I’ve covered the lack of cloud ROI here a great deal, so I don’t want to continue to harp on it. Although the opinions vary greatly on the causes, a few things are clear to me. First, these are mostly self-inflected wounds. If the cloud did not ever have the potential to return ROI back
Read MoreA Tesla Model Y at a recent trade show. | Photo by Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images Plus more information on Royal Mail’s ongoing cybersecurity incident, and a neat new Nvidia feature. Continue reading…
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: A look at Tencent’s short-video service WeChat Channels, called “the hope of the company” by founder Pony Ma, as the tech giant tries to build its own TikTok — On a hot summer’s day last year, the 90’s boy band Backstreet Boys clambered on to a stage in Pennsylvania and belted
Read MoreUsers of third-party Twitter apps are unable to actually do so right now, but it isn’t clear whether it’s an outage or a Twitter decision.
Read MoreReuters: Sources: Chinese authorities plan to allow Didi’s ride-hailing and other apps back on app stores as soon as next week, another sign of the loosening crackdown — Chinese authorities are set to allow Didi Global’s ride-hailing and other apps back on domestic app stores as soon as next week …
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Twitter users say Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and other third-party apps are broken, possibly due to Twitter’s API being down; Twitter has offered no explanation — The past several weeks since Elon Musk’s takeover have seen Twitter in turmoil as rapid changes hit the platform …
Read MoreHappy Friday, everyone! This week I discovered the magic of brown ink. It’s a nice variation to the standard black and blue you see everywhere, adding a little touch of interest to all of my handwritten notes. As someone whose favorite color is brown (don’t @ me), I’m not sure what took me this long.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Power banks are a handy accessory to have for your phone, allowing you to charge your device when you’re traveling or out of the house. But many of today’s phones also offer large batteries and super-fast charging, potentially reducing the need for a power bank in the first
Read MoreSign language is a language that uses the position and motion of the hands in place of sounds made by the vocal tract. If one could readily capture those hand positions and movements, one could theoretically digitize and translate that language. [ayooluwa98] built a set of sensor gloves to do just that. The brains of
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: Banning ChatGPT in schools will be hard, so teachers should treat ChatGPT like a calculator: assume students are using it unless they are physically supervised — OpenAI’s new chat bot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.
Read MoreSamantha Cole / VICE: Some users of AI companion chatbot Replika, which offers a $70 romantic Pro version, say the free “friend” version is getting more sexually aggressive — For some longtime users of the chatbot, the app has gone from helpful companion to unbearably sexually aggressive. — Samantha Cole
Read MoreThere was a problem accessing your account. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some third-party Twitter clients such as Twitterific and Tweetbot appear to be experiencing an outage, though the cause is currently unclear. Developers haven’t received any communication from the company about whether the issue is caused by a bug or something
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A third Chromecast with Google TV model is apparently in the pipeline. This could be a successor to the original model, which launched in 2020. The Chromecast with Google TV is one of the better streaming gadget families around, offering a small form factor, full Google TV support, and
Read MoreOne fun aspect of retrocomputing is that you get to max out all aspects of these systems without having to take out a bank loan, as tended to be the case when these systems were new. Less fun is that decades after systems like the Apple MacIntosch SE/30 were last sold, the 30-pin SIMMs that
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Crypto.com lays off about 20% of its global workforce citing the crypto downturn and the FTX implosion as reasons — Crypto exchange Crypto.com said on Friday it is cutting its global workforce by 20% as it navigates ongoing economic headwinds and “unforeseeable” industry events.
Read More[Daniel Simu] is a performance artist, among many other things, and does acrobatic shows, quite often with a partner “flyer”. Training for his acts gets interrupted if his flyer partner is not available due to travel, injury or other reasons. This prompted him to build Acrobotics — a robotic assistant to make sure he can
Read MoreGareth Corfield / Telegraph: Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK’s Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries — Lockbit’s ransomware scrambled software on machines used to send international post — A Russia-linked ransomware gang was behind …
Read MoreTechCrunch: Sources: Tokyo-based aggregator website and app SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, laid off ~120 people, or 40% of US and China staff, with more coming in Japan — SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app valued at $2 billion as of 2021, today announced a 40% reduction …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China acquired a 1% stake, or “golden shares”, in an Alibaba subsidiary, and plans to do the same for a Tencent unit — Beijing changes tack in its efforts to secure a firmer grip on the country’s tech giants
Read MoreTonya Riley / CyberScoop: NSA Director Paul Nakasone urges Congress to renew the FISA’s Section 702, set to expire in 2023, saying the surveillance law protects the US from cyberattacks — NSA Director and head of U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone said in remarks on Thursday that intelligence authorities …
Read MoreApple’s board of directors has announced that Tim Cook’s target compensation will be reduced by 40% in 2023.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing, with a few select agencies, a Talent Manager Portal which makes it easier for creators’ agents and representatives to negotiate brand deals — TikTok is making it easier for brands to work with its “megastar” creators with an update to its Creator Marketplace …
Read MoreConnie Guglielmo / CNET: After a report, CNET says it is testing AI to help editors write some articles, has changed bylines on AI-assisted posts, and made disclosures more prominent — For over two decades, CNET has built our reputation testing new technologies and separating the hype from reality.
Read MoreThe effect is very impressive in stills, but wait until you see it in motion. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s streaming software now has an option to make it appear like you’re making eye contact with the camera, even if you’re looking somewhere else in real life. Using AI, the “Eye Contact” feature added to Nvidia
Read MoreApple has announced that its annual shareholder meeting will take place on Friday, March 10, 2022 at 9:00 AM PDT.
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