Hello, readers, and welcome to your Friday morning digest of space news from this week. If you’re looking for unalloyed good news, you’ve come to the right place. This week we’ve got astronauts of exceptional bravery, a tractor beam in a box, and a new way to clean up space junk. We’ll also hear from
Read MoreMatt Richtel / New York Times: Some US emergency services operators say they are inundated with false calls placed by the Apple Watches or iPhone 14s of skiers and other fitness enthusiasts — 911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very
Read MoreApple’s share price has started to rebound after an earnings call that didn’t do much to brighten investors’ moods.
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Source, document, and emails: PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch have committed to spending $3M+ and $2.4M, respectively, on Twitter takeover ads during the Super Bowl — After weeks of turmoil and layoffs, Twitter’s sales team in recent weeks has reorganized to focus more on big advertisers …
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: Activision Blizzard to pay $35M to the SEC to settle claims it violated federal whistleblower protections and failed to maintain adequate disclosure standards — – Activision Blizzard will settle with the SEC for $35 million, over claims that the company violated federal whistleblower protections …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: FTC is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, though the timing remains in flux, and is scrutinizing Amazon Prime’s bundling practices — Federal Trade Commission considers challenge to array of practices by Amazon, a target of criticism from Chair Lina Khan
Read MorePhotos by Bill Atkinson, Graphic by William Joel / The Verge Apple’s legendary Lisa computer was a flop by commercial standards, but its influence on computing can’t be understated. In the 40 years after its debut, ideas from the Lisa changed our relationship with computers – influencing their design to be more human-centered. If you’re
Read MoreSamsung might not have invented Android, but the Apple vs Samsung debate is as old as time. Both brands stand at the top of their respective ecosystems — in Apple’s case because it’s the only ecosystem — which means they’ll be compared for as long as they exist. With the launch of the new Galaxy
Read MoreThe screens on today’s electronic doodads come in all shapes, sizes, and resolutions, but they have one important thing in common: the red, blue, and green sub-pixels are arranged side-by-side. Even with smaller pixels packed as tightly as possible, this flat arrangement is reaching its theoretical density limit. The next step may be the stackable
Read MoreDave Lee / Financial Times: Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft will collectively incur more than $10B in charges related to mass layoffs, real estate, and other cost savings — Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft reveal hefty price tag as they rein in spending — Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft …
Read MoreThe Sonos Beam soundbar is small enough to fit alongside most TVs. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s far too easy to overlook a key component of a great Super Bowl watch party experience: quality audio. Although we’ve already covered some of the best TV deals taking place ahead of the big
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Documents offer a look at the four men, including a former child actor, who control ~86% of Tether Holdings, incorporated in 2014, and their ties to Bitfinex — The stablecoin has become a lucrative business at center of crypto economy — Tether Holdings Ltd. operates a $68 billion stablecoin …
Read MoreThe Emm product lineup includes a case, a cup with biosensors, a portable UV sanitizer, and a tampon-like applicator. | Image: Emm In wearable tech, menstrual health often feels like an afterthought. Case in point: Fitbit, the first major wearable maker to add period tracking to its platform, did so in 2018 — over a
Read MoreCofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk’s platform no longer supplies.
Read MoreIf you want to know what the cloud of gas that surrounds the planet is really doing for us, you have to see what the world would be like without it.
Read MoreMounjaro did what decades of struggle with managing weight couldn’t. Welcome to the post-hunger age.
Read MoreEpisode 3 sparked the kind of lively discourse only the internet can deliver.
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: YouTube rolls out “Go Live Together”, which lets creators with 50 or more subscribers co-host livestreams with one guest at a time, on its iOS and Android apps — YouTube is rolling out a collaboration feature that allows two users to livestream together.
Read MoreWith rumors that a new model could be arriving in 2024, here are three improvements I’d love to see.
Read MoreChris Clor (Credit: Chris Clor/Getty Images)Backblaze makes money by storing data — a lot of data. While SSDs have displaced hard drives in many applications, there’s no better way to store large volumes of data than a good old-fashioned spinning drive. In 2022, the company managed 235,608 hard drives, giving it insight into long-term reliability.
Read MoreJennifer Rankin / The Guardian: A group of MEPs launches a website for European parliament staff and EU officials to warn about “shady lobbying” by Big Tech and other interest groups — Exclusive: Dutch MEP hopes site will give early warning of suspicious tactics such as use of front organisations
Read MoreAs unsecured docs pile up, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is itching to overhaul the nation’s secret secret-sharing operation.
Read MoreAmitoj Singh / CoinDesk: As the spat between Binance and WazirX escalates, Binance invites the Indian exchange to withdraw its assets held in Binance wallets after February 3 — The solution ostensibly ends worries about what would happen to customer funds if Binance and WazirX end their collaboration.
Read MoreDevops or devsecops (I’ll use devops for this post) is more than just a fast way to build and deploy software within the cloud and on traditional systems. It’s now a solid standard, with best practices, processes, and widely accepted tools. However, as multicloud becomes the new path to cloud computing, I’m asked how it
Read MoreThe Mastodon dashboards I’ve been developing and describing in this series are backed by a Steampipe plugin that translates SQL queries to Mastodon API calls. Like all Steampipe plugins you can use this one to run those queries in all sorts of ways: from psql or another Postgres CLI (perhaps via cron, perhaps in a
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