White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden is “experiencing mild symptoms,” according to CNBC. He will be leaving Las Vegas, where he was giving speeches, and return to Delaware to self-isolate.
Google is celebrating July 17th by revealing its take on the new Unicode 16.0 emoji.
Google says the emoji will appear on Android phones “by March 2025” and in “your favorite Google products in early 2025.” Hopefully, Apple will add support at around the same time.
If you’ve wondered how emoji are made, I wrote about submitting proposals for the yawning face and waffle emoji.
Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to AT&T CEO John Stankey with several questions about the cybersecurity attack that resulted in customer data being downloaded from the company’s Snowflake workspace, The Record reports. The senators requested answers by July 29th, and AT&T will respond, according to Reuters.
The senators also sent a letter to Snowflake’s CEO.
You can grab the app from Google Play right now. It’s free and “accessible with all plans, including Pro and Team,” the company says in a blog post.
Anthropic released an iOS app in May.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Disney is trying to make its streaming platforms work and feel more like Netflix. For example:
New features in the works at Disney include a more-personalized algorithm to power content recommendations, customized promotional art for new shows and movies based on subscriber’s tastes and usage history, and emails sent to viewers who stop watching in the middle of a series reminding them to finish, according to people familiar with the matter.
There’s lots more in the full story.
That’s a new limited series coming to Netflix from Haley Z. Boston and Upside Down Pictures (the production company launched by Stranger Things co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer).
“According to the logline, the series will follow a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated wedding,” says Netflix. “And obviously, it’s not a spoiler to share that not all goes right with the nuptials.”
In a long post on X, the former OpenAI and Tesla employee discussed Eureka Labs and his vision of how AI could help with education.
Sounds interesting, but maybe his post shouldn’t have featured art where the people have extra arms and legs?
