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Actors get all the attention, but to make a movie truly great, you need a winning combination of writers, directors, and producers, as well as onscreen talent. To make a strong film that authentically portrays its Black characters, you need Black creatives in those decision-making positions. It’s a very simple concept, people! To shed a … Read more

Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s global operations, reports NPR. The deal, which the White House is reportedly negotiating, would see ByteDance keeping a minority stake in TikTok while “the app’s algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle.” Oracle’s server network … Read more

Brendan Wallace has a lot on his mind lately. Wallace is the co-founder of Fifth Wall Ventures, a nine-year-old proptech venture firm with $3.2 billion in assets under management. He’s also a homeowner in L.A., which continues to battle raging wildfires. While his place remains intact, many of his friends haven’t been so lucky.  Wallace … Read more

What you need to know The Oppo Find N5, and consequently the OnePlus Open 2, could be under 9.2mm thick when folded. New images of the Find N5 also reveal a more subtle camera bump compared to the Find N3. The Find N5 will likely have a flat exterior display, with a foldable 2K screen … Read more

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Update: January 26, 2025 (1:25 AM ET): We have updated our OnePlus Open 2 rumor hub with confirmed information regarding the phone’s chipset, wireless charging support, and IP rating. While Europe and parts of Asia have experienced a variety of excellent foldable phones, the US had limited options beyond Samsung … Read more

Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming “a sort of splinter group” from the Boy Scouts when … Read more

Alibaba’s latest model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has gained some impressive reviews for its reasoning abilities. Like OpenAI’s GPT-4 o1,1 its training has emphasized reasoning rather than just reproducing language. That seemed like something worth testing out—or at least playing around with—so when I heard that it very quickly became available in Ollama and wasn’t too large to … Read more

Microsoft hasn’t said for how long this “limited time” offer will last, but presumably it will only last for a year or two to help ease the transition between the old pricing and the new pricing. New subscribers won’t be offered the option to pay for the Classic plans. Subscribers on the Personal and Family … Read more

Apple’s retail stores will be rolling out “merchandise/floor marketing updates” next week, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Gurman did not explicitly say if the store updates are related to any upcoming product announcements, but he did mention that next week is around the time that Apple rolls out its annual Black Unity watch band for … Read more

Table of Contents Table of Contents What’s going on with RDNA 4? I’m losing faith, and I’m not alone AMD could still make the RX 9070 XT a success It looks like I may have played myself again. I was genuinely excited about AMD’s RX 9070 XT, but now, I’m starting to worry about its … Read more