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Wi-Fi 6 is finally here

Illustrator by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past decade, our homes have filled up with more and more devices, small and large, simple and complex, all connected to Wi-Fi. Each device demands some of your router’s time and bandwidth, and that’s increasingly become a problem — the more devices you have, the more

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Q&A with legendary designer Yves Behar on designing the 4th-gen August Wi-Fi Smart Lock, tech he's excited about, the materials best for sustainability, more (Raymond Wong/Input)

Raymond Wong / Input: Q&A with legendary designer Yves Behar on designing the 4th-gen August Wi-Fi Smart Lock, tech he’s excited about, the materials best for sustainability, more  —  Yves Béhar doesn’t really need any introduction.  The world-renowned Swiss designer is a frequent creative artist in the gadget realm. Q&A with legendary designer Yves Behar

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CES roundup: flexible screens are coming, battle between Intel and AMD will intensify, tech fetishization with AI, 8K, 5G lessened, sex tech on the rise, more (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: CES roundup: flexible screens are coming, battle between Intel and AMD will intensify, tech fetishization with AI, 8K, 5G lessened, sex tech on the rise, more  —  iCES is over, and I am quite sure you’ll be happy to be done with it.  We still have more to come today

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Amid intense scrutiny, Grubhub says it is revising its ordering system to avoid charging restaurants for calls placed via the app that don't lead to a delivery (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Amid intense scrutiny, Grubhub says it is revising its ordering system to avoid charging restaurants for calls placed via the app that don’t lead to a delivery  —  Responding to criticism that it was cutting into restaurant profits, the food-delivery giant said it was making a change … Amid

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Thai startup Lightnet, which aims to provide remittance services in Southeast Asia through its Stellar-based blockchain network, raises $31.2M Series A (The Straits Times)

The Straits Times: Thai startup Lightnet, which aims to provide remittance services in Southeast Asia through its Stellar-based blockchain network, raises $31.2M Series A  —  SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – UOB Venture Management, the private equity unit of UOB, has co-led a US$31.2 million (S$42.2 million) … Thai startup Lightnet, which aims to provide remittance

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Instagram rolls out one of the biggest upgrades to Boomerang, an app for creating short looping videos, with trim feature and three new effects including SloMo (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram rolls out one of the biggest upgrades to Boomerang, an app for creating short looping videos, with trim feature and three new effects including SloMo  —  TikTok has spawned countless memes formats from its creative effects, challenging Instagram for the filtered video crown. Instagram rolls out one of the biggest

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A look at problems actors in video games face, including a lack of standard contracts, as the profession falls in a legal gray area between technology and art (Anya van Wagtendonk/Washington Post)

Anya van Wagtendonk / Washington Post: A look at problems actors in video games face, including a lack of standard contracts, as the profession falls in a legal gray area between technology and art  —  In early November, Jessica Jefferies gathered in a room with representatives from Equity UK, the actors union, Spotlight … A

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