Why Does AI Art Look Like a ’70s Prog-Rock Album Cover?
The boom in generative AI art is creating an aesthetic movement—one that looks oddly familiar.
Read MoreThe boom in generative AI art is creating an aesthetic movement—one that looks oddly familiar.
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos stood around and marveled at machinery in its many forms, from a stone-cutting CNC to an acrobatic robot to an AI-controlled Twitch v-tuber. But before all of that, we took a look at the winners of our FPV Vehicle Contest, poured one out for Google
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: Bankruptcy filing: Genesis Global owes more than $3.6B to its top 50 creditors, including $766M to the Winklevoss’ Gemini Trust Company and $151M to Mirana — – Genesis Global filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Read MoreMost of the foldable phones floating around the world today come from Samsung, but even if you see one of them in the wild, you might not be able to tell if it’s the latest and greatest Z Fold4 or one of the earlier revisions. Samsung has kept the form factor largely unchanged across four
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad; Allison Johnson / The Verge If you have a guest over to your house for any amount of time, there’s a fair chance they’ll ask you for the Wi-Fi password, which may begin a dreaded dance of you trying to remember what it is or read out a complicated string of numbers,
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The threat AI products, like ChatGPT, has prompted Google to jumpstart development on AI products. Google is reported to have over 20 AI products it plans to unveil this year. Some of the products will be for developers and others for consumers When ChatGPT started gaining popularity, reports
Read MoreYesterday’s flagships are today’s bang-for-the-buck deals when you can get them for prices like this. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge It’s Friday, which means it’s time for some Frideals (sorry, not sorry). First off, the last-gen Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro have fallen to their lowest price yet. Right now, you can get
Read MoreYou can’t take anything for granted with the new Musk-backed Twitter. After years of uneasy truce between app developers and the social network, Twitter has dropped the hammer. It began shutting off API access to popular Twitter clients like Twitterific and Fenix several days ago and has now made the change official: Third-party apps are
Read MoreThe cup was invented in 1570 BC. Despite this, infuriatingly, the cupholder didn’t become common in the automotive world until the early 2000s. Cars built in the years PCH (pre-cupholder) typically also had tape decks. Noticing this relationship, [thephatmaster] designed this useful cassette-deck cupholder accessory. The design is simple, consisting of a 3D printed ring
Read MoreFirst up, git has been audited. This was an effort sponsored by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a non-profit working to improve the security of Open Source projects. The audit itself was done by researchers from X41 and GitLab, and two critical vulnerabilities were found, both caused by the same bad coding habit
Read MoreThe breach went undetected for over a month before T-Mobile detected the malicious activity. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has revealed the company’s second major breach in less than two years, admitting that a hacker was able to obtain customer data, including names, birth dates, and phone numbers, from 37 million
Read MoreIris Deng / South China Morning Post: Canalys: Xiaomi shipments in India fell 40% YoY in Q4 2022 amid government scrutiny, falling behind Samsung and Vivo after being the top seller for 20 quarters — Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi was dethroned in India for the first time in five years by Samsung Electronics and Vivo
Read MoreA weird iPhone bug is going bye-bye with iOS 16.3.
Read MoreImage Credit & Copyright: Raul Villaverde Fraile, via Share the Science (Credit: Raul Villaverde Fraile, via Share the Science)Hello, readers, and welcome back to This Week in Space. We’ve got the latest on the crew stranded aboard the International Space Station. There’s also news from NASA, including a half-billion-dollar award for the airliner of the
Read MoreBloomberg: Ex-FTX US President Brett Harrison raised $5M for Architect, a new firm which will build crypto trading software for large investors, from Coinbase and others — Former FTX US President Brett Harrison has raised $5 million for a new crypto software startup from investors such as Coinbase Ventures …
Read MoreNew research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal.
Read MoreCreators need to pressure the courts, the market, and regulators before it’s too late.
Read MoreThe Moto G Play 2023 is fine, but there’s another smartphone that’s better in every way and costs just $30 more.
Read MoreInstead of making the cultural artifacts of the era and supporting independent films, the industry is busy looking for sure-fire hits.
Read MoreA device called Mill from veterans of Nest, the smart-thermostat creator, transforms your would-be kitchen waste into chicken feed.
Read MoreIn this cartoon world built to teach concepts from Randall Munroe’s book What If? 2, you can fly a rocket around randomly—or explore the physics of an alternate universe.
Read MoreThe Verge: Source: CNET owner Red Ventures has used AI tools like Wordsmith to write stories for at least a year and a half, causing unease amid layoffs and restructuring — Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks?
Read More(Image: Maria Valdes)A group of meteorite hunters has kicked off the new year with the discovery of a lifetime: a nearly 17-pound space rock around the size of a human head. The team—which consists of geochemists Maria Schönbächler, Vinciane Debaille, and Ryoga Maeda as well as cosmochemist Maria Valdes—began their Antarctic expedition in December. When
Read MoreBuilding your own network attached storage (NAS) for personal use isn’t all that difficult. A single board computer, a hard disk and a power supply in an enclosure is all the hardware you need. Then, choose from one of several open source NAS software solutions and you’re up and running. [tobychui] decided to notch things
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