Dec 30

The Morning After: The biggest tech stories of 2023

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What do you do when the tech world mostly grinds to a halt at the end of December? You reheat your hot takes, force a narrative thread on a company’s ups and downs and edit it all up for consumption. 

Yes, it’s a little quiet at the end of the year (barring Apple Watch bans), but that won’t stop TMA from finding something for me to talk to himself about. We’re looking at a few of the major stories from the last 12 months and .. some other things where I just has to say my piece. And if not on a short YouTube video that’s clipped, cropped and pushed into socials, then where? On X? Pschh.

This week:

🤖💬🤖 How OpenAI’s ChatGPT has changed the world in just a year

📲🔋 Apple’s switch to USB-C on the iPhone 15 brings more cable confusion

🎮🎮🎮 Microsoft officially owns Activision Blizzard

And read this:

I couldn’t cover all the big things in tech in one tiny video. I’d recommend taking a look at all of the big tech wins in 2023 (and all the big losses), and it’s definitely worth reading through our picks of the best games of the year. 

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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-the-biggest-tech-stories-of-2023-140022006.html?src=rss

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Dec 30

Prosecutors Say There’s No Need For A Second Trial Of FTX Founder

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Prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in a letter that evidence at a second trial would duplicate evidence already shown to a jury.

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Dec 30

Doctor Who's Holiday Time, the DCEU's Sendoff, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week

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It’s the final week of 2023, but the news hasn’t stopped quite yet. As the year wound down, the io9 crew found time to look back on the year’s events, say goodbye (and possibly hello?) to some old friends, and return to some haunts we left behind. Check them out here!—James Whitbrook

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Dec 30

Republicans Attacked This Issue All Year — And 2024 Could Be A Tipping Point

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This year was marked by rising anti-trans rhetoric, a record number of anti-LGBTQ bills filed in statehouses across the country, and even violence.

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Dec 30

How Many of These Stupid-Hard Puzzles Can You Solve?

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In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative thinking. For each of the following puzzles, I provide a link to the solution, but I suggest you resist the temptation…

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Dec 30

I Am Straight-Up Obsessed With My New $29 Foot Warmer

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Do not go through another winter without one of these.

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Dec 30

Spinner BT Hands-On: JBL's First Ever Turntable Is the Most Gen-Z Thing I've Used This Year

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JBL recently did something somewhat out-of-the-box and experimental: launching its first-ever wireless turntable. It’s called the Spinner BT, and released it a couple of weeks ago, just in time for the holiday season.

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Dec 30

Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot app arrives on iOS

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A few days ago, Microsoft released a standalone Android app for Microsoft Copilot, giving you a quick way to access the AI assistant. Turns out the iOS and iPad versions weren’t far behind, because they’re now available from Apple’s App Store. Just like in Copilot on desktop and other AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, you can type in your question and wait for responses generated by artificial intelligence. In Copilot’s case, you’ll get responses spun by OpenAI’s GPT-4, the company’s latest large language model. The free version of ChatGPT, in comparison, is powered by the older ChatGPT-3.5, and you’ll need to pay for ChatGPT Plus to get access to the newer model. 

In addition, Copilot on iOS has the capability to turn your words into images. That particular feature is powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 text-to-image AI system, which the company previously said is “significantly better” at being able to grasp the final product you want to achieve with the text prompt you type in. DALL-E 3 was also designed to be better at rendering the elements its predecessors were having trouble with, such as human hands. 

This is but the latest Copilot product Microsoft has released since it rebranded Bing Chat. The company also brought Copilot to Windows 10 and then to Windows 11, giving around a billion devices — based on the platforms’ user numbers — access to the AI chatbot. With these mobile rollouts, Microsoft is expanding Copilot’s reach even more, especially since the apps are free to use. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsofts-copilot-ai-chatbot-app-arrives-on-ios-112559129.html?src=rss

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Dec 30

Cher Asks Court To Give Her Conservatorship Over Her Adult Son

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Cher has asked a court to make her a temporary conservator overseeing her son’s money.

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Dec 30

DeSantis’ 2023: More Than $160 Million Spent To Buy A Collapse In The Polls

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The Florida governor has already started blaming Democrats for indicting Donald Trump too much and thereby boosting his campaign.

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