Ted Lasso cast and Joe Biden team up to promote the importance of mental health
The cast of Ted Lasso is off to the White House to meet Joe and Jill Biden to talk mental health.
Read MoreThe cast of Ted Lasso is off to the White House to meet Joe and Jill Biden to talk mental health.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s the start of a new week, and a fresh new Daily Authority, rounding up the day’s tech headlines. Paula here, covering for Andy, and I’ll be with you tomorrow too, before I finish my replay of Heavy Rain. It looks good on the PS5 and holds up pretty well for a 13-year-old
Read MoreUniversities boost revenue by partnering with unregulated, for-profit providers. But when a boot camp went bust, some students took the fall.
Read MoreMatt Burgess / Wired: How open source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping debunk claims — Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Read MoreA number of Apple’s future products have been put on the back burner, including a screen-equipped HomePod, according to a new report.
Read MoreThere’s something rewarding about building your own DIY audio hardware. Knowing you put it together yourself gives you faith in the construction, and psychosomatically makes the music sound all that much sweeter. If you’re into that kind of thing, you might like to give [Eric Sorensen’s] Denmark amplifier module a look. The amplifier is intended
Read MoreRaffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Research: ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY, surpassing TikTok in recent weeks — CapCut, the video-editing tool from ByteDance, helps users go viral on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company
Read MoreDocker had a bad week. What’s less clear is whether Docker deserved it. For those who haven’t heard, last week Docker announced that it was sunsetting Free Team subscriptions. Some in the open source world read this as “pay up or lose your data.” In light of the uproar, Docker was quick to apologize: “We did a
Read MoreFor software engineers, a vote for quality isn’t always on the institutional ballot. Sometimes (too often) the sole metric for success is speed. The directive goes: Get your code out the door ASAP and leave the pesky testing to quality assurance. In fact, in many organizations, QA exists as a separate office from development, with
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Around one million accounts are now signed up to Netflix’s ad-supported tier in the US, according to internal figures seen by Bloomberg. The tier was first launched in early November, and is thought to have gotten off to a slow start. Come January, however, 19 percent of new
Read MoreBloomberg: China’s anti-graft watchdog begins to investigate ex-Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo, the latest executive to be ensnared in its chip corruption dragnet — China’s top anti-graft watchdog has begun an investigation of former Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo …
Read MoreQualcomm announced the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 last week, and it’s clear that this is a major step up on paper for the mid-tier Snapdragon 7 series. The new chipset brings an impressive CPU system reminiscent of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 series, consisting of a single Cortex-X2 core at 2.91GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores
Read MoreWith how we take stereo sound for granted, there was a very long period where broadcast audio and television with accompanying audio track were in mono. Over the decades, multiple standards were developed that provide a way to transmit and receive two mono tracks, as a proper stereo transmission. In a recent video, [Matt] over
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority A security flaw in Pixel’s Markup utility allows hackers to un-redact and uncrop edited screenshots. Google has fixed the issue with the March 2023 security update, but Pixel screenshots shared before that remain vulnerable. A serious vulnerability found in the Markup tool on Pixel phones can let hackers un-redact
Read MoreWe’re used to running Linux on CPUs where it belongs, and the consensus is that RP2040 just isn’t up for the task – no memory controller, and nowhere near enough RAM, to boot. At least, that’s what you might believe until you see [tvlad1234]’s Linux-on-RP2040 project, reminding us there’s more than one way to boot
Read MoreWashington Post: India cuts mobile internet for a second day in Punjab, a state with ~27M people, as officials try to catch a Sikh separatist and curb “fake news” and unrest — The ban in Punjab state, as officials looked for Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh, is one of the country’s broadest shutdowns in recent years
Read MoreOpen source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Read MoreA set of Soyuz spacecraft coolant leaks hints that Roscosmos is struggling as the space agency loses international partnerships and funding.
Read MoreCarol E. Lee / NBC News: Source: in his upcoming testimony to Congress on March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to say TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020 — When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal
Read MorePete Schroeder / Reuters: The FDIC announces a deal to sell Signature Bank’s deposits, excluding those in its digital banking business, some loans, and its 40 branches to Flagstar Bank — A subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (NYCB.N) has entered into an agreement with U.S. regulators to purchase deposits …
Read MoreThere are an endless number of debates online about the best gaming platform. However, in terms of popularity, mobile gaming sits atop the throne, at least for the time being. The biggest reason is accessibility. People already buy smartphones, and gaming is something you can do on just about any smartphone. In fact, there’s a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you haven’t switched away from Twitter’s SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) method yet, today’s the last day to do it. Starting on March 20th, Twitter will place its text message-based 2FA behind its $8 per month Blue paywall. As part of this change, Twitter will also turn off
Read More[Arca] sets out to build himself a low-cost pen plotter that doesn’t require access to a 3D printer. The plotter uses a coreXY arrangement, powered by 28BYJ-48 stepper motors, which he overdrives with +12 VDC to increase the torque. Pen up and down control is done using a stepper motor salvaged from a DVD reader. The
Read MoreLucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Netflix’s ad-supported tier reached ~1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company fulfilled its forecasted deliveries to advertisers — Good afternoon from Los Angeles. It’s good to be home and I hope your March Madness bracket is doing better than mine.
Read MoreWe get results! Well, sort of. You may recall that in this space last week we discussed Ford’s plans to exclude AM reception on the infotainment systems of certain of their cars starting in 2024. We decried the decision, not for the loss of the sweet, sweet content that AM stations tend to carry —
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