Month: December 2023
Android phones may finally be getting a battery health indicator
Google might finally start telling you when your Android phone has a degraded battery, Android expert Mishaal Rahman wrote in an article for Android Authority. Unlike iPhone users, who have been able to see their phone’s battery health stats from their settings for a long time, Android owners currently need…
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Phison to showcase high-speed innovations at CES 2024 – including a Gen 5 SSD that’s faster than anything else on the market
As CES 2024 prepares to kick off on Tuesday, January 9, Taiwanese electronics company Phison has unveiled its plans for the largest trade show in the consumer electronics industry. The company will be using the event to take the wraps off its PS5026-E26 Max14um platform for top-tier PCIe Gen5 SSDs.…
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Apple officially stops selling its latest Apple Watches online
It’s no longer possible to buy Apple’s latest flagship smartwatches, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, from the company’s online store. Apple has removed the devices from sale due to a forthcoming import ban imposed by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) that’s due to take…
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Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse. While…
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Netflix milks ‘Squid Game’ again with a $39 in-person ‘experience’
At its heart, Squid Game is a critique of capitalism and yet, Netflix can’t stop finding ways to squeeze money from it. After renewing the show for a second season and then debuting a reality show based on the series, Netflix opened a pop-up experience in Los Angeles where fans…
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Fun while it lasted – Beeper Mini’s grand iMessage experiment is officially over
Beeper Mini is officially no more. The developer is calling it quits in trying to find new workarounds for bringing iMessage to Android devices. Instead, Beeper would much rather work on its own projects and achieve its goal “of building the best chat app on Earth.” The developer goes on…
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