The story of TikTok’s start highlights how visionary ideas, much like those of Steve Jobs, can have unexpected paths that profoundly impact global technology and culture. TikTok might not have existed without Steve Jobs A recent examination of court documents and business transactions reveals a complex web of investments and technological pivots that trace back
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: If you think you’ve been seeing an awful lot more Reddit results lately when you search on Google, you’re not imagining things. The internet is in upheaval, and for website owners the rules of “winning” Google Search have never been murkier. Google’s generative AI search engine
Read MoreWatercooling is usually more efficient than air cooling for the same volume of equipment, and — important for many people — it is generally quieter. However, you still have water pump noises to deal with. [Der8auer] got a Wieland prototype cooler that doesn’t use a pump. Instead, it relies on the thermosiphon effect. In simple
Read MoreRazer Razer’s latest mobile gaming controller just released today, the Kishi Ultra, is an all-rounder that can switch between multiple devices. The controller has a built-in USB-C port that can work with the iPhone 15 series as well as most Android smartphones (Razer says it’s compatible with the Galaxy 23 series, Pixel 6 and up,
Read MoreBack in 2012, [Matt Parker] and a team built a computer out of dominos for the Manchester Science Festival. [Andrew Taylor], part of the team that built the original, has built a series of virtual domino puzzles to help explain how the computer worked. He also links to a video from the event, but be
Read MoreApple has removed Meta-owned apps WhatsApp and Threads from the China App Store after government officials claimed national security concerns. China dictates what it allows on its country’s internet and App Store The App Store culling continues in China after 30,000 games, then an additional 94,000 games, 44,000 apps, then 100 ChatGPT-like apps were removed
Read MoreThe open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta today is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works.
Read MoreMichael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I’ve been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of
Read MoreU.S. telecom provider Frontier Communications shut down its systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack. BleepingComputer reports: Frontier is a leading U.S. communications provider that provides gigabit Internet speeds over a fiber-optic network to millions of consumers and businesses across 25 states. After discovering the incident, the
Read MoreNetflix on Thursday reported a 16% rise in memberships in the first quarter, reaching 269.6 million, beating Wall Street expectations. Starting next year, the company will no longer provide quarterly membership numbers or average revenue per user starting next year. CNBC reports: “As we’ve noted in previous letters, we’re focused on revenue and operating margin
Read MoreThe best thing about buying your own home is that you can hang things on the walls. It’s a human right all too often denied to renters the world over. Regardless, five years later, when you’re doing the mandatory minimalist remodel, you’ll be ruing the day you put in all those wall anchors. At that
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used to unlock
Read MoreImage: Amazon Just a week after the show first premiered, Amazon has confirmed that there’s more of its live-action Fallout series on the way. As of now there are no details available other than the fact that the show has been renewed for season 2. While there are no specific numbers about how well the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Meta has dramatically upgraded its AI assistant, powered by the new Llama 3 language model. The enhanced Meta AI is available on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and its new standalone website. Meta also announced the rollout of an upgraded image generator, where images change in real-time as you type
Read MoreA software glitch in the “ticket in, cash out” (TICO) machines at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away $2.05 million over several weeks. This glitch allowed gamblers to reuse a receipt for slot machine winnings, leading to unwarranted cash payouts which went undetected due to systematic failures in oversight and audit
Read MoreBest Buy has launched an augmented reality app designed exclusively for Apple’s latest wearable, the Apple Vision Pro that offers real-time product previews. Best Buy launches Apple Vision Pro app for augmented reality shopping Named Best Buy Envision, the app is set to upgrade the way consumers shop for electronics and home products, Best Buy
Read MoreSpace law just got a little more complicated.
Read MoreAndroid 15 is preparing a new feature that will tell users the remaining lifetime of their device’s internal storage. Like other hardware components, storage chips have a limited lifetime that’s affected by how much they’re used. Android routinely runs maintenance on storage chips to extend their lifespan, but users currently cannot know how much life
Read MoreAfter months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.
Read MoreWhatsApp users in the U.S. will soon see support for real-time AI image generation. The Verge reports: As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with Meta AI, you’ll see how the image changes as you add more detail about what you want to create. In the example shared by Meta,
Read MoreThe Meta Quest 2 and its bundled controllers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Meta Quest 2 has been on sale for nearly a month, and today, Meta’s making that price permanent — $199 is the new sticker price for the virtual reality headset, the company announced today. That’s half what
Read MoreA jury found Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws governing fraud and market manipulation apply to the world of decentralized
Read MoreApple has been long rumored to be working on a HomePod with a full touch display that can show more than a waveform, and a new leak offers a look at the potential glossy display glass. HomePod could get a new display The HomePod and HomePod mini have a touch-sensitive glass surface, but it is
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results released on Thursday, Netflix announced that it will stop reporting quarterly membership numbers in 2025 because subscribers are “just one component” of its growth. The change comes after a quarter where it added 9.3 million subscribers,
Read MoreThe US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech — formerly known as Lambda School — with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices. From a report: The business, which claims on its site it will help students land their “dream job” in tech at companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Google,
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