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Qualcomm announces the Qualcomm S3 Gen 2 and Qualcomm S5 Gen 2 for wireless audio gear with support for spatial audio, improved ANC, lossless music, and more (Pranob Mehrotra/XDA Developers)

Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: Qualcomm announces the Qualcomm S3 Gen 2 and Qualcomm S5 Gen 2 for wireless audio gear with support for spatial audio, improved ANC, lossless music, and more  —  The new SoCs are optimized for Bluetooth LE Audio and unlock several premium audio experiences

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Sydney-based Advanced Navigation, a developer of AI robotics and navigation technology, raised a $68M Series B led by KKR, bringing its total funding to $85M+ (David Simmons/Business News Australia)

David Simmons / Business News Australia: Sydney-based Advanced Navigation, a developer of AI robotics and navigation technology, raised a $68M Series B led by KKR, bringing its total funding to $85M+  —  Moon-bound artificial intelligence robotics and navigation company Advanced Navigation has today announced the signing …

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1Password unveils “passkey” support for secure user logins to apps, and says it will work across platforms, including iOS and Android, coming in early 2023 (Jared Newman/Fast Company)

Jared Newman / Fast Company: 1Password unveils “passkey” support for secure user logins to apps, and says it will work across platforms, including iOS and Android, coming in early 2023  —  When Apple and Google announced their passwordless login systems earlier this year, they glossed over one major problem …

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Sources: Twitter has disabled badge access and shut down its offices until November 21, after a large number of employees chose to resign on Thursday (AJ McDougall/The Daily Beast)

AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast: Sources: Twitter has disabled badge access and shut down its offices until November 21, after a large number of employees chose to resign on Thursday  —  The temporary closure of the company’s offices comes as the billionaire is reportedly “terrified employees are going to sabotage the company.”

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Supercon Badge Reads A “Punch” Card

This year’s Hackaday Supercon, the first since 2019 thanks to the pandemic, was a very similar affair to those of the past. Almost every hardware-orientated hacker event has its own custom electronic badge, and Supercon was no different. This year’s badge is a simulation platform for a hypothetical 4-bit CPU created by our own [Voja

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Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk’s “hardcore” ultimatum (The Verge)

The Verge: Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk’s “hardcore” ultimatum  —  Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday  —  KEY POINTS  — Amazon will continue to lay off employees in the coming year, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to workers on Thursday.

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Source: Ella Irwin, Twitter’s VP of product focused on health and services since June 2022, will be the new head of trust and safety, replacing Yoel Roth (The Information)

The Information: Source: Ella Irwin, Twitter’s VP of product focused on health and services since June 2022, will be the new head of trust and safety, replacing Yoel Roth  —  Twitter executive Ella Irwin will take over as the head of trust and safety, replacing Yoel Roth, a well-known executive who resigned …

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Amphibious Dragster Drives On Water

Dragsters are typically about peak performance on a tarmac drag strip. [Engineering After Hours] took a different tack, though, building a radio-controlled amphibious dragster intended to cross small bodies of water. The build is based on a Traxxas Raptor RC car. However, it’s been heavily reworked from a pickup-like design to become a dragster with

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Analysis: Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank ~$5B due to its growing losses; his stake in the second Vision Fund is close to zero, down from $2.8B in 2021 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Analysis: Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank ~$5B due to its growing losses; his stake in the second Vision Fund is close to zero, down from $2.8B in 2021  —  Market crash also wipes out value of Japanese founder’s stake in second Vision Fund  —  Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank close …

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Sources: Elon Musk softens his remote work stance and is trying to convince staffers to stay, as more than anticipated opt to leave ahead of his 5pm ET deadline (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Elon Musk softens his remote work stance and is trying to convince staffers to stay, as more than anticipated opt to leave ahead of his 5pm ET deadline  —  Elon Musk’s deadline for Twitter Inc. employees to either commit to the company’s new “hardcore” work environment or leave is approaching.

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Roku lays off 200 US employees

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku has announced that it’s laying off 200 US employees, or around 7 percent of its workforce, according to Variety. According to the company’s statement, the cuts are meant to reduce its “headcount expenses” by around 5 percent as it tries to spend less on operations in the

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