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FCC Blocks New DJI Drone Sales
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (712+ words) American buyers in the market for the latest DJI or Autel drones are about to hit a federal wall. The Federal Communications Commission has barred the sale of new models of foreign drones, including those from the top Chinese companies,…...
Apple Watch Calls 911 for Injured Hiker
2+ week, 3+ day ago (321+ words) A hiker in Colorado who endured a scary, blind fall from a cliff tells Outside Online he isn't sure whether his smartwatch saved his life, but he was pretty happy its fall-detection software was in working order. In October, photographer…...
Netflix Kills Phone-to-TV Casting, Annoying Users
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (302+ words) Netflix users will no longer be able to cast shows from their phones to their TVs in most cases, as the company has quietly ended support for the feature . The move means viewers must now use the Netflix app on…...
Report: There's a New Leader in Smartphone Shipments
3+ week, 5+ day ago (329+ words) For the first time in 14 years, Apple is poised to once again ship more smartphones than Samsung. A new report from Counterpoint Research projects Apple will ship about 243 million iPhones this year, edging out Samsung's expected 235 million units, per CNBC…...
Cryptographers' Secret Vote Has One Bizarre Problem
4+ week, 1+ day ago (251+ words) When one of the world's top cryptography groups voted to elect new leaders, they did what you'd expect cryptographers to do: protected the results with encryption. The problem is that now even the group can't read the results and must…...
US May Ban a Popular Home Router
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (307+ words) One of the most popular home routers sold in the US might get banned by the Commerce Department. As the Washington Post reports, a number of federal agencies have backed the idea of prohibiting future sales of TP-Link routers, citing…...
Students Caught Cheating Send AI-Generated Apologies
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (681+ words) Two data science professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say that after students were caught cheating, they sent "sincere" apologies via email, but they soon realized that the vast majority the apologies were AI-generated. Karle Flanagan and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneide,…...
For a Big Streamer, It's a Quiet Rebrand
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (402+ words) Apple has dropped the "plus" from the name of its streaming platform, which is now simply called Apple TV. The change, quietly announced in a press release tied to the streaming debut of F1: The Movie , gives the service the same…...
AI Is Stealing Our Em Dashes
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (783+ words) Grammar nerds, brace yourselves'AI isn't just stealing creative jobs, it's stealing em dashes. The Guardian 's James Shackell writes that an editor recently told him to get rid of all the em dashes from his writing because "people assume that…...
OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign chip supply partnership for AI infrastructure
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (349+ words) Semiconductor maker AMD will supply its chips to artificial intelligence company OpenAI as part of an agreement to team up on building artificial intelligence infrastructure, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will also get the option to buy as much as…...