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NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users suggests X is throttling posts linking to the NYT, with “weekly average shares per article” down ~75% from July’s peak (Max Tani/Semafor)

Max Tani / Semafor: NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users suggests X is throttling posts linking to the NYT, with “weekly average shares per article” down ~75% from July’s peak — X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York

Grannophone Helps You Stay In Touch

Whether it’s distance, pandemics, or both that separate you from your elderly loved ones, what’s the best idea for communicating with them so they don’t suffer from loneliness on top of issues like dementia? We’d say it’s probably something like [Stefan Baur]’s Grannophone. Back in late 2020, a Twitter user named [Nitek] asked the Internet

The best upcoming smartwatches in 2023 and beyond

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority That smartwatch market has never been more packed and yet, we can’t help but look ahead at what’s to come. The hottest new devices heading to shelves may usurp some of our current picks as the best smartwatches you can buy. Before you decide what to buy next, find

The newest Roombas tackle the competition’s biggest issues

Surprise! More robot vacuums. iRobot launches its new j9 Plus robot vacuum line, featuring a new auto-empty dock that can refill the robot’s water tank. | Image: iRobot iRobot’s newest robot vacuums are smarter and more powerful, and the mopping bot can scrub your floors more deeply. At least, that’s what the company is claiming

Coinbase emails its customers in India to say the company plans to cease operations in the country from September 25, advising users to withdraw remaining funds (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Coinbase emails its customers in India to say the company plans to cease operations in the country from September 25, advising users to withdraw remaining funds — Coinbase said Monday that it disabled new user sign-up on its exchange product in India in June of this year but remains committed …

Bengaluru-based fintech Perfios, which offers real-time credit underwriting tools to financial companies, raised a $229M Series D led by Kedaara Capital (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based fintech Perfios, which offers real-time credit underwriting tools to financial companies, raised a $229M Series D led by Kedaara Capital — Perfios, an Indian fintech that provides real-time credit underwriting solutions to banks and non-banking financial institutions …

New Electric Motor Tech Spins with No Magnets

When you think of electric motors, you usually think of magnets. But magnets are heavy, and good magnets can pose problems when you need lots of them. A technology called SESM (separately excited synchronous motors) requires no magnets, but now ZF — a German company — claims to have a different scheme using inductive excitation.

Facebook Is Giving Up on News—Again

Meta says it will retire Facebook’s “news” tag in the UK, France, and Germany, ahead of rules that might force it to pay for content. Users may not care, but it has left media scrambling.

TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe

European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.

Apple may discontinue all silicone accessories, says rumor

Apple could discontinue all silicone accessories, according to a new rumor, following the rumor about the discontinuation of the leather cases.

Sources: Meta plans to begin training an LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure that it hopes will be roughly as capable as OpenAI’s GPT-4 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta plans to begin training an LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure that it hopes will be roughly as capable as OpenAI’s GPT-4 — Parent of Facebook and Instagram wants artificial-intelligence system to be as capable as OpenAI’s most advanced model — Platforms is setting its sights on OpenAI.

Hackaday Links: September 10, 2023

Most of us probably have a vision of how “The Robots” will eventually rise up and deal humanity out of the game. We’ve all seen that movie, of course, and know exactly what will happen when SkyNet becomes self-aware. But for those of you thinking we’ll get off relatively easy with a quick nuclear armageddon,

Open Deck Is Your Window to Shortcuts

Once in a while, we see projects that could easily pass for commercial products. This is one of those projects: a (surprisingly) low-cost DIY macro pad from [Josh R] that was designed to be a cheaper alternative to the various stream decks out there. Between the carbon fiber top plate and the crystal-clear acrylic keycaps,

Logitech MX Master 4: Release date, price, specs, rumors, and more

The Logitech MX Master 3 arrived way back in 2019 but recently got a refresh in 2022, in the form of the MX Master 3S. Still, it’s been a while since we’ve seen a proper sequel to the Master series. This leaves us wondering when we might see the Logitech MX Master 4. Let’s jump

WhatsApp is working on cross-platform messaging

Illustration: The Verge A WhatsApp for Android beta update (version 2.23.19.8) that came out today contains a new screen called Third-party chats, reports WABetaInfo. For now, the screen is neither functional nor accessible by users, according to WABetaInfo. But its title is a strong clue that this is likely the first step to opening Meta’s

Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021 — The grocery-delivery company aims for $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion, down from $39 billion in 2021.

Upgraded Graphics Gremlin Adds HDMI Video to Vintage PCs

Although new VGA-equipped monitors can still be bought, the old standard is definitely on its way out by now, being replaced by high-speed digital interfaces like HDMI and DisplayPort. It therefore makes sense to prepare for a VGA-less future, as [Yeo Kheng Meng] is doing. He designed an 8-bit ISA display card with an HDMI

Open Deck Is Your Window to Shortcuts

An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max’s periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max’s periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy — Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 on Tuesday, alongside updated watches and AirPods. And once again, the company …

Vitalik Buterin’s X account was hacked to promote a crypto scam, leading to an estimated $650K+ of assets being stolen; the tweet was deleted within 20 minutes (Molly White/Web3 is Going Just Great)

Molly White / Web3 is Going Just Great: Vitalik Buterin’s X account was hacked to promote a crypto scam, leading to an estimated $650K+ of assets being stolen; the tweet was deleted within 20 minutes — The Twitter account belonging to Vitalik Buterin, inventor and effective leader of the Ethereum project, was hacked to promote

Coros Pace 3 review: Should you buy it?

Coros Pace 3 review: At a glance What is it? The Pace 3 is Coros’ third-generation road-focused running watch. It replaces the Pace 2 and adds several new smartwatch-style features, including a touchscreen and breadcrumb-style GPX navigation, as well as a slightly larger battery, What is the price? The Coros Pace 3 is available for $229 in

Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group CEO Daniel Zhang steps down, after assuming the role in June 2023; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu becomes the unit’s acting chair and CEO (Brenda Goh/Reuters)

Brenda Goh / Reuters: Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group CEO Daniel Zhang steps down, after assuming the role in June 2023; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu becomes the unit’s acting chair and CEO — China’s Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Sunday that Daniel Zhang will step down from its cloud business, in a surprise move …

The best upcoming smartwatches in 2023 and beyond

An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max’s periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Disney is releasing a very expensive 100-movie Blu-ray collection

The Verge Disney is releasing a 100-film Blu-ray collection on November 14th called the Disney Legacy Animated Film Collection (via The Wrap). Preorders will start on September 18th at Walmart.com, and we regret to inform you it will cost $1,500, according to The Wrap. The collection includes movies from both Disney and Pixar, all crammed

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