Tech Meme

Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Streams Charts: Twitch’s new Partner Plus program, offering a 70/30 revenue split, benefits around 1,066 Twitch partners, or just ~2.5% of the 71,000+ total  —  Only a thousand people qualify for Twitch’s Partner Plus program, which will give streamers 70% of subscription revenues, according to Streams Charts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: Razer Blade 14 (2023) review: powerful chips in a thin body, a 16:10 QHD+ 240Hz screen, and an RGB keyboard, but $2.4K+ is absurd and the speakers are just okay  —  This is a nice laptop with a somewhat confusing price. … The 14-inch gaming laptop space basically has two products in it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma betas automatically generate Apple ID passkeys; Apple․com and iCloud․com add passkey support so users can sign in without a password  —  You can now forgo entering your password on icloud.com and apple.com domains thanks to newly added passkey support. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma automatically generates Apple ID passkeys; Apple adds support to Apple․com and iCloud․com so users can log in without passwords  —  You can now forgo entering your password on icloud.com and apple.com domains thanks to newly added passkey support. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: Razer Blade 14 (2023) review: powerful chips in a thin body, 16:10, QHD+, 240Hz screen, and RGB keyboard, but absurd pricing at $2,400+ and average speakers  —  This is a nice laptop with a somewhat confusing price. … The 14-inch gaming laptop space basically has two products in it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma automatically generates Apple ID passkeys; Apple adds support to Apple․com and iCloud․com so users can log in without passwords  —  You can now forgo entering your password on icloud.com and apple.com domains thanks to newly added passkey support. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple expands Self Service Repair to the iPhone 14 lineup, 13-inch M2 MacBook Air, and 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and Max, starting on June 21  —  Apple today announced that its self-service repair program will be expanding to the iPhone 14 lineup, 13-inch MacBook Air with the M2 chip … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Crypto exchange EDX Markets, backed by Citadel, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab, quietly began executing trades via its “noncustodial” service in recent weeks  —  EDX Markets won’t directly handle customers’ digital assets or directly serve individual investors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Twitter says CEO Linda Yaccarino and Elon Musk won’t attend the Cannes Lions ad festival, despite the company’s new “brand safety and suitability controls” push  —  Elon Musk and Twitter Inc.’s new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino won’t be at the advertising industry’s biggest annual event … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: a16z, Sequoia, and others are increasingly investing in defense tech startups; PitchBook: US VCs invested $33B in the sector in 2022, up from below $16B in 2019  —  War in Ukraine and geopolitical tensions leads to belief that fledgling companies will get a share of US Pentagon budget Lees verder op Tech Meme