Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority If you’re wondering whether NordVPN works with Netflix, you probably know that Netflix content varies between geographical regions. For example, accessing your Netflix account in the US will give you a different range of shows and movies than accessing it in the UK. This is for licensing reasons, but
Read MoreHere’s a scenario you may have experienced: The consensus of the cloud architecture team is that a “cloud-native” solution is the best approach to a new business application that will define the next generation of the company. Containers and container orchestration will lead the way to a solution that’s going to span multiple clouds and
Read MoreSoftware development is a critical driver of global macroeconomic growth, and will continue to propel growing businesses despite economic headwinds. As we look ahead to 2023, the developer experience and developer productivity will emerge as top priorities for CIOs and IT leaders as pressure builds to retain engineering talent and move the focus from the
Read MoreEfforts to improve Java program startup times and performance are set to include improving support for archived Java heap objects in CDS (class data sharing). The plan, made public by Ioi Lam of Oracle in an OpenJDK community RFC last month, aligns with Project Leyden, an effort to improve startup times for Java applications as
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Today’s Android smartphones have much bigger batteries than devices from five or six years ago, with 5,000mAh batteries being commonplace in the low-end and flagship segments alike. Bigger batteries don’t necessarily mean that power banks and portable chargers aren’t important anymore. So we’re curious as to how many people
Read MoreFinancial Times: Meta contractor Sama plans to close its east African content moderation hub in March, cutting ~200 staff; Meta will employ 1,500 Sama staff for data labelling — Staff at Nairobi office were moderating graphic and harmful material — Meta’s east African content moderation hub is shutting …
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: A UK law mandates new properties in England must be built with gigabit broadband connections; DCMS says gigabit connections are available in 72%+ of households — My years-long battle to get gigabit internet installed may soon be over, thanks to new rules introduced by the UK government …
Read MoreTim Copeland / The Block: Coin ATM Rader: there are now 38,641 bitcoin ATMs globally, up from 14,051 at the start of 2021 but flat from around July 2022 when bitcoin’s price collapsed — – The number of Bitcoin ATMs globally has largely remained flat over the last six months. — While that’s mostly due
Read MoreFinancial Times: VaynerMedia: in 2022, buying 1K video ad impressions on TikTok cost around 50% less than Instagram’s Reels, ~33% less than Twitter, and 62% less than Snapchat — Advertisers and brands say an increasing amount of digital ads spend is moving away from Meta, YouTube and Twitter
Read MoreKate Rooney / CNBC: Coinbase plans to lay off a further ~950 employees, or ~20% of its workforce, seeking to reduce its operating expense by 25% QoQ; Coinbase laid off 18% in June — – Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June. — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed
Read MoreWhere you went to school won’t matter as much as what you can actually do now.
Read MoreAbstaining from alcohol can have immediate benefits. But lasting gains require lasting change.
Read MoreGoogle Docs’ voice-typing feature in action. | Screenshot by Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge Google Docs’ voice-typing feature, which lets you “type” and edit text using your voice and a microphone rather than your hands and a keyboard, is getting a couple of key upgrades. First is that the feature is expanding to “most major
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The OnePlus Nord 3 is already under testing, claims a new report. The phone is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2023. It’s reportedly codenamed “Larry.” Update: January 10, 2023 (4:46 AM ET): It looks like the details posted by MySmartPrice about the alleged Nord 3 were
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 43% YoY to ~$20.6B, below ~$20.8B analyst estimates, its first miss in two years; TSMC stock dropped 27% in 2022 but is up 8% in 2023 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s fourth-quarter sales missed analysts’ estimates, signaling the global decline …
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Plus a new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and YouTube Shorts starts paying. Continue reading…
Read MoreGood morning and welcome to another Tuesday edition of the Daily Authority! Today we’ve got some exciting Samsung news, new emoji for Pixel phones, and your thoughts on the PSVR 2, among other top tech news of the day. I started playing Callisto Protocol this week, and I’m not going to lie; it’s made me
Read MoreAdam Conway / XDA Developers: Google releases the Extension SDK for developers to bring new features, like the new Photo Picker API that launched with Android 13, to older Android versions — The Extensions SDK is what makes features like Photo Picker possible on older Android versions.
Read MoreOnce you’ve seen a strandbeest, it’s hard to forget the mesmerizing movement of its mechanical limbs. [Adam Savage] built a pedal-powered strandbeest in (more than) one day in full view of the public at the San Francisco Exploratorium. One of the biggest challenges with building strandbeests is the sheer number of parts required to build
Read MoreJavier Paz / Forbes: A breakdown of Binance’s known assets, using data from Nansen and others, estimates the exchange has around $50B, including ~$10B in BNB, down 24% from November — The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it’s become considerably more severe since then,
Read MoreCredit: FairPhone The FairPhone 2 will stop receiving updates in March 2023, seven years after its release. The handset launched back in 2015 with Android 5.1 Lollipop. Five years of software updates is about as good as it gets for major Android phone brands, with Google and Samsung offering this pledge. But it turns out
Read MoreCraig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s The Last of US TV series is a faithful adaptation of the beloved video game, but it doesn’t feel distinct as an apocalyptic survival series. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Ryan McLeod / Android Authority Our very own Andrew Grush spent some time with the highly anticipated Sony PlayStation VR 2 at CES 2023. He checked out everything that’s new with the headset and concluded that it perfects all the faults of the original PSVR. The difference in quality is immediately noticeable, eye-tracking tech
Read MoreRachel Syme / New Yorker: A profile of Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of TV who leads its hyper-aggressive strategy to adapt successful show formats to different parts of the world — Bela Bajaria, who oversees the streaming giant’s hyperaggressive approach to TV-making, says success is about “recognizing that people like having more.”
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus has revealed that the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7T phones have received their final updates. The phones were released in 2019 and were more recently updated to Android 12. OnePlus recently announced that it’ll match Samsung for software updates, although this pledge only applies to select 2023 flagships.
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