From ExtremeTech: There are many universal experiences we share as human beings. One of those is getting a prescription from our doctor, and being unable to decipher it. Google is aware of this problem and is now working on AI technology that can do it for you.

The company announced at its annual...

From The Verge: Amazon and European Union regulators have reached an agreement over two long-running antitrust cases, the European Commission has announced, which it’s hoped will help make third-party sellers more competitive on Amazon’s marketplace. The agreement means Amazon will avoid fines that...

From The Verge: TikTok users will soon get a peek under the hood of their For You pages to understand why each video is being recommended.

In a blog post today, the company said it would begin rolling out a new feature on videos that breaks down why they’re being shown to the user. The feature —...

From PC Mag: Apple has reportedly scrapped a high-powered, double-M2 Ultra chip for the Mac Pro.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman(Opens in a new window), the chip—which he calls the M2 Extreme—was shelved because of the complexity and cost of producing it.

When it announced the shift to Apple...

From TechCrunch: Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses. Now it’s offering some more details.

With Blue for Business, Twitter is also providing an additional badge — refer to our...

From PC World: Seven years after its initial launch, the Nvidia Shield TV is still held up as one of the best premium set-top boxes on the market. That’s mostly due to its streaming video prowess, but there’s also the GameStream system, which let gamers stream PC games from a local Nvidia-powered...

From TechCrunch: The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in...

From PC Mag: Elon Musk on Sunday publicly polled Twitter users about whether he should step down as head of the social network, and the people have spoken: 57.5% of the 17.5 million accounts that cast votes in his poll said yes, Musk should no longer be in charge of Twitter.

In posting the query...

From Forbes: On Friday, 18 December, Google announced that client-side encryption for Gmail was now available in a beta-testing format. Which is great news, but the majority of its 1.8 billion users are likely to be disappointed. The clue is where that announcement was made: the Google Workspace...

From Tom's Hardware: Noted leaker @g01d3nm4ng0 claims that AMD could release two motherboard platforms to support its next-gen Storm Peak Threadripper CPUs, instead of just one, with a workstation platform and an HEDT (High-End Desktop) platform for enthusiasts. Both platforms will reportedly get an...