Was Benjamin Franklin the first to incorporate colored fiber into currency?
Enlarge / Khachatur Manukyan and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame used cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments to get a closer look at the inks, paper, and fibers that…
Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds
Illustration: The Verge I am not big on blurring out or replacing my office background with premade images, but then again, I’m fortunate enough to have a small environment I’m…
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty) Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and other current and former Tesla board members agreed to return over $735 million to settle a…
The armor of armored fish started out as part of the nervous system
Enlarge / The cells that go on to form the armor on the flanks of the sturgeon start out as part of the nervous system. (credit: Jay Fleming) Our skeleton…
Meta launches Llama 2, an open source AI model that allows commercial applications
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cybernetic llama. (credit: Midjourney) On Tuesday, Meta announced Llama 2, a new open source family of AI language models notable for its commercial…
Exploited 0-days, an incomplete fix, and a botched disclosure: Infosec snafu reigns
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations big and small are once again scrambling to patch critical vulnerabilities that are already under active exploitation and cause the kind of breaches coveted by…
OnePlus 12 spec leak promises giant 5400 mAh battery
Enlarge / OnLeak’s OnePlus 12 render. (credit: OnLeaks x Smartprix) The past week has seen a few leaks about OnePlus’ upcoming flagship phone, the OnePlus 12, thanks to OnLeaks and…
Battery shortage forces GM to pause commercial EV production
Enlarge / In March BrightDrop shipped the first 500 vans built at its factory in Canada. (credit: BrightDrop) General Motors has idled production of some of its electric vehicles due…
Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues
Enlarge (credit: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images)) OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed…
Instagram Reels are about to get a lot more repetitive
Image: Instagram Instagram is introducing updates to its Reels templates — a feature that allows users to make their own video based on someone else’s. The result could be a…