Month: April 2022
The Obamas are leaving Spotify for a new multiplatform podcast deal
Barack and Michelle Obama won’t be signing a new podcast deal with Spotify, Bloomberg reports, marking a major departure for the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground Productions. “The company is instead talking to other distributors about a deal worth tens of millions of dollars, among the most-lucrative in the podcasting…
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Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack can charge iPhones faster with a new firmware update
My favorite kind of software update is the kind that unlocks secret hardware features, and the Apple MagSafe Battery Pack is the latest surprise — you’ll be able to cordlessly charge an iPhone at a faster 7.5 watts instead of the original 5 watts, once you apply firmware update 2.7…
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Lexus finally reveals its all-electric RZ 450e SUV
Lexus gave us a glimpse at the 2023 RZ 450e today: an all-electric SUV with an estimated 225-mile range and a 71.4kWh battery. The company’s first-ever electric vehicle (EV) will also come with Direct4. That’s its new all-wheel-drive system that automatically calibrates weight distribution on all four wheels, leading to…
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Google says 2021 was a record year for zero-day hacks
Audio player loading… Google’s in-house security team has warned that zero-day security threats are becoming a bigger risk than ever before. In its annual round-up of the zero-day threat landscape, the Google Project Zero team noted that 58 distinct threats were identified in 2021, the biggest number seen since it…
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Tape storage is anything but dead, it’s going from strength to strength
Audio player loading… Tape storage is far from obsolete as a new report from the LTO Program has revealed that a record 148 exabytes of tape was shipped last year. LTO Program Technology Provider Companies HPE and IBM have released their annual tape media shipment report which shows that LTO…
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Coinbase launches social NFT marketplace in limited beta, just as NFT sales dive
Coinbase announced on Wednesday that its NFT marketplace is now in beta and accessible to “a small set of beta testers who’ll be invited based on their position” on its waitlist. The company is looking to take on established players in the space by adding social features, like a comment…
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