Month: January 2023

How Apple’s supply chain is leaving China: moving some iPad and MacBook production to Foxconn’s Vietnam plants in May, more iPhone production in India, and more (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: How Apple’s supply chain is leaving China: moving some iPad and MacBook production to Foxconn’s Vietnam plants in May, more iPhone production in India, and more  —  Four days before Christmas , while China was battening down the hatches to survive the explosion of Covid-19 infections around the

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Source: the CEO of Clearco, which offers capital to e-commerce firms for a cut of future revenue, resigns as growth at the well-funded startup grinds to a halt (Jon Victor/The Information)

Jon Victor / The Information: Source: the CEO of Clearco, which offers capital to e-commerce firms for a cut of future revenue, resigns as growth at the well-funded startup grinds to a halt  —  The CEO of Clearco, which provides capital to e-commerce businesses in exchange for a cut of future revenue, has resigned the

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AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia’s IRA (New York Times)

New York Times: AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia’s IRA  —  Mr. Sanders is a data scientist.  Mr. Schneier is a security technologist.  —  Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening …

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Designing Aesthetically-Pleasing PCBs

We’ve seen our share of custom PCBs here on Hackaday, but they aren’t always pretty. If you want to bring your PCB aesthetics up a notch, [Ian Dunn] has put together a guide for those wanting to get into PCB art. There are plenty of tutorials about making a functional PCB, but finding information about

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Twitterrific’s Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter’s decision to ax the API for third-party apps with no advance notice a “shit show” leaving customers in the lurch (Craig Hockenberry/furbo.org)

Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: Twitterrific’s Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter’s decision to ax the API for third-party apps with no advance notice a “shit show” leaving customers in the lurch  —  Well, it happened.  —  We knew it was coming.  —  A prick pulled the plug.  And what bothers me most about it is how Space

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Europe’s rapid delivery market has consolidated down to three companies: Getir, the largest player that operates in seven European countries, Flink, and Gopuff (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired: Europe’s rapid delivery market has consolidated down to three companies: Getir, the largest player that operates in seven European countries, Flink, and Gopuff  —  Rapid grocery delivery apps are leaving the continent, putting the Turkish startup on top.  But, its reign is anything but stable.

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Hackaday Links: January 15, 2023

It looks like the Martian winter may have claimed another victim, with reports that Chinese ground controllers have lost contact with the Zhurong rover. The solar-powered rover was put into hibernation back in May 2022, thanks to a dust storm that kicked up a couple of months before the start of local winter. Controllers hoped

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Tweetbot is (mostly) working again

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tweetbot is mostly up and running after an outage locked users out of major third-party Twitter clients. While users can now sign in to Tweetbot and browse through tweets, some say they still can’t post anything to Twitter through the service without getting an error message stating they’ve

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Stadia Says Goodbye With Bluetooth and Crap Game

In just a few days time, Google’s Stadia game streaming service will finally shut down for good. But not for any technical reason, mind you. Microsoft has managed to demonstrate that streaming modern games over home and even mobile Internet connections is viable with their immensely popular Game Pass Ultimate service, and NVIDIA is making

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Who should be the next CEO of Twitter?

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images The following is a free preview from last week’s Command Line, my new weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation: Elon Musk has said he will find a new CEO for Twitter after users voted for him to leave. But who would, in his own

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A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more (Hana Kiros/MIT Technology Review)

Hana Kiros / MIT Technology Review: A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more  —  Welcome to “Death Q&A,” a space with a unique combination of anonymity and togetherness, where avatars discuss what weighs on them most heavily.

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The best movies shot on phones

As our smartphone camera hardware and software have improved, more creative opportunities have been made accessible for aspiring filmmakers. Sure, Hollywood still has the budget for things you can’t do with a phone, like extravagant CGI effects and animation. But if you have a relatively simple story to tell, pretty much all you need nowadays

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Adding touchscreens to Macs will help Apple further unify software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of PC market (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Adding touchscreens to Macs will help Apple further unify software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of PC market  —  Apple’s upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base.  Also: The company kicks …

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Inside the Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 was an extremely popular yet very simple game console back in the 1970s. They sold, apparently, over 30 million of them, and, of course, these things broke. We’d get calls from friends and — remember, back then normal people weren’t computer savvy — nine times out of ten, we’d ask them to

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Two years after the Bahamas launched the world’s first CBDC, the Sand Dollar’s adoption has been sluggish as FTX’s demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)

Jim Wyss / Bloomberg: Two years after the Bahamas launched the world’s first CBDC, the Sand Dollar’s adoption has been sluggish as FTX’s demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism  —  Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.

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