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AirPods Max sound great and are very well made, but they're expensive, heavy, and would be amazing living room headphones if Apple TV supported spatial audio (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: AirPods Max sound great and are very well made, but they’re expensive, heavy, and would be amazing living room headphones if Apple TV supported spatial audio  —  What a fascinating product Apple’s new AirPods Max are.  At $550, they are indisputably expensive, and at 385 grams, they are undeniably heavy.

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Hackaday Podcast 097: We

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams round up the latest hardware hacks. This week we check out the latest dead-simple automation — a wire cutting stripping robot that uses standard bypass strippers. Put on your rocket scientist hat and watch what happens in a 3D-printed rocket combustion chamber. Really small robots are so easy

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Gorillas, a Germany-based grocery delivery startup that claims a 10-minute delivery time average, raises $44M Series A led by Coatue (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Gorillas, a Germany-based grocery delivery startup that claims a 10-minute delivery time average, raises $44M Series A led by Coatue  —  Gorillas, a grocery delivery startup that operates its own hyper local fulfillment centers and has already been a hit in Berlin, has raised $44 million in Series A funding. Gorillas,

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Axios plans to launch Axios HQ in Feb. to help companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, with real-time feedback and "Smart Brevity" score (Kayleigh Barber/Digiday)

Kayleigh Barber / Digiday: Axios plans to launch Axios HQ in Feb. to help companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, with real-time feedback and “Smart Brevity” score  —  This coming February, Axios’s first software-as-a-service product, AxiosHQ, will hit the market. Axios plans to launch Axios HQ in Feb. to help companies write internal

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This Week in Security: VMWare, Microsoft Teams, Python Fuzzing, and More

There’s a VMWare problem that’s being exploited in the wild, according to the NSA (PDF). The vulnerability is a command injection on an administrative console. The web host backing this console is apparently running as root, as the vulnerability allows executing “commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system.” The wrinkle that makes this

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Sweden-based Tink, which offers an API to access services from ~3,400 banks and financial services, raises €85M at a €680M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sweden-based Tink, which offers an API to access services from ~3,400 banks and financial services, raises €85M at a €680M valuation  —  Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs … Sweden-based Tink, which offers an

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Text inside Twitter's app code suggests that live broadcasting app Periscope may get shut down (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Text inside Twitter’s app code suggests that live broadcasting app Periscope may get shut down  —  Twitter has been doubling down on video services within its app, building out Twitter Live and recently launching Fleets so that users can share more moving media alongside their pithy 180-word observations, links and still

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