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Jack Dorsey has posted 59 times per day on average on Nostr since January 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Kate Conger / New York Times: Jack Dorsey has posted 59 times per day on average on Nostr since January 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk  —  The Twitter co-founder has posted prolifically on two new social networks, Nostr and Bluesky, which he also backed financially.

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7 Gmail tips and tricks you should know

Practically all of us use Gmail regularly or have used it at one point in our lives. The email service from Google is preloaded on most good Android phones sold outside of China, and a Google account is also recommended to enjoy your Android experience. If you’ve already made a Gmail account for yourself, why

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Fortnite arrives on Amazon Luna today

Image: Epic Games Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular games, has also become a de facto test of the public’s interest in streaming games like they stream YouTube or Netflix. It’s been completely free to stream from Nvidia’s GeForce Now or Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming to almost any device you own, no download and

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Barcodes Enter the Matrix in 2027

Beep. We’ve come a long way since June 26, 1974 when the first bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. That legendary pack of Juicy Fruit proved that even the smallest of items could now carry numbers associated with inventory and price. By now, we’re all too familiar with this sound

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Apple’s deep ties to China should worry investors given Beijing controls the factories, workforces, and market access, all of which could be quickly taken away (Jay Newman/Financial Times)

Jay Newman / Financial Times: Apple’s deep ties to China should worry investors given Beijing controls the factories, workforces, and market access, all of which could be quickly taken away  —  What happens when the SEC, auditors and investors wake up?  —  Jay Newman was a senior portfolio manager at Elliott Management.

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TikTok opens up its revamped Creativity Program creator fund to all US-based creators with over 10K followers and over 100K views in the past 30 days (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok opens up its revamped Creativity Program creator fund to all US-based creators with over 10K followers and over 100K views in the past 30 days  —  TikTok announced today that it’s opening up its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” to all eligible creators in the United States.

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Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, Germany, working with NXP, Bosch, Infineon, and the German government (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, Germany, working with NXP, Bosch, Infineon, and the German government  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in talks with partners to spend as much as €10 billion ($11 billion) …

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AMD announces the Ryzen Mobile 7040U series, offering up to 8-cores with RDNA 3 graphics and claiming better performance than Apple’s M2; price and release TBC (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: AMD announces the Ryzen Mobile 7040U series, offering up to 8-cores with RDNA 3 graphics and claiming better performance than Apple’s M2; price and release TBC  —  Back at CES 2023, AMD announced the first wave of Ryzen Mobile parts based on its Zen 4 architecture, the Ryzen Mobile 7040HS series.

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The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects the CMA’s appeal to a ruling that the regulator cannot investigate Apple’s mobile browser and gaming services (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects the CMA’s appeal to a ruling that the regulator cannot investigate Apple’s mobile browser and gaming services  —  Britain’s antitrust regulator was on Wednesday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it had no power to open an investigation …

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