Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: The Walt Disney Company’s board announces that Bob Chapek will step down as CEO, and Bob Iger will return to take his place, effective immediately — Disney’s board of directors announced the move Sunday evening.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a sudden turn of events, Disney has reversed the CEO swap that surprised us in early 2020, with Bob Iger returning to his post, replacing his own successor, Bob Chapek. Iger, who is also the company’s largest shareholder, is now set to serve a new two-year term
Read MoreAmidst the chaos surrounding Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover, key Apple executive Phil Schiller has deactivated his Twitter account.
Read MoreNew York Times: Online sports-betting companies are cutting big deals with US colleges to promote gambling to students, like Caesars Sportsbook’s $8.4M deal with Michigan State — In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.
Read MoreTechCrunch: A look at Unstable Diffusion, which is trying to monetize AI porn generators; the group migrated from a subreddit to Discord, where it has over 45,000 members — Of course, it’s an ethical minefield — When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI …
Read MoreCredit: Sonos There are two immutable truths about Sonos audio — build and sound quality will be of the highest standard, but the pricey devices are almost never on sale. We anticipate big savings on the likes of Amazon devices in any grand sales event, but a Sonos Black Friday sale was far from guaranteed.
Read MoreAdam Smith / Code Faster with Kite: Kite, a startup that used AI to help devs code, shuts down, saying state-of-the-art ML models don’t understand the structure of code and too few devs would pay — From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working
Read MoreLots of space news this week, with the big story being that Artemis I finally blasted off for its trip to the Moon. It was a spectacular night launch, with the SLS sending the crew-rated but vacant — well, mostly vacant — Orion spacecraft on a week-ish long trip to the Moon, before spending a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla’s recalling over 321,000 vehicles over a software glitch causing the taillights on some cars to illuminate improperly (via Reuters). According to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall covers certain 2023 Model 3 vehicles and 2020 to 2023 Model Y vehicles. Tesla says
Read MoreThese days, sending a picture to someone else is as simple as pulling out your smartphone and sending it by email or text message. It’s so simple a child can do it, but that simple user experience masks a huge amount of complexity, from the compression algorithms in the phones to the huge amount of
Read MoreBloomberg: Court documents: FTX owes $3.1B to its 50 biggest unsecured creditors, with claims ranging from $21M to $226M; ten claims are over $100M each — Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt crypto empire owes its 50 biggest unsecured creditors a total of $3.1 billion, new court papers show, with a pair of customers owed more than $200
Read MoreJason David Frank originally starred as the Green Ranger. | Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images for Saban Brands Jason David Frank, an actor and mixed martial artist best known for his role as Tommy Oliver in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has died at age 49, as first reported by TMZ (via Gizmodo). Fellow Power
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft brings SwiftKey back to the iOS App Store citing “customer feedback”, after delisting the keyboard app on October 5, 2022 — Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard has unexpectedly returned to the App Store. The company officially discontinued support for the keyboard and removed …
Read MoreWe love retrocomputing and tiny computers here at Hackaday, so it’s always nice to see projects that combine the two. [Eivind]’s TinyLlama lets you play DOS games on a board that fits in your hand. Using the 486 SOM from the 86Duino, the TinyLlama adds an integrated Crystal Semiconductor audio chip for AdLib and SoundBlaster
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Federal law enforcement arrested and charged two Russian individuals with criminal copyright infringement over their alleged involvement with the pirated ebook Z-Library. Z-Library, which has been around since 2009, billed itself as the “world’s largest ebook library” before the US government shut down the site earlier this
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority After years of hosting compressed, lossy audio formats, music streaming services have embraced the potential of lossless audio. With this, music fans can expect a superior, high-quality listening experience. But does streaming lossless music justify the cost to your data allowance? Can you even really notice the difference? Well,
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Elon Musk’s changes at Twitter threaten to set up a showdown with Apple and Google over in-app purchases for subscriptions and content moderation issues — Elon Musk’s plan to turn Twitter into more of a subscription service threatens to set up a showdown with Apple and Google.
Read MorePaul Tassi / Forbes: Twitter’s automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended — While Twitter, the website, remains online and has not simply collapsed after the vast majority of workers were fired or resigned under Elon Musk …
Read MoreWhen it comes to repairability of electronic devices, much depends on how helpful the original manufacturer is. Some make repairs very easy by publishing detailed service manuals and selling spare parts. Others keep everything under wraps to protect their intellectual property, turning even a supposedly simple fix into a reverse engineering ordeal. When [BuyItFixIt] got
Read MoreLogitech has never been a major player in the Android ecosystem, but for its first big shot it’s hitching its cart to the growth of mobile cloud gaming. The Logitech G Cloud is a $350 Android-powered game machine with access to all the content in the Play Store, and more importantly, optimization for cloud gaming
Read MoreAccording to UXcam.com, around 52% of the users drop out due to inefficient website user experience. How many times have you left the website if the aesthetics or user experience were not decent, fast enough, or the design was not engaging? Your answer, as well as all other stats that are gathered globally, will indicate
Read MoreFocus To-Do helped rebuild my shattered attention span | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Focusing never used to be a problem for me. I was the annoying kid who could study for eight to 10 hours at a time without complaint. That continued well into adulthood until I experienced my own series of
Read MoreMark Niquette / Bloomberg: Donald Trump says he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter”, doesn’t see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social — Donald Trump said he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter” and will stick to his own social-media platform, offering an initial response to Elon Musk’s
Read MoreField research uncovers clues about the beetles’ coordinated blinking and confirms that a novel form of “chimeric” synchrony occurs naturally.
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