Washington Post: Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi’s ruling BJP — MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales …
Read MoreSome brands make a statement about the quality of their hardware by almost never having it on sale. Apple does it with the iPhone, and Sonos does it with its speakers and soundbars. But that’s why we wait for Black Friday bargains, and the season has bought a Sonos sale to reward that patience. There’s
Read MoreNew York City is lagging in the electric vehicle transition, and officials want to speed it up. What could go wrong? Well, the court’s involved now.
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Read MoreIf there’s anything people hate more than being locked into a printer manufacturer’s replacement cartridges, it’s proprietary batteries. Cordless power tools are the obvious example in this space, but there are other devices that insist on crappy battery packs that are expensive to replace when they eventually die. One such device is the Uniden Bearcat
Read MoreI own many Nanoleaf products, but there are a bunch you should look at this Black Friday.
Read MoreJames Pero / Inverse: An interview with Carl Pei and lead designers at Nothing, which marked its third anniversary in October, on the design process, US’ smartphone market, and more — Carl Pei is bored. — On the surface, that sounds like a bad thing for a self-appointed visionary to be …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority After Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI ex-CEO Sam Altman would be joining Microsoft, news emerged that Altman wants to return to OpenAI. Over 70% of OpenAI employees have petitioned its Board of Directors to resign, threatening to join Microsoft if they do not. Petitioner employees include a
Read MoreAnother report claims the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s periscope lens is coming to the smaller iPhone 16 Pro.
Read MoreCredit: Ice Universe The OnePlus 12 could launch globally in January. It might arrive alongside another device in the series, possibly the OnePlus 12R. The OnePlus 12 is launching on December 4, but it will remain a China-exclusive for some time. Trusted tipster Max Jambor is now reporting that the global launch for the flagship
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$4.8B and a ~$940M net income, both above est., as its new AI tools shield the company from China’s economic downturn — Baidu Inc.’s results beat estimates after China’s internet search leader expanded into new businesses such as AI to shield itself from
Read MoreSam Tobin / Reuters: The UK Supreme Court says Deliveroo riders aren’t entitled to collective bargaining, rejecting a claim by the IWGB, which has lodged multiple appeals since 2017 — Food delivery firm Deliveroo’s (ROO.L) riders cannot be represented by a trade union for the purposes of collective bargaining …
Read MoreFrom Israel vs. Hamas threats to Donald Trump’s “wild” posts, Del Harvey helped make the platform’s hardest content moderation calls for 13 years. Then she left in 2021 … and disappeared.
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Epic v. Google: Tim Sweeney says Android is a “fake open platform”; under cross-examination, Sweeney admitted to paying a 30% cut to Sony, Xbox, and Nintendo — – Fortnite maker’s CEO testifies at high-stakes antitrust trial — Google has denied abusing power in app distribution market
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 8300 smartphone chipset. This is the first mid-range smartphone chip touting on-device generative AI support. Qualcomm and MediaTek have both announced flagship smartphone processors with support for generative AI features. But we didn’t have to wait long for this capability to come to the
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Several Pixel 8 and 8 Pro users are reporting bumps and ripples underneath the display glass. The issue seems to stem from internal components of the phones pressing up against the screen. Pixel 8 and 8 Pro users have started noticing small bumps and ripples on the inside of
Read MoreGavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series review: vastly superior to the 3000 series, and the 7980X is better and cheaper than Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon W9-3495X — AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors mark the latest additions to the high-end desktop (HEDT) market, a segment AMD wants to bring back to the mainstream.
Read MoreSome of our readers may know about Zork (and 1, 2, 3), the 1977 text adventure originally written for the PDP-10. The game has been public domain for a while now, but recently, the interpreters for several classic 1980s machines have also appeared on the internet. What’s the difference? Zork is not a PDP-10 executable,
Read MoreThis industrial-grade thermal camera for iOS is a brilliant Black Friday bargain.
Read MoreThe cover is adorned with the legendary clockface found on AB1 alarm clock (1987) designed by Dietrich Lubs. A century of design — with and without Dieter Rams — giving credit where credit is due. Continue reading…
Read MoreAdi Robertson / The Verge: Texas’ AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk’s claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X’s suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit — X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk’s threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: Lyon-based Indy, which offers freelancers an all-in-one platform for accounting, business creation, and more, raised a €40M Series C led by BlackFin Capital — French startup Indy has recently closed a new funding round of $44 million (€40 million) with BlackFin Capital Partners leading the round.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority YouTube has clarified and confirmed that users who continue using ad blockers may experience “suboptimal viewing,” regardless of their browser. This statement comes as a response to user reports that allege that YouTube is intentionally adding a delay on non-Chrome browsers, as the delay allegedly goes away when using
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: CISA debuts a pilot program offering “cybersecurity shared services” to non-federal critical infrastructure entities in healthcare, education, and other sectors — The U.S. government is offering “cutting-edge cybersecurity shared services” to critical infrastructure organizations that need it most.
Read MoreMatthew Prince / @eastdakota: Microsoft isn’t a clear winner in OpenAI chaos, as its ~$11B investment is in danger, building AI systems has reputational risks, and talent might not stay — I’m told mine is a contrarian view on the events of the last few days, so here goes… Contrary to what @kevinroose and others
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