Writing is, as any of the Hackaday crew will tell you, a task which requires concentration. For your best work there’s a need to be in that elusive Zone, and for some that means making the experience as distraction free as possible. For them there’s an entire class of minimalist word-processors and text editors which
Read MoreWayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal investigation into business misconduct — Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct …
Read MoreLeo Schwartz / Fortune: New York AG Letitia James sues the Winklevoss’ Gemini, Genesis, and its parent Digital Currency Group, alleging the companies defrauded 230K investors of $1B+ — New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Winklevoss twin-led exchange Gemini along with the crypto lending firm Genesis …
Read MoreIf you’re an urban-dwelling electric vehicle owner, your public charging options are often limited to slow AC chargers found in tight parking spaces that are too small for typical DC fast chargers. Now Gravity, the company that started an EV taxi fleet in New York City in 2021, designed a compact and super fast DC
Read MorePew Research Center: A May 2023 survey of 5,101 US adults: 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans support more government regulation over what companies can do with people’s data — The role of technology companies, AI and regulation – plus personal experiences with data breaches, passwords, cybersecurity and privacy policies
Read MoreGoogle Chrome’s address bar is getting a set of welcome upgrades. These include searching within bookmarks folders, typo correction, site suggestions, and smarter autocompletion. Some updates are available immediately, while others are due in the coming months. As the gateway to the internet, the address bar has become the web browser’s most important facet. Now,
Read MoreSteve Lohr / New York Times: US v. Google: Pandu Nayak, Google’s VP of Search and first witness, testifies that smart employees explain its success and lead to innovations, such as on LLMs — While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company has
Read MoreThis week, we talk about how fake, doctored, and false media is so easily spread, how the social platforms are dealing with it, and how generative AI is making things worse.
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: Filing: China took a “golden share” in Tencent’s local subsidiary Shenzhen Yayue, buying a 1% stake for ~$82K, the latest move to expand tech sector control — The Chinese government has taken a “golden share” in a domestic subsidiary of tech giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) …
Read MoreJillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU adjusts DSA charges to cap them at 0.05% of 2022 profit; X and Amazon may pay €0 while Alphabet and Meta together pay ~€31M, or 75% of the total — – Alphabet and Meta to pick up three-quarters of the tab — Charges for large platforms adjusted based
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge WhatsApp is beta testing the ability to send voice messages that can only be listened to once by their intended recipient, WABetaInfo reports. The feature, which is currently only available to a limited number of Android and iOS users running the beta version of the app, is reportedly accessible by tapping a
Read MoreShaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: US v. SBF: accounting professor Peter Easton testifies that FTX used “over a billion dollars” of customer funds to buy back Binance’s FTX stake, bought in 2019 — Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a 2022 post the company had received over $2.1 billion in binance usd (BUSD) stablecoins and FTX’s
Read MoreHere’s something to stop you from hiding your tired face in early morning meetings. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A highly requested feature, according to Google, is finally being introduced in Google Meet that allows users to apply ‘beauty’ effects during video calls. Announced in a Google Workspace update on Wednesday, portrait
Read MoreThis sub-$1,000 TV makes gaming, sports, and the latest Star Wars: Ashoka look amazing, even compared to much more expensive competitors.
Read MoreAmazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary reveals. The company also makes it alarmingly easy to sell dangerous items to children.
Read MoreThe modern enterprise is powered by data, bringing together information from across the organization and using business analysis tools to deliver answers to any relevant questions. Those tools give access to real-time information, as well as using historic data to provide predictions of future trends based on the current state of the business. What’s essential
Read MoreMicrosoft has unveiled Radius, an open-source, cloud-native application platform that enables developers, IT teams, and platform engineers to collaborate on delivering and managing applications across public clouds and on-prem infrastructure. Radius was introduced October 18 by the Microsoft Azure Incubations team. The platform supports deployment of applications across private clouds and the Microsoft Azure and
Read MoreModern programming languages such as C# facilitate the efficient use of resources by allowing multiple operations to be executed concurrently. Here concurrently often means asynchronously, when multiple processes must share the same CPU core. However, managing concurrent execution paths (using threads or tasks) can quickly become challenging due to the overhead of juggling asynchronous tasks.
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: WhatsApp plans to let users switch between accounts on Android in the coming weeks; a second account will still need a separate phone number and SIM card — If you use two different WhatsApp accounts, you’ll soon be able to access both from just one device.
Read MoreReuters: Meta introduces temporary limits on “potentially unwelcome or unwanted comments” on Facebook posts about the Israel-Hamas war for users “in the region” — Facebook-owner Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday introduced temporary measures to limit …
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority T-Mobile has issued an internal email, claiming that forced plan upgrades were just a test. CEO Mike Sievert said subscribers can choose to stay on older plans. T-Mobile drew the ire of many people when it emerged that the company planned to force subscribers on old plans to move
Read MoreNick Turner / Bloomberg: Lam Research reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to $3.48B, vs. $3.42B est., the third straight quarter of decline, as the chipmaking tools market remains “soft” — Lam Research Corp. fell as much as 3.8% in late trading after revenue fell for a third straight quarter, a sign demand for chipmaking
Read MoreGoogle is rolling out a new Assistant tile to supported Wear OS devices. The feature allows users to set custom Assistant commands as quick tap shortcuts. It’s available on the Pixel Watch duo and the Galaxy Watch series. A feature that first appeared on the Pixel Watch 2 is coming to more smartwatches. As spotted
Read MoreSolar panels, part of renovations done under the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, sit on the roof of New York City Housing Authority’s Ocean Bay Apartments in New York, NY. | Bess Adler/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday announced $100 million in funding to make low-income homes
Read MoreThe creator economy is fragmented and chaotic. This guy can (almost) make sense of it.
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