5 reasons to buy AirPods Max over Bose 700 NC - Pocket Lint
5 things to know about ANC - Pocket Lint
8 questions that tell you everything you need to know about the bitcoin halving - Techpoint
A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his "code is law" claim (Crystal Kim/Axios) - Techmeme
Acer's $400 Chromebook Plus 514 has up to 512GB of storage - Pocket Lint
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones - BBC
Apple brings AirPlay to select hotels - Pocket Lint
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Apple says it was ordered it to remove WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store - Engadget
Blizzard takes aim at Overwatch 2 console cheaters - Engadget
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 - Slashdot
Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app - BBC
Canal+ increases MultiChoice stake to 40.8% - Techcabal
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data - Slashdot
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - Slashdot
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme - Slashdot
Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
eTranzact says consumer-focused products are its future revenue driver - Techcabal
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students - Slashdot
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack - Slashdot
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams in Research to DeepMind (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) - Techmeme
Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive "CR4T" Backdoor - Hackers News
How to use AirPlay during your next hotel stay - Pocket Lint
Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks - Techcrunch
Internal draft: UK's ICO says Google's Privacy Sandbox falls short and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine privacy of users who should be anonymous (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them - Techcrunch
It took 20 years for Children of the Sun to become an overnight success - Engadget
Latest news for students sitting for JAMB from April 19 to 29 2024 - Techcabal
Meta AI Gets New Features, Expands Into More Countries - TechCity
Meta claims both Llama 3 models beat similarly sized models like Gemini, Mistral, and Claude 3 on certain benchmarks; humans marked Llama 3 higher than GPT-3.5 (Emilia David/The Verge) - Techmeme
Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January (Kris Holt/Engadget) - Techmeme
Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp - Slashdot
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3 - Wired
Meta's Quest 2 will now only cost you $199 - Pocket Lint
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide) - Techmeme
My 5 favorite hidden iPad features - Pocket Lint
NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From - Wired
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% - Slashdot
Netflix is done telling us how many people use Netflix - Engadget
Netflix profits soar after password crackdown - BBC
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY (Sarah Whitten/CNBC) - Techmeme
Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its "best proxy for customer satisfaction" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System - Slashdot
Nothing Ear vs Nothing Ear (a): Which bud is for you - Pocket Lint
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100 GPUs for Reels, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, the metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) - Techmeme
Reddit Is Taking Over Google - Slashdot
Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra review: A smart cleaner - Pocket Lint
Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide) - Techmeme
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash - Slashdot
Sophos researchers find "crude", cheap ransomware tools being sold on the dark web, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks (James Reddick/The Record) - Techmeme
Surprise: Taylor Swift is joining Threads on the day her new album drops - Engadget
TechCabal Daily ' Wema Bank unlists seven fintechs - Techcabal
The bill that could ban TikTok is barreling ahead - Engadget
The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem - Wired
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop - Slashdot
Washington, DC-based Cape, which is developing a mobile service that doesn't ask for customers' personal data, raised a $40M Series B co-led by A-Star and a16z (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
We Finally Know Where Neuralink's Brain Implant Trial Is Happening - Wired
What is Thread' The smart home protocol explained - Pocket Lint
WhatsApp integrates Meta AI to change messaging experience - Techcabal
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Meta releases Llama 3, claims it's among the best open models available - Techcrunch
Meta rolls out an updated AI assistant, built with the long-awaited Llama 3 - Engadget
Meta rolls out real-time AI image generation, which changes the image as the user types a prompt, in beta on WhatsApp and Meta AI on the web in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Milo Action Communicator: Hassle-Free Comms Without Your Smartphone - Wired
MTAC report: foreign malign influence from Russia, China, and Iran in the US presidential election got off to a slower start this year compared to 2016 and 2020 (Clint Watts/Microsoft On the Issues) - Techmeme
MTN and Huawei's newly inaugurated tech lab in South Africa will focus on 5G, AI - Techpoint
Netflix will stop tossing coins to The Witcher after season five - Engadget
New Android Trojan 'SoumniBot' Evades Detection with Clever Tricks - Hackers News
Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions - Slashdot
Nigeria's ngCERT alerts of new threats to Android users - Technology Times
Nigerian women and people with disability continue to face discrimination across digital spaces, new study finds - Techpoint
Nintendo emulator Delta hits the iOS App Store, no sideloading required - Engadget
Nintendo's Indie World Showcase announcements 2024 - Pocket Lint
Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a) Review: Third Time, Still Charming - Wired
Nothing unveils the $149 Nothing Ear and $99 Nothing Ear (a), offering improved sound, personalization, and battery life; Nothing plans to integrate ChatGPT (Chris Welch/The Verge) - Techmeme
Nothing's Ear and Ear (a) earbuds with active noise cancellation are now available for pre-order - Engadget
Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support - Slashdot
OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade - Hackers News
Orbex's new funding may accelerate its Prime microlauncher into orbit - Techcrunch
Playdate developers have made more than $500K in Catalog sales - Engadget
Post-CEO exit, Cellulant appoints new leaders, shifts focus to profitability - Techcabal
Quicken Simplifi subscriptions are half off through April 21 - Engadget
Rad Power Bikes Radster Road Review: Safety First - Wired
Ramp raises another $150M co-led by Khosla and Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation - Techcrunch
Razer's Kishi Ultra gaming controller works with damn near everything, including some foldables - Engadget
Recover from Ransomware in 5 Minutes'We will Teach You How! - Hackers News
Research suggests GPT-4 surpassed or achieved the same scores as all but top-scoring specialist medics in assessing ocular problems and suggesting treatments (Michael Peel/Financial Times) - Techmeme
RFK Jr.'s Very Online, Conspiracy-Filled Campaign - Wired
Robots can make jobs less meaningful for human colleagues - Techcrunch
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE vs Galaxy Tab S9: What's the difference - Pocket Lint
Samsung's Galaxy A35 midrange smartphone is officially available in the US - Engadget
Screen Skinz raises $1.5 million seed to create custom screen protectors - Techcrunch
Sega is turning Golden Axe into an animated series - The Verge
SHELT launches new business unit in Nigeria to provide cloud and cybersecurity services - Technext
Slack rolls out its AI tools to all paying customers - Engadget
Sonos refurbished speakers and soundbars are up to $170 off right now - Engadget
Soundcore C30i Clip-on Earbud review: The perfect Bose dupe - Pocket Lint
Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (The Information) - Techmeme
Sources: Micron could get $6B+ in chip grants from the US Commerce Department for domestic factory projects; the award could be announced as soon as next week (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Supergiant shows off Hades II's gameplay and new god designs - Engadget
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration - Slashdot
Tech Life: Fixing undersea cables - BBC
TechCabal Daily ' MarketForce shuts down RejaReja - Techcabal
TechCrunch Minute: NASA needs your help to bring rocks back from Mars - Techcrunch
Telegram Nearing One Billion Users, Founder Says App Should Remain Neutral - TechMoran
Tesla pushes for $56bn pay deal for Elon Musk - BBC
Tesla Semi charging corridor project is still alive despite Biden admin funding snub - Techcrunch
Tesla's Layoffs Won't Solve Its Growing Pains - Wired
The 5 best mechanical keyboards for 2024 - Engadget
The 6 Best Handheld Gaming Consoles (2024): Switch, Steam Deck, and More - Wired
The HD Chromecast with Google TV is on sale for only $20 - Engadget
The iPhone 12 now supports faster Qi2 wireless charging - Pocket Lint
The Morning After: Is the new Zephyrus G16 any good - Engadget
The OnePlus Watch 2 is what redemption looks like - The Verge
The Pixel 7A is a knockout at its record-low $349 - The Verge
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived - Wired
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer - Wired
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans it from lending for 10 years for deceiving students on loans, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
The US NIST appoints as head of AI safety former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, who has been criticized for "AI doomer" views and ties to effective altruism (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
There's a syndicate within Nigeria that was leveraging arbitrage in a heavy and hurtful manner to the naira." - Ray Youssef - Techpoint