Walnut Wood” HTPLA from ProtoPasta, and hold a pair of 5.79 inch red/black/white displays along
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge And it’s all-change over at Netflix. Continue reading…
Read More[Bruce Land] of Cornell University will be a familiar name to many Hackaday readers, searching the site for ‘ECE4760′ will bring up many interesting topics around embedded programming. Every year [Bruce] releases yet more of the students’ work out into the wild to our great delight. This RP2040-based project is a bit more abstract than
Read MoreJeff Gifford / Phoenix Business Journal: VR edtech company Dreamscape Learn, developed through a two-year partnership between Arizona State University and Dreamscape Immersive, raised a $20M Series A — An immersive learning educational technology company developed in collaboration with Arizona State University has raised $20 million …
Read MoreChe Pan / South China Morning Post: China’s second-largest chip foundry Hua Hong signs a $6.7B wafer fab deal to produce 65nm, 55nm, 40nm, and other chips, as China pivots away from sub-14nm tech — China’s second-largest chip foundry Hua Hong Semiconductor Group, a state-backed semiconductor investment fund and a Wuxi entity signed …
Read MoreCan Duruk / Margins: The main reason ChatGPT is a threat to Google is because the latter’s monopoly position allowed search to degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape — I hate monopolies and welcome our AI overlords … I don’t really cook often, but I do love making pasta aglio e olio.
Read MoreSoon you may be able to more-or-less set one of the tabs as default. Twitter’s next update should make it less insistent that you use the “For You” algorithmic timeline, according to a tweet from Elon Musk. He says the app will “stop switching you back to recommended tweets,” and remember if you left it
Read MoreWhile some people are happy with a simple coffee table to hold their snacks while watching Star Trek reruns, others want their furniture to go where no furniture has gone before. [Olivier Gomis] has definitely satisfied this need with his Wormhole Coffee Table. [YouTube] The complicated shape and curvature of a (3D representation of a)
Read MoreSarah Wynn / The Block: The US SEC charges Avraham Eisenberg with manipulating Mango Markets’ governance token MNGO to steal $116M of crypto assets and says MNGO was sold as a security — – The SEC brought charges against Avraham Eisenberg on Friday after the U.S. securities regulator said Eisenberg stole $116 million from Mango
Read MoreMia Sato / The Verge: In a staff call, CNET and Red Ventures executives said they were pausing AI-generated content on CNET and other websites and detailed their proprietary AI tool — The call, which lasted under an hour, was held a week after CNET came under fire for its use of AI tools on
Read MoreLora Kolodny / CNBC: Internal records: Twitter now has around 1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers, and about 1,400 non-working employees — – Internal records show that Twitter has shed about 80% of its employees since Elon Musk took over and headcount is hovering around 1,300 employees today.
Read MoreThe switch away from the serif-laden typeface is being made for accessibility and legibility reasons, the agency says.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok has confirmed to Forbes that some of its US employees have the ability to boost videos in order to “introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the TikTok community.” The statement comes as part of a report about TikTok’s “Heating” button, which Forbes says can be used to
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk will never stop posting, no matter who tells him to stop. That was one of the takeaways from his brief testimony during his securities fraud trial, which took place in a San Francisco courthouse Friday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs peppered Musk with questions about his tweets
Read MoreThe mobile operator just suffered at least its fifth data breach since 2018, despite promising to spend a fortune shoring up its systems.
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