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The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom (Verge, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 17:05Your home network might soon get a new — and simpler — name (Verge, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 17:04Verizon’s new prepaid plans are cheaper — but not really (Verge, The)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Sun, 10/23/2022 - 23:56A former Facebook engineer wants to help you make your own cell network (Verge, The)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 10:31Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York (Verge, The)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 11:05Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps
The majority of apps people use on their phones in the US come preinstalled by either Apple or Google. That’s the takeaway from a Comscore study that ranked the popularity of preinstalled iOS and Android apps, such as Apple’s Messages, alongside apps made by other developers. The first-of-its-kind report was commissioned by Facebook, one of Apple’s loudest critics. The timing, as Facebook likely intentioned, is apt: Apple and Google are increasingly under scrutiny for how they favor their own services over competitors like Spotify.