Fri. 01/05 – Bringing Back The Hardware Keyboard For Smartphones?

Jan 5, 2024 · 16 min

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Another big Tesla recall, this time in China, this time, all of them. Every car they ever sold. BNPL is… not dead? Not if holiday shopping data is to be believed. That Blackberry-style iPhone keyboard case that everybody is talking about. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk (Bloomberg)
Adobe: Online Holiday Sales Reached Record $222 Billion in 2023 (PMNTS)
Amazon Captured 29% of Online Orders Before Christmas (Bloomberg)
Netflix Considers Ways to Make Money From Videogames in Possible Pivot (WSJ)
OpenAI Offers Publishers as Little as $1 Million a Year (The Information)
Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. (Politico)
New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists (NYTimes)
Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris (NYTimes)
Full game of Tetris beaten for the first time by 13-year-old Willis Gibson AKA 'Blue Scuti' (YouTube)