Apple’s Vision Pro Will Be Infused With AI Smarts: Report
Apple Intelligence will come to the spatial computing device, but not alongside iPhones and Macs, according to Bloomberg.
Month: July 2024
U.S. SEC Sues Crypto-Friend Silvergate Bank, Alleging ‘Misleading’ Statements Around AML Program
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Silvergate Bank’s parent entity and its former executives on Monday.
This is Big Tech’s playbook for swallowing the AI industry
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. | Photo by Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images A couple of months ago, I was sitting in the audience at a tech conference in San Fransisco watching Bloomberg’s Emily Chang interview Reid Hoffman. She asked about Microsoft’s hiring of the team behind Inflection, a would-be OpenAI competitor that Hoffman co-founded. … Read more
Experts say latest SCOTUS opinions will limit SEC power over crypto
The conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court sided with two majority opinions that could have lasting implications for federal agencies to enforce laws.
When RAND made magic in Santa Monica
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ChatGPT Could Send Users to Malicious Sites: Report
OpenAI’s chatbot provided links to a pop-up ridden, malware infested website, according to Futurism.
An open letter to the United Nations
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At 0.72 pounds, Vaio’s first portable monitor is one of the lightest ever
Image: Vaio Would you believe today marks an entire decade since Sony spun out its Vaio computer brand? Vaio has stood for lightweight laptops pretty much ever since — and now the company’s announcing one of the lightest-ever portable monitors to go with them. The Vaio Vision Plus 14 goes on sale today in Japan … Read more
Price analysis 7/1: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, TON, DOGE, ADA
Bitcoin and the wider crypto market have historically rallied in July, but traders are worried that the Mt. Gox repayments could impact the strength of this trend.
Kenya Protest Leaders See Crypto as Alternative to Unfair System
As violent protests rage on in Kenya’s capital city, the youth are looking to crypto as a solution to their problems.
Clean energy has become an even more divided topic in the US
Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images While the majority of Americans would like to see more clean energy from solar and wind farms — support for new renewable energy projects has started to wane, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. It also found a drop in interest in electric vehicles following Biden … Read more
A Git story: Not so fun this time
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GameStop Stock Falls 9% as Roaring Kitty Turns His Attention to Chewy
Has GameStop bull trader Roaring Kitty (aka Keith Gill) left behind his favorite meme stock for good? GME investors are jumping ship.
EU MiCA stablecoin regulations come into effect: Law Decoded
Noncompliant stablecoin issuers could potentially exit the EU market entirely, with a shift toward euro-backed stablecoins as demand picks up in European markets.
Build a self-service digital assistant using Amazon Lex and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock
Organizations strive to implement efficient, scalable, cost-effective, and automated customer support solutions without compromising the customer experience. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots play a crucial role in delivering human-like interactions by providing responses from a knowledge base without the involvement of live agents. These chatbots can be efficiently utilized for handling generic inquiries, freeing up … Read more
Identify idle endpoints in Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is a machine learning (ML) platform designed to simplify the process of building, training, deploying, and managing ML models at scale. With a comprehensive suite of tools and services, SageMaker offers developers and data scientists the resources they need to accelerate the development and deployment of ML solutions. In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, … Read more
‘Moonray’ Begins Play-to-Airdrop Push Alongside Epic Games Store Launch
Combat game Moonray looks to climb the Epic Games Store leaderboards with its play-to-airdrop campaign ahead of its Ethereum token launch.
Indian language RAG with Cohere multilingual embeddings and Anthropic Claude 3 on Amazon Bedrock
Media and entertainment companies serve multilingual audiences with a wide range of content catering to diverse audience segments. These enterprises have access to massive amounts of data collected over their many years of operations. Much of this data is unstructured text and images. Conventional approaches to analyzing unstructured data for generating new content rely on … Read more
George Santos’ Q-Themed Token Plummets After Former Lawmaker Steps Aside
For a few days, the ousted lawmaker George Santos stood by his conspiracy-themed cryptocurrency. When he backed away, Q’s price collapsed.
AI Won’t Destroy Mankind—Unless We Tell It To, Says Near Protocol Founder
Illia Polosukhin, a key architect in modern AI, told CNBC that it’s humans that start wars. Experts remain worried.
3 reasons why Bitcoin (BTC) is up today
Weak tech corporate earnings, spot Bitcoin ETF inflows and the potential arrival of a new major investor drove Bitcoin price above $63,000.
Some Pixel 6 owners say factory resets have bricked their phones
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Some folks are reporting being left with bricked Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and 6A phones after they factory reset them. Google is aware of the issue and is investigating, according to a comment from a member of the Pixel support forums’ product expert program. Users in the forum … Read more
Apple already considers the first HomePod ‘vintage’
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple says the iPhone X, first-generation AirPods, and first-generation HomePod are now considered “vintage,” as reported by MacRumors. So, if you own a first-generation HomePod — or multiple, like the person I sold my HomePod to in 2022 — it might sting to hear that Apple already considers … Read more
The best fitness trackers to buy right now
Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From simple fitness bands and rugged sports watches to rings, these are the best trackers you can get. Continue reading…