• OnePlus teases tablet, mechanical keyboard

    1 month ago - By Tech Crunch

    This morning, OnePlus made a pair of big announcements: the OnePlus 11 smartphone and the Buds Pro 2. All in all, a good morning for the Oppo-owned phone maker after months of teasing the products. But as the company is looking to reassert itself under new ownership and is deep in the throes of a flagging mobile market, it revealed that it's got a few more tricks waiting in the wings.
    A while back, I would have scratched my head at the notion of entering the tablet market at such a mature stage, but we're living in weird times here. Along with PCs, the category got a boost at the beginning...
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  • EU's top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation

    EU's top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation

    1 month ago - By Tech Crunch

    A controversial move by Twitter-owner Elon Musk to end free access to its APIs by February 9 has attracted criticism from the European Union's top diplomat who has warned it could threaten the ability of researchers to study disinformation at a critical time - with Russia aggressively weaponizing disinformation to try to provide cover for its war in Ukraine.
    In a speech today, detailing how the bloc has responded to Russia stepping up online disinformation campaigns since its invasion of Ukraine last February, high commissioner Josep Borrell urged more research into how social media...
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  • The odds of the US slipping into recession are now just 25% thanks to a surge in jobs, Goldman Sachs says

    The odds of the US slipping into recession are now just 25% thanks to a surge in jobs, Goldman Sachs says

    1 month ago - By Business Insider

    The odds of a US recession have shortened, Goldman Sachs said. Maskot/Getty Images
    There's now just a 25% chance the US suffers a recession within 12 months, Goldman Sachs said Monday.
    Surging job numbers contributed to the bank revising its forecast down from odds of 35%.
    The US added a better-than-expected 517,000 jobs in January, according to data released Friday.
    There's now just a 25% chance the US economy slips into a recession over the coming year, according to Goldman Sachs. A combination of surging job numbers and steadily improving business sentiment led to the upgrade in...
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  • Paying Twitter subscribers made up less than 0.2% of monthly users in the US 2 months after Elon Musk introduced Blue, report says

    1 month ago - By Business Insider

    After his takeover, Elon Musk launched subscription service Blue. Getty Images
    US Twitter subscribers made up less than 0.2% of monthly users in January, per The Information.
    This was two months after Elon Musk launched Twitter Blue, the platform's $8 blue tick feature.
    The publication cited documentation that implied Twitter has 290,000 global subscribers.
    Twitter subscribers in the US made up less than 0.2% of monthly users in January, two months after Elon Musk introduced Blue, The Information reported Monday, citing a document. This means that as of the middle of January, about 180,000...
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