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One month after Elon Musk said Twitter started sharing ad revenue from reply threads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, Twitter has yet to provide any details (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: One month after Elon Musk said Twitter started sharing ad revenue from reply threads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, Twitter has yet to provide any details — “Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads,” he said …

Amazon’s HQ2 Aimed to Show Tech Can Boost Cities. Now It’s on Pause

Arlington, Virginia, won a US-wide contest to host Amazon’s second headquarters. More than half of the giant project is now indefinitely delayed.

Sources: Character.AI, which uses LLMs to let users chat with famous people like Shakespeare, raised between $200M and $250M led by a16z at a ~$1B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Character.AI, which uses LLMs to let users chat with famous people like Shakespeare, raised between $200M and $250M led by a16z at a ~$1B valuation — Pioneering tech venture capital firm makes first big foray into generative artificial intelligence sector

The Curved Nature of Time Clock

While we’re told that space-time curves, we aren’t sure that was what [andrei.erdei] was going for when he built a great-looking curved LED clock. The LEDs are courtesy of a strip of 84 WS2812 smart LEDs, the curve comes from a 3D printed part, and a Wemos D1 mini provides the brains. Like all of

Daniel Valuch Chats About CERN’s High Caliber Hacking

For those of us who like to crawl over complex systems, spending hours or even days getting hardware and software to work in concert, working at places like NASA or CERN seems like a dream job. Imagine having the opportunity to turn a wrench on the Space Shuttle or the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) —

Meta Announces Price Cuts for VR Headsets, Including $500 Off Quest Pro

The Metaverse was on everyone’s lips in 2022, even though no one can really explain what the heck it is. With the internet zeitgeist now locked on AI chatbots in 2023, Meta appears to be reevaluating the high prices of its VR headsets. The company has announced a significant price cut for the Quest Pro

TikTok told Ofcom the company blocked ~180K underage UK accounts a month from April 2021 to April 2022; Snap removed ~60 and stopped thousands of new accounts (Martin Coulter/Reuters)

Martin Coulter / Reuters: TikTok told Ofcom the company blocked ~180K underage UK accounts a month from April 2021 to April 2022; Snap removed ~60 and stopped thousands of new accounts — Snapchat (SNAP.N) is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok

Jonathan Majors Is Enjoying His Villain Era

On the precipice of his biggest year yet—with starring roles in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III—Majors is finally at peace.

Amazon plans to close eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City, and San Francisco, as it reevaluates its brick-and-mortar strategy and cuts costs (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to close eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City, and San Francisco, as it reevaluates its brick-and-mortar strategy and cuts costs — – Amazon is closing eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City and San Francisco. — The company had previously announced …

Internal docs detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the global banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Internal docs detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the global banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies — Tether Holdings and related crypto broker obscured identities, documents show — In late 2018, the companies behind …

London-based Electrify Video Partners, which invests in and acquires YouTube channels, raised $50M led by MEP Capital (James Hale/Tubefilter)

James Hale / Tubefilter: London-based Electrify Video Partners, which invests in and acquires YouTube channels, raised $50M led by MEP Capital — Electrify Video Partners has raised $50 million to invest in and acquire YouTube channels. — London-based Electrify was co-founded in May 2021 by Ian Shepherd …

Sources: Inflection AI, founded by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, is in talks to raise up to $675M, after raising $225M in May 2022 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: Inflection AI, founded by LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, is in talks to raise up to $675M, after raising $225M in May 2022 — DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn Creator Reid Hoffman’s start-up is building a personal assistant for the web

WhatsApp improves Android tablet experience with new split-view feature

The WhatsApp Android beta app is adding a split-view feature. The feature improves large-screen optimization on Android tablets. Users can now simultaneously view and use two different sections of the app. It looks like one of the most popular messaging apps in the world just added a new tablet-friendly feature. The beta version of WhatsApp

Supercon 2022: Michael Whiteley Saves the Badge

Michael Whiteley (aka [compukidmike]) is a badgelife celebrity. Together, he and his wife Katie make up MK Factor. They have created some of the most popular electronic conference badges. Of course, even experts make mistakes and run into challenges when they dare to push the envelope of technology and delivery schedules. In his Supercon 2022

Mint deal: Just $289 for the Pixel 7 & 12-month service

Credit: Mint Mobile Incredibly, one of the best deals we spotted last month just got even better. If you bring your number to Mint Mobile, you can get a Google Pixel 7 for just $199 ($400 off) plus 12 months of service for the price of six. To break that down, that means you’ll pay

YouTubers Make 43-Inch Gaming Laptop Using Intel NUC, Plywood

Laptop manufacturers have focused on making systems thinner over the years. A pair of DIY YouTubers became unhappy with that trend and decided to go in the opposite direction. Just for fun and to see what it would look like, they built a monstrous 43-inch gaming laptop from scratch. The finished product looks like you’d

Hackaday Podcast 208: Hallucinating Robots, Floppy Cartridges, and a Flexure Synth French Horn

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and [former Assignments Editor] Kristina Panos stood around talking about the greatest hacks of the previous week. But first, we’ve got a contest running now through March 21st — the Low Power Challenge! Kristina almost got What’s That Sound this week, but could only describe it as some sort of

A new iPhone 14 color could be on the way

Looks like Apple is getting ready for press briefings, as rumors abound of a new color.

This Week in Space: Stargates, Stardates, and the Leidenfrost Effect

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg by the crew access arm on the fixed service structure of Launch Complex 39A as fellow crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi exit the elevator the floor below before boarding SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket before

Samsung Galaxy S23 review: A giant among smaller phones

If you’ve seen the Austin Powers sequels, you’re undoubtedly familiar with a little (pun intended) character named Mini Me. He’s a perfect clone of the main antagonist Dr. Evil but shrunk down in size without losing any strength or cunning — you can probably guess where this is going. Yes, the Galaxy S23 is Samsung’s

Two of Apple’s best laptops for creators and power users are up to $500 off

Get your laptop with actual ports, and get a great deal. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Ever since the release of the M2 generation of the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, we’ve been waiting for some huge discounts on the previous-gen M1 models from 2021. That day is here now and

Sonos is hosting another refurbished soundbar and speaker sale

You can save $170 on the mic-less version of the Sonos Arc when you buy it refurbished today. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos makes some of the best speakers and soundbars you can buy, but they come at a high price and are typically only on sale during major shopping holidays. Thankfully,

Sennheiser’s Ambeo Soundbar Plus is a sonic marvel with compromises

It’s a luxury purchase through and through, but Sennheiser’s new soundbar carries forward many of the original Ambeo’s strengths. Unfortunately, it also suffers from short-sighted missteps. Continue reading…

From Composable Experiences to Composable Enterprises

In a world where tech and accessibility are all-pervasive, enterprises recognize “customer experience” as the real brand differentiator. In particular, the digital face of the brand. Whether it be an employee onboarding app, new account creation for banking, a consumer online banking app, or an e-commerce platform, today’s users demand meaningful, relevant, frictionless, contextual, and personalized

Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users, from $1,500 to $1,000; 256GB Quest 2 drops from $500 to $430 (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users, from $1,500 to $1,000; 256GB Quest 2 drops from $500 to $430 — Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the Meta Quest Pro, the company’s mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users

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