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Shira Ovide

New York

Help Desk Strategy Editor at The Washington Post

Writer at The Tech Friend

Freelancer at Infobae

I write The Tech Friend newsletter at The Washington Post. Relatively inactive here. Reach me at [email protected]

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Articles

  • Do you want a skinny smartphone with worse battery life?

    5 days ago | seattletimes.com | Shira Ovide

    Would you like a barely perceptibly skinnier phone with worse battery life? Samsung and Apple seem to believe you do. Samsung is showcasing a new $1,100-and-up phone that is a bit thinner and lighter weight than its comparable models.

  • Stuff

    6 days ago | stuff.co.nz | Shira Ovide

  • ‘Mission Impossible’ is the perfect movie for our AI doomsday fears

    1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Shira Ovide

    ‘Mission Impossible’ is the perfect movie for our AI doomsday fears (washingtonpost.com) ‘Mission Impossible’ is the perfect movie for our AI doomsday fears By Shira Ovide 2025053016300000 What's more kooky: Hollywood fantasy of an artificial intelligence doomsday or real life technology executives' predictions of human-enslaving AI?

  • Google is quietly giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales

    1 week ago | texarkanagazette.com | Shira Ovide

    Google is making it easier for you to buy digital books from Amazon, the country's leading book retailer, than from smaller booksellers. In the Android apps for Amazon's Kindle and Audible, you can buy e-books and audiobooks using Amazon's familiar one-click purchase button. That may seem normal, but it definitely is not for Android or iPhone apps in the United States.

  • Google is quietly giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales

    1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Shira Ovide

    Google is making it easier for you to buy digital books from Amazon, the country’s leading book retailer, than from smaller booksellers. In the Android apps for Amazon’s Kindle and Audible, you can buy e-books and audiobooks using Amazon’s familiar one-click purchase button. That may seem normal, but it definitely is not for Android or iPhone apps in the United States.

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Shira Ovide
Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide
2 Jul 24

RT @itseieio: Had some fun doing a little interview for WaPo's Tech Friend newsletter about One Million Checkboxes :) https://t.co/2c6P8ZLd…

Shira Ovide
Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide
30 Jan 24

RT @broderick: I actually can't really wrap my head around how awful this looks. Like this is class action lawsuit levels of different from…

Shira Ovide
Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide
16 Oct 23

I’m hunting for people reusing tech gear in surprising ways. The stranger the better. Are you reusing VR headsets for hermit crab shells? Do you make collages from 1950s punched cards? Do you harvest Xbox parts to power cars? I made those up, but I'm ISO ingenuity.