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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets some accounts add an extra member outside their household for $7.99/month — Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is.
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| Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft plans to adopt the same plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot offerings — You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who manages the OpenAI partnership, as Microsoft adds Copilots to everything from Office to Terminal to Edge — Microsoft is putting AI Copilots in everything. Will it change the way we use computers? … Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott …
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| NBC News: |
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks — The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.
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| Philip Bump / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight — It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics sat squarely at the center of the national spectrum.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns — Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US sellers in “the next few months” — Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Google Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize … | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: |
Final Cut Pro for iPad review: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, and more — The long-awaited iPad version of Final Cut Pro is here and, with it, a touch-friendly design and accessible pricing.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China — And it's happening in plain sight. — Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US — Apple has announced a major new partnership with Broadcom, one of its long-time supplier partners.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds AI-generated app review summaries to the Microsoft Store and an AI Hub to highlight AI apps, designed to guide customers on their “AI journey” — Microsoft is making a big AI-focused change to the Microsoft Store: AI-generated review summaries are going to start appearing across … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google launches the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program, a bug bounty program for its Android applications, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $30K — Google has launched the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty program that will pay security researchers …
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| Will Gendron / Insider: |
Spotify is building AI tools trained on its hosts' voices to create targeted ads, per Bill Simmons, the founder of the Spotify-owned podcast network The Ringer — - Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer, hinted at Spotify's future AI plans. — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Copilot in Power Pages in preview, letting US customers use an AI assistant to build business data-centric websites using natural language — Microsoft wants to take the pain out of designing web pages. AI is its solution. — Today marks the launch of Copilot … | Wired: |
Multilingual language models may not be effective tools to moderate content on social networks due the systems' shortcomings in detecting harmful content — Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems' shortcomings can have vast consequences.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches Generative Fill in beta for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, rolling out fully in H2 2023 — / Generative Fill will arrive in Photoshop in ‘the second half of 2023.’ — Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative AI tool …
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony says it sold ~600K PS VR2 units during the first six weeks of availability since launching on February 22, 8% more than PS VR sales six weeks from launch — THE PS5 HEADSET SOLD AROUND 600,000 UNITS IN ITS FIRST SIX WEEKS — PlayStation VR2's early sales are ahead of what its PS4-powered predecessor managed, Sony has claimed.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user's finger — The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times its length.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company's OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP — Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric).
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