Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This story first appeared in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. iHeartMedia is joining companies like Apple, Spotify, and Verizon in restricting employee use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT — as well as banning the use of the AI model on company devices. According to an internal memo obtained by Hot Pod, iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Rich Bressler sent an email yesterday to company employees instructing them not to use ChatGPT in order to prevent data leaks of iHeartMedia’s proprietary information. The news was first reported by RBR. The leaders wrote that… Read More
Continue ReadingNASA panel: No convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life connected with UAPs
Enlarge / A video still of NASA’s UAP team meeting on May 31, 2023. (credit: NASA) On Wednesday, members of the NASA advisory board tasked with studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) held its first public meeting, debuting its plan for how it would proceed with a report it is scheduled to write this year. Among many topics discussed, several of its members (and NASA officials) stressed that they were not specifically undertaking a hunt for aliens. “I want to emphasize this loud and proud that there is absolutely no convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life associated with UAPs,” said Dan Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.… Read More
Continue ReadingCompanies Knew the Dangers of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’—and Kept Them Secret
The female employees at the DuPont chemical company’s Washington Works plant in Parkersburg, W. Va., were not given much of an explanation in 1981 when they were all abruptly moved away from any part of the factory that produced a category of chemicals then known as C8. They certainly were not told about their eight recently pregnant coworkers who had worked with C8 and given birth that year—one of them to a baby with eye defects and just a single nostril; another to a baby who had eye and tear duct defects; and a third with C8 in its cord blood. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] For any employees with any doubts, the… Read More
Continue ReadingPentagon buying Starlink dishes for Ukraine after funding dispute with SpaceX
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish seen on September 25, 2022 in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (credit: Getty Images | Yasuyoshi Chiba) The US Defense Department confirmed today that it is buying Starlink satellite broadband service for use in Ukraine. “We continue to work with a range of global partners to ensure Ukraine has the satellite and communication capabilities they need. Satellite communications constitute a vital layer in Ukraine’s overall communications network and the department contracts with Starlink for services of this type,” the Defense Department said in a statement provided to Ars and other media outlets today. The Pentagon said it would not provide other… Read More
Continue ReadingQuest 3 won’t replace Quest 2 for ‘quite a while,’ confirms Meta
Quest 2 vs. Quest 3. | Image: Meta Is it really a good idea to buy a Meta Quest 2 for $299 now that the $499 Quest 3 is on the way? Won’t Meta stop supporting the old headset with games? You shouldn’t be worried about that anytime soon, according to the company’s CTO. “The games we announced in the Gaming Showcase are all playable on both Quest 2 and 3, and we expect that to remain the norm for quite a while,” Meta CTO and VR / AR leader Andrew “Boz” Bosworth tells me. The games we announced in the Gaming Showcase are all playable on both Quest 2… Read More
Continue ReadingAmazon and Walmart are taking a rare $20 off of a set of four AirTags
Apple’s tiny location trackers can help you keep better tabs on your belongings, including keys. | Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The busy summer travel season has already begun, so you might want to prepare for rounds of flight delays, crowds, and the potential for lost luggage. Luckily, you can prepare for the chaos ahead of time with today’s deal on a pack of Apple AirTags. Right now, both Amazon and Walmart are selling four AirTags for just $79.99 ($20 off), which is just $5 shy of the all-time low set during Black Friday. Be aware that when this deal has come around in the past, it’s been quite… Read More
Continue ReadingGoogle Assistant kills off support for third-party note apps
Enlarge / The lettering “Hey Google” on the Google pavilion at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in 2018. These words activate Google Assistant, Google’s virtual personal assistant. (credit: Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance) The deprioritized Google Assistant is losing yet another feature. This time Google is killing off support for third-party note integration. The popular Android note-taking app AnyList announced the change, saying that “Google is shutting down the Google Assistant Notes & Lists integration for non-Google apps on June 20, 2023.” Google’s support page has since been updated confirming that, “starting June 20th, Google Assistant notes and lists will no longer work with non-Google list apps.” One of the… Read More
Continue ReadingMicrosoft may have given us a reason to switch to Edge with this new feature
Microsoft has been trying to get users to switch to its Edge browser for quite some time now, but this brand-new feature that’s been released for it may tip the odds in its favor. Microsoft Edge finally has mouse gesture support available for testing in its preview versions. According to Neowin, enabling support requires adding a command to Edge’s shortcut as Microsoft hasn’t officially announced the launch of this tool. It’s still available for anyone to use, though, unlike other preview features and changes that the tech giant pushed down in the past. Mouse gestures work by letting you perform a variety of actions when you move the mouse while… Read More
Continue ReadingMeta beats Apple to the mixed-reality punch with $499 Quest 3 coming this fall
The Quest 3 will be backward compatible with all Quest 2 games. [credit: Meta ] Meta has lifted the lid on its Quest 3 …read more Source:: Ars Technica
Continue ReadingMotorola Razr 2023: everything you need to know about Moto’s new flip phone
The vegan leather Motorola Razr in sage green (Image credit: Future / Philip Berne) The less expensive Motorola Razr is about style and design, with vegan leather on the front and back and cool new color options chosen in tandem with Pantone’s massive color library. We had a chance to spend time with the new phones for a hands-on look, and we’ll have an The new Motorola Razr (2023) and the premium Motorola Razr Plus (2023) have been announced and are going on sale soon. The Razr Plus will hit stores first, with the less expensive Moto Razr following up later in the year, though hopefully it won’t wait long.… Read More
Continue ReadingNothing Phone 2: a roundup of every tease about the upcoming phone
The rear of 2022’s Nothing Phone 1. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Our constantly updated list of all the teases Nothing has released about its second phone. Continue reading… …read more Source:: Theverge – Tech
Continue ReadingYou can watch Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 1 for free and here’s why you absolutely should
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 is on the way. For those you who aren’t Paramount Plus subscribers but want to catch up on the show, you can now enjoy the entire first season for free on YouTube. Strange New Worlds is one of many Star Trek shows hitting our screens. The series acts as a prequel to the first-ever Star Trek TV show, at a time when Captain Christopher Pike – who helmed the USS Enterprise in the pilot episode, The Cage – was still in command of the iconic spaceship’s crew. The free YouTube drop is a boon for any Star Trek fan who hasn’t had a… Read More
Continue ReadingMicrosoft’s offer to end EU cloud battle firmly rejected
Microsoft has unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement with CISPE ahead of an EU investigation into its dominance of the cloud market. According to The Register, an unnamed CISPE spokesperson said, “It was a pretty paltry offer and very far short of anything we consent acceptance of… In principle, we are happy to settle it between us, but we have minimum requirements before we expect negotiations to go forward.” The ongoing case relates to Microsoft’s unfair bundling of products designed to lock customers into the ecosystem and make changing providers, or going down the multicloud route, difficult and expensive. Microsoft fails to reach EU cloud settlement The case stems from… Read More
Continue ReadingHot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged to debut in October
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged is coming sooner rather than later as the miniature racing sequel is slated for an October 19 release date. Striking while the iron’s hot, Milestone’s Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged will be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC, and previous-generation consoles in just a few months. A successor to the original game, which launched just two years ago, isn’t too surprising as the game was one of the developer’s most successful games of all time selling over two million units according to an April press release. The biggest innovation brought by the announcement trailer for the upcoming game is that the action… Read More
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