If you want to write on your iPhone or iPad, pick up one of these apps. Both the iPhone and iPad can be great tools for writers, with both offering different experiences and capabilities. With the iPhone, you can write something no matter where you are, whether it’s in line for coffee or just getting
Read MoreIf you are a Star Trek fan, you’ll probably remember the phrase “You have to learn why things work on a starship.” The truth is, in most episodes, knowing how to override another ship’s console or make gunpowder didn’t come in very handy, but boy when it did, it really saved the day. Linux is
Read MoreThis week, we discuss Elon Musk’s bid to buy the platform, and we debate whether an edit button would be a sensible addition.
Read MoreThe rigid health care system in the US often leaves pain patients worse off. It’s time for clinicians to recenter respect and compassion.
Read MoreGames can be expensive to buy, especially if you want to build up a big catalog. However, thanks to family sharing options, Steam lets you share your game library. But you will need to enable Steam Guard, and you will only be able to share your entire game library and not just individual games. Read
Read MoreCredit: Weibo/OnePlus OnePlus has launched the OnePlus Ace in China. It’s a rebranded Realme GT Neo 3 with a different design. The phone is expected to launch in India as the OnePlus 10R next week. The Oppo Ace series may have been restricted to China, but the phones were true affordable flagships. Now, the Ace
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Russia’s efforts to promote homegrown social media like Rutube and VKontakte, even as local content creators choose to stick with Western services — Kremlin cracks down on Western social media, but Russia’s homemade alternatives are a tough sell
Read MoreWhat you need to know Sony has updated its PlayStation app for iPhone and iPad, adding three improvements. The PlayStation app now supports landscape mode on iPhones for the first time. Other improvements include customized news and the ability to share game links from the PS Store. Now you can …. turn your iPhone on
Read MoreCobie: A look at the evolution of crypto staking, from a useful tool to a quasi-Ponzi scheme, and how Yuga Labs is effectively paying people in ApeCoin to hold ApeCoin — Recently, I was contacted by a member of the board of ApeCoin, which is the BAYC token’s equivalent of a board of directors I
Read MoreWhat you need to know A class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over the removal of Apple Pay support in Russia. Apple Pay is no longer available in Russia amid international sanctions. Apple has also stopped selling products and other services in the country following its invasion of Ukraine. Russians are going after
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When you’re running a Windows system, sometimes things just go wrong. A couple of years ago, I made the mistake of not checking to make sure my laptop was securely plugged in while Windows was undergoing a major update. The battery ran out in the middle of
Read MoreIllustration by Melissa Mathieson / The Verge Coming back to your hometown can be an alienating experience, especially when all you find is a dead link to a long-deserted website. For nearly a decade, that was the experience of Cytonians — members of an early virtual world called Cybertown, which operated between 1995 and 2012.
Read MoreBloomberg: Elon Musk’s claimed commitment to free speech at Twitter follows years of stifling criticism at Tesla and SpaceX, including those trying to unionize — If Elon Musk is able to take over Twitter Inc., his biggest promise is to transform it into a platform for free speech with few restrictions …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Siri support has been added to the latest version of the Tidal app for Apple devices. Tidal subscribers can now ask Siri to play a song via the updated app for the first time. Siri support via HomePods is still unsupported art this time. You can now use your voice
Read MoreAmazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a $30 million Impact Accelerator, offering guidance, funding and AWS credits to early-stage US-based startups led by female, Black, Latino, and LGBTQIA+ founders. The four eight-week programs will give founders access to various training, mentoring, and technical guidance opportunities, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking
Read MoreGood morning! Not long after this newsletter goes out, the OnePlus Ace will launch in China… so keep your eyes out! HP foldable PC?
Read MoreIf you’ve been following the latest advancements in computing for a while, you already know that there’s a big problem with laptops: When they’re no longer useful as a daily driver, it can be a struggle to find a good use for all its parts. Everything is proprietary, and serious amounts of reverse engineering are
Read MoreNimah Quadri / Fortune: Oyster, an HR service aimed at distributed workforces, raises a $150M Series C led by Georgian at a $1B+ valuation, up from $475M in June 2021 — Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Read MoreWhat you need to know HBO Max and HBO have added 3 million subscribers in the first three months of 2022. Netflix recently announced a loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter. Netflix is losing subscribers and HBO can’t stop adding them. At a time when Netflix seems unable to keep the subscribers that
Read More“Apple started developing the M2 immediately after introducing M1. It is developing at least nine Mac PCs equipped with the M2, the successor to the M1. It is expected that Apple will introduce the M2 processor in the first half of the year.” What you need to know Apple is expected to unveil the M2
Read MoreThe cloud continues to evolve toward higher orders of abstraction. Automated deployment and hosting platforms, front-end frameworks, and back-end databases are increasingly powerful and sophisticated, and integrating them is easier than ever. This article shows you how to integrate Vercel, SvelteKit, and MongoDB for full-stack serverless development. Each of these technologies leads in its own domain. By
Read MoreMicrosoft’s planned C# 11 language upgrade is set to feature capabilities such as raw string literals and checked user-defined operators, along with better performance. C# 11 is due to arrive as a production release with the .NET 7 software development platform in November. Runtime performance is improved in C# 11 by caching of static method
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: the EU is set to unveil the Digital Services Act, which bans targeting users based on religion, gender, and more, among other rules, on Friday — Digital Services Act lays out rules for technology groups to keep users safe online — The EU is poised to unveil a landmark
Read MoreAmazon’s Buy With Prime initiative lets merchants offer Prime shipping benefits on their own stores. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced a new initiative named Buy With Prime that extends the purview of its Prime subscription service beyond the bounds of Amazon.com — a significant change to its business strategy that could help it compete
Read MoreBloomberg: Filings: Apple spent $2.5M on US lobbying in Q1 2022, up 34% from $1.86M in Q4 2021; Google spent $2.96M in Q1, up 34% QoQ but flat YoY; Microsoft spent $2.5M — Apple Inc. spent a record quarterly high of $2.5 million on lobbying in the first three months of 2022 amid increased pressure
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