Apple’s electric car project is dead
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple has halted its long-rumored “Project Titan” work on developing an electric car, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly announced the news internally…
Amazon bricks long-standing Fire TV apps with latest update
Enlarge / The Fire OS home screen advertising Ford. (credit: Bodhi Wire/YouTube) Amazon has issued an update to Fire TV streaming devices and televisions that has broken apps that let…
Los Alamos AI Identifies 29 Times More Types of Malware
Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the…
BREAKTHROUGH – Los Alamos Generates AI Pictures Without Using a Random Picture to Start
Los Alamos national lab made an artificial intelligence framework called Blackout Diffusion generates images from a completely empty picture. The machine-learning algorithm, unlike other generative diffusion models, does not require…
Aqara kick-starts its first Matter-over-Thread smart lock with a promise of Home Key support
Aqara’s U200 smart lock is a retrofit, Matter-over-Thread door lock, with support for Apple Home Key promised. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Aqara has launched its…
Sonos’ first headphones now rumored to launch in June for $449
The company’s most recent new product was the Move 2 portable speaker. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos plans to release its first pair of wireless headphones…
Apple under fire for disabling iPhone web apps—EU asks developers to weigh in
Enlarge / An Apple Store in Hangzhou, China on February 20, 2024. European Commission officials are probing Apple’s decision to remove home screen web apps from iPhones and iPads in…
Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of Wonka-like event
Enlarge / A photo of “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” (inset), which did not match AI-generated promises, shown in the background. (credit: Stuart Sinclair) On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based…
Samsung’s Galaxy Ring is Big Tech’s first swing at the smart ring market
Enlarge / The Galaxy Ring. It’s shiny. (credit: Samsung) Samsung’s big item at Mobile World Congress is the odd little “Galaxy Ring,” a fitness and health-tracking device shrunk down into…
SpaceX Will Add Water Protection system to Prevent Damage to the Launch Stand
Chrome Kiwi and Youtube What About It? (Felix Schlang) show how SpaceX will add a water protection system to the top of the launch stand to protect it from being…