Apple unveiled the new iPad Pro with an M4 chip and the iPad Air lineup with an M2 chip at its 'Let Loose' event earlier this month. The Cupertino giant has reportedly added a new Battery Health menu on the 2024 generation tablets similar to the iPhone 15 series. This menu will show optimised charging options and data about the battery. It would allow users to limit the battery charge percentage … [Read more...]
Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer
a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63">Mike Krieger has a long history in tech and AI. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd … [Read more...]
I turned my Raspberry Pi into an AI voice assistant with OpenVoiceOS
When it comes to voice assistants, three names dominate the game. Siri was the first on the scene, shipping with new iOS devices in 2010. Next up was Cortana (though it was short-lived), followed by Alexa and Google Assistant, which have become the two biggest players. But what if I told you there was another option, an open-source option? Enter Open Voice OS, an open-source, modular voice … [Read more...]
Apple brings eye-tracking to recent iPhones and iPads
Ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day this week, Apple is issuing its typical annual set of announcements around its assistive features. Many of these are useful for people with disabilities, but also have broader applications as well. For instance, Personal Voice, which was released last year, helps preserve someone's speaking voice. It can be helpful to those who are at risk of losing … [Read more...]
Welcome to Notepad, a newsletter on Microsoft’s era-defining bets by Tom Warren
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Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product
Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo! recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer.As CPO, Krieger will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, management and design efforts, Anthropic says, as the company works to expand its suite of … [Read more...]
Venture firms form alliance to standardize data collection
Seven venture firms and organizations focused on diversity within tech have announced the Diversity Data Alliance, a commitment to standardizing the way that data is collected and shared. Data transparency remains a pressing issue within venture for people looking to better track where and to whom money is allocated. Many firms already privately compile background information on their founders, … [Read more...]
Netflix’s Terminator Zero anime starts streaming in August
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The Verge Launches “Notepad,” a Newsletter About Microsoft’s Era-defining Bets on AI and the Future of Computing, by Tom Warren
Every Thursday, The Verge’s veteran Microsoft reporter will uncover the secrets and strategy behind the world’s biggest software company for paid subscribersThe Verge today announced a new weekly paid newsletter, “Notepad,” uncovering the secrets and strategy behind Microsoft’s era-defining bets on AI, gaming, and computing. Led by veteran Microsoft reporter and senior editor Tom Warren, … [Read more...]
Alkira connects with $100M for a solution that connects your clouds
As cloud adoption continues to surge towards the $1 trillion mark in annual spend, we’re seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction with customers and investors for tools to help manage that usage. In the latest development, a startup called Alkira has raised $100 million for “network infrastructure as a service”, which lets users virtualize and orchestrate hybrid cloud assets to manage … [Read more...]
Turla APT Group Attacking European Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The well-known advanced persistent threat (APT) group Turla, based in Russia, is said to be going after the European Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This new cyber espionage attempt shows how innovative and persistent Turla is. The group has been active since 2004 and is known for its high-profile attacks on government agencies and key businesses worldwide. Free Webinar on Live API … [Read more...]
Google I/O 2024: Text-to-Image AI Model Imagen 3 Unveiled, Gets Improved Image Generation Capabilities
Google made several new announcements at its annual developer-focused Google I/O 2024 event. Among many artificial intelligence (AI) focused announcements made during the keynote session, one was particularly surprising. The tech giant introduced the next generation of its text-to-image AI model, Imagen 3. The new AI model was introduced just months after the launch of its predecessor Imagen 2, … [Read more...]
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
Nicholas Johnson founded a company because he lost a bet. Johnson was having dinner with some investors in Lyt, a road congestion management company he had co-founded. As the dinner conversation meandered, it settled on EV charging and how best to bring it to multi-family housing. Apartment dwellers who own EVs are often left with two less-than-ideal choices: public chargers or plugging their … [Read more...]
Ayaneo Flip DS review: A flipping great handheld with one major drawback
Ayaneo has been building crazy devices for quite a while now, with gaming handhelds and mini PCs taking all kinds of shapes and sizes. The Ayaneo Flip DS is one of the most interesting to be released by the company so far, though, and that's on account of its dual-screen nature. It obviously takes a ton of visual cues (not to mention naming cues) from the existing system of the same name from … [Read more...]
Threads gets its own fact-checking program
This might come as a shock to you but the things people put on social media aren't always truthful — really blew your mind there, right? Due to this, it can be challenging for people to know what's real without context or expertise in a specific area. That's part of why many platforms use a fact-checking team to keep an eye (often more so look like they're keeping an eye) on what's getting shared. … [Read more...]
Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks
Embedded finance is usually what we hear about when brands and non-financial businesses want to offer financial products or services — like banking, insurance, lending and payments — to provide a better user experience for customers. Layer is leaning into that better user experience, but with embedded accounting. Its customers are those, like Square or Toast, working with small and medium-sized … [Read more...]
Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms
While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI. The challenges are many. But a commonly recurring one is data management. The data that companies need to train, run and fine-tune AI models is disorganized, siloed, and otherwise unoptimized. In a 2022 survey by Great Expectations, an … [Read more...]
Social media users are blocking celebs to support Palestine
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Google I/O 2024: Google Unveils AI Video Generator Veo, Takes on OpenAI’s Sora
Google I/O 2024's keynote session was a 112-minute-long affair where the company made several major announcements focused on artificial intelligence (AI). The announcements ranged from new AI models to integration of AI into Google products, but perhaps one of the most interesting introductions was Veo, an AI-powered video generation model, that can generate 1080p resolution videos. The tech giant … [Read more...]
Google's Project Gameface hands-free 'mouse' launches on Android
At last year's Google I/O developer conference, the company introduced Project Gameface, a hands-free gaming "mouse" that allows users to control a computer's cursor with movements of their head and facial gestures. This year, Google has announced that it has open-sourced more code for Project Gameface, allowing developers to build Android applications that can use the technology.The tool relies … [Read more...]
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