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Polygon Labs launches a grant program, with 110 million of its MATIC native token, worth around $85M, to entice developers to build apps in its ecosystem (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Polygon Labs launches a grant program, with 110 million of its MATIC native token, worth around $85M, to entice developers to build apps in its ecosystem — Polygon Labs is offering 110 million of its native token, MATIC, to projects in DeFi, gaming and social media, among others. — Register Now

Brokers, hedge funds, and advisers push back hard on proposed SEC rules on using AI for financial advice, with comments coming well past the October 10 deadline (Jennifer Hughes/Financial Times)

Jennifer Hughes / Financial Times: Brokers, hedge funds, and advisers push back hard on proposed SEC rules on using AI for financial advice, with comments coming well past the October 10 deadline — Brokers, hedge funds and advisers say proposals are unnecessary and impossible to implement — Brokers, hedge funds …

Google Messages could let you reclaim your identity on texts

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google Messages is working on a Profiles feature, which could let users set their own profile name and photo. Users will likely have options to control visibility to protect their privacy. They will likely be able to also choose to receive notifications about contact updates. Texting is still prevalent

System 76 Lemur Pro Review: Ultraportable Linux Laptop

The System76 Lemur Pro is light, thin, repairable, and upgradeable. It’s the best Linux laptop we’ve tested.

Panasonic Eneloop Rechargeable Batteries Are the Best

Panasonic’s Eneloop rechargeable batteries are a great alternative to wasteful disposables.

Continental Europe’s First Spaceport – and it’s Above the Arctic Circle!

When we think of a space launch it’s likely our minds might turn to the lush swampland of Florida’s Cape Canaveral, or the jungle of Kourou in Guyana. These are both in the tropical regions on sites as close to the Equator as the governments who built them could find, because the higher rotational speed

Nvidia announces January event after rumors of an RTX 4080 Super launch

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia has started emailing out press invites for a “special address” at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The event invitations come just days after rumors suggested Nvidia’s RTX 40-series Super cards will debut at CES 2024, including an RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4080 Super. Nvidia’s invite

SMIC reports Q3 revenue down 15% YoY to $1.62B, missing $1.64B est., and net income down 80% YoY to $94M, missing $178.1M est., despite Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: SMIC reports Q3 revenue down 15% YoY to $1.62B, missing $1.64B est., and net income down 80% YoY to $94M, missing $178.1M est., despite Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro — The Shanghai company reported a 15% fall in revenue to $1.62 billion, versus an average projection for $1.64 billion.

US v. Google exposes Google’s deepening rift with Microsoft, despite Satya Nadella’s early attempts to make nice; four Microsoft witnesses have testified (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: US v. Google exposes Google’s deepening rift with Microsoft, despite Satya Nadella’s early attempts to make nice; four Microsoft witnesses have testified — Search and software titans trade accusations as memory of detente fades — Satya Nadella wanted to make nice with longtime rival Google …

At what age should a kid get a phone?

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Kids are exposed to phones and tablets at a pretty early age. Many parents will hand over their phones and put on a game for their toddlers when waiting in line, for example. There are even tablets out there made with kids in mind like the Amazon Fire Kids

Inside Bryce Adams and Brian Adam’s OnlyFans empire, run from a $2.5M Florida compound: $10M in annual revenue and a $1M+ payroll; Adams’ OF has $16.5M in sales (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Inside Bryce Adams and Brian Adam’s OnlyFans empire, run from a $2.5M Florida compound: $10M in annual revenue and a $1M+ payroll; Adams’ OF has $16.5M in sales — SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA — In the mornings, the workers of Bryce Adams’s OnlyFans empire buzz in through a camera-wired security gate

Mandiant: Russia-tied Sandworm carried out a third successful attack on Ukraine’s electric utility in October 2022, coinciding with a series of missile strikes (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant: Russia-tied Sandworm carried out a third successful attack on Ukraine’s electric utility in October 2022, coinciding with a series of missile strikes — Russia’s most notorious military hackers successfully sabotaged Ukraine’s power grid for the third time last year.

Chinese state-affiliated outlet Chinastarmarket says Nvidia plans to release three new H100-based AI chips in the country in the coming days, after US sanctions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Chinese state-affiliated outlet Chinastarmarket says Nvidia plans to release three new H100-based AI chips in the country in the coming days, after US sanctions — – US is further limiting China’s access to advanced silicon — Nvidia’s gaming graphic card is also affected by new US rules

How to Watch Every NBA Basketball Game on a Streaming Service (2023)

Forget locking yourself into a cable or satellite subscription just to watch live games. You can stream them with the right package.

Google is pulling Fitbit from loads of markets

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has pulled Fitbit from over a dozen markets in the last few weeks. The company most recently announced that Fitbit was leaving South Africa. Google completed its acquisition of Fitbit back in 2021, with the Mountain View company claiming this deal would make health and wellness “more accessible to

OpenAI’s gen AI updates threaten the survival of many open source firms

OpenAI is trying to position itself as a viable alternative to build-it-yourself, open source development efforts with cheaper products and advanced capabilities.

Omegle, a popular online chat service founded in 2009, plans to shut down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes” (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Omegle, a popular online chat service founded in 2009, plans to shut down; founder Leif K-Brooks blames rising misuse, including in committing “heinous crimes” — Omegle, an online service that allowed individuals to connect and chat with strangers, has shut …

This is reportedly Google’s fastest-growing product right now

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority According to leaked Google internal data, YouTube TV has been the company’s fastest-growing product over the past year. The service saw a whopping 48% year-over-year growth since October 2023. It also reportedly has the highest engagement and retention rate of any Google service. Google has a vast number of

Ofcom’s CEO discusses its new powers to police tech companies: kids are a priority, companies need to detect and remove CSAM, and working in harmony with the EU (Melanie Dawes/Financial Times)

Melanie Dawes / Financial Times: Ofcom’s CEO discusses its new powers to police tech companies: kids are a priority, companies need to detect and remove CSAM, and working in harmony with the EU — Where the laws have different scope, it’s important that implementing them does not create conflicts for companies

Omegle is shutting down notorious video chat service as scrutiny grows

Even if you never used Omegle, you’d probably heard about its sketchy reputation. | Image: Omegle Omegle, a popular video chat service that randomly connects users with strangers, has shut down after 14 years amid misuse of the platform and increased scrutiny by online safety regulators. In a lengthy statement announcing the closure, website founder

Adyen’s stock jumps 30%+, adding €6.6B to its market cap, after executives met investors to ease concerns over the Amsterdam-based payment giant’s trajectory (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: Adyen’s stock jumps 30%+, adding €6.6B to its market cap, after executives met investors to ease concerns over the Amsterdam-based payment giant’s trajectory — – Dutch payments firm specifies three-year expectations — Stock had plunged in August after disclosing revenue slowdown

Robotic Putting Greens. Mixed Reality. Loud Spectators. This Is Golf?!

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are backing a new sports league that’s reinventing golf as high-energy, made-for-TV entertainment.

YouTube plans to roll out a personalized For You section for creators’ channels on November 20, offering a “a mix of content from your channel to viewers” (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge: YouTube plans to roll out a personalized For You section for creators’ channels on November 20, offering a “a mix of content from your channel to viewers” — YouTube is debuting a new For You section for creators’ channels, personalized to whoever opens the page.

Yuga Labs says UV lights were the likely cause of eye and skin issues experienced by some attendees of ApeFest, hosted in Hong Kong from November 3 to 5 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Yuga Labs says UV lights were the likely cause of eye and skin issues experienced by some attendees of ApeFest, hosted in Hong Kong from November 3 to 5 — The probe was undertaken in collaboration with Jack Morton Worldwide, the company that produced the event, Bored Ape Yacht Club or

Gmail for Android wants to ensure you quickly reply to all your emails

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Gmail for Android is testing a new UI that replaces the reply buttons in the email view and adds a quick compose box. This lets you quickly begin typing a response to an email as you read it. This is a server-side change and, depending on feedback, may or

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