All eyes on Tesla’s margins
The company has enjoyed gross margins far in excess of its major automotive rivals in recent years.
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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
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Hackers exploit zero-day to compromise tens of thousands of Cisco devices
Hackers have exploited an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Cisco’s networking software to compromise tens of thousands of devices, researchers have warned. Cisco on Monday issued an advisory warning that a critical-rated vulnerability in IOS XE, the software that powers the company’s range of networking devices, was being actively exploited by hackers. Cisco said the bug […]
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Beware The Customer Cliff of Dissatisfaction — or Prepare to Lose Customers Fast
The Cliff of Dissatisfaction in customer service and the customer experience is the precipice where your customers (or prospective customers) lose faith that you can serve them in a timely manner. Here’s how to identify it and fix this problem wherever it may occur.
Calendar Planning to Create Work-Life Balance
From the Monday morning work meeting and that new assignment to a child’s soccer game and a friend’s upcoming birthday party, life is busy. Finding the perfect balance between work…
Alibaba (BABA) and NetEase (NTES): Is It Time to Invest in These China Stocks?
China’s faster-than-expected GDP growth in the third quarter and solid consumption and industrial activity last month showed economic recovery gaining traction amid a recent flurry of stimulus measures. So, let’s…
Photon’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive
Photon, an iOS app for pro photographers, is introducing a new feature that will allow iPhone 15 Pro users to save their photos directly to an external drive, freeing up valuable disk space on their device. The app, which hails from LateNightSoft, the makers of the popular consumer app, Camera+, was launched this July to […]
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Discord is growing its developer monetization efforts
In a time when X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit have sequestered API access behind steep paywalls, Discord is taking the opposite approach. A few weeks ago, Discord enabled U.S. developers to sell their apps to Discord users in a centralized hub, and today, that feature expands to include developers in the UK and Europe. Developers […]
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Google Meet now lets you apply a skin-smoothing effect with its new portrait touch-up mode
Google Meet finally rolled out a portrait touch-up mode to compete with rivals Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The new capability allows you to apply beautifying features during video calls, including complexion smoothing, under-eye lightening and eye whitening. Google now offers two portrait modes– “Subtle,” which provides light cosmetic adjustments and “Smoothing,” which has a “slightly […]
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Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts
The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them. Denis Simonov, a security researcher, who is also known as n0a, recently highlighted the issue and wrote a simple tool to exploit it. TechCrunch verified the researcher’s findings by […]
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OnePlus Open is a foldable contender
In the earliest days of foldables, simply participating was enough to get people to take notice. With every new player on the scene, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish oneself from the crowd. As we barrel toward the end of 2023, Samsung is far from the only game in town. We’ve got Google, Motorola, […]
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