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Amazon launches RxPass, letting US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as needed, starting with drugs for 80 ailments (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amazon launches RxPass, letting US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as needed, starting with drugs for 80 ailments — More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and smaller) …

WhatsApp for Mac is getting a major upgrade, and you can already try it out

WhatsApp could soon be leaving Rosetta support as the Apple Silicon native version enters public Beta testing.

Sources: bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi plans to sell $160M of loans backed by ~68K bitcoin mining rigs; some have already defaulted or seem undercollateralized (David Pan/Bloomberg)

David Pan / Bloomberg: Sources: bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi plans to sell $160M of loans backed by ~68K bitcoin mining rigs; some have already defaulted or seem undercollateralized — Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi Inc. plans to sell about $160 million of loans backed by around 68,000 Bitcoin mining machines …

At a town hall, Sundar Pichai asked staff to stay motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: At a town hall, Sundar Pichai asked staff to stay motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts — – Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive leaders addressed employee questions at a town hall meeting on Monday after last week’s job cuts.

OnePlus 11 India price leaks: A better deal than OnePlus 10T?

Credit: OnePlus Indian pricing for the OnePlus 11 may have leaked online. The phone is tipped to start at ~$674. This makes it slightly more expensive than the OnePlus 10T’s launch price. The OnePlus 11 will launch in global markets early next month, coming roughly a month after the phone launched in China. Now, a

The FTC fines HomeAdvisor up to $7.2M for using deceptive tactics to sell home improvement project leads, marking the agency’s first fine related to gig work (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: The FTC fines HomeAdvisor up to $7.2M for using deceptive tactics to sell home improvement project leads, marking the agency’s first fine related to gig work — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered home services marketplace HomeAdvisor up to $7.2 million for its use of deceptive …

Arduino is out to (Rocket) Launch

It looks like an ordinary toolbox, but when you open up the Arduino Launch Control System, you’ll find a safe method for triggering model rocket launches. The system uses two separate power supplies. Both must be on for a successful launch and one requires a key. To trigger a 10-second countdown, the operator must hold

Google plans to sunset Optimize and Optimize 360, which let marketers conduct A/B testing to improve their website or app user experience, on September 30, 2023 (Nicole Farley/Search Engine Land)

Nicole Farley / Search Engine Land: Google plans to sunset Optimize and Optimize 360, which let marketers conduct A/B testing to improve their website or app user experience, on September 30, 2023 — Any experiments and personalizations still active will end. — Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30,

Paris-based PASQAL, which builds quantum computers using neutral atoms, raised a €100M Series B led by Temasek, bringing its total funding to €125M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Paris-based PASQAL, which builds quantum computers using neutral atoms, raised a €100M Series B led by Temasek, bringing its total funding to €125M — Once the stuff of Feynman’s dreams, Pascal executives predict that their solution will deliver major commercial advantages over classical computers by 2024.

Android 14 could block app sideloading to some extent

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Android 14 is set to implement stricter restrictions on apps targeting older versions of the OS. Users will no longer be able to download these apps through the Play Store or sideload them from elsewhere. Android 13 has reached over 5% of all devices in less than six months,

The FTC fines HomeAdvisor up to $7.2M for using deceptive tactics to sell home improvement project leads, marking the agency’s first fine related to gig work (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

The Tale Of The Final EVGA GPU Overclocking Record

It’s not news that EVGA is getting out of the GPU card game, after a ‘little falling out’ with Nvidia. It’s sad news nonetheless, as this enthusiastic band of hardware hackers has a solid following in certain overclocking and custom PC circles. The Games Nexus gang decided to fly over to meet up with the EVGA team

The FBI says North Korea-backed hacking groups Lazarus and APT38 are behind the June 2022 theft of ~$100M in ETH, USDT, and wBTC from Harmony’s Horizon bridge (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The FBI says North Korea-backed hacking groups Lazarus and APT38 are behind the June 2022 theft of ~$100M in ETH, USDT, and wBTC from Harmony’s Horizon bridge — Lazarus Group and APT38, both associated with North Korea, are responsible for the attack in June, the agency concluded.

Chinese gamers lose access to Blizzard’s games after its 14-year partnership with NetEase ended; servers hosting the games shut down in China on January 23 (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Chinese gamers lose access to Blizzard’s games after its 14-year partnership with NetEase ended; servers hosting the games shut down in China on January 23 — Millions of Chinese gamers have lost access to World of Warcraft after a furious dispute between US title owner Activision Blizzard Inc …

Chinese gamers lose access to Blizzard’s games after its 14-year partnership with NetEase ended; servers hosting the games shut down in China on January 23 (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

CodeSandbox adds Rust support

Developers now can build Rust applications in the CodeSandbox cloud development platform. Newly added Rust support in CodeSandbox allows developers to spin up a Rust development environment within two seconds, the company announced on January 18. A Rust starter template helps developers kickstart their projects. CodeSandbox is positioned as an environment for anyone to code,

DIY Custom Earplugs For Pennies Per Pair

Hearing is one of our most precious senses, and yet many take their hearing for granted, exposing themselves to loud noises that do lasting damage. [Jonathan Levi] of The Next Level does no such thing, at least not anymore. He’s even gone so far as to have custom acrylic earplugs made, which he carried around

Internal messages: TikTok told some of its US employees they could lose their jobs unless they show they already moved to an address near their assigned offices (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Internal messages: TikTok told some of its US employees they could lose their jobs unless they show they already moved to an address near their assigned offices — TikTok is cracking down on remote work, telling some U.S. workers they could lose their jobs unless they show they have already

Samsung Galaxy A13 5G review: functional, no-frills 5G

A low-cost phone with meaningful 5G connectivity Continue reading…

The Meta Quest’s improved hand tracking is now the default

Hand tracking could become a big battleground for virtual reality headsets. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In April 2022, Meta released Hand Tracking 2.0, its upgraded system that can detect things like high fives and clapping, but the company is now making 2.0 the default hand tracking technology for Quest apps,

Apple’s Reality Pro headset will switch between VR and AR, show a Mac display, and more

A new report from Bloomberg details what to expect from Apple’s virtual reality headset.

Filings: Apple’s US lobbying spend grew 44% YoY to $9.4M in 2022; Amazon’s grew ~2% to $19.7M, Meta’s fell 4.6% to $19.2M; Google spent $10.9M, Microsoft $9.8M (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Filings: Apple’s US lobbying spend grew 44% YoY to $9.4M in 2022; Amazon’s grew ~2% to $19.7M, Meta’s fell 4.6% to $19.2M; Google spent $10.9M, Microsoft $9.8M — – Apple grew its lobbying spend the most last year compared to its peers, according to public disclosures.

iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, watchOS 9.3, macOS 13.2, tvOS 16.3 now available. Here’s what’s new

Apple has released iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, macOS Ventura 13.2, watchOS 9.3, and tvOS 16.3. Here’s what’s new.

Surprise, surprise: the cell carriers didn’t get rid of passwords

Remember this logo? I bet you don’t. | Image: ZenKey Do you remember ZenKey, the app that AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint (gone, but not forgotten) pushed as the future of logging in to services without a password? If you do, you may be one of the only ones — as LightReading points out, it

Sources: the DOJ is poised to sue Google this week for dominating the $278.6B US digital ad market, the fifth major US case challenging its business practices (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the DOJ is poised to sue Google this week for dominating the $278.6B US digital ad market, the fifth major US case challenging its business practices — The US Justice Department is poised to sue Alphabet Inc.’s Google as soon as Tuesday regarding the search giant’s dominance …

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