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• Friday morning Apple links (arstechnica.com)
  Today, lots of bits about Universal Binaries (the trials, tribulations, and …
• CES 2022: Invoxia announces a Smart Dog Collar for tracking your pet's health and location (zdnet.com)
  At CES 2022, the company said the new collar will track your dog's location, heart rate, breathing rate, and more.
• CES 2022: Withings Body Scan smart scale gains ECG, more in-depth body composition features (zdnet.com)
  The new scale will hit store shelves later this year once it's earned FDA approval.
• Cold weather in Florida is pushing back the Artemis II launch (theverge.com)
  A test launch for Artemis II has been pushed to February 2nd, delaying a mission launch until February 8th at the earliest.
• Ring Fit Adventure gets a deep discount, just in time for New Year's resolutions (zdnet.com)
  New year, same Black Friday-low pricing on Nintendo's beloved fitness game. More deals below.
• Quantum entanglement on a chip (arstechnica.com)
  Quantum entanglement is useful for all sorts of applications, from encryption …
• Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are arrested for covering anti-ICE protest (theverge.com)
  The Trump administration alleged that the former CNN anchor and the local independent journalist were part of a “coordinated attack” on a S…
• Jade at Macworld: OmniGroup (arstechnica.com)
  The OmniGood news is OmniWeb 5.5, but the bad news is no OmniWriter.
• Safe and secure G Cloud Mobile Backup is available now at nearly 75% off (zdnet.com)
  Start your own personal cloud migration now, starting with 100GB for only $17.99.
• Your OT writer locks up all his classic games, for the cost of love (arstechnica.com)
  I'll miss them, but then again, it'll make me buy a house sooner.
• Cloud software giant Blackbaud Acquires Everfi for $750 million (zdnet.com)
  The social impact technology company is being acquired in a cash and stock deal.
• Microsoft issues emergency fix for Exchange Server date-check bug (zdnet.com)
  The temporary fix is for a date-check failure that caused messages to get stuck in Exchange 2016 and 2019 transport queues starting January…
• The best robot mop-vac combos for 2026 (theverge.com)
  Roborock, Narwal, and Dreame bots top our list of the best robot vacuums that are also excellent at mopping your floors.
• Rabbit announced a new AI device and updates to r1. (theverge.com)
  The AI hardware company announced its next bet, dubbed “project cyberdeck”: a portable device specifically designed for vibe-coding. It als…
• The totals are in: The DS sits on top of software sales in Japan (arstechnica.com)
  Nintendo's handheld system owns most of the top ten spots in terms of software …
• Check out the new additions to our best robot vacuum and mop buying guide. (theverge.com)
  Robot vacuums are great for carpets, but if you live in a place with a lot of hardwood floors, models that can also mop offer a better over…
• Windows Vista vs. Windows XP: a comparison (arstechnica.com)
  The website BentUser has taken a comprehensive look at how Windows Vista has …
• Belkin’s Wemo smart devices will go offline on Saturday (theverge.com)
  On January 31st, Wemo smart home devices will lose cloud services support, with the exception of Thread-based devices and Wemo devices set…
• Jade at Macworld: Cool Product Runner Up (arstechnica.com)
  The Canon SD430 asks: why not wireless?
• The best smart rings of 2026 (theverge.com)
  Smart rings are a comfortable, discreet alternative to smartwatches. Here, we’ve rounded up the best options from Oura, Samsung, Ultrahuman…
• Microsoft quietly extends XP Home support (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft has quietly extended support for its Windows XP-era consumer …
• Apple’s fall iPhone lineup might only feature a foldable iPhone and the iPhone 18 Pro. (theverge.com)
  The standard iPhone 18 is set for a spring 2027 launch, and a “revamped” iPhone Air is in the works but isn’t expected for this year, accor…
• Sun and Apple almost made the nasty (arstechnica.com)
  Not only did Apple and Sun almost "become one," they tried it three times and …
• Dynacap made my favorite mechanical keyboard into an electrocapacitive one (theverge.com)
  The Dynacap system lets you combine the best qualities of Topre and MX keyboards for a semi-reasonable price.
• Microsoft and Yahoo agree to enhance their search engines (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft and Yahoo have put their heads together! What have they come up …
• Got burning wearable or health tech questions? (theverge.com)
  Good news, I’ll be on starting at 11AM PT / 2PM ET to answer them in a subscriber-exclusive AMA. Comment your questions in the post below.…
• Apple trademark filing points to cellular offering (arstechnica.com)
  The ROKR didn't rock, leaving some to wonder if Apple was saving its best …
• RDF fading, fading, fading? (arstechnica.com)
  MacBook Pro not all it's cracked up to be?
• You can now use Nintendo’s wireless N64 controller with the Analogue 3D (theverge.com)
  A new software update for Analogue’s modern recreation of the N64 makes authentic retro gaming more convenient.
• ICE invades Minnesota and Minnesotans fight back (theverge.com)
  The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, Operation Metro Surge, has created widespread backlash as communities organi…
• Child-friendly anti-spam laws face opposition (arstechnica.com)
  Think of the children" has become the rallying cry for states trying to …
• Tim Cook was pressed by CNBC on making a public statement about events like what has unfolded in (theverge.com)
  See below for what he had to say. (You can read that memo Cook is referencing here.) The lack of an official public response so far is a no…
• First simultaneous release movie opening tonight (arstechnica.com)
  The latest movie by Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh opens today on 215 art...
• Jade at Macworld: World of Warcraft on the Mactel iMac (arstechnica.com)
  Oh, I'm dancing again, heh. I hope all your friends are enjoying the show!
• News from Haunted Chocolatier developer ConcernedApe: (theverge.com)
  ”Yep, it’s taking a while to finish the game. That’s oaky.” (That’s his typo, not mine.) The game was announced in 2021. [Link: Update: I’m…
• Department of Homeland Security funds open source security audit (arstechnica.com)
  The Department of Homeland Security is providing resources to help design an …
• Anthropic expanded its Cowork tool with “plugins,” leaning further into agentic AI. (theverge.com)
  The plugins are designed to allow Cowork to act like a “domain expert” in areas like sales, legal, finance, marketing, data analysis, custo…
• AT&T sees benefits to tiered Internet service (arstechnica.com)
  AT&T's CFO spoke recently about how his company sees the issues of network …
• Apple CEO Tim Cook is letting politics destroy his legacy (theverge.com)
  The backlash to Cook’s presence at the White House during Alex Pretti’s killing, plus the latest on TikTok, Samsung foldables, and more, on…
• Is this sausage supposed to be green? (arstechnica.com)
  Scientists in Taiwan have created a new transgenic pig in this year's must...
• Samsung’s Galaxy S26 lineup might look familiar. (theverge.com)
  Based on renders from Android Headlines, it doesn’t seem like Samsung will change things up too much with the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, or S26…
• Nintendo tests the emulation waters with "Virtual Consoles" (arstechnica.com)
  Nintendo has leaked some of their emulation plans for the Revolution game …
• Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is nearly 75 percent off today (theverge.com)
  Dyson’s powerful robovac is down to just $279.99 at Woot through January 30th. You can also save on the Google TV Streamer (4K) and Lego’s…
• Next-gen Wi-Fi spec ready for approval (arstechnica.com)
  802.11n looks ready for adoption by the IEEE, paving the way for a massive …
• Jade at Macworld: Adobe (arstechnica.com)
  Expect continued development of both GoLive and Dreamweaver, but whither …
• So much for nuclear safety rules. (theverge.com)
  The Trump administration is quietly weakening regulations meant to protect groundwater and limit radiation exposure to workers at new nucle…
• Intel Macs will run Windows... eventually (arstechnica.com)
  Apple has said it doesn't care if people run Windows on their Intel iMacs and …
• We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us (theverge.com)
  I got a reply from Trump Mobile executive Don Hendrickson, but then he left me on read.
• There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird (theverge.com)
  A viral post asks questions about consciousness.
• Blu-ray for Xbox 360: a last ditch effort (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft will consider adding a Blu-ray drive to the Xbox 360 as an add-on...