Check out this tech news: Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year... https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users
Check out this tech news: Apple M5 chip... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:21:03 +0000 | ID: 3971eefeaa80
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Yang’s departure marks the latest in a string of exits from Apple’s AI unit, putting the company into jeopardy in the lead-up to a much-anticipated Siri revamp scheduled for March.
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:15:22 +0000 | ID: abfd7da37b5c
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Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to log into the apps and will be automatically redirected to the Facebook website to access Messenger.
Check out this tech news: Meta to shut down Messenger desktop apps for Mac and Windows... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/meta-to-shut-down-messenger-desktop-apps-for-mac-and-windows/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:15:50 +0000 | ID: dfc1a5292276
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Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI content labels more visible.
Check out this tech news: Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-adds-controls-to-let-you-limit-the-amount-of-ai-slop-in-your-feed/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:57:30 +0000 | ID: ef495a573f43
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| Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 🔒 Security
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"Loneliness is the biggest disease in the world right now," founder Francesco Vitali said. "So we built a platform where human time has value again, and a place where being human is important."
Check out this tech news: Rent a Cyber Friend will pay you to talk to strangers online and will show off its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/rent-a-cyber-friend-will-pay-you-to-talk-to-strangers-online-and-will-show-off-its-platform-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:52:06 +0000 | ID: bb3e61acc5ac
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After struggling to retain customers at his e-commerce site Headphones.com, founder Andrew Lissimore built his own loyalty solution — and it’s now a startup called Lantern. The Shopify-native platform...
Check out this tech news: How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/how-a-headphone-site-operator-built-loyalty-startup-lantern-to-solve-his-own-problems/
Check out this tech news: Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/inside-the-web-infrastructure-revolt-over-googles-ai-overviews/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:06:08 +0000 | ID: deaba0991cf4
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Google has invested in fusion startups as potential power suppliers. This latest move suggests Google sees them as potential customers, too.
Check out this tech news: The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/the-real-reason-google-deepmind-is-working-with-a-fusion-energy-startup/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:01:32 +0000 | ID: 9860f9b07109
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Deel says it's been profitable for three years and surpassed $1 billion in ARR, including having a month that hit $100 million in revenue
Check out this tech news: Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/deel-hits-17-3b-valuation-after-raising-300m-from-big-name-vcs/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:40:00 +0000 | ID: 4efc8cf622d4
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“The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most connected,” Zehra Naqvi told TechCrunch. “Now there is an abundance of content b...
Check out this tech news: A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a-new-wave-of-social-media-apps-provide-hope-in-a-doomscrolling-world/
Check out this tech news: Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/10/civil-war-gzdoom-fan-developers-split-off-over-use-of-chatgpt-generated-code/
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Research paper by Dominick Reilly, Manish Kumar Govind, Le Xue et al.. Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at general visual reasoning tasks but exhibit sharp performance degradation when applie...
Check out this tech news: OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics—who also hate Musk... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/openai-thinks-elon-musk-funded-its-biggest-critics-who-also-hate-musk/
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Research paper by Sihui Ji, Xi Chen, Xin Tao et al.. Video generation models nowadays are capable of generating visually realistic videos, but often fail to adhere to physical laws, limiting their abi...
Check out this tech news: PhysMaster: Mastering Physical Representation for Video Generation via Reinforcement Learning... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13809v1
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-16T11:30:00-04:00 | ID: 799c30fe5df2
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This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Big hero images highlighting select...
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-16T11:10:00-04:00 | ID: 52430faba409
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| Topics: 🤖 Ai Ml, 📱 Mobile
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OnePlus has announced OxygenOS 16, its take on Android 16, with upgrades to its Mind Space AI tool including complete integration with Google Gemini. Other updates include new lock screen customizatio...
Check out this tech news: OnePlus’ OxygenOS 16 brings Gemini into your Mind Space... https://www.theverge.com/news/800754/oneplus-oxygenos-16-gemini-mind-space
Check out this tech news: Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/meet-the-2025-nikon-photomicrography-winners/
Check out this tech news: SpaceX has plans to launch Falcon Heavy from California—if anyone wants it to... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/spacex-has-plans-to-launch-falcon-heavy-from-california-if-anyone-wants-it-to/
Check out this tech news: Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/antarctica-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-greenland-and-that-isnt-good/
Check out this tech news: Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/army-general-says-hes-using-ai-to-improve-decision-making/
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Pinterest is rolling out a tool that allows users to “dial down the AI” in their feed, the company says. Users can select which categories they want populated with more or less AI-generated content. B...
Check out this tech news: Pinterest’s ‘tuner’ lets you dial down the amount of AI content — but not entirely... https://www.theverge.com/news/801093/pinterest-tuner-tool-ai-content-categories
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Apple has partnered with NBCUniversal for a new subscription bundle that includes Apple TV and Peacock Premium for $14.99 per month, or Apple TV and the mostly ad-free Peacock Premium Plus for $19.99 ...
Check out this tech news: Apple TV and Peacock announce a discounted $15 monthly subscription bundle... https://www.theverge.com/news/800928/apple-tv-peacock-premium-plus-nbcuniversal-subscription-bundle
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Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well you’ve recovered from a hard b...
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AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their agents actually useful for end users, whether they’r...
Check out this tech news: Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work... https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/800868/anthropic-claude-skills-ai-agents
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Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s new operating system, macOS 26. The latest 14-inch Ma...
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Research paper by Xinchen Zhang, Xiaoying Zhang, Youbin Wu et al.. We introduce Generative Universal Verifier, a novel concept and plugin designed for next-generation multimodal reasoning in vision-la...
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Fujifilm has announced an update to its Instax Mini LiPlay that first launched in 2019. The new Instax Mini LiPlay Plus offers similar functionality as the original with the ability to snap digital ph...
Check out this tech news: Fujifilm redesigned its Instax Mini LiPlay for snapping selfies... https://www.theverge.com/news/801098/fujifilm-instax-mini-liplay-plus-instant-camera-selfies
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Research paper by Xinhang Liu, Yuxi Xiao, Donny Y. Chen et al.. Effective spatio-temporal representation is fundamental to modeling, understanding, and predicting dynamics in videos. The atomic unit o...
Check out this tech news: Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/once-unthinkable-nasa-and-lockheed-now-consider-launching-orion-on-other-rockets/
Check out this tech news: OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it... https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/openais_chatgpt_popular_few_pay/?td=rt-3a
Check out this tech news: JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/jd-vance-racist-messages-young-republicans-chat-leak
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I have a masters (research) in AI. I have been looking for research inclined roles but haven't found success yet. I land some interview now and then but haven't gone past the 3rd round yet. Any tips o...
Check out this tech news: [D] ML interviewers, what do you wnat to hear during an interview?... https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1o7d963/d_ml_interviewers_what_do_you_wnat_to_hear_during/