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Archives for October 2024

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Seniors are PISSED that T-Mobile won’t honor its “lifetime” price guarantee.

“T-Mobile guarantees it will never raise the price of your rate plan,” we wrote in 2015, because that’s what its CEO said: “I’m guaranteeing those rates for as long as you’re a customer.”

But Ars Technica dug up thousands of FCC complaints that suggest people got fooled. In June, T-Mobile was asked to stop advertising its so-called “price lock.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The iOS 18.2 beta brings categories to the Mail app.

The redesigned Mail app will automatically sort your emails into four different tabs: your primary inbox with all your important emails, a transactions section for online orders, a promotions category for marketing emails, and an updates tab for newsletters.

The iOS 18.2 beta also adds more AI features like Genmoji and an integration with ChatGPT.

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
I already play enough Balatro.

But the official Balatro Bluesky account is teasing... something. Perhaps a feature for the big gameplay update coming next year?

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Allison Johnson
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
“We had a design flaw in Blackwell,” admits Nvidia CEO.

“It was functional, but the design flaw caused the yield to be low. It was 100% Nvidia’s fault,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang tells Reuters, effectively confirming The Information’s report from August about why its new flagship AI chips won’t ship in large amounts right away.

He says it’s now fixed, but the timeline stays the same: Q4 for first shipments.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
North Carolina’s other high-purity quartz mine is “gradually restarting.”

The Quartz Corp CEO Thomas Guillaume said the company’s assets have been “largely preserved” after Hurricane Helene brought devasting flooding and power outages to the area.

Sibelco, another quartz mining company crucial to the chip-making process, resumed operations earlier this month.

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
You get a Direct, you get a Direct, you get a Direct, you —

Blizzard’s the latest company to co-opt Nintendo’s “Direct” branding. On November 13th, Blizzard will host its own livestream showcase celebrating Warcraft’s 30th anniversary. Thirty is a big number for any video game franchise so expect whatever Blizzard’s announcing to be worth the hubbub and the three week notice. Zug zug.