Jay Peters
Threads will now show you replies when you’re working on a reply.
This seems very useful!
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Umar Shakir
Jaguar follows up its ‘Copy Nothing’ campaign with a new car teaser.
The automaker is preparing for a big reveal of a new car in Miami on December 2nd — amidst the internet jeering at the perplexing “JaGUar” rebrand this week. Besides its HVAC-like appearance, the car’s rear seems to have a closed-off windshield, à la Polestar 4.
Gaby Del Valle
Chris Welch
This hub for Apple’s M4 Mac Mini brings back the USB-A ports.
Satechi’s new, perfectly-sized stand / hub for the M4 Mac Mini will be available this spring. You’ll be able to outfit it with NVMe storage without paying Apple’s ludicrous upgrade prices. And yes, it features several USB-A ports along with an SD card slot.
Pricing will be available closer to when it ships next year.
Image: Satechi
Lauren Feiner
Apple and Google may have to verify users’ ages through their app stores under a coming bill.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. John James (R-MI) are prepping a new bill granting Meta’s wish of putting the onus for age verification on app store operators, The Washington Post reports. Parents could reportedly sue those companies if their kids are exposed to things like sexual material, but businesses could shield themselves by implementing age verification.
Analysis | Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users’ ages
[The Washington Post]
Thomas Ricker
LG is reorganizing.
The move will “enhance synergy” and “foster synergies” all while “creating greater synergy,” according to the announcement that mentions synergy seven times.
Thomas Ricker
Google responds to DOJ’s ‘extreme proposal.’
Alphabet’s top lawyer says the agency’s proposed remedies, which include selling off Chrome, are part of “a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership.”
If adopted, Kent Walker says the security and privacy “of millions of Americans” would be endangered, trade secrets would be sent to foreign companies, AI progress and innovation would be stymied, and the world as we know it would basically end.
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Verge Score
The 25L model is an improvement on perfection, but not without some help.
Thomas Ricker
