Thomas Ricker

At least it will be once X, formerly Twitter, hires 100 employees into its new trust and safety team to moderate its roughly 500M global monthly users.

Only the EU beat them to it.

Net profit fell 73 percent last quarter resulting in its weakest annual earnings since 2009, according to the WSJ. The culprit, again, was memory chips, but demand is expected to recover in 2024. Samsung’s premium Galaxy S24 series also saw record preorders which could boost the bottom line if its AI deal with Baidu in China can increase Samsung’s negligible smartphone marketshare in the country it once dominated.

It’s been a terrible month so far for anyone in tech, gaming, or media, with Slack’s owner now joining the carnage to reportedly cut one percent of its workforce. It’s not as bad as the 10 percent (about 8,000 workers) Salesforce laid off last year, and the company still has 1,000 open positions it’s trying to fill, according to the WSJ, as it rebalances the ranks.

MacRumors has details (and app icons) on the next generation of CarPlay extracted from the first iOS 17.4 beta, nearly two years after Apple announced it, and arriving in the first cars later this year.

Google teased a reveal for January 25th, but what’s a day between friends? The new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro hue will apparently be available exclusively through the Google Store and Google Fi.

Nokia — the telecom giant, not the logo on HMD phones — is still a smartphone force to be reckoned with. Oppo and its sub-brand OnePlus learned this the hard way after infringing upon Nokia’s patents and being forced to stop sales in Germany and other European countries. The new deal solves that, just in time for the flagship OnePlus 12’s release.

Signify just announced several new Philips Hue lights and accessories for both inside and outside the home. These include a new Dymera wall light with individually controllable up and down lights, a 3D printed Hue pendant cord for Hue Filament bulbs, more versatile connectors for Perifo track lighting, a Secure floodlight camera, and a new color options for the Go portable lamp and Being ceiling light.

The trailblazing Dutch e-bike brand that went vanpoof last year is slowly delivering upon promises made by new owner McLaren Applied. Parts are limited, and right now only eight service center partners have been named for all of the Netherlands and Germany, but it’s a start with more parts and countries to come.