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Daily Authority: 📱 The big Google Pixel 7a leak

Good morning, good people of Daily Authority. I can’t believe it’s already almost December. The holiday season is upon us and I was just going through my streaming services to see what I’ve missed watching this year. Thanks to my colleague Frederick Blichert, I discovered these hidden gems on Netflix. What are you watching these

OnePlus says select 2023 phones will get four major Android updates

The recently released OnePlus 10T, which will only get three major OS upgrades. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge OnePlus is committing to a longer support period for some upcoming phones, with an announcement that “select devices launched in 2023 and beyond” will receive four major Android updates and five years of security

This upcoming smartwatch lets you store your earbuds inside it

Credit: YouTube/QSQ Technology Huawei has teased the Huawei Watch Buds smartwatch for China. A hands-on video shows that you can store your earbuds inside the watch. We previously saw HMD Global launch a Nokia feature phone that included slots to store your true wireless earbuds. Now, it looks like Huawei has the same idea in

Tiny 3D printed HO Scale Escalator That Works

[Luke Towan] has a cool HO scale Escalator mostly made of 3D printed parts, with some laser cut acrylic, for a station on his HO model railroad. Escalators are mesmerizing to watch – there’s something magical about the stairs unfolding at the bottom and folding up at the top. But they’re very hard to model.

Free Google One VPN is finally here for Pixel 7 series owners

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google is rolling out free Google One VPN access to Pixel 7 owners now. The feature is available in all Pixel launch markets aside from India and Singapore. Google is promising a handy perk if you bought the Pixel 7 series, offering free access to the Google One VPN.

Some prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after far-right trolls appealed to Musk to ban them (The Intercept)

The Intercept: Some prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after far-right trolls appealed to Musk to ban them — Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the

Q&A with Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the brand and its history, running a private company, building software, Bluetooth, competing with Apple and Google, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the brand and its history, running a private company, building software, Bluetooth, competing with Apple and Google, and more — Has sound quality taken a back seat to convenience? — Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world …

Coinbase says Coinbase Wallet will no longer support Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Ripple XRP, and Stellar due to “low usage”, starting January 2023 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Coinbase says Coinbase Wallet will no longer support Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Ripple XRP, and Stellar due to “low usage”, starting January 2023 — America’s biggest crypto exchange has scrapped a number of assets from its self-custody mobile app citing waning customer interest.

London-based V7, which offers an API for data annotation and labeling needed for AI training models, raised a $33M Series A led by Radical Ventures and Temasek (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based V7, which offers an API for data annotation and labeling needed for AI training models, raised a $33M Series A led by Radical Ventures and Temasek — Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans …

Prototyping the Prototype

For basic prototyping, the go-to tool to piece together a functioning circuit is the breadboard. It’s a great way to prove a concept works before spending money and time on a PCB. For more complex tasks we can make use of simulation software such as SPICE. But there hasn’t really been a tool to blend

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has approved a longstanding crypto bill defining digital assets and their service providers; bill now requires president’s approval (Kristin Majcher/The Block)

Kristin Majcher / The Block: Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has approved a longstanding crypto bill defining digital assets and their service providers; bill now requires president’s approval — – Brazil’s chamber of deputies finally approved a long-awaited crypto regulation bill. — The bill could now go to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for approval.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signs EO banning TikTok for state agencies, employees, and contractors using state devices over “security threat” posed by China (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signs EO banning TikTok for state agencies, employees, and contractors using state devices over “security threat” posed by China — TikTok is now banned on government employee devices in South Dakota because the governor believes the social media app’s ownership …

Eufy caught sending ‘local’ camera recordings to its cloud unencrypted

A security researcher has discovered that Eufy’s security cameras, which claimed local-only storage, have been sending video to its cloud unencrypted.

Elon Musk is delaying Twitter’s paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut

You might have to buy Blue somewhere else. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s revamped Blue subscription might not be available as an in-app purchase on iOS when it eventually relaunches so that it can dodge Apple’s 30 percent cut of App Store purchases, according to Platformer. When the new Blue was

Filing: Disney now owns 100% of streaming tech company BAMTech after paying $900M for MLB’s 15% stake in November 2022; Disney acquired a majority stake in 2017 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: Disney now owns 100% of streaming tech company BAMTech after paying $900M for MLB’s 15% stake in November 2022; Disney acquired a majority stake in 2017 — Disney acquired a majority stake in the tech company in 2017, and has used it to power its streaming services.

Governor Ron DeSantis says Apple should be hauled in front of Congress if it bans Twitter from the App Store

In a speech today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that, if Apple bans Twitter from the App Store, it should warrant a response from the United States Congress.

Amazon’s AWS unit expects to add employees in 2023 and will continue building data centers, despite the company’s hiring freeze and cuts in other divisions (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon’s AWS unit expects to add employees in 2023 and will continue building data centers, despite the company’s hiring freeze and cuts in other divisions — Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit plans to add employees next year and keep building new data centers, a sign that a hiring freeze elsewhere …

SBF says it was intended for Alameda to roll over at least $20M of its Twitter stake into Musk’s privately held Twitter, but doesn’t know if that happened (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Lucinda Shen / Axios: SBF says it was intended for Alameda to roll over at least $20M of its Twitter stake into Musk’s privately held Twitter, but doesn’t know if that happened — Sam Bankman-Fried tells Axios that he always intended to roll over at least a portion of his former firm’s $100 million Twitter

Apple’s $50 million settlement over the infamous butterfly keyboard moves forward

A judge has given preliminary approval to Apple’s plan to pay a $50 million settlement over the infamous butterfly keyboard.

Internal messages show Twitter’s EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY, weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees (Platformer)

Platformer: Internal messages show Twitter’s EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY, weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees — Revenues are in free fall, employees say. Can Musk turn the tide? — and Zoë Schiffer

Apple Pay to launch in South Korea as soon as tomorrow

An advertisement spotted in South Korea indicates that Apple Pay could launch in the country as soon as November 30.

Interfacing An Old Engine Cowl Flaps Indicator To USB

[Glen Akins] had a WW2-era aircraft engine cowl flap indicator lying around (as you do) and thought it would make a jolly fine USB-attached indicator. The model in question is a General Electric model 8DJ4PBV DC Selsyn, which was intended for four-engined aircraft. For those not familiar with the purpose [Glen] explains in his detailed writeup,

IBM and Maersk’s blockchain-enabled supply chain offering TradeLens, launched in 2018, will shut down in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration (Christiana Loureiro/The Block)

Christiana Loureiro / The Block: IBM and Maersk’s blockchain-enabled supply chain offering TradeLens, launched in 2018, will shut down in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration — – The companies made a viable platform but couldn’t get a global collaboration going. — Danish shipping company Maersk …

Good luck getting a new iPhone 14 Pro before the holidays

iPhone 14 Pros are a scarce sight these days. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is on track to ship 20 percent fewer iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max units than expected this quarter due to recent covid lockdown restrictions and labor protests at an iPhone production plant owned by Foxconn. The

Amazon unveils AWS SimSpace Weaver, a spatial computing service for developers to run real-time city-sized simulations across multiple instances (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils AWS SimSpace Weaver, a spatial computing service for developers to run real-time city-sized simulations across multiple instances — At this morning’s Re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled AWS SimSpace Weaver, a computing service that allows developers to run city-sized simulations at scale in the cloud.

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