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Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80% (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80% — Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities …

Which countries have the cheapest Netflix subscriptions?

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority While it may be increasingly losing market share to its many competitors, Netflix remains the most popular streaming service in 2023. The subscription fee reflects this, with the Standard Plan now costing $15.49 per month in the US. But this pricing isn’t the same in other parts of the

Instacart’s IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC: Instacart’s IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks — – Instacart’s long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn’t anticipating.

To Give Is Better Than To Receive

Better to give a talk at a hacker event, that is. Or in your hackerspace, or even just to a bunch of fellow nerds whenever you can. When you give the talk, don’t be afraid to make it too “easy” to understand. Making a tough topic comprehensible is often the sign that you really understand

Which countries have the cheapest Netflix subscriptions?

What Apple’s iPhone 15 USB-C change means for your Lightning products

Apple’s USB-C move for the iPhone 15 could have big knock-on effects for AirPods and more.

Leica Q3 Review: Pricey but Worth It

The latest autofocusing rangefinder from Leica is a take-everywhere gem of a camera—if you can afford it.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6’s sleep tracking is adorable but just alright

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Right behind arranging an unruly pile of pillows, donning a sleep tracker is at the top of my checklist when calling it a night. Like many people, I’m on a lifelong journey to take control of my bedtime routine, eternally trying to count fewer sheep and capture more Zs.

A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn’t consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics” (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn’t consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics” — A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads …

2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains

Plus: A major FBI botnet takedown, new Sandworm malware, a cyberattack on two major scientific telescopes—and more.

To Give Is Better Than To Receive

2 Polish Men Arrested for Radio Hack That Disrupted Trains

Plus: A major FBI botnet takedown, new Sandworm malware, a cyberattack on two major scientific telescopes—and more.

Every Apple Vision Pro accessory that’s been revealed so far

Apple’s Vision Pro may be months away from release, but that hasn’t stopped accessory companies from dreaming up some fabulous accessories.

Best of IFA 2023 Awards: All the very best products

Every year, the tech world takes over Berlin for the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, more commonly known as IFA. This enormous trade convention sees all manners of tech debut, some of which are on the bleeding edge. The show has something for everyone, from new Android smartphones to smartwatches to smart homes and beyond. As always,

What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?

Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.

Teaching a Mini-Tesla to Steer Itself

At the risk of stating the obvious, even when you’ve got unlimited resources and access to the best engineering minds, self-driving cars are hard. Building a multi-ton guided missile that can handle the chaotic environment of rush-hour traffic without killing someone is a challenge, to say the least. So if you’re looking to get into

BMW’s Vision Neue Klasse Concept Gives the Storied Brand a Future-Friendly Face

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse concept—with its exterior lighting effects, E Ink panels, and minimal cabin—shows how BMW is thinking about the next few years of car design.

Interviews with AI red team heads at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Meta on why breaking AI models is important for safety, challenges of fixing them, and more (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Interviews with AI red team heads at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Meta on why breaking AI models is important for safety, challenges of fixing them, and more — Forbes spoke to the leaders of AI red teams at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and Meta, who are tasked with looking for vulnerabilities in

Make Better 3D Printed Molds, For Thermoforming Plastics

Thermoforming — which includes vacuum-forming — has its place in a well-rounded workshop, and Mayku (makers of desktop thermoforming machines) have a short list of tips for getting the best results when 3D printing molds on filament-based printers. A mold is put into direct, prolonged contact with a hot sheet of semi-molten plastic. If one

California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area’s Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans (New York Times)

New York Times: California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area’s Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans — A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some

RGB Graphics On a DEC Rainbow With Reverse-Engineered Monitor

One of the delights of the boring pre-VGA era is that you get to express your creativity when it comes to making a random color CRT work with an equally exciting dual CPU computer like the DEC Rainbow 100. This is the situation that the folk over at Usagi Electric found themselves in with a

LG and Samsung say their smart home apps will soon be able to control each other’s appliances and TVs, as part of the Home Connectivity Alliance formed in 2021 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: LG and Samsung say their smart home apps will soon be able to control each other’s appliances and TVs, as part of the Home Connectivity Alliance formed in 2021 — The smart home is all about interoperability these days. First came Matter, making Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung play

Gizmodo’s owner shuts down Spanish language site in favor of AI translations

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gizmodo owner G/O Media shut down and laid off editors of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and is now using AI to translate articles. Matías S. Zavia, a writer at Gizmodo en Español, posted that the publication was shut down on August 29th and that it would

Google raises Nest Aware subscription prices up to $30 per year

Nest’s wired indoor camera. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Google is increasing the price of its Nest Aware and Nest Aware Plus subscriptions, which are required to get more than a few hours of footage history from Nest security cameras. Nest Aware prices have increased to $8 a month or $80 per year, up

Sources: Arm looks to target its IPO at a $50B-$55B valuation, well below the $64B valuation implied by SoftBank’s recent acquisition of a 25% stake in Arm (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Arm looks to target its IPO at a $50B-$55B valuation, well below the $64B valuation implied by SoftBank’s recent acquisition of a 25% stake in Arm — Arm plans to start meeting with prospective investors as early as Tuesday — British chip designer Arm Ltd. is eyeing …

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