World’s first diabetes cure with cell therapy achieved in China (interestingengineering.com)
We're Watching Facebook Die (www.wheresyoured.at)
In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one or more of Facebook’s Family...
Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem (f-droid.org)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that puts your privacy first, believes in a...
Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up (www.wired.com)
After successful animal trials, human trials to begin for tooth regrowth drug (www.theregister.com)
Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers (www.androidpolice.com)
A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide (medium.com)
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Google's Controversial Plan to Disable Older Chrome Extensions Starts June 3 (me.pcmag.com)
Anker launches new KVM Switch for desktop and laptop (www.notebookcheck.net)
Framework Laptop 13 gets Intel Core Ultra with a 120 Hz display, and cheaper AMD models (www.gamingonlinux.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/16433795...
Hands-on look at the Daylight DC1, the tablet with a potentially game-changing display (www.androidauthority.com)
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy....
Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14 (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133938...
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook (www.wheresyoured.at)
Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweigh the content of people that...
Samsung forces repair stores to destroy customer smartphones, iFixit ends cooperation (www.notebookcheck.net)
This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message (theintercept.com)
Stubborn polystyrene waste finally gets innovative recycling solution (interestingengineering.com)
Imperceptible sensors made from 'electronic spider silk' can be printed directly on human skin (techxplore.com)
Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (futurism.com)
China's SAIC Motor Says It'll Mass-Produce Solid-State EV Batteries by 2026 (www.thedrive.com)
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