Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
… That has also led to more investments and partnerships with the nonprofit. …
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Motorola Phones Now Have a Built-In Travel eSIM for Mobile Data Outside the US
… Sudhir Chadaga, vice president for partnerships at Motorola, says customers have to install the Global Connect app, create a Gigs account, and they'll get 1 GB for free with their first travel eSIM available for a limited time , after which they can top up data as needed. …
Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
… Tools for Humanity says it’s working with Shopify and Vercel to help ensure “human-backed agents” can use these services. While it has inked a number of corporate partnerships, Tools For Humanity has struggled to get governments around the world on board with its technology. …
5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel
… Tesla has existing chip partnerships with TSMC and Samsung. …
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
… As more and more people use services like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code—sometimes running coding programs and agentic tasks for hours on end—the services are being bogged down. …
Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles
… It's unclear whether services like Libby will work, which uses the Kindle Store to deliver downloads. …
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
… Meta pumped billions of dollars into the service, arranging high-profile partnerships with other brands and artists to have virtual concerts by Imagine Dragons and Coldplay. …
MyMove Is the US Government’s Shittiest Website
… WIRED reviewed a similar, although not identical, workflow when independently completing the MyMove voter registration process. “MyMove is employing a pretty egregious cocktail of dark patterns,” says Lior Strahilevitz, a University of Chicago Law School professor, whose research has shown that agg… …
Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
… Last week, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting services and exposing the vulnerability of physical tech infrastructure in the region. …
What Microsoft Executives Really Thought About OpenAI in 2018
… After Musk reached out to Nadella, Microsoft in 2016 agreed to provide $60 million worth of cloud computing services to OpenAI at a steep discount. OpenAI consumed the services twice as fast as expected. …