Month: September 2021

OnePlus 9RT: All the rumors in one place

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The OnePlus 9 series burst onto the scene a few months back. As a follow-up, the company usually debuts a year-end T series device bringing a chipset bump and smaller improvements. You’d probably expect that phone to be the OnePlus 9T, however, 2021’s lineup could be a little different.

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Antitrust action in Europe and the US is inevitable and Apple should rethink its stance towards regulators, often described as arrogant to inflexible (Roger McNamee/TIME)

Roger McNamee / TIME: Antitrust action in Europe and the US is inevitable and Apple should rethink its stance towards regulators, often described as arrogant to inflexible  —  McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years.  His book is Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

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Tesla should say something

Last weekend, a reader wrote to this editor, politely asking why tech companies should speak up about the abortion law that Texas passed last week. “What does American Airlines have to do with abortion?” said the reader, suggesting that companies can’t possibly cater to both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates and that asking them to take

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Canon to acquire Canadian chipmaker Redlen after buying the remaining 85% stake for $270M; Redlen’s tech to help Canon reduce radiation exposure in CT scanners (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Canon to acquire Canadian chipmaker Redlen after buying the remaining 85% stake for $270M; Redlen’s tech to help Canon reduce radiation exposure in CT scanners  —  Japanese company boosts efforts to develop reduced-radiation CT scanners  —  TOKYO — Canon will acquire Canadian chipmaker Redlen Technologies …

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Gillmor Gang: Life Goes On

When we imagine what it will be like when we exit the pandemic, what we’re really wondering is what we want from the digital transformation we’ve seen overturn our understanding of work and living safely. As much as we long for the days of the office and collaboration with our peers, some of that is

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Zoom has invested an additional $30M in Norway-based Neat, which makes video conference devices, bringing its total investment in Neat over three rounds to $41M (Joseph F. Kovar/CRN)

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN: Zoom has invested an additional $30M in Norway-based Neat, which makes video conference devices, bringing its total investment in Neat over three rounds to $41M  —  ‘We have a shared commitment to this space.  I believe the new investment reflects Zoom’s belief in the unique value proposition …

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GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data

With the 44th anniversary of the launch of Voyager I, [Daniel] decided to use GNU Radio to decode Voyager data. The data isn’t live, but a recording from the Green Bank Telescope. The 16 GB file is in GUPPI format which stores raw IQ samples. The file contains 64 frequency channels of just under 3MHz each.

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A fair reading of the Epic vs. Apple injunction suggests that Apple needs to allow third-party payment methods in the app and not just links to ones on the web (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: A fair reading of the Epic vs. Apple injunction suggests that Apple needs to allow third-party payment methods in the app and not just links to ones on the web  —  A close read of the injunction in Epic v. Apple  —  Today the judge in Epic v. Apple issued

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Salesforce, in a Slack message, says it will help relocate employees, who are worried about access to reproductive healthcare in their state, and their families (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce, in a Slack message, says it will help relocate employees, who are worried about access to reproductive healthcare in their state, and their families  —  – Salesforce committed to helping employees and their families relocate if they’re concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care …

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Google Flutter 2.5 UI kit is now stable

Flutter 2.5, the latest version of Google’s UI toolkit for native application development, offers better performance as well as full-screen enhancements for Android. Introduced September 8, Flutter 2.5 improves frame rasterization by wiring up shading precompilation via Metal rendering. Proponents of Flutter stressed this move as another step toward reducing iOS jank. Also, frame processing

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Old School Fastener Tutorial Is Riveting

Whether you’re making, repairing, or hacking something together, we all need fastners. Screws, nuts and bolts, and pop rivets are handy sometimes. Various resins and even hot glue are equally useful. In some cases however the right fastener for the job eludes us, and we need another trick up our sleeve. [Robert Murray Smith] found

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3 methodologies for automated video game highlight detection and capture

Nathan Babcock Contributor Share on Twitter Nathan Babcock is a computer scientist and freelance writer in Chicago and a co-founder of automated highlight detection startup Clip It. Benjamin Clingan Contributor Benjamin Clingan is a software developer specializing in Python back ends, finance, genetic neural networks and other machine learning strategies and a co-founder of automated

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California releases front end and middle tier code for its Digital Vaccine Record on GitHub to help other states deploy SMART Health Card systems of their own (Rick Klau/California Department of Technology)

Rick Klau / California Department of Technology: California releases front end and middle tier code for its Digital Vaccine Record on GitHub to help other states deploy SMART Health Card systems of their own  —  By Rick Klau State Chief Technology Innovation Officer September 10, 2021 – Soon after we launched the Digital Vaccine Record

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Sources: US and EU are in talks to allow companies, including Facebook and other US tech firms, to keep storing and accessing Europeans’ personal data in the US (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US and EU are in talks to allow companies, including Facebook and other US tech firms, to keep storing and accessing Europeans’ personal data in the US  —  Facebook and many other companies might need a deal to continue operating across the Atlantic Ocean

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The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump’s last day; DoD says its schedule was “agnostic” of the admin change (Craig Timberg/Washington Post)

Craig Timberg / Washington Post: The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump’s last day; DoD says its schedule was “agnostic” of the admin change  —  Control of a remarkable 6 percent of the Internet was handed over to a Florida company as part of a

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Kakao and its subsidiaries have lost $16B+ in market value this month amid S. Korea’s tech crackdown and as some lawmakers call the company “a symbol of greed” (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg: Kakao and its subsidiaries have lost $16B+ in market value this month amid S. Korea’s tech crackdown and as some lawmakers call the company “a symbol of greed”  —  – Kakao shares fell 17% in two days on lawmaker, regulator moves  — Sell-off creates ‘classic buying opportunities,’ CLSA says

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