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Chinese social media becomes consumed by a debate on “zero Covid” ending, challenging government censors’ efforts to control the narrative without overstepping (New York Times)

New York Times: Chinese social media becomes consumed by a debate on “zero Covid” ending, challenging government censors’ efforts to control the narrative without overstepping — The Communist Party’s efforts to limit discord over its sudden “zero Covid” pivot are being challenged with increasing rancor, including from its own supporters.

Organic Fibonacci Clock Is All About The Spiral

Whether you’re a fan of compelling Tool songs, or merely appreciate mathematical beauty, you might be into the spirals defined by the Fibonacci sequence. [RuddK5] used the Fibonacci curve as the inspiration for this fun clock build. The intention of the clock is not to display the exact time, but to give a more organic

$99 AirPods could ship as early as next year alongside next-gen AirPods Max

Apple’s third-generation AirPods, released in 2021. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The next generation of Apple’s popular AirPods headphones could launch in the second half of 2024, or first half of 2025, according to a new prediction from noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The lineup will reportedly include a more affordable pair

Scam ChatGPT AI iPhone app yanked from the App Store amid explosive popularity

An app claiming to be the ChatGPT bot has been yanked from the App Store after charging customers ridiculous amounts of money for a free tool.

Some creators are protesting YouTube’s policy changes to regulate swearing and violence, which demonetize gaming videos and retroactively impact old content (Kenneth Shepard/Kotaku)

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: Some creators are protesting YouTube’s policy changes to regulate swearing and violence, which demonetize gaming videos and retroactively impact old content — YouTube’s policy changes on swearing and violence are being retroactively applied to old gaming content

Daily Authority: 💻 Apple’s touchscreen computer catch-up

Hey there! Anxiously waiting for the results of my EU visa application so I can attend MWC 2023 next month. It’ll be the first time I see some of my Android Authority colleagues since CES in January 2020! Anyway, our highlights today include Animal Crossing-themed chocolates, Apple’s touchscreen MacBook, and more. Apple could finally embrace

Sources: Twitter is leaving at least 12 international offices due to closures or not paying rent, including those in Hong Kong, Mexico, Africa, India, and more (Kali Hays/Insider)

Kali Hays / Insider: Sources: Twitter is leaving at least 12 international offices due to closures or not paying rent, including those in Hong Kong, Mexico, Africa, India, and more — – Twitter is leaving at least a dozen international offices due to closures or not paying rent.

TSMC reports Q4 revenue of $19.93B, up 26.7% YoY, and a net income of $9.72B, up 78% YoY, beating estimates of ~$9.5B amid a chip industry downturn (Reuters)

Reuters: TSMC reports Q4 revenue of $19.93B, up 26.7% YoY, and a net income of $9.72B, up 78% YoY, beating estimates of ~$9.5B amid a chip industry downturn — Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) reported a forecast-beating 78% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, as strong sales of advanced chips helped …

Employment scams, which lure applicants via fake job offers and websites to reveal sensitive data or pay for work equipment, are targeting laid-off tech workers (Imani Moise/Wall Street Journal)

Imani Moise / Wall Street Journal: Employment scams, which lure applicants via fake job offers and websites to reveal sensitive data or pay for work equipment, are targeting laid-off tech workers — Virtual hiring and remote work have made it easier to swindle job seekers — Employment scams using fake job opportunities …

An NLRB official rejects Amazon’s attempt to overturn an April 2022 Staten Island warehouse union victory, citing lack of evidence; Amazon intends to appeal (New York Times)

New York Times: An NLRB official rejects Amazon’s attempt to overturn an April 2022 Staten Island warehouse union victory, citing lack of evidence; Amazon intends to appeal — A National Labor Relations Board official found a lack of evidence to support claims of election improprieties. Amazon could appeal the decision.

Sources: Twitter staff in Singapore have been reassigned as remote workers until further notice, amid cost-cuts which include not paying rent on global HQ (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Twitter staff in Singapore have been reassigned as remote workers until further notice, amid cost-cuts which include not paying rent on global HQ — Workers at Twitter Inc.’s Singapore office were told to empty out their desks and vacate the premises, said people familiar with the situation …

Bill Gates has upgraded from the Galaxy Z Fold 3. This is his latest phone.

Credit: Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Sebastian Derungs, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates has upgraded his personal phone from the Galaxy Z Fold 3 to another Samsung foldable. The phone was gifted to him by Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-Yong when he visited South Korea. Gates also revealed details of

3D Printed Wind Turbine Has All the Features, Just Smaller

For anyone with even the slightest bit of engineering interest, wind turbines are hard to resist. Everything about them is just so awesome, in the literal sense of the word — the size of the blades, the height of the towers, the mechanical guts that keep them pointed into the wind. And as if one

Sources: the DOJ is investigating Ian and Dylan Macalinao over Solana stablecoin exchange Saber Labs, after an exposé showed they faked a web of DeFi protocols (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Sources: the DOJ is investigating Ian and Dylan Macalinao over Solana stablecoin exchange Saber Labs, after an exposé showed they faked a web of DeFi protocols — The investigation follows a CoinDesk exposé that showed Ian and Dylan Macalinao used a web of 11 pseudonymous identities …

JPMorgan Chase is suing the founder of Frank, a student loan software startup it bought for $175M, for allegedly lying about scale by creating 4M+ fake users (Forbes)

Forbes: JPMorgan Chase is suing the founder of Frank, a student loan software startup it bought for $175M, for allegedly lying about scale by creating 4M+ fake users — The financial giant is suing the founder of a Mark Rowan-backed startup it acquired, claiming the fintech, Frank, had sold the financial giant on a “lie.”

Data.ai: in 2022, mobile app global spending fell 2% YoY to $167B, downloads grew 11% YoY to 255B, game spending fell 5% YoY, and non-game spending grew 6% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Data.ai: in 2022, mobile app global spending fell 2% YoY to $167B, downloads grew 11% YoY to 255B, game spending fell 5% YoY, and non-game spending grew 6% YoY — The app ecosystem’s nonstop growth finally slipped this past year. An annual review of the app economy by mobile analytics firm

Lunar Rover is No Toy

When you think of Tomy — more properly, Takara Tomy — you think of toys and models from Japan. After all, they have made models and toys as iconic as Transformers, Thomas, Jenga, Boggle, and Furby. They also made figures associated with Thunderbirds and Tron, two favorites in our circles. However, their recent design for

MacBook Pro with touchscreen display could launch as soon as 2025

Apple is reportedly actively working on a new generation of the MacBook Pro with a touchscreen display.

Canalys, IDC, and Gartner report global PC shipments fell for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q4 2022, by 28%-29% YoY to 65.3M-67.2M units; Dell fell ~37% YoY (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Canalys, IDC, and Gartner report global PC shipments fell for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q4 2022, by 28%-29% YoY to 65.3M-67.2M units; Dell fell ~37% YoY — When you look at fourth quarter worldwide PC sales data from Canalys, IDC and Gartner, it’s fair to say that the news was

Source: OpenAI will get all of the equity back once $92B in profit plus $13B in initial investment are repaid to Microsoft and once other investors earn $150B (Gary Marcus/The Road to AI We Can Trust)

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Source: OpenAI will get all of the equity back once $92B in profit plus $13B in initial investment are repaid to Microsoft and once other investors earn $150B — I don’t usually write about business deals, much less about rumors about business deals, but this

New Mac Pro with Apple silicon could finally launch this spring

Mark Gurman says that the next generation of the Mac Pro could launch as soon as this spring.

Kuo: mass shipments of second-generation AirPods Max and $99 AirPods will likely begin in the second half of 2024 or the first half of 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Kuo: mass shipments of second-generation AirPods Max and $99 AirPods will likely begin in the second half of 2024 or the first half of 2025 — Mass shipments of second-generation AirPods Max and more affordable AirPods will likely begin in the second half of 2024 or the first half of 2025

Microsoft updates Xbox Series X and S consoles to automatically switch to energy-saving Shutdown mode and is working on a smarter Sleep mode for active hours (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft updates Xbox Series X and S consoles to automatically switch to energy-saving Shutdown mode and is working on a smarter Sleep mode for active hours — Microsoft is planning to switch Xbox Series X and S owners over to an energy-saving power mode in a bid for sustainability and

Russia plans to launch new Soyuz spacecraft to replace a leaky one docked at the ISS

Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP via Getty Images A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) began leaking coolant early last month, leading to concerns about whether the vehicle would be safe to transport ISS crew members back to Earth. NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos have now announced they will

NASA Help Wanted: Telescope Optional

If you’ve ever wanted to work for NASA, here’s your chance. Well, don’t expect a paycheck or any benefits, but the Agency is looking for volunteers to help process the huge amount of exoplanet data with their Exoplanet Watch program. If you have a telescope, you can even contribute data to the project. But if

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