Tag: TECHNEWS

/  Only Twitter Blue subscribers will get the privilege of using the least secure form of two-factor authentication. Four hours ago, Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer tweeted a scoop: Twitter would begin charging for SMS two-factor authentication. Now, it’s official: You have to pay for the privilege of using Twitter’s worst form of authentication. In fact, if you don’t…

AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient. n behavioral psychology, the mirror test is designed to discover animals’ capacity for self-awareness. There are a few variations of the test, but the essence is…

Chief product officer Neal Mohan will take over YouTube as a senior vice president. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down from her post, she announced in an email sent to employees that YouTube posted publicly on Thursday. Wojcicki has been at Google for nearly 25 years but will be stepping back to “start a new…

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Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with cofounder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event. The company went on to raise north of $140 million in funding…

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Return of the kitchen sink phone Samsung is the best at big. Big, brash, bold, kitchen sink phones. The company that mainstreamed the phablet a dozen years ago has never given up on big dreams about big phones. Last year, the company took a risk — sunsetting the beloved Note line. While I stand by my…

CEO Satya Nadella wants the software giant to push hard on AI, so Microsoft is gearing up for a year of AI announcements. Microsoft is getting ready to demonstrate how its new ChatGPT-like AI will transform its Office productivity apps. After announcing and demonstrating its Prometheus Model in its new Bing search engine earlier this week, Microsoft…

Get ready for ‘the path to a fully sustainable energy future for Earth,’ Musk tweets, teasing his third such plan, which will be revealed during the company’s Investor Day. Elon Musk will present his third “Master Plan” during Tesla’s Investor Day event on March 1st, the CEO announced on Twitter last night. The plan will…

Preorders are now open for the 34-inch monitor that has a streaming hub built in to play games without a PC or console directly attached. Samsung first introduced the Odyssey OLED G8 at IFA 2022 in August, and it’s the first of the company’s gaming monitors to come with a quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) display. Starting today, you…