Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace
AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content
UK energy companies are only 57 percent through the rollout of smart meters nearly four years after the government’s first deadline for the £13.5 billion project
Hackers pulled off a $620 million crypto heist by tricking an engineer into applying for a fake job and opening an offer letter containing spyware, report says
ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing, and more
“Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor…The internal codename for the app is “Project 92,” and its public name could be Threads, based on internal documents also seen by The Verge. ..”
The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US
Exclusive: Google lays out its vision for securing AI…SAIF
an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper
WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app
Introducing – Paragraphica! 📡📷 A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo".
How Nvidia created the chip powering the generative AI boom
Dish in Talks to Sell Wireless Plans Through Amazon
“…A team of scientists at Washington University published a study on Thursday in the journal Nature Metabolism where they successfully used ultrasound to induce a hibernation-like state in mice and rats…help Astronauts Journey to Distant Worlds?…”
A new way to measure developer productivity – from the creators of DORA and SPACE
Teens Can Now Ride Ubers Solo With Supervised Accounts—and Parents’ Credit Cards…The app is granting 13- to 17-year-olds parent-supervised accounts for rides and food delivery
Disney World is shutting down its $2,500-a-night Star Wars-themed hotel
The amount of water stored in half of the largest lakes and reservoirs around the world is declining due to human activity and climate change, according to new research.
China’s semiconductor developers eye shift to RISC-V architecture amid growing chip demand in cars, data centres and AI, executive says
Disney+ Sheds 4 Million Subscribers in Second Straight Quarterly Drop, Streaming Losses Narrow by 26%
The Companies Trying to Make Live Shopping a Thing in the U.S.
Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty: Traffic Down 14% in March
“…mining infrastructure companies like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining are finding opportunities to repurpose their GPU-based equipment for another industry on the precipice of a possible boom: artificial intelligence….”
Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
Communication between different software systems can be established using either RPC (Remote Procedure Call) or RESTful (Representational State Transfer) protocols, which allow multiple systems to work together in distributed computing. pic.twitter.com/cvO3DoafES
ChatGPT and Generative AI in Banking: Reality, Hype, What’s Next, and How to Prepare
Bootstrapping Uber’s Infrastructure on arm64 with Zig
UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System
Mexico, where many work 6 days a week, considers the 40-hour workweek
WHO says Covid-19 emergency is over…UN health body declares end to acute phase of pandemic after at least 20mn deaths
Apple, Google, GM and the $1.5 Trillion Battle for the Car Dashboard
Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops
In February, Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime head of artificial intelligence, announced a stunning policy shift to his staff: They had to hold off sharing their work with the outside world.
Above the headlines, Apple’s revenue mix has been weirdly stable over the last 5 years. pic.twitter.com/2fCJ0oGYZQ
ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
Germany in Talks to Limit Export of Chip Chemicals to China
The company said the iOS App Store has 101 million users in Europe, whereas iPadOS has 23 million. The Mac App Store has 6 million, the tvOS App Store has 1 million, and the watchOS App Store has under 1 million
Smartphone Market woes continue with 14.6% Drop in first quarter this year, According to IDC Tracker
Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
Sony reports strong PS5 hardware sales as it closes in on 40 million units sold
Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust…video
A recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, means all five scientific instruments aboard Voyager 2 can stay active until 2026, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that’s 20 times what the city needs
Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
Sweden is building the world’s first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
“…Google also faces an existential dilemma. Its search business, which accounted for the majority of Alphabet’s annual revenues of $283bn in 2022, appears to be under direct threat…”
Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it….”…OpenAI’s GPT-2 model had a data set consisting of 40 gigabytes of text. GPT-3, which ChatGPT is based on, was trained on 570 GB of data. OpenAI has not shared how big the data set for its latest model, GPT-4, is…”
Atari acquires the rights to over 100 PC and console classics
“…IBM’s revenue increased 0.4% from a year earlier in the quarter, according to a statement. Net income rose 26% to $927 million, or $1.02 a share, for continuing operations….”
Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
Building telescopes on the Moon is becoming an achievable goal
Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits Android
Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY
Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
Google Fi gets third rebrand in 8 years, adds free trial for eSim phones
Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study
