In addition to the absurd 21.5- and 32-inch screens already available on its fridges, it’s now offering a smaller 9-inch option while slapping 7-inch displays on its washer, dryer, and wall oven. Smaller 4.3-inch displays will be available in some markets.
The screens provide local and central control of Samsung’s connected appliances as well as entertainment. And they’ll undoubtedly be great places to display ads. Hooray!
Both @evleaks and @sondesix are saying that’s the date for Samsung’s next Unpacked event, with the former sharing a leaked Italian marketing image as confirmation. In addition to the company’s much leaked Galaxy S25 series of phones we’re expecting to hear more about Samsung’s “Project Moohan“ XR headset we recently previewed.
Ofcom has published the first codes of practice and guidance in support of the UK’s Online Safety Act meant to protect children and adults from over 130 “priority offences” including terror, hate, fraud, and sexual abuse. Tech companies of all sizes have until March 16th, 2025 to conduct risk assessments and to then begin implementing measures to protect users, assuming parliamentary procedures go as planned.
In a statement, Ofcom said:
For too long, sites and apps have been unregulated, unaccountable and unwilling to prioritise people’s safety over profits. That changes from today. The safety spotlight is now firmly on tech firms and it’s time for them to act. Those that come up short can expect Ofcom to use the full extent of our enforcement powers against them.
Failure to comply could result in fines up to £18M (about $23M) or 10 percent of worldwide revenue — whichever is greater — and a country-wide ban.
[www.ofcom.org.uk]
You can now expand DJI’s Power 1000 solar generator that I reviewed with up to five of these new $1,169 2kWh Power Expansion Battery 2000 units daisy-chained together over DJI’s proprietary SDC port, for a maximum capacity of 11kWh. Add solar and you can produce a steady 2400W of AC output indefinitely, or at least until you master a rosetta pattern in your latte art.
The company is rearranging the deck chairs on the C-level after falling behind SK Hynix and TSMC in its memory and foundry chip businesses. The move should also better position the chaebol in the event that its grand-nepo-baby leader Jay Y. Lee has to serve yet another prison term.
[SamsungNewsroom]
Huawei announced its new Mate 70 flagship and Mate X6 foldable today — the first devices running the company’s homegrown Google-less HarmonyOS NEXT operating system. Both feature this nifty transfer feature, but it’s limited to just images for now.
Hotel-related search results in Germany, Belgium, and Estonia are temporarily stripping out the map, property info and other clutter as shown in the gallery below. After the test, Google will look at how the change impacted “both the user experience and traffic to websites.”
It’s part of a series of changes meant to appease the EU’s DMA police and travel sites that have lost traffic as Google’s search results became worse, according to users, but more helpful, according to the advertising giant.
Update, November 26th: Added before and after images.
Prospects of an acquisition have cooled, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg:
The complexities associated with acquiring all of Intel has made a deal less attractive to Qualcomm, said some of the people, asking not to be identified discussing confidential matters. It’s always possible Qualcomm looks at pieces of Intel instead or rekindles its interest later, they added.
Qualcomm first approached Intel with the idea of a takeover in September.
Bloomberg explores Amazon’s $8 billion partnership with Anthropic that could advance Amazon’s Trainium hardware and software tools enough for the AWS provider to cut into Nvidia’s stranglehold on the $100-billion-plus market for AI chips:
Trainium2 is the company’s third generation of artificial intelligence chip. By industry reckoning, this is a make-or-break moment. Either the third attempt sells in sufficient volume to make the investment worthwhile, or it flops and the company finds a new path.