Month: March 2023
How to set up two-factor authentication on your online services
Recently, it was announced that Twitter would only offer SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) to its Twitter Blue members (those who are willing to pay $8 a month on Android or $11 a month on iOS). To tell you the truth, my first reaction was: just as well. If you want…
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Humble Bundle’s latest bundle benefits earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria
Humble Bundle has put together a game bundle that benefits relief efforts in Turkey and Syria after a devastating earthquake struck both countries last month. The proceeds from the game bundle will go to three nonprofits working to provide aid to the region, including Direct Relief, International Medical Corps, and…
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Tesla Investor Day 2023: all the news and announcements from Elon Musk’s next ‘Master Plan’ event
Tesla held its first-ever Investor Day event on March 1st at the Austin, Texas-based Gigafactory. The company’s CEO, Elon Musk, revealed the third part of his “Master Plan,” which outlined ways that Tesla would reduce its manufacturing costs and grow to “extreme size.” Tesla has been buffeted by questions around…
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People Are Thirsty For TikTok’s Hottest Ceramicists
Blythe’s comment sections, in comparison, are tame — although he does get some seriously horny private messages. “I get very strange emails, where it’s like, ‘Could you massage my socked feet?’ or something like that,’” Blythe recounted. “I don’t know if they thought the socked part made the outrageous request…
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Tesla’s Investor Day event live blog
Tesla stopped inviting members of the mainstream press to its event right after the Cybertruck reveal in 2019. It was around the same time that the company disbanded its media relations department, leaving Musk’s Twitter account (and a sporadically updated blog) as the sole outlet for information about Tesla. That…
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OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech
OpenAI has announced that it’s now letting third-party developers integrate ChatGPT into their apps and services via an API and that doing so will be significantly cheaper than using its existing language models. The company is making Whisper, its AI-powered speech-to-text model, available for use through an API and making…
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