This convenient battery pack from PopSockets doubles as a phone grip! You probably have heard of a PopSocket, even if you don’t personally use them. They’re pretty much everywhere these days, and you can find them in various designs, from solid colors to pop culture references to premium enamel and more. PopSockets even have wallets,
Read MoreThe G14 debuted as an affordable, powerful gaming laptop contender. The new version still has plenty to love, apart from a declining value proposition.
Read MoreBioethanol has been touted as a green way to cut reliance on Russian oil. But new modeling suggests it isn’t the climate solution we’d hoped for.
Read MoreUkraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
Read MoreWhat you need to know Yelp has announced a range of new sustainability initiatives. The company is rolling out new eco-friendly business attributes for companies listed on the platform. It is also starting the Sustainability Resource Hub for businesses. Yelp is celebrating Earth Day by making itself more earth-friendly. Today, Yelp announced a slew of
Read MoreProtect that precious card! When the Apple Card launched back in 2019, it was quite unique for a credit card. After all, this was a credit card that basically lives in your Apple Wallet, and while you could get a physical card to use, that’s not the primary way to pay with it and it
Read More[PeriscopeFilms] on YouTube has many old TV adverts and US government reels archived on their channel, with some really interesting subjects to dive in to. This first one we’re highlighting here a 1958 film about NASA Soldering Techniques (Video, embedded below), which has some fascinating details about how things were done during the Space Race,
Read MoreGiles Turner / Bloomberg: Google says it will invest $9.5B across 2022 to build US offices and data centers, with plans to create 12,000 jobs, up from the $7B announced in 2021 — Google said it will invest $9.5 billion in offices and data centers in the U.S. over 2022., putting money behind its bid
Read MoreGood morning! I was pretty surprised by Fifa offering its own streaming platform… more on that in the links below! Pixel 6a soon
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Salsify, which helps e-commerce brands manage inventory, raises a $200M Series F led by TPG at a $2B valuation and says it has 1,200 customers — E-commerce is booming, but it’s become increasingly apparent over the years that the businesses that are able to capitalize on that trend …
Read More“Philip James, 35, of Folsom, Calif., admitted he took nearly 1,000 pilfered laptops from employees at the schools and the electric car manufacturer, and resold them to out-of-state buyers, knowing full well that they had been stolen.” What you need to know A man has pleaded guilty to buying nearly 1,000 MacBooks he knew were
Read MoreDaniel Van Boom / CNET: Meta’s plan to take up to a 47.5% cut of each virtual transaction on Horizon Worlds draws criticism from NFT proponents; OpenSea takes a 2.5% cut — Meta, previously known as Facebook, is figuring out how to monetize the metaverse. … It’s been nearly six months since the company formerly
Read MoreJD Shadel / Them: Analysis of Google search results for 50+ trans celebrities shows transphobic suggestions, such as “before surgery” or “as a guy”; Google says it fixed an issue — When the world has a question, we Google it. Processing more than three billion searches a day …
Read MoreYou’re 1.6 times more likely to end up in the emergency room on an e-bike, compared to a regular bike, says report (translated by The Verge). | Image: VeiligheidNL A new study from VeiligheidNL, a Dutch organization focused on the prevention of injuries, concludes that e-bike riders have a greater risk of injury than riders
Read MoreOur organizations thrive on content, with documents still at the heart of our myriad workflows. Once those documents have served their initial purpose, they’re still important; those forms, reports, and papers all capture essential business knowledge. Although we could just dump them in the digital equivalent of trash, it’s far better to take advantage of
Read MorePython’s explosive growth over the last decade has shown the world it’s a powerful and flexible way to accomplish very nearly anything you want to do in computing. It’s also clear that Python still has a few painful shortcomings that can’t be ignored. One of Python’s biggest shortcomings is that it’s hard, often unreasonably so,
Read More“This developer has 9 apps in the Mac App Store, all of which seem to have the same “business model”: free to download, with In-App Purchase, but the first time you open the app, it demands an upfront one-time purchase, otherwise it doesn’t work at all.” What you need to know Mac App Store developers
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus launched the OnePlus 10 Pro globally earlier this year, and one of the most notable things about the new flagship is that it actually has a cheaper price tag than its predecessor. The OnePlus 10 Pro’s US price starts at $899 compared to the OnePlus 9 Pro‘s $1,069
Read More“As we build for the metaverse, we’re focused on unlocking opportunities for creators to make money from their work. The 30% fees that Apple takes on transactions make it harder to do that” What you need to know Meta is planning to charge 47.5% in commission on sales of NFTs inside its metaverse. Horizon Worlds
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and other AI models’ ability to generate new content at zero marginal cost has major implications for the metaverse, social networks, and more — Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter …
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Many brands today offer a so-called extended RAM feature, using part of your phone’s storage as virtual memory. The feature is known as extended RAM, RAM Plus, memory extension, or RAM Boost, depending on the manufacturer. Is this something you actually use though? That’s the topic of today’s featured
Read MoreWhat you need to know Popular live and recorded TV app Channels has been updated with offline viewing support. Content can be downloaded to iPhones and iPads for viewing when no network connection is available. Watch your recordings anywhere, anytime. Channels, a popular app for watching live and recorded TV shows and movies using an
Read MoreIf you have a relatively recent phone, you probably have a dedicated night mode in your camera app. These features have transformed the possibilities for night-time photography, blending multiple images together to create a single bright exposure. But there are limitations to this approach — you have to stay still, for example, and it doesn’t
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/Abhishek Yadav Amazon may have accidentally leaked an image of the upcoming OnePlus 10R. OnePlus itself may have officially shown off the phone in a tweet. It may feature a unique dual texture back panel. The OnePlus 10R has all but launched at this point. Everything from the specs of the phone and its
Read MoreDavid Hundeyin / West Africa Weekly: An investigation into Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave, valued at $3B, alleges employee stock option fraud, sexual harassment, and workplace bullying — Fraud, perjury and insider trading? All in a day’s work. A glimpse at the dark underbelly of Africa’s biggest fintech superstar
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