Good morning! Our country’s tourism department apparently wants to sponsor English football team Tottenham Hotspur to the tune of almost ~$58 million. Needless to say, people are extremely angry. Anyway, we’ve got plenty of news to cover today, so let’s get on with it. The Galaxy S23 series is finally official
Read MoreDan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: EA pulls the plug on Apex Legends Mobile and the planned mobile version of its Battlefield franchise, as mobile remains a hard market to crack for the company — ‘Apex Legends Mobile’ misfire drives videogame publisher to pull plug amid tough period — When one of the biggest videogame
Read MoreAmazon’s hexagonal MK27-2 delivery drone. | Image: Amazon It’s been nearly a decade since Amazon’s Jeff Bezos promised us delivery drones, but they aren’t off to a particularly impressive start. Roughly a month after Amazon Prime Air made its first deliveries in California and Texas, it’d served fewer than 10 households — and it’s already
Read MoreCredit: Apple Samsung’s mobile chief TM Roh has explained why the Galaxy S23 series is missing satellite connectivity. The executive said that the functionality of the tech is fairly limited and that the right infrastructure is not in place. Samsung has finally launched the Galaxy S23 series, and it’s missing one key upgrade everyone was
Read MoreThe ChipWhisperer has been a breakthrough in hobbyist use of power analysis and glitching attacks on embedded hardware. If you own one, you surely have seen the IDC and SMA sockets on it – usable for connecting custom breakouts housing a chip you’re currently probing. Today, [MAVProxyUser] brings us a ChipWhisperer adapter for STM32F446ZEJx, which
Read MoreAli Breland / Mother Jones: Kiwi Farms, a forum for online harassment campaigns, has managed to stay online after being dropped by Cloudflare, as posters congregate on Telegram and Discord — If you or someone you care about may be at risk of suicide, call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline …
Read MorePandora is still one of the most popular music streaming services out there, but where it excels is in music discovery. It recommends music based on your favorite songs, artists, and genres. You can even create stations based on specific songs. But what happens when these stations get old, or you get tired of them?
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei has taken to Twitter to poke fun at the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra on Twitter. He’s also running a poll on the platform asking followers if they think the Galaxy S23 series is boring. While the Samsung Galaxy S23 series features several upgrades, it
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Coinbase of selling unregistered securities and failing to register as a broker-dealer — A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit by Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) customers who accused the cryptocurrency exchange …
Read MoreData observability software provider Splunk is laying off 4% of its workforce as part of broader measures to optimize costs and process ahead of uncertain macroeconomic conditions, a company filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed. The decision to downsize will affect 325 employees at the company, mostly in the North
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S23 series is here to add some excitement to the Android flagship space. Samsung puts its best foot forward with the S series, and with the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra, you get all the practicality and performance you need from a modern-day smartphone. But there is one
Read MoreTechCrunch: Twitter will end free access to the Twitter API starting February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and make a paid version available — Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Tiger Global reduced its latest fund’s target size from $6B in October 2022 to $5B; Tiger expected to raise roughly $12.7B, its prior fund size in 2021 — Prolific startup investor is aiming to raise $5 billion, less than half its initial ambition
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: Meta says Facebook had 2B daily active users at the end of Q4, after adding 16M DAUs; WhatsApp crossed 2B daily active users in October 2022 — Almost 20 years in, Facebook is still growing. The social network now has 2 billion daily active users, Meta reported alongside its fourth-quarter earnings.
Read MoreWe’re all familiar with getting feedback from a rotating shaft, for which we usually employ a potentiometer or encoder. But there’s another device that, while less well-known, has some advantages that just might make it worth figuring out how to include it in hobbyist projects: the synchro. If you’ve never heard of a synchro, don’t
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Craft, whose data platform helps supply chain, procurement, and risk managers monitor their networks of suppliers, raised a $32M Series B led by BAM Elevate — Enterprise supply chain intelligence startup Craft Co. said today it has closed on a $32 million Series B equity financing round led by BAM Elevate
Read MoreImage: Nissan The Nissan Max-Out is virtual no longer. The automaker rolled out a physical version of its electric convertible concept to celebrate its Nissan Futures event, which is being held at its global headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, for the next several weeks. We’ve seen renderings of the Max-Out, alongside several other futuristic concepts, when
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Pinterest is reportedly laying off around 150 people after it already cut jobs in December, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s report says that’s less than five percent of Pinterest’s workforce, and that they affect several different teams. The company says its “making organizational changes to further set us up
Read MoreSahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Netflix told advertisers that sign-ups for its ad tier doubled in January 2023 over December 2022; Netflix predicted 1.75M ad tier subscribers in Q1 — Netflix is making progress in its plunge into advertising—slowly. — The streaming firm told advertisers in the past 10 days …
Read MoreNicole Herskowitz / Microsoft 365 Blog: Microsoft announces the general availability of Teams Premium for $10 a month per user, with AI-generated notes powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in the coming months — As we face economic uncertainties and changes to work patterns, organizations are searching for ways to optimize IT investments …
Read MoreImage: Samsung Plus we say goodbye to a VR classic, and AMD issues a prediction on when PC sales might pick up. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Here’s the latest from this year’s first Samsung event. Continue reading…
Read MoreOne of the lesser known features of C# is the ability to create implicit and explicit user-defined type conversions, meaning we have support for both implicit and explicit conversions of one type to another type. We also have explicit and implicit operators, meaning some operators require an explicit cast and some operators don’t. This article
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Meta increases its share repurchase authorization by $40B and says it bought back $27.93B in stock in 2022 — – Meta Platforms increased its share purchase authorization by $40 billion. — The social networking company has sought to rein in costs as revenue growth has slowed in recent quarters.
Read MoreFor many PC upgraders, here’s how the last cycle of hardware announcements has gone. When AMD launched Zen 4, the refrain was, “wait for Raptor Lake.” After Intel launched Raptor Lake a few weeks later, it was “wait for Zen 4 V-Cache.” A few months after that, AMD did a paper launch for Zen 4
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