From ComputerWorld: Digital payments company Visa has said it’s leveraging AI to share consumer shopping preferences with merchants, which could enhance personalized shopping experiences.

The company plans to utilize its proprietary token service, which currently secures 29% of its transactions by...

From The Verge: Samsung heard that Apple managed to upset a lot of people with the “Crush” ad revealed last week that smushed instruments, arcade games, and sculptures into a shiny new OLED-screened iPad Pro, and apparently just had to get into the conversation. Apple eventually apologized, with an...

From PC Mag: SpaceX's Starlink is no longer bundling a Wi-Fi router with the flat high-performance (HP) dish, forcing users to pay for the additional hardware.

Starlink's checkout page now says: "Please note Flat HP kits no longer include a router."

Instead, buyers will need to spend an extra $250...

From ExtremeTech: Intel has announced a new feature for Thunderbolt designed to make life easier for folks with both a laptop and a desktop (or just two different PCs they use frequently). Thunderbolt Share allows two PCs to be "networked" together via Thunderbolt to share files, their screens, and...

From PC Mag: Asus this week apologized for terrible user experiences with its product warranty and return service, but it may not be enough to restore its reputation.

The company issued the apology days after hardware review outlet Gamers Nexus published a video titled "Asus Scammed Us," which...

From ComputerWorld: Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, is leaving.

He will be replaced by former director of research Jakub Pachocki.

Sutskever announced his departure from the San Francisco-based creator of ChatGPT in a posting on social network X.

“After almost a decade...

From The Verge: Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos — some quite old — are popping up again, according to a Reddit thread that MacRumors spotted...

From PC World: Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) But they’re not easy to set up, especially if you’re a newbie. They just got a lot...

From ExtremeTech: When Nvidia pulled the wraps off its next-generation Blackwell architecture in March, the company didn't discuss pricing and focused mainly on performance. However, its existing GPUs have been in high demand for some time now, with individual units selling for up to $40,000 on eBay...

From The Verge: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3rd, according to a leaked email from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy viewed by The Verge. Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO. Amazon confirmed The Verge’s reporting in...