
Shira Ovide
I write The Tech Friend newsletter at The Washington Post. Relatively inactive here. Reach me at [email protected]
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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.
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6 days ago |
stuff.co.nz | Shira Ovide
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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?
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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.
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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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