Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: News outlets turning to Reddit amid X’s decline face a dilemma over which subreddits to use; Business Insider faces criticism for posting in a snark subreddit — But with thousands of subreddits, where exactly news sites should promote their work presents a dilemma
Read MoreNotoriously, Apple doesn’t like to play nice with Android. Steve Jobs called the operating system “stolen,” and there are a number of arbitrary barriers between the two platforms — in the iPhone’s Messages app, non-Apple devices are flagged with green bubbles, and the company only recently conceded the need to support RCS messaging. You should
Read MoreMac gamers running macOS High Sierra or macOS Mojave will not get Steam updates starting from February 2024.
Read MoreCredit: Windows Report A massive Samsung Galaxy S24 leak just landed, exposing most essential details on the phones. It looks like the Galaxy S24 Ultra will feature a titanium build, just like the iPhone 15 series. We also learn about some specs and new features. Next year, we expect to see the launch of the
Read MoreThe fabulist New York congressperson, who thirsted after the media spotlight, was expelled Friday from the House of Representatives in a historic first.
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: France’s prime minister recommends government staffers uninstall foreign chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp by December 8, in favor of French chat app Olvid — Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has announced the ability to reply by text during phone calls. This means you don’t have to speak during a phone call. The feature used to be a Pixel exclusive but is now coming to all Android phones. Update, December 1, 2023 (02:00 PM ET): In the original
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Memo: OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of its GPT store until early 2024 after “a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy” — OpenAI will delay the launch of a GPT store until early next year, according to a memo to developers seen by Axios.
Read MoreImage: OpenAI OpenAI’s GPT store will be delayed until next year, the company said in an email to people who signed up for its GPT Builder. In the email, OpenAI said that “unexpected things have been keeping us busy,” which pushed back the GPT store’s rollout. The company said it had planned to release the
Read MoreWine has become a highly optimized and useful piece of software for those that live in Linux, but occasionally need to walk on the Windows side. In case you’d wondered, there’s a similar tool for when you need to run a MacOS program in your Linux environment. Enter Darling, the translation layer you’ve needed all
Read MoreMac gamers running macOS High Sierra or macOS Mojave will not get Steam updates starting from February 2024.
Read MoreJake Piazza / CNBC: UiPath stock jumps 25%+ after reporting Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $325.9M vs. $315.6M est., with ARR up 24% to $1.38B, and raising its outlook for Q4 and FY 2024 — – UiPath’s stock surged more than 20% after the market opened Friday. — The company posted quarterly earnings Thursday
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Our OnePlus Open has received a new update for December 2023. It is firmware version CPH2551_13.2.0.201(EX01), based on Android 13. It looks likely that OnePlus Open users will need to wait until 2024 for Android 14. OnePlus has already pushed out Oxygen OS 14 — based on Android 14
Read MoreThere are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign, by their preferred choice of homebrewing technology, or sometimes by their operating style. One that perhaps doesn’t immediately come to mind is to count how many solar cycles they remember, and since the current cycle
Read MoreLooking back through the archives, we actually haven’t seen much in the way of homebrew magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) — which is somewhat surprising, as the core concept isn’t nearly as complicated as its syllable-laden name might indicate. You can see results with little more than a magnet, a couple of electrodes, and a bench power
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Telegram announces new features related to channels, including better discovery of similar channels, emoji customization for reactions, and stats for stories — Telegram announced new features related to channels including better discovery of similar channels, emoji customization for reactions …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority There have now been two significant instances of a YouTube porn ad appearing in users’ mobile feeds. We asked Google what it was doing to prevent this from happening. The company has issued a statement that answers only some of our questions. At the beginning of this month, we
Read MoreCharles Duhigg / New Yorker: How Microsoft forged a partnership with OpenAI, was blindsided by the OpenAI board firing Sam Altman, and managed to get Altman reinstated as CEO — The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority For the second time this month, a very NSFW YouTube porn ad is making its way around. As before, the ad looks “normal” but has a pornographic video overlayed on top of it. Google has issued a statement on the matter. Update, December 1, 2023 (11:50 AM ET): Google
Read MoreThe Amazon Alexa mobile app has a new design and new features. | Image: Amazon It’s been 87 years … (okay, three), but Amazon has finally updated its Alexa app. The revamp is rolling out fully this week to iOS and Android devices, but it started this summer with some small changes you may have
Read MoreIt’s the week after Thanksgiving (for some of us) and if you’re sick of leftovers, you’re in luck as Elliot and Dan get together to discuss the freshest and best inter-holiday hacks. We’ll cue up the “Mission: Impossible” theme for a self-destructing flash drive with a surprising sense of self-preservation, listen in on ET only
Read MoreKatie Tarasov / CNBC: A profile of Apple’s chip division, including interviews with its head Johny Srouji and Apple’s hardware engineering chief John Ternus — WATCH NOW — Why Apple doubled down on the expensive custom chip business, edging out Intel and starting a trend — Apple’s soaring stock price …
Read MoreThe Garmin Vivoactive 5 was a long time coming, but we didn’t have to wait long for its first deal to drop. It’s been four years since the popular Vivoactive 4 was released, but just two months after the Vivoactive 5 hit the market, you can already save 17% on the retail price. While the
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Now that the first few customers have taken delivery of their Tesla Cybertrucks, it’s probably worth taking a closer look at how the price and specs have changed since the original announcement in 2019. After all, a lot has happened since then! While the truck looks remarkably
Read MoreImage: Analogue Three years after its announcement, Analogue is finally shipping the Analogue Duo: a modern reimagining of NEC’s systems that can play games made for the TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, TurboGrafx CD, PC Engine CD-ROM, and Super Arcade CD-ROM. In an update on Friday, Analogue says the Duo will start shipping on December 11th
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