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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel Fold with a 120Hz 7.6" main screen, a 5.8" exterior screen, a Tensor G2, and 12GB of RAM, for preorder now and arriving in June — Google's first foldable phone feels like what I always wanted from the Surface Duo to be. — I've been using some version …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the Pixel 7a with a 6.1-inch 90Hz screen, a fingerprint sensor, Face Unlock, wireless charging, and a 64MP camera, available on May 11 for $499 — Over the years, Google's Pixel phones have gained a reputation for having an exceptional camera, a clean Android experience, and smarts you won't find on any other phone.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google unveils the $499 Pixel Tablet with a Tensor G2, an 11-inch display, and an 8MP front-facing camera, available for preorder now and arriving in June 2023 — Google's got a tablet, again. The Pixel Tablet, originally teased last year, is finally arriving in June after a detailed reveal …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an AI-powered “snapshot” that summarizes search results with links to sites “corroborating” the information — Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation from Adobe and integration with services like Instacart — Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Brady Snyder / XDA Developers: |
Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google's early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools — Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now. Here's how to get started.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted — There are still some major limitations to the feature. — Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils new security features, including expanding the “dark web report” feature, which scans the dark web for a Gmail address, to all US Gmail accounts — / Google is adding its dark web reporting tool to all Gmail accounts in the US, with plans to expand to ‘select international markets.’| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn't breach its internal network — Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted …
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| Google on YouTube: |
A video of the Google I/O 2023 keynote, where the company announced the Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, its PaLM 2 general-use LLM, Search updates, and more — Tune in to find out how we're furthering our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Disney reports Q2 Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. ~163M est, its second straight quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M — On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over year.
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft released at least 48 security fixes for Windows and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation — Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software …
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| Reuters: |
EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition in public, limit predictive policing, and impose transparency on generative AI; EU Commission will finalize details — European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT …
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B — SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate …
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda in partnership taxes — The largest of the claims includes a $20.4 billion claim against Alameda Research LLC, which details nearly $20 billion in unpaid partnership taxes.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally that shows a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or consider subscribing to Premium — YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts PaLM 2, offering improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products and features — Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer VM powered by Nvidia's H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today's ML workloads” — As we've seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it's clear that these models …
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| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer — An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera's Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim that his plan … Sponsor Posts
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