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Snap adds a Dual Camera feature to Snapchat for iOS, letting users capture photos and videos using their phone's front-facing and rear cameras simultaneously
Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach
HP announces two PCs, the 13.5-inch Dragonfly Folio G3, starting at $2,379, and 34-inch All in One, starting at $2,119, alongside a webcam and 4K display
Plex tells users to reset passwords immediately after a hacker accessed some data, including emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords
Instagram is internally testing Candid Challenges, a BeReal-like feature that gives users two minutes to take and share a photo at a different time each day
Techmeme · 3 months ago
A fifth of US teens use YouTube ‘almost constantly,’ with TikTok not far behind
Reddit · 4 months ago
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip 4, featuring the same 1.9" and 6.7" displays alongside battery and camera upgrades and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, starting at $999
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 hands-on: a fairly incremental but nice upgrade on the Flip 3, including improvements to durability and the 1.9-inch front display
Indonesia restored access to PayPal, Yahoo, and Valve services in the country after companies signed up to licensing rules introduced in 2020
Review of the OnePlus 10T, unveiled today for $649: Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and wired charging are fast, but water resistance is weak and 2MP macro camera is a bust
Crunchyroll drops prices in nearly 100 countries and territories, cutting the Mega Fan plan by 25% in the UK, nearly 50% in the UAE, and nearly 90% in India
Sony completes $3.6B deal to buy Bungie
Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
Hacker News · 4 months ago
Meta unveils Make-A-Scene, an exploratory AI research project that turns a user's sketches and text descriptions into 2,048 x 2,048-pixel images
Apple debuts iOS 16's first public beta, with widgets on the lock screen, iMessage edit and undo, and more, alongside public betas for macOS, watchOS, iPadOS
Xiaomi's new 12S Ultra smartphone features a 6.73-inch OLED screen and three rear cameras, including a 50MP main camera with a 1-inch sensor, starting at ~$900
NOAA triples its weather modeling capabilities with two supercomputers built by General Dynamics at a cost of $505M, each operating at a speed of 12.1 petaflops
Spotify replaces its Concert Hub with a Live Events Feed, populated by Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, See Tickets, and other partners
Uber relaunches Uber Pool, paused in March 2020, as UberX Share in NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh
Nreal releases a beta version of Steam for its AR glasses, expanding on support for Xbox Cloud Gaming
Firefox turns its Total Cookie Protection feature on by default on desktop, after launching it as opt-in in 2021
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 to be slimmer and transforms the XPS 13 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adds Intel's 9-watt 12th Gen CPUs, and more
IBM says it will wind down its business in Russia and lay off its workforce there, after suspending operations in the country in March
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
Apple says Metal 3 will support MetalFX Upscaling to offer better gaming performance; Resident Evil Village, No Man's Sky, and Grid Legends are coming to macOS
Instagram will start pushing Amber Alerts in feeds to notify users about missing children in their area, rolling out to 25 countries in the coming weeks
Techmeme · 6 months ago
After Google changed Play Store policies, Amazon removes in-app Kindle and Music purchases and direct audiobook purchases from Audible on Android
Techmeme · 6 months ago
Oura partners with Gucci on the Gucci x Oura Ring wearable, letting users monitor heart rate, sleep, and more, available at select stores for $1,100
Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs
Encrypted email service ProtonMail rebrands itself as Proton, and unifies its calendar, storage, and VPN products under Free, Mail Plus, and Unlimited plans
Acer unveils the 10.1" Chromebook Tab 510, starting at $400 in July, and the 14" Chromebook Spin 714 with a 12th Gen Intel Core i7, starting at $750 in August
AMD launches several C-series Ryzen 5000 CPUs for Chromebooks, starting with the Acer Chromebook Spin 514, HP Elite c645 G2 Chromebook, and others
Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter
Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
Amazon hits US sellers with a 5 percent fuel and inflation surcharge
Reddit · 8 months ago
TikTok is testing a way for users to dislike comments to help users "feel more in control" of what they see; dislike counts will be hidden
Fitbit receives FDA clearance for passive heart rhythm monitoring to detect signs of atrial fibrillation and will roll out the feature in the US soon
Twitter tests Unmentioning with some users on the web, a feature that lets users select "leave this conversation" on a tweet to avoid notifications
Alphabet's Wing division plans to begin drone delivery services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on April 7, starting with Walgreens' health and wellness products
FedEx partners with Elroy Air to trial the Chaparral C1 autonomous drone, which can carry up to 500 pounds of packages, in Texas next year
DoorDash launches a gas rewards program to help delivery drivers who hold the company's own DasherDirect Visa cards to mitigate the high cost of fuel
Google Domains comes out of beta in 26 countries, seven years after launch; the service now supports over 300 domain endings
Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs will be coming to Instagram sometime over the next several months, suggests users would be able to mint "within that environment"
Techmeme · 9 months ago
Israel's National Cyber Directorate says the country has recovered from a large-scale DDoS attack on Monday, which took down several government websites
Twitter and Meta removed posts by Russia's embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake
Apple details M1 Ultra, replacing the M1 Max as the top M1 chip, with 114B transistors, 128GB of unified memory, 16 performance cores, and four efficiency cores
Instagram will down-rank Russian state media posts, label the posts to discourage sharing, and hide follower details for private Ukraine and Russia accounts
Techmeme · 9 months ago