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Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates turn to state legislation to bolster online privacy, including in Indiana, Illinois, and New York (Alfred Ng/Politico)

Alfred Ng / Politico: Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates turn to state legislation to bolster online privacy, including in Indiana, Illinois, and New York — Tech privacy advocates frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill are looking to mine state capitals for legislative victories.

Google claims a breakthrough in correcting quantum computer errors by spreading the data across qubits so the system can retain enough to complete a calculation (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Google claims a breakthrough in correcting quantum computer errors by spreading the data across qubits so the system can retain enough to complete a calculation — Company’s latest research could signal a step towards overcoming one hurdle to the technology

The US Supreme Court Doesn’t Understand the Internet

A case before the court is challenging social media platforms’ legal protections. The outcome could be huge for the future of the web.

IBM Wants You To Learn Tech

IBM — no stranger to anyone who works in the computing field — has launched a series of training modules on a site called skillsbuild.org. The site targets high school students, college students, and adult learners and offers tracks for jobs like cybersecurity analyst, IT support technician, Web developer, and data science. Several other companies

What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide

Everything you ever wanted to know about qubits, superpositioning, and spooky action at a distance.

All About USB-C: Replying Low-Level PD

Last time, we configured the FUSB302 to receive USB PD messages, and successfully received a “capability advertisement” message from a USB-C PSU. Now we crack the PD specification open, parse the message, and then craft a reply that makes the PSU give us the highest voltage available. How did the buffer contents look, again? >>>

NASA Confirms 1,000-Pound Meteorite Landed in Texas

(Credit: Neale LaSalle/Pexels)9-1-1 operators in southern Texas received an influx of calls on Wednesday as a mysterious object crashed into Earth, creating a shake and a boom loud enough to be interpreted as an explosion. According to NASA, the source of the commotion was a meteorite. Those who saw the meteoroid fly across the sky

A look at Amazon India’s miniTV, a free, ad-supported streaming service in its shopping app, aimed at those between 18 and 25 who can not afford a subscription (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: A look at Amazon India’s miniTV, a free, ad-supported streaming service in its shopping app, aimed at those between 18 and 25 who can not afford a subscription — If the e-commerce giant cracks the ad-free, shop-as-you-watch code in the country, nothing stops it from rolling miniTV out internationally.

Source: Meta plans more layoffs, possibly in the thousands, including by flattening the company’s hierarchy and via more traditional cuts to projects and jobs (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Source: Meta plans more layoffs, possibly in the thousands, including by flattening the company’s hierarchy and via more traditional cuts to projects and jobs — The Facebook parent company plans to push some leaders into lower-level roles, flattening layers of management at the social media giant

In Ukraine, Identifying the Dead Comes at a Human Rights Cost

The government is using Clearview AI to identify fallen Russian soldiers, but this deployment distracts from face recognition’s dangers.

Microsoft releases an updated Bing app on iOS and Android in preview, adds chatbot support to Edge on mobile and Skype, and says 64% of searches are on mobile (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: Microsoft releases an updated Bing app on iOS and Android in preview, adds chatbot support to Edge on mobile and Skype, and says 64% of searches are on mobile — Microsoft just expanded the new Bing to Android, iOS, Edge mobile, and Skype. — What you need to know

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (Feb. 22)

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use

Bing’s chat mode is now on mobile — and you can speak to it

Bing is now available as a contact in Skype. You can chat to it directly or add it to other conversations. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft evidently hasn’t been daunted by the often wild outbursts of its AI chatbot Bing and is launching the service on iOS and Android mobile apps today as well as integrating

The Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan is expanding to six new countries

Microsoft is allowing its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to share account access with up to four other people. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is expanding the availability of its Friends & Family plan for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to six additional countries following its initial pilot in Ireland and Columbia

A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Twitter v. Taamneh, brought by the family of a victim of an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017 (CNN)

CNN: A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Twitter v. Taamneh, brought by the family of a victim of an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017 — What we’re covering — Justice Gorsuch is still under the weather — Justice Neil Gorsuch remains ill and will be absent from the courtroom …

Jabra’s budget-friendly Elite 3 wireless earbuds are on sale for just $59.99

Jabra’s Elite 3 wireless earbuds are on sale for $59.99 ($20 off) today. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Cheap gadgets are often cheap because, well, they’re not the best in terms of quality. That’s not true of Jabra’s Elite 3, however, which are once again on sale for $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon

Android’s new Fast Pair setup process is awesome on the Galaxy S23

Setting up even the best Android phones is not convenient. The thought of transferring all my data and apps, an activity I partake in at least a couple of times a month, fills me with dread. It takes me a day or more to get my phone set up exactly how I want it. At

Microsoft Brings Its Game Catalog to Nvidia GeForce Now

Microsoft has long since given up on a quick closing for its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It announced the deal in January 2022, but more than a year later, regulators are putting the screws on Microsoft. In its latest concession, Microsoft has partnered with Nvidia to bring Microsoft-owned games to the GeForce Now cloud

Ahead of its Stream On event, Spotify launches an AI-powered feature called DJ, offering curated music and spoken commentary in a “stunningly realistic voice” (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Ahead of its Stream On event, Spotify launches an AI-powered feature called DJ, offering curated music and spoken commentary in a “stunningly realistic voice” — Ahead of Spotify’s upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates …

Tome, which uses AI to help build pitch decks, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a $300M valuation, up from $175M in 2021 and claims over 1M users (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Tome, which uses AI to help build pitch decks, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a $300M valuation, up from $175M in 2021 and claims over 1M users — Now valued at $300 million while still pre-revenue, per a source, Tome says it’s the fastest productivity software maker

ASRock Unveils Expansion Card for up to Four PCIe Gen 5 SSDs

The next wave of PCIe Gen 5 SSDs is still not here yet, but ASRock is ready for them. The company has pulled the wraps off a swanky PCIe expansion card that holds four of them and theoretically supports the maximum bandwidth of 16GB/s for each drive. That could allow up to 64GB/s data transfers,

Finch, which helps companies connect to HR apps, services, and systems, raised a $40M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and Menlo, taking its funding to $68M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Finch, which helps companies connect to HR apps, services, and systems, raised a $40M Series B co-led by General Catalyst and Menlo, taking its funding to $68M — Finch, a platform that helps companies connect to various HR apps, services and systems, today announced that it raised $40 million …

Snowflake’s Telecom Data Cloud bets on accelerating cloud efficiency

Snowflake on Wednesday said it was making another industry-specific product available in the form of managed Telecom Data Cloud, nearly a year after launching Retail Data Cloud and the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud offering. With Snowflake’s proprietary cloud data warehouse at its heart, the Telecom Data Cloud combines Snowflake’s data warehousing, analytics and compliance tools,

Replace the Leather in Your Wallet With Seafood Waste

A new leather alternative from the startup TômTex uses shrimp shells instead of petrochemicals. It looks, feels, and endures like the real thing.

I wouldn’t trade my $400 Steam Deck for this $1,300 Ayaneo 2

Ayaneo 2 review: this flashy competitor has the Steam Deck beat on specs, but you can’t play a spec sheet. Continue reading…

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