|
 The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok from app stores operating in the country or force Chinese company ByteDance to sell the short-form video app.
|
|
X just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named X TV wants to be "your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen." By high-quality entertainment, X likely means that one Tucker Carlson video where he's really impressed by grocery carts in Russia. That's not a joke. Carlson is featured prominently in the little teaser video.
— News (@XNews) April 23, 2024
X CEO and marketing robot Linda Yaccarino promises "real-time" content and wide availability, but other than that details are scanter than scant. There's some corporate speak nonsense about AI, of course, and boasts about "effortless casting" from a mobile device to a TV. Wait, I thought this was a TV app? So it's also a mobile app that casts to a TV? Is there another word for less than half-baked? Does raw work?
In other words, we don't know much. This is X. All we get are word salads that don't really mean anything and then, one day, the app may or may not actually appear. If it does, it's likely to be hopelessly broken. That sounds harsh, but there's plenty of proof-laden pudding to go around. We got receipts.
Back when
|
|
According to Taiwan analyst company TrendForce, storage makers Western Digital and now Seagate have sent letters to customers warning them that the companies will be raising prices on hard drives. WD's letter said that it would be raising prices on SSDs, too.
"[D]emand recovery continues across several segments of our business and our reduced manufacturing capacity is limiting our ability to meet all of our customers' demand and is resulting in longer lead times," the letter says, signed by BS Teh, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Seagate. "As a result, we will be implementing price increases effective immediately on new orders and for demand that is over and above previously committed volumes."
WD sent a similar letter earlier this month. In it, WD warned that is seeing "higher than expected demand across its entire flash and hard drive portfolio resulting in supply constraints.
|
|
