Month: February 2023

Can you share Amazon Prime Video with others?

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A lot of us are looking to save money on streaming subscriptions, and with Netflix‘s recent crackdown on account sharing, some of the alternative services are looking mighty appealing. Amazon’s streamer Prime Video is among the best all-around services, with a huge library of new and classic titles, including

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Netflix’s live Chris Rock special will have celebrity-packed pre- and post-shows

Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for National Board of Review Netflix is doling out some extra entertainment before and after Chris Rock’s live comedy special on Saturday, March 4th. The company announced star-studded pre- and post-shows featuring guests like Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer, Cedric the Entertainer, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Matthew McConaughey, Paul McCartney, Sarah Silverman,

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Meta is forming a team to get generative AI into its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta is forming a team to get generative AI into its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox  —  Meta is unifying its generative AI work across the company into a new product team tasked with more quickly

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Delaware-based Pagos, a payments startup with clients like Adobe, Eventbrite, GoFundMe, and Warner Bros. Discovery, raised a $34M Series A led by Arbor Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Delaware-based Pagos, a payments startup with clients like Adobe, Eventbrite, GoFundMe, and Warner Bros. Discovery, raised a $34M Series A led by Arbor Ventures  —  With global digital payments revenue expected to reach $14.79 trillion by 2027, payment infrastructure has arguably never been more critical.

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Coinbase will suspend trading for Binance USD Stablecoin on March 13, as it doesn’t meet its listing standards; users will still be able to access their BUSD (Derek Andersen/Cointelegraph)

Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph: Coinbase will suspend trading for Binance USD Stablecoin on March 13, as it doesn’t meet its listing standards; users will still be able to access their BUSD  —  The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange referred to its “listing standards” in a tweet.  —  131 Total views  —  1 Total shares

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Life at CERN Hack Chat

Join us on Wednesday, March 1st at noon Pacific for the Life at CERN Hack Chat with Daniel Valuch! You know the story — work is just…work. The daily grind, the old salt mine, the place where you trade your time and talent for the money you need to do other stuff in the few

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Tesla stops FSD beta installations in the US and Canada until a future OTA update addresses an NHTSA recall; owners with FSD installed may keep using it, as is (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Tesla stops FSD beta installations in the US and Canada until a future OTA update addresses an NHTSA recall; owners with FSD installed may keep using it, as is  —  Tesla is putting a hold on new installations of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software in the US and Canada

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An analysis of Meta’s Journalism Project: investments in 564 organizations totaling $29.4M through 17 grant programs since 2018, 43% received just $5K, and more (Gabby Miller/Columbia Journalism Review)

Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review: An analysis of Meta’s Journalism Project: investments in 564 organizations totaling $29.4M through 17 grant programs since 2018, 43% received just $5K, and more  —  b  —  “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta …

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Autonomous drone manufacturer Skydio, used by the Ukrainian military, raised $230M at a $2.2B valuation and plans to expand its manufacturing facility 10-fold (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Autonomous drone manufacturer Skydio, used by the Ukrainian military, raised $230M at a $2.2B valuation and plans to expand its manufacturing facility 10-fold  —  Skydio Inc. is known for selling drones to tech heads seeking expensive selfies — but the company also has hundreds of customers …

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: AMD’s fastest gaming processor and overall excellent offering, but $110 more expensive than the impressive last-generation 7950X (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: AMD’s fastest gaming processor and overall excellent offering, but $110 more expensive than the impressive last-generation 7950X  —  Last year, AMD released its Ryzen 7 5800X3D to the market with 96 MB of L3 V-Cache.  The consumer implementation of AMD’s …

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Nokia’s New G22 Smartphone Is DIY-Friendly

(Image: HMD Global)HMD Global, the company behind Nokia, has launched a DIY-friendly smartphone: the Nokia G22. It’s the brand’s first stab at a smartphone that embraces at-home repair as the right-to-repair movement continues to gain traction. With a 6.2-inch Gorilla glass screen, four cameras, a 90Hz refresh rate, and lengthy three-day battery life, the G22

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Netflix is making a stop-motion Pokémon series

A Psyduck on a beach. | Image: Netflix / The Pokémon Company Though Netflix has become one of the only reliable places to stream the Pokémon anime, the streamer’s gearing up to launch an intriguing series of its own. During this week’s Pokémon Presents stream, The Pokémon Company announced Pokémon Concierge, a new stop-motion animated

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