John Abi-Habib is all about foresight and being on the cutting edge of whatever it is that he is involved in. Source: Faces of Bay Ridge: John Abi-Habib, a mover and a shaker
Read MoreCredit: Twitter The Asus Zenfone 9 has leaked in a series of press renders. The renders show a flat-sided phone with a flat display and a large dual-lens rear camera. Asus will formally launch the phone on July 28. Asus is one of the few companies left to create compact Android phones with higher-end specs.
Read MoreThe House committee’s investigation covering the deadly riot at the US Capitol will be streamed online for free—no subscription required.
Read MoreCNBC: The Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter an expedited five-day trial in October in its lawsuit against Elon Musk, who wanted the trial to begin in 2023 — – Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday. — Delaware Court …
Read MoreWhen it comes to renewable energy, there are many great sources. Whether it’s solar, wind, or something else, though, we need a lot of it. Factories around the globe are rising to the challenge to provide what we need. We can build plenty of new solar panels, of course, but we need to think about
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook’s News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy — Senior executive Campbell Brown told employees that products will be ‘put on the backburner’ — Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook …
Read MoreImage: Xbox Grounded, the survival co-op that combines elements of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and A Bug’s Life, is getting an animated TV adaptation, as first reported by Deadline. Brent Friedman of Star Wars: Clone Wars will write the story, with Halo 4’s Brien Goodrich sitting in the director’s chair. Grounded was developed by
Read MoreGoogle is going to test AR devices in the real world soon. | Image: Google Google is planning to test augmented reality (AR) prototypes in public beginning next month, the company announced Tuesday. Google has been exploring concepts like AR glasses that show translations in real time, but the company wants to take its ideas
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Netflix is home to the latest adaptation of the iconic video game series Resident Evil. The new show has had a mixed critical reception, and has one of Netflix’s lowest audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, it already has its die-hard fans, and it plays into a lot of familiar genre tropes. So,
Read MoreA Pandemic Legacy: Saving Lives The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to be felt, both in terms of human cost and the destruction it has wrought on the economies of the world. However, there looks to be a silver lining to the COVID cloud in the shape of medical research. Change in
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram adds a searchable map for exploring nearby popular tagged locations, which can be filtered by restaurants, cafes, beauty salons, and other categories — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing a new searchable and dynamic map experience on Instagram.
Read MoreBuzz Lightyear in Lightyear. | Image: Disney / Pixar Lightyear, Disney and Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear-focused movie that hit theaters in June, will be available to stream on Disney Plus beginning August 3rd. Get ready to blast off with Disney and Pixar’s #Lightyear, streaming August 3 only on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/K75UdXQQrg — Disney+ (@disneyplus) July 19, 2022
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is launching a new built-in fundraising tool called Twitch Charity to make it easier for streamers to run charity streams. Many streamers and organizations put on charity streams to help raise funds for causes they support. Right now, streamers often pledge donations, subscriptions, and Bits (Twitch’s virtual
Read MoreChristopher Zara / Fast Company: BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in the US App Store; Sensor Tower says it has topped 20M downloads — No doubt you’ve seen the innumerable recent hot takes about BeReal. The French photo app, launched in early 2020
Read MoreThere was a time, not so long ago, when folks who wanted to make their own custom PCBs would have found themselves in the market for a bucket of acid and a second-hand laser printer. These days, all you have to do is click a few buttons in your EDA program of choice and send
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The QA department at Blizzard Albany, the studio formerly known as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2’s Vicarious Visions, has become the second QA department within Activision Blizzard to organize a union. Today, we announce a new union at Activision Blizzard. QA is currently an undervalued discipline
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, there were a few concerns that the company was planning to dominate the nascent metaverse — but there’s one aggrieved party that’s only now going public. An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) announced Tuesday that it will be
Read MoreIf you had your keyboard repaired, you may be eligible for some money back. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has agreed to pay out $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit that said the company knew about flaws with the butterfly keyboard switches it built into several MacBook models (via
Read MoreErin Brodwin / Axios: Memo to staff: healthcare administration automation startup Olive AI, valued at $4B in July 2021, is laying off 450 employees, or about 31% of the company — Exit Content Preview … – “Our fast-paced growth and lack of focus strained our product and engineering resources and prevented us …
Read MoreThe cat from Stray. | Image: Annapurna Interactive The PlayStation Network experienced some issues on Tuesday. At the time, Sony’s PlayStation status page said that says that things like launching games, buying, downloading, and browsing games, and signing in to your account may have been impacted. The issues popped up just a few hours after
Read MoreKatyanna Quach / The Register: Google and Oracle report some of their cloud servers in the UK are temporarily offline, blaming cooling failures amid the country’s record-breaking heatwave — Clouds burst as nation hits 40C — Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have fallen offline due …
Read MoreRachael Levy / Reuters: Sources: Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla departs the Musk-backed startup, the latest in a string of departures at the brain implant startup — A founding member of Elon Musk’s Neuralink left the company in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter …
Read MoreDespite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New internal documents released Tuesday detail how three of Big Tech’s most prominent companies favored their own products as a means of stamping out competition. Their release comes as lawmakers push to approve stronger antitrust legislation by the end of the year. The documents were obtained by the
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