Twitter no longer officially distinguishes between legacy verified accounts and Twitter Blue subscribers. | Image: Twitter April 1st was the day Twitter said it would begin winding down its legacy verified program. But like most things done at the company under Elon Musk’s leadership, the process appeared to be chaotically executed, and subject to the
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority My colleague Calvin recently wrote about why he ditched Google and installed the privacy-focused GrapheneOS on his Pixel 6. He explained how the latter is not only feature-full but also allows users to protect themselves from Google’s data-collecting clutches. Calvin found GrapheneOS, available to install only on select Pixel
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome to the Daily Authority. Thanks to an early-morning start for the Australian GP this weekend, I’m running low on sleep. Thankfully, I have a mug of very strong coffee to fix that problem temporarily. We’re looking at another short week, but today, we’re bringing you the flagship smartphone camera shootout you’ve
Read MoreDanny Nelson / CoinDesk: After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including a 750M ARB token allocation — The backtracking will see Arbitrum hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — The Arbitrum Foundation said late Sunday …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Italy has banned ChatGPT over privacy and data collection concerns. The Italian data protection authority has given OpenAI 20 days to address its concerns. While the AI revolution is all the rage, there are genuine concerns about the spread of misinformation and how generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard
Read MorePneumatic tires provide a great ride, great grip, and yet have one fatal flaw — they’re always getting punctured and leaving you stranded. [The Q] decided to solve this problem with a unique design: tires that use tennis balls as the cushioning medium instead. The build begins with small cut sections of plastic water pipe.
Read MoreOfcom: UK study: kids online gravitate to dramatic, short videos, watch split-screen videos, and post fewer videos of their own; people aged 16 to 24 take more breaks — – Drawn to drama: Kids gravitate to dramatic, short-form videos on social media — Rise of ‘split-screening’: Trend for watching two videos at once
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority The Xiaomi 13 Ultra could come with four 50MP rear cameras, according to a leak. Other specifications like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and a 6.7-inch QHD+ LTPO AMOLED display are also expected. The phone is rumored to launch in May 2023 and could be made available globally. Xiaomi
Read More[Scott Cutler] has a young cat, [Cygnus], that loves to run on a cat wheel and [Scott] had some some important questions about [Cygnus]’s usage of the cat wheel like, how often it’s used, what direction is preferred and how fast does [Cygnus] go. To answer these questions, [Scott] put some telemetry sensors onto the
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority A fresh Galaxy S23 FE leak states the phone will launch in Q4, 2023. Surprisingly, it is expected to be powered by the Exynos 2200 chipset in all markets, including the US. The phone is apparently getting a camera upgrade, removing the 12MP sensor featured on its predecessors. There’s
Read MoreBloomberg: New York-based grocery e-commerce company Boxed files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; Boxed had said it held most of its cash and liquid assets at SVB — Boxed Inc., an online bulk retailer that thrived during the pandemic, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google has released the Nearby Share for Windows beta app. This allows you to seamlessly send and receive files between your PC and Android device. The app isn’t available in Europe just yet, though. Nearby Share is right up there as one of the best ways to send files
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: In a referendum 89% of Parisians voted against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1 — In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.
Read MoreCNN: Source: soon after Pinduoduo’s app updated to remove backdoor exploits, most of the team working on them was moved to work on Temu, which is a top app in the US — It is one of China’s most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about everything else under the sun to more
Read MoreHere at Hackaday, we love a good art piece, whether that involves light or sound. Combining both is a sure-fire way to get our attention, and [Eirik Brandal] did just that with his Void Extrusion piece. The project is built around the Daisy Seed from Electrosmith. It’s an embedded platform designed for musical purposes, which
Read MoreDrew Harwell / Washington Post: Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times’ main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet’s decision not to pay for Blue — The Times and other news organizations say they won’t pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.
Read MoreThe cochlear is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an educational tool. The cochlear itself is the part of the ear that converts the pressure waves of sound into electrical signals for the brain.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority In an unexpected turn of events, Microsoft beat Google to the punch in the AI chatbot race when it announced Bing Chat in early 2023. Even though Google teased its LaMDA language model several years prior, it hadn’t revealed plans for a public-facing product yet. But the search giant
Read MoreThe Huawei Watch Ultimate doesn’t look like an Apple Watch Ultra, but it’s got almost all the same features. | Image: Huawei You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out where Huawei got the inspiration for its newly announced Watch Ultimate. It’s clearly Huawei’s not-so-subtle answer to the Apple Watch Ultra, and now,
Read MoreIt may be hard to believe, but it’s time for the Hackaday Prize again! The 2023 Hackaday Prize was announced last weekend at Hackaday Berlin, and entries are already pouring in. The first-round challenge is all about “Re-engineering Education,” which means you’ve got to come up with a project idea that helps push back the
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: in Nov. 2021, five days after Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a front company for the US government licensed NSO’s geolocation tool — The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Twitter updates the description of all blue checkmarks to say “This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account” — On Sunday, Twitter did something different: It updated the language in the description of verified users …
Read MoreOlivia Colman as Sonya Falsworth. | Courtesy of Marvel Studios Nick Fury’s kept himself pretty scarce since the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home, but in the newest trailer for Disney Plus’ upcoming Secret Invasion series, the man behind the Avengers Initiative is back and preparing for a war that only he can wage. Though
Read MoreSpotify is lax on HomePod support, and has made a vague promise about AirPlay 2 support, according to Mark Gurman.
Read MoreWashington Post: Sources: SVB bought long-term assets that paid more interest based on a misplaced profit-driven strategy, falling out of compliance with its internal risk model — Focused on profits, leaders made decisions that foreshadowed the bank’s surprise failure — Flush with cash from a booming …
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