Despite being U.S.- and iOS-only ahead of today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app has been off to a stellar start. The app has already surpassed half a million downloads in its first six days since launch, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai. That ranks it as one of the highest-performing new app releases across both this year and the last, topped only by the February 2022 arrival of the Trump-backed Twitter clone, Truth Social. As cons ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Computex 2023 won't kick off until next week, but that doesn't stop companies like Acer from announcing their latest products ahead of time. The first is an updated and cheaper Swift Edge 16 laptop, which is the company's thin-and-light champion with a magnesium alloy chassis. The second is a new Predator Triton 16 gaming laptop that packs the latest hardware from Intel an ...read more

Stories are over — at least on YouTube, that is. The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting down on June 26, 2023, as the company aims to focus on other key areas, like Shorts, Community posts, and live videos, in addition to its traditional long-form content. Creators will be alerted to the shutdown through various channels, like forum posts, in-app messages, reminders in YouTube Studio, and more, YouTube says. Once copied by nearly every social app, St ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: More than three decades after its introduction, Microsoft has finally added native support for RAR files to Windows. The proprietary file archive format debuted in 1993 courtesy of Russian software engineer Eugene Roshal. Like ZIP, RAR – short for Roshal Archive – supports data compression but additionally adds error correction and file spanning capabilities to the equation ...read more

Here's an idea for Elon Musk: try copying ideas from other social-media apps for Twitter. Being a copycat has allowed Mark Zuckerberg to turn Meta into a social-media juggernaut. Mark Zuckerberg is up to his old tricks again as he gets ready to take on Elon Musk in the most flagrant way yet. In other words, he's back to copycatting. The Meta chief has drawn up plans for Instagram to introduce a Twitter competitor that would allow users to share text, per reports last week. Zuckerberg is ...read more

As promised, MoviePass is returning. After last year’s Labor Day beta/waiting list launch, the movie theater subscription service is open to all in the U.S. just head of the Memorial Day holiday. After years of rocky history, the company promised to return to the straight and narrow, with a more measured approach to new movie access, following the free-for-all that was MoviePass 1.0. “By opening up MoviePass to film lovers nationwide, we are expanding our support of the movie theater ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing service that set the world on fire in 2017 with a membership plan that proved wildly unsustainable, is back from the dead with four new plans to choose from. For those who have not been keeping score, MoviePass launched way back in 2011 but didn't make waves until six years later when it slashed its price to an impossibly low $ ...read more

from the an-unfair-decision dept In his concurrence, Justice Gorsuch called the Supreme Court’s decision last week in the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case a narrow one of statutory interpretation, ostensibly doing nothing more than interpreting the breadth of the first fair use factor (“the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes”) the copyright statute lists for determining whether the use ...read more

The most advanced manufacturers of computer processors are in the middle of the first big change in device architecture in a decade—the shift from finFETs to nanosheets. Another ten years should bring about another fundamental change, where nanosheet devices are stacked atop each other to form complementary FETs (CFETs), capable of cutting the size of some circuits in half. But the latter move is likely to be a heavy lift, say experts. An in-between transistor called the forksheet might keep ...read more

South Korea’s economic model has for decades leaned on export-led manufacturing operated by family-owned corporate giants. A 2015 report from McKinsey outlined how the country would need small companies to drive an innovative model in preparation for the next phase of economic growth. “The key to fostering such innovation is a vibrant startup community. … Currently, the Korean startup community falls far short of this ideal,” the report said. South Korean conglomerates like Samsu ...read more