AI plushie Grok, voiced by Grimes, was trademarked before Elon Musk’s Grok
Grimes is stepping into the toy business with “Grok,” a character that she voiced for Curio’s new line of screen-free AI plushies. The toy is not affiliated with the AI chatbot backed by Grimes’ ex, Elon Musk, which is also named Grok. Musk described xAI’s Grok as having a “rebellious streak”
Read MoreApple fixed the iPhone’s Flipper Zero problem
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple has blocked a Bluetooth attack carried out with the Flipper Zero that sent a barrage of pop-ups to iPhones, causing them to lock up and crash. While Apple hasn’t formally announced the change, it appears the company has rolled out a fix
Read MoreWhat is the point of a public key fingerprint?
Public key cryptography uses two keys: a private key and a public key. The nature of these keys depends on the encryption scheme, such as whether one is using RSA, ECC, or some other method, but you can think of a key as a long number. A key may be
Read MoreApple agrees to pay out $25M to settle lawsuit over Family Sharing
Apple has agreed to pay out $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its Family Sharing feature, which lets users and up to five of their family members share access to apps, music, movies, TV shows and books that they purchase. The lawsuit, which was first filed in
Read MoreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, Dec. 15, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, December 15th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs will be here to discuss several stories
Read MoreInvestment in India is in free fall
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You shouldn’t compare apples to oranges, but similarly, comparing iPhones to Androids is a fool’s errand as well. Now that Apple is finally phasing out the Lightning connector after 11 years in favor of the
Read MoreRobinhood is on a quest to dive deeper into crypto
The platform might not be as highly technical as one that’s crypto-focused, Robinhood is doing research to understand what customers want and are missing. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreUbiquiti fixes glitch that exposed private video streams to other customers
Ubiquity, the networking and video surveillance camera maker, has fixed a bug that users say mistakenly allowed them access to the accounts and private live video streams of other customers. Reports first emerged on Reddit that some customers received push notifications on their phones featuring Ubiquiti account-related information and private
Read MoreTwitch cracks down on boobs again by rolling back its ‘artistic nudity’ policy
Days after freeing the (fictionalized) nipple, Twitch is backtracking on its “artistic nudity” policy that allowed streamers to show illustrated, animated or sculpted renderings of breasts, butts and genitals. The announcement comes days after Twitch announced sweeping updates to its sexual content policy, which streamlined the platform’s community guidelines and
Read MoreMultisensory art exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum taps into AI, VR
It is called Night in the Garden of Love, is produced in partnership with Weils, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels, and it combines traditional art with an obvious technology bent that, in the words of its creator, “transports visitors into new and imaginary worlds.” That creator is contemporary
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