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Chinese internet giant Baidu has said it was cancelling the planned multi-billion-dollar purchase of livestreaming platform YY Live, partly blaming its inability to get government approval. Baidu, the country’s top search engine company, agreed in 2020 to buy JOYY Inc’s Chinese live video business YY Live for $3.6 billion. Baidu founder Robin Li said at […]
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A new report by TrendForce indicates that prices will increase dramatically for NAND Flash suppliers like Samsung, Kioxia, SK Hynix, and Micron to return to profitability. The price hike could be as high as 50% for NAND Flash (in the short term), leading to SSD prices increasing dramatically in 2024. “Major domestic players in the […]
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Portable projectors have grown in popularity recently, and it’s not hard to see why. They offer an easy way to turn a space into a makeshift cinema with a 100+ inch screen to watch movies and TV shows. At CES 2024, we’re likely to see many different makes and models, and one that is sure […]
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Has humanity reached its limits to understand and manage accelerating change? HAL 9000. From 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick Immediately following the reinstatement of Sam Altman as CEO at OpenAI, Vinod Khosla, the company’s first institutional investor, spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Ed Ludlow. Behind the placid face of the legendary investor – […]
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LG has teased its new MyView Smart Monitor family of displays ahead of CES 2024, with the new monitors featuring some nice tricks up their sleeves. LG’s new MyView smart monitor (source: LG) The upcoming LG MyView 2024 smart monitors have a similar design style to Apple’s own Studio Display, with the smart monitors designed […]
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“Sorry everyone! Sony is having issues with their projectors that is preventing us from being able to project movies at some of our theaters today.” That’s what theater chain Alamo Drafthouse social media sites on New Year’s Eve, adding that it was closing five theaters entirely for the rest of the day as a result. […]
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Dynamic Color was previously Chrome for Android’s primary expression of Material You, but the New Tab Page (NTP) is now seeing a redesign. Update 1/1/24 : If these Material You tweaks for the Chrome (120) New Tab Page aren’t rolled out on your Android device, use this flag: As a reminder, you can use this […]
Read More The best new books about stargazing, astronomy and space exploration that will be published in 2024. The night sky is the most exciting, precious and threatened resource we humans have. Since it’s always been central to the human experience of the world, it offers a rich vein for writers, but most books on the subject […]
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Featuring an excellent ensemble cast led by the award-winning Toby Jones, this new miniseries depicts the shocking true story of the Post Office Scandal: one of the greatest miscarriages of British justice. Below, we’ll show you how to watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office from anywhere with a VPN — and potentially for FREE. […]
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As the new year approaches, many of us are reminded of all the things we accomplished this year — getting a promotion, being more productive or even showing up to places on time — as well as things we failed to do. (There may or may not be a barely used foldable WalkingPad collecting dust […]
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