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Using memes, social media users have become red teams for half-baked AI features “Running with scissors is a cardio exercise that can increase your heart rate and require concentration and focus,” says Google’s new AI search feature. “Some say it can also improve your pores and gi...
ESA prepares for the post-ISS era, selects The Exploration Company, Thales Alenia to develop cargo spacecraft The European Space Agency selected two companies on Wednesday to advance designs of a cargo spacecraft that could establish the continent’s first sovereign access to space.  The two awardees, major ae...
Spotify to shut off Car Thing for good, leading users to demand refunds Spotify is notifying customers who purchased its Car Thing product that the devices will stop working after December 9, 2024. The company discontinued the device back in July 2022, but had said at the...
The biggest French startups in 2024 according to the French government The French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy as of this year, Marina Ferrari, revealed this year’s laureates during VivaTech week in Paris. According to its promoters, this fifth class was th...
‘Pro-competition’ rules for Big Tech make it through UK’s pre-election wash-up The UK will shortly get its own rulebook for Big Tech, after peers in the House of Lords agreed Thursday afternoon to pass the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer bill (DMCC) — removing the last...
Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand? For Mark Zuckerberg’s fortieth birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted recreation of his childhood bedroom. It’s appropriat...
Flock Safety’s solar-powered cameras could make surveilliance more widespread Flock Safety is a multi-billion dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and using wireless 5G networks to ...
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the au...
Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, bu...