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Spray-On Keyboard is as Light as It Gets

We’ve all seen those ‘nothing’ keyboards, where the keys themselves are not much more than projected lasers, and users are asked to ritually beat their poor fingertips into the table — which has little give and even less clack. Well, a team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have come up with

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Twitter begins offering an annual Blue plan for $84 on the web, saving around 12% for a monthly web subscription and 36% for an iOS subscription (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Twitter begins offering an annual Blue plan for $84 on the web, saving around 12% for a monthly web subscription and 36% for an iOS subscription  —  Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of his aims has been to build up its subscription business, launching a revamped Twitter

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Amazon begins laying off 18,000+ employees, impacting around 1% of its total workforce and 6% of its corporate staff, mostly in its retail and HR departments (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Amazon begins laying off 18,000+ employees, impacting around 1% of its total workforce and 6% of its corporate staff, mostly in its retail and HR departments  —  Amazon.com Inc. is set to begin a round of layoffs ultimately affecting more than 18,000 employees in the largest job cull in its history …

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Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak, showing 6.1, 6.6, and 6.8-inch screens, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the Ultra’s 200MP sensor, and more (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra specs allegedly leak, showing 6.1, 6.6, and 6.8-inch screens, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the Ultra’s 200MP sensor, and more  —  Spec sheets for all three devices in Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S23 series, appear to have leaked online.

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As Apple shifts from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: As Apple shifts from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more  —  The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America’s biggest geopolitical rival.  But is diversification even possible?

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A look at LockBit, a Russia-linked hacking group that claimed responsibility for compromising 40 organizations in the past month, including the UK’s Royal Mail (Mehul Srivastava/Financial Times)

Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: A look at LockBit, a Russia-linked hacking group that claimed responsibility for compromising 40 organizations in the past month, including the UK’s Royal Mail  —  LockBit claims it has compromised 40 organisations around the world in just the past month  —  As the UK’s Royal Mail grappled …

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Analysis: 196 members of the new Congress accepted donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX senior executives, including Kevin McCarthy and Chuck Schumer (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Analysis: 196 members of the new Congress accepted donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX senior executives, including Kevin McCarthy and Chuck Schumer  —  The session began with 196 U.S. lawmakers who took direct contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and other former FTX executives …

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Enterprise AI startup Mad Street Den, which provides image and video recognition to the retail sector, raised a $30M Series C led by Avatar Growth Capital (Malvika Maloo/VCCircle)

Malvika Maloo / VCCircle: Enterprise AI startup Mad Street Den, which provides image and video recognition to the retail sector, raised a $30M Series C led by Avatar Growth Capital  —  Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mad Street Den has raised $30 million in its Series C round, led by Avatar Growth Capital …

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Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand in India, after Apple said it needed their services to grow its presence in the country (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand in India, after Apple said it needed their services to grow its presence in the country  —  More than a dozen of Apple Inc.’s Chinese suppliers are receiving initial clearance by India to expand in the country …

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