As Artemis II sends back some wallpaper-worthy photos of the Moon and a solar eclipse, it may have given Samsung some inspiration for its next generation of smartphone cameras.
Thegovier:
Hopefully Samsung will add this to their photography AI so we can all take perfect photos next time we’re on the other side of the moon.
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MAHA is obsessed with these wearables — for all the wrong reasons.
The Elec reports that Samsung Display secured a three-year exclusivity deal for folding iPhone screens, with the maybe-delayed, maybe-not-delayed Apple foldable due later this year. The question is whether Apple is getting the nearly creaseless panels Samsung showed off at CES, which it will need to match the Oppo Find N6.
I’ve been looking for a new desktop wallpaper for a while, and thanks to the Artemis II astronauts I’ve finally found one. NASA’s stunning images of the Earth and the Moon are great for OLED monitors in particular, providing out of this world black levels. Literally.
The New York Times thinks it found the elusive person behind the pseudonym credited with creating Bitcoin. It relied on a combination of textual analysis and in-person tells to narrow a pool of suspects “from 34,000 down to one”.
Spoiler: it’s Adam Back, a cohort of Jeffrey Epstein and early “cypherpunk” who helped lay the groundwork for cryptocurrency.
[nytimes.com]
The app, which lets you do things like see your recent chats and send a message using dictation from the CarPlay dashboard, was recently in beta but has now rolled out widely, as reported by MacRumors.
[MacRumors]
Muck Rack collected millions of responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI platforms to try to measure which news outlets and writers LLMs tend to cite the most. The data, as reported by Press Gazette, is fascinating: niche and little known publications seem to be showing up frequently (along with people like Jim Cramer at CNBC). It’s an AI visibility rat race out there.
The Audible Story House will only be open during the month of May, featuring story “tiles” that visitors can use to sample audiobooks, along with seven “listening spaces” equipped with Sony headphones and Dolby Atmos surround sound. Here are some renderings of what the pop-up might look like:
