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The Nothing Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition is Nothings latest smartphone, using designs submitted by the community and it glows in the dark. Depending on your location, you can register for a chance to buy the device starting today, but that doesnt guarantee a purchase. Only 1,000 of them will be available, and they wont be sold in North America, Taiwan and Korea. Nothing first called for the community to design a product back in March. The contest had four stages: creating a new look, crafting wallpapers, designing a new package and then developing a marketing campaign. People would then submit their ideas and the winners chosen later. These entries later went into the final design as seen now. Those who participated in the community event are given priority to register for a Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition, but it will still be sold on a first-come-first-served basis. You can find out how to get one in this post. Interestingly, those in Malaysia (like me), Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines dont have to register to potentially purchase one. They can buy one through Nothings official partners, although they have to be fast as there are only 25 devices per country. Fans of Nothings phones in Japan can also register for the phone, but the ones theyll get are based on the older Nothing Phone (2a). Besides buying the phone online, fans in London and Delhi can visit a physical store for one. The Nothing Store in Soho will stock 50 of them starting November 16. However, those in Delhi have to stay tuned for the location, and the phone will become available on November 23. The Nothing Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will launch on November 12 and sell for 399, around $430. It comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage space.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/nothings-first-community-designed-smartphone-glows-in-the-dark-152002042.html?src=rss
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For the second time in less than two years, Dropbox is laying off a substantial portion of its workforce. In a blog post penned by CEO Drew Houston, the company said it would cut its global headcount by 20 percent or 528 employees. Dropbox will provide impacted workers with up to 16 weeks of pay, with tenured employees eligible for one additional week of pay for each complete year they worked at the company. All impacted employees will also receive their year end equity vest, and the company will provide dedicated support to immigrant workers with one-on-one consultation and extra transition time. Per a filing with the SEC, Dropbox anticipates this latest round of layoffs will cost it up to $68 million in cash expenditures. At the same time, the company expects it will recognize between $47 million and $52 million in incremental expenses related to all the severance and benefit payouts it now needs to make before the end of year and into the first half of 2025. As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and Im truly sorry to those impacted by this change, Houston wrote. We continue to see softening demand and macro headwinds in our core business. But external factors are only part of the story. Weve heard from many of you that our organizational structure has become overly complex, with excess layers of management slowing us down. Partway through last year, Dropbox laid off 500 employees, or about 16 percent of its workforce at the time. Comparing the memo Houston shared then with the one he posted today, theres a common theme: slowing growth. First, while our business is profitable, our growth has been slowing. Part of this is due to the natural maturation of our existing businesses, but more recently, headwinds from the economic downturn have put pressure on our customers and, in turn, on our business, Houston wrote in 2023. As a result, some investments that used to deliver positive returns are no longer sustainable. Unfortunately for Dropbox, things havent improved on that front. As TechCrunch notes, the company only added 63,000 users during its most recent fiscal quarter (PDF link). Year-over-year revenue growth also stalled at 1.8 percent, the lowest in the companys history. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/dropbox-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce-151023877.html?src=rss
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Apple is continuing its week of announcements by revealing the latest MacBook Pro lineup, as well as its new top-of-the-line chip. The M4 Max has a 40-core GPU double the number of cores found in the M4 Pro that the company revealed this week. It has a 16-core GPU with 12 performance and four efficiency cores and a 16-core neural engine that's said to be three times faster than the one on the M1 chip. The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of RAM with what Apple claims is 30 percent more memory bandwidth than the M3 Max offers. The GPU is said to have faster cores and a ray-tracing engine that's twice as fast as the M3 chips. Apple claims the neural engine is up to twice as fast as the one on the previous-generation chipsets as well. In addition, Apple says the CPU is up to 2.2 times faster than the one in the M1 Max. As with the M4 and M4 Pro, the M4 Max is built on second-gen 3nm tech to bolster power efficiency and performance. Like the M4 Pro (which can be used to power the new Mac mini), the M4 Max supports Thunderbolt 5, which should make it faster to move files around as it has a data transfer capacity of up to 120GB per second. And, as with all of Apple's other M-series Macs, devices running on the M4 Max will support Apple Intelligence features.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/apple-unveils-its-top-of-the-line-m4-max-chip-150241987.html?src=rss
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