Allen is set to appear on stage at the Code conference starting on September 26th. | Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for Allen Media Group / The Weather Channel Comedian and media mogul Byron Allen has reportedly made a $10 billion offer to acquire the ABC TV network, FX and National Geographic cable channels, and
Read MoreVictor Tangermann / Futurism: Microsoft’s Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42” — “AI should not be writing obituaries.” — Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority A new leak suggests that OnePlus is working on a new smartwatch with the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 SoC, intended for global release. This smartwatch could have eSIM support, fist clench gestures, and other health-tracking features. OnePlus has some really exciting phones coming up in the form of the
Read MorePixel Tablet teardown by iFixit Credit: iFixit The insides of the Pixel Tablet are surprisingly spacious. The component layout looks amateurish and shows that Google could have done so much more with the slate but chose not to. There’s enough space inside the Pixel Tablet for a bigger battery, better speakers, a headphone jack, expandable
Read MoreCredit: Apple A leaker has claimed that the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max will get a 5x zoom camera. That means users won’t necessarily have to spend ~$1,200 to get an iPhone with great zoom. Apple has just launched the iPhone 15 series, and the company is finally catching up to the best Android
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has confirmed that it doesn’t offer repairs or replacements for broken Pixel Watch screens. Damaged Pixel Watches can’t be fixed, but there’s some type of exchange scheme on offer. Google has confirmed that the display of the Pixel Watch can’t be repaired if it is broken. The company
Read MoreIn an ideal world, every single battery pack for power tools would use the same physical interface and speak a clearly documented protocol with chargers. Since we live in a decidedly less-than-ideal world, we get to enjoy the fun pastime of reverse-engineering the interfaces and protocols of said battery packs. Hooking up a logic analyzer
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series has passed through China’s 3C certification website. The listings confirm 45W charging speeds for the S24 Plus and Ultra models. However, it looks like the base Galaxy S24 has 25W speeds. Samsung is usually conservative when it comes to charging wattages, with the top-end Galaxy
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users’ location for commercial gain even after they opted out — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 — – New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
Read MoreLinux has become one of the largest operating systems on the servers that run large websites, and hopefully, one day, it will be big in the desktop market too. Some of you may know how Linux as an operating system is structured, but have you ever wondered how the kernel itself is structured? Maybe you’ll
Read MoreJon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival — Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature — Discussions are at an early stage and include possible subscription fee, say people familiar with the matter
Read MoreIt’s hard enough to get your hands on a forgotten computer from yesteryear. It’s even more difficult to get accessories like RAM expansions and graphics cards, because half the time they’re just discarded as random e-waste when they’re outside of their original context. [na103] has solved this problem for the DEC Rainbow 100 to a
Read MoreBloomberg: The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk’s denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia — The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk’s decision not to extend …
Read MoreEmojipedia’s renderings of what some of the new emoji in Emoji 15.1 might look like. | Image: Emojipedia There are new emoji on the way… eventually. As reported by Emojipedia, the Unicode Consortium has formally approved Emoji 15.1, meaning a batch of new emoji will appear on your devices at some point in the future.
Read MoreGoogle currently offers no repairs for broken Pixel Watches. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn’t in the cards. Several Pixel Watch owners have vented their frustrations about the inability to replace cracked screens, both on Reddit and
Read MoreBloomberg: At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” — Hi all, it’s Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft unveils EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI framework that the company says can help create enzymes for new therapeutics and drug delivery methods — Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge I was thrilled when Threads finally launched on the web in August, but I quickly found that it was missing one important feature: you couldn’t quote posts, only repost them. (In X / Twitter lingo, that translates to quote tweet and retweet.) But that’s now changing, as Instagram Adam Mosseri said Thursday
Read MoreHayden Field / CNBC: DoorDash plans to transfer its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq and begin trading on September 27, 2023, under the same symbol DASH — – DoorDash will transfer its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq, the food delivery company announced Thursday.
Read MoreVacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with little more than a 3D printed fitting to a vacuum cleaner, a heat gun, and a trip to the dollar store. Plastic plates from the
Read MoreImage: Square Enix If you’ve poured dozens of hours into Final Fantasy VII Remake, that unfortunately won’t give you much of a leg up in the game’s sequel, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. As part of an interview about the new game posted on the PlayStation Blog, game director Naoki Hamaguchi confirmed that you won’t be
Read MoreCredit: Bose Bose has officially announced three new audio products: the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones, QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, and QuietComfort Headphones. The Ultra line adds Bose’s take on spatial audio, which doesn’t require special content. All three models are available for pre-order starting today. After a few leaks here and there, Bose has officially announced its
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.89B, vs. $4.87B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% YoY to $3.59B, and Digital Experience revenue up 10% YoY to $1.23B — Adobe Inc. provided a sales outlook that met analysts’ expectations, but disappointed investors who expected demand …
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