reader comments 133 Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that aims to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are interested in pushing products to users through seemingly legitimate accounts. In a blog post today, Reddit announced ..
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reader comments 61 The Polestar Phone. Someday it will unlock your Polestar car. There are a few Polestar decorations, like the logo on the back and camera specs on each of the lenses. There’s a side Polestar logo, too. The box. It comes with a charger. The Polestar UI. This is the “Polestar Link” picture. ..
reader comments 37 Will Chrome, the world’s most popular browser, ever kill third-party cookies? Apple and Mozilla both killed off the user-tracking technology in 2020. Google, the world’s largest advertising company, originally said it wouldn’t kill third-party cookies until 2022. Then in 2021, it delayed the change until 2023. In 2022, it delayed everything again, ..
Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasable computers in the next couple of months after years of speculation and another year or so of hype. For those who haven’t been following along, this will allegedly be Qualcomm’s first Arm processor for Windows PCs that does ..
Enlarge / I have hundreds of UUIDs and I must scream. (credit: Getty Images) The modern “smart” TV asks a lot of us. In exchange for connecting you to a few streaming services you use, a TV will collect data, show ads, and serve as another vector for bad actors. In a few reported cases, ..
Enlarge / The Thermonator robot flamethrower dog. (credit: Throwflame) If you’ve been wondering when you’ll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived. The Thermonator, what Throwflame bills as “the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog” is now available for purchase. The price? $9,420. Thermonator is ..
Enlarge / The Meta Quest Pro at a Best Buy demo station in October 2022. reader comments 87 Meta will open up the operating system that runs on its Quest mixed reality headsets to other technology companies, it announced today. What was previously simply called Quest software will be called Horizon OS, and the goal ..
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Open Home Foundation reader comments 101 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 aims to connect all your devices together. But it’s also bespoke Raspberry Pi hardware, in Yellow and Green. It’s entirely free, but it ..
reader comments 16 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 landmark consumer display tech will be. Micro LED often features in such discussions, but the tech is not expected to start hitting consumer devices until the ..
