Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. | Image: Paramount Pictures and Skydance Paramount’s seventh Mission: Impossible is the franchise’s biggest, silliest, and most stunt-filled Tom Cruise delivery system yet. But its self-awareness is more of a bug than a welcome feature. Continue reading…
Read MoreBoth the M2 Max and M2 Ultra-powered versions of the Mac Studio are discounted this weekend. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s a good week for Apple aficionados looking to score some good deals on Apple’s newest computers. Not only is the 15-inch MacBook Air on sale for $100 off at
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 252nd edition is here, with Threads launch news and impressions, an official Galaxy Unpacked launch date, more exclusive Pixel 8 info, and more. Hadlee here this time, standing in for a sick Paula (get
Read MoreJoe Brock / Reuters: A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.
Read MoreA new study uses trail cameras and speakers to isolate how the sounds of hikers and bikers disturb forest creatures.
Read MoreThis dual-display laptop might be the beginning of the end of the physical keyboard era.
Read MoreJoe Brock / Reuters: A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.
Read MoreAmazon’s big sale event arrives next week, but the discounts have already started—including on office chairs and Alexa speakers.
Read MoreThere’s a point in a component’s thermal regime that’s between normal operation and overloaded to the point of obvious failure. That’s a dangerous region, because the component isn’t quite hot enough to release the Magic Smoke, but hot enough to singe any finger you poke around with the see if everything’s running right. So if
Read MoreReuters: Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI’s ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon’s arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development — – Google has challenged India decision on Android market abuse — India antitrust body wrongly backed Amazon arguments-Google
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group is proposing a buyback of up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO — Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is proposing to buy back as much as 7.6% of shares in an effort to
Read MoreThe only thing better than getting your hands on a repairable piece of hardware is actually finding the thing in the first place, which is why we love this “official” repair logo created by [Yves Parent]. Our predilection for crossed wrenches had (almost) nothing to do with it. We’ve got a soft spot for logos
Read MoreScharon Harding / Ars Technica: BotDefense, a project run by volunteer mods for removing spam bots on r/gaming and other big subreddits, ceases operations over Reddit’s “antagonistic actions” — Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — The Reddit community is still reckoning …
Read MoreWhen the war came to Kherson, a small group of scientists ventured into the ruined city to rescue a unique herbarium.
Read MoreTurner Novak / The Split: Meta’s Threads had the perfect launch thanks to a TikTok-like feed where the follower graph doesn’t matter, easy Instagram-Threads cross-posting tools, and more — The Empire strikes back. Can Meta’s new app live up to the early hype? — Hi everyone 👋 Turner back again with The Split.
Read MoreYou can easily get carried away when trying to test things. For example, if you want to know if your car is working, you could measure the timing of the ignition and put the car on a dynamometer. Or you could just start it and figure that if it runs and moves when you put
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group is proposing a buyback of up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO — Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is proposing to buy back as much as 7.6% of shares in an effort to
Read MoreOpenAI, a renowned artificial intelligence research laboratory, has just recently announced that its most recent and highly anticipated text-generating model, GPT-4, is now available to the general public. With this release, OpenAI aims to revolutionize the field of generative AI and empower developers to create innovative products that leverage the capabilities of GPT-4. This goal
Read MoreDecades ago, electronic components were not as easy to acquire as they are today. Sure, you could get some things at Radio Shack. But you might not have many choices, and the price would be on the high side. TV repair components were another option, but, again, big bucks. Some places sold surplus parts, which
Read MoreAssociated Press: A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city — A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers …
Read MoreJames Bareham / The Verge A former Niantic employee filed a lawsuit against the AR gaming company on Friday, alleging that it devalued the work of female employees and women of color, denied equal pay to women employees and women of color. The lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status, accuses Niantic of creating a “boys
Read MoreTim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: With the launch of Threads, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform’s rollout, amid chaos at Musk’s Twitter — The Facebook co-founder is seizing the moment with a win after years of tumult — Elon Musk has done the
Read MoreScharon Harding / Ars Technica: BotDefense, a project run by volunteer mods for removing spam bots on r/gaming and other big subreddits, ceases operations over Reddit’s “antagonistic actions” — Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — The Reddit community is still reckoning …
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Ant Group is proposing a buyback of up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO — Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is proposing to buy back as much as 7.6% of shares in an effort to
Read MoreeFishery, an Indonesian startup company in the aquaculture industry, recently made an announcement that it was successful in raising $200 million in a Series D funding round. This brings the company’s valuation to over $1 billion. Because of this achievement, eFishery has earned the distinction of being the first startup company in the aquaculture industry
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