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Engadget

Adobe's new upscaling tech uses AI to sharpen video

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Engadget

Adobe's new upscaling tech uses AI to sharpen video

Fast Company

7 great Android time-savers that are free with Google Play Pass

Thanks to being woefully unorganized, I just found out I’m a Google Play Pass subscriber. Apparently I signed up for the trial years ago and promptly forgot about it. What's more, I discovered that my $30-per-year outlay grants me access to more than 1,000 apps and games in the Google Play store. ...

57 minutes ago

Fast Company

7 great Android time-savers that are free with Google Play Pass

Fast Company

Inside the making of the world’s longest cantilever

Few aspects of architecture are as dramatic as the cantilever, a rigid structural element that extends horizontally, unsupported at one end, from a building. It’s the closest an edifice can come to flying. Arguably the world’s most famous cantilever belongs to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, ...

1 hour ago

Fast Company

Inside the making of the world’s longest cantilever

Fast Company

This magical sponge furniture grows when you dunk it in water

First, you could grow a boyfriend. Now you can give him a place to sit—by growing him a chair. Industrial design students from ÉCAL University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland, developed a collection of tables, chairs, and other home decor that plays on everyone's favorite ’90s toy. ...

1 hour ago

Fast Company

This magical sponge furniture grows when you dunk it in water

Engadget

The best MacBook accessories for 2024

1 hour ago

Engadget

The best MacBook accessories for 2024

The Verge

The EPA’s new power plant pollution rule has a big, gassy hole in it

A power plant in Thompsons, Texas, U.S. that’s home to the Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. | Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just finalized rules aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions from ...

1 hour ago

The Verge

The EPA’s new power plant pollution rule has a big, gassy hole in it

Fast Company

These 20 job skills are proven to be transferable

The career landscape becomes more fluid with each year. Rapid tech upgrades—artificial intelligence, computing, etc.—cause displacement, layoffs, and a need for reskilling. While it’s daunting, we’ve discovered about half of transitioning workers move industries upon resignation. What if ...

1 hour ago

Fast Company

These 20 job skills are proven to be transferable

Fast Company

This simple solution could finally get rid of plastic six-pack rings

Beverage brands have been trying to develop sustainable, cardboard multi-pack packaging for years now. But like the ill-fated paper straw, these paperboard packs tend to face a functionality problem: they disintegrate too quickly when exposed to liquid (which, no surprise, tends to happen often). ...

1 hour ago

Fast Company

This simple solution could finally get rid of plastic six-pack rings

Fast Company

Why there’s a thriving black market for greenhouse gases

How do you solve a problem like hydrofluorocarbons" I know, that reads like the start of a bad chemistry joke, but it’s a question the Environmental Protection Agency is puzzling over as it tries to wean the country off a gas used by hundreds of millions of Americans every day—all without inadvertently ...

1 hour ago

Fast Company

Why there’s a thriving black market for greenhouse gases

Engadget

Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing 'ghost gun' tutorials to kids

3 hours ago

Engadget

Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing 'ghost gun' tutorials to kids

Engadget

The best ereaders for 2024

3 hours ago

Engadget

The best ereaders for 2024

The Verge

TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images Here’s a roundup of all the news about a new law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell off its platform. Continue reading…

6 hours ago

The Verge

TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform

The Verge

Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don’t expect it to create profits anytime soon. That was the message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors during Wednesday’s call for the company’s first-quarter earnings report. ...

11 hours ago

The Verge

Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI

Ars Technica

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

12 hours ago

Ars Technica

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

Engadget

Threads has 150 million monthly users

12 hours ago

Engadget

Threads has 150 million monthly users

Ars Technica

A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists

Polestar normally makes electric cars, but now it's releasing a phone.

13 hours ago

Ars Technica

A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists

The Verge

Threads wants to let you wipe your old posts away

Image: The Verge Threads is testing the option to automatically hide your old posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the feature is only available to a “small number” of users for now, but it will let you choose to archive individual posts manually or have them automatically ...

13 hours ago

The Verge

Threads wants to let you wipe your old posts away

WIRED

Somehow This $10,000 Flame-Thrower Robot Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States

Meet Thermonator. It blasts fire up to 30 feet and has Bluetooth.

13 hours ago

WIRED

Somehow This $10,000 Flame-Thrower Robot Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States

The Verge

The BattlerGC Pro might be the GameCube controller’s final form

BattleGC Pro in limited-edition crystal. | Image: Retro Fighters This new BattlerGC Pro controller looks like it could be the ultimate GameCube gamepad — one with drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks, hybrid analog / digital triggers, programmable back buttons, a rechargeable ...

13 hours ago

The Verge

The BattlerGC Pro might be the GameCube controller’s final form

Engadget

TikTok Lite axes ‘addictive as cigarettes’ reward-to-watch feature under the EU’s watchful eye

13 hours ago

Engadget

TikTok Lite axes ‘addictive as cigarettes’ reward-to-watch feature under the EU’s watchful eye

Ars Technica

We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy

Not all gamma-ray bursts come from supernovae.

13 hours ago

Ars Technica

We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy

Ars Technica

Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks

Perimeter devices ought to prevent network hacks. Why are so many devices allowing attacks?

14 hours ago

Ars Technica

Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks

The Verge

Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac

Photo by Prince Williams / Wireimage While Drake’s fans have been having a ball with the Canadian rapper’s recently released track dissing fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, the legal team representing Tupac Shakur is threatening to take legal action if the song isn’t pulled ...

14 hours ago

The Verge

Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac

Ars Technica

Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules

Panel of eight judges confronts deep-faking AI tech that may undermine legal trials.

14 hours ago

Ars Technica

Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules

WIRED

'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Steals the Best Ideas From 'Persona 5'

Atlus promises its next game, out later this year, will be a culmination of all of its beloved RPGs.

14 hours ago

WIRED

'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Steals the Best Ideas From 'Persona 5'

Ars Technica

Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes

Noncompete clauses "benefit employers and workers alike," Chamber tells court.

14 hours ago

Ars Technica

Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes

WIRED

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away

The far-traveled space probe is once again transmitting usable data, after a glitch caused months of gibberish.

16 hours ago

WIRED

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away

WIRED

Can the First Amendment Save TikTok?

TikTok says it plans to challenge the law that could ban it in the US in court. Experts think it's got a fighting chance.

18 hours ago

WIRED

Can the First Amendment Save TikTok?

WIRED

'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks

Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.

18 hours ago

WIRED

'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks

WIRED

President Biden Signs Bill That Could Ban TikTok

The law will give TikTok a year to divest from ByteDance, its Chinese owner.

19 hours ago

WIRED

President Biden Signs Bill That Could Ban TikTok