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A researcher says a Bangladesh government site is leaking data of millions of citizens, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national ID numbers (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: A researcher says a Bangladesh government site is leaking data of millions of citizens, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national ID numbers — A Bangladeshi government website leaked the personal information of citizens, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national ID numbers.

Shokz OpenFit Review: Unreliable But Comfy

The bone conduction headphones company now makes slip-on buds that dangle in your ear.

8 tips to Market Luxury Products

Marketing luxury goods is an art form that requires a special set of skills and techniques. It’s about creating an exclusive, aspirational experience to capture the attention of high-end consumers who are looking for something more than just the ordinary. Unlike traditional marketing, which focuses on features and benefits, luxury marketing relies heavily on storytelling

Cuckoo 3-Cup Twin Pressure Induction Rice Cooker & Warmer: Broken Promises

Cuckoo’s pricey rice cooker has some advanced features but doesn’t live up to its promise of cooking better—or even decent—rice.

Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?

People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.

People’s Bank of China fines Ant Group ~$984M for violations in payment, settlement, anti-money laundering, and fund sales businesses, ending a years-long probe (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: People’s Bank of China fines Ant Group ~$984M for violations in payment, settlement, anti-money laundering, and fund sales businesses, ending a years-long probe — Chinese regulators imposed a 7.12 billion yuan ($984 million) fine on Ant Group Co., according to a statement from the central bank …

Amazon’s colorful Echo Pop is on sale for just $17.99 ahead of Prime Day

Amazon’s Echo Pop speaker comes in a host of fun colors, including an attractive teal option. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon Prime Day inches ever closer, with deals having already kicked off on Amazon devices and a host of other items courtesy of Amazon’s “Buy with Prime” program. Overall, there

Buying Apple’s Vision Pro headset could require an appointment and a face scan

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is planning to sell its $3,499 Vision Pro headset on an appointment-only basis at launch, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. According to Gurman, Apple will create designated sections where customers can try on the headset in its stores, with the first ones appearing at

Go ahead, check a bag

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I’ve read a lot of recommendations over the years from so-called travel pros who tell you to take a carry-on. There are reasons to recommend carry-ons! For instance, most airlines don’t charge for them. But also, a carry-on bag is for the poor shlubs who are coming

You told us: You’re undoubtedly looking forward to the Pixel Watch 2

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google launched the Pixel Watch alongside the Pixel 7 series last year, coming after years of rumors and leaks. And we thought the wearable was a solid start in our Pixel Watch review. Colleague Rita El-Khoury recently noted that all the Pixel Watch updates were hyping her up

Apple removed several predatory lending apps from India’s App Store; some of the apps reached the finance list’s top 20 despite hundreds of negative reviews (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Apple removed several predatory lending apps from India’s App Store; some of the apps reached the finance list’s top 20 despite hundreds of negative reviews — Apple removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India this week, days after users and media questioned the legitimacy of those services.

Here’s when Apple’s first foldable MacBook could be coming

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Apple will reportedly launch a MacBook with a folding display in 2026. The device could potentially be revealed in 2025 ahead of the full launch. A previous report points to the computer having a 20-inch screen. From Samsung and Motorola to Xiaomi and ASUS, there are loads of companies

Huawei unveils Pangu Model 3.0, its new AI model for cloud computing in operations, product R&D, and software engineering, based on its own hardware and chips (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Huawei unveils Pangu Model 3.0, its new AI model for cloud computing in operations, product R&D, and software engineering, based on its own hardware and chips — China tech titan says its cloud computing is based on own hardware, chips — A Huawei display at the 2023 World Artificial …

Google’s now the number 2 smartphone brand, at least in one country

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google is the number two smartphone brand in Japan, according to Counterpoint Research. This means Google is also ahead of Japanese OEMs Sharp and Sony in the market. Japan also accounted for more Pixel phones sold than the US. Google has offered Pixel phones since 2016, but we’ve only

Shift left for SaaS: More DIY means happier users

For a number of years now, software development and devops teams have been “shifting left.” The concept is simple. Give software developers more responsibility and control over all of the things required to run software beyond writing the code. And so platform operations teams provided ways for application developers to easily manage security, infrastructure and scaling,

Data should be a first-class citizen in the cloud

“It’s all about the data!” has been the battle cry for traditional systems architects as they fumble through building complex systems—specifically, how they will generate and process data as a core capability. It’s all about the data, from customer behavior analysis to predictive modeling. However, the cloud ecosystems, including the push into the clouds, often

Jony Ive returns to tech design with $60,000 record player

Jony Ive is designing tech hardware again, starting with the $60,000 LP12-50 Linn record player.

Listen to These Photographs of Sparkling Galaxies

How do you make space images more accessible? Turn celestial data into sonic compositions that don’t have to be seen to be enjoyed.

Sources: Apple is planning an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024, starting with stores in major areas like NY and LA (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024, starting with stores in major areas like NY and LA — Apple Inc. is planning a retail launch of its Vision Pro headset with appointments and in-store promotion in select US markets early

Jony Ive’s LoveFrom worked on this limited edition $60,000 turntable

The Linn Sondek LP12-50 turtable. | Image: Linn LoveFrom, the design firm formed by Apple’s former design head Jony Ive, has collaborated with British audio brand Linn on a 50th anniversary edition of its Sondek LP12 turntable. Just 250 models of the Linn Sondek LP12-50 will be produced and delivered between August 2023 and March

Finding the Return on Investment of Learning and Development Programs

Every year, millions of employees across the United States complete job-related courses in compliance, soft skills, upselling, product training, and more. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, companies are reinvesting in training practices. This is especially prevalent among small businesses and large companies, who are investing on average 600 more dollars a year in training

Finding the Return on Investment of Learning and Development Programs

Inexpensive Ham Radio Gets Upgrades Thanks to a Trojan

Love them or hate them, the crop of cheap hand-held amateur radio transceivers is here to stay. They’re generally horrible radios, often smearing spurious emissions across the spectrum, but they’re cheap enough to throw in a glove box for emergencies, and they invite experimentation — for instance, modifying the firmware to add functionality the OEM

Sega co-COO Shuji Utsumi says the company is withholding its biggest games from third-party blockchain gaming projects and is shelving its own blockchain games (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Sega co-COO Shuji Utsumi says the company is withholding its biggest games from third-party blockchain gaming projects and is shelving its own blockchain games — Sega Corp., the gaming studio once regarded among the staunchest advocates of blockchain gaming, is pulling back from an arena devastated …

Global public cloud services revenue hit $545.8B in 2022, up 22.9% YoY; SaaS-Applications led with 45%+ of the revenue, then IaaS with 21.2%, and PaaS with 17% (Michael Shirer/IDC)

Michael Shirer / IDC: Global public cloud services revenue hit $545.8B in 2022, up 22.9% YoY; SaaS-Applications led with 45%+ of the revenue, then IaaS with 21.2%, and PaaS with 17% — For more information, contact: — mshirer@idc.com — Worldwide revenue for the public cloud services market totaled $545.8 billion in 2022 …

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