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After Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to unionize in April, similar movements at other US warehouses fizzled out, stymied by turnover and company efforts (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: After Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to unionize in April, similar movements at other US warehouses fizzled out, stymied by turnover and company efforts — Organizing at companies is set to continue but may proceed more slowly and take years to play out, labor researchers say

Aqara delays Matter transition until January

An update for the Aqara M2 smart home hub (pictured far left) was initially planned for December 2022, but has since been delayed until 2023. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge A free Matter software update for the Aqara M2 smart home hub has been delayed until January 2023. A statement from an

We asked 17 smart people to predict the future of transportation in 2023

Photo by Kelsey McClellan for The Verge Will car prices start to stabilize? Which startups will go bust? What will happen with the Cybertruck? Will this be the year of the cargo bike? Our experts offered their predictions on these topics and more. Continue reading…

Investors sue Gemini and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss over offering Gemini Trust Earn interest-bearing accounts, which Gemini failed to register as securities (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg)

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: Investors sue Gemini and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss over offering Gemini Trust Earn interest-bearing accounts, which Gemini failed to register as securities — Gemini Trust Co. and its founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, were sued by investors who claim the crypto asset exchange sold …

SEC filing: MicroStrategy acquires ~3,205 BTC for ~$56.4M between November 1 and December 24, taking its holding to 135K BTC, and sells 704 BTC to offset gains (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: SEC filing: MicroStrategy acquires ~3,205 BTC for ~$56.4M between November 1 and December 24, taking its holding to 135K BTC, and sells 704 BTC to offset gains — Alongside the additional purchases, the company sold a small amount of bitcoin for the first time.

Sure, Kids Can Develop iPhone Apps. But It’s Not Easy

Apple’s Swift Playgrounds can help young and novice coders get started building applications—with varying degrees of success.

Poll: Do you use a budgeting app to track your expenses?

Budgeting for the month and for the future is a challenging endeavor for many people, but there’s no shortage of budgeting apps on offer to help track your expenses. Do you use these budgeting apps in the first place, though? That’s the topic of today’s featured poll. So give us your answer via the poll

MCU Phase 4 movies and TV shows ranked from worst to best

Credit: Disney After nearly 18 months since the release of the last Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 movie (Spider-Man: Far From Home), MCU Phase 4 began in January 2021 with the release of WandaVision on Disney Plus. It was the first phase of the franchise to also include TV shows and specials alongside the movies,

Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon’s video ambitions (Theo Wayt/The Information)

Theo Wayt / The Information: Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon’s video ambitions — Amazon is working on a stand-alone app for watching sports content, a source with direct knowledge of the plan told The Information.

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (Dec. 28)

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use

This Year’s Streaming Shows Aimed for Wish-Fulfillment

Streaming services, on the other hand, fell wide off the mark.

Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever

Transformers—data models based on neural networks—will radically change how machines interact with us.

The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders

Without more forceful global laws, tech will continue to cause harm to marginalized communities

How to Set Up Your Kid’s ‘Smart’ Toy

Is it your child’s new best friend, or a surveillance nightmare waiting to happen? Here’s how to tell the difference.

Russia’s Cyberwar Foreshadowed Deadly Attacks on Civilians

The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine is following a dangerous playbook that began to unfold years ago.

The Best TV Shows of 2022—and How to Watch Them

From Andor to Barry, here’s what you should binge now, if you haven’t already.

Crispr’s Quest to Slay Donegal Amy

A trial using the gene-editing tool inside the body hints at treating, or even curing, a rare fatal disease—and is changing a community in the process.

Fiberglass Mesh For Stronger 3D Prints

There are many clever ways to make stronger 3D prints, be they by the use of special slicing algorithms or by unusual filaments. [Brtv-z] has taken a more straightforward tack, by making glass-reinforced prints using painters fiberglass mesh tape. It’s a laborious technique that involves stopping the print to manually place the fiberglass at each

NASA Takes the Sting Out of Cold Weather on Earth By Detailing Winter on Mars

As a spate of nasty winter weather has buffeted much of the US in the past week, NASA is reminding us how much worse it could be. You could be living on Mars, which some people inexplicably want to do. Temperatures on the red planet can drop as low as -189 degrees Fahrenheit (-123 degrees

The US House bans TikTok on all House-managed devices, citing a “high risk due to a number of security issues”, following similar bans for US government devices (Moira Warburton/Reuters)

Moira Warburton / Reuters: The US House bans TikTok on all House-managed devices, citing a “high risk due to a number of security issues”, following similar bans for US government devices — The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices …

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform’s nonprofit status (Ian Johnston/Financial Times)

Ian Johnston / Financial Times: Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform’s nonprofit status — Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter

After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government (Austin Ramzy/Wall Street Journal)

Austin Ramzy / Wall Street Journal: After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government — Protesters, public-health experts targeted for country’s sudden about-face as infections explode, but leader Xi Jinping remains unscathed

Let’s Go to Mars. Let’s Not Live There

Space agencies and companies aim to send people to the Red Planet. But settling there would be hell on—well, you know what we mean.

How Indie Studios Are Pioneering Accessible Game Design

Smaller shops prove that you don’t need a AAA budget to create games for everyone.

What devices are Android Authority readers using? (2022 Edition)

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’re big Android fans here at Android Authority, as you might expect. But have you ever thought about the phones your fellow readers use? Well, we dug into our anonymous user figures to present a breakdown of Android Authority readers and the devices they — well, you — use.

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