Good day, and welcome to the Daily Authority. I had a great weekend, except when I took a chunk of glass from a smartwatch’s screen by doing little more than everyday chores around the house. Top tip: Always invest in a screen protector for every device you own. Point-and-shoot! Why did I buy this?
Read MoreThe Cray series of super computers have been pretty much symbolic for high-powered computing since the 1970s, and to this day there’s a certain level of mysticism to them. Much of this is also helped by how rare these systems were and are today. Unlike Commodore, Apple and IBM PC systems which got sold by
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: A look at the challenge of moderating livestreams for children and vulnerable users, even if age verification can be improved and privacy concerns addressed — Abby Rayner was 13 when she first watched livestreams on Instagram that demonstrated self-harm techniques and encouraged viewers to participate.
Read MoreAshutosh Joshi / Bloomberg: India asks Twitter and YouTube to remove videos and tweets of a BBC documentary on 2002 religious riots in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat — The Indian government has asked social media giants Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube to take down videos and tweets …
Read MorePranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: How artists Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and Sarah Andersen found each other due to their AI concerns and sued Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt — “This
Read MoreCredit: Google You can check out a cool easter egg for The Last of Us on Google Search. Tap the red mushroom at the bottom of the search page to start a parasitic fungus takeover. HBO’s The Last of Us is having a solid run right now, with two amazing episodes out the door. Google’s
Read MoreThere was a time when electronic engineering students studied the audio CD, for all its real-world examples of error correction and control systems. There’s something to be found in the system still for young and old though, and thus we were intrigued when we saw [Peter Monta] reading the data from a CD using a
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung is expected to launch five new laptops at its Unpacked event on February 1. These will include the premium Galaxy Book 3 Ultra. Specifications of the laptop have leaked alongside details of the Pro model. The Samsung Galaxy S23 series goes live on February 1, and we all know that the phones
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon partners with Bengaluru-based cargo airline QuikJet to launch Amazon Air in India, initially to deliver goods in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru — Amazon has launched Amazon Air, its dedicated air cargo fleet, in India as it bulks up its logistics infrastructure …
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/Sondesix A retail store has leaked real-life images and videos of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. The leaked contents include images of the phone in all colors, a camera test confirming rumored features, and a hands-on video showing the device from all angles. We pretty much know everything about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23
Read MoreRolling Stone: Sources: Donald Trump does not want to renew his Truth Social exclusivity contract, expiring in June 2023, and is asking associates for first tweet suggestions — The ex-president is planning his first tweets with a few months to go on his Truth Social contract
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: India gave Google until January 26 to meet its antitrust regulator’s demands, like hosting third-party app stores on the Play Store and unrestricted sideloading — Last year India hit Google with a minor fine over its control over the Android platform. The country’s Supreme Court …
Read MoreClassic video games might look primitive by today’s standards, but the addictive gameplay of Breakout or Pac-Man remains fun no matter what decade you were born in. Keeping the relevant hardware running becomes harder as the years pile up however, so when [Michal] decided to introduce his kids to classic video games, he didn’t dig
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Lowpass: Sources: Samsung is aiming to bring its free TV Plus streaming service to third-party TVs and is approaching rival manufacturers about the idea — Move FAST and make money … To grow the audience of its free TV Plus streaming service, Samsung is considering a move that seemed unthinkable …
Read MoreCredit: Google You can check out a cool easter egg for The Last of Us on Google Search. Tap the red mushroom at the bottom of the search page to start a parasitic fungus takeover. HBO’s The Last of Us is having a solid run right now, with two amazing episodes out the door. Google’s
Read MoreJoseph Menn / Washington Post: Researchers and ex-Twitter staff: physical attacks in the US track with Twitter spikes in some hate speech, notably anti-Semitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric — SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this month, the FBI charged a Florida man with making detailed online threats to murder 100 gay people.
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung TV Plus, the app that houses hundreds of free channels, could eventually make its way to other, non-Samsung TVs. That’s according to media tech reporter Janko Roettgers, who writes in his Lowpass newsletter that Samsung’s in talks to bring its streaming app to TCL TVs. Introduced in
Read MoreThe media got their collective knickers in a twist this week with the news that Wyoming is banning the sale of electric vehicles in the state. Headlines like that certainly raise eyebrows, which is the intention, of course, but even a quick glance at the proposed legislation might have revealed that the “ban” was nothing
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Elliott Management bought a multibillion-dollar Salesforce stake; Elliott partner: the firm has “a deep respect for Marc Benioff” — Elliott Management makes a multibillion-dollar investment in the business-software provider
Read MoreClassic video games might look primitive by today’s standards, but the addictive gameplay of Breakout or Pac-Man remains fun no matter what decade you were born in. Keeping the relevant hardware running becomes harder as the years pile up however, so when [Michal] decided to introduce his kids to classic video games, he didn’t dig
Read MoreLike most of us, [Arnov] used a spare coffee mug to hold pens on his desk. But there has to be a better way, right? Surely if you build a better mouse trap… or, in this case, a pen holder. He’d be the first to admit that he might have gotten a little carried away,
Read MorePhoto by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Quordle, the word-solving game that emerged at the height of Wordle’s popularity, has been acquired by Merriam-Webster, as first reported by TechCrunch. The game now lives directly on Merriam-Webster’s website, rather than on its own. “I’m delighted to announce that Quordle was acquired by @MerriamWebster,” a post on
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The age of great third-party Twitter clients may be over. After Twitter cut off their API access and changed its rules to bar apps that compete with its own, The Iconfactory has announced that it’s discontinuing Twitterific, Fenix has been pulled from app stores, and Tapbots has posted
Read MoreThe world of work has changed a lot in the last few years, and employees are constantly keeping employers and human resources teams on their toes as they demand better work benefits and higher wages. Amid macroeconomic problems, employees have been playing hardball with their bosses with the majority of workers demanding better pay. According to the U.S.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority As a twelve-year-old, my first brush with modern console gaming was with Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance SP. It wasn’t the first video game I’d played, but growing up in India, it was rare to have access to the latest and greatest consoles. The Game Boy Advance introduced me to
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