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Donald Trump is no longer banned on YouTube
/ ‘We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates.’
Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever
Copilot is more than just a chatbot. Microsoft is slowly building an AI assistant that it has dreamed about for years. 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”>Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s new AI-powered Copilot summarized my meeting instantly yesterday (the meeting was with Microsoft to discuss Copilot, of course) before listing out the questions I’d asked just seconds before. I’ve watched Microsoft demo the future of work for years with concepts about virtual assistants, but Copilot is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to them coming true. “In our minds this is the new wa...
Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems
/ It found 18 vulnerabilities in Samsung’s modems, four of which could give hackers a way in with just your phone number.
Hyperkin’s Xbox 360 controller reissue now has a price and release date
/ The Xenon is set to launch in June, with preorders opening up in May. 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: Hyperkin Good news for nostalgic millennial gamers: Hyperkin’s remake of the Xbox 360 controller is inching closer to release. The Xenon controller was first announced by Hyperkin back in November, but not much solid info was given outside of some renders and the basic knowledge that this reissue will be a USB-C wired-only reprisal for Xbox Series X / S and PC. Now, Hyperkin says the Xenon controller is set for release on June 6th, with preorders on its store beginning Ma...
Amazon stops selling magazines and newspapers through Kindle Newsstand
Amazon/ Tech / It’s halting sales of print subscriptions, too. 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”>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon is no longer selling magazine and newspaper subscriptions through Kindle Newsstand and will stop delivering current Kindle Newsstand subscriptions in September, according to an announcement from last week. Kindle Newsstand let people read Kindle-specific versions of publications right on their device, and the change will likely come as a disappointment for people who were used to getting their subscriptions that way. But Amazon isn’t jus...
Ugreen’s Nexode 140W charger is for 16-inch MacBook Pro trekkers
/ The Ugreen Nexode 140W charger is one of few all-in-one charger options for on-the-go video editors rocking powerful PD 3.1-capable laptops. And it’s a good one. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>The Nexode has two USB-C ports capable of up to 140W and 100W max individually or 65W each simultaneously. It also has one USB-A port for up to 22.5W. All together, the ports output 65W / 45W / 22.5W. The Nexode doesn’t support the super cutting-edge PD 3.2, but Ugreen is kind enough to include a 1.5-meter braided USB-C cable that supports future 240W devices. But the Nexode does support almost every other USB-C...
U.S. Government Tells ByteDance to Either Sell TikTok or Prepare for Ban
Tensions between the Biden administration and China’s ByteDance have hit a turning point following an official order from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS). The U.S. has been debating whether to ban TikTok for some time now, initially requiring just politicians to delete the app from their work phones.Now, the CFIUS has demanded that ByteDance sells its stakes in the app if it wants to avoid a ban in the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported. The committee is dedicated to overseeing potential national security risks regarding investments abroad, meaning that it’s determined ByteDance’s ownership of the app to pose a concern to U.S. safety.60% of the Beijing-founded ByteDance belongs to global investors, while 20% is owned by employees and 20% by the company’s founder...
Slay vampiric gods in Redfall’s new story trailer
/ The story of how Redfall, Mass, got flipped turned upside down, literally. Redfall, Arkane Austin’s co-op vampire shooter, has a new story trailer that gets to the heart of just what happened to Redfall, Massachusetts. Apparently, some bloodsucking scientists at the mysterious Aevum Therapeutics did a bit of medical malpractice and accidentally (or purposely) summoned ancient vampire gods in their quest to attain immortality. As a result, Redfall got flipped turned upside down by the ravenous gods, and it’s up to our four heroes to slay the gods and save the city. The trailer starts with a voiceover of a woman explaining how her blood was supposed to be the cure for everything. If that sounds familiar, maybe Redfall’s trying to capture the waning energies of The Last of Us season finale....
‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
CEO James Daunt explains how Barnes & Noble is different than Amazon. Share this story *:last-child>*:last-child]:mb-0″> Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! To put it another way, they were hiring in various executives one after another from other retailers, each of them bringing a very rational chain-retail philosophy, which is that you try to run a very consistent retail operation and that you use your scale and leverage for both operational efficiencies and purchasing efficiencies. That works pretty much across the board, whether you’re Best Buy, Staples, Zara, H&M, whatever it is. Each of those seeks to put an identical store pretty much in front of its customers in a very coherent, ve...
Biden administration reportedly demanding that TikTok sell or face a ban
/ TikTok is under intense scrutiny over user safety and whether the app poses a national security risk. CEO Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to testify before Congress next week.
Match Group’s CEO says he spent $50K in three months on Clash of Clans
/ Suddenly Tinder Platinum doesn’t seem like such a bad deal.
Google Brings Generative AI To Its Workspace Suite
Building upon existing features such as Smart Compose and Smart Reply, Google is bringing a whole new host of features to its Workspace suite starting with the first set of AI-powered writing features in Docs and Gmail followed by new functions on Sheets, Meet, and Chat.To help get the juices flowing, Workspace can automatically generate a rough draft for a text document simply from the topic line. Once the text is finalized, a Rewrite function can then alter the text using different selected tones to be more formal, playful, etc. A random "I'm feeling lucky option" is also included if you're willing to let the AI decide.Other functions include auto-generated images, audio, and video in Slides, self-completing insights and analysis from raw data in Sheets, auto-generating backgrounds and c...
