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A profile of Shaik Salauddin, an Uber driver turned union leader, who has become a quasi-celebrity in India after fighting for gig worker rights in the country (Varsha Bansal/Rest of World)

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: A profile of Shaik Salauddin, an Uber driver turned union leader, who has become a quasi-celebrity in India after fighting for gig worker rights in the country — Shaik Salauddin: the Indian driver-turned-union leader who is brushing shoulders with top politicians and giving ride-hailing firms a run for their

Developing an Open Source Bike Computer

While bicycles appear to have standardized around a relatively common shape and size, parts for these bikes are another story entirely. It seems as though most reputable bike manufacturers are currently racing against each other to see who can include the most planned obsolescence and force their customers to upgrade even when their old bikes

Daily Authority: 📡 From cellular to satellite

Good morning, dear readers. I woke up today to read what I can easily say is the millionth article with a headline that starts with “Netizens say…” Is it safe to say I don’t give a flying duck about what these so-called “Netizens” think or say? Most of it is garbage anyways. On another note,

WhatsApp can now let you bypass internet crackdowns

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp has announced proxy support in the messaging app. This allows users to bypass government efforts to crack down on WhatsApp. Many governments around the world crack down on internet services, be it due to political unrest, protests in general, or for other reasons. Thankfully, WhatsApp has a solution

Google’s huge Vegas billboard tells Apple to stop dropping the ball

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has taken over a giant billboard to urge Apple to support RCS. The company called on Apple to fix pixelated photos and videos in iMessage. Google has been calling on Apple to adopt the RCS messaging protocol in iMessage for months now, as the service relies on SMS

Stellantis announces Mobilisights, a business unit focused on selling software using connected vehicle data to enterprises, utilities, and other organizations (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Stellantis announces Mobilisights, a business unit focused on selling software using connected vehicle data to enterprises, utilities, and other organizations — Stellantis is launching a new business unit dedicated to turning all that vehicle data into marketable products — and revenue.

OnePlus might skip the OnePlus 11 Pro this year

Credit: OnePlus A OnePlus executive has apparently said there won’t be a OnePlus 11 Pro this year. This would be the first year without a Pro model since 2018. OnePlus just launched the OnePlus 11 in China this week, with a global release scheduled for February 7. The phone lacks a Pro moniker, but does

Samsung projects lowest profits in 8 years owing to weak smartphone demand

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung is projecting its lowest quarterly profit in eight years. The slump comes from a weakened demand for chips and smartphones. Samsung blames the current global economic situation, high cost of living, and rising interest rates for the situation. Earlier today, Samsung reported that its fourth-quarter profit would slump

DIY GameTank Game Console Gets Upgraded Cartridge

Over the summer, you might recall seeing a homebrew 6502 game console called the GameTank grace these pages. The product of [Clyde Shaffer], the system was impressively complete, very well documented, and even had a budding library of games. Recently, [Clyde] took to the r/electronics subreddit to show off the latest improvement to the GameTank:

Snap is shutting down its Camera app for Mac and PC on January 25; launched in 2018, the app let users apply facial filters while on video conference calls (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Snap is shutting down its Camera app for Mac and PC on January 25; launched in 2018, the app let users apply facial filters while on video conference calls — On January 25th, Snap will be shutting down its camera app for Mac and PCs. If that name doesn’t ring

PCB Gets Weighty Assignment

[Curious Scientist] tried building an integrated strain gauge on a PCB, but ran into problems. Mainly, the low resistance of the traces didn’t show enough change under strain to measure easily. Even placing a proper strain gauge on the PCB had limitations. His new design uses a bridge design to make the change in the

Samsung expects Q4 operating profit fell by 69% YoY to $3.37B, an eight-year low, citing a greater than expected decline in memory chip demand (CNBC)

CNBC: Samsung expects Q4 operating profit fell by 69% YoY to $3.37B, an eight-year low, citing a greater than expected decline in memory chip demand — – Samsung Electronics flagged on Friday its quarterly profit tumbled to an eight-year low as a weakening global economy hammered memory chip prices and curbed demand for electronic devices.

Snap’s shutting down the app that put cool filters on your Zoom calls

When you open the app, it shows an announcement saying it’ll no longer be available. On January 25th, Snap will be shutting down its camera app for Mac and PCs. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you may remember it as the program that let you apply silly filters to your face while you

Razer Blade 16 hands-on: a dream gaming laptop

Wait until you see the screen. Razer has given us a first look at the Razer Blade 16 and Razer Blade 18, which will be released in the next few months. And I will say right now: I am impressed. The Blade 18 is the biggest and most powerful Razer Blade that has ever been

3AC liquidators have subpoenaed founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, who have resisted cooperation, via Twitter to disclose documents related to the fund’s collapse (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: 3AC liquidators have subpoenaed founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, who have resisted cooperation, via Twitter to disclose documents related to the fund’s collapse — 3AC founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies have been ordered to provide all documents in their possession or control …

Sources: the White House is set to unveil a strategy in the coming weeks that calls for cybersecurity regulation impacting all critical US infrastructure (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Sources: the White House is set to unveil a strategy in the coming weeks that calls for cybersecurity regulation impacting all critical US infrastructure — The White House wants expanded requirements for private companies that operate in critical infrastructure sectors

Qualcomm seeks to beat Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite feature with Snapdragon Satellite

Qualcomm has announced Snapdragon Satellite, a new feature to enable satellite messaging for Android phones.

T-Mobile and Delta are rolling out free in-flight Wi-Fi in February

T-Mobile and Delta Air Lines have announced that SkyMiles members will get free in-flight Wi-Fi starting on February 1.

Apple TV Plus drops the official trailer for season three of Truth Be Told

Apple TV Plus has released the official trailer for season three of Truth Be Told, which will premiere on January 20.

Overwatch 2’s Battle For Olympus event is a step in the right direction

Image: Blizzard When Blizzard teased the arrival of Overwatch 2’s Battle For Olympus event, I had hopes I would have another game mode like Junkenstein’s Revenge to sink my teeth into. The limited-time event / game mode is now live, and while it’s not quite what I was hoping for, I’m still encouraged that Overwatch

Warner Bros. Discovery says it’s done killing shows and movies just for tax write-offs

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just last month, Warner Bros. Discovery followed up on its decision to cancel Westworld by full-on yanking the show from HBO Max — a drastic, money-saving decision that was yet another part of CEO David Zaslav’s grand plan to get the company back in the black. Now, though,

New and Improved Arduboy Mini Smashes Funding Goal

Just before the holidays, we brought you word of the Arduboy Mini — the latest in the line of open source 8-bit handheld gaming systems designed by [Kevin Bates]. He was good enough to send along a prototype version ahead of the system’s Kickstarter campaign, and we came away impressed with the possibilities it offered

OLED plus E Ink: Lenovo’s ThinkBook Twist is halfway to my dream laptop

Image: Lenovo Last month, I spent 15 whole minutes hunched over an HP Spectre x360 in a drafty Best Buy store — agonizing over whether its amazing OLED screen would destroy the laptop’s battery life and repeatedly googling for the answer. When I found out the answer was “yes, substantially less battery,” I had to

Google Maps’ turn-by-turn navigation on Wear OS now works without a phone

If your Wear OS watch has a cellular connection, you can get turn-by-turn directions. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google Maps on Wear OS is getting a big navigation upgrade. On Thursday, Google announced that you can now get turn-by-turn directions in Google Maps on internet-connected Wear OS watches without a

Microsoft files a revised rebuttal to the FTC’s lawsuit to block its Activision deal, backing off its claim that the FTC’s structure is unconstitutional (Stephen Totilo/Axios)

Stephen Totilo / Axios: Microsoft files a revised rebuttal to the FTC’s lawsuit to block its Activision deal, backing off its claim that the FTC’s structure is unconstitutional — Microsoft says it made a mistake last month when it claimed that the very structure of Federal Trade Commission, the agency trying …

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