Digital Trends
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South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this…
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Microsoft Ditches Teams Feature That Put Attendees Into The Same Virtual Room
Microsoft Microsoft added the Teams “Together” feature during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to help employees feel as if they were working together in the same space. Now that everyone is mostly back to the office, the company is doing away with the feature and steering users toward…
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Microsoft is retiring Teams’ Together Mode
Microsoft launched Teams’ Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it’s now being retired in favor of a more simplified Teams experience. The feature used AI…
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Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one of the main ways that research circulates in fields like computer science…
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Analogue 3D’s Latest Update Lets You Save Whenever You Want
Analogue is adding a bit of “modern convenience” to its contemporary remake of the Nintendo 64 with its latest update. In the 1.3.0 version of Analogue’s 3DOS, players get the ability to quicksave whenever they want thanks to the company’s “signature save-state system” called Memories. Now, instead of risking…
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The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using a “back of the envelope AI calculation,”…
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What To Read This Weekend: Celestial Lights And If Destruction Be Our Lot
Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend Cecile Pin’s Celestial Lights and the new Image Comics series, If Destruction Be Our Lot. Celestial Lights Henry Holt and Co. Another melancholic narrative about love, loss and the consequences of human ambition, with space as the…
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Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media addiction has cost public schools massive amounts of money, according to Bloomberg. The suit, filed by the Breathitt County School District in Kentucky, claims that social media has disrupted learning and created a mental health crisis, straining budgets. The…
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Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic. The company, which officially exited stealth last year, is an agentic operating system for marketers. It told TechCrunch that it uses autonomous AI agents to help…
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SpaceX Is Reportedly Getting Ready To Go Public As Early As June
Mario Tama/Getty Images SPCX could be the next big ticker symbol on the Nasdaq. As first reported by Reuters, SpaceX has accelerated its IPO timeline, aiming to be listed on the Nasdaq by June 12. According to Reuters‘ sources, Elon Musk’s company is pushing its announcement to go public as early…
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Turtle Beach made a good SteelSeries headset clone that’s $50 less
I really liked the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, so the company didn’t have to say much to get me excited about its successor. The $399 Nova Pro Omni that came out on May 5th has a similar design to the 2022 model, but with some new and improved features — support for wireless hi-res…
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The offline desk gadget that actually got me to sit up straight
Working from home has its own perils. Pets can be demanding, your back aches from hours at a desk, or you simply forget to move. There are a few apps that nudge you to move around or indicate that you’re not sitting in an ideal position, but they’re easy to dismiss. I’ve spent the better…
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OpenAI Is Offering ChatGPT Plus To Citizens Of Malta For A Year
OpenAI has signed deals with fintech startups, tech giants and even Disney, but it’s breaking new ground by announcing a “world’s first partnership” with the country of Malta. In a post on its website, OpenAI said that it would provide ChatGPT Plus for one year to every Maltese resident or…
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Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it’s trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn’t edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, depth, and subject. Point the camera at something, and it will give you four options…
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$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month
Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on Thursday, with both of its co-founders billionaires, and ended the week worth about $60 billion. But in 2019, when it was three years old, it came dangerously close to failure…