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Day: February 20, 2024
Rice is not included in Apple’s official guidance for a wet phone
Getting water on phones happens to the best of us. Lucky for us, there’s one household staple the internet consistently suggests will draw that liquid out and save phones: uncooked rice. But contrary to popular advice, Apple, like most people in tech support, explicitly advises […]
Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system (RDBMS) confirmed it had received a provisional offer from California-based K1 Investment Management. K1 quietly revealed on Friday that it had tabled what is […]
The women in AI making a difference
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Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
Image: Wyze Wyze’s problems with letting its security camera customers briefly see into other customer homes is a lot worse than we thought. Last week, co-founder David Crosby said that “so far” the company had identified 14 people who were able to briefly see into […]
With Sora, OpenAI highlights the mystery and clarity of its mission | The AI Beat
Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video model, may be a black-box mystery, but the company’s unwavering mission to develop AGI is not.
Amazon’s Echo speaker falls to $55 in Presidents’ Day sale
Amazon is ringing in Presidents’ Day with big sales on its Echo devices, including its fourth-generation Amazon Echo. The smart speaker is currently down to $55 from $100 — a 45 percent discount. Though released in 2020, Amazon’s 4th-gen Echo is still its latest iteration […]
Yuga Labs acquires Proof Web3 digital art platform
Yuga Labs, the Web3 lifestyle and media company that created Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside, has announced the acquisition of Proof.