Do I Really Need to Back Up All My Data?
WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on external hard drives and the value of digitized memories.
Read MoreWIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on external hard drives and the value of digitized memories.
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020 — Chinese video game streaming site Huya (HUYA.N) has started laying off staff, three sources close to the matter said …
Read MoreLucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Netflix staff morale is sagging amid its cratering stock price, subscriber losses, and an engineering restructuring to create levels, such as “junior” — As Netflix shares plunge to their lowest point in five years, the company risks losing its most valuable resource: its star employees.
Read MoreCredit: Vivo Vivo announced the X70 series back in September, bringing the upper mid-range X70 and X70 Pro as well as the X70 Pro Plus flagship. We really liked the latter phone, and now Vivo is back with new flagships in the form of the X80 and X80 Pro. The X80 Pro is the higher
Read MoreWashington Post: North Korean hackers who stole $600M from Axie Infinity are still laundering their haul, recently moving $4.5M of ETH, after the US tried to freeze those assets — Despite U.S. law enforcement identifying the Lazarus Group as the thieves, the hackers have laundered 17 percent of their $600 million haul
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Read MoreGood morning! Before we get the week started… What do 5 minutes and 4 million people have in common? That’s how long it takes that many people to read Morning Brew, a free daily newsletter covering all the latest news from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Foldable phones have been around since 2019, but they still account for a relatively small portion of the hundreds of millions of smartphones sold each year. This is primarily due to the price, although foldables also have some drawbacks compared to traditional phones. Still, we wanted to know whether
Read MoreThe “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.
Read MoreWhat a remorseful January 6 insurrectionist taught me about why we believe.
Read MoreIn today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, Insteon, a smart home company boasting the Insteon ecosystem of devices built around their proprietary communication standards, has shut down their servers without a warning. For almost two decades, Insteon used to offer products like smart light switches, dimmers, relays, various sensors, thermostats
Read MoreKeep track of important events, meetings, and more with the Calendar app. The Calendar app on your iPhone and iPad lets you create appointments and share events, but — most importantly — it also helps you stay on time! You can set up Calendar to work with iCloud, Google Calendar, Microsoft’s Outlook, and even calendars from your
Read MoreEverything you never wanted to know about the future of talking about the future.
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is reportedly already working on new M3 chips for future Macs. The new M2 Macs have yet to be announced, but new machines are expected this year. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman expects M3-powered Macs to come late next year at the earliest. We’re still waiting for the M2 chips but
Read MoreFinancial Times: UK virtual events startup Hopin, which raised $1B+ and reached a $7.8B valuation, is now struggling; its Explore page has <500 events listed, down from 15K+ — British group gained $7.8bn valuation in pandemic, but lay-offs and slump in secondary market trades have followed
Read MoreBloomberg: Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover as soon as today; Twitter stock jumps 5%+ — Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.
Read MoreIf you were an alien looking at Earth from a great distance, it would have looked mostly the same right up until 10,000 years ago. That’s when humans invented agriculture, and the planet has never been the same since. Farming allowed humans to proliferate, and the scale at which we now produce food has changed
Read MoreWhat you need to know A future Apple Watch is now rumored to be on course to gain satellite communication technology. Similar technology has already been rumored for this year’s iPhone 14 launch. The satellite capabilities would be used to send emergency messages when out of cell tower coverage. The Apple Watch might soon be
Read MoreThe foldable PC market doesn’t really exist right now, as today it’s mostly a feature for smartphones. There is one foldable Lenovo laptop, The X1 Fold, but it’s not exactly taking the world by storm. Folding displays are about to arrive in a big way in the PC world though, according to new reports. HP
Read MoreWhat you need to know Twitter’s board has been meeting with Elon Musk about a potential buyout. A new report claims that a deal could be struck as soon as today. Musk is set to spend around $43 billion on Twitter. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is on the brink of owning Twitter. Twitter could be
Read MoreImage: Blizzard We already knew Blizzard is working on a new entry in the Diablo series that is designed for mobile devices. And today, timed to coincide with Activision Blizzard’s Q1 2022 earnings report, the company announced that Diablo Immortal will release on Android and iOS on June 2nd and, surprise, on PC too in
Read MoreWhat you need to know Some fake WhatsApp Support accounts are appearing on the instant messaging service. Don’t supply information to fake accounts. You can learn how to spot a fake account below. It’s all about that verified checkmark. Fake WhatsApp Support accounts are popping up and asking people to provide personal information, according to
Read MoreRemember when open source was all about peace, love, and Linux? When the movement was small but impassioned and fought over GPL versus BSD/Apache, free software versus open source? When seeing Linux or other open source software running in the wild was a big deal, worthy of a blog or Twitter? Some might pine for
Read MoreThe pandemic may or may not be over, but the home office is here to stay. Some workers might miss their morning commute and some bosses still believe in the power of having everyone under the same roof, but plenty of companies see the cost and productivity advantages of letting everyone work from home. You
Read MoreThe future of the internet has been the subject of much speculation and debate in the past few years. From the rise of virtual worlds and immersive experiences to the explosive growth of social media, the internet has become a ubiquitous medium for communication and commerce. With the rise of blockchain, the internet is about
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