John Herrman / New York Magazine: FTX users flock to Telegram to reckon with their potential losses, where some say they believed FTX’s links to the US made it unusually safe — The losers — and scammers — are flooding Telegram. — It’s early November. You’re into crypto. It has probably been a rough few
Read MoreWe’ve seen a lot of custom clocks here at Hackaday, many of which have pushed the traditional definition of the timepiece to its absolute limit. But for all their wild designs, most of them do have something in common: they assume you can actually read a clock and understand the concept of time. But what
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app acquired by AWS in 2021, will shut down on December 31, 2023 and stop accepting new users at the end of 2022 — Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023.
Read MoreCredit: Curtis Joe / Android Authority While there was plenty to dig into with Qualcomm’s announcement of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform, the headline-grabbing new feature was undoubtedly smartphone ray tracing graphics support. Qualcomm joins Mediatek’s Dimensity 9200 and Samsung’s Exynos 2200 with support for hardware-based ray tracing, opening the door to fancy new
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023. In a post on its website, Wickr says the app will stop accepting new user registrations on December 31st, 2022 before going away completely next year. AWS acquired Wickr
Read MoreDavid Lumb / CNET: As climate change threatens data centers, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are tinkering with cooling options and building data centers in colder countries — Data centers run our personal and professional lives, so it’s crucial that they keep working in a future of climate change.
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Motorola has always been a brand from which you can expect bang for your buck, and never is that more true than this time of year. For Black Friday 2022, Motorola has discounted many of its current-gen smartphones, allowing you to save up to 57% on certain models. Some
Read MoreThe Barkhausen effect — named after German Physicist Heinrich Barkhausen — is the term given to the noise output produced by a ferromagnetic material due to the change in size and orientation of its discrete magnetic domains under the influence of an external magnetic field. The domains are small: smaller than the microcrystalline grains that
Read MoreWall Street Journal: FTX says it has fired CTO Gary Wang, engineering director Nishad Singh, and Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison — The three executives and Mr. Bankman-Fried are said to have known FTX was using customer funds to plug a funding gap — FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange launched by Sam Bankman-Fried …
Read MoreWelcome to the 459th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google is paying out a $392 million settlement after a lawsuit. The lawsuit says that Google continued to track users even after they opted out of location tracking. Not only is Google paying that money, but they
Read MoreWaymo received approval to offer rides without anyone behind the wheel in San Francisco. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Waymo can now provide driverless rides to passengers in San Francisco. On Friday, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) said it granted the Alphabet-owned Waymo a permit to participate in its driverless pilot program, which
Read MoreYour complete guide to watching every World Cup game on your iPhone and iPad. We’ll tell you what channels/apps are best for the soccer tournament.
Read MoreTo manage vulnerabilities in your company effectively, it is worth going through several preparatory stages. It is necessary first to assess the IT infrastructure and current information security processes, identify the most dangerous types of vulnerabilities, determine the areas of responsibility of personnel, etc. Let’s figure out what questions you need to answer before implementing
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: Ripple says it is effectively “operating outside of the US” due to its legal fight with the SEC and is seeking a license in Ireland to drive EU expansion — – Ripple is expanding its presence in the EU, where it plans to “passport” its services through an entity in Ireland,
Read MoreEvery MSCHF puzzle offers a potential cash prize for players. It’s infuriating—and 100 percent worth it.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Google Pixel phones have been praised and recognized for their camera prowess since the Pixel 2. Interestingly, it wasn’t the camera hardware that made them better. In fact, Google managed to beat most of the best camera phones year after year, all with average camera hardware. For example, it
Read MoreOne of the best things about hanging out with other hackers is the freewheeling brainstorming sessions that tend to occur. Case in point: I was at the Electronica trade fair and ended up hanging out with [Stephen Hawes] and [Lucian Chapar], two of the folks behind the LumenPnP open-source pick and place machine that we’ve
Read MoreHerb Scribner / Axios: Musk is running a Twitter poll on reinstating Donald Trump, after saying in October that Twitter will form a “content moderation council” to make such decisions — Elon Musk dropped a 24-hour poll on his own Twitter feed Friday night asking whether or not to reinstate former President Trump to the
Read MoreImage: Second Dinner Marvel Snap has been here for officially one full month, and in that time, it has, for better and for worse, taken over my life. I cannot get enough of playing this game, and in a short 30 days, I’ve managed to claw my way up the collection rank into the mid-700s.
Read MoreIt’s a long shot, but hear us out: The stars are beginning to align for the much-maligned technology.
Read MorePlus: Google’s location snooping ends in a $391 million settlement, Russian code sneaks into US government apps, and the World Cup apps set off alarms.
Read MorePlus: You can now play games in Microsoft Teams, Leica debuts a new smartphone, and Netflix closes the net on account sharing.
Read MoreFinancial Times: New FTX CEO says it will attempt to sell or reorganize its businesses after a review found that many of its subsidiaries have “solvent balance sheets” — Many of collapsed crypto group’s subsidiaries have ‘solvent balance sheets’, John Ray III says
Read MoreThe small Nintendo Switch controller now connects to Apple’s smartphones and tablets for even more gaming options.
Read MoreThe DeFelice Marine Center sits on a strip of land that dangles into a bay. Staff is living, working, and adapting to the climate crisis in real time.
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