Bloomberg profiled Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety under Elon Musk.
Irwin has become one of the most prominent execs at the company under Musk’s turbulent tenure. Bloomberg reporter Davey Alba shared some of the highlights of the piece in a Twitter thread, which I also recommend reading.
Wait, maybe we can afford to buy a classic Sony CRT.
Artist Retroldtech produces and sells tiny scale models of retro gaming consoles, and they decided to take a crack at a model from Sony’s iconic video monitor line.
Is the screen real? Can you plug your MiSTer or old consoles into it? No, but it looks fun and comes with your choice of six swappable screens. Get this and save money so you can buy a VGA monitor and maybe a Retrotink 5x instead.
If it’s not a meteorite, it’s a meteor wrong.
Antarctica is a great place to find meteorites because they stand out against the ice so well.
In just four minutes, cosmochemist Maria Valdes tells NPR the delightful story of finding a rare cantaloupe-sized meteorite on the frozen continent, and how to spot the difference between actual space rock and — this is the scientific term — a meteor wrong.
Blink’s first wired outdoor camera is now available.
The smart home camera company known for its battery tech is launching its first hardwired security camera today.
Announced last September, the $99.99 Blink Wired Floodlight Camera features person detection with local processing, plus local storage (with its Sync Module 2). This is the first camera from Blink — which is owned by Amazon — to offer local processing powered by Amazon’s AZ2 silicon chip.
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The Blink’s new wired floodlight camera is its first with local video processing. Image: Blink
Green light.
Besides Elon Musk, other businesses also have quarterly reports. Today that list includes Intel later this afternoon, and Comcast, which said it shed 440,000 TV subscribers in three months but added 365,000 customers to Xfinity Mobile.
For now, we’re looking at keyboards and controllers, as Sony’s new $199.99 DualSense Edge gamepad is available, but only directly from Sony. Check out our review to see if it’s worth the high price.
The ‘world’s first robot lawyer’ doesn’t stand up to a fair trial.
DoNotPay has aggressively marketed itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer” — an easy way to automate small claims and lawsuits using AI. But this fantastic test of the service is mostly damning. As author Kathryn Tewson writes:
“There is literally nothing AI about this. This is a straight-up plug-and-chug document wizard, and it is not well done at all.”
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