Tuesday’s top tech news: Twitter rebuilds
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge After cutting two-thirds of its workforce, Elon Musk’s Twitter is ready to hire. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge After cutting two-thirds of its workforce, Elon Musk’s Twitter is ready to hire. Continue reading…
Read MoreOffice Insiders can now create slides in portrait mode in PowerPoint for iOS on iPads and iPhones. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is introducing the ability to create slides in portrait mode in its mobile PowerPoint app. The feature is available in public beta via the Microsoft Office Insider program (running Version 2.68 or later) and
Read MoreDavid Enrich / New York Times: An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others — The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple, Samsung, and Nokia have a truly global presence, as their smartphones are available in virtually every market around the world. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for most other brands out there. So with that in mind, we want to know which smartphone brand you want most in
Read MoreHotz demonstrating his former company’s advanced driver assistance technology. | Photo by Michael Zelenko / The Verge George Hotz, the noted iPhone hacker who was reported to have once turned down a job at Tesla working on its driver-assistance technology, has embarked upon a 12-week “internship” at Twitter under Elon Musk’s leadership. Hotz said his
Read MoreJulie Zhu / Reuters: Sources: the People’s Bank of China plans to fine Jack Ma’s Ant Group more than $1B as soon as Q2 2023, potentially ending the company’s two-year overhaul — Chinese authorities are poised to impose a fine of more than $1 billion on Jack Ma’s Ant Group, said six sources with direct
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Madrid-based Cobee, which offers a “super app” for employee benefits, raised a €40M Series B co-led by Octopus Ventures and Notion Capital — Benefits are one of the great oxymorons of full-time employment: the name implies help and advantages, but in a lot of cases …
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$4.6B, beating estimates, and a ~$20.5M net loss due to investments, signaling China’s tech sector might be recovering — Baidu Inc. posted a surprise gain in revenue after cost cuts helped prop up the bottom line and online advertising held up better …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Research: between 100 and 150 crypto hedge funds, or 25%-40% of all specialized funds, have exposure to FTX or FTT, totaling around $2B — Crypto asset managers face long wait for the return of their assets — Hedge funds have billions of dollars stuck on failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX …
Read MoreReuters: JD.com plans to cut salaries of 2,000+ senior managers by 10%-20% in 2023, aiming to improve benefits for other staff, amid China’s “common prosperity” drive — China’s JD.com said on Tuesday it would cut the salaries of more than 2,000 senior managers by 10% to 20% next year …
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 12.9% YoY to ~$3.2B, beating estimates, and a ~$378M net loss, holding its own against ByteDance and China’s slowing economy — Kuaishou Technology’s revenue beat estimates, holding its own against a slowing Chinese economy and competition from TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd.
Read More[Jessp] has created a very cute and endearing DIY virtual assistant called Maria. The build combines a 3D printed housing that uses a “Peppers Cone” effect to render a virtual, three-dimensional anime inspired assistant that can take commands to get information about the weather, play music or set timers. The Maria virtual assistant hub is
Read MoreKoh Gui Qing / Reuters: Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF’s parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority. I’m gearing up for Black Friday and prepping my wishlist, though the only item on it right now is an air fryer. Fingers crossed for the perfect deal! Bad move, Samsung owners
Read MoreEliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: Filings: FTX, Alameda, and other affiliates have $1.2B in cash reserves, below the $3.1B owed to the top 50 creditors; Alameda’s reserves are largest at ~$393M — The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX owes around $3.1 billion to its top 50 creditors. — The various divisions …
Read MoreDual-SIM support has been available on smartphones since the mid-2010s, allowing people to use two SIM cards in their handset at once. It looks like the proliferation of eSIMs hasn’t dampened support for the feature either. We posted a poll earlier this week asking whether you had a smartphone with dual SIM support. We considered
Read MoreTatum Hunter / Washington Post: Victims of hacked Facebook accounts say Meta’s customer support is largely unhelpful; Meta has no new initiatives for helping people recover their accounts — Victims are losing time, money and peace of mind. Facebook is doing next to nothing. — The first time 100 people tuned …
Read MoreDakota Cary / CyberScoop: Overview of Xi Jinping’s efforts to bolster China’s hacking teams, already skilled in espionage, by focusing on cultivating talent and funding security research — From the early 2000s to 2015, China’s hacking teams caused havoc for private companies and U.S. and allied governments.
Read MoreWe feature a large number of game console mods here, because enhancing the experience of using a classic machine often involves some really clever work. But here’s one that’s a bit different, instead of upgrading his Game Boy Advance, [Wenting Zhang] has downgraded it from a colour screen to a monochrome LCD. Take a look
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A Samsung executive says it wants to finish the One UI 5 rollout before the end of 2023. The company has already brought the Android 13 update to a host of devices, both new and old. Samsung is on a roll with the Android 13-based One UI 5
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software …
Read MoreMeasuring air quality, as anyone who has tried to tackle this problem can attest, is not as straightforward as it might seem. Even once the nebulous term “quality” is defined, most sensors use something as a proxy for overall air health. One common method is to use volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as this proxy but
Read MorePranshu Verma / Washington Post: A look the tech being used at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, including player-tracking tech for offside decisions, algorithms to forecast crowd patterns, and more — At the 2022 World Cup, everything from stadium temperatures to the soccer balls are run on sensors and algorithms.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, has been public about his desire to improve how the social network’s direct messages work. In a meeting with employees today, he spelled out exactly what that looks like. Framed by presentation slides titled “Twitter 2.0” at Twitter’s San Fransisco headquarters on Monday,
Read MoreDomino’s outfitted Chevy Bolts. | Image: Domino’s Domino’s is gearing up to put more than 800 all-electric pizza delivery vehicles into service in the coming months, starting with over 100 of them rolling out in November. The company went with the compact Chevy Bolt EV and is wrapping the vehicles with custom branding but no
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