Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court pauses the ITC’s Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo’s patents, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban — Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission’s import ban …
Read MoreThe festive season may have peaked but there are still cold winter months ahead, which can be endured with a top-of-the-range smart TV and your favorite streaming services. Samsung has stepped up to help on the display side with a massive discount on one of its stunning screens. The Samsung 70-inch Class QE1C QLED 4K
Read MorePerifacon shows the power of gaming, geek culture, and tech outside of uptown São Paulo.
Read MoreI live over 3000 kilometers (2000 miles) away from my parents, aunt, and mother-in-law, but I’m still the only tech support they turn to. Because I work in the mobile and tech industry, I’ve become the de-facto supplier of advice on phones, apps, and any mobile-related issues they encounter. WhatsApp misbehaving? It’s on me. Photos
Read MoreYasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: Opensignal: UK 5G download speeds averaged 118.2M Mbps between August 1 and October 29, down 13% YoY, the slowest in the G7 in 2023; France averaged 221.1 Mbps — Research by Opensignal comes despite government’s emphasis on benefits of technology to economic growth
Read MoreThe Verge / Image courtesy of Larian Studios 2023 is likely to go down in history as one of gaming’s greats, and at times it’s been challenging just to keep up. Baldur’s Gate 3 brought the 20-year-old PC franchise back with a bang, and smaller releases like Slay the Princess were a reminder of the
Read MoreCredit: 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
Read MoreWhat’s the most thrilling part of rocketry? Well, the liftoff, naturally. But what about the sweet anticipation in those tense moments leading up to liftoff? In other words, the countdown. Where did it come from? Far from being simply a dramatic device, the countdown clock serves a definite purpose — it lets the technicians and
Read MoreDavid Pan / Bloomberg: Filing: MicroStrategy acquired 14,620 BTC for $616M in cash, taking its total holdings to 189,150 BTC, worth $8B+, or almost 1% of the 19.58M BTC outstanding — – MicroStrategy’s total Bitcoin holdings is now 189,150 coins … The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company run …
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers propose a protocol to secure AirTag against stalking while maintaining privacy; Apple revised its system to rotate device identifiers every 24 hours — Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy.
Read MoreCredit: Microsoft Microsoft softly launched a dedicated Copilot app in the Google Play Store. The app offers chatbot-like capabilities and can be used with Microsoft’s Edge browser for Android. Copilot for Android is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and DALL-E 3. If you weren’t specifically looking for it, you likely missed a new Android app launch
Read MoreI live over 3000 kilometers (2000 miles) away from my parents, aunt, and mother-in-law, but I’m still the only tech support they turn to. Because I work in the mobile and tech industry, I’ve become the de-facto supplier of advice on phones, apps, and any mobile-related issues they encounter. WhatsApp misbehaving? It’s on me. Photos
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Read MoreThe Verge / Photo courtesy of Disney Disney Plus is a service built primarily around the company’s core brands of Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney — and that hasn’t changed much this year. 2023’s new releases were still dominated by superheroes and Jedi, but there were some Na’vi and Time Lords thrown in for good
Read MoreNew York Times: The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging millions of articles were used in training, the first major US media organization to sue — Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
Read MoreThe Verge What a year, huh? As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the year that was. It was a great year for entertainment and a not-so-great year for the people who actually made that entertainment. It was the year Twitter died, and the year Matter mostly failed to launch.
Read MoreSam Nussey / Reuters: SoftBank tells T-Mobile US to issue 48.75M shares, worth $7.59B, to the conglomerate after the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, taking its stake from 3.75% to 7.64% — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) said it would receive shares in telco T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) worth some $7.59 billion at no additional cost …
Read MorePhoto by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result. As outlined in the lawsuit, the Times alleges OpenAI and Microsoft’s large
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority ASUS is rolling out Android 14 to the Zenfone 10 in the stable branch. The update is 1.3GB in size and includes updates to several stock apps. The ASUS Zenfone 10 is an excellent smartphone and one of the best choices for a compact flagship. The phone launched with
Read MoreA recent patent reveals that the Apple MagSafe battery pack is making a return, alongside a new redesign.
Read MoreTobias Mann / The Register: As more high-performance computing chips pushed past 1 kW in 2023, like Nvidia’s GH200 Superchips, many manufacturers embraced direct liquid cooling — Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid — ANALYSIS As Moore’s Law slowed to a crawl, chips …
Read MoreI’ve always had a Soundtrack playlist in Apple Music, but Apple’s Classical app expands that to new heights I hadn’t considered before — with a couple of concessions.
Read MoreSlow Horses manages to be both bleak and laugh-out-loud funny, and Gary Oldman is wonderful.
Read MoreFrom raunchy teenage sex comedies to dare-to-be-different biopics, 2023 was a big year for fantastic films that somehow slipped under the radar. Here’s how to stream them all.
Read MoreAmazon deals have gone live after Christmas, making them perfect for the new year.
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