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- Uber and Lyft extend legal fee coverage to drivers sued under Oklahoma’s forthcoming abortion law
- Baidu and Pony.ai become first robotaxi services to operate without safety drivers in Beijing
- Telegram now lets users send cryptocurrency through TON blockchain spinoff
- The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google’s trying to make a flagship
- This chart might explain why CNN Plus shut down early
- Save $20 off a new Nintendo Switch at Woot
- Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it
- Sony clamps down on PlayStation Now subscription stacking to protect its upcoming Premium service
- Every ridiculous thing we learned today about Elon Musk’s plan to take over Twitter
- Netflix has canceled Space Force after two seasons
| Uber and Lyft extend legal fee coverage to drivers sued under Oklahoma’s forthcoming abortion law Posted: 30 Apr 2022 12:22 PM PDT  Uber and Lyft have both pledged to cover legal fees in case their drivers are sued under Oklahoma's restrictive abortion bill, according to a report from CNBC. While the bill has not yet been signed into law, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt is expected to approve it within the next few days. On Friday, Oklahoma's House passed the Heartbeat Act (SB 1503), a law that bans abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy — much earlier than many women become aware that they're pregnant — and now awaits Governor Stitt's signature. Like a similar anti-abortion law recently passed in Texas, Oklahoma's bill also gives individuals the right to sue someone who "aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion." This includes the clinic that... |
| Baidu and Pony.ai become first robotaxi services to operate without safety drivers in Beijing Posted: 30 Apr 2022 10:22 AM PDT  Baidu and Pony.ai have been given permission to operate their autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Beijing, a first for robotaxi services in China (via CNBC). Although both companies now no longer need a staff member in the driver's seat, they'll still need a supervisor present somewhere in the vehicle. Baidu and Pony.ai can't operate throughout the entire city of Beijing just yet — they're limited to a 60 square kilometer (23.1 square mile) area in Yizhuang, Beijing, the home of about 300,000 residents. While Baidu can deploy just 10 autonomous vehicles in the area, CNBC says Pony.ai can only operate four. Both companies have plans to expand the number of vehicles on the road (with Baidu shooting for 30), but it's unclear how... |
| Telegram now lets users send cryptocurrency through TON blockchain spinoff Posted: 30 Apr 2022 08:56 AM PDT  Telegram now lets users send Toncoin, the cryptocurrency built off of Telegram's abandoned blockchain effort, directly from chats within the messaging app (via Protocol). In a post on Twitter, TON (The Open Network), announced that Telegram now supports Toncoin transactions with no fees attached. TON included a short video showing how crypto transactions work on the platform. To get started, you'll have to add Telegram's Wallet bot to your attachment menu, which allows you to "purchase cryptocurrency by bank card, exchange, and transfer to other wallets."
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| The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google’s trying to make a flagship Posted: 30 Apr 2022 06:11 AM PDT  It sounds like Google's upcoming Pixel Watch will be a flagship set to compete with Samsung's latest Galaxy Watches and the Apple Watch, according to new specs leaked by 9to5Google. According to 9to5's report, you'll be able to get a cellular version of the wearable, and it will have a 300 milliamp-hour (mAh) battery. It wasn't necessarily a given that there would be a cellular option for the Pixel Watch. Some lower-end smartwatches, and even some high-end fitness-focused models, are reliant on your phone for connectivity. If the rumor is accurate and there is a cellular Pixel Watch model, it reinforces the idea that Google's probably not trying to make its watch a smaller or cheaper alternative — it wants that mass-market appeal. As... |
| This chart might explain why CNN Plus shut down early Posted: 30 Apr 2022 04:00 AM PDT  Now that CNN has made the decision to shut down its new streaming baby CNN Plus less than a month after it went live, you might be wondering what went wrong. A report from Axios has a chart that shows the streaming service was far from reaching its projected year-end viewership goal, and would have burned through $400 million in 2022 alone to try to get there. CNN projected that the service would have two million subscribers by the end of the year, but around two weeks later, they found they'd only managed to attract 150,000 people. At first, this doesn't sound too bad, but considering services like Disney Plus had 10 million subscribers in its first day — and that Quibi, which was similarly shut down early in life, saw 910,000 people... |
| Save $20 off a new Nintendo Switch at Woot Posted: 30 Apr 2022 04:00 AM PDT  Let's end April with a barrage of great deals, shall we? For a limited time (Saturday only, and until stock sells out), Woot is offering solid discounts on both the standard Nintendo Switch (the non-OLED version) and the smaller, cheaper Switch Lite, and if you make your purchase through the Woot app (iOS, Android — just open the following Woot links on your phone and they will redirect), you'll get up to $20 off. Not too shabby! Really, any price drop whatsoever on Nintendo hardware is rare, so jump on this if you've been considering the investment. Starting with the Switch, it normally costs $299.99, but Woot's discount knocks $10 off, costing you $289.99. Buying it through the app is where the real discount happens, taking a little... |
| Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it Posted: 29 Apr 2022 06:39 PM PDT  Recently, several developers complained about how Apple threatened to remove their apps from the App Store because they hadn't been updated in a "significant amount of time." Now, the company has responded — by issuing a press release effectively saying that nobody was downloading the apps anyways. The notice, released on Friday evening, reads in part:
We've... |
| Sony clamps down on PlayStation Now subscription stacking to protect its upcoming Premium service Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:03 PM PDT  Sony has updated its PlayStation Plus FAQ page (tucked away at the bottom here) and is clamping down further on loopholes that gave users early discounts on its upcoming PlayStation Plus Premium service. It's also pausing the activation of PlayStation Plus and Now vouchers for current subscribers until after its new service rolls out in June, and there's even an official conversion chart showing the value of those vouchers for its upcoming three services; PlayStation Plus Essentials, Extra, and Premium. After Sony announced its plan to restructure PlayStation Plus into a new three-tiered service to further compete with Microsoft's and Nintendo's services, things were slightly vague about how the conversion to the new tiers will work.... |
| Every ridiculous thing we learned today about Elon Musk’s plan to take over Twitter Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:38 PM PDT  This is the end of the first week after Twitter accepted Elon Musk's $44 billion buyout offer, and one of the strangest tech transactions ever just keeps adding new twists. A detailed report from The Wall Street Journal has peeled back a few layers on the process that began with Musk accumulating Twitter stock back in January and what that might mean when he eventually closes the deal and becomes its owner. Taken with additional information from The Verge contributing editor Casey Newton in Platformer and a new report from Reuters, the picture starts to become clearer. Reuters is adding more details to earlier reports from Bloomberg and The Washington Post about the ideas Musk pitched to bankers who will loan him some of the money he... |
| Netflix has canceled Space Force after two seasons Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:05 PM PDT  After initially debuting in 2020 as a somewhat timely lampooning of the United States Space Force, Netflix's Space Force workplace sitcom is being canceled. Deadline reports that Netflix has decided to scuttle the Greg Daniels and Steve Carell-created series, likely in response to Space Force netting somewhat less-than-stellar ratings over the course of its short run. Space Force's second season debuted this past February and followed as its characters struggled to weather a change in presidential administrations. Though Space Force's cancellation may be a sore spot, from Netflix's perspective, it's likely yet another cost-saving measure the streamer ultimately felt was necessary to take as it continues to figure out its long-term... |
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