At least six major tech companies, including Adobe, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok, plan to sign an agreement this week that details how they’ll attempt to stop the use of AI-generated election misinformation and deepfakes. ABC News reports: “In a critical year for global elections, technology companies are working on an accord to combat
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg wearing the Quest 3 headset. | Image: Meta Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple’s Vision Pro are flying left and right. Entering the chat is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has more at stake than perhaps anyone on earth if Apple does
Read MoreLess than a week after naming Laura Chambers as interim CEO, Firefox’s maker Mozilla said it is cutting about 60 jobs, or 5% of its workforce. The cuts are primarily in the product development organization. Bloomberg reports: “We’re scaling back investment in some product areas in order to focus on areas that we feel have
Read MoreMichael Larabel writes via Phoronix: While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA’s CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers. The tooling has improved such as with HIPIFY to help in auto-generating but it isn’t any
Read MoreMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally tried Apple Vision Pro, stating the “seven times less expensive” Meta Quest 3 is “better for the vast majority of things that people use mixed reality for.” Meta Quest 3 Apple has never directly competed with Meta in the traditional sense. It was sometimes a thorn in its side
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nintendo’s Satellaview, a Japan-only satellite add-on for the Super Famicom, is a rich target for preservationists because it was the home to some of the most ephemeral games ever released. That includes a host of content for Nintendo’s own games, including F-Zero. That influential Super Nintendo
Read MoreMajor tech companies will try just about anything these days to keep you inside their ecosystem, and Meta is no exception. One of the company’s quieter efforts along those lines is Meta Pay. In this guide we’ll explain the platform, and help you set it up if you’re interested in taking the leap. JUMP TO
Read MoreBart Andre has been with Apple since 1992, is Apple’s longest-serving industrial designer, and intends to leave the company soon. iPhone 15 Pro There have been several high-profile departures from Apple’s design team since Jony Ive left in 2019. Ongoing concerns with a culture change and Jeff Williams at the head of the design team
Read MoreWhat’s a dual gantry 3D printer? It’s a machine with two completely independent XY motion systems, with two independent hot ends, sharing the same build platform. That might be a little hard to visualize, so head over to [Zruncho 3D]’s Dueling Zero project and get a good look at what what a dual gantry machine
Read MoreMajor tech companies will try just about anything these days to keep you inside their ecosystem, and Meta is no exception. One of the company’s quieter efforts along those lines is Meta Pay. In this guide we’ll explain the platform, and help you set it up if you’re interested in taking the leap. JUMP TO
Read MoreOpenAI must face a claim that it violated California unfair competition law by using copyrighted books from comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors to train ChatGPT without permission. From a report: But US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on Monday also dismissed a number of Silverman and her coplaintiffs’ other legal claims, including allegations of vicarious
Read MorePhoto by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Walmart is eyeing a $2 billion deal to buy the TV maker Vizio, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The deal would put the retail chain in a better position to compete with the affordable smart TVs from Roku and Amazon than its
Read MorePhoto by Patrick Smith / Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I hope all you East Coasters had a cozy nor’easter. By the time the snow stopped this morning and I tried to take my baby outside for some winter frolicking,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) maintains that artificial intelligence systems cannot be named inventors, but humans can use AI tools in the process of creating patented inventions and must disclose if they do. The agency published its latest guidance following a series of “listening” tours to
Read MoreSean O’Kane reports via TechCrunch: Waymo is voluntarily recalling the software that powers its robotaxi fleet after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona, in December. It’s the company’s first recall. Waymo chief safety officer Mauricio Pena described the crashes as “minor” in a blog post, and said neither vehicle
Read MoreStanley says it uses some lead in its “industry-standard” manufacturing process, so we asked if other brands do the same.
Read MoreSpeaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that “very subtle societal misalignments” could make artificial intelligence systems wreak havoc. The Associated Press reports: “There’s some things in there that are easy to imagine where things really go wrong. And I’m not that interested in the killer robots
Read MoreDevelopers had little chance to develop apps with Apple Vision Pro hardware before its February 2 launch, resulting in a slow native app rollout of about 11 days to reach 1,000 total. The visionOS App Store Before the Apple Vision Pro launch, there was some concern about how many native experiences would be available when
Read MoreWe thought we’d spotlighted some good Samsung smartwatch deals this morning, but Amazon was holding out on us. The retailer just dropped the best Galaxy Watch 5 deal ever, and that’s not hyperbole. The 44mm LTE model of the wearable just dived to $179.99 — a full 50% off retail. Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 (44mm,
Read MoreLG has confirmed that customers should see AirPlay-compatible TVs in select hotels sometime in the spring. AirPlay in hotels Apple released iOS 17.3 with the AirPlay in hotels feature in January, but hotels have to have a compatible TV to use the feature. It was originally expected to roll out in late 2023, but that
Read MoreAccording to the Wall Street Journal, Walmart is in talks to buy TV manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion. Shares of Vizio jumped 36% after the report, while Walmart’s shares were down about 1%. From the report: Walmart, including its Sam’s Club chain, has historically been Vizio’s largest customer. Vizio is historically the largest
Read MoreWith his young son’s birthday coming up in a few weeks, [Mike Buss] wanted to build him something fun that the boy could hold on to all his life. After doing some sketching, [Mike] arrived at the idea to make a memory box uses a fingerprint scanner to show different pictures based on the fingerprint.
Read MoreEstate agents are increasingly using AI tools to digitally furnish empty rental flats, a practice known as “virtual staging,” to make them look occupied in listings. While virtual staging has existed for years, AI advancements have made the process faster and cheaper. One major UK estate agency already offers AI staging services to customers, Vice
Read MoreApple’s rumored HomePod with a seven-inch display has allegedly made an unexpected appearance in the third tvOS 17.4 developer beta, with references pointing to an unreleased device with a screen. An artist’s rendition of a HomePod with a display Rumors have put forward the idea of a version of the HomePod with a display for
Read MoreThe endangered Steppe Eagle is one of the migratory species that has become even more threatened in the past 30 years, according to a new UN report. | Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images More than one in five migratory species officially deemed in need of international protection are now in danger
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