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Substack announces Notes, letting users share short-form posts, quotes, links, and more, and says the feature “may look like familiar social media feeds” (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Substack announces Notes, letting users share short-form posts, quotes, links, and more, and says the feature “may look like familiar social media feeds” — Substack announced today that it’s introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas.

Samsung could unveil its next-gen Galaxy SmartTag and Galaxy Buds 3 this year

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A report suggests Samsung may announce a next-generation SmartTag device at Galaxy Unpacked this year. The tracking device will reportedly see improvements in wireless range and unauthorized tracking prevention. The report claims the second-gen SmartTag will be revealed along with the Galaxy Buds 3 and other devices. Samsung launched

You should recycle your old electronics, and now Best Buy is making it easy

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Best Buy allows you to recycle electronics responsibly. Today, the company is launching a mail-in program. The cheapest method continues to be to go to a physical store, but this is a nice alternative. Since 2009, Best Buy has offered an electronics recycling program. Within certain limits, you can

Typewriter Mashup Becomes 120-Year-Old Teletype

Vintage typewriters can be beautiful and elegant devices. But there’s a limit to their value if, as with the 1903 Remington owned by [Daniel Ross], they are fire-damaged and have a seized mechanism. What did he do with what was essentially a piece of scrap metal? Produce an unholy mashup of the vintage machine and

Apple should cut the iPhone X loose with iOS 17 – here’s why

Apple might or might not be ditching the iPhone X and iPhone 8 when iOS 17 is released later this year. Here’s why I think that it’s time those old phones were cut loose.

3inus Kebohub review – a great idea with room for improvement

A keyboard that could be amazing but that is held back from greatness by an unfortunately cheap feeling.

This new iPhone MagSafe charger is secretly a cardholder and stand combo

Available tomorrow, the ESR HaloLock Power Bank Wallet charges your phone with a big battery and has enough space for up to two bank cards.

How to use Nearby Share for Windows

Illustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge While my personal computers have mostly been Windows and my phones Android, I do use a Mac for work, and I’ve always been envious of the ease with which people in the Apple ecosystem can move files from one device to another using AirDrop. Google introduced a similar feature

Substack is getting tweets — err, ‘Notes’

Here’s what Substack’s Notes feed will look like. | Image: Substack Substack is getting a new tweet-like feature called “Notes,” the company announced on Wednesday. The feature will let users publish small posts about things like “posts, quotes, comments, images, and links,” according to a blog post from Substack co-founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (Apr. 5)

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review: highly efficient and impressive gaming performance, sometimes surpassing the 9 7950X3D, but slightly weaker computing performance (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review: highly efficient and impressive gaming performance, sometimes surpassing the 9 7950X3D, but slightly weaker computing performance — In February, AMD released the first parts in its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series. This new line combines AMD’s 3D V-Cache packaging …

Mojo Vision, which pivoted from smart contact lenses to making microLED displays with up to 28K PPI and 1M+ nits brightness, raised a $22.4M “new Series A” (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Mojo Vision, which pivoted from smart contact lenses to making microLED displays with up to 28K PPI and 1M+ nits brightness, raised a $22.4M “new Series A” — News of Mojo Vision’s pivot rather poetically dropped during CES. After years of trying out the latest iteration …

Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, helping researchers with computer vision and object identification (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, helping researchers with computer vision and object identification — Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms Inc. said today that they’re hoping to democratize a key aspect of computer vision.

ASUS ROG Phone 7: Everything we know so far and what we want to see

Credit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Update, April 5, 2023 (09:53 AM ET): We’ve updated this ASUS ROG Phone 7 hub with some leaked images. Original article: Each year, we see a handful of gaming phones launch from prominent manufacturers. However, ASUS almost always takes the cake when it comes to features, design, and, of

What Would Strategic Relocation from Charleston Look Like?

For residents of the historic South Carolina city, the best solution to the coming storm may be to leave their homes behind.

How Tattoos Interact With The Immune System Could Have Impacts for Vaccines

Tattoos are an interesting technology. They’re a way of marking patterns and designs on the skin that can last for years or decades. All this, despite the fact that our skin sloughs off on a regular basis! As it turns out, tattoos actually have a deep and complex interaction with our immune system, which hold

Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in the 1980s, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died at 79 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)

Sam Roberts / New York Times: Bing Newcomb, who co-founded E*Trade in the 1980s, bringing stock trading to personal computers, and took the company public in 1996, died at 79 — He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.

A Mug Shot Could Play Right Into Trump’s Hands

Think the former president would be shamed by a mug shot? Think again.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: your next gaming CPU

AMD’s 3D V-Cache strikes again with an impressive CPU for gaming. Continue reading…

I really missed Advance Wars

Image: Nintendo There was a period of time when my Game Boy Advance was used almost exclusively for turn-based strategy games. Many, many hours were lost to Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, but the game that sucked me in the most was Advance Wars and its sequel. There was something about its cartoonish take

The Latest ‘Overwatch 2’ Hero Is Going to Start a Class War

For too long, supports have been at the mercy (ahem) of tank and damage players. Lifeweaver’s intriguing new ability claws some power back.

Vizio’s Atmos-ready M-Series 5.1.2 soundbar is on sale for $100 off

The M512a-H6 doesn’t offer a ton of features, but it comes with a subwoofer and a pair of low-profile rear speakers. | Image: Vizio Want to level up your TV experience without paying a couple thousand for a premium surround sound system? Well then, a competent soundbar like Vizio’s M-Series 5.1.2 is probably your best

Lego’s X-Wing Starfighter gets a refresh in time for Star Wars Day

Image: Lego This is the third time we’ve seen the T-65 X-Wing Starfighter in brick form, and it’s Lego’s most detailed yet. The 1,949-piece X-Wing costs $239.99 and joins the other sets in the Lego Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series, which include the behemoths that are the 7,541-piece UCS Millennium Falcon and the 6,785-piece UCS

MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square CTO and on Android at Google, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square CTO and on Android at Google, dies after reportedly being stabbed in San Francisco — Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco.

AWS’ Center for Quantum Networking partners with De Beers’ Element Six division to grow artificial diamonds, hoping to revolutionize computer networks (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg: AWS’ Center for Quantum Networking partners with De Beers’ Element Six division to grow artificial diamonds, hoping to revolutionize computer networks — Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with a unit of De Beers Group to grow artificial diamonds, betting that custom-made gems could could help revolutionize computer networks.

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