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Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is profitable as a private firm and plans a future IPO; Lanzone joined after Yahoo’s September 2021 spinout from Verizon (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is profitable as a private firm and plans a future IPO; Lanzone joined after Yahoo’s September 2021 spinout from Verizon — Yahoo, one of the internet’s oldest and best-known brands that had once been a dotcom stock market darling, is planning to return

Nothing Phone 2’s upgraded glyph interface explored in new video

The Nothing Phone 2 (right) next to its predecessor (left). | Image: MKBHD Nothing is upgrading its signature Glyph interface for its upcoming Phone 2 smartphone, which is due to be officially announced on July 11th. YouTuber Marques Brownlee has put out an early hands-on video with the new smartphone that offers a thorough look

Samsung Display sues BOE in Texas, accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five of its patents for mobile OLED displays; Samsung dominates the OLED market (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Samsung Display sues BOE in Texas, accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five of its patents for mobile OLED displays; Samsung dominates the OLED market — South Korea’s Samsung Display has filed a lawsuit against BOE Technology (000725.SZ), accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five …

Cync Dynamic Effects Smart Lights Review (2023): Neon Shapes

These bendable lights are super easy to set up and customize, but they aren’t great for gamers.

Poll: Have you ever bought a sponsored product you saw in a YouTube video?

Sponsored product segments are a staple in many YouTube videos, allowing these content creators to earn some extra cash. And there’s no shortage of companies offering sponsorships, such as the Ridge Wallet, HelloFresh, Raycons, Surf Shark VPN, and more. So with all that in mind, we’re curious to find out whether you’ve ever bought a

How SoftBank is playing catch-up despite focusing on AI since 2018; PitchBook says the firm invested in just one of the 26 generative AI startups valued at $1B+ (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal)

Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: How SoftBank is playing catch-up despite focusing on AI since 2018; PitchBook says the firm invested in just one of the 26 generative AI startups valued at $1B+ — Billionaire Masayoshi Son said he would make SoftBank ‘the investment company for the AI revolution,’ but he missed out on

Nothing shows off the Phone 2 in White color

Credit: Nothing The Nothing Phone 2 will come in White and Dark Gray colors. The two color variants are identical except for their base color and the color of the side frame. Nothing is gearing up to launch the Nothing Phone 2, and nobody does hype better than Carl Pei. After unexpectedly opening the floodgates

Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more — Carl Pei’s Nothing is just a week or two away from the full launch, and after showing off the camera earlier today,

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 is joining a packed foldable launch calendar

Credit: Xiaomi Xiaomi has confirmed that the Mix Fold 3 is coming. A company executive revealed that the device will launch next month. The exec hinted at a foldable that was thinner and lighter than the Mix Fold 2. We’ve been expecting the Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 for a while now, and we’ve heard a

Leaked Pixel 8 Pro photos give first real look at Google’s upcoming flagship

The design featured in the new testing images is near-identical to the version that Google accidentally leaked (pictured) earlier this year. | Screenshot: 91mobiles (YouTube) Poor Google doesn’t have much luck with keeping its unreleased Pixel devices under wraps, and the Pixel 8 Pro is no exception. Two leaked photos of Google’s upcoming Pixel flagship

The CJEU rules that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office didn’t overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: The CJEU rules that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office didn’t overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling — Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook lost its fight at the European Union’s top court to topple a German antitrust decision …

Please don’t buy this $2,200 Linux phone

Credit: Purism A US-based firm has launched a Linux-powered smartphone. The so-called Liberty Phone retails for a ridiculous $2,199. Numerous customers have complained that they haven’t received the firm’s previous phone. Android and iOS dominate the smartphone space, but what if you want a phone with an alternative operating system? Fortunately, there are a few

Thierry Breton says Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft notified the EU that they meet the DMA’s gatekeeper status of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Thierry Breton says Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft notified the EU that they meet the DMA’s gatekeeper status of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …

Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger, agreeing to pay $18M and revise some of its filings (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger, agreeing to pay $18M and revise some of its filings — Digital World’s settlement with the S.E.C. could clear the way for a merger with Trump Media & Technology Group.

The world’s 500 richest people together gained $852B in H1 2023, the best half-year since H2 2020; Musk and Zuckerberg led with $96.6B and $58.9B, respectively (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The world’s 500 richest people together gained $852B in H1 2023, the best half-year since H2 2020; Musk and Zuckerberg led with $96.6B and $58.9B, respectively — The world’s 500 richest people added $852 billion to their fortunes in the first half of 2023.

Motorola Razr series hits India, hints at standard Razr price in US

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Motorola has brought its latest Razr foldable phones to India. The standard model starts at ~$732 in the region. This could hint at an aggressive price for the vanilla variant in the US. Motorola launched the 2023 Razr series in the US last week, consisting of the standard Razr

The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge: The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform — An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep …

Windows 10 the Hard Way: on a Phone

Sure, there are — or were — Windows phones. But [neozed] wanted something different. An earlier project ran Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 4 with some tricks, but those are sometimes hard to come by lately, so the next project was to put one on a Xiaomi PocoPhone F1. The choice of phone wasn’t

Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th

Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge The Twitter competitor from Meta, Instagram Threads, is expected to launch on July 6th, according to the App Store listing for the app showing a version ready for Apple’s iPhone. Sleuths have also spotted what appears to be an early listing on the Google Play Store, which originally

Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use “publicly available information” to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use “publicly available information” to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard — An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.

Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is ready to take off on July 6

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority The Twitter-rival Threads app from Meta is now available for pre-order on iOS. The app is expected to go live on July 6. Downloads for Android should also start soon. Meta is all set to launch “Threads,” its answer to Twitter’s dwindling fame. The app is now available for

There’s Always Room For Another Cycle Accurate PC Emulator

While many Hackaday readers will have their own pieces of classic hardware lovingly preserved, it still remains that most of us get our fix of retro goodness through emulation. And while there are emulators aplenty for almost every platform imaginable, the world of emulation is never complete. Thus we’re happy to encounter a new player

Cameron Winklevoss makes a ~$1.47B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis’ bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert fails to agree (Bradley Keoun/CoinDesk)

Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: Cameron Winklevoss makes a ~$1.47B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis’ bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert fails to agree — Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis propose a package $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated …

Open-Source Your Blender to Fight Electronic Waste

Berlin-based Open Funk is tackling throwaway culture with a blender that’s as easy to fix as to replace.

Sources: the US plans to require AWS and other cloud providers to seek permission before providing services that use advanced AI chips to Chinese customers (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US plans to require AWS and other cloud providers to seek permission before providing services that use advanced AI chips to Chinese customers — Biden administration proposal, aimed at closing loophole in chip export controls, could escalate tit-for-tat fight with Beijing

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