The Entrepreneur Who Bet His Company on a Fight With Apple

Your Google search history for 2023 has arrived. Well, actually, the world’s. On Monday, the California-based tech giant released its “Year in Search,” a roundup of 2023’s top global queries, ranging from unforgettable pop culture moments (hello, Barbenheimer), to the loss of beloved figures and tragic news carrying worldwide repercussions. The ongoing Israel-Hamas war topped…

Apple appeals U.S. ban on watch imports over patent dispute – CBS News Watch CBS News Apple is appealing the U.S.’s decision to ban imports of the company’s smart watch due to a patent dispute over the watch’s blood oxygen monitor. The ban went into effect Tuesday after the Biden administration let the U.S. International…

Here’s how to avoid an app-ocalypse. Tech-sperts are warning smartphone users to delete 17 popular finance apps that have been found to be infected with malware. These digital Trojan horses have the potential to steal sensitive data from your phone, such as financial information. Known as SpyLoan apps, these problematic apps have been prevalent in…

In a nondescript Culver City warehouse, members of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold wear protective booties over their shoes to avoid scuffing the floor-to-ceiling green screen. The surroundings couldn’t be more different from their usual fire-and-brimstone aesthetics. That will soon change, of course, with the green screen swapped out for a series of fantastical concert…

Blythe’s comment sections, in comparison, are tame — although he does get some seriously horny private messages. “I get very strange emails, where it’s like, ‘Could you massage my socked feet?’ or something like that,’” Blythe recounted. “I don’t know if they thought the socked part made the outrageous request more normal, but something about…

OpenAI unleashes GPT-4. March’s biggest AI story was the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4. The company’s latest large language model, which powers products like ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing, is the smartest version of the tech so far, capable of acing the SAT math section and the Uniform Bar Exam. It’s also smart enough to code up…