Based on so many reviews (including ours), Humane’s AI Pin did not live up to the AI gadget hype at launch. Now, the company says things are getting better with the addition of OpenAI’s just-launched GPT-4o AI model, with product design lead George Kedenburg claiming it’s faster now, with better answers.

If you have one, let us know how things are going.

Mozilla Firefox now supports Nvidia’s AI upscaling, and, in joining Chrome and Edge, it’s become the first non-Chromium browser on the list. Nvidia’s tech taps into your Windows PC’s RTX GPU to enhance low resolution video and add HDR.

Syed, the former CEO of the publication The Markup, will lead the foundation’s $30 million portfolio of programs beginning July 1.

She will focus on partnering with organizations “to shift the narrative on AI,” create and fund open source datasets, tools and research, and build a community of responsible tech talent

So says federal Judge Rita Lin, in her ruling on a lawsuit brought against Tesla alleging the automaker misled consumers by overstating the capabilities of its driver assist products. She dismissed several other claims brought by the plaintiff asking for injuctive relief and monetary damages. But fraud? Fraud’ll do.

“If Tesla meant to convey that its hardware was sufficient to reach high or full automation, the [second amended complain] plainly alleges sufficient falsity,” Lin writes.  

An Apple “wearable computer” made by the Vision Pro’s manufacturer received the necessary quality and safety accreditation for it go on sale, according to the website of the Chinese product standards body that granted its approval.

The report aligns with recent rumors suggesting the Pro will roll out internationally after WWDC on June 10th, though an exact date is still unknown.

The Aurora supercomputer, which Intel built in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprises and the Argonne National Laboratory, is now the fastest computer in the world for AI, reaching 1.012 exaflops. An exaflop is equal to one quintillion floating point calculations per second.

Intel says Aurora is designed specifically for generative AI use cases “to accelerate scientific discovery.”

People are unhappy with the state of dating apps for so many reasons. Now Hinge says it’s ready to test messaging limits as a fix for “dating burnout.”

Hinge users with eight or more people waiting for their response will have a decision to make: reply, or end the chat in order to continue sending and receiving additional likes.

The Your Turn Limits test will kick off in select global markets this May

In response to malware and social engineering attacks that work by snooping notifications or activating screen sharing, Google says Android 15 will hide notifications with one-time passwords (with some exceptions, like wearable companion apps).

They’re also automatically hidden during screen sharing, and developers can enable their apps to check if Google Play Protect is active, or if another app might be capturing the screen during use.

The blink-and-you-missed-it AR glasses at Google I/O? “The glasses shown are a functional research prototype from our AR team at Google. We do not have any launch plans to share,” Google spokesperson Jane Park tells The Verge.

However: “Looking further ahead, we anticipate that capabilities demonstrated with Project Astra could be utilized through wearables and other next-generation devices.”

The Canon EOS R1 will “dramatically improve the performance of both still images and video” compared to the company’s previously flagship EOS R3. It’s “coming soon.”

Though it has the same Digic X processor, a new “Digic Accelerator” and ML algorithms can — for instance — allegedly tell when one player’s shooting a ball and focus on them automatically.

The $599 Alternator Charger sits between the starter battery on your RV, van, or truck and the giant EcoFlow battery you use to power your work and play when off the grid. It charges at a rate of 1kWh for every 1.3 hours of driving and can also be used to maintain and jump start the starter battery if needed.

The developers of Drag Her, the drag queen fighting game, has announced they are ending development and disbanding the team. In the announcement, the team wrote that despite a successful Kickstarter and solid fan support, they couldn’t secure enough funding to bring their vision of Drag Her to life. But not all is totally lost. The developers plan on releasing Drag Her in its current state on Steam for free May 16th.

Ubisoft’s Cécile Russeil is EVP in charge of Communications, Corporate Affairs, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, Human Resources, and Legal. So anything and everything the company does to fix that toxic workplace we heard about in 2020, which led to some changes and more recently to arrests — it’s all on her. Sounds like a monster job.

Auto-translated from Japanese:

Nintendo DS CRT Ver. Finally completed!!! (📚🍣) Two 14-inch CRTs (SONY Trinitron) are used. (S terminal output)

The sound and picture quality are both amazing! However, the problem is that you can’t carry it in your pocket... That’s why we named it DS Heavy. (Total weight: 28KG)

Buried within Ubisoft’s earnings report is the news that The Division Heartland has been cancelled. The game was a free-to-play spinoff of The Division series that was rumored to be Ubisoft’s entry to the battle royale space. According to the earnings report that game has been scrapped with the company shifting its focus on developing XDefiant a game that’s launching its preseason...checks notes next week. And you thought Xbox wasn’t promoting Hellblade enough.

Rockstar’s hit open-world western will hit the catalog on May 21st, along with Watch Dogs and The Sims 4’s City Living expansion, according to the PlayStation blog.

But as Sony giveth, it also taketh away — Horizon Zero Dawn is indeed going back into the vault the same day. Maybe when we see it next, it’ll be remastered.