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WSJ: Apple to Release iPhone Journaling App for Logging Daily Activities
Apple is planning to launch a Day One-style iPhone journaling app to let users compile their daily activities, as part of its efforts in the physical and mental health market, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down
BuzzFeed News is shutting down, the once-iconic media brand’s founder and CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a company-wide memo on Thursday. “We are reducing our workforce by approximately 15% today across our Business, Content, Tech and Admin teams, and beginning the process of closing BuzzFeed News,” Peretti wrote in the email.
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Award-winning photograph revealed to be AI-generated image
Sony World Photography Award winner Boris Eldagsen has refused to accept his trophy during the prize ceremony in London, revealing his lauded photo is actually an AI-generated image.
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Canonical unveils Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster': A Linux distro for work and play
Ubuntu wants to be your work and home desktop. The Linux distro's latest version boasts productivity and gaming enhancements.
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GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic
On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients and for use in analyzing medical records while looking for trends.
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Samsung Finally Enables the Temperature Sensor on the Galaxy Watch 5
Samsung finally enabled temperature tracking on a smartwatch launched nearly nine months ago. The Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro now offer detailed menstrual tracking by measuring your core body temperature. Samsung says the new feature is rolling out “progressively” to the Samsung Health app in the U.S., Korea, and select European countries.
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Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – this is getting painful now
Microsoft might just have crossed a line with new Start menu adverts
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Enhancing cloud-native security: Argo and Prometheus undergo software supply chain audits
It's time. SBOM and SLSA are now being used to check the security of major cloud-native programs.
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Twitter APIs Are Going Very Wrong
Twitter's most serious new annoyance is its new API pricing structure. It's both irritating developers and driving some of them out of business.
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AI could cause ‘nuclear-level’ catastrophe, third of experts say
More than one-third of researchers believe artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to a “nuclear-level catastrophe”, according to a Stanford University survey, underscoring concerns in the sector about the risks posed by the rapidly advancing technology.
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Are influencers ready for a world without follower counts?
Several emerging social media trends might soon render an influencer’s follower count irrelevant to brands says Kimmy Shoval, Movement Strategy’s senior vice-president and head of influencer marketing. Here, Shoval explains how this shift could affect influencer marketing.
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Amazon offers free access to its AI coding assistant to undercut Microsoft
The coding assistant is free for individual developers.
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Big changes are coming to Reddit - and some users really aren't happy
From Instagram's Reels to YouTube's Shorts, major social media apps have been unashamedly adopting the aesthetic that's helped make TikTok a success for some time now. Reddit is getting ready to introduce a similar feature, but does it risk alienating its existing audience?
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New Zealand cabinet reaches gender equality for the first time
For the first time, New Zealand will see an equal number of men and women in its cabinet. This comes after Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime, who is of Māori descent, was promoted as a cabinet minister. "It is nice to have a cabinet that reflects the New Zealand population," Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said, calling it a "good milestone to reach".
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Twitter Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, 2 Others Sue Elon Musk Over Legal Bills
Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs.
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What's What with Open Source Twitter
Twitter has finally — sort of, kind of — open sourced part of its code. Here's what's in there, and what's not.
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South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking developers from releasing games on rival’s platform
South Korea’s watchdog has fined Google 42.1 billion won (~ $32 million) for blocking the release of mobile video games on its local peer.
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Baseball home runs could increase by 10% in the next 80 years. Here's why
Home runs are becoming more frequent in Major League Baseball (MLB) due to climate change, a new study finds. "There's a very clear physical mechanism at play in which warmer temperatures reduce the density of air," study co-author Justin Mankin(opens in new tab), an assistant professor of geography at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire, said in the statement. "Baseball is a game of ballistics, and a batted ball is going to fly farther on a warm day."
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Technology breakthrough allows for more detailed 3D holograms for virtual reality and other uses
Creating a dynamic holographic projection typically involves using a spatial light modulator (SLM) to modulate the intensity and/or phase of a light beam. But today’s holograms are limited in terms of quality because current SLM technology only allows for a few low-resolution images to be projected onto separate planes, with low depth resolution.
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Microsoft's $13 billion bet on OpenAI carries huge potential along with plenty of uncertainty
When Microsoft first invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, the deal received no more attention than your average corporate venture round. The startup market was blazing hot, and artificial intelligence was one of many areas attracting mega-valuations, alongside electric vehicles, advanced logistics and aerospace.
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Leaked iPhone 15 Pro Max glass shows extremely thin bezels
The supposed world's thinnest bezels of the iPhone 15 Pro Max have surfaced in leaked images, with glass showing the bezel has undergone a diet from its iPhone 14 Pro counterpart. In mid-March, leaker Ice Universe insisted that the iPhone 15 Pro Max will break records and have the thinnest bezel of any smartphone ever made at 1.55mm (0.06 inches). Weeks later, the serial leaker offers photographs as a form of proof.
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Researchers used AI to determine if someone had a cold from the tone of their voice
The study of 630 people analyzed vocal patterns and accurately predicted a cold 70% of the time, The Economist reported.
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The challenges of shadow IT in a bring-your-own-cloud world
A long time ago, in an IT company far, far away, I would carry in a Compaq Portable so I could get my work done. | Bring your own cloud is a thing, and it's a headache.
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Canonical Unveils Landscape 23.03: Streamlining Ubuntu Linux Management
Canonical's Landscape sysadmin tool for Ubuntu and Debian Linux keeps getting better and better.
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Avoid using free public phone charging stations, FBI Denver warns
Federal Bureau of Investigation officials in Denver are warning travelers and shoppers to avoid public free phone charging portals, warning that "bad actors" use these to install malware and tracking software onto computers and phones.
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If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed
#OPINION: If the Internet Archive's legal appeal fails, it will be a tragedy of historical proportions.
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This Is the Lightest Paint in the World
An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
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Sony worries Microsoft will only give it a “degraded” Call of Duty
"Our business would never recover," Sony exec says of potential substandard version.
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'The Hunger Games' Cast: Where Are They Now?
'The Hunger Games' sparked a fandom frenzy when it was released in 2012. See what the star-studded cast of the franchise is up to now, including Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin
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FTC To Elon Musk: How ‘Bout You Comply With Our Demands, Rather Than Trying To Charm Lina Khan?
As you’ll recall, it became apparent pretty much immediately after Elon Musk took over Twitter that he had zero idea that the company was under an FTC consent decree that had just been renewed mont…
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