HAPPY MONDAY!
What a crazy week! Meta might be breaking up Instagram and Messenger ahead of regulators pressuring them. Alibaba is scanning tiktokers to make new AI tools. Verizon bungled some basic security for user data. Alex Jones is back on Twitter. Some REALLY interesting games are coming soon! Sony might retire the XPERIA.
And I’ve been benchmarking the iQOO 12!
Let’s get our tech week started right!
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- Mobile Controller SHOWDOWN! https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/12/08/how-do-you-game-on-your-phone-controller-showdown/
- Tent or Flex Mode for watching movies? https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/12/07/folding-phone-owners-how-do-you-watch-video-tent-or-flex-mode/
- How far has Android come over the last five years? https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/12/05/can-a-five-year-old-phone-compete-today-how-far-has-android-come-since-the-lg-v50/
- Preserving Family History: Geek Edition https://www.patreon.com/posts/preserving-geek-94427683
- Pixel Fold Camera Review https://www.patreon.com/posts/pixel-fold-pixel-93926627
- How does a Five Year Old phone perform today? https://www.patreon.com/posts/can-five-year-93857089
- Are foldables the better travel computers? https://www.patreon.com/posts/foldable-phones-93686297
- Oppo Find X6 Pro Camera Review! https://www.patreon.com/posts/oppo-find-x6-pro-93474308
- The LAZIEST upgrade I could make for my NAS https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/11/21/the-laziest-maybe-dumbest-upgrade-for-my-nas-lets-fix-my-plex/
- MediaTek Interview: Smartphones and AI – https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/11/18/mediatek-dimensity-9300-and-the-future-of-mobile-ai-interview/
- Alex Jones back on Twitter https://www.engadget.com/alex-jones-and-his-conspiracy-theories-are-allowed-back-on-x-160419044.html
- Twitch Leaves South Korea https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/twitch-exit-from-s-korea-is-latest-fallout-from-sending-party-pays-model/
- Verizon Rep gave personal user data to armed stalker with fake warrant https://www.404media.co/verizon-gave-phone-data-to-stalker-edrs-search-warrant-pose-as-cop/
- Meta might split their chat integration https://www.engadget.com/meta-is-disconnecting-messenger-and-instagram-chat-later-this-month-205956880.html
- Alibaba Animate Anyone looks like a terrible idea https://www.404media.co/alibaba-animate-anyone-ai-generated-tiktok/
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- Windblown teaser site is live https://windblown.game/
- Thrasher Teaser Trailer is live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2EqoXAEwFg
- XPERIA Might be no more? https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xperia-line-may-be-mothballed-as-Sony-rumored-to-be-eyeing-up-phone-with-under-display-camera-by-2025.780698.0.html
- Juan Rambles on about the iQOO 12
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