10 Best Portable Grills (2024): Charcoal, Propane, Electric, and More - Wired
22 Star Wars Toys and Games to Celebrate May Fourth - Wired
4 Roku OS features I use to get the most out of my TV - Pocket Lint
5 reasons why I use a Garmin tracker over an Apple Watch - Pocket Lint
7 things to consider before buying a TV - Pocket Lint
A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian Outback - Wired
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs - Techcrunch
A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create "digital twins", to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates (Sara Fischer/Axios) - Techmeme
A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns - Wired
AI Engineers Report Burnout, Rushed Rollouts As 'Rat Race' To Stay Competitive Hits Tech Industry - Slashdot
Ambient Weather WS-5000 Review: A Fantastic Weather Station - Wired
Apple Announces Largest-Ever $110 Billion Share Buyback As iPhone Sales Drop - Slashdot
As chipmakers move into or expand in the region around Germany's Dresden, skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers, and end customers are needed (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) - Techmeme
Best camera deals in 2024 - Pocket Lint
Best TV Mounting Options: Stands, Wall Mounts, Corner Mounts, Electric Mounts - Wired
Biden is expected to sign the REPORT Act next week; the bipartisan bill targets child sextortion online through new CSAM reporting requirements and more (Julie Tsirkin/NBC News) - Techmeme
Britain's Climate Action Plan Unlawful, High Court Rules - Slashdot
CSET: global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022; Chinese Academy of Sciences was the top producer of highly cited AI papers, followed by Google (Alison Snyder/Axios) - Techmeme
Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space - Techcrunch
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details (Tim Stelloh/NBC News) - Techmeme
Egypts HRTech bluworks closes $1 million pre-Seed to build its product and expand its team - TechMoran
Electric car driver turned away from hospital car park - BBC
Exclusive: P2P crypto ban imminent as Nigeria calls crypto a national security issue - Techcabal
Extremist Militias Are Coordinating In More Than 100 Facebook Groups - Slashdot
Farewell, dunks' Threads launches quote controls for all users - Techcrunch
Filing: CRM software maker Freshworks acquires Connecticut-based Device42, which helps companies manage their IT infrastructure and had raised $38.5M, for $230M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meat - Slashdot
Four Nigerian fintechs banned from onboarding new customers to prevent illicit foreign exchange transactions - TechMoran
Geek-Friendly 'Free Comic Book Day' Titles Include Two Star Wars Books for May the Fourth - Slashdot
Germany Says Russia Will Face Consequences For 'Intolerable' Cyberattack - Slashdot
Google employees have mostly ignored the DOJ's antitrust case, and some expect only small business tweaks and some fines; closing arguments concluded on May 3 (Nico Grant/New York Times) - Techmeme
Google prohibits ads promoting websites and apps that generate deepfake porn - Engadget
Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024 (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable) - Techmeme
Have the wheels come off for Tesla - BBC
Hisense debuts a more budget-friendly Samsung Frame alternative - Pocket Lint
How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times) - Techmeme
How to track your menstrual cycle with an Apple Watch - Pocket Lint
How to Track Your Sleep Using Your Fitbit - Wired
Humans Now Share the Web Equally With Bots, Report Warns - Slashdot
ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund - Techcrunch
In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen (Christina A. Cassidy/Associated Press) - Techmeme
Instagram courts TikTok users with algorithm revamp - BBC
JBL Go 3 review: Rugged, portable sound on the cheap - Pocket Lint
LinkedIn Has Games Now - Wired
Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries Exit the Lab, Enter US Production - Slashdot
Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production - Techcrunch
Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump - Techcrunch
Mazda MX-30 R-EV review: Fun with some downsides - Pocket Lint
Meta launches quote post controls for all Threads users, who can allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people they follow, or disable quote posts (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane's AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Methane Emissions From Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors - Slashdot
Microsoft Outlook Flaw Exploited by Russia's APT28 to Hack Czech, German Entities - Hackers News
Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple's commissions - Techcrunch
Natron Energy starts production of sodium-ion batteries that it says charge and discharge 10x faster than lithium-ion, initially for use at data centers (C.C. Weiss/New Atlas) - Techmeme
New leaks show user interface for Spotify's lossless audio - Pocket Lint
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns - Engadget
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim launches its developer offerings, including cloud infrastructure access, and an Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot (Vikas SN/Moneycontrol) - Techmeme