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4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones::Find out how smartphone ownership has reached 4.3 billion people worldwide. Dive into the GSMA’s Mobile Internet Connectivity 2023 Report.
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4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones::Find out how smartphone ownership has reached 4.3 billion people worldwide. Dive into the GSMA’s Mobile Internet Connectivity 2023 Report.
Feminist media site Jezebel is suspending publication, as its owner reckons with a downturn in online advertising....
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added...
When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
Netflix shutters its DVD rental business, marking the end of the red envelope era::Netflix will send out its last red envelope on Friday, marking an end to 25 years of mailing DVDs to members.
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Microsoft finally explains cause of Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked::Other failures along the way included a signing key improperly appearing in a crash dump.
A cargo ship with 123-foot ‘WindWing’ sails has just departed on its maiden voyage::Retrofitted with 123-foot ‘WindWings,’ ‘Pyxis Ocean’ is testing two giant sails on its six-week journey from China to Brazil.
We knew this was coming, but now it’s official.
Apple will be able to update iPhones while they’re still in the box, report claims::No more updating right after you unpack your iPhone.
Toyota says lack of disk space shut down all of its factories::TOKYO (Reuters) – The malfunction that shut down all of Toyota Motor’s assembly plants in Japan for about a day last week occurred because some serve
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Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise::The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.
The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) students drove the SUV, which doubles as a small campervan, from Tangier in northern Morocco across dry riverbeds, steep mountain passes, and loose sand before arriving at the Sahara desert three days later....
Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers
Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data::House always wins, er, wait …
Back in the day, I knew what I would get from ASUS and their AURA tech. Pretty simple, just choose what you want and go. My LEDs did what I wanted, it was simple. But no… no they said. Instead we want you to download most of a gig of bullshit to do the same thing, but with extra fucking steps....
NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters::NASA retrieved a sample from an asteroid for the first time, providing scientists with material to understand the early origins of the solar system.
"BLASTPASS" bug can install malware without user interaction.
How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens...