Apple opens access to used iPhone components for repair

April 11, 2024

On Thursday, Apple announced that it has opened its iPhone repair process to include used components. Starting this fall, customers and independent repair shops will be able to fix the handset using compatible components. Components that don’t require configuration (such as volume buttons) were already capable of being harvested from used devices. Today’s news adds […]

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Google’s Gradient backs Patlytics to help companies protect their intellectual property

April 11, 2024

Patlytics, an AI-powered patent analytics platform, wants to help enterprises, IP professionals, and law firms speed up their patent workflows from discovery, analytics, comparisons, and prosecution to litigation.  The fledgling startup secured $4.5 million in seed funding, oversubscribed and closed in a few days, led by Google’s AI-focused VC arm, Gradient Ventures. Patlytics was co-founded by […]

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Humane’s Ai Pin considers life beyond the smartphone

April 11, 2024

Nothing lasts forever. Nowhere is the truism more apt than in consumer tech. This is a land inhabited by the eternally restless — always on the make for the next big thing. The smartphone has, by all accounts, had a good run. Seventeen years after the iPhone made its public debut, the devices continue to […]

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Simbian brings AI to existing security tools

April 11, 2024

Simbian is a cybersecurity platform that effectively controls other cybersecurity platforms as well as security apps and tooling.

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Amazon, eyeing up AI, adds Andrew Ng to its board; ex-MTV exec McGrath to step down

April 11, 2024

If corporate boards of directors signal something about where a company wants to be focusing, Amazon’s just made an interesting move to change up its direction. The company has just announced that Andrew Ng — a prominent figure in the world of AI, and specifically building AI within large tech companies — is joining its […]

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Elon Musk accused of profiting from tragedy as study finds X rewards hate targeting Israel-Gaza war

April 11, 2024

A few weeks after defeating Elon Musk’s attempt to silence it in court, anti-hate research nonprofit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), is back with a new piece of research into Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The study builds on earlier work investigating his impact on online speech by spotlighting how policy […]

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Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

April 11, 2024
Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward houseguests. For more than a decade, the couple, who live in Los Altos Hills, California, have hosted a slew of robots in their home.  In 2002, at age 40, Henry had a massive stroke, which left him with quadriplegia and an inability to speak.…