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Samsung executive Raju Pullan says the company has started making its Galaxy Fold, Flip, and S23 smartphones in India, seeking to surpass Xiaomi in the market (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Samsung executive Raju Pullan says the company has started making its Galaxy Fold, Flip, and S23 smartphones in India, seeking to surpass Xiaomi in the market — Samsung Electronics Co. has begun making its fold and flip smartphones as well as its latest Galaxy S23 flagship in India …

A look at the Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession: a hangover from pandemic-era growth, hardware lifecycles, the end of zero interest rates, and Apple’s ATT (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: A look at the Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession: a hangover from pandemic-era growth, hardware lifecycles, the end of zero interest rates, and Apple’s ATT — It really was jarring to see those employment figures the same week that tech company after tech company reported mostly disappointing earnings …

Which M2 Mac is right for you?

The M2 chip comes in five Apple Devices | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple makes a lot of Macs with M2 chips. There’s the regular M2, which you can get in a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro — but be careful of calling that the M2 Pro for short because there’s

Ask Hackaday: The Ten Dollar Digital Mixing Desk?

There comes a point in every engineer’s life at which they need a mixing desk, and for me that point is now. But the marketplace for a cheap small mixer just ain’t what it used to be. Where once there were bedroom musicians with a four-track cassette recorder if they were lucky, now everything’s on

By seeking a jury trial over breaking up Google’s ad business, the DOJ is taking a risky, very unusual step for an antitrust case, which may hinder its chances (Rana Foroohar/Financial Times)

Rana Foroohar / Financial Times: By seeking a jury trial over breaking up Google’s ad business, the DOJ is taking a risky, very unusual step for an antitrust case, which may hinder its chances — The US Department of Justice is insisting that its new Google suit be tried by a jury — Complexity is

Meta’s Gruesome Content Broke Him. Now He Wants It to Pay

A Kenyan moderator sued the company for work-related PTSD. A new ruling on his case could signal a global reckoning for Big Tech outsourcing.

A Looming El Niño Could Dry the Amazon

When a warm band of water develops in the Pacific, drought grips the rainforest. The Amazon, devastated by deforestation and fires, is especially vulnerable.

Man saved by smartwatch after his bike plummets of a cliff

A man in Utah fell off a cliff while driving his motorcycle, but is expected to survive after his smartwatch alerted the authorities.

Monday’s top tech news: an ultra year for tech?

Last year’s iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is reportedly thinking about introducing a higher tier iPhone this year Continue reading…

Disney cuts an October 2022 episode of The Simpsons that referred to “forced labor camps” in China from Disney+ in Hong Kong, after a similar removal in 2021 (Chan Ho-him/Financial Times)

Chan Ho-him / Financial Times: Disney cuts an October 2022 episode of The Simpsons that referred to “forced labor camps” in China from Disney+ in Hong Kong, after a similar removal in 2021 — Missing programme on streaming platform mentions ‘camps where children make smartphones’

Raphael Saadiq Found the Perfect Sound for Marvel’s New Show

The legendary R&B musician rooted the music of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur in classic New York—just like the show itself.

This Tool Makes Twitter More Bearable to Read

Between the ads, the “For You” tab, and all the promoted tweets, Twitter is getting harder to read. Nitter, an open source alternative, can help.

Sony Has Sold Over 32.1 Million PS5s

(Image: Charles Sims/Unsplash)Sony published its FY2022 financial results on Thursday, meaning its total unit sales are officially in. Since the PlayStation 5’s debut in November 2020, Sony has sold more than 32.1 million consoles. The Japanese tech conglomerate sold 7.1 million PS5 consoles during Q4 2022, marking a 3.1 million-unit improvement from Q4 2021 despite

The Original Joel on ‘The Last of Us’ Was Skeptical of the Show

Then he read the script and was blown away.

At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up

The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them.

A profile of Sam Bankman-Fried’s psychiatrist Dr. George Lerner, hired as a coach at FTX in early 2022, as prosecutors seek his communications with executives (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Sam Bankman-Fried’s psychiatrist Dr. George Lerner, hired as a coach at FTX in early 2022, as prosecutors seek his communications with executives — Hired as a coach at the Bahamas-based company, George Lerner was there for its dramatic downfall

Surfing the Web Like it’s 1978 — Carbonyl

[Fathy] gets a kick out of doing odd things with Chromium, and Carbonyl is a clever byproduct of that hobby. In this case, it’s what you get when you connect chrome’s renderer to an SVG output module and then convert that SVG to colored characters on a terminal. See, html2svg is an earlier project, taking

Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable World Just 31 Light-Years Away

With more than 5,000 exoplanets now confirmed, you’d think there would be another Earth in there. Alas, it’s extremely challenging to detect Earth-sized worlds, but the CARMENES program aims to do just that. The team has had some success, too, according to a new study describing an exoplanet just 31 light-years away. It would be

Playing GoldenEye through Xbox Cloud on iPad is great – but playing alone sucks

Online multiplayer was the highlight of GoldenEye, so why is it available on Nintendo Switch but not Xbox?

Analysis: despite Elon Musk’s pledge in late November, CSAM still spreads on Twitter, sometimes recommended by its algorithm; one video drew over 120,000 views (New York Times)

New York Times: Analysis: despite Elon Musk’s pledge in late November, CSAM still spreads on Twitter, sometimes recommended by its algorithm; one video drew over 120,000 views — Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views.

a16z used all 15M of its UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting concludes on February 10 (Adam Morgan McCarthy/The Block)

Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: a16z used all 15M of its UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting concludes on February 10 — – A16z used all 15 million of their UNI to vote against the proposal. The proposal would use

Scientists Discover Form of Ice Unexpectedly Similar to Liquid Water

(Credit: Christoph Salzmann/University College London) (Credit: Christoph Salzmann/University College London)Water is the basis of life as we know it, so you’d think we would have a pretty good handle on how it works. However, researchers from Cambridge and University College London have discovered a previously unknown type of water ice, dubbed medium-density amorphous ice (MDA).

Poco X5 Pro review: Upping the budget ante

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The Poco X5 Pro is the latest budget Android phone in the Xiaomi sub-brand’s X series. 2021’s Poco X3 Pro delivered a ton of horsepower and little else, while 2022’s Poco X4 Pro offered plenty of upgrades but a major performance downgrade. So do you get the best of

The tech leader’s guide to 2023

Recently, I had the opportunity to ask over a dozen leading technologists for their hopes, predictions, and guidance for the year 2023. This article distills the far-ranging conversation and wealth of insight that came back to me. The year ahead looks to be lean in financial investment, but long on innovation. Doing more with less Not

JD.com, China Mobile, and other Chinese retailers are discounting iPhone 14 models by over $100, an unusually steep price cut that suggests dwindling demand (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: JD.com, China Mobile, and other Chinese retailers are discounting iPhone 14 models by over $100, an unusually steep price cut that suggests dwindling demand — Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones are selling at discounts of more than $100 in China, an unusually steep price cut just months after launch …

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