Bluesky gears up for Election Day as X goes pro-Trump
As Election Day in the U.S. nears, social networking startup Bluesky, now flush with new capital, hopes to demonstrate that its platform can serve as a more trusted, fact-checked alternative to Elon Musk’s X. While the latter is dominated by Musk’s support for the Trump campaign, Bluesky tends to lean
Read moreAmazon brings generative AI-powered recaps to Prime Video
Instead of scouring the internet for a summary of a TV show, which often risks unintentionally revealing major plot points, Prime Video’s latest feature aims to save viewers from encountering any spoilers. Amazon announced on Monday the launch of “X-Ray Recaps,” a generative AI-powered feature that creates concise summaries of
Read moreAmazon acknowledges screen issues on a ‘small number’ of Kindle Colorsoft units
After more than a decade of waiting, Amazon’s first color Kindle has stumbled out of the gate. An issue with the new display has left Colorsoft buyers leaving unfavorable reviews. At last count, the e-reader is hovering around 2.7 stars. The company confirmed the display issues affecting a “small number”
Read moreRegulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions
A series of recent rulings from regulators dashed the Big Tech companies' hopes of finding a quick fix for their electricity needs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreElon Musk’s PAC admits $1 million voter giveaways aren’t ‘random’
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A representative of Elon Musk’s America PAC said the winners of its $1 million voter sweepstakes aren’t randomly selected. The people who are awarded the checks are chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the pro-Trump PAC, lawyer Chris Gober testified in a
Read moreChris’ Corner: Lists
Sometimes a good ol’ list is what we need. I know, I know, this is forever true. But as my friend Dave is wont to say: eliminate nuance. The world doesn’t need nuance on if you should label your inputs by matching the for attribute of the label with the
Read moreThe impossible puzzle
It’s fascinating that there’s such a thing as the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship. The winning team of the two-person thousand-piece puzzle round can assemble a Ravensburger puzzle in less than an hour—that’s about 3 -1/2 seconds per piece. It makes you wonder, how could you measure the hardness of a
Read moreResearch roadmap update: November 2024
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Read moreBuilt in four days, this $120 robot arm cleans a spill with help from GPT-4o
Large language models have already proven transformative for robotics. While researchers and companies alike utilize the platforms to supercharge robotic learning, a pair of roboticists at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich challenged themselves by leveraging generative AI to put a cheap robot arm to work. Jannik Grothusen and Kaspar Janssen
Read moreX is allowing people you’ve blocked to see your posts
Illustration: The Verge This weekend, X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announced it’s “starting to launch” a controversial change to how blocking works on its platform. Company owner Elon Musk first revealed the change in September, which will allow people you’ve blocked to continue to see your posts, and,
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