Month: March 2023
Hitting the Books: How the ‘Godfather of Cybercrime’ got his start on eBay
The internet has connected nearly everybody on the planet to a global network of information and influence, enabling humanity’s best and brightest minds unparalleled collaborative capabilities. At least that was the idea, more often than not these days, it serves as a popular medium for scamming your more terminally-online relatives…
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Succession’s final season doubles down on its core conceit — to a fault
At its core, HBO’s Succession has always been a story about people doing everything in their power to attack and dethrone the only god they truly worship and crave validation from — a very wealthy, very human man who, rather understandably, thinks of everyone he meets as morons. Succession has…
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An incoming Android tweak stops your phone from blinding you in the dark
We’re still some way off from getting any real news about Android 14 from Google, but the tweaks and updates are still appearing for Android 13 – and one that’s apparently in the pipeline will stop your phone’s screen from blinding you in the dark. As spotted by Mishaal Rahman…
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ChatGPT started a new kind of AI race — and made text boxes cool again
It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing consumer app in history, before it turned the phrase “generative pre-trained transformers” into common vernacular, before every company you can think of was racing to adopt its underlying model, ChatGPT…
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Lectric XP 3.0 Review: Clunky but Comfy
This fat-tire electric bike is more refined than before and still an affordable (if heavy) way to get around town. Source
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All businesses will soon be able to offer their own debit cards
Global payments solution provider Checkout.com has unveiled a new debit card issuing service for businesses to tap into the lucrative embedded finance market. Online travel, marketplaces, and digital banking are all said to have been pivotal to the explosion in embedded finance in recent years, according to Checkout.com CPO Meron…
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