Smartmatic, One America News Network (OAN) settle lawsuit
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/17/smartmatic-one-america-news-network-oann-lawsuit-settlement
Google opens early API access to its Google Home platform, letting developers join a waitlist to access 600M Matter or Works with Google Home devices (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157154…
Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/crickets-from-chirp-systems-in-smart-lock-key-leak/
"It struck me that they just don’t need [..] a #smartphone at that age [11]. A brick phone can do everything that they need."
#SmartphoneFreeChildhood
Google says Wear OS 5 will consume 20% less battery life and have more useful watch face complications; the Wear OS user base grew by 40% in the last year (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24156161/wear-os-5-google-io-smartwatc…
"It struck me that they just don’t need [..] a #smartphone at that age [11]. A brick phone can do everything that they need."
#SmartphoneFreeChildhood
Sony unveils the £1,299 Xperia 1 VI, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, a 6.5-inch OLED Full HD display, and 7.1x optical zoom lens, and the £349 Xperia 10 VI (Lewis Empson/What Hi-Fi?)
https://www.whathifi.com/news/sony-unveils