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Source: The Verge Decades before we got married and started a family, my partner and I connected over a little Boxer pup named Charlie. We tossed a ball around, scrubbed him down when he got dirty, and took him for daily walks. It was a bonding experience — mediated entirely through the original Nintendo DS’s…
Source: The Verge In February 2004, a 19-year-old, flip-flop-wearing Mark Zuckerberg released an online directory of Harvard students. In those days, the internet still felt small. It was mostly about finding webpages, not people. It turned out that the internet was very good for connecting people. More than 1,000 Harvard students signed up for TheFacebook.com…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23926023/acastro_STK048_02.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Microsoft pulls Xbox Game Pass trial just before new Call of Duty release")
Source: The Verge Microsoft has pulled its $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, just days before Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases on October 25th. The 14-day Game Pass trial was removed on October 8th, preventing people from signing up for a trial and playing through the Black Ops 6 campaign without paying for a…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25501053/DSCF7548.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Microsoft’s prototype Surface Laptop leaks with Intel’s Lunar Lake chips inside")
Source: The Verge Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to promote Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it looks like a Surface Laptop might arrive next year with Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips. A Surface Laptop prototype has appeared in a since-deleted…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25680464/aa_oct24_newkindlelineup_standard_hero_v1_600kb_2000x1125.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Amazon’s new Kindle family includes the first color Kindle")
Source: The Verge Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the first color Kindle, there’s a new Kindle Scribe note-taker, a faster version of its most popular Paperwhite, and a new entry-level Kindle. The Spanish-language announcement with US pricing seems accidental as none of the links to the Amazon store…
Source: Venture Beat Node.vc has raised $77.3 million, or €71 million, for a new fund that is backed by 70 Nordic entrepreneurs. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Cognizant’s Neuro AI platform will use a multi-agent framework to help enterprises ideate new AI applications. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Katanemo’s new Arch-Function LLMs promise 12x faster function-calling capabilities, empowering enterprises to build ultra-fast, cost-effective agentic AI applications. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25679865/2178579900.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Here’s a bunch of bananas shit Trump said today about breaking up Google")
Source: The Verge Yeah, look, Google’s got a lot of power. They’re very bad to me. Very, very bad to me. I can speak from that standpoint. They only have bad stories… in other words, if I have 20 good stories and 20 bad stories, and everyone’s entitled to that, you’ll only see the 20…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25679583/Screenshot_2024_10_15_at_16.11.59.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Adobe teases AI tools for animating text and removing distractions")
Source: The Verge Adobe is previewing some experimental AI tools for animation, image generation, and cleaning up video and photographs that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps. While the tools apply to vastly different mediums, all three have a similar aim — to automate most of the boring, complex tasks required for…
