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  • The tech industry is grappling with significant national security concerns as U.S. troops have reportedly been targeted with location data, raising alarms about the ad industry's role and the potential for misuse.
  • Conversational AI is rapidly evolving, with new apps like Sesame launching and tech giants like Apple planning major Siri overhauls to compete with established players such as ChatGPT.
  • The automotive sector is seeing both innovation and regulatory scrutiny, with new EV launches from Slate Auto and Rivian facing investigations into safety issues.
  • The quest for AI compute power continues to be a major driver of innovation and investment, with significant deals like Snowflake's $6B agreement with AWS highlighting the demand.
  • Wearable technology is also embracing AI, as seen with Oura's new Ring 5 featuring a thinner design and an integrated AI health coach, alongside other advancements in smart devices and health tracking.

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  • Here’s where you can preorder the new Oura Ring 5 an hour ago by Sheena Vasani
    Deals, Gadgets, Tech, Verge Shopping, Wearable

    If you’ve been waiting for a smaller version of the Oura Ring, the company’s latest wearable is now available for preorder ahead of its June 4th release from Oura and various third-party retailers, including both Amazon and Walmart . The Oura Ring 5, which starts at $399, is 40 percent smaller than its predecessor , thanks to a design that’s both slimmer and lighter. Oura also promises improved accuracy and battery life, letting you get up to nine days of use on a single charge. In addition to the aforementioned hardware changes, Oura is rolling out several new software features,

  • A $2,000 AI-generated film will make its debut at Tribeca 2 hours ago by Emma Roth
    AI, Entertainment, Film

    Next month's Tribeca Festival will include the premiere of an AI-generated film: Dreams of Violets . The 75-minute film is a fictional dramatization of the Iranian government's mass killing of protestors in January, with the people and images fully created by AI, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter . Dreams of Violets cost $2,000 to make and is "based on journalistic reports, photographs, and eyewitness accounts," according to a press release . It was created by Ash and Pooya Koosha, two brothers who left Iran in 2009. Pooya co-founded Fountain 0, the company behind the film, while Ash serves

  • Call of Duty: Warzone is dropping PS4 and Xbox One support later this year 2 hours ago by Tom Warren
    Gaming, Microsoft, News, PlayStation, Tech, Xbox

    Activision is planning to drop support for PS4 and Xbox One consoles in Call of Duty: Warzone later this year. Players will need to upgrade to a PS5 or Xbox Series S / X console to continue playing Call of Duty: Warzone once season 6 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 finishes later this year. Call of Duty: Warzone will be removed from PS4 and Xbox One storefronts on June 4th and will no longer be available to download. Activision will then remove the in-game store in Warzone on PS4 and Xbox One on June 25th, and the game

  • YouTube takes baby steps to being a real podcast app 2 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    AI, News, Podcasts, Streaming, YouTube

    New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS. A new "on-the-go mode" shifts YouTube into an audio-first layout, with larger, simplified playback buttons, a still image in place of the video, and a timeline showing video chapters. YouTube says you can turn on this new mode in a video's settings - a pop up will also appear if YouTube detects you're moving around while watching a video. If you like to speed up your podcasts to get through episodes faster, YouTube's

  • What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs? 2 hours ago by Tom Warren
    Microsoft, Notepad, Tech

    Nearly 10 years ago I reviewed my favorite Surface device. Microsoft hand-delivered its Surface Studio all-in-one PC to me, and I was hooked from the moment I switched it on. It had a beautiful floating touchscreen that you could push all the way down into a drawing board mode, making it unlike anything I had seen in the PC market. But like many other Surface devices, it no longer exists. Over the past few years, Microsoft has been steadily walking back from the experimental ethos that built the brand. The detachable Surface Book? Gone . The giant Surface Hub touchscreen


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