Once Ireland’s first professor in data analytics, DCU’s Prof Tomás Ward explains why he thinks fear of AI is often ‘misplaced’ and why Ireland has a real opportunity to do world-class research in this area. Read more: Why AI will make our lives better, under the right direction
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: After decades of progress in the U.S. toward cleaner air, climate change-related events will cause a steady deterioration through 2054. New research from the nonprofit First Street Foundation is part of a hyperlocal air quality model showing shifts down to the property level between 2024 and 2054.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Messages could soon get an Instagram-like gesture to react to messages. The company could replace the long-press action for reactions with a quicker double-tap gesture. Google is reportedly testing a new way for users to react to chats in Google Messages. Instead of long-pressing a message to pull
Read MoreAlthough the technology has previously been employed during Pakistan’s notoriously oppressive election season, this instance garnered international notice. Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been in jail for the entire electoral campaign and was disqualified from running. With the U.S. presidential campaign trail on its way for the 2024 elections, this deepfake in Pakistan was done
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has confirmed it’s not a mistake — your Amazon Prime Video subscription no longer includes Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos surround sound. That’s on top of the ads that Amazon injected into the service on January 29th. Now, when you pay $2.99 a month to remove
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In an email sent to users Monday evening, Peloton revealed that starting February 27th, it will start transitioning Apple Watch users from GymKit to Peloton One-Tap tracking. GymKit integration was once marketed by Peloton as an exclusive perk of its more expensive Bike Plus, but it’s become less
Read MoreThose days are gone when remembering phone numbers used to be very important. These days, people don’t care to remember anyone’s phone number because contact manager apps do it for free. I have met people who aren’t sure of their own phone numbers as well; they often end up asking others for their phone numbers.
Read MoreAI guardrails and safety features are as important to get right as they are difficult to implement in a way that satisfies everyone. This means safety features tend to err on the side of caution. Side effects include AI models adopting a vaguely obsequious tone, and coming off as overly priggish when they refuse reasonable
Read MoreResearchers have made significant progress toward developing a blood test that can predict the risk of dementia up to 15 years before clinical diagnosis. The Guardian reports: Hopes for the test were raised after scientists discovered biological markers for the condition in blood samples collected from more than 50,000 healthy volunteers enrolled in the UK
Read MoreIt’s not completely clear if a FCC commissioner understands what he’s taking about, as he calls for antitrust action against Apple for its systematic shutdown of the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini app. iMessage is an Apple technology The United States government has multiple antitrust investigations looking into Apple’s control of the App Store and its services
Read MoreA class-action lawsuit alleges (PDF) that Amazon manipulates its platform through a biased algorithm to favor the “Buy Box” for items that generate higher fees for Amazon, often leading consumers to overpay for products that could be obtained cheaper and just as quickly from other sellers on the platform. Ars Technica reports: The lawsuit claims
Read MoreIn a post on Threads today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Twitter rival is rolling out a new test in the U.S. that shows a list of popular topics that other people are discussing. It’s a core feature of Twitter (now “X”) that should help make it easier to find new posts and
Read MoreWhile the proliferation of the smartphone has caused the personal music player (PMP) market to mostly evaporate, there are still those who prefer a standalone device for their music. The Melodio Self-Mate is one such spiritual successor to the iPod. Music-only devices really benefit from the wheel interface pioneered by Apple, so we still see
Read MoreA registered sex offender has become the first person in England and Wales to be convicted of cyber-flashing. The BBC reports: Nicholas Hawkes, 39, of Basildon, Essex, sent unsolicited photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman on Friday. The woman took screenshots of the image on WhatsApp and reported Hawkes
Read MoreImage: NFL A crane shot slowly sweeps down toward a massive, billowing rose-red cape attached to someone playing an equally red grand piano. As the camera closes in on the figure, you realize it’s Alicia Keys, playing the descending triplets that begin “If I Ain’t Got You,” one of her earliest and biggest hits. Her
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off in the company’s third round of job cuts last year. Not long after, music fans around the world realized that the cult-favorite website Every Noise at Once (EveryNoise), an encyclopedic goldmine
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The US government has committed $42 million to further the development of the 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) standard that would allow wireless providers to mix and match cellular hardware and software, opening up a bigger market for third-party equipment that’s cheaper and interoperable. The National Telecommunications
Read MoreStarting today, telcos in American will need to disclose system break-ins within seven days. “[T]he same deadline now exists to report any data leaks to the FBI and US Secret Service as well,” adds The Register. From the report: After releasing a proposed rule in early January and giving the industry 30 days to respond,
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Apple’s response to Beeper Mini — the app that briefly brought iMessage to Android. During the State of the Net Conference on Monday, Carr said the FCC should look into whether Apple’s move “complies
Read MoreFT Alphaville: Last year, Norway’s $1.5tn sovereign wealth fund revealed that it had lost NKr980mn, roughly $92mn, on an error relating to how it calculated its mandated benchmark. Here’s what Norges Bank Investment Management said at the time: “In February this year, a calculation error was discovered in the composition of the index we’re measured
Read MoreImage: The Verge Were you aware that the “.af” domain extension is administered by Afghanistan’s government? That’s a truth that the “queer.af” Mastodon instance is now reckoning with as the Taliban, which has controlled the country since 2021, has shut down the domain, according to 404 Media. And it may not be alone, given reports
Read MoreGoogle’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the Tiobe language popularity index. The language, now in the eighth ranked position for language popularity, has been slowly climbing for the past several years. Go, which is probably best known as the language used to develop Docker and Kubernetes, climbed to the
Read MoreCollins spacesuit during the test | Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace, a private company hired to create spacesuits for use outside the International Space Station (ISS), has tested its suit aboard a commercial microgravity flight, passing a milestone that lets engineers move forward toward critical design review. NASA outsourced the design of new spacesuits in 2022
Read MoreIf you’ve been in the Android sphere long enough, and you’re more than just a casual user — which is probably true, if you’re at Android Authority — you’ve probably heard people talking about APK files. You might even have a vague sense of what they are. In this guide though we’ll offer a more
Read MoreContrary to shareholders’ opinions on the matter, a survey of union-aligned Apple retail workers finds many employees believe the company holds contempt for workers who attempt to unionize. IAM CORE Apple has long been accused of employing anti-union tactic. against workers wishing to organize. As a result, the company agreed to undergo a third-party assessment
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