The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has its lawsuit over peer-to-peer payment system Zelle, the latest in a of dismissals from this department under President Donald Trump’s administration. The agency had only just announced the suit — filed against Zelle’s operating entity Early Warning Services and partner banks JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo … Read more
You’ll soon see a big change in how your Gmail account is secured and your two-factor authenticated logins are handled. Google has said it’s planning to stop sending 2FA codes via text message to verify Gmail accounts in favor of security tools such as passkeys and QR codes that you would scan with your device. … Read more
Landing on the Moon is no easy feat; the lunar surface has become a graveyard for far too many missions that came to untimely ends. But Firefly’s Blue Ghost conquered the lunar surface a few days ago, and is now standing tall on the Moon. Landing on the Moon never looked so good, with Blue … Read more
Secondly, tariffs can only make foreign companies start producing chips in the US if it becomes cheaper than doing it somewhere else. But higher American labor costs and the country’s lack of a sophisticated semiconductor supply chain means moving manufacturing there will take years, if not decades, and there’s little guarantee that such US outposts … Read more
SAVE $180 + FREE GALAXY BUDS3: As of March 3, get the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra tablet for $1439.99, down from its usual price of $1619.99 at Samsung. Plus, get a free pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds3 with purchase. No matter which way you slice it, a larger screen will always trump a larger … Read more
We still didn’t get a straight up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to side-step CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting … Read more
What you need to know Google’s March feature drop is here, bringing scam detection alerts for texts and calls to Pixel users. The Pixel Watch 3 will receive its Loss of Pulse detection feature by the “end of March,” but users should soon receive its Menstrual Cycle tracking and prediction. The feature drop expands Find … Read more
Innovative AI-driven technology brand TECNO today launched the new CAMON 40 Series – its latest flagship imaging product and most advanced AI smartphone ever – at MWC Barcelona 2025. Unveiled at the TECNO AI Ecosystem Product Launch event, the four models (CAMON 40 Premier 5G, CAMON 40 Pro 5G, CAMON 40 Pro, and CAMON 40) … Read more
AmiMoJo shares a report: Europe’s biggest battery storage project has entered commercial operation in Scotland [alternative source], promising to soak up surplus wind power and prevent turbines being paid to switch off. Zenobe said the first phase of its project at Blackhillock, between Inverness and Aberdeen, was now live with capacity to store enough power … Read more
Anthropic’s announcement of Claude 3.7 Sonnet notwithstanding, the breakneck pace of major AI announcements seemed to slow down through February. That gave us some time to look at some other topics. Two important posts about programming appeared: Salvatore Sanfilippo’s “We Are Destroying Software” and Rob Pike’s slide deck “On Bloat.” They’re unsurprisingly similar. Neither mentions … Read more