Airbnb Is Running Riot in Small-Town America
The company sent cities scrambling to clamp down on short-term rentals. Now resort towns are feeling the pinch.
Read MoreThe company sent cities scrambling to clamp down on short-term rentals. Now resort towns are feeling the pinch.
Read MoreUsing the Calendar app to manage shared events can make your life so much easier when it comes to organizing gatherings. Here’s how it all works!
Read MoreParmy Olson / Bloomberg: OpenAI’s ChatGPT presents a potentially serious threat to Google, offering quick, comprehensive answers to difficult questions that require no further searches — A new chatbot from OpenAI took the internet by storm this week, dashing off poems, screenplays and essay answers that were plastered …
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Switzerland-based Proton launches iOS and Android apps for its Proton Drive end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service, offering 200GB storage for $3.99/month — Proton, a privacy startup best known for its Proton Mail encrypted email service, has just announced that its end …
Read MoreKalley Huang / New York Times: Sources: seeking to capitalize on chaos at Twitter, Meta discussed several product ideas, including expanding Instagram Notes or building a text-focused app — New start-ups and other social platforms sense opportunity as Twitter grapples with changes from Elon Musk, its new owner.
Read MoreSpaceX has quietly announced a new government-focused service on its website — Starshield — which it says offers a “secured satellite network for government entities.” The page, which appeared on the SpaceX website earlier this week, says that while its satellite internet service Starlink is aimed at end users and businesses, “Starshield is designed for
Read MorePhoto by Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images A new patent from BMW may unlock the energy-generating potential of one of America’s most defining modern features: a woefully inadequate and underfunded road infrastructure. Car enthusiast news site CarBuzz unearthed a document from the German national patent office that reveals a new suspension design, which, if developed
Read MoreIt’s not the fanciest way to enjoy wine. But it won’t shatter in a light breeze like normal glassware.
Read MoreImage: GM General Motors is working with its dealers to install Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations that have “triple the power” of typical L2 stations, the company said today. Last year, the automaker announced a new program to help fund the installation of Level 2 chargers in collaboration with Chevy, Cadillac, and GMC dealers.
Read MoreThe HomePod mini is coming soon for those in South Africa, but there’s a longer wait in store for those in Denmark.
Read MoreWhen AMD launched its new Zen 4 CPU lineup in September, there was an elephant in the room. What about the V-Cache versions? AMD showed no such CPUs, even though it had shown them on the official roadmap. This left a lot of potential upgraders unhappy, as the company’s previous V-Cache CPU — the Ryzen
Read MoreDeveloping and deploying vision AI applications is complex and expensive. Organizations need data scientists and machine learning engineers to build training and inference pipelines based on unstructured data such as images and videos. With the acute shortage of skilled machine learning engineers, building and integrating intelligent vision AI applications has become expensive for enterprises. To
Read MoreUber now has robotaxis available for its customers to hail in Las Vegas. The vehicles are operated by Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, and will feature safety drivers behind the steering wheel, though the vehicles will be operated by Motional’s autonomous driving system. Motional says it intends on launching a public fully
Read MoreIt’s interesting to see how cloud-native runtimes are evolving. Although containers make it simple for applications to bring their own runtimes to clouds, and offer effective isolation from other applications, they don’t offer everything we want from a secure application sandbox. Bringing your own userland solves a lot of problems, but it’s a horizontal isolation
Read MoreToday’s web applications are nowhere near as fast and responsive as native desktop applications, but what if they could be? That’s the promise of WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a low-level, assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance in web browsers. At the same time, WebAssembly provides a portable compilation target for
Read MorePew Research Center: A survey of 19 developed nations: 57% say social media has been good for democracy, 35% say it has been bad; in the US, 34% think it has been good for democracy — Most think social media has made it easier to manipulate and divide people, but also say it informs and
Read MoreThe iPad Air keeps hitting this price, and it gets more tempting to hit buy every time. The perfect time to nab one for a gift.
Read MoreThe policy allowed the SFPD to arm bomb disposal robots similar to the one seen here with explosives to incapacitate and even kill suspects. | Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images San Francisco officials have voted against allowing the police to kill suspects with remote-controlled robots. The city’s board of supervisors reversed the
Read MorePresident Joe Biden at TSMC’s Arizona facility. | Photo: Andy Blye TSMC prepares to manufacture processors in its new Arizona facility, and Call of Duty returns to Nintendo consoles. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Oppo demonstrated an intriguing concept phone a year ago, bringing a retractable rear camera that offered 2x tele zoom and a smaller camera bump. Now, Tecno has beaten Oppo to the punch by launching a commercial phone with this technology. The Tecno Phantom X2 Pro indeed offers a 50MP
Read MoreHow do you fix battery life problems after getting a new iPad or installing iPadOS? Here are our top power-saving tips!
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: FTX reached the late stages of talks with Taylor Swift over a $100M+ sponsorship deal, supported by Swift fan SBF, who faced opposition from FTX execs — Negotiations between singer-songwriter and Sam Bankman-Fried’s crytpo group collapsed this spring
Read MoreAndrew Romero / 9to5Google: Telegram partners with Fragment to let users create an anonymous number to join the service, removing the need for a SIM card, and expands security features — For years, apps like Telegram and Whatsapp have restricted access to users who could sign up using a SIM card and phone number.
Read MoreFrom smart coffee mugs to a weighted blanket, these picks will make your loved ones feel warm and fuzzy—inside and out.
Read MoreFor the past two years, social distancing kept seasonal viruses at bay. Now they’re roaring back.
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