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Chipolo’s new item trackers are basically AirTags for Android
Google doesn’t have a direct equivalent to Apple’s AirTags, but it might come close. Chipolo has teamed up with Google to introduce One Point (shown above) and Card Point (below) item trackers that work exclusively with Android’s Find My Device network. They take advantage of the phone platform’s ubiquity to not only increase the chances of locating your gear, but to find unknown trackers that might be used to spy on your whereabouts.
Both trackers support Android’s Fast Pair to speed through setup, and are water-resistant. The differences extend beyond their shapes. The One Point is the loudest with a 120dB ring, and lasts a year on its replaceable battery. The Card Point is quieter at 105dB and relies on a renewal program when the battery wears down, but it also lasts for two years.
Chipolo is taking pre-orders for both devices now. The One Point sells for $28, and the Card Point is available for $35. Four-packs for each respectively cost $79 and $112, and you can get a One/Card bundle for $77. Orders should ship by the second half of July. You’ll need a phone running at least Android 9 with Google Play Services. That covers many phones released in North America and Europe over the past five years.
The Point trackers are really counterparts to Chipolo’s iPhone-oriented One Spot and Card Spot. However, they also reflect Google’s broader effort to flesh out the Android ecosystem. You don’t have to rely on a third-party tracking network like Tile’s or Samsung’s to find missing items. Of course, this also locks you into Android — you’ll have to replace your trackers if you ever switch platforms.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/chipolos-new-item-trackers-are-basically-airtags-for-android-204801185.html?src=rss
NASA extends Voyager 2’s space mission by basically putting it into power-saver mode
Dota 2 New Frontiers is basically a full sequel, and that’s awesome
Dota 2 is dead; long live Dota 2. Gameplay update 7.33, called Dota 2 New Frontiers, is a full sequel to the long-standing MOBA game in everything but name. With a new map, a fourth hero type, and vast gameplay balance changes made across all heroes and items, reading Valve’s latest set of Dota 2 patch notes might keep you busy through the whole weekend. Fortunately, we’ve pulled out the key takeaways right here.
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Beau Is Afraid Actor Has No Idea What The Movie Is About, Had Basically No Prep Time
Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster’s new movie, Beau Is Afraid, arrives this month, and one of the film’s cast members doesn’t know a whole lot about it.
Richard Kind (Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm) plays a lawyer, Dr. Cohen, but Kind was hired very late for the project after someone else dropped out. He had a meeting on Friday afternoon, agreed to the role the same day, and began practicing his lines right away. By the following Monday–just three days later–Kind was on set at 7 AM to film his part. Given the compressed timeline, Kind didn’t have a chance to read the script, and thus doesn’t know much about the movie beyond his part in it.
“Because I only had two days to memorize it, I didn’t have the luxury of reading the script,” Kind told Entertainment Weekly. “After I did the movie, I was so intrigued. I said, ‘I’m not reading the script, I’m going to see the movie.'”
Elon Musk said the Twitter Files were basically dead. Barely anyone noticed.
The Twitter Files are over.
At least, that’s what Elon Musk expressed following his falling out with the project’s head writer Matt Taibbi.
“At a certain point, I think we need to move on from the Twitter Files,” Musk said in a Twitter Space audio chat earlier this week. “I think there’s a few things left. General, there’s not a lot that I’m aware of that’s left.”
“It’s mostly just like, you know, let’s move on to the future,” said Musk.
Remember, the Twitter Files were promoted by Musk and his supporters as a big deal. Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and a few other writers hand-picked by Musk began publishing reports based on internal Twitter documents and access provided to them by Musk. These documents supposedly showed Twitter’s bias against conservatives as well as interference by the U.S. government to censor certain posts and users.
In reality, the released information showed former Twitter employees engaging in fairly even-handed, basic content moderation found on almost any social media platform. Nevertheless, Musk’s curated narrative broke through with conservatives and Musk fans. There were even Congressional hearings held based on the Twitter Files where former employees shared just how much was missing from Musk’s chosen documents.
Still though, Congressional hearings were held! Multiple Twitter Files were published. Conservative media ran with these stories again and again. These Twitter Files were a big deal according to Musk and his supporters.
And yet, Musk is now just saying it’s time to move on after saying there would be more Twitter Files. Musk even teased that he’d be releasing a supposed “Fauci Files” regarding Twitter and the pandemic back in January, going after former White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci. These “Fauci Files” have never been released. Neither have the Twitter Files regarding Musk-run Twitter, which Musk said he would also release for the sake of transparency.
That’s quite an uneventful ending for what many Musk supporters framed as huge, important revelations.
Where did Musk say this?
Much has been said about Elon Musk’s interview earlier this week with the BBC by now. It’s been covered by multiple outlets in great detail.
BBC reporter James Clayton was granted a last-minute interview with Musk late Tuesday night where the two discussed Musk’s Twitter acquisition and subsequent layoffs, misinformation, and hate speech on the website. The interview, which was filmed for BBC and streamed live on Twitter Spaces, was unfortunately not very good. Musk sidestepped questions, turning them back around against the BBC and its reporter seemed unprepared to respond to such pushback.
But, there was one very interesting nugget of information that came towards the end of the Twitter Spaces discussion. And judging by the lack of coverage, it seems like most people missed it.
After BBC ended its portion of the interview, Musk brought on some of his favorite fans, consisting of right-wing influencers and cryptocurrency accounts. One of them, Malaysia-based right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong, asked Musk about the future of the Twitter Files after saying he received numerous messages asking him to inquire.
Just days earlier, Musk’s relationship with Twitter Files’ lead writer Taibbi came to an end over Musk’s feud with Substack. Unhappy that Substack launched a Twitter-like feature called Substack Notes, Musk had Twitter block interactions on tweets that included Substack links. Being that Taibbi publishes the vast majority of his writing on his Substack, the two had a disagreement over the issue which led to Musk unfollowing Taibbi and Taibbi leaving Twitter.
In a statement, Taibbi confirmed that these events would affect his Twitter Files work, as ostensibly Musk will no longer provide Taibbi with further documents or access. Since then, Taibbi has moved to other platforms such as Donald Trump’s Truth Social and has been working to move the Twitter Files threads he had already published on Twitter to his new homes.
So, there might be a few Twitter Files reports left to be published from before Musk’s feud with Taibbi. But, listening to Musk in that Twitter Space, he didn’t seem too excited about them. And again, according to Musk, it’s time to “move on” from the Twitter Files anyway.