Shannon gives up a wrap-up of all the big news from this year’s Black Hat security conference. We find out why urban drone delivery is not a regular thing yet. And Disney shares its subscriber numbers and new push to make its ad supported service available in more countries. Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, ShannonContinue reading "Do Delivery Drones Dream of Electric Bees? – DTNS 4580"

YouTube announced Tuesday that users who disable watch history will no longer see recommendations on the home page. Netflix is doubling down on its gaming offering, including an app to let subscribers play games on their TV. And China continues its clampdown on children’s online time. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang,Continue reading "Netflix Puts the Controller Before the Game – DTNS 4579"

We go over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s big announcements from this year’s SIGGRAPH event in LA. Postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Souchet, details some of the negative issues with VR in a Conversation post. OpenAI announced its GPTBot, that will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall-restricted sources,Continue reading "Nvidia Gives a Nod to Amazing Grace – DTNS 4578"

A team of scientists from several UK universities trained a deep learning model to extract data from a recording of your keyboard clicks. Plus The New York Times reports on a woman in the city of Detroit after a mistaken arrest based on flawed facial recognition. And we delve into the issues brought up inContinue reading "Does Thread Matter More Than Matter? – DTNS 4577"

Qualcomm, NXP, Nordic, Robert Bosch and Infineon have joined forces to create a company to promote the development of RISC-V. We go over Apple’s latest earnings report. And Google is making it easier with new tools to remove your private information from search! Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Chris Ashley, Roger Chang, Joe MP3 DownloadContinue reading "RISC-V vs. ARM – DTNS 4576"

Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties including Max, the newly combined HBOMax and Discovery+ streaming service. France’s AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk’s X platform, aka Twitter, because it isn’t negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. Wired’s Gregory Barber hasContinue reading "There is No Cloud, Only Zuul – DTNS 4575"

Meta released a tool for AI music generation called AudioCraft, under an MIT open source license. Early results from an ongoing Swedish trial of more than 80,000 women undergoing mammograms show that AI is able to accurately detect 20% more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists. And Amazon is trialing their groceryContinue reading "Amazon Fresh Tries Not to Drop the Bag – DTNS 4574"

We pit the Samsung’s Flip and Fold against the Motorola’s Razr+ foldable phones. Which of these foldable smartphones is better? Plus Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar formed the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote a standard for interoperable 3D tools and data. Basically. Standard for AR. And Videogameschronicle’s sources say that development kits for theContinue reading "Flipping Out With Flip Phones – DTNS 4573"

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a standard iPhone 15 model that ditch the old notch for the Dynamic Island design. Plus Apple has officially allowed Twitter to change its name to X, in the App Store. And the U.K. Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent emails meant for U.S. military intelligence to Mali. StarringContinue reading "The Bird Goes Down in a Blaze of Glory – DTNS 4572"

The first four papers from US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, setup to see if social media was the root cause of extreme political polarization has been published. We examine what they found out? We discuss Mark Hill’s Wired article focusing on the social media trend of including strangers in our posts without permission.Continue reading "X Used to Mark My Spot – DTNS 4571"