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Alongside a new foldable and flagship phone, Huawei has revealed its first mobile OS made entirely in-house. Its part of Huaweis plans to build a platform entirely free of major US tech sources, both for hardware and software because the company is banned from using some of them. Huawei Case in point: the Mate 70 series follows the Mate 60, the first Huawei smartphone to use a fully made processor in China. Huawei said the new OS still needs several months of refinement to improve the user experience, but the aim is to install it on all future smartphones. While we havent tested it yet, many of the features and screens look rather iOS-inspired, like the drop-down menu. There is also design consistency across Huaweis phones, tablets and foldables. Of course, theres an AI assistant, too, called Xiaoyi. Mat Smith Get this delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The biggest tech stories you missed Intels CHIPS Act funding cut by over $600 million Amazon Japan hit with a raid over antitrust concerns The best Black Friday deals on gaming X says The Onion cant have Alex Jones Infowars accounts So now it has rules? X filed a limited objection to the transfer of Infowars X accounts to The Onion in a federal bankruptcy court on Monday. Jones assets, including the Infowars website, went into a liquidation auction earlier this month to raise money for the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he accrued in civil trials brought by the family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Onions parent company, Global Tetrahedron, stepped in to purchase the Infowars site after receiving permission from the families to accept a lower bid. X Corporation cites its own terms of service (TOS) agreement in its objection. The TOS states accounts cannot be transferred, gifted, sold or assigned to other parties without Xs express written consent. Continue reading. Uber tries offering coders for hire Its the new gig economy. Ubers new Scaled Solutions division is a platform of analysts, testers and independent data operators, according to the companys website. Bloomberg reports the once in-house team is now offering coders and data labelers to outside companies, like the makers of Pokémon Go and self-driving trucking software company Aurora. According to an onboarding FAQ reviewed by Bloomberg, contractor pay is distributed monthly, based on the tasks contractors complete. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-122522339.html?src=rss
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Another legal complication may have surfaced in The Onions bid to buy the Infowars empire from bankrupt conspiracy media mogul Alex Jones. X filed a limited objection to the transfer of Infowars X accounts to the satirical media empire in a federal Bankruptcy Court on Monday. The objection claims that X Corporations terms of service states the Trustee cannot sell, assign or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.s consent, according to court records. X Corporation cites its own Terms of Service (TOS) agreement in its objection. The TOS states accounts cannot be transferred, gifted, sold or assigned to other parties without Xs express written consent. Because the X accounts are governed by the TOS, the TOS make clear that X accounts are X Corp.s exclusive property, according to Xs court filing. Jones assets including the Infowars website went into a liquidation auction earlier this month to raise money for the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he accrued in civil trials brought by the family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones was found liable for spreading rumors about the victims family members that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged as a false flag attack. The Onions parent company Global Tetrahedron stepped in to purchase the Infowars site after receiving permission from the families to accept a lower bid and forgo a portion of the sale to pay Jones other creditors. Onion CEO Ben Collins announced the deal on his Bluesky account as well as the newspapers plans to turn Infowars.com into a very funny, very stupid website. US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez halted the deal calling for an evidentiary hearing to review the auction process. The auctions trustee Christopher Murray said in court that Global Tetrahedrons bid was not the highest offered but the sale price included a legal clause citing its deal with the families. The Associated Press reported Monday that Lopez will hear arguments on the trustees sale of Infowars to The Onion on December 9 or 17 in order to ensure a fair and transparent process.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-says-the-onion-cant-have-alex-jones-infowars-accounts-000006993.html?src=rss
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Microsoft has quietly announced the end of an era, with the Xbox Avatar Editor going away early next year. "Due to low engagement and our shift in focus towards delivering other player experiences, the Xbox Avatar Editor app will no longer be available starting on January 9, 2025," the company wrote in its FAQ about the feature. The latest approach to personalizing avatars launched in 2018. The Xbox Avatar Editor allowed players to customize cartoon versions of themselves with both a free and purchased library of cosmetics. The options gave a lot of room for diversity and personal expression, so that you really could create a clear likeness of yourself, or whatever self you wanted to show to the Xbox community. Microsoft said it will refund players for Xbox Avatar Editor purchases made between November 1, 2023 and the app's end date. Microsoft introduced avatars to player accounts back in the Xbox 360 era. These Xbox Original Avatars will not be impacted by the editor app's departure; they'll continue to appear for players using those old school images as well as on Xbox 360 hardware. If you created an avatar that you want to preserve as your profile photo on the Xbox into the future, you can use the Avatar Editor app until the shutdown date to save a picture to your account. The Xbox support forums have a full explainer on how to create or upload your profile photo.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-taking-away-the-xbox-avatar-editor-233712034.html?src=rss
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