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Lucid Motors recalls Lucid Air sedan for a defect that could cause a loss of power
/ The automaker says defective contactors in its electrical motors could come loose, resulting in a loss of power. Lucid previously recalled its luxury Air sedans over a faulty wiring harness connected to the instrument panel.
Nothing Launched its Ear (2) Earphones and Tesla Unveiled a Cybertruck-Inspired Wireless Charging Platform in This Week’s Tech Roundup
This week in the tech industry, Tesla brought not a new car but, somewhat randomly, a wireless charging platform. Also in the product arena, buzzy London-based tech company Nothing launched its new wireless earbuds, the Ear (2), while renders of the redesigned Apple iPhone 15 Pro leaked on social media show fewer buttons and a smaller camera.Elsewhere in tech, Adobe offered a first look at its generative AI program, Firefly. While the program is still in beta, content creators can preview all the new tools they’ll soon have access to.Below, Hypebeast has rounded up the top tech stories of the week so you can stay up to date on trends in the industry.Tesla Unveiled a $300 USD Cybertruck-Inspired Wireless Charging PlatformTesla still hasn’t rolled out its Cybertruck to the public after years...
France Could Make Labeling Influencers’ Filtered, Retouched Photos Mandatory
Reported by Women's Wear Daily, France could soon make it mandatory for influencers to share that their photos are filtered or doctored. France's Finance Minister Brun Le Maire shared the potential regulation noting the negative effects of the photos and videos found on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok.During a conference, Le Maire said the regulation was part of an effort to "limit the destructive psychological effects of these practices on Internauts' esteem." If the proposal goes through, the French government will launch an oversight team at the Directorate General for Consumer Affairs, Competition and Fraud Prevention to regulate the approximated 150,000 influencers in France. The proposal will be highlighted as a part of a new bill sometime this week.Additionally, "Al...
Microsoft says it has stopped its Xbox Game Pass $1 trial offer
/ Microsoft is getting ready for other promotions for new Game Pass members.
Apple staff reportedly express doubts about mixed-reality headset months ahead of launch
/ Some employees left Apple’s headset project over concerns that it won’t take off, according to a report from The New York Times.
Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS eShops shut down tomorrow
/ Time is running out for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS eShops.
Elon Musk reportedly halves Twitter’s valuation in internal memo
/ In an email sent to Twitter staff, Musk reportedly says employees will receive stock grants based on a $20 billion valuation — less than half of what he paid for it.
Succession’s final season doubles down on its core conceit — to a fault
While Succession’s fourth and final season makes good on the series’ name, it does so while feeling comfortably stuck in a familiar holding pattern of treachery and ‘gotcha’ backstabbing. Share this story a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>HBO At its core, HBO’s Succession has always been a story about people doing everything in their power to attack and dethrone the only god they truly worship and crave validation from — a very wealthy, very human man who, rather understandably, thinks of everyone he meets as morons. Succession has spent three seasons reminding us that, no mat...
ChatGPT started a new kind of AI race — and made text boxes cool again
/ Who would have thought that typing into a chat window, on your computer, would be 2023’s hottest innovation? a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: OpenAI / David Pierce It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing consumer app in history, before it turned the phrase “generative pre-trained transformers” into common vernacular, before every company you can think of was racing to adopt its underlying model, ChatGPT launched in November as a “research preview.” The blog post announcing ChatGPT is n...
Microsoft fixes reversible screenshot vulnerability on Windows
/ The security flaw could let hackers revert the edited portions of screenshots, potentially revealing private information that someone tried to crop or scribble out.
Microsoft reportedly orders AI chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search data
/ Microsoft has warned some Bing-powered search engines that it will revoke access to the company’s search index if they continue to use it as the foundation for their AI tools, according to Bloomberg.
It turns out Arrested Development is staying on Netflix after all
/ You’ll still be able to watch the Bluth family and their many antics from their longtime home on Netflix.
