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Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we've generally been fans of the company's modular, repairable,...
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The Pixel 9 reportedly gears up for satellite SOS support
Enlarge / The smaller Pixel 9, with three cameras?! (credit: OnLeaks and 91 mobiles ) Google has been doing a lot of work in Android to support satellite-based messaging, and it sure would be nice if...
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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris McGrath ) YouTube is putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. An ominous post on the official YouTube Community Help forum titled "Enforcement on Third...
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The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur
Enlarge / O.B., aka Ouroboros, in Marvel's Loki show, which streams on Disney+. (credit: Marvel) Despite promises of new and improved TV and movie viewing experiences, streaming services remain...
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Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been a soda named "Spaces" that had a cult following. (credit: Getty Images) Anybody can contribute to...
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Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It's easy to get the impression that Discord chat messages are ephemeral, especially across different public servers, where lines fly upward at a near-unreadable pace....
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Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
Enlarge / The new, all-electric Atlas. (credit: Boston Dynamics) The humanoid robotics market is starting to heat up, and the company that's been doing this the longest isn't going to sit by and...
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This app tries to do what Apple couldn’t: Multiple Mac monitors on Vision Pro
Enlarge / Here it is: two virtual Mac displays in Vision Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple's Vision Pro headset holds the promise to be a powerful extension of your Mac workflow, but the Mac...
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Google’s latest layoffs are in finance and real estate
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup | Getty Images) Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised more layoffs at Google this year, and the company is delivering. Business Insider was the first to report the latest cuts...
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Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
Enlarge / Google HQ. (credit: Getty Images) Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division: They're merging! Google Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh will lead the new...
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Prime Video looking to fix “extremely sloppy mistakes” in library, report says
Enlarge / Morfydd Clark is Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. (credit: Amazon Studios) Subscribers lodged thousands of complaints related to inaccuracies in Amazon's Prime Video...
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Roku forcing 2-factor authentication after 2 breaches of 600K accounts
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Everyone with a Roku TV or streaming device will eventually be forced to enable two-factor authentication after the company disclosed two separate incidents in which...
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Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera
Enlarge / The Huawei Pura 70 Ultra. That red ring around the camera lens is how far it moves. (credit: Huawei) Huawei is still out there making phones, even if it has been shunned by the US government...
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CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot
Enlarge (credit: Getty) On March 29, 2022, CNN+, CNN's take on a video streaming service, debuted. On April 28, 2022, it shuttered, making it the fastest shutdown of any launched streaming service....
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Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium...
Enlarge (credit: Getty) What comes after OLED? With OLED-equipped TVs, monitors, and other gadgets slowly becoming more readily available at lower prices, attention is turning to what the next...
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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip
Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which allowed Apple II users to run the CP/M operating system. (credit: Microsoft) Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog...
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Apple reportedly plans M4 Mac mini for late 2024 or early 2025, skipping the M3
Enlarge / The M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Bloomberg's Mark Gurman thinks that Apple's M4 chips for Macs are coming sooner rather than later—possibly as early as "late this year," per...
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Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand
Enlarge (credit: Open Home Foundation) Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform is an open source OS you can run anywhere that...
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First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
Enlarge / OnLeak's renders of the Pixel 9 Pro XL, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the Pixel 9. (credit: OnLeaks / 91Mobiles / MySmartPrice) The usual timeline would put the Google Pixel 9 at something like five...
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Meta debuts Horizon OS, with Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft on board
Enlarge / The Meta Quest Pro at a Best Buy demo station in October 2022. Meta will open up the operating system that runs on its Quest mixed reality headsets to other technology companies, it...
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