With the official Apple MagSafe power bank selling for as much as $100, it’s a notable expense after you’ve already splurged for your shiny new iPhone. Anker offers an effective and affordable alternative in the form of the Anker 321 MagGo 5,000mAh magnetic portable charger. Thanks to an on-page Amazon coupon, you can pick it
Read MoreThe Open Compute Project (OCP), an industry initiative focused on redesigning hardware for growing infrastructure demands, has turned its focus to the hardware requirements of artificial intelligence, anticipating a massive impact. A key emphasis is liquid-cooled data centers, with OCP board member and Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim among the chief proponents. At this week’s
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is upgrading Android’s Play Protect malware protection system to help it spot malicious apps that change their identifiable features to avoid detection, the company has announced. “This enhancement will help better protect users against malicious polymorphic apps that leverage various methods, such as AI, to be altered
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Read MoreReuters: Research: 47.25% of machinery tenders by Chinese chip foundries from January to August 2023 were won by local manufacturers, including 62% from July to August — As the U.S. tightens its restrictions on China’s semiconductor industry, Chinese manufacturers of tools used to make chips are benefiting …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: YouTube adds a news page on its mobile apps to suggest content from “authoritative sources”, and plans to spend $1.6M to promote the creation of news on Shorts — YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news or politics …
Read MoreA leaked image of the Oppo Find N3. | Image: Evan Blass OnePlus founder Peter Lau has already confirmed that the OnePlus Open shares its design with the Oppo Find N3, but new leaks are shedding light on just how similar the two devices look. The biggest difference is that the OnePlus Open is getting
Read MoreSarah McBride / Bloomberg: PitchBook: global AI startup funding rose 27% YoY to $17.9B in Q3, one of the lone bright spots as overall startup funding dropped 31% YoY to $73B — Multibillion-dollar investments in artificial intelligence startups have become almost commonplace in Silicon Valley …
Read MoreThese bots move shelves around so humans don’t have to bring around the forklift. | Image: Amazon Amazon is rolling out expanded robotics operations at fulfillment centers built on updated sorting machines, robotic arms, and its Roomba-like mover bots. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon’s latest inventory processing system, which the company calls Sequoia,
Read MoreImage: Rarlab If you use WinRAR, it’s time to update to the latest version after a serious security vulnerability has been discovered that’s already in use by attackers. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has found that multiple government-backed hacking groups have been exploiting the WinRAR vulnerability since early 2023. “A patch is now available, but
Read MoreApple Streaming exclusive Napoleon gets a brutal new trailer before its release later this year.
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Read MoreImage: Nintendo When a Super Mario game gets really good, you can’t help but move around in your seat. I find myself leaning into jumps as if it’ll give me an advantage and ducking my head down to avoid flying enemies. Even after a few decades of playing these games, it’s an instinct I can’t
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news or politics on Threads and X owner Elon Musk has taken a dismissive stance toward “legacy media.” Google’s video platform is rolling out a new “immersive watch page experience” on mobile
Read MoreThe resolution is high on this 4K webcam, but so is the price.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Rare are the third-party Android applications that I’ve been using for more than five years. Even rarer are the ones that have stuck with me for eight. But Backdrops Wallpapers lives among that rare breed of apps that have been just as
Read MoreJoshua Franklin / Financial Times: Plaid hires former Expedia Chief Financial Officer Eric Hart as its first CFO, a milestone in its IPO plans after a failed $5.3B sale to Visa in 2021 — Start-up appoints former Expedia CFO two years after failed sale to Visa — US financial technology start-up Plaid has hired …
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Read MoreThe Grounded G2 is built atop GM’s BrightDrop Zevo 600 platform. | Image: Grounded It’s not quite a replacement for diesel RVs, but the latest all-electric camper van from Grounded is getting there. The G2 claims a fully loaded range of 250 miles from its 165kWh vehicle battery, which easily trumps the Grounded G1’s range
Read MoreKatie Notopoulos / MIT Technology Review: Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse — We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: At a conference, Sam Altman and other tech leaders say AI may lead to seismic workforce changes, eliminating many professions, a hard sell to those affected — At WSJ Tech Live, Sam Altman said coming workforce changes will play out unevenly — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. …
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 8 Pro is among the most impressive Android phones released this year. It features a new Tensor G3 processor, an enhanced camera experience, and a host of other exciting Pixel features. However, the Android world is constantly evolving, and new phones are on the horizon. In particular, the Samsung Galaxy S24 is
Read MoreElizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: In cross-examining Nishad Singh, SBF’s defense finally picked holes in a US witness, pointing out that Singh used a $3.7M FTX loan of user funds to buy a house — Nishad Singh looks less reliable. Is it enough? … Of Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged co-conspirators, Nishad Singh gave the most emotionally
Read MoreTo work in the computer games business in the mid-1990s was to have a grandstand seat at a pivotal moment. 32-bit gaming was the order of the day and 3D acceleration was making its first appearance in high-end PC graphics cards, so perhaps the fastest changes ever seen in gaming happened across a few short
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