With Nvidia Eye Contact, you’ll never look away from a camera again

Enlarge / Nvidia’s Eye Contact feature automatically maintains eye contact with a camera for you. (credit:…

New York-based VC firm Thrive sells a 3.3% stake for ~$175M to Disney CEO Robert Iger and others, valuing Thrive at $5.3B, a rare move to expand its reach (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: New York-based VC firm Thrive sells a 3.3% stake for…

Fearing ChatGPT, Google enlists founders Brin and Page in AI fight

Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. (credit: Benj…

Germany’s cartel regulator opens an investigation into PayPal Europe over possibly hindering competition, including merchant rules for other payment services (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)

Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: Germany’s cartel regulator opens an investigation into PayPal Europe over possibly hindering…

Amazon is discontinuing its AmazonSmile charity program next month

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Amazon’s business practices and footprint have received plenty of criticism over the years.…

Creators from India’s hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts and running into copyright issues for “fact channels” that add context to other users’ videos (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: Creators from India’s hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts…

Hacker group incorporates DNS hijacking into its malicious website campaign

Enlarge / DNS hijacking concept. Researchers have uncovered a malicious Android app that can tamper with…

Tech companies like Google and Microsoft have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran, prompting side projects by employees to fight censorship and more (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Tech companies like Google and Microsoft have offered a muted response to…

300+ models of MSI motherboards have Secure Boot turned off. Is yours affected?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Secure Boot is an industry standard for ensuring that Windows devices don’t…

A survey of 2,300+ game developers: 45% don’t buy the promise of the metaverse, 53% support unionization, 91% say harassment by players is an issue, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: A survey of 2,300+ game developers: 45% don’t buy the promise of…