Month: May 2021
Apple tipped to launch a foldable phone in 2023 – We get you its details Foldable iPhone
One of the popular pastimes of the tech world, speculating about a possible foldable phone from the stable of Apple, is on again. Well-known and reliable Apple researcher Ming-Chi Kuo is suggesting that Apple is planning to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023.…
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WhatsApp-Indian govt faceoff may intensify WhatsApp dark mode
Ever since WhatsApp tweaked its privacy policy features, there has been a huge hue and cry against its plans. Especially in India, where WhatsApp and its Facebook have been dragged to the courts by the government itself even while the country’s fair trade regulator has started an independent probe against…
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Bibit raises another growth round led by Sequoia Capital India, this time for $65M
Four months after leading a $30 million growth round in Bibit, Sequoia Capital India has doubled down on its investment in the Indonesian robo-advisor app. Bibit announced today that the firm led a new $65 million growth round that also included participation from Prosus Ventures, Tencent, Harvard Management Company and…
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Gillmor Gang: Walk the Dinosaur
[embedded content] Clubhouse hosted another excellent conversation between Josh Constine and Facebook’s audio czar Fidji Simo. The format continues to sparkle, as I was once again forced to choose between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O’Donnell and just plain audio. JPA won going away. The talk was crisp and the…
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New trailers: Castlevania, West Side Story, Sweet Tooth, Luca, and more
Just started watching season four of The Handmaid’s Tale and I remember why I prefer the weekly release schedule for this show: Bingeing it is utterly draining (Monica Hesse makes this point much more eloquently in her mostly spoiler-free review in the Washington Post). The show has a conundrum: it…
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iFixit drilled a key ring hole into one of Apple’s AirTags in its latest teardown
The team over at iFixit has done its teardown thing again, this time examining Apple’s AirTag trackers. Part one of its two-part review digs into the guts of the little trackers, and for those lamenting the lack of a key ring loop on the AirTag, iFixit (carefully) drilled a hole…
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