With the latest macOS Ventura 13.1 beta, Apple has added the ability for users to chime their AirTags using the Find My app on their Mac. Previously, Mac users could only get directions to their AirTags through the Find My app, meaning those who wanted an audible chime to more easily locate their AirTag would…
Enlarge (credit: Anadolu Agency / Contributor | Anadolu Agency) After the US Department of Health and Human Services realized its promoted tweet about updated COVID vaccines was appearing on Twitter pages of white nationalist accounts, the agency told The Washington Post it promptly moved to remove the ads from Twitter. But their promoted tweets weren’t…
Two dogs playing and nipping at each other. Deposit Photos Every single day, the human brain is in survival mode, assessing a wide range of dangerous situations. Our brains like patterns so that they can try to make predictions about what is coming next. Interpreting these patterns in other humans and animals can have…
More than 2 million years ago, Greenland was really green. Beth Zaiken/bethzaiken.com Despite its verdant name, Greenland is hardly the place you’d expect to find a garden. Larger than Mexico, the island is home to fewer than 60,000 people, most of whom live along the southwestern coast. And to no surprise: Most of the…
Setpoint, a startup that has built software to help other companies close loan transactions faster, has raised $43 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The raise comes just six months after Austin, Texas-based Setpoint closed a $5.5 million seed round and $150 million in securitization. Serial entrepreneurs Ben Rubenstein, Stuart…
Apple today launched Advanced Data Protection, a new, optional end-to-end encryption scheme that prevents data in a customer’s iCloud from being decrypted on an “untrusted” device. Concretely, Advanced Data Protection would keep most of an iCloud account’s data secure even in the event that Apple was hacked, and — as a Wall Street Journal piece…
Apple is clamping down on AirDrop privacy settings for all its users with the iOS 16.2 update, after backlash its recent restrictions impacting the feature’s use in China. In November, reports circulated that Apple had begun limiting the use of AirDrop in China as the country was facing widespread protests over the Chinese government’s “zero Covid”…
Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) returns to the big screen, this time starring as Alice in the psychological thriller Alice, Darling. From director Mary Nighy, the tense trailer features a nervous Alice trapped between a rock and a hard place: Lying to her abusive boyfriend, Simon, or skipping out on a dear…
Intel Sapphire Rapids chips are now officially set to be coming to workstations, the company has confirmed. Pencilled in for release at some point in 2023, “Sapphire Rapids” is the code name for the latest and greatest iteration of Intel’s CPUs, which are otherwise known as 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The chip giant…
One of the companies behind text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion is hosting a film festival exclusively for shorts that were made with AI. Organizers of Runway ML’s AI Film Festival are accepting films with a runtime of between one and 10 minutes that either include AI-generated content or were pieced together with AI-powered editing techniques….