The Duracell M150. | Image: Duracell I don’t think I’ve used one of Duracell’s famous coppertop batteries since I was a kid — but recently, I’ve had a compelling reason to try one again. The new Duracell M150, on sale today for $199, is one of the most packed portable battery banks I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreAs the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going. Continue reading…
Read MoreHayden Field / CNBC: LinkedIn announces a GPT-4-powered AI chatbot aimed at being a “job seeker coach”, available to Premium users, and says the platform now has 1B+ members — – LinkedIn said it surpassed 1 billion members and debuted an AI chatbot billed as a “job seeker coach” and other generative AI tools for
Read MoreBrian Steinberg / Variety: Shareholder letter: Netflix says its ad tier now has 15M MAUs globally, accounting for 30% of new sign-ups where its available, and plans new ad formats in 2024 — Netflix is ready to use “The Crown,” “Squid Game” and other signature series to take ad dollars from rival streamers.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: FusionAuth, which offers developer authentication and user management tools, raised $65M led by Updata, its first outside funding in its five-year history — Funding for cybersecurity startups continues to look bleak. According to a recent Crunchbase survey, companies …
Read MoreImage: Hugo Herrera / The Verge EV sales are skyrocketing, more than 100 models are on sale, and charging infrastructure is getting better. So why does everything seem so precarious all of a sudden? Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Visible eSIM support is rolling out now to many Samsung and Google phones. Previously, Visible only supported eSIM on iPhones. eSIM enables you to try Visible without a physical card and without needing to cancel your current service. Way back in 2021, Verizon sub-brand Visible announced it would support
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp is working on a new “alternate profile” feature that lets you restrict your profile photo to contacts while still displaying an alternate profile photo and name to non-contacts. WhatsApp is also working on making it easier to start video calls with the maximum 32 participants. WhatsApp is one of
Read MoreSometimes there are moments when an engineer has to use whatever materials they have to hand in order to complete the job on time. Such a situation arose at the RevSpace hacker space in Den Haag, Netherlands, as they were the assembly venue for a conference badge. Their problem was that the badge PCB had
Read MoreSultan Quadri / Rest of World: Data: African startups raised only $1.3B in the first nine months of 2023, below the $3.3B and $2.9B raised over the same period in 2022 and 2021, respectively — As funding to Africa’s once fast-growing startup ecosystem dries up, industry insiders are worried that the ecosystem is unprepared.
Read MoreObject-oriented programming (OOP) is sometimes portrayed as difficult and intimidating. The truth is that object-oriented programming uses a very familiar model to help make programs easier to manage. Let’s take another look to see how easy it is to understand this very popular and influential programming style. Objects are familiar In everyday life, we interact with objects
Read MoreIn its latest rendition, Lightbend’s Akka distributed computing platform features a programming model enabling developers to build a cloud-native application once and have it work across both edge and cloud environments. Called Akka Edge, the model eliminates high latency, large footprint, and complexity barriers posed by edge computing, Lightbend said on October 31. Developers can focus
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority X, formerly known as Twitter, is working on a new feature that will allow group admins to pin hashtags within a Community. This would presumably help organize the community better by creating different timelines of posts. Currently, hashtags within communities are auto-generated from popularly used hashtags. X, formerly known
Read MoreJoshua Oliver / Financial Times: A look back at testimony from Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh and SBF’s counterclaims, as the jury prepares to deliberate over who told the truth — Former crypto tycoon will soon learn whether he was able to successfully counter his former colleagues’ testimony — Four people were in
Read MoreAnn E. Marimow / Washington Post: After three hours of oral arguments, SCOTUS found no consensus on whether public officials can block social media critics, part of two First Amendment cases — The Supreme Court will decide several cases this term that impact the future of free speech on social media platforms
Read MoreBloomberg: A look at Apple’s ambition to revolutionize health care: some breakthroughs marred by philosophical disagreements, a culture of conservatism, and tech realities — The company is working on big things, but employees disagree over whether they should be serving people who are healthy or sick.
Read MoreIn the roughly decade and a half since the Android mobile operating system appeared on the scene it has been primarily sold on devices with an ARM core at their heart, but along the way it has also appeared for other architectures. If you had a MIPS Android phone you may have been in the
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Finland-based Wirepas, which is building mesh IoT networks, raised $22M led by Highland Europe, a source says at a $100M-$200M valuation, and claims 160 clients — Wirepas, a startup out of Finland that is building out an Internet of Things business based on a novel approach …
Read MoreThe Phantom V Fold, from Transsion brand Tecno. | Image: Tecno / Transsion Transsion, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer whose brands include Tecno, Itel, and Infinix, has quietly grown to become the world’s fifth largest smartphone manufacturer, according to recent market reports from Canalys (via Android Central), IDC, and Omdia. Despite being one of the few
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Many users are reporting charging issues on the Pixel Watch 2. Some say their watches don’t charge at all with the bundled charging dock. Others report their Pixel Watch 2 units charge intermittently. Google is apparently aware of the ongoing issue. Pixel Watch 2 users are reporting a charging
Read MoreBloomberg: US v. Google: Google internally declared “Code Yellow” emergency in February 2019 for seven weeks to figure out why user search queries have slowed down — – Search executive said team was ‘getting too involved with ads’ — Company declared emergency in 2019 over slow query growth
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrice OnePlus has confirmed that the OnePlus 12 will be the first to feature a new Sony LYTIA image sensor. The sensor is expected to be the 50MP IMX 966, which is believed to be using Sony’s 2-layer transistor pixel technology. The new stacked sensor could give the OnePlus 12 better low-light photography capabilities.
Read MoreTage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to over $950M; CEO Hosam Arab says Tabby is profitable — The past year and a half have witnessed multiple startups facing valuation cuts as funding from VCs waned in an environment of rising
Read MoreFinancial Times: Ahead of the UK’s AI summit, Chinese scientists warn of AI’s “existential risk”; sources say the UK plans to announce South Korea as the Summit’s host in 2024 — Attendees of Bletchley Park gathering convened by UK premier Rishi Sunak warn of ‘existential risk to humanity’
Read MoreNew York Times: Check Point details a monthslong espionage campaign by Iranian hackers targeting countries, including Israel, underscoring Iran’s improved hacking capabilities — A monthslong hacking campaign targeted the governments of regional rivals, including Israel, and marked a turn, a new report says …
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