BBC: Wikimedia won’t comply with the Online Safety Bill’s age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation’s “commitment to collect minimal data” — Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.
Read MoreLong time readers will know that occasionally we mix up our usual subject matter with a dash of farm equipment. Usually the yellow and green variants that come from John Deere, as the agricultural manufacturer has become the poster child for all that is wrong in the fight for the right to repair. An old
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft’s Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI’s text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview — Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.
Read MoreThe Pixel Fold in 4K. | Image via Evan Blass (@evleaks) You’ve seen renders. You’ve seen a little footage. You’ve heard the marketing leaks. Now, you can feast your eyes on what are almost certainly the first images from Google itself of the leaked Pixel Fold. And if you haven’t looked at this story in
Read MoreOnce upon a time, a radio controlled plane was a hefty and complex thing. They required small nitro engines, support equipment, and relatively heavy RC electronics. Times have changed since then, as this lightweight RC build from [Ravi Butani] demonstrates. The body of the plane is lightweight foam, and can be assembled in two ways.
Read MoreReuters: A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram’s ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service “is not reasonable” — Brazil’s second instance appeals court lifted on Saturday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram …
Read MoreReuters: A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram’s ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service “is not reasonable” — Brazil’s second instance appeals court lifted on Saturday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram …
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft’s Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI’s text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview — Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.
Read MoreLCD photo frames never really caught on — by emitting light, they didn’t seamlessly blend in with a home’s decor in the way printed photos do. [Sprite_tm] decided to see if a color e-Ink screen could do any better, and whipped up a WiFi-enabled photo frame using a Waveshare display. The part in question is
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Google’s presence in my life is so overarching today that I sometimes feel I’ve lost sight of what first brought me to its ecosystem. It was 2007; I had a Hotmail account and a Toshiba laptop running Windows XP, I used Firefox
Read MoreMost ham radio operators will build an antenna of some sort when they first start listening or transmitting, whether it’s a simple dipole, a beam antenna like a Yagi, or even just a random wire vertical antenna. All of these will need to be connected feedline of some sort, and in the likely event you
Read MoreReuters: Arm confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO; sources: Arm seeks to raise between $8B-$10B on the Nasdaq, which is expected to be 2023’s largest IPO — SoftBank Group Corp’s (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing …
Read MoreElon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023 — Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not
Read MoreFAST TV makes it very easy to just zone out and not stress, like broadcast TV did once before. | Photo by François LOCHON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I’ve been watching TV on demand for over 20 years. Well before streaming, I was picking up the whole run of The Sopranos from the college library and
Read MoreLinkedIn’s state of sales report informs that only 65% of salespeople put the customer’s needs first. And when the rest don’t, reports from a buyer’s survey say 57% of people tend to agree with the sales when they are not unnecessarily pestered or hassled. Also, 42% of these buyers are encouraged to consider the product
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju’s and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering investigation — India’s crime-fighting agency searched three premises of edtech giant Byju’s and its founder Byju Raveendran, it said Saturday …
Read MoreWelcome to the 482nd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google Authenticator has a new feature. It now lets you back up your two-factor authentication entries to your Google account. This is great since most of its competitors already do this, and most of the apps on
Read MoreBBC: Wikimedia won’t comply with the Online Safety Bill’s age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation’s “commitment to collect minimal data” — Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.
Read MoreBBC: Wikimedia won’t comply with the Online Safety Bill’s age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation’s “commitment to collect minimal data” — Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Google’s presence in my life is so overarching today that I sometimes feel I’ve lost sight of what first brought me to its ecosystem. It was 2007; I had a Hotmail account and a Toshiba laptop running Windows XP, I used Firefox
Read MoreElon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023 — Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is supporting 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own — It’s not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned — A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 242nd edition here with a hands-on Pixel Fold video, a peek at Pixel 7a colorways, a first look at the Galaxy Z Fold 5, The Witcher Season 3 trailer, PS Plus Essential games
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and Google Pixel 7 Pro are two solid choices for the best camera phone around. Despite the different photography hardware and software solutions, both take very good pictures in most environments. We’ve already compared these two handsets in broad strokes, but it’s worth a closer
Read MoreThe new Apple Savings Account offers a great way to save money directly from your iPhone. Here’s how to set it up.
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