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03-Aug-2023 – Nokia Keeps the Dream of the ’90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones

Brief Summary: “The Nokia 130 and 150 are two new updated feature phones from Nokia that ship “with the form of an e”

03-Aug-2023 – The Time Before Gender Ideology

Brief Summary: ”

Another collaboration with Becky Hawkins!

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
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03-Aug-2023 – Etsy Scrambling To Avert a Widespread Sellers’ Strike

Brief Summary: “An Etsy boycott initiated by UK-based sellers over its payment system has gotten the American compan”

03-Aug-2023 – The FCC fines a multi-national robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pretending to sell auto warranties to collect people’s personal information, a record $300M (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Brief Summary: ”
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The FCC fines a multi-national robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pre”

03-Aug-2023 – HBO Max Was Renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery Lost Subscribers

Brief Summary: “Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the three months following the launch of Max.”

03-Aug-2023 – Windows Weekly 840: Buried in Corn

Brief Summary: “Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 11 23H2 in the Beta channel, Microsoft 365, .NET 8, Activisio”

03-Aug-2023 – Raspberry Pi Availability Is Visibly Improving After Years of Shortages

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has been saying f”

02-Aug-2023 – Cory Doctorow’s New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game

Brief Summary: “Cory Doctorow, author, digital rights advocate, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, has launched “

02-Aug-2023 – For $8 a month, you can pretend like you never paid for Twitter

Brief Summary: “If you paid for Twitter Blue and now regret it because of the blue badge that adorns your profile, T”

02-Aug-2023 – GameStop To Remove Crypto Wallets Citing ‘Regulatory Uncertainty’

Brief Summary: “Video game retailer GameStop said it will remove its support for crypto wallets citing regulatory un”

02-Aug-2023 – ‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Brief Summary: “Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abru”

02-Aug-2023 – Second Life – Senra Avatars

Brief Summary: “As part of improvements to onboarding new Second Life users, a project by Linden Lab known as the “N”

02-Aug-2023 – FIZZ have shared their cathartic new single, ‘As Good As It Gets’

Brief Summary: ”
FIZZ have shared a new single, ‘As Good As It Gets’.

The band – dodie, Orla Gartland, Greta Isaa”

01-Aug-2023 – Biden Reverses Trump Decision, Keeps Space Command In Colorado

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: President Joe Biden has determined that Colorado “

01-Aug-2023 – Meta Is Reportedly Planning An Abe Lincoln Chatbot As Part of a Public AI Push

Brief Summary: “According to the Financial Times, Meta is preparing to launch AI-enabled chatbots with unique person”

01-Aug-2023 – Orla Gartland is back with a massive new track, ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever’

Brief Summary: ”
Orla Garland has returned with a brand new track, ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever’.

Following up on 2021’s”

01-Aug-2023 – Why EVs Are ‘Piling Up’ at Dealerships, Despite Massive Taxpayer Subsidies

Brief Summary: “Ford Motor recently announced it is slashing prices on its F-150 Lightning, an electric vehicle the “

30-Jul-2023 – Antarctica is Missing an Argentina-Sized Amount of Sea Ice This Year

Brief Summary: “The world just broke “another terrifying climate record,” reports CNN:

Antarctic sea ice has fallen”

30-Jul-2023 – Is AI Dangerous? James Cameron Says ‘I Warned You Guys in 1984 and You DIdn’t Listen’

Brief Summary: “”Oscar-winning Canadian filmmaker James Cameron says he agrees with experts in the AI field that adv”

29-Jul-2023 – A Game Boy Camera, Without The Game Boy

Brief Summary: “We all know the Nintendo Game Boy camera peripheral, and we’ve seen plenty of hacks for it on these “