Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority There are now options for Straight Talk family plans. The Verizon MVNO has never officially offered family plans before. As usual with family plans, the more lines you add the more discounts you receive. Straight Talk started in 2009 as a cheap way to gain basic wireless service in
Read MoreImage: Alex Castro and Jess Weatherbed / The Verge Early Monday morning, Twitter began replacing its blue bird logo with a fan-made “ ” logo. The same X also appears on Twitter’s homepage, as a profile picture for its official @twitter account, and on a splash screen displayed while the website loads. The blue bird
Read MoreVitalik Buterin: A look at Worldcoin’s plans, “proof of personhood”, or creating a list of public keys, and its importance, social-graph and biometric, privacy issues, and more — Special thanks to the Worldcoin team, the Proof of Humanity community and Andrew Miller for discussion.
Read MoreNathan Edwards / The Verge: Flipper releases an app store for its dolphin-themed digital multitool Flipper Zero, used to interact with wireless devices, helping users more easily find apps — The marketplace is built into the latest version of Flipper’s official app, which is out today. — Quick recap: the Flipper Zero is cool as
Read MoreLizette Chapman / Bloomberg: OneTrust, which offers enterprise privacy and data governance tools, raised $150M led by Al Gore’s GIM at a $4.5B valuation, down 18% from its 2021 valuation — The privacy software startup’s valuation fell to $4.5 billion as private market malaise lingers.
Read MoreResearchers showed real people and a neural network the same art—and they all found the same images memorable. What does that mean for artistic expression?
Read MoreIf you don’t have small doorways or carpets, this is probably the best robot vacuum-mop for you.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Ten years after it was first introduced, Spotify Connect is just as magical as it was on day one. A simple feature on paper, Connect transforms the Spotify app on any device into a universal remote for your entire Spotify experience. And
Read MoreBloomberg: SoftBank and Symbotic create GreenBox Systems, an AI warehousing joint venture, and plan to invest $100M and buy $7.5B of Symbotic’s AI warehouse systems — SoftBank and Symbotic are investing a combined $100 million to establish the joint venture, which will be called GreenBox Systems LLC …
Read MoreWashington Post: The previous big strikes reshaped Hollywood and fueled reality TV’s rise; the current ones will likely turn established actors into TikTok stars and vice versa — The last big strikes reshaped the movie business and fueled the rise of reality TV. The latest walkout likely …
Read MoreBloomberg: Ahead of Amazon’s WA worker safety hearing after inspectors found multiple hazards, its business model is on trial and enforced changes may weaken its advantage — Hearings in Washington state starting in late July will usher in a period of broader government scrutiny of the e-commerce giant.
Read More[Sarah K Marr] dabbles in retrocomputing and has a fascination with the Hewlett Packard HP-45 calculator, the second calculator in HP’s series introduced in 1973. Over a year ago, she wrote an HP-45 emulator for use on a terminal, dubbed HP45TERM. Not content with success, she upped the challenge and decided to build an even
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Apple asks suppliers to produce about 85M iPhone 15 units in 2023, only slightly below 2021 and 2022’s 90M target, and considers raising 15 Pro prices — – Apple targets 85 million units, roughly in line with last year — Its fortunes affects thousands of firms, millions of workers
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US. The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month, the company announced today. Spotify has charged $9.99 for its Premium subscription ever since its launch in the US in 2011. “So that we can keep innovating,
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: IBM Security survey of 533 global organizations in the year to March 2023: average data breach costs rose 15% YoY to $4.45M and only ~33% were detected in-house — A new report from IBM Security today finds that the relentless rise in data breach costs continues unabated in 2023 …
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Spotify confirms raising US Premium to $10.99/month, up from $9.99, the first increase since its US launch in 2011; Duo rises by $2, Family and Student by $1 — After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US. The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month,
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Spotify will reportedly hike prices for its individual Premium plan in the US. The streaming service later confirmed the news in a press release. It confirmed that the price hike affects plenty more markets. Update: July 24, 2023 (7:35 AM ET): Spotify has now made it official, confirming (h/t:
Read MoreA secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty.
Read MoreCredit: Elon Musk Twitter has changed its brand logo from the famous blue bird to the letter X. X will be the future of “unlimited interactivity,” according to Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. Update: July 24, 2023 (6:15 AM ET): Twitter has officially changed its logo from the bird to the letter “X,” representing Elon Musk-owned
Read MoreYep, $155 million seems Kenough to me. | Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Legions of Barbie-core and biopic fans descended onto theaters this weekend for the “Barbenheimer” box office phenomenon, but one pink-plastered performance, in particular, came out on top. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has already smashed several records, raking in $155 million domestically over the weekend
Read MoreOver the weekend, both Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino explained the reasons why, but it’s still unclear.
Read MoreLaura Kayali / Politico: How France built a surveillance apparatus over two centuries that digital rights groups and UN experts are critiquing, ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics — PARIS — Liberté. Egalité. But mostly: sécurité. — It all started with Napoléon Bonaparte.
Read MoreRather than stainless steel, it looks like Apple might be creating a titanium-based iPhone 15 surround.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Twitter is changing how many Direct Messages non-paying customers can send from unlimited to 500 per day. The change comes amidst limits to non-paying customers’ ability to DM other users on the platform and a purported rebranding of Twitter to X. Twitter is undergoing a lot of changes recently.
Read MoreThe Log4j vulnerability in December 2021 spotlighted the software supply chain as a massively neglected security surface area. It revealed just how interconnected our software artifacts are, and how our systems are only as secure as their weakest links. It also reinforced the idea that we may think security is something we can buy, but
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