This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever Back in September, Jessica Hamzelou, our senior biotech reporter, traveled to Gstaad, a swanky ski-resort town in the Swiss…
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DuckDuckGo’s new App Tracking Protection tool aims to prevent apps from tracking Android users and then selling the collected data. | Image: DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection is now available for public beta testing on all Android devices after launching in a limited beta almost one year ago. App Tracking Protection for Android is a…
Just like the 30-series, the RTX 4080 is likely to sell out fast. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge I still get flashbacks of the nightmarish launch of Nvidia’s 30-series graphics cards, with stock selling out faster than you could enter your credit card info. The cards were getting gobbled up by bots…
The Tapo C420S2 smart security camera has AI detection, 2K video resolution, and the option of local storage. | Image: TP-Link Tapo, TP-Link’s other smart home brand, has a new security camera. The Tapo Smart Wire-Free Security Camera System (Tapo C420S2) is an impressively inexpensive setup that includes two indoor/outdoor cameras and a hub for…
Is it a great time to be an inventor or a terrible one? From some corners of the inventing community, the news is doom and gloom, but for Stephen Key, a successful creator and entrepreneur, the opportunities faced by inventive people today are as varied and exciting as the challenges. Patents, he believes, are a…
The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) enters into force today — setting the clock ticking on designations that will determine which larger Internet platforms face an extra layer of rules in areas likes algorithmic transparency and risk assessment. Larger platforms will also face centralized oversight by the European Commission in a marked change to…
Airbnb has more than 4 million hosts managing accommodation and experiences on its platform. Now, as it looks to drive more bookings, it’s on the hunt for more. After introducing a major redesign for customers earlier this year, Airbnb is now turning its attention to improving the experience for new and existing hosts. Today, it’s…
On TikTok, a young person sits on a bus and stares out the window. The caption reads, “What the fuck in the filler episode.” Another creator sits on their bed and stares up at the camera. Text covers their face. “I don’t think I’ve had a filler day in at least two years,” it says. “Not…
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, NASA’s Artemis I mission successfully launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center — and as you can probably imagine, the views were pretty spectacular. The Artemis I mission got off to a rocky start, with failed launches and further delays on the day preceding the final, successful launch a…
It must be fun working for Elon Musk. The self-proclaimed Chief Twit who recently fired roughly half of Twitter’s workforce, now has demands for the people who are still working at Twitter. In an email seen by The Washington Post, and first reported on by former Uber and Skype engineer Gergely Orosz, Musk essentially issued…