Despite its age, Apple’s M1-equipped remains one of our go-to recs for anyone who can’t afford the latest MacBook Air but wants something lightweight and relatively fast. We’ve ever heralded it as one of the best laptops you can get, because of its long battery life, solid keyboard, and the strength of Apple’s M1 silicon, … Read more
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Something very scary is happening. It’s an internet-driven horror story that unfolds before us in three intertwining acts: (1) AI technology is improving fast enough that I had a bit of an existential crisis recently, wondering if I was … Read more
Heroes Jobs was recently acquired after realizing that his company wasn’t just better off Not all startups are built for a billion dollar exit – or even to grow as a standalone company. The appearance of easy-flowing follow-up funding probably led to the intense funding boom of the few years leading up to 2022. This … Read more
Incredibly, the activation algorithm for Windows XP has finally been completely cracked, allowing full offline activation, according to The register (through Ars Technica). A blog post on tinyapps covered a Reddit post discussing it, but the program that makes it possible has apparently been around for at least several months, possibly floating in the ether … Read more
Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for laptops and PCs, starts in a few days. A number of companies will be making big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia’s keynote opening the show on Monday morning. The keynote speaker is Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, … Read more
This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personality in a world where it’s getting harder every day to tell a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding. Led by 10-year-old Blockchain Capital, whose bets include Coinbase, Kraken and OpenSea, the investment brings Worldcoin’s funding to at … Read more
Google has finally started rolling out the beta of Magic Compose, its new Messages feature that uses AI to help you write text messages. However, as stated by android policethe feature comes with a pretty big caveat: it will send up to “20 past messages” to Google’s servers to generate suggestions – even if you’re … Read more
Google must pay Sonos $32.5 million for violating the company’s smart speaker patent. A jury ruled Friday in a San Francisco courtroom that Google’s smart speakers and media players infringed one of the two Sonos patents involved. Image: United States District Court for the Northern District of California “This is a narrow discussion about some … Read more
One of Bluesky’s potentially biggest features is here: custom algorithms, or what it calls “custom feeds”. The idea is that you can subscribe to feeds with algorithms tuned to show different kinds of posts than what you might see in Bluesky’s main “What’s Hot” feed. In practice, the custom feeds work much like Twitter lists. … Read more
While fans wait for season 3 of The witcherNetflix has already set its sights on season 5. In an interview with deadlineSophie Holland, the show’s casting director, explained, “We’re about to start filming for season four with Liam Hemsworth and there’s going to be a little hiatus and then we’ll go straight into season five.”