From The Verge: Uber launched a new “Store Pickup” feature for holiday procrastinators who may be in need of a little extra help with their gift distribution.
For a fee, customers can request an Uber courier pick up a purchased item from a store to be delivered to a recipient of their choosing...
From PC World: The United States and China have a relationship that could be summed up in a single word as, “complicated.” Or “adversarial.” Or “contentious.” And if you want to use more than one word, “kind of like that video of two dogs growling at each other through a gate.” While megacorps just...
From CNET: Microsoft is expanding its Seeing AI app to Android, the company said Monday. It's now available on the Google Play Store and works across 18 languages, with plans to expand to 36 languages next year.
Seeing AI narrates a person's surroundings and is designed to help blind and low...
From FinalWire Press Release: FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 7.00 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 7.00 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for...
From The Verge: Bending Spoons has laid off all of the staff behind mobile filmmaking app Filmic Pro, including Filmic CEO Neill Barham. Christy Keenan, a spokesperson for Bending Spoons, confirmed the layoffs in an email to The Verge, saying that “all 22 members of the original Filmic team” were...
From PC World: Microsoft has quietly reduced the amount of Microsoft Rewards points users can earn, enraging users who have used the points to offset some of Microsoft’s more expensive services, like Game Pass.
Microsoft has removed the daily 15-point bonus for using Microsoft Edge, and has reduced...
From CNET: Phone makers like Google and chip makers such as Qualcomm suggest that 2024 will be the year of on-device AI. Last month at its annual Executive Summit, MediaTek, the producer of the silicon that ends up in millions of phones and smart devices, highlighted the advantages to using...
When I was a bit younger and online gaming was not yet as popular as it was today, one of my favorite weekend activities was getting a group of friends together and having a LAN party. We used to cram a whole bunch of desktop PCs into a room too small for all of us. As we were setting up, we would discuss the games we would play or the strategies we would attempt. Setting up everyone to ensure everything would run smoothly, however, always took...
From PC Mag: The first Tesla Cybertruck customers finally received their vehicles today. They've been patient: Tesla first announced the futuristic electric pickup in 2019, and pushed back deliveries several years as the company worked through design and production issues.
A dozen customers...
From The Verge: In a blog post published today, Meta says it’s expanding and updating its child safety features aimed at protecting kids — even as reports pile up about how its platforms recommend content sexualizing children.
Over the course of several months, The Wall Street Journal has detailed...
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