Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Yesterday, I reported that Meta’s AI image generator was making everyone Asian, even when the text prompt specified another race. Today, I briefly had the opposite problem: I was unable to generate any Asian people using the same prompts as the day before. The tests I did yesterday
Read MoreIf you’re a developer who applied to attend WWDC, Apple has begun notifying the lucky few selected to attend in person. WWDC is held at Apple Park Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference takes place every June, and while it is mostly prerecorded video, there is still an in-person component. Swift Student Challenge winners, press, and some
Read MoreThe Document Foundation: Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the Minister-President: “Independent, sustainable,
Read MoreOnePlus’ budget-friendly phone is on sale for only $20 more than it was during Black Friday. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge It can be easy to forget affordable champs like the OnePlus Nord N30 5G when you’ve got iPhone 15s and Galaxy S24s dominating store shelves and circulars. It’s our favorite budget
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Israel’s military has been using artificial intelligence to help choose its bombing targets in Gaza, sacrificing accuracy in favor of speed and killing thousands of civilians in the process, according to an investigation by Israel-based publications +972 Magazine and Local Call. The system, called
Read MoreThe use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform’s terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said. Bloomberg: In his first public remarks on the topic, Mohan said he had no firsthand knowledge of whether OpenAI had, in fact, used YouTube videos to refine its
Read MoreZen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable. But he still may have shaped how the app is viewed in Washington.
Read MoreTesla wants Apple to testify in an upcoming wrongful death lawsuit over its Autopilot feature, by proving the Apple engineer behind the wheel was playing games instead of paying attention. A Tesla Tesla faces a trial on April 8 over a fatal crash from 2018 involving its Autopilot feature, and whether its software is at
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is suing two scammers it says have threatened the integrity of the Play Store. The two fraudsters are accused of uploading a total of 87 fake crypto apps to the marketplace. Over 100,000 people worldwide were affected by the scams. The Google Play Store implements a variety
Read MoreHave you just purchased a new graphics card for your PC only to find that Windows 11 isn’t detecting it? We can feel your pain, but don’t worry—these types of things can easily be sorted. Windows 11 may not detect Graphics card problems for various reasons, such as incorrect installation of the GPU, incompatibility issues,
Read MoreImage: Lucasfilm Disney Plus is on a run of turning Marvel and Star Wars stories into animated anthologies, and that’s not stopping anytime soon. The latest is Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, a follow-up to 2022’s Tales of the Jedi, which, naturally, explores the dark side of the Force. It starts streaming on Disney
Read MoreGoogle Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history. From a report: I was able to find the AI-generated books with the same method we’ve previously used to find AI-generated
Read MoreAt some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to increase voltage or current, and currents above say 10 A require significantly beefed up components. This is how you’re able to
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Getty Images As Paul Sun-Hyung Lee sees it, truly loving a genre franchise means wanting to share it and pass it along to the next generation of fans. Continue reading…
Read MoreWe live in a world where anything seems possible with artificial intelligence. While there are significant benefits to AI in certain industries, such as healthcare, a darker side has also emerged. It has increased the risk of bad actors mounting new types of cyber-attacks, as well as manipulating audio and video for fraud and virtual
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is going to court next week over the role its Autopilot system played in a fatal crash in 2018 — and it wants Apple to testify in its defense. Tesla wants to prove that Apple engineer Wei “Walter” Huang was playing a video game on his phone
Read MoreMicrosoft is working on a new feature for its Edge browser that will let you limit the amount of RAM it uses. From a report: Leopeva64, who is one of the best at finding new Edge features, has spotted a new settings section in test builds of the browser that includes a slider so you
Read MoreFollowing Taiwan’s earthquake, Apple chip partner TSMC has started up its production lines in the territory, minimizing the downtime for this aspect of Apple’s supply chain. TSMC sign On Wednesday, Taiwan suffered a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that killed at least nine people and injured over 800 residents. The seismic event caused destruction of buildings and infrastructure,
Read MoreAndroid 15 will add a new feature that can automatically turn on Bluetooth the day after you’ve disabled it. Your phone’s Bluetooth radio is used for several key Android features, such as Quick Share and Find My Device. Disabling Bluetooth will slightly improve battery, but the trade-off is that your device won’t be able to
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Google’s answer to Apple’s Find My network and AirTags seems to be imminent. Leaks have intensified over the last few days, and the latest one suggests we might only be three days away from the network’s launch. As a frequent traveler and a
Read MoreThe biggest ever 3D map of the universe, featuring more than 6m galaxies, has been revealed by scientists who said it raised questions about the nature of dark energy and the future of the universe. From a report: The map is based on data collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (Desi) in Arizona and
Read MoreApple resellers continue to blow out remaining M2 MacBook Air 15-inch inventory, with this week’s $400 discount available on the top-of-the-line configuration with 24GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. The $400 discount on the upgraded configuration in Midnight is courtesy of Apple Authorized Reseller B&H Photo. Now on sale for $2,099, the closeout configuration
Read MoreDespite making pledges to cut down on plastic packaging, a new report from the nonprofit conservation organization Oceana estimates that Amazon’s plastic waste has continued to grow in the US. From a report: The company created 208 million pounds of plastic waste from its packaging in the US in 2022 alone, which Oceana says is
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Google has sent out an email to some users to inform them that the Find My Device network will be launching soon. The email states that the network will go live “in 3 days.” It’s unclear if the email was sent out earlier than intended. After nearly a year
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has built one of the world’s most efficient delivery systems. Yet people regularly ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, often with little to no penalty, merchants say. Amazon has long believed in a system based on pleasing customers above all, including easy returns, but
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