Adam Conway / XDA Developers: Source: Motorola’s rumored Razr 40 Ultra foldable to have a 2640×1080 HDR AMOLED 120Hz main and 1056×1066 cover display, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, and up to 12GB RAM — Motorola is leaning into high-end foldables with its most powerful yet. — Source: Evan Blass
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Motorola finally debuts a flagship smartphone in the US with the $799 Edge Plus, featuring a 6.7″ OLED and 165Hz refresh rate, available via Amazon and Best Buy — We asked, and we received: Motorola is bringing its newest slab-style flagship to the US as the Motorola Edge Plus (2023).
Read MoreThe first Matter-over-Thread smart lighting line, Nanoleaf’s new lights promise a lot and mostly deliver. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is launching a new Xbox Game Pass friend referral program that lets you invite friends to try out PC Game Pass. The friend referral offer is available for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members to invite up to five friends for free 14-day trials of PC Game Pass. The
Read MoreJen Wieczner / New York Magazine: Crypto advocates say recent written and unwritten polices by financial regulators are making it unfeasible or impossible for crypto firms to operate in the US — The industry sure thinks so — even as the White House denies it. — The crypto company was essentially reverse-engineered for Washington, D.C.’s
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Google and Apple have partnered to create a draft specification related to notifications of unwanted tracking through Bluetooth trackers. The companies want a universal notification system on both iOS and Android that alerts users if they’re being tracked. Both organizations are also looking to other industry thought leaders and
Read MoreFormer BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith on what’s next — and his new book, Traffic. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Adrien Fillon / NurPhoto via Getty Images Pornhub has blocked all users in Utah in protest of the state’s online age verification law that’s set to go into effect on Wednesday, as reported earlier by Vice. Users trying to access Porhub from Utah won’t be able to access any content and will instead
Read MoreWe obviously live in a fast-paced business environment, and your marketing techniques should reflect this. A particular marketing or PR campaign may have been successful for you a year or two ago, but that doesn’t mean it will still benefit you today. The majority of marketing directors and business owners have already concluded that one
Read MoreCredit: Gary Sims / Android Authority Rapid Security Response updates are slowly rolling out to Apple devices. These updates are similar to Android’s security patches that deliver fixes to exploits and vulnerabilities. Owners of iPhones, Macs, and iPads no longer have to wait for bigger software updates to get these fixes. Last year, Apple announced
Read MoreIt seems like only yesterday that the “Great American Eclipse” swept from coast to coast, and for those who were lucky enough to watch it from along the path of totality, it was a true life experience. No natural phenomenon can compete with the beauty of a total solar eclipse, and if there’s one thing
Read MoreAaron Holmes / The Information: Sources: Microsoft plans to sell a ChatGPT version on a dedicated server in Q2, separating data from that of other customers and costing up to 10x more — Not everyone trusts OpenAI’s ChatGPT. — While the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has proved popular with some businesses looking …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has experienced another data breach, reporting that personal information belonging to hundreds of account holders was exposed in an attack between late February and March 2023. The company disclosed in notification letters issued to impacted customers on April 28th that a hacker managed to access information such
Read MoreSony There have been a number of video games that made for fantastic cinematic adaptations, but everything about the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Gran Turismo film from director Neill Blomkamp makes the movie seem like a showcase of reasons why racing sims don’t need to be turned into movies. Caught somewhere between being a
Read MoreApple and Google have today announced a partnership to stop unwanted tracking using devices like AirTags.
Read MoreFrank Chaparro / The Block: Coinbase launches International Exchange, planning to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda, as the company tussles with US regulators — – Coinbase plans to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda through a new platform.
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Apple and Google submit an industry specification proposal to address unwanted location tracking by Bluetooth devices and ask for input from other companies — – Apple and Google said that they are working together to prevent lost item trackers like Apple’s AirTag from being used to track people without their permission.
Read MoreI will be tackling all six of those Tody to-do’s later. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge By the end of 2021, my apartment looked like a tornado had run through it. The messiness made me anxious, but keeping a tidy home hadn’t been my priority that year. My mom was fine in
Read MoreThe logo for Bluesky’s AT Protocol. | Bluesky Last week, we talked about how BeReal missed its moment. This week, let’s discuss how Bluesky might avoid the same fate. Bluesky, of course, is the decentralized social network that surged in popularity over the weekend as the app opened up invitations to more beta testers and
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge, Shutterstock Apple and Google have teamed up on a proposed industry specification aimed at combatting the safety risks associated with AirTags and other Bluetooth-enabled tracking devices. The companies announced Tuesday that the new standard requires the implementation of “unauthorized tracking detection and alerts” across Android and iOS devices.
Read MoreKurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Seattle-based compsci education nonprofit Code.org announces TeachAI, helping guide teaching on AI by convening leaders from Amazon, OpenAI, Microsoft, and more — Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI, a new effort aimed at guiding governments …
Read MoreWriting things down is one of the first and easiest steps you can take toward leading an organized life. You can always pick up a pen and paper and get to work, but that’s the old-fashioned way of doing things. As a better alternative, you can write things down digitally on an app or service,
Read MorePhoto by Patrick George for The Verge The Ioniq 6 looks more interesting than it drives. That’s not a bad thing. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed.
Read MoreAmelia Wattenberger: Why chatbots are not the future of interfaces for LLMs: the best prompts are not obvious, people will get sick of typing, responses are isolated, and more — Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I’ve talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable.
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