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Read MoreAbstaining from alcohol can have immediate benefits. But lasting gains require lasting change.
Read MoreGoogle Docs’ voice-typing feature in action. | Screenshot by Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge Google Docs’ voice-typing feature, which lets you “type” and edit text using your voice and a microphone rather than your hands and a keyboard, is getting a couple of key upgrades. First is that the feature is expanding to “most major
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The OnePlus Nord 3 is already under testing, claims a new report. The phone is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2023. It’s reportedly codenamed “Larry.” Update: January 10, 2023 (4:46 AM ET): It looks like the details posted by MySmartPrice about the alleged Nord 3 were
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 43% YoY to ~$20.6B, below ~$20.8B analyst estimates, its first miss in two years; TSMC stock dropped 27% in 2022 but is up 8% in 2023 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s fourth-quarter sales missed analysts’ estimates, signaling the global decline …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Plus a new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and YouTube Shorts starts paying. Continue reading…
Read MoreGood morning and welcome to another Tuesday edition of the Daily Authority! Today we’ve got some exciting Samsung news, new emoji for Pixel phones, and your thoughts on the PSVR 2, among other top tech news of the day. I started playing Callisto Protocol this week, and I’m not going to lie; it’s made me
Read MoreAdam Conway / XDA Developers: Google releases the Extension SDK for developers to bring new features, like the new Photo Picker API that launched with Android 13, to older Android versions — The Extensions SDK is what makes features like Photo Picker possible on older Android versions.
Read MoreOnce you’ve seen a strandbeest, it’s hard to forget the mesmerizing movement of its mechanical limbs. [Adam Savage] built a pedal-powered strandbeest in (more than) one day in full view of the public at the San Francisco Exploratorium. One of the biggest challenges with building strandbeests is the sheer number of parts required to build
Read MoreJavier Paz / Forbes: A breakdown of Binance’s known assets, using data from Nansen and others, estimates the exchange has around $50B, including ~$10B in BNB, down 24% from November — The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it’s become considerably more severe since then,
Read MoreCredit: FairPhone The FairPhone 2 will stop receiving updates in March 2023, seven years after its release. The handset launched back in 2015 with Android 5.1 Lollipop. Five years of software updates is about as good as it gets for major Android phone brands, with Google and Samsung offering this pledge. But it turns out
Read MoreCraig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s The Last of US TV series is a faithful adaptation of the beloved video game, but it doesn’t feel distinct as an apocalyptic survival series. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Ryan McLeod / Android Authority Our very own Andrew Grush spent some time with the highly anticipated Sony PlayStation VR 2 at CES 2023. He checked out everything that’s new with the headset and concluded that it perfects all the faults of the original PSVR. The difference in quality is immediately noticeable, eye-tracking tech
Read MoreRachel Syme / New Yorker: A profile of Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of TV who leads its hyper-aggressive strategy to adapt successful show formats to different parts of the world — Bela Bajaria, who oversees the streaming giant’s hyperaggressive approach to TV-making, says success is about “recognizing that people like having more.”
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus has revealed that the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7T phones have received their final updates. The phones were released in 2019 and were more recently updated to Android 12. OnePlus recently announced that it’ll match Samsung for software updates, although this pledge only applies to select 2023 flagships.
Read MoreOnce upon a time, we drove an old six-volt VW Beetle. One sad day, the wiper motor went out, and as this happened before the Internet heyday, there were no readily-available parts around that we were aware of. After briefly considering rubbing a potato on the windshield as prescribed by the old wives’ tale, we
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The OnePlus Nord 3 is already under testing, claims a new report. The phone is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2023. It’s reportedly codenamed “Larry.” OnePlus last revealed a standalone numbered Nord device — the OnePlus Nord 2 — in 2021. Needless to say, it’s long
Read MoreChainalysis: A look at the US government’s crypto-related sanctions strategy, the types of entities sanctioned, and the impact of the sanctions on the crypto crime ecosystem — Agencies like the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its equivalents …
Read MoreWashington Post: A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election voters; 1% of users accounted for 70% of the exposure — Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! I caught up on some time hanging out with friends this past weekend. Friends are cool.
Read MoreAs silly as Jonathan Majors’ Loki villain was, it’s been kind of hard to imagine how the actor might bring Kang the Conqueror to life in director Peyton Reed’s upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. But the movie’s latest trailer makes it crystal clear that while the Avenger Kang’s fighting might be something of a
Read MoreJon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FAA proposes a February 1, 2024 deadline for airlines to replace or retrofit altimeters that can’t filter out 5G signals, preventing full C-Band deployment — About 1,000 planes have altimeters listening to signals in the wrong frequencies. — The Federal Aviation Administration …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, met with US federal prosecutors last week to seek a cooperation deal — Former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh met with federal prosecutors in a bid to become the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle …
Read MoreWhat happens when someone’s personal project is turned into a startup which becomes something of a publicity darling, then collapses with very little product shipped and takes all its customers’ money with it? That’s the subject of a blog post from [Kevin Chung], who investigated the legacy of NYCTrainSign, a company whose product was an
Read MoreSemafor: Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation while taking 75% of the startup’s profits until the company recoups its investment — Microsoft has been in talks to invest $10 billion into the owner of ChatGPT, the wildly popular app that has thrilled casual users …
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: New Jersey and Ohio ban TikTok on government-owned and managed devices; New Jersey’s governor plans to ban products from 12+ vendors including Huawei and ZTE — New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the popular video app TikTok on government-owned and managed
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