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Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler

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    If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.

    Card Shark made our list of ten recommendations for games from 2022 to try on your Nintendo Switch. And now, a sale has dropped its price from the usual $19.99 to $13.99.

    As Jay Peters explained in his review, it’s good not only because it’s playable in short bites, but also because cheating is encouraged.

    The cheats start small, like wiping the table in a certain direction to tip off what your opponent’s strongest suit is, but, by the end of the game, you’re stringing together multiple techniques in a row in complex schemes to win a round.

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    Richard Lawler
    The trouble with Twitter’s layoffs continues.

    Despite Elon Musk’s previous assertion that Twitter is done with layoffs, Bloomberg reports the company just let go of more people from the moderation team.

    And as for the thousands of people affected — whether involuntarily or by their own choiceFortune reports severance agreements are arriving with less compensation than many expected, and in a format that landed the messages in spam folders.

    “I mean I expected him to f**k us (he did),” an impacted employee wrote to Fortune. “This is about 1/3 of what he contractually owes us based on his purchase agreement.”

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    Richard Lawler
    Watch Amazon’s flying indoor security camera in action at CES 2023.

    The Ring Always Home Cam promises to fly around your house to keep an eye on things from every angle, but it’s not ready for release just yet — and won’t come out this year.

    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy got our first in-person look at the device, along with a lot of Amazon’s other upcoming smart home gear, at CES 2023 this week.

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    Richard Lawler
    Throwing the book at Clearview AI’s speedrun into creepy facial recognition.

    You may remember New York Times writer Kashmir Hill from episodes including hacking a stranger’s smart home via Google, lifting the veil on Facebook’s shadow profiles tracking people who don’t have Facebook accounts, and making an exhaustive attempt to live online without the big five tech companies.

    Now she has announced a release date for her book on Clearview AI, the facial recognition firm she once called “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It.”

    Your Face Belongs to Us is a gripping true story about the rise of a technological superpower that has been long-feared by the civil liberties community and long-desired by governments and authoritarian regimes. And it is a powerful warning that in the absence of vigilance and government regulation, this kind of technology will fundamentally change our ability to be anonymous.

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    Richard Lawler
    Look at Lenovo’s actually good dual-screen laptop.

    They might be onto something with this Yoga Book 9i.

    With two 13.3-inch OLED touch panels and a surprisingly adaptable keyboard add-on, it makes a solid case for dual-screen devices.

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    Richard Lawler
    Silvergate Capital survived a post-FTX run on deposits, but now the crypto-focused bank’s stock is tanking.

    Exactly one month ago, Silvergate’s CEO insisted things were ok, despite the problems with FTX, a major customer.

    Today its Q4 filing reveals deposits from crypto customers shrank from $11.9 billion to $3.9 billion in three months, $150 million of the bank’s deposits are held by customers who’ve filed bankruptcy, and it’s laying off 200 employees.

    The company’s stock price is down 46 percent.

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    Richard Lawler
    Green light.

    Today our CES 2023 attention turns to the show floor, but let’s not be so hasty that we ignore Sony’s event last night.

    That included not only a peek at the Gran Turismo movie (based on a real story) and the launch of “Afeela” as the brand name for its vehicle collaboration with Honda. Check out this video, we can run down the entire thing in under seven minutes.

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    Richard Lawler
    We understand if you can’t follow AMD’s new processor naming scheme.

    Because judging by the state of its CES 2023 presentation and some of the related press release materials, neither can AMD, as seen in these screencaps.

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    Richard Lawler
    LG’s Signature OLED M is (almost) wireless.

    A few years ago LG’s gimmick for the highest-end version of its OLED TV was a paper-thin display that you could slap on the wall and connect to its soundbar / base station with a single wire.

    In 2023, LG’s top-of-the-line 97-inch 4K OLED doesn’t need the connecting wire at all.

    From wireless to 8K and back to more reasonable options, Verge editor and reviewer Chris Welch is ready to walk you through the entire lineup.