Is AI here to take our jobs or boost productivity to new heights? It's hard to tell, but the picture painted by Google's AI Teammate seems to be somewhere in between. Google presented its vision for an AI Teammate during Google I/O 2024, its annual developer conference. It isn't a Gemini replacement. Instead, it's an additional chatbot that oversees projects, analyzes data, and identifies trends across the workspace.
It can be hard to choose a new phone if you're on a strict budget. While there are plenty of flagship options out there with loads of great features, things get a little more complicated when you're looking for a good phone for under $300 that still offers a pleasant experience. And despite it being pretty slim pickings, Samsung is one brand that offers some pretty good choices.
Google has yet to roll out the November 2024 update for Pixel devices, but Verizon this evening has detailed what’s coming and it’s a more sizable release for the Pixel 9 series.
more…Occasionally, you'll see a headline touting some groundbreaking battery technology advancement, only for it to be a theoretical concept that's years from reality. But what if we could untether devices from their batteries, and transmit just enough wireless electricity to feed smartwatches, smart rings, and other low-power devices just the trickle of energy they need to keep functioning?
If you put your devices through their paces, a power bank may make a great accompanying device. Today, at Woot, you can save $80 on the Anker Prime 250W power bank, which is marked down to $100. This is 44% off its regular retail price, which normally sits at $180.
If you search for fitness tech, for example, one of our favorite fitness trackers, or hint at running or weightlifting while you're online, fitness ads will follow you around platforms like Facebook and YouTube. Fitness has become a subscription product and each new customer could be worth thousands of dollars. We reviewed the Whoop 4.0 band last year. A year later, the software behind it and its competition have evolved. Does it make sense to buy a Whoop subscription in 2024? What are the benefits and drawbacks of the tech in light of its alternatives, like smartwatches?
A Massachusetts spa owner has been arrested for what prosecutors describe as a blundering scheme in which she conspicuously smuggled counterfeit Botox and skin fillers into the US, then peddled them to clients by falsely claiming to be a nurse with a degree from "Havard" and a license from the state's "Estate Board."
Nevertheless, the woman—Rebecca Fadanelli, 38, of Stoughton—allegedly performed over 2,700 illegal injections between 2021 and 2024, raking in over $900,000 with the scam.
According to an affidavit from a Special Agent with the Food and Drug Administration, Fadanelli was smuggling in counterfeit Botox and fillers from China and Brazil. Between November 2023 and March 2024, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized at least six parcels from China addressed to Fadanelli or her employees. The packages included various counterfeit injectable drugs, including products labeled as Botox and skin fillers Sculptra and Juvederm.
There's a dangerous new threat to everyone's bank accounts spreading around the world, and it shows no signs of stopping. This malware is a trojan called ToxicPanda, and it targets bank accounts through Android devices with an advanced attack strategy.
Before you switch operating systems, move your favorite content from your Android phone for audiophiles to your iPhone. If you have a large music library, you can transport it to your iPhone without starting from scratch and enjoy Music Replay with other fresh features. The Move to iOS app would be ideal for transferring data. However, it doesn't support moving music. You'll need to use other methods. Here are the steps you'll follow to transfer your songs.
Im a massive fan of Onyx products. I use my Onyx Boox Go 10.3 daily for note-taking and scanning PDFs. Its a fantastic productivity device that highlights what Onyx does best: providing the flexibility of Android with the charms and benefits of an E Ink display. Unfortunately, that winning formula can't be duplicated at all price levels, and the Onyx Boox Go 6 suffers from trying to do too much.
For nearly a decade now, Google's Pixel lineup has been a fan favorite among Android enthusiasts. Strong online fandoms don't always translate to real world popularity, of course ask any die-hard Carly Rae Jepsen fan, ahem and that's usually been the case for the Pixel. Despite steady year-over-year growth, Google's smartphone division only moved 10 million units in 2023, and that represented an all-time high. In comparison, Apple sold nearly 235 million iPhones in the same 12-month time period, with Samsung not too far behind.
On Monday, Anthropic launched the latest version of its smallest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, in a way that marks a departure from typical AI model pricing trends—the new model costs four times more to run than its predecessor. The reason for the price increase is causing some pushback in the AI community: more smarts, according to Anthropic.
"During final testing, Haiku surpassed Claude 3 Opus, our previous flagship model, on many benchmarks—at a fraction of the cost," Anthropic wrote in a post on X. "As a result, we've increased pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku to reflect its increase in intelligence."
"It's your budget model that's competing against other budget models, why would you make it less competitive," wrote one X user. "People wanting a 'too cheap to meter' solution will now look elsewhere."
A Google keep change first spotted all the way back in March is starting to roll out now. After already being implemented in other Google services like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Google Keep is finally gaining a new floating action button that declutters the app's bottom bar.
Apple on Tuesday officially launched Apple Pay, its payment platform, for users in Paraguay. The news was confirmed by Mastercard on its website, which also reveals that customers of the main banks in Paraguay can now use Apple Pay.
more…The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is accusing Grindr of using a return-to-office (RTO) mandate in an attempt to block employee efforts to form a union.
On July 20, 2023, employees at the LGBTQ+ dating app announced plans to unionize. On August 3, 2023, Grindr told employees that they had two weeks to decide if they would start working in an office location two days per week or exit Grindr with six months of severance, per The New York Times, which reported that it saw the memo. Grindr also reportedly offered up to $15,000 for relocation expenses to its offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington DC. Before the RTO mandate, Grindr allowed fully remote work.
Despite the announcement's timing, Grindr said in August 2023 that it had been working on an RTO mandate for months and that employees were notified of this in early summer 2023, per the NYT. On August 4, 2023, the Communications Workers of America Union, which Grindr employees were working to join, filed a complaint with the NLRB.
Canadian authorities have arrested a man on suspicion he breached hundreds of accounts belonging to users of cloud storage provider Snowflake and used that access to steal personal data belonging to millions of people, authorities said Tuesday.
“Following a request by the United States, Alexander Moucka (aka Connor Moucka) was arrested on a provisional arrest warrant on Wednesday, October 30, 2024,” an official with the Canada Department of Justice wrote in an email Tuesday. “He appeared in court later that afternoon, and his case was adjourned to Tuesday, November 5, 2024. As extradition requests are considered confidential state-to-state communications, we cannot comment further on this case.”
Word of the arrest first came from Bloomberg News and was later confirmed by 404 Media.
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