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11 Oct 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
Last night, or this morning, depending on where you are in the world, Tesla unveiled the new Robotaxi and Robovan. There was a side effect that no one foresaw, but we should have. The thing is, the 'buy the rumour, sell the news' mantra is real, an...
2 Oct 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
Meta has been fined (again) for privacy violations (again). Meta has been accused of exposing Instagram and Facebook passwords of up to 600 million users by storing them incorrectly, leaving them accessible to over 20,000 Meta employees. This is ki...
26 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
OpenAi's transition from non-profit organization to for-profit company is almost complete. After the last funding round, OpenAI is nearing a $150 billion, and Sam Altman aims to keep a 7 percent equity stake into the company, meaning his net worth w...
14 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Where I'm from, you sue somebody, be it a company or an individual, if there's a reason. It means something, usually serious, happened. But it seems to me that, in the US, lawsuits are just a form of communication. A good example of this is the wa...
10 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
So Apple launched a bunch of new things that, as ever, aren't particularly new. Out of all the new products and features unveiled, there was one that flew under the radar, until today. For the AirPods, people knew about AirPods 4, and they talked a...
3 Sep 2024 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted
Yahoo is one of the OGs, it's been around pretty much since the internet was invented. But the problem is Yahoo made at least three questionable decisions. Sure, hindsight is always 20/20, and Yahoo is still alive, employing thousands of people and...
3 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
In the summer of 2020, I had a brief relationship with a person who owned one of those Amazon's Echo Alexa thingies. I used Alexa every day for about three months and it was fun, in a way. But Amazon has since sort of forgotten about Alexa. The com...
29 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
According to the Jakartaglobe, a publication in Indonesia, the country is reportedly considering banning Telegram. Telegram is a hugely popular app in Indonesia, by the way. The reason, alas, is lack of moderation. According to Indonesian authorit...
26 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Apple is finally giving us a date for this year's iPhone launch event. The event, dubbed 'Glowtime', will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino, California at 10 AM PT time (so that's 6 PM UK) on September 9. Apple is set to unveil the new iPhone 16,...
18 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
We sometimes forget that Beats, formerly known as Beats by Dre, is now owned Apple. And we tend to forget that because that's the way Apple wants it, because if there's one thing Apple knows is marketing. The thing is, Beats was already successful,...
