Richard Lawler

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon is still in Montenegro waiting to be extradited, but the SEC’s case against him will proceed, with a January 29th scheduled start date.

In August, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied Google’s attempt to end a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 that claims it illegally invaded the privacy of millions by tracking browsing activity even with “incognito mode” activated in Chrome and other browsers.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun is making the jump from smartphones to EVs before the debut of the long-rumored Apple car or Sony’s Afeela. The SU stands for “Speed Ultra,” and when the SU7 debuts, it will accelerate from 0 - 100 km/h in 2.78 seconds. A Xiaomi Pilot autonomous system is powered by Nvidia’s Drive Orin chips, and at the end of the launch event, two cars drove themselves onstage.

CoinDesk points out Binance’s year-end wrapup, noting that despite the guilty plea and $4 billion in fines for engaging in “Anti-Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting, and Sanctions Violations,” its new CEO says the user base has grown by 30 percent to 170 million.

It’s one thing when it’s Spotify, Apple Music, or SoundCloud, but these recaps from Culver’s, Dunkin (it dropped the “Donuts” from its name in 2019), Chick-fil-A, and Shake Shack are taking the whole year-end recap trend a little too far. Especially when they’re personalized.

We’ll have more news about LG’s 2024 TV lineup (including new OLEDs) once it’s all revealed in Las Vegas, but the most intriguing part of this pre-CES press release is a guarantee of future smart TV software updates, similar to what we’ve seen recently on phones like Google’s Pixel 8 series:

If you’re joining or thinking about joining the fediverse via an iPhone, this Mastodon client from the makers of Tweetbot is an option many prefer. A post on DaringFireball points out that the most recent update for Ivory adds an Explore tab with better search plus “a new popular & trending section.”

It’s no MCU flick, but it runs down more than 15 missions, experiments, and big events to keep an eye out for next year. From Artemis, to Quesst, to a total eclipse in North America on April 8th, here’s your preview (also available as 1080p download).

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