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Skullcandy’s new wireless earbuds are made primarily out of recycled plastics
05 Mar

Skullcandy’s new wireless earbuds are made primarily out of recycled plastics

John RoutledgeLatest News
Skullcandy just announced new earbuds that go all-in on sustainability. The EcoBuds True Wireless earbuds are made with 65 percent certified recycled plastics and 57 percent less heavy metals than competing products. This gives the earbuds a 50 percent lower carbon footprint when compared to rival devices.The bad news? The move toward sustainability forced Skullcandy to nix the usual battery…
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The Morning After: Switch emulator creators settle lawsuit with Nintendo for $2.4 million
05 Mar

The Morning After: Switch emulator creators settle lawsuit with Nintendo for $2.4 million

John RoutledgeLatest News
The creator of a popular Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, appears to have agreed to settle Nintendo’s lawsuit against it, less than a week since the games company accused the emulator’s creator of “piracy at a colossal scale.”A joint final judgment and permanent injunction filed Tuesday says developer Tropic Haze will pay the games company $2.4 million — along with a…
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Anthropic says its new Claude 3 AI chatbot scores better on key benchmarks than GPT-4
05 Mar

Anthropic says its new Claude 3 AI chatbot scores better on key benchmarks than GPT-4

John RoutledgeLatest News
The battle between AI chatbots is more than a two-horse race. Anthropic, the company formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in several key industry benchmarks. It even hit "near-human" levels on some tasks, the company wrote in a blog. There are three new chatbots under the Claude 3 umbrella, including…
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Twitter’s former CEO and other execs are suing Elon Musk and X for $128 million in unpaid severance
04 Mar

Twitter’s former CEO and other execs are suing Elon Musk and X for $128 million in unpaid severance

John RoutledgeLatest News
A group of former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are suing Elon Musk and X over millions of dollars in unpaid severance benefits. The claims date back to the chaotic circumstances surrounding Musk’s takeover of the company in October 2022.When Musk took control of the company, his first move was to fire Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, chief legal…
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Shure’s first wireless lapel mic can connect to your phone without a receiver
04 Mar

Shure’s first wireless lapel mic can connect to your phone without a receiver

John RoutledgeLatest News
On Tuesday, Shure unveiled its better-late-than-never entry into the creator-focused wireless consumer lapel mic space. The audio company’s MoveMic system — available in single-channel (the $249 MoveMic One) and dual-channel (the $349 MoveMic Two) models — joins an increasingly crowded space of wireless lavalier mics alongside three tiers of Rode’s Wireless Go system and two iterations of DJI’s Mic.Most products…
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Makers of Switch emulator Yuzu quickly settle with Nintendo for $2.4 million
04 Mar

Makers of Switch emulator Yuzu quickly settle with Nintendo for $2.4 million

John RoutledgeLatest News
Tropic Haze, the popular Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator developer, appears to have agreed to settle Nintendo’s lawsuit against it. Less than a week after Nintendo filed the legal action, accusing the emulator’s creators of “piracy at a colossal scale,” a joint final judgment and permanent injunction filed Tuesday says Tropic Haze has agreed to pay the Mario maker $2.4 million,…
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Instagram finally lets you edit DMs
04 Mar

Instagram finally lets you edit DMs

John RoutledgeLatest News
Instagram launched direct messaging tools way back in 2013, but there hasn’t been a way to edit them after the fact. That changes today. Meta just rolled out a software update for the Instagram app that finally allows for DM edits, with one major caveat. You only have 15 minutes to make any changes.Here’s how it works. Once you send…
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