The Morning After: Someone modded a folding iPhone | Engadget

Taking on one thing a bit more difficult than including a USB-C port, Aesthetics of Science and Technology (AST) claims to have constructed a folding iPhone. The group pillaged the folding display screen from a Motorola RAZR, added some 3D-printed components and mixed all of it with a jailbroken iPhone X. It’s very a lot a proof of idea, with little-to-no sturdiness and a whopping hole when it’s folded. Thanks to the iOS jailbreak, it additionally has a split-screen mode. We’re staying skeptical – and have questions. How a lot inner {hardware} reorganizing occurred? Can you match a whole iPhone battery in a single half of the telephone?

Like the USB-C mod, it’s a potential preview of issues to come back. Apple has already introduced that USB-C iPhones are incoming, and rumors counsel the corporate may unveil an official folding iPhone as quickly as 2023.

– Mat Smith

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Elon Musk claims he “just killed” Twitter’s , mere hours after deployment. The grey checkmarks have vanished from accounts that solely simply received them, together with Engadget’s and The New York Times’. Twitter VP Esther Crawford clarified you will nonetheless see the marks, however the social media large is handing them out to “government and commercial entities” first.

In justifying the transfer, Musk reiterated his view that tying the unique checkmark to a Twitter Blue subscription will democratize the service. It will take a while earlier than it is clear simply who will get what checkmarks and what vetting will likely be essential to get the “official” tag.

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It’s the primary mass layoffs within the firm’s historical past.

Meta is lowering the scale of its workforce by about 13 p.c and letting greater than 11,000 of its workers go. According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta’s recruiting and enterprise groups are prone to be hit particularly exhausting. Zuckerberg says he needs to take accountability for the way Meta discovered itself on this place. Apparently, he determined to considerably improve Meta’s investments following an exceptionally massive income progress on the peak of the pandemic.

But Meta has been shedding billions of {dollars} on its investments within the metaverse, with Reality Labs shedding greater than $10 billion in 2021. The firm has stated it expects to lose “significantly” extra in 2023. Facebook’s advert income has additionally taken successful resulting from Apple’s adjustments to apps’ advert monitoring skills.

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You can lastly safe your desktop connection utilizing Google’s service.

Google has launched One VPN apps for Mac and Windows programs. As on cellular, the VPN encrypts and in any other case masks your web visitors. You cannot use it to entry content material from different areas like you may with some VPNs (this isn’t your magic bullet for worldwide Netflix content material), but it surely ought to assist in the event you’re nervous about exposing your IP handle or utilizing a public hotspot.

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No refunds in your Pro sub.

If you’ve got ever purchased a sport on Stadia, Google’s soon-to-be-defunct cloud gaming service, it is price maintaining a tally of your financial institution steadiness and bank card statements. As of immediately, Google is beginning to course of refunds for Stadia purchases. The first wave of refunds will embody these for purchases of video games, add-on content material and subscriptions made by means of the Stadia retailer. It expects to subject most of them (together with these for {hardware} purchases) by the point it shuts down the Stadia servers on January 18th.

This gained’t embody Stadia Pro subscription charges, nevertheless. Google notes that gamers might be able to switch their save information from Stadia to different platforms, but it surely’s as much as builders and publishers to help that. Ubisoft, Bungie, I/O Interactive, CD Projekt Red, Rockstar Games and Bethesda are engaged on methods to assist gamers transfer their sport progress to different platforms.

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