Month: February 2024
Christian Selig makes the YouTube Vision Pro app that Google wouldn’t
Although it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno supports most of the features you’d expect out of a native YouTube app. You can watch videos (obviously), scrub and skip through them using pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the videos’ aspect ratios. Browsing YouTube’s catalog is also supported (though you can’t…
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What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users
We spoke with a product manager at Meta to learn how the company plans to bring interoperability to Threads in the coming months. It faces both technical and cultural challenges. Source
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Why Is There Lead in Stanley Cups or Other Reusable Water Bottles?
Stanley says it uses some lead in its “industry-standard” manufacturing process, so we asked if other brands do the same. Source
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AWS sees another record year for Amazon as AI push drives cloud growth
Amazon has unveiled its latest quarterly results, revealing in the three months leading up to December 31, 2023, it drew in $170 billion in revenue, marking a 14% increase over the previous quarter. Of that, $24.2 billion was driven by its cloud division, Amazon Web Services, representing a 13% increase…
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Zoom is cutting hundreds more jobs as conditions fail to improve
Zoom has announced another round of layoffs reportedly pushed by its investors’ desire for greater efficiency in response to an evolving market and a continually tough economy. The video conferencing company announced it would be making 150 workers redundant, accounting for around 2% of its current headcount, according to CNBC.…
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Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So,…
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