2024 Chevrolet Electric Silverado: What we know - Pocket Lint
45 startups shortlisted for the 2024 edition Of The Africatech Awards - TechMoran
5 Best VPN Services (2024): For Routers, PC, iPhone, Android, and More - Wired
5 features to try out in the new Photoshop Beta - Pocket Lint
5 things to know about the new Sonos app - Pocket Lint
7 signs to upgrade your AirPods - Pocket Lint
8 essential apps I have on my Google Pixel phone - Pocket Lint
A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer) - Techmeme
A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price (Adam Iscoe/New Yorker) - Techmeme
AGM G2 Guardian: Meet rugged smartphone made for extreme environments - Technology Times
AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO - Slashdot
An interview with Apple Arcade's Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all "critical metrics" in 2023, and will feature Vision Pro games (Keith Stuart/The Guardian) - Techmeme
An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz) - Techmeme
Apple Removes WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store Over Security Concerns - TechCity
As software gets better at labeling photos, CAPTCHA designers are adopting more difficult logic-based prompts to thwart nefarious bots (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 9000c: Price, Specs, Release Date - Wired
Berlin-based Parloa, which uses conversational AI to automate call center operations, raised a $66M Series B led by Altimeter, after a $21M Series A in 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Beyond making ends meet: Surprising reasons why employees juggle multiple jobs - Techpoint
Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees divestiture as a last resort (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Block lets Square merchants convert a part of their daily sales to bitcoin - Techcrunch
Block says it has finished the development of its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a "leading global semiconductor foundry" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - Techmeme
Braintree Attains the Status of LS Retail Diamond Partner - Itnewsafrica
Can Augmented Reality Be the Future of Cybersecurity - Itnewsafrica
Centre of Excellence for Fiber Optic Technicians Launched - Itnewsafrica
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers - Slashdot
China approves US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an ease on the crackdown (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Companies Overlook the African Cloud Ecosystem's Potential - Itnewsafrica
CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers - Hackers News
Diddo's new funding will bring its shoppable TV API to streaming platforms - Techcrunch
Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $50M Series B extension, sources say at a near $600M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Electric Vehicles: IZI Rwanda delivers 5 electric buses to ease public transportation in Kigali - Technext
Emails released as part of US v. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...) - Techmeme
eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners - Hackers News
EU's new right-to-repair rules force companies to repair out-of-warranty devices - Engadget
Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI - Slashdot
Exciting announcement: Introducing The Big Daily newsletter - Techcabal
Filings: in 2024, ByteDance and TikTok spent $7M+ combined on lobbying against the US TikTok bill; AdImpact: TikTok spent $4.5M+ on TV and digital ad campaigns (Brian Schwartz/CNBC) - Techmeme
Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000 - Slashdot
For the third time, Google delays the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome, pushing back its plans to early 2025 amid regulatory scrutiny (Seb Joseph/Digiday) - Techmeme
Former Magic Leapers launch a platform for AR experiences - Techcrunch
French startup FlexAI exits stealth with $30M to ease access to AI compute - Techcrunch
FTC bans employers from using noncompete clauses - Engadget
Futuristic Banking' Set to Launch in Victoria Falls - Itnewsafrica
Garmin Connect just got a lot more useful - Pocket Lint
Generative AI Arrives In the Gene Editing World of CRISPR - Slashdot
Google-backed Glance pilots Android lockscreen platform in US - Techcrunch
GSMA: Nigeria's PalmPay recognised as key driver of mobile money - Technology Times
Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more (Brian X. Chen/New York Times) - Techmeme
HashiCorp Reportedly Being Acquired By IBM - Slashdot
Hinge adds a way to mute requests containing words you specify - Techcrunch
How I use the AutoEq app to get the perfect custom sound - Pocket Lint
How Palantir, which doesn't have a traditional salesforce, is using software boot camps to attract customers, hosting an average of about five per day in 2024 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
How to Handle Online Harassment When It Happens to You - Wired
Huawei unveils Qiankun, a new business unit focused on providing self-driving systems, marking the company's latest push to become a major EV industry player (Reuters) - Techmeme
Imtiaz Patel steps down as MultiChoice Chairman three weeks after his reinstatement - Techpoint
In photos: The itel Horizon N8 smart watch - Technology Times
Infinix launches earbuds with AI, noise cancellation and smartwatch - Technext
Introducing Infinix's Smart Earbuds and Watch 1 (XW1): Your Ultimate Companion - TechCity
Investors request audit of The Peer's finances as it prepares to refund leftover capital - Techcabal