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Japan and South Korea Are Fighting Over an App at a Tense Time

✇NYT: Technology
River Akira Davis
SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.

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Diplomats and international relations experts fear that a rift over the ownership of a Naver-SoftBank venture could again put stress on ties between Japan and South Korea.

An A.I.-Powered App Helps Readers Make Sense of Classic Texts

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Steven Kurutz
Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.

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Along with an intellectually curious patron, the professors John Kaag, left, and Clancy Martin have started an unusual publishing venture.

Can Apple Rescue the Vision Pro?

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Kevin Roose
The $3,500 “spatial computing” device has gathered dust on my shelf. Can tweaks and upgrades save it from obsolescence?

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Apple’s $3,500 first-generation Vision Pro is going for as little as $2,500 on resale websites.

Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored?

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Kashmir Hill
The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

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A safety feature of the Life360 app tracked the driving habits of Kathleen Lomax and her family, including her daughters, Brigitte, left, and Morgan.

Can I Opt Out of Meta’s A.I. Scraping on Instagram and Facebook? Sort Of.

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Jesus Jiménez
Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public Instagram and Facebook posts to train its A.I. But the scraping has already begun. Here’s what to know.

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Meta sent notifications to European users of Facebook and Instagram letting them know that their public posts could be used to train its A.I. — including its chatbot and other services it develops — starting on June 26. In the United States, public posts are already being used to train the services.

How to Trace Your Ancestry Using Your Phone’s Free Tools

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J. D. Biersdorfer
Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files.

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Although simply taking a picture of a picture might do a decent job of digitizing an image, Google’s PhotoScan app directs you to capture the picture in multiple shots before it combines everything together to remove glare and enhance the finished file. This can be especially useful for old tintypes like this one or faded photo prints.

Meet My A.I. Friends

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Kevin Roose
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

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Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

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Mike Isaac
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

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Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.
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