Hands-on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8" QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October
Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
Ahead of child safety group's campaign to pressure Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says such sans may lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences”
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
Lenovo unveils $4,400 Legion 9i, a gaming laptop with liquid-cooling, 16" Mini LED display, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, available in Oct.
Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I've ever seen from the Legion line.
University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing
University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
Lenovo unveils $329 Legion Glasses with 60Hz displays, equivalent to a 27" monitor, that works with Legion Go, Android phones, iPhones, Macs, and Windows PCs
Finally, a gaming face peripheral that doesn't give me a headache — Gaming on the go is easier than ever …
A look at Starfield, a game by Microsoft's Bethesda with 1,000 explorable planets, set for September 6 after a 10-month delay, as Microsoft needs an Xbox hit
Alright everybody, strap yourselves in. This is gonna be a bumpy ride. Jordan Middler / Video Games Chronicle : Review: Starfield is the ultimate Bethesda game Matt Miller / Game Informer : Starfield...
Sony unveils Xperia 5 V, with a 120Hz, 6.1" display, Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chip, a 52MP sensor, and a heat diffusion shield, available in late September for €999
It also has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor and heat diffusion shield for gamers. — Sony has unveiled the Xperia 5 V smartphone …
Robinhood says it paid nearly $606M to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of Sam Bankman-Fried, via an agreement with the US Marshal Service
Stock-trading app Robinhood on Friday said it paid nearly $606 million to repurchase shares held by an affiliate of jailed crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried.
Magic Leap tells customers the Magic Leap 1 AR headset, which launched in August 2018, and its apps will “cease to function” from December 31, 2024
Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will “cease to function” from 31 December 2024, the company announced. — Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following:
A US district judge temporarily blocks an Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to open social media accounts that was set to take effect on Sep. 1
If allowed to go into effect, any “new” social media profile would require independent age verification. … X: Rebecca Kern / @rebeccamkern : New - Federal judge blocks Arkansas parental consent law fr...
Honor says Magic V2, its foldable phone launched in China in July 2023, will come to Europe, UK and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024 for around €1,500
The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch. Ouch. — • — TL;DR
A US district judge grants a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires age verification to access porn sites
Two of the blocked laws would have required third party age verification to access pornographic websites (in Texas) and social media (in Arkansas). … X: Mike Stabile / @mikestabile : “A party cannot s...
New York-based Benitago, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer that has raised $380M in equity and debt in the past two years, files for bankruptcy
Benitago Group, an Amazon e-commerce business acquirer, filed for bankruptcy this week. The move comes after the New York-based company raised $380 million …
Paris becomes the first European capital to outlaw rented electric scooters, following a vote in April; e-scooter rental companies shift focus to electric bikes
Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle / New York Times :
Meta is testing a “For you on Threads” carousel in Instagram, with a button to open the Threads app, after adding a “Send to Instagram DM” button in Threads
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing
https://www.wsj.com/... David P / @the_dp@mastodon.social : “Musk's anti-woke sentiments were partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child, Xavier, then 16, to transition. ” Hey, I'm transgen...
AI hasn't stemmed the yearslong startup downturn; PitchBook: US venture funding fell by almost half in Q2 2023, as generative AI investments rose 65% to $3.3B
Venture investors are realizing that generative artificial intelligence might not be enough to stem yearslong startup downturn
Binance plans to “gradually” end support for its BUSD stablecoin by February 2024, as “Paxos halted minting of new BUSD” after an NYDFS order in February 2023
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
Elon Musk says X users will be able to make video and audio calls without sharing a phone number, as X “is the effective global address book”, but gives no date
It felt like the right thing to do, especially after seeing this garbage: https://arstechnica.com/... As one commenter said: “Elon Musk wants my biometric data? I know exactly which finger to give h...
Meta releases FACET, an AI benchmarking tool for evaluating the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people
We're excited to announce that DINOv2, a cutting-edge computer vision … Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Meta Launches Tool to Detect Bias in AI Computer Vision Systems Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : Meta unv...
Dell reports Q2 revenue down 13% YoY to $22.9B, vs. $20.8B est., Client Solutions down 16% to $12.9B, Infrastructure Solutions down 11% to $8.5B; DELL jumps 7%+
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Google removes controversial live streaming app Chamet, which let users video call hosts, from the Play Store for violating its user-generated content policy
Google has removed a popular but controversial live video chat app Chamet from the Play Store. The company confirmed the move …
Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work
SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten says the cybersecurity company is not for sale, following an August report claiming the company was looking to sell
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Google launches its Search Generative Experience in India and Japan via a Search Labs opt-in, after the US debut of the AI search feature in preview in May 2023
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Herodotus and StarkWare unveil a developer tool to verify data at any point in Ethereum's history, overcoming a current verification limit of 256 blockhashes
Vishal Chawla / The Block :
Beta Bionics, which recently won FDA approval for its automated insulin dosing software, raised a $100M Series D, bringing its total funding to $293.5M
Andrea Park / Fierce Biotech :
Network security company LogicMonitor confirms “a security incident”, a source says due to assigning customers' default passwords, like “Welcome@” plus a number
Sources: EU regulators plan to block Booking.com's €1.63B acquisition of Sweden-based Etraveli due to competition concerns; UK's CMA approved the deal in 2022
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times :
The US Department of Commerce says the government “has not blocked chip sales to the Middle East”, after an Nvidia filing revealed new US export license rules
YouTube Music redesigns its Now Playing screen on Android and iOS with larger cover art and a comments section, after launching real-time lyrics last week
London-based telehealth startup Babylon Health, once valued at ~$2B after being backed by DeepMind and others, is being sold for parts after going bankrupt
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says the company blocked 8.2M+ accounts in 2023, mostly using AI
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Otto, formerly TeleVet, which makes software for veterinary clinics, raised a $43M Series B led by Mercury Fund, which led its $5M Series A in December 2022
Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes lays off 100+ employees in preparation of a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units
Sources: CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, seeks a ~10% equity sale at a $5B to $8B valuation; source: CoreWeave projects $1.5B in 2024 revenue
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