Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo tells Politico she’s driving her team “hard.” She wants to commit the remaining money from the $50 billion bill meant to enhance the domestic semiconductor manufacturing industry before Trump — who’s criticized the bill — takes over. Once that happens, Raimondo says, “I don’t worry terribly about any of the chips money being rolled back.”
According to Shazam, that’s equal to 12 songs named for each person on Earth.
There will never be another show quite like HBO’s The Wire. But Apple TV Plus sounds like it’s going to try to recapture that magic with Dope Thief, Peter Craig’s new series based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel about “long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise.”
The first two (of eight) episodes premiere on March 14th.
Casetify has a new collection of cases and accessories inspired by Salvador Dali’s artwork. The standouts include a $100 melting clock iPhone case and a $55 Apple Watch case based on The Persistence of Memory, plus a $65 AirPods Pro case that wraps the earbuds in a pair of red lips from Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment.
An update to the company’s Flic Hub LR Controller allows users to program custom commands for Matter devices, including those connected to Flic’s Button and Twist controllers.
Matter support in FlicScript — a JavaScript-based scripting API — will let you “subscribe and send commands to and from any Matter device” (up to 1.2) and create custom solutions for your smart home.
Flic launched the first independent Matter Controller earlier this year.
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As an entry-level device, the FE doesn’t quite nail the right mix of price, features, and hardware.
