Author: Zach_Wilson
Tap-to-pay could get more capable and more complicated
At some point in the future, a new “Multi-Purpose Tap” concept will let payment cards or devices like smartwatches and phones accomplish multiple things at once when using NFC. With this in play, a customer in a store might tap their phone with Apple Wallet or Google Pay on a…
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The first Thunderbolt 5 cables are here, but there’s barely anything to plug in
Available today from Amazon in 1-foot (0.3m), 1.6-foot (0.5m), and 3.3-foot (1m) lengths for $23, $27, and $33, respectively, the new cables obviously don’t do anything on their own — you’d need a computer with a Thunderbolt 5 port and a dock or accessory of some sort to get some…
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Silvergate Bank didn’t adequately monitor $1 trillion in crypto transactions, SEC says
Silvergate Bank, once a cornerstone of the crypto financial world until its collapse in early 2023, defrauded its investors by lying about its anti-money laundering controls and misleading investors about how the fallout from the FTX collapse would affect it, the Securities and Exchange Commission says in a lawsuit. Also…
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This is Big Tech’s playbook for swallowing the AI industry
A couple of months ago, I was sitting in the audience at a tech conference in San Fransisco watching Bloomberg’s Emily Chang interview Reid Hoffman. She asked about Microsoft’s hiring of the team behind Inflection, a would-be OpenAI competitor that Hoffman co-founded. It was an acquisition in everything but name,…
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The Sims 4’s Lovestruck expansion lets you dive into a steamy polyamory sandbox
The new Lovestruck expansion pack for The Sims 4 gives the decade-old sequel a shot of life by turning it into a full-fledged dating sim — including non-monogamous WooHoo-ing for the first time. In addition to polyamory, the $40 DLC adds an in-game dating app, an encounter-planning system, turn-ons and…
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The year so far in AI: the biggest stories from ChatGPT to Gemini and what’s coming next
The generative AI explosion of the last couple of years hasn’t slowed in 2024. There’s been a slew of new products employing large language models and an almost daily blast of some new feature or tool for the existing services. ChatGPT is more powerful and has a new voice mode…
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