Month: February 2024
I see your 67W USB-C charger and raise you one with a tiny Macintosh screen
When my colleague Chris Welch shared his favorite USB-C travel charger with the world last week, I took it as a challenge. I humbly submit that my charger is just as small and powerful as his Belkin — and it has a built-in screen and power meter so you can…
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Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic to create ‘persistent universe’ tied to Fortnite
In addition to being a world-class games experience and interoperating with Fortnite, the new persistent universe will offer a multitude of opportunities for consumers to play, watch, shop and engage with content, characters, and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar, and more. Players, gamers, and fans will be…
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Spyware risks are rising fast, and you should definitely be worried — even Google says so
Companies developing spyware and offering spying services to government agencies and threat actors around the world are growing in number, and to make matters worse, for all of them – business is good. This is according to a new report from Google, which highlights the growing concern of commercially developed…
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Landline Phone Owners Are Protesting AT&T’s Plans to Drop Service
In California, AT&T is designated as the Carrier of Last Resort. The fight is on to keep it that way. Source
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Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them
Apple researchers released a new model that lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software. The MGIE model, which Apple worked on with the University of California, Santa Barbara, can crop, resize, flip, and add filters to images…
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Toyota overcomes its EV skepticism to announce a three-row electric SUV for the US
Toyota is pumping $1.3 billion into its factory in Kentucky for “future electrification efforts,” including the production of a currently unnamed three-row electric SUV for the US market. The news comes as a bit of a surprise, as the largest automaker in the world is also one of the most…
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