Music streaming platform SoundCloud announced Tuesday that it is introducing a new, cheaper paid plan for artists simply called Artist, while renaming its Next Pro plan to Artist Pro. The new basic tier will cost $39 per year and put some limits on features like track amplification, distribution, monetization, and AI mastering. Artists subscribing to…
While in Los Angeles for The Game Awards, I had a chance to go to some trailers in a parking lot. There, once they got the power on, I was able to preview a cute new game, Revenge of the Savage Planet. The satirical sci-fi adventures is coming from Raccoon Logic in May 2025 for…
The stench of Cambridge Analytica is still hovering over Facebook, as parent Meta just agreed to pay 311,000 Australian users AUD $50 million ($31.7 million) over the scandal. The settlement with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) comes after a four-year dispute with Meta and follows a $725 million award in the US,…
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When someone had the idea to turn a sandworm into a bucket of popcorn they had no idea what they were Dune. Did they create a singularly hilarious internet sensation? Yes. But they also set off a trend that saw people go to movie theaters not just for the movies or the snacks, but for…
Normally, antibodies are protective proteins produced by our immune systems to fight bacteria or viruses. Their strength comes from their specificity—when you get ill, B cells in your immune system undergo an exquisitely precise process of accelerated evolution, rapidly optimizing antibodies that bind precisely to whatever is making you unwell, without sticking to any of…
Alphabet’s CapitalG-backed Aye Finance, a lender focused on India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises, is seeking to raise $171 million from its initial public offering, it disclosed in a filing Tuesday. The offering comprises a $104 million fresh share issue and a $67 million secondary sale by existing investors, with proceeds aimed at expanding the…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI technology is making semiconductor leaders more optimistic about 2025, but headwinds could come from geopolitical and talent retention concerns. Those are some of the predictions in KPMG‘s 20th annual Global Semiconductor Outlook report from the…
Waymo will deploy its driverless cars in Japan and will test its technology in another country for the first time. According to CNBC, the company will begin testing its Jaguar I-PACE vehicles in Tokyo in early 2025 and expects to remain in the country for an “extended period.” During the vehicles’ experimental phase, which will…
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Connections puzzles. It took me an embarrassingly long time to connect the title of today’s Strands puzzle with its topic. The title of the puzzle is, “It’s…
In a new interview tied to The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim that ends up being mostly about Succession (perhaps unsurprisingly), Brian Cox spoke about what it was like to be the guy who played Hannibal Lecter on screen first… a few years before Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-winning performance in The Silence…
In one particularly testy exchange on a conspiracy theories subreddit, two hair stylists clashed over Mangione’s eyebrows. “I was a hairstylist for 20 years back in the day, no one’s eyebrows grow that fast in three days,” one user wrote. “It was on the state board test. Hair on your head grows a quarter of…
Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driven on public roads outside the U.S. The move to Japan is part of Waymo’s “road trips,” a development program that involves bringing its technology to a variety of cities and testing it —…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More MidJourney, the popular AI image generator with more than 19 million users (including several of us at VentureBeat), has introduced new features to enhance user customization. Today, the small company launched Pinterest-inspired “Moodboards” and support for…
NASA says it was able to use the James Webb telescope around ancient stars that challenge theoretical models of how planets can form. The images support that haven’t been able to be confirmed until now. The new Webb highly detailed images were captured from the “Small Magellanic Cloud,” a neighboring dwarf galaxy to our home,…
It’s been a month since mystery drones were first spotted over parts of New Jersey, and the US government still hasn’t given definitive answers on their origin, even as sightings have spread to other states. States including Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Maryland have also reported sightings of large drones in the skies, and speculation…
As Google continues to slowly erode the quality of its search engine, OpenAI appears interested in challenging the company’s ongoing market dominance. The AI firm announced Monday that it is opening access to ChatGPT Search to all users after previously hiding the feature behind a subscription paywall. The announcement, which is the latest of OpenAI’s…
I didn’t consume my first cup of coffee until the ripe age of 24, when I was forced by a former employer to attend an ad hoc cupping session. At first I found the taste of black coffee repulsive, but my small-chain coffee shop employer did not comp the cost of more palatable options like…
Google Labs, Google’s experimental arm, is testing a new image generator called Whisk. This tool allows people to prompt with images instead of text, allowing them to remix a photo by altering the subject, scene, and style. Whisk uses Google’s image-generation model, Imagen 3, to combine three images: one for the subject, another for the…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anyone who has had a job that required intensive amounts of analysis will tell you that any speed gain they can find is like getting an extra 30, 60, or 90 minutes back out of their…
If you ever played with those word refrigerator magnets back in the day, Ransom Notes will give you an instant shot of nostalgia. It also has what I think is the most important quality in a party game: no complicated rules, setup or explanation required. Each round starts with an open-ended question card, like “describe…