Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority High-end flagship devices grab most of the headlines each year, but we spend just as much time with budget phones here at Android Authority. Looking back, 2022 might go down as the year that the budget and mid-range markets grew up. Both segments are as hot as ever, primarily thanks
Read More(Photo: Kanchanara/Unsplash) (Credit: Kanchanara/Unsplash)Until recently, FTX was one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, controlling billions of dollars worth of digital money. That changed in November when the company suffered a liquidity crisis and collapsed, taking customer funds with it. As bankruptcy courts in the US and Bahamas try to untangle the mess,
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Server maker Supermicro’s shares have soared 76%+ YTD, taking its market cap from $2.4B to $4.4B, outperforming all US tech companies valued at $1B or more — – Supermicro shares have gained 89% this year, outperforming all U.S. tech companies worth at least $1 billion.
Read MorePratigya Yadav / Business Standard: An Indian government official says the BIS will mandate mobile device makers use USB-C for charging starting in March 2025, following the European Union — Deadline follows EU’s timeline for uniform charging ports’ standards, says civil servant — Mobile device companies in India …
Read MoreChris Miller / The Atlantic: Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the iPhone’s complex components and assembly, driving production near zero — Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant …
Read MoreAn early patent granted to Apple shows an iPod-like virtual click wheel implementation on an iPad, hinting that Apple tested the UI for other devices.
Read MoreWhile we didn’t get any new Switch models in 2022, it was a very impressive year for the hybrid console. This is thanks to an incredible number of game releases.
Read MoreThe year was marked by sinister new twists on cybersecurity classics, including phishing, breaches, and ransomware attacks.
Read MoreForget return-to-office mandates. The most sought-after talent want ultimate flexibility. Their bosses need to get on board.
Read MoreThere are many tensions in our relationship to hope. The key is not to let corporations exploit them.
Read MoreThe Inflation Reduction Act and Europe’s energy crisis have focused attention on a stealthy tool to reduce emissions: the humble home.
Read MoreAI is better at fooling humans than ever—and the consequences will be serious.
Read MoreIf your answer to the question “When did you last shoot a roll of film” is “Less than two decades ago”, the chances are that you’re a camera enthusiast, and that the camera you used was quite old. Such has been the switch from film to digital, that the new film camera is a rarity.
Read MoreThe saga of the overheating Radeon 7900 series GPUs is ongoing, and sadly it still seems like a confusing mess. There have been a few new developments since it was initially reported last week. Some users have tried to RMA their cards due to hotspots hitting 110C, but have been denied. Amidst the confusion, one
Read MoreMuyao Shen / Bloomberg: A look at the US case against Avraham Eisenberg, who claimed his “highly profitable trading strategy” was legal, over allegedly exploiting Mango Markets — Criminal charges against a crypto trader who claimed to have walked away with about $50 million worth of digital assets …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google was reportedly in talks to acquire CPU startup Nuvia. Microsoft and Intel were two other players purportedly in talks with the startup. Qualcomm would go on to buy the company for $1.4 billion in 2021. Qualcomm acquired CPU startup Nuvia back in 2021, with the company’s custom
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer acknowledges “some setbacks” since FTX fell, argues NFTs could be “denominated in US dollars”, and says OpenSea has a “healthy runway” — Head of leading marketplace responds to digital assets slump following FTX scandal
Read MoreThe Samsung Bespoke Refrigerator Family Hub Plus features a large vertically-oriented touchscreen display, ideal for making shopping lists and watching TikTok content. | Image: Samsung Samsung has unveiled the Bespoke Refrigerator Family Hub Plus, a fancy name for its latest fridge with a built-in touchscreen display. At 32 inches, it features a much larger display
Read MoreGirls. Get Out. Now M3GAN. In just a handful of performances, the actress has redefined authenticity—and achieved a new kind of artificial reality.
Read MoreI was determined to write my Mastodon #introduction today. To get started I used the tag search in the dashboard I’m building. IDG The idea was to look at a bunch of other #introduction posts to get a feel for how mine should go. When you search specifically for hashtags, the Mastodon search API returns
Read MoreMatt Burgess / Wired: 2022 saw the re-emergence of hacktivism on a large scale, with some new tactics and approaches blurring the lines between hacktivism and state-sponsored attacks — Throughout 2022, geopolitics has given rise to a new wave of politically motivated attacks with an undercurrent of state-sponsored meddling.
Read MoreMK Manoylov / The Block: CryptoSlam: NFT trading volume fell from $24M+ on December 20 to $12.9M on December 25, down for a second consecutive year; Yuga’s BAYC rallied before Christmas — – NFT sales volumes fell in the lead up to Christmas in both 2021 and 2022. — However, Yuga Labs’s Bored Ape Yacht
Read MoreTracy Qu / South China Morning Post: After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately — Alibaba Group Holding has named a new chief technology officer (CTO) and removed the president of its cloud computing services
Read MoreThanks to modern microcontrollers, basic home automation tasks such as turning lights on and off, opening blinds, and various other simple tasks have become common DIY projects. But with the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning the amount of tasks that can be offloaded to computers has skyrocketed. This shopping cart that automates away
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Google had a pretty solid 2022 for the most part, according to AA colleague Rob Triggs, noting that the company came close but “didn’t quite nail” things. What did you think of Google’s 2022 in terms of hardware and software, though? We posted this poll inside Rob’s article, and
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