Nvidia says it has a fix for a recently discovered issue where Discord’s background openness was limiting the performance of some graphics cards. According to a tweet from the companythe patch is downloaded automatically when you log into Windows, so you don’t have to bother manually downloading a graphics driver or other software update. The … Read more
Remember how rising gas prices weren’t a problem for electric car owners? Electrify America is reminding users of its DC fast-charging network of one of the biggest frustrations of owning internal combustion engine cars again — raising electricity rates at its stations (via Ars Technica). As of March 6, Electrify America will charge US customers … Read more
The question of whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk committed fraud when he tweeted in August 2018 that he was considering delisting the company, adding “funding secured” is now up to a jury. In Musk’s presence, the jury in the billionaire’s securities fraud trial heard closing arguments from an attorney representing a group of Tesla investors … Read more
TikTok has announced an update to its moderation system, which will implement account warnings similar to the warnings in YouTube’s Community Guidelines. The company says it is doing this because the previous system could be confusing for creators and could be exploited by bad actors. If TikTok removes content, such as a video or comment, … Read more
The Last of Us Part I for PC has been delayed to March 28, developer Naughty Dog announced on Friday. The remake of the first The last of us game was originally scheduled to launch on March 3, so the delay isn’t too long, but it could still be disappointing for fans who circled the … Read more
Another major publisher uses AI to generate stories in the name of efficiency. Arena Group Holdings, a media company whose brands include Sports illustrated, The street, Processionand Men Journal, says it’s partnering with AI language startups Jasper and Nota to broaden and increase the speed of “its AI-assisted endeavors.” These include training AI language models … Read more
It’s funny, Google has been promoting its AI efforts for years, but something about the general attention ChatGPT is getting, combined with Bing owner Microsoft’s interest in the technology, seems to have started a fire among the search giant. Google is holding an event on search and AI next week on February 8. And CEO … Read more
A key feature of Meta’s $1,499.99 Quest Pro headset will arrive later this year — in one form or another — in a more affordable consumer-oriented headset, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the company’s latest earnings release. That key feature is support for Meta Reality, the technology designed to extend virtual reality headsets to augmented … Read more
Google may be gearing up to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT by letting people “interact directly” with its “latest, most powerful language models as a search companion,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai. It would be a big step for the company – as systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E have gone viral, Google – a company that … Read more
TikTok is staring down the barrel of an outright ban in the US It’s already been banned on federal employee devices, blocked by dozens of universities across the country, and lawmakers are calling for its removal from US app stores. It’s in that context that earlier this week I and a handful of other journalists … Read more