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PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history (www.theregister.com)
Google Play Store quietly rolls out feature to uninstall apps remotely (www.androidauthority.com)
Google appears to have quietly rolled out a feature to the Play Store that allows users to remotely uninstall apps from other devices.
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower (hub.jhu.edu)
Bytom, Poland (discuss.tchncs.de)
gov.pl/…/pozar-w-zajezdni-autobusowej-przy-ulicy-…
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? (slrpnk.net)
A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up....
Samsung’s operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips (techcrunch.com)
We have Torrent. AND Magnet! (feddit.it)
in the center of France
Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)
Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs (arstechnica.com)
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’ (www.cnn.com)
Big Tech Is Faking AI (www.youtube.com)
A new report has shown that Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” AI checkout process is actually processed by 1,000 staff in India.Tech companies are under pressure to d…
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data (restofworld.org)
HeliBoard, a privacy-conscious open-source Android keyboard based on AOSP/now-unmaintained OpenBoard, is now available on F-Droid (f-droid.org)
HeliBoard keyboard is an improved fork of the now-unmaintained OpenBoard keyboard. It does not require internet permission, allowing it to be used 100% offline....
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Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024 (lifehacker.com)
The Android developer just published an updated landing page for Google Messages, showing off key features ranging from customization, privacy and security, and, of course, AI....
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster (www.livescience.com)
Polish (sh.itjust.works)
Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records (www.tomshardware.com)
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (www.theatlantic.com)
By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.
Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them (www.theguardian.com)
Public trust in AI is sinking across the board (www.axios.com)
Trust in AI technology and the companies that develop it is dropping, in both the U.S. and around the world, according to new data from Edelman shared first with Axios....
Dutch government scrambling to keep ASML in Netherlands (www.reuters.com)
Reddit keeps testing desktop UI changes ahead of its IPO (www.androidpolice.com)
Reddit keeps testing desktop UI changes ahead of its IPO::Are the developments related? We don’t know yet
HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors (arstechnica.com)
HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::“Never own a printer again.”
Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses (www.theguardian.com)
Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don't Get It, Analyst Says (gizmodo.com)
Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don’t Get It, Analyst Says::While Vision Pro returns were uncommon, many came down to owners not figuring out its spatial computing.
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
White House urges developers to dump C and C++::Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.
Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default (www.androidauthority.com)
This means:...
The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet (fortune.com)
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)
Bro went wild (lemmy.world)
OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)
Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser....
‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism (www.theguardian.com)
Teachers describe a deterioration in behaviour and attitudes that has proved to be fertile terrain for misogynistic influencers...
Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?
this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?
Wot The Fsck You Say, Spotify? (lemmy.world)
Edit: A couple times I’ve said eBook while I actually meant Audiobook. I’ve learned that Spotify has a 15 hour limit per month for their free ‘included in premium’ audiobooks. However these are the two books I listened to for free, and even rounding up to 13 hours it doesn’t make sense, unless they count accidental...
Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)
Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU....
Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle (9to5mac.com)
Bloomberg: Apple targets 2028 release date for its own electric vehicle::Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and…
Gen Z is choosing not to drive (www.newsweek.com)
Gen Z is choosing not to drive::Less Gen Z Americans own a driver’s license than previous generations, according to consulting firm McKinsey.
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode (arstechnica.com)
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode::Warning added to Chrome Canary as Google settles Incognito class-action suit.
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)
AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows (www.businessinsider.com)
AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows::The decision to install cameras in UK lay-bys aims to prevent littering but one campaign group described the approach as “meaningless.”
So many resources could be saved...
Todays electronics is fast. Imagine how much natural resources could be saved if manufacturers delivered software support until device is truly unusable due to hardware limitations....
Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure (deadline.com)
Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure::Former Vice President Al Gore will exit Apple’s board of directors, the company said in an SEC filing that also revealed a pay drop for CEO Tim Cook.