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A report details Apple’s work on its AR/VR headset, which could cost ~$3,000, says manufacturer Pegatron assembled initial testing units in 2022, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: A report details Apple’s work on its AR/VR headset, which could cost ~$3,000, says manufacturer Pegatron assembled initial testing units in 2022, and more — Apple’s mixed-reality headset will feature a physical dial for switching to a view of the real-world, small motors to automatically adjust its lenses …

Legal filings: Google alleges over 50 instances of India’s antitrust investigators copy-pasting parts of the EU’s antitrust ruling, sometimes word-for-word (Reuters)

Reuters: Legal filings: Google alleges over 50 instances of India’s antitrust investigators copy-pasting parts of the EU’s antitrust ruling, sometimes word-for-word — Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm …

Dell unveils second-gen Concept Nyx, the gaming controller of the future

Credit: Dell At CES 2023, Dell unveiled the second-gen Concept Nyx gaming controller. The controller has wildly advanced features like customizable trigger response, a fingerprint sensor, and the ability to move a game from screen-to-screen in your home by merely pointing the controller at it. Dell unveiled the original Nyx at CES 2022. In 2022,

Google’s Jigsaw and UN-backed Tech Against Terrorism plan to release a free moderation tool to help smaller websites flag and remove terrorist material (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Google’s Jigsaw and UN-backed Tech Against Terrorism plan to release a free moderation tool to help smaller websites flag and remove terrorist material — US tech group’s Jigsaw division leads initiative as UK and EU introduce tough laws to police online content

Security Experts Call Out LastPass for Misleading Disclosure of Data Breach

Credit: LastPass (Credit: LastPass)LastPass has spent the second half of 2022 on the defensive following a pair of major data breaches. It has claimed users are not at risk, the subtext being that we should not be upset with LastPass. Some security experts are speaking up following the company’s most recent statements, pointing out that

Layoffs.fyi estimates tech companies cut over 150,000 jobs in 2022, compared to around 80,000 between March and December 2020 and 15,000 across all of 2021 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Layoffs.fyi estimates tech companies cut over 150,000 jobs in 2022, compared to around 80,000 between March and December 2020 and 15,000 across all of 2021 — Areas that were largely spared in 2020 are now among those with the largest numbers of job cuts — Technology-driven companies …

Filing: lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried ask a judge to redact the names of the two people who intend to sign on as sureties to his bail, citing media scrutiny (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: Filing: lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried ask a judge to redact the names of the two people who intend to sign on as sureties to his bail, citing media scrutiny — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asked a judge to keep confidential the identities of two people who will help secure his bail.

Rumored AirPods Lite could bring Apple magic to a lower price point

One analyst believes that Apple is working on a cheaper version of its wireless earbuds, dubbed AirPods Lite.

Samsung Galaxy A34 5G specs leak: Where are the upgrades?

Samsung Galaxy A34 5G specs have purportedly leaked online. The specs point to an extremely minor upgrade over last year’s phone. We saw apparent Galaxy A54 specs leak online earlier this week, showing a phone with a chipset upgrade but a very familiar proposition otherwise. Now, the same source has dished out what appears to

Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe

The CEO of Proton says new competition laws have finally given him a voice in Brussels, even as he fights the EU’s anti-encryption campaign.

Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter

As the state’s residents step up to save the sea cows, advocacy organizations believe the solution is less about lettuce—and more about leaders.

It’s Not Too Early To Become Metaverse-Ready

Businesses can get a head start on VR life if they transition to 3D-centric content now.

Here’s What You Can Expect at CES 2023

Technology’s biggest trade show must go on, in spite of rough economic headwinds. These are the trends and innovations to keep an eye out for.

Furbo 360 Dog Camera Review: A Watchful Eye

This pet cam takes all the features we loved in its predecessor and quite literally turns them around.

Wearable SkoBots full of STEAM and Vanishing Indigenous Languages

[Danielle Boyer] is Ojibwe: Sault Ste Marie Tribe and passionate about preserving vanishing indigenous languages. She’s invented a shoulder-worn talking companion, called a SkoBot, to teach STEAM to children through building robots programmed with indigenous language lessons and founded the STEAM Connection to give them away. Through her Every Kid Gets a Robot program, more

TSMC Believes It Will Earn $1.5 Trillion on Its 3nm Process

Yesterday TSMC held a beam-lifting ceremony for its new 3nm production line in Taiwan. The company’s chairman attended the event and had a lot to say about what the company’s newest process will mean for its bottom line, and for the industry as a whole. TSMC chairman Dr. Mark Liu delivered remarks at the ceremony,

Samsung Display’s new QD-OLED TV panels can hit 2,000 nits of peak brightness

Samsung Display’s 77-inch QD-OLED TV panel. | Image: Samsung Display Although Samsung is yet to officially reveal its lineup of QD-OLED TVs for the year, its display division has just teased a couple of key specs: a maximum peak brightness of 2,000 nits, and an increase in power efficiency of up to 25 percent. 2,000

Replying to the FTC’s lawsuit, Microsoft bizarrely claims not to know when Call of Duty was first released or have details on Activision’s budget and resources (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Replying to the FTC’s lawsuit, Microsoft bizarrely claims not to know when Call of Duty was first released or have details on Activision’s budget and resources — But now that gamers and regulators are worrying Microsoft might keep Call of Duty from appearing on Sony’s PlayStation …

Memo: Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two people “in perpetuity” and encourages staff to decline invitations, leave big group chats, and more (Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg)

Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: Memo: Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two people “in perpetuity” and encourages staff to decline invitations, leave big group chats, and more — Shopify Inc. spent last year cutting costs. Now, it’s cutting meetings. — As employees return from holiday break …

Shower pods are here to turn your bathroom into a spa

Sprig Shower Infusion System. | Image: Kohler Ever wish you could bring the spa home with you? Well, now you kind of can. Kohler announced a new aromatherapy shower infusion system at CES 2023 that will add a spa-like experience to your daily showers — just get ready to add shower pods to your shopping

Using deduplication for eventually consistent transactions

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and performance from databases. In this post, I will discuss another important technique, deduplication, that can be used to replace transactions for eventually consistent use cases with defined primary keys.

4 career paths for software developers on the move

With software playing such a critical role in the age of digital business, it is not surprising that the demand for software developers is huge and growing. Organizations in virtually every industry are looking for talented people who know how to build and maintain software. If you have been coding for a while, you might

2023 could be the year of public cloud repatriation

Here’s a topic we don’t discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise data centers from a public cloud provider as an admission that someone made a big mistake moving the workloads to the cloud in the first place. I don’t automatically consider this a

Daily Authority: 👀 Samsung’s early CES surprises

Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! We’re back, and Happy New Year to you all! I feel like I’m still recovering from all the food and drink consumed over the holidays, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Without further ado, let’s dive straight into today’s top tech news, including a couple of Samsung

Future Apple Pencil could detect the color and texture of any surface it touches

A future Apple Pencil could be able to detect the color and texture of a surface according to a new patent.

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