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The Morning After: X labeled an NPR story about Trump as ‘unsafe’
31 Aug

The Morning After: X labeled an NPR story about Trump as ‘unsafe’

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X briefly discouraged users from viewing a link to an NPR story about Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery. NPR reporter Stephen Fowler posted a link to a story in which he quoted an Army official who said an employee at Arlington National Cemetery was “abruptly pushed aside” during an event attended by Trump and members of his campaign earlier this week. Clicking on the story generated an X warning message saying, “this link may be unsafe.” It stated it could be malicious, violent, spammy or otherwise violate the platform’s rules. In a statement to an NPR reporter,…
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The Morning After: Is Google’s Pixel 9 worth buying?
24 Aug

The Morning After: Is Google’s Pixel 9 worth buying?

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There’s a lot of power in the notion of the default: The obvious, sensible choice you won’t get picked on for making. Until now, the default choice for an Android flagship is whatever model of Galaxy Samsung is stamping out this year. Sam Rutherford has been using , and he feels the winds of change are blowing. This may be the first time a Google handset has well and truly taken the lead as the default choice.What has pulled the Pixel 9 out from under Samsung’s shadow is the better industrial design, with its utterly gorgeous look and feel. That,…
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The Morning After: Apple is still working on a rotating iPad-like tabletop device
17 Aug

The Morning After: Apple is still working on a rotating iPad-like tabletop device

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An iPad-like tabletop device, Apple’s reported take on Echo Show and Nest Hub-style touchscreen devices, might still happen. According to Bloomberg, it could debut as soon as 2026, with a thin robotic arm that moves around a large display. In my mind, it’ll look like a mid-00s piece of technology, like something from Portal or I, Robot.Rumors suggest it may tilt the screen up and down using actuators and rotate 360 degrees. This suggests it could tap into Apple’s DockKit software to track users as they move around their home for video calls and more. Hundreds of Apple employees are…
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The Morning After: Congress asks Zuckerberg why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram
16 Aug

The Morning After: Congress asks Zuckerberg why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram

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Congress can’t get enough of the Meta boss. Nineteen members of Congress are now pressing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs on both Facebook and Instagram. It comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) used Meta’s ad library to find 450 Instagram and Facebook ads that included “photos of prescription drug bottles, piles of pills and powders or bricks of cocaine.”In the letter addressed directly to Zuckerberg, the lawmakers wrote that they wanted details about Meta’s policies for enforcing rules against drug-related ads and about how many times people viewed and…
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The Morning After: Google’s big Pixel event kicks off today
13 Aug

The Morning After: Google’s big Pixel event kicks off today

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Finally, it’s here. Google’s big hardware press event kicks off later today, and it looks to be an almost entirely Pixel-based affair, with more phones than ever.First, the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro will be straight-up successors to the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. Rumors suggest Google will also introduce a Pixel 9 Pro XL, with a larger screen. We’re expecting all three phones to have a redesigned substantial camera module — the Pixel 9 is 50MP wide and 48MP ultrawide lenses — and Google may introduce a new chipset too, probably called the Tensor G4. Oh, and expect a…
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The Morning After: The Borderlands movie proves bad video game adaptations can still happen
13 Aug

The Morning After: The Borderlands movie proves bad video game adaptations can still happen

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Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie adaptation sounds like a recipe for a solid sci-fi romp: Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as the wise-cracking gunslinger Lilith; Jack Black as the quippy Claptrap; and even Jamie Lee Curtis. LionsgateBut according to Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar, it squanders the story potential and all that on-screen talent. He breaks it down in full, right here.Maybe I'll go see the new Deadpool.— Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missedIntel is bringing GPUs to carsFormer YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has diedX now lets you sort replies so blue checks don’t bury other users’ comments​​You can get these reports delivered…
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The Morning After: Instagram endorses the photo dump
10 Aug

The Morning After: Instagram endorses the photo dump

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Just in time for summer vacation jealousy baiting, Instagram has doubled the number of photos and videos users can share in a carousel post, from 10 to 20. In a way, this harkens back to the late 2000s era of photo dumps on Facebook, probably involving an SD card from your digital camera. The update is rolling out to all Instagram users worldwide from today.Just remember: Comparison is the thief of joy.— Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missedA robotics company has 3D printed nearly a hundred homes in TexasWhat to expect from Google’s Pixel 2024 eventFitbit Ace LTE…
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The Morning After: Humane AI Pins are being returned faster than the company can sell them
08 Aug

The Morning After: Humane AI Pins are being returned faster than the company can sell them

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Humane’s universally derided AI Pin (“”) is not exactly flying off store shelves, according to internal sales documents published by The Verge. Worse, returns are apparently outpacing purchases. The company had once hoped to sell 100,000 in the first year — but there are only around 7,000 units out in the wild. In our review, we had issues with reliability, how slow it was to process requests, its price and its poor battery life. Its shelf life may be even worse.— Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missed​​You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe…
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The Morning After: Google replaces Chromecast with the TV Streamer
08 Aug

The Morning After: Google replaces Chromecast with the TV Streamer

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, Google has unveiled its latest product for the living room, the . It replaces the Chromecast and is a standalone set-top box as opposed to the dongles we’ve been used to. The tiny wedge-shaped doodad supports all the expected features, including HDR, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and spatial audio. But Google is also making a big deal of the device’s smart home bona fides, with support for Matter and Thread. You’ll get a popover Google Home panel too, letting you tweak your smart home from the comfort of your TV.Of course, you might wonder why Google needs to push…
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The Morning After: US judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in search
06 Aug

The Morning After: US judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in search

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A federal judge ruled that Google has illegally abused its monopoly over the search industry. The ruling follows a 10-week trial held in 2023, which followed a 2020 lawsuit.Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in the ruling that the company had acted “to maintain its monopoly.”The lawsuit claimed that Google illegally acted to maintain its dominant position in search through behavior like paying Apple, Samsung and Mozilla billions of dollars a year to be the default search engine on smartphones, browsers and elsewhere. The DOJ argued Google is responsible for almost 90…
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