Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th (Counterpoint Research)
Counterpoint Research:
In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th — Harshit Rastogi is Senior Analyst based out of Gurgaon, India. He closely tracks global handset market ecosystem and wearables.
Forget Space Balls, this forgotten Star Wars parody nails the worst thing about Luke Skywalker
Thumb Wars isn't the best Star Wars satire, but it gets one thing brutally correct.
A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off
The Electoral College — our nation’s bizarre system that hands a few narrowly-divided states the privilege to choose our presidents — has been entrenched for two centuries. But a long-game effort from reformers, which has played out quietly in blue states across the country over the past 20 years, has gotten it surprisingly close to […]
Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
Alice Speri / The Guardian:
Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal — Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon's Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’
Microsoft is finally ditching the junk MSN feed in Windows widgets
Microsoft is finally giving up on showing the junk feed of MSN news when you open the widgets feature in Windows 11. After allowing Windows 11 users to disable the MSN feed more than two years ago, Microsoft says it will soon hide it by default as part of an effort to make widgets "quiet […]