The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps
New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …
Google is aware of a “very small” number of Pixel Watch 2 users reporting their watch's backplate falling off and is working to find the cause and fix the issue
Several users report the back of the Pixel Watch just falls off after a short time. — UPDATE: GOOGLE STATEMENT
Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says cloud gaming has many technical difficulties and the company could utilize its AI agent GT Sophy to enhance cloud gaming
Promise of technology remains unfulfilled after more than a decade of development — Sony's chief executive has warned that cloud gaming …
A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs
A Kenyan court has ruled that Meta is the primary employer of content moderators suing the social media giant and its content review partner …
Five teams at DEF CON 2023 will try to hack a US-funded cubesat Moonlighter, the first time DEF CON hackers will get a chance to hack a live, in-orbit satellite
'World's first and only' orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday — FEATURE Assuming the weather and engineering gods cooperate …
AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers
AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation. LinkedIn: Pascale Fung , Hans Uszkoreit , Yasmina Jraissati , and S...
Seattle-based Hubble Network, which aims to build a global satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled sensor or device can connect to, raised a $20M Series A
Bluetooth-enabled devices are ubiquitous, but how those devices are used is constrained by the relatively short range provided by Bluetooth technology.
Swing Education, an online marketplace that connects schools and substitute teachers, raised a $38M Series C, bringing its total funding to $60.8M
Swing Education raised $38 million in a Series C round aimed at helping the company, which connects schools with substitute teachers …
Some Montana residents speak about the state's highly politicized TikTok ban, including one of the influencers who is suing the state to overturn the ban
How a highly politicized social media ban in Big Sky Country sparked a nationwide debate over freedom of speech
A look at the ad-supported, free dual screen TV from Ilya Pozin's Telly, which says its data and analytics collection will be on par with other TV vendors
More than 250,000 people have signed up in hopes of getting Telly's unique TV. There's something to this concept, but plenty of unknowns remain.
Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months
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Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, its politics of attention, power of federated networks, more
We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer. Tweets: @ethanz , @glichfield , and ...
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”
YouTube didn't provide further examples of what factors or instances it considered when weighing its decision https://www.axios.com/... Wyatt / @wyattausterre1 : Getting ready so they can allow the fl...
Interviews, pitch decks, and documents suggest that the recent success of Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people … LinkedIn: Jon Lam . Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social . Tw...
Scientists and DNA sequencing startup Illumina identified 4.3M genetic variants in ~800 primates and then used AI to predict genetic health risks in 454K humans
and our past Ioanna Lykiardopoulou / TNW : AI trained on ape DNA predicts genetic disease risks for humans Tweets: Francis deSouza / @fdesouza : @illumina's groundbreaking PrimateAI-3D (trained on 233...
A look at Berlin-based Rocket Internet, as founder Oliver Samwer transforms one of Europe's most aggressive tech VCs into a more conservative investment house
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Vimeo plans to end support for its Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, and Roku apps on June 27, 2023, saying casting will give users a “better ongoing experience”
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With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple's MR headset could lure back VCs
or join VR and AR duds Aliyu Pokima / ZyCrypto : Apple Set To Launch Mixed Reality Headset: Here's What We Know So Far And The Battle With Meta Livemint : Apple's Headset Has Metaverse Believers Hopin...
A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services
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Sources: telecom ministers from 18 EU countries either rejected or criticized a push by European telcos to force Big Tech to help fund 5G and broadband rollouts
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
Harvard's popular CS50 MOOC plans to use AI to grade assignments, teach coding, and personalize learning tips, and is testing a virtual TA for student feedback
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
A profile of Nvidia: how Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky started the company at Denny's, bet early on what Huang calls “$0B markets”, and more
#AI made NVIDIA the world's most valuable chip maker. … Tweets: Heather Haddon / @heatherhaddon : How Denny's factored into a the birth of a trillion dollar company. “We were not good customers,” Nvid...
Sources: Zume, which used robots to automate pizza making, shuts down and is undergoing liquidation; the startup had raised $445M, including $375M from SoftBank
“hey let's give a startup with an unproven product a gigantic boatload of capital” Finally over. @erinkwoo https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Erin Woo / @erinkwoo : scoop: Zume, the robot-pizza-del...
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