The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a “warning label” saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents”
One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don't have the luxury to wait for perfect information.
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components
This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
A look at Apple's slow AI features rollout, impressive visionOS 2 beta, and plans for the thinnest, lightest devices in tech in time for the iPhone 17 in 2025
Apple will gradually roll out its new Intelligence features over several months, seeking to avoid the pitfalls that have plagued other AI systems.
McDonald's ends its IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru orders, plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26, and seeks a new partner
The Chicago-based fast-food giant is ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion.
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September
Logitech today unveiled an XR stylus that comes as Meta Quest's first third-party motion peripheral, targeting creatives working in both 2D and 3D media.
Report: the alleged ringleader of the Scattered Spider hacking group was arrested in Spain; sources say the accused is 22-year-old Scottish man Tyler Buchanan
A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider …Source:Murcia Today.
Google begins rolling out “Listen to this page” in Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages in US, UK, Indian, and Australian English
Chrome for Android has been working on its own text-to-speech (TTS) capability for a few months now, and Google is now rolling out “Listen to this page.”
YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English
YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos …
Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim
A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster's Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.
Copywriters detail how AI is affecting their jobs, with some noticing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less
If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future. X: @thomasgermain , @drantoniowrites , @carnage4life , @kristadiamond , @thomasgermain ...
Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia
Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend …
Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023
New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models.
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to $315M in a US IPO, offering shares for $18 to $21 each and targeting an up to $2.67B valuation
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How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators
As seen in MacRumors, iOS 18 beta testers can set a new Siri wake … X: Dave Winer / @davewiner : @johnspurlock John, I just heard about transcriptions a couple of days ago. Do I have to publish my pod...
TikTok expands its Symphony ad suite, adding AI dubbing and custom or stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors or created to resemble specific creators
how brands and creators can use the new twinning feature Kendra Barnett / The Drum : TikTok debuts humanlike AI-generated avatars & language dubbing for brands & creators Dwaipayan Roy / NewsBytes : T...
Experts say generative AI is set to make some finance and accounting skills redundant and free up time to focus more on value-added and often interesting tasks
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Sources: Wells Fargo's credit card with fintech startup Bilt, rewarding rent payments and gaining 1M+ signups in 18 months, costs the bank up to $10M per month
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Survey: 52% of US and 63% of UK respondents say they would be uneasy with news produced mostly using AI; 59% worry about false news content online, up 3% YoY
This study has been commissioned by the Reuters Institute for the Study … Dr Amy Ross Arguedas / Reuters Institute : Public attitudes towards the use of AI in journalism Reuters Institute : Reuters In...
The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms
The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription.
With new logos for Siri and Apple Intelligence, Apple joins OpenAI and others in AI branding that is simple, abstract, non-threatening, and non-anthropomorphic
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Sources: activist fund Starboard Value has taken a ~$500M stake in Autodesk and spoken to its board over concerns regarding a probe that led to its CFO's ouster
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Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind “super-unit” in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products
The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.
Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla
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Structure Research: tech companies' data center plans in India will push the nation from the sixth place to the top spot in Asia Pacific for self-built capacity
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Kids are interacting with AI in school and online, serving as testers for a new generation of tech, making them the ones to experience some of its worst effects
the smallest children may hear bedtime stories generated via ChatGPT by their parents, while older teens may run into chatbots on the apps they use every day—but this is now the reality.” https://www....
How Black founders are creating AI models like ChatBlackGPT and Latimer.ai that cater to Black and brown communities, as current AI models lack cultural nuance
TechCrunch : Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social . LinkedIn: Dominic-Madori Davis Mastodon: @TechDesk@flipboard.social : ChatGPT is one of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence tools but...
How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine
Steve Lohr / New York Times : Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
A Texas federal jury orders Amazon to pay nearly $122M to adtech company AlmondNet for infringing on two patents related to personalized ad targeting
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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