The Mystery of Alaska’s Disappearing Whales
Belugas pass cultural knowledge across generations. Their survival may depend on how they collectively adapt.
Read MoreBelugas pass cultural knowledge across generations. Their survival may depend on how they collectively adapt.
Read MoreGoogle made the wise decision to return to its beloved Nexus roots and launch a cheaper Pixel phone back in 2019. The Pixel 3a and 3a XL boasted the same great camera performance as their more expensive siblings for a fraction of the price — they started at just $400. Since then, each Pixel A
Read MoreThe Kanto YU2 desktop speakers come in multiple color schemes. You also have the option between a glossy or matte finish. | Image Credit: Kanto With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and all of Cyber Week behind us, it’s time to let off the gas a little. These deals are going to be a little different.
Read MoreImage: Firaxis The combat is a super fun mash-up of card-based action, fun superhero moves, and trigonometry vectors. Continue reading…
Read MoreMessages show Twitter’s past leaders struggling with a tough moderation call with political overtones. Musk is now on the hook for such decisions himself.
Read MoreForget what you’ve heard—sexual lubricants are a nightstand essential.
Read MoreAll things considered, modern photography is pretty easy. It’s really just a matter of pointing the camera at the thing you want to take a picture of and letting the camera do the rest. But that doesn’t mean good photographs are easy to make, especially when fine detail is required. And that’s the reason this
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 223rd edition here, with a first peek at the Pixel 7a, why you shouldn’t go for a stroll in NYC with $95,000 in iPhones, free Steam Decks, and more… I may have bought a Nintendo
Read MoreSamriddhi Sakunia / Rest of World: Elections in India’s Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war, as the main political parties push content across thousands of groups to influence voters — 10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people’s feed” in Gujarat. — • AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA
Read MoreGetting up on a ladder to hang Christmas lights is a great way to hurt yourself if you’re not careful, and winter conditions only add to the peril. One enterprising hacker has whipped up a neat way to avoid ladders entirely, by hanging their lights while planted safely on the ground. Result! The build uses
Read MoreInforest Esther off-grid home pictured from above in a great expanse of Swedish forest. | Photo: Inforest InForest’s Swedish cabins are completely off the grid, relying on solar power, battery backup, and a limited amount of water. Living in one for a week required some compromises, but fewer than expected. Continue reading…
Read MoreBill Gifford / Bloomberg: A profile of Duolingo, which has almost 15M DAUs, up 51% YoY, and 3.7M paying subscribers, as it expects its 2022 revenue to surpass $365M, up 45% from 2021 — After dinner on Aug. 23—a date he will never forget—Tobi Fondse pulled out his phone to do his daily Duolingo.
Read MoreThis repair/tutorial video by the telephone Connections Museum of Seattle features an amazing piece of electro-mechanical technology from the 1950s — the 5XB trouble recorder. Museum volunteer Sarah the “Switch Witch” has a deep passion for old phone equipment, and gives an excellent description of the trouble recorder, the problems it solved, and how it works, and
Read MoreReuters: Twitter’s VP of trust and safety Ella Irwin says Twitter is heavily using automation to moderate speech, and favoring distribution restrictions to removal — Elon Musk’s Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Apple’s efforts to reduce dependence on Foxconn; sources: Apple wants other suppliers in China, Vietnam, and India to actively plan product assembly — Burned by Covid lockdowns and worker protests at Foxconn plants, the iPhone maker is looking to diversify the supply chain that has powered its growth
Read MoreReuters: Germany says it is not planning a blanket ban on telecom equipment made by Chinese companies, but will continue making such decisions on a case-by-case basis — Germany does not want to follow the United States in generally banning products made by Chinese telecoms equipment makers such as Huawei …
Read MoreNew York Times: Sources: Twitter’s US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup’s Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets — Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
Read MoreJacob Bernstein / New York Times: Inside the Crypties, an awards ceremony calling itself the Oscars for Web 3.0, with awards for game of the year, investor of the year, social impact, and more — The Crypties was intended as a gala evening in Miami to celebrate the currencies of the future. It turned out
Read MoreThe great thing about the wide availability of single-board computers (SBCs) is that it offers such a large selection of options, in terms of CPU performance, GPU features, RAM size, I/O options and much more. This is however also the largest issue, especially with the annual surge of new boards with new feature sets. Trying
Read MoreMega Sceptile is coming the Mega Raids in Pokémon Go. Read ahead for everything you need to know to beat it.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: FTX’s derivatives exchange LedgerX is for sale, attracting interest from Blockchain.com, Gemini, and others; Nov. 17 filing: LedgerX had ~$303M in cash — LedgerX, one of the few solvent pieces of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crumbled FTX empire, is for sale and attracting interest …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn’t happy with Twitter’s years-old decision to suppress a news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. So in an effort “to restore public trust” in Twitter, Musk indicated last month that he would release internal communications showing how
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is offering some users a whole $2 a month for only one teeny, tiny thing in return: that they route their traffic through an Amazon server so the company can keep track of which Amazon ads they’ve seen. It’s apparently been doing this for months. I’m not
Read MoreReuters: A US judge dismisses an indictment against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, formally ending a criminal sanctions case that strained US-China relations — A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed an indictment against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co
Read MoreJeff Blackburn is departing the company. | Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage Amazon’s Jeff Blackburn, who leads the company’s media and entertainment businesses, is retiring from Amazon for a second time, according to emails from Blackburn and CEO Andy Jassy on Friday. With Blackburn’s departure, there will be some shifts in Amazon’s org chart. Mike Hopkins,
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