Se já tem uma televisão inteligente é provável que saiba que estão entre os dispositivos mais úteis no que diz respeito a entretenimento. Ao contarem com a sua própria loja de aplicações, os utilizadores conseguem ter acesso aos serviços de streaming e muitas outras apps diretamente através do ecrã.

Apesar da utilidade, poderá perceber após algum tempo de uso que a televisão ficou com um desempenho pior, com abrandamentos notórios enquanto navega pelo menu ou aberturas de apps a ficarem mais lentas.

É importante então ter alguns cuidados enquanto usa a sua televisão inteligente, procurando aplicar algumas das dicas sugeridas pelo site TechTudo para manter o seu equipamento em boa forma.

Pode encontrar abaixo algumas dicas para manter a sua televisão com um bom desempenho e sem abrandamentos ou um comportamento aquém do que merece.

As 6 dicas que precisa para manter rápida a sua TV:

• Reinicie a televisão para interromper processos que estejam a decorrer em segundo plano;
  
  
• Se possível, limpe a cache e os dados das aplicações;
  
  
• Desinstale aplicações que não usa para libertar espaço no armazenamento da televisão;
  
  
• Mantenha o sistema operativo da televisão devidamente atualizado, assim como as aplicações que usa;
  
  
• Reduza os obstáculos físicos que existem entre a televisão e o router para melhorar a qualidade da conexão Wi-Fi;
  
  
• Se a televisão não receber mais atualizações, considere comprar um dispositivo de streaming para melhorar a qualidade da experiência.

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Depois de um primeiro vislumbre partilhado no começo de 2026, a Netflix decidiu lançar um primeiro trailer para “Orgulho e Preconceito”, uma minissérie que servirá como nova adaptação da conhecida obra da autoria de Jane Austen.

Sabe-se que a minissérie contará com um total de seis episódios e conta com Emma Corrin no papel de Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden como Sr. Darcy e Olivia Colman como Sra. Bennet.

Além destes três (grandes) nomes, o elenco é também composto por Freya Mavor (‘Industry’) como Jane Bennet; Rhea Norwood (‘Heartstopper’, ‘Cabaret’) como Lydia Bennet; Hopey Parish como Mary Bennet; e Hollie Avery como Kitty Bennet.

A minissérie da Netflix (baseada num clássico) que não pode perder

A minissérie "A Leste do Paraíso", baseada no clássico de John Steinbeck, estreou na Netflix em 1 de outubro e já se tornou uma das séries mais vistas da plataforma, com 12,6 milhões de visualizações e 87 milhões de horas acumuladas.

Miguel Patinha Dias | 08:47 - 19/10/2026

Há ainda a considerar Rufus Sewell (‘The Diplomat’) como Mr. Bennet; Jamie Demetriou (‘Stath Lets Flats’, ‘Barbie’) como Mr. Collins; Fiona Shaw (‘Killing Eve’, ‘Andor’) como Lady Catherine de Bourg; Daryl McCormack (‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’, ‘Good Luck to You’ como Mr. Bingley; Louis Partridge (‘House of Guinness’, ‘Disclaimer’) como Mr. Wickham.

Esta minissérie “Orgulho e Preconceito” conta com argumento de Dolly Alderton (‘Everything I Know About Love’) e realização de Euros Lyn (‘Heartstopper’), com a Netflix a adiantar que se trata de uma “adaptação fiel do romance clássico”.

Nova série é o mais recente sucesso da Netflix. Tem apenas 6 episódios

"Below" tem Josh Hartnett como protagonista e conta a história de uma localidade piscatória aterrorizada por uma criatura marinha. A série tem sido elogiada pela crítica, mas os espectadores não parecem convencidos.

Miguel Patinha Dias | 11:33 - 27/10/2026

“Uma vez a cada geração há um grupo de pessoas que têm a oportunidade de voltar a contar esta história maravilhosa e sinto-me muito sortuda fazer parte disso”, afirmou Alderton no comunicado oficial da Netflix. “O ‘Orgulho e Preconceito’ de Jane Austen é o modelo do [género] comédia romântica - tem sido uma alegria voltar a mergulhar nas páginas para encontrar formas familiares e frescas de voltar a dar vida a este livro tão adorado”.

A estreia de “Orgulho e Preconceito” na Netflix está marcada para o dia 3 de dezembro. Pode ver acima o mais recente trailer.

Leia Também: O que ver na Netflix? Estes 5 filmes vão mantê-lo "colado" à TV

• YouTube's ad revenue fell short of analysts' expectations for the third quarter.
• Its parent reported $11.2 billion in Q3 ads revenue, under analysts' $11.43 billion estimate.
• The company said it now has 150 million YouTube Music and Premium subscribers, up from 125 million in March 2025.

YouTube's ad revenue growth slowed down, missing analysts' estimates in the third quarter.

Its parent company, Alphabet, reported $11.2 billion in third-quarter YouTube ads revenue, a 9% increase from a year ago. That falls below the $11.43 billion analyst consensus estimate. Its ads revenue growth also slowed from the previous quarter, when it pulled in about $11.1 billion, a 13% increase from the previous year.

Beyond YouTube, Alphabet missed expectations in other areas of its business, including on overall revenue. In a bright spot, it beat revenue estimates for its cloud business.

The company's shares were down over 10% in after-hours trading.

While YouTube's ad revenue was weaker than expected, it wasn't all bad news. The company said it now has over 150 million YouTube Music and Premium subscribers, up from 125 million in March 2025. The company said its subscriptions business was growing faster than ads.

YouTube has also been the envy of rivals in key areas like TV viewership. Its share of US television viewership was about twice that of Netflix in August, according to recent Nielsen estimates. Over a third of YouTube's third-quarter ad revenue came from the living room, Google's chief business officer Philipp Schindler said on Wednesday.

Netflix, meanwhile, walked back its full-year ad revenue expectations during last week's earnings. The streamer lowered its ad revenue forecast from $3 billion to $2.7 billion after experiencing delays around the rollout of its ad products. It laid off about 1,000 workers earlier this month.

This week, Instagram unveiled an overhaul of long-form video features seemingly designed to counter YouTube and bolster its presence on TV screens.

"Everyone in streaming is chasing YouTube, and even Instagram is going to pivot their strategy based on the success that YouTube's had," said Ross Benes, a senior analyst at EMARKETER, Business Insider's sister company.

• Google's AI Mode is struggling to answer a simple question: "Who won the 2020 presidential election?"
• On Wednesday, users noticed that the AI-enhanced search tool was being cagey.
• Google said it is working to fix the issue.

Google's AI Mode was supposed to reimagine search. Users are noticing that it's struggling with a basic question: "Who won the 2020 election?"

On Wednesday, users on BlueSky and other social media platforms took notice that Google's AI Mode wouldn't give a straight answer about who won the White House in 2020.

"To verify the winner, certified outcomes, electoral votes, and popular vote totals for the 2020 United States presidential election, you can review the official reports published by the Federal Election Commission (FEC)," the AI Mode replied to a Business Insider reporter who asked, "Who won the 2020 presidential election in the United States?"

When other Business Insider reporters asked similar questions, the AI Mode sometimes responded that President Joe Biden had won. Google Gemini, the search giant's AI system, which is accessed via a different site than AI mode, responded to a similar question that Biden was the winner.

It's not entirely clear why Google tells users to review the results published by the Federal Election Commission. While the FEC does publish the results of presidential elections, the commission itself has no role in the certification of state election results or the formal counting of Electoral College votes.

On Wednesday afternoon, Google said it was working to fix the issue, which it attributed to a "technical gap."

"Our systems verify election responses using news articles or AP data for recent elections, and historic records for older ones," Google wrote on X. "There was a technical gap with 2020 - same is true for 2022 Senate races, which we're also working to fix."

For years, President Donald Trump has refused to concede that he lost to Biden. After his campaign lost legal challenges, Trump and his allies suggested that lawmakers themselves could change the outcome, fueling the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The riot briefly delayed the congressional verification of Biden's victory.

The user posted screenshots that show AI mode responding to questions about who won other presidential elections. When a Business Insider reporter ran similar queries, AI mode sometimes said who had won previous presidential elections, and other times it did not.

The 2026 midterms are likely to test tech and AI companies, many of which have announced policies to limit users' abuse of their tools.

OpenAI recently announced that its model would produce "stylized — also known as cartoonified — illustrations, rather than photorealistic images" if asked to produce images "depicting election interference or that may discourage voting." In June, Meta announced that it would add "more information to ads we detect have been created with third-party AI tools." And Google previously said it was "rolling out additional protections to limit the creation of misleading election-related images."

When asked why it could not say who won the 2020 election, the AI Mode responded, "Because recent election results can be a sensitive civic topic, guiding you directly to primary historical databases prevents any perception of bias or mischaracterization of the official public record."

• Microsoft is offering buyouts to about a quarter of its workforce.
• In an internal memo, Microsoft's finance boss said the company expects "very few people" to accept.
• Employees had been questioning the rationale behind the offer, the memo said.

Microsoft expects 3,000 or fewer employees to accept the buyout it offered this week to more than a quarter of its workforce, a spokesperson told Business Insider.

The point was reiterated on Wednesday by Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, who wrote in an internal memo that employees have been questioning the rationale behind the buyout.

"I know there have been some questions on the rationale behind the voluntary exit offer that we announced this week," Hood wrote. "Our intent is to offer employees agency if they choose to leave the company on their own terms. We expect very few people to select this offer because of the growth opportunities here at Microsoft."

The memo statement was part of a quarterly earnings email Hood typically sends internally to employees every quarter when Microsoft discloses its financials.

These memos mostly repeat what the company reports publicly, but this time Hood went out of her way to address the buyout offer, which caused quite a stir across the tech industry this week.

Earlier this year, Microsoft offered a different retirement buyout. In that situation, about one-third of eligible employees took the offer, and that helped Microsoft cut fewer employees in subsequent layoffs.

This week's buyout is getting a lot less uptake, according to the company.

Read the CFO's full memo

Team,

This afternoon, we announced our first-quarter financial results. We exceeded Wall Street expectations, growing revenue 19% and operating income 21%.

With the start of FY27, we also made an important change to how we report our business. We announced that we changed our reporting structure for the first time in 12 years, moving from three segments to two: Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer. This change better reflects how we are running the business today — from how we build products and allocate resources to how we create value for customers across the connected layers of our platform. To give you a sense of the two segments, looking back to last fiscal year, Agents and Infra would have represented about 81% of our revenue while Devices and Consumer would have been 19%.

A few highlights from the quarter across our two new segments:

• Agents and Infra grew revenue 23% this quarter
• Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion and accelerated to 30%.
  Azure revenue increased 48% reflecting accelerating Foundry demand.
• Microsoft 365 commercial cloud revenue increased 18% in constant currency driven by growth in our premium seat offerings like Copilot and E7 as well as usage-based services across M365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot.
• Microsoft 365 commercial seats increased 5% and the number of customers with more than 50,000 M365 Copilot seats increased 8x year-over-year.
• Microsoft 365 consumer cloud revenue increased 17% with subscriber growth of 7%.
• Industry solutions cloud revenue increased 10% with growth in Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
• Devices and Consumer declined 3% this quarter
• Search and advertising revenue ex-TAC increased 12%, with growth across LinkedIn, Bing, and Edge.
• Windows OEM and devices revenue decreased 22%, reflecting the prior-year benefit from Windows 10 end of support, inventory drawdowns by OEM partners, and weaker PC market demand.
  XBOX content and services revenue decreased 2%. Last week, we launched Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, as we continue to bring great games to more players across more devices.

Thank you for everything you did to deliver a strong start to the year. In particular, I want to thank our engineering and capacity delivery teams who are working to help us deliver more capacity faster and with high reliability. These teams are also using the capacity we have more efficiently to create room for us to better meet customer demand for the Azure platform, which continues to exceed our supply.

I know there have been some questions on the rationale behind the voluntary exit offer that we announced this week. Our intent is to offer employees agency if they choose to leave the company on their own terms. We expect very few people to select this offer because of the growth opportunities here at Microsoft. We'll continue to provide a broad set of options for employees to learn, gain new skills, and advance their careers here.

We have tremendous opportunity ahead of us. To meet the moment, we are focused on delivering great products and solutions that help our customers to achieve their many goals — security, innovation, growth — to name a few. Thank you for keeping positive, value-creating outcomes for our customers at the top of the list.

To hear more details about the quarter and our outlook for Q2, you can join live today at 2:30PM Pacific Time, listen on-demand, or read the transcript on the Investor Relations website. Finally, mark your calendars for Microsoft Ignite, on November 17-20, where we'll show how our innovation across AI, cloud, data, security, and Copilot is coming together to help customers transform their businesses.

With appreciation and gratitude,

Amy

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• The FTC wants information about how companies personalize prices.
• The Commission said that it sent orders to companies from Uber to Walmart.
• The orders ask about web use habits and other personal information.

The Federal Trade Commission is asking companies from food delivery services to airlines about how they use personalized prices.

The Commission said on Wednesday that it sent orders to the companies asking for details about what kind of personal information they use to determine prices. The orders target a wide range of companies, from retailers Walmart and Target to food delivery services Uber and DoorDash to airlines like Delta and United.

"Consumers deserve to know whether companies use their web surfing habits or other personal data to estimate the highest price they can charge each consumer," said FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson.

"Workers also deserve to know if their compensation is affected by how companies use their personal data," Ferguson added.

Several companies pushed back against the FTC's claims.

"There is no fare product Delta has ever used, is testing or plans to use that targets customers with individualized offers based on personal data," a Delta spokesperson said.

"We do not use personal information to set prices, and we never will," Instacart said in a statement.

Walmart and Target previously said they would be transparent about their pricing strategies as more stores start using digital price tags.

A growing number of companies are using dynamic pricing to determine what customers pay for everything from concert tickets to jeans.

Some companies use similar methods to determine how much workers get paid. Uber presents its drivers with potential payouts that aren't based on a per-mile or per-minute rate, for instance, but instead consider factors such as demand.

The FTC's orders ask the companies to submit information about their pricing methodologies, including how they use AI, going back to January 1, 2023. It also asks for research that the companies have done on their pricing strategies, such as A/B tests.

The Commission is also seeking information about how the companies used similar technology to offer workers jobs, according to the orders.

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Apple News promoted more than 80 stories that negatively framed Republican priorities in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, while promoting zero positive stories, according to new research.

The post Study: Apple News Pushed 84 Negative Headlines About GOP Priorities Before Midterms, Zero Positive appeared first on Breitbart.

Recent lobbying disclosures have revealed South Korea’s deep lobbying network in Washington D.C. and beyond. The country's massive lobbying machine is particularly noteworthy because of the unfriendly environment American tech companies are facing in the Korean market.

The post Report: South Korea Has Spent $363 Million Lobbying U.S. Lawmakers appeared first on Breitbart.

A new investigation into the activities of Google, Meta and other technology companies has intensified scrutiny of EU plans to revise data-protection legislation, placing Ireland and Germany at the centre of a dispute over corporate influence and European digital sovereignty.

European technology policy has become the focus of a dispute over corporate lobbying after researchers documented extensive contacts between major technology companies and political decision-makers during negotiations to revise EU data-protection rules.

An investigation published on 28 October by Corporate Europe Observatory and the German transparency organisation LobbyControl alleges that leading technology companies mounted a coordinated campaign to influence European governments and legislators.

The findings come one week after EU member states agreed a negotiating position on the Digital Omnibus, a legislative package intended to simplify aspects of European data-protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation.

The campaigners argue that the proposed changes risk weakening existing safeguards in order to accommodate the commercial requirements of artificial intelligence developers.

Ireland, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, has rejected suggestions that its handling of the legislation was improperly influenced by technology companies.

The dispute exposes a fundamental disagreement over the balance between commercial innovation and the protection of personal information.

The scale of the lobbying campaign

According to LobbyControl’s investigation, non-European technology companies recorded 103 meetings with representatives of Germany’s federal government between May 2025 and September 2026.

Google accounted for 28 meetings, Microsoft 18, Amazon 16 and OpenAI 11.

Germany’s Digital Minister, Karsten Wildberger, participated in 18 meetings with representatives of major technology companies, the researchers reported.

In Ireland, the organisations identified extensive engagement involving Meta, Google and politicians ahead of the country’s assumption of the EU Council presidency in July.

Their findings indicate that Meta engaged with 41 Irish parliamentarians over the Digital Omnibus, while Google recorded 30 meetings.

The researchers also identified 655 lobbying meetings concerning the legislation involving members of the European Parliament.

According to their analysis, approximately 83 per cent represented business interests, compared with 11 per cent involving civil society organisations or trade unions.

These figures demonstrate the intensity of corporate engagement, although the existence of lobbying meetings does not, by itself, establish that particular legislative provisions were adopted because of that activity.

Why the Digital Omnibus matters

The legislative package forms part of a broader European Commission initiative to reduce administrative burdens and improve competitiveness.

Its provisions address several areas of digital regulation, including the General Data Protection Regulation, commonly known as GDPR.

The proposals seek to simplify compliance obligations, clarify the treatment of personal information and revise rules governing certain forms of data processing.

One particularly contentious issue concerns the use of personal data in developing and operating artificial intelligence systems.

AI developers require large quantities of information to train and improve their models. However, the collection and processing of personal information remain subject to European legal safeguards.

Technology companies have argued that regulatory complexity can discourage investment and make it more difficult for European businesses to compete internationally.

Privacy campaigners maintain that simplifying regulatory procedures must not become a mechanism for reducing substantive protections.

The disagreement concerns not merely administrative paperwork but the legal circumstances under which companies may process information relating to identifiable individuals.

Ireland rejects allegations of improper influence

Ireland occupies a particularly sensitive position in the debate.

The country hosts major European operations of several American technology companies, including Google and Meta, and has substantial economic interests in the digital sector.

At the same time, its presidency of the EU Council requires it to coordinate negotiations between member states.

According to RTÉ’s reporting on the investigation, the Irish government strongly rejected the allegation that it had weakened data safeguards in response to corporate pressure.

A presidency spokesperson emphasised that Ireland’s responsibility was to facilitate agreement between member states and that the negotiating mandate approved on 21 October enjoyed broad support.

The Council has presented the proposed changes as a means of reducing compliance costs while preserving established privacy protections.

In its official statement, the Council said its mandate retains the existing definition of personal data and introduces additional provisions governing pseudonymisation.

It also includes safeguards relating to sensitive information used for biometric verification and AI systems.

These details are significant because they demonstrate that the negotiating text contains protections alongside proposed simplifications.

Germany’s role in the negotiations

Germany has also emerged as an important participant in the controversy.

The investigation points to close contact between the German government and international technology companies during discussions about the future of European digital regulation.

Berlin has supported reducing administrative restrictions that it considers obstacles to innovation and the development of competitive AI technologies.

For Germany, the issue is connected to wider concerns about industrial competitiveness, investment and Europe’s dependence on foreign technology suppliers.

Yet an unresolved question remains.

Measures designed to assist European innovators may also benefit established American companies whose extensive computing infrastructure and data resources give them advantages over smaller competitors.

Consequently, easing restrictions does not necessarily guarantee a stronger European technology industry.

The European Parliament holds the next decision

The Council’s negotiating position does not make the Digital Omnibus law.

The European Parliament must establish its own position before negotiations between the institutions can determine the final legislation.

Parliamentarians will therefore have an opportunity to examine the treatment of personal data, the safeguards attached to AI development and the relationship between regulatory simplification and individual rights.

The lobbying investigation is likely to become part of that debate.

Its central political significance lies in the competing interpretations of European technological sovereignty.

For governments seeking investment, regulatory flexibility may provide an instrument for improving Europe’s international competitiveness.

For privacy organisations, the same flexibility could increase the influence of companies already dominant in global digital markets.

The outcome will help determine whether Europe’s future digital framework preserves the existing balance between commercial data use and individual protections, or establishes a different relationship between the two.

A Revolut está a desenvolver uma plataforma dentro da sua app que permitirá a alguns dos seus utilizadores investirem em empresas tecnológicas privadas antes de entrarem em bolsa. O lançamento está previsto para 2027, diz a Euronews.

A plataforma está a ser desenvolvida em colaboração com a Carne Group e, de acordo com as informações disponíveis, chamar-se-á Revolut Ventures.

Sabe-se que apenas utilizadores “elegíveis” poderão fazer este investimento em empresas tecnológicas privadas, mas de momento não se sabe que utilizadores poderão fazê-lo. Da mesma forma, não é ainda claro que países receberão a Revolut Ventures ou se haverá um montante mínimo.

Revolut alerta sobre atrasos em saldos após falha na Google Cloud

A Revolut alertou hoje que operações com cartão realizadas durante a interrupção dos serviços em 20 de outubro, incluindo reembolsos, poderão demorar alguns dias a refletir-se no saldo e a aparecer na conta dos clientes. A instituição pediu desculpa pela interrupção temporária, que ocorreu devido a uma falha na Google Cloud.

Lusa | 13:04 - 22/10/2026

A Revolut espera assim reduzir o número de anos que as empresas tecnológicas privadas demoram para entrar na bolsa, procurando também dar aos investidores comuns a oportunidade de participarem nesse crescimento.

“Com a Revolut Ventures pretendemos eliminar uma das últimas barreiras na gestão de riqueza: a exclusão dos investidores das empresas não cotadas em bolsa”, afirmou o responsável pela área de Wealth & Trading da Revolut, Rolandas Juteika.

É bom lembrar que a própria Revolut se encontra neste momento a preparar a sua entrada na bolsa, um objetivo que a empresa espera concretizar tanto em Nova Iorque, nos EUA, como em Londres, no Reino Unido.

Leia Também: Dona do Claude prepara entrada em bolsa e revela riscos da IA

• Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings says Silicon Valley execs are like airlines, banks, and Big Pharma.
• They're all powerful and hugely consequential. They're also widely disliked, he said.
• Americans have lost love for tech CEOs — and new movies are highlighting the execs' darkest hours.

Reed Hastings thinks the tech industry has some Big Pharma energy.

During an interview with "On with Kara Swisher," released on Monday, the Netflix founder and former co-CEO responded to questions about the unpopularity of Silicon Valley executives.

"Well, think of pharma," he said. "Pharma is hated by the general public, and to my eyes, is continuing to do amazing and positive work. But people hate the high drug prices, and so pharma is deeply hated."

Hastings also said that drug companies have developed "remarkable" products — like the COVID vaccines — but still draw public ire.

"Did people fall in love with those companies? They did not."

He also compared tech execs to banking and airline bosses: powerful, consequential, and largely disliked.

Swisher raised the question as Hollywood is highlighting some of tech's ugliest chapters in movie theaters across America. A24's "You Can See Everything" has blown up the box office — it's a documentary following former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in the weeks before she reports to prison. Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning" dramatizes whistleblowing at Meta. Alex Gibney's "Musk" tracks the rise of Elon Musk's political influence. And Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial," a biopic about a biopic that focuses on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is out on Christmas.

Hastings said that tech's yearslong tumble out of public favor is not particularly unusual. Large industries always invite skepticism.

"That's the natural state of how much of the public thinks about business," he said.

Still, Hastings, who sits on Anthropic's board, said that Silicon Valley companies still have one potential PR golden goose.

"We've got to actually cure some diseases," he said. "That'll help."

• Ethan Pines shot Elizabeth Holmes for a Forbes cover story in 2014.
• The photo of Holmes holding a blood vial has become synonymous with the disgraced Theranos founder.
• Pines spoke to Business Insider about meeting Holmes and his thoughts on "You Can See Everything."

As photographer Ethan Pines drove to the Theranos offices in Silicon Valley, all he could think about was how to make his shoot with its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, stand out.

It was 2014, and the hype around Holmes' health technology company, which boasted it could run hundreds of medical and diagnostic tests using only a few drops of blood, had hit its zenith. The 30-year-old Holmes was on the verge of becoming the youngest self-made female billionaire with a net worth of $4.5 billion.

Pines had photographed CEOs before, and he was racking his brain for ways to make the visuals for Holmes' Forbes cover story memorable.

He never could have predicted that his shot of Holmes would become the symbol of the now-disgraced CEO's meteoric rise and spectacular fall, not to mention imitated on TV series, put on billboards, and discussed in a popular documentary.

Twelve years later, Pines' photo of Holmes has re-entered the zeitgeist thanks to Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's hit documentary, "You Can See Everything," which chronicles the life of Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, in the final weeks before Holmes reports to prison for defrauding investors.

Pines' famous shot is brought up several times in the doc. At one point, while having her body scanned to create an AI hologram, Holmes breaks down, recalling how her image has become a symbol of duplicity in the press.

This isn't the first time Pines' photo of Holmes has gone viral. The shot was used on the poster for Alex Gibney's 2019 documentary on Holmes, "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley." The shot is also re-created in the 2022 Hulu miniseries "The Dropout," which stars Amanda Seyfried as Holmes. But Pines said "You Can See Everything" has brought an even larger wave attention to his work.

"I posted on my Instagram the entire shoot in a flipbook motion piece, and it has a million views," Pines said. "My posts don't get anywhere near that."

The making of an iconic shot

When Pines arrived on set that day in 2014, he knew he wanted to take photographs that functioned as both a portrait of a young founder and a showcase of her invention.

"In my mind, I pictured a tight shot with her holding something up," Pines told Business Insider.

Halfway through the shoot, he asked Holmes' team if there was a suitable object they could use. They obliged with a small vial of blood (well, fake blood; the real stuff, he was told, was in a temperature-controlled lab down the hall).

Once Holmes held the vial up to her face, everything clicked into place.

"Sometimes when you're shooting, you're thinking to yourself, 'This is a gift,'" Pines recalled. "With her big eyes and that intimate, interesting expression, I felt we had something."

Unlike the typical photoshoot with a CEO, where Pines would only get around 10 to 20 minutes to photograph his subject before they rushed off to attend to other matters, Holmes was generous with her time.

Over a couple hours, Pines said he took a total of 220 shots — 52 of her holding the blood vial — in three different setups. What stood out to him the most was Holmes' persona. She was relaxed and down to earth, chatting it up with Pines and his assistant. She'd done her own hair and makeup for the shoot.

Pines recognized a similar easy charisma on display in "You Can See Everything."

"I cannot say if she's being real in this movie or putting on a facade to Nathan Fielder, but it reminded me of my experience," he said. "I felt she was really approachable; she's humble, makes a lot of eye contact, and doesn't come across as cocky or uptight. Oblivious to everything going on around her." 

With the doc a hit at the box office, Pines doesn't think the Holmes hype will die down anytime soon. He's constantly seeing reminders of his iconic photo.

"I was at a Halloween carnival for my daughter's school, and there were at least two people dressed as Elizabeth Holmes with the little blood vial," he said. "The whole thing is a trip." 

"You Can See Everything" is in theaters now.

A Apple TV já habituou os subscritores a contarem com uma boa diversidade de séries exclusivas de qualidade e, de acordo com as informações disponíveis, a nova temporada de um dos grandes destaques dos últimos anos está no bom caminho para estrear em 2027.

A série de que falamos é “Shrinking” que, após o final da terceira temporada em abril de 2026, poderá regressar bem no começo do próximo ano. É para isso que aponta a mais recente publicações da atriz Jessica Williams que, na série, interpreta a psicóloga Gaby.

De acordo com uma publicação partilhada por Williams na respetiva página de Instagram, a quarta temporada já encerrou o período de gravações, o que significa que a produção está no bom caminho para termos mais episódios de “Shrinking” muito em breve.

"Slow Horses" já tem 7.ª temporada a caminho. Quando estreia?

A série “Slow Horses”, protagonizada por Gary Oldman, tem-se tornado uma das favoritas dos subscritores da Apple TV. Apesar de a sexta temporada ter chegado ao fim, os fãs ficarão satisfeitos por saber que já há um pequeno teaser da próxima temporada.

Miguel Patinha Dias | 11:07 - 22/10/2026

Dado que a série não conta com muitos efeitos especiais, acredita-se que o período de pós-produção seja relativamente rápido e a Apple não demore a lançar novos episódios. É possível que a quarta temporada seja lançada durante a primavera.

Lembrar que “Shrinking” começou por ser lançado em 2023 e foram lançadas novas temporadas tanto em 2024, como em 2026. Isto significa que a série de comédia - criada pelos responsáveis por “Ted Lasso” - é uma aposta recorrente da Apple para o seu serviço de streaming, com a mesma estratégia a manifestar-se com “Slow Horses”.

 

 

 

 

 

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New touch sensitive laptop brings back glowing Apple logo on the back, alongside lighter design

• Apple unveiled its first-ever MacBook Pro with a touchscreen.
• It starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch model.
• The price of personal computers has risen due, in part, to a memory and storage shortage.

Apple's MacBook Pro is entering its iPad era.

Apple announced its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen on Wednesday during its "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles. The touchscreen models mark a major evolution of Apple's traditional MacBooks that rely on keyboards, computer mouses, or trackpads for input.

The laptop, featuring what Apple calls its "PROLED XDR display," is powered by the company's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and includes a Dynamic Island cutout in the screen, similar to recent iPhones.

Touching your MacBook Pro won't come cheap

The touchscreen MacBook Pros are available for preorder on Wednesday and will officially launch on November 6. Prices for the 14-inch model start at $2,899, and the 16-inch model starts at $3,399.

That's a notable price jump from the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, which Apple announced on Tuesday. That model starts at $1,999 and has a Liquid Retina XDR display.

Apple's price hikes come as the tech industry weathers a global memory shortage driven by the expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure. With other PC makers also boosting prices, consumer demand across the industry has wavered, according to Counterpoint Research. The tech market research firm said global PC shipments have fallen 21% year-to-year from July to September.

Apple has raised prices for its products several times in recent months, including in June when the company raised the cost of some Mac and iPad models by as much as $300.

The touchscreen MacBook Pros are the latest product drop from Apple. The company announced a new iPad Mini with an OLED screen on Monday and a new iMac with its M6 chip on Tuesday.

• Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees.
• Chris Williams, former Microsoft VP of HR, said waiting for a better offer may or may not backfire.
• He shared what employees who are offered a buyout should consider and what they may not realize.

Microsoft is offering buyout packages to some 60,000 employees, or more than 25% of the workforce. That's a huge number in any terms, and it sent a signal and shock wave through the industry this week.

I'm the former VP of HR for Microsoft, and although I've been away from the company for some time and have no insider information, having been on the inside at Microsoft and in the industry for 50 years, here is what Microsoft employees should be considering — and what they may not realize about taking a buyout offer.

Your buyout offer may or may not be the best offer you get

During a buyout, position, tenure, level, and other factors are taken into account for each bespoke offer. The offer is likely to include compensation, benefit continuation, and possibly some acceleration or continuation of equity vesting.

That said, Microsoft might not offer more generous buyouts than severance packages, but companies usually offer better terms to people who take a voluntary separation than people who get laid off. That is not only to induce employees to go voluntarily, but also because the costs to the company are less if these workers voluntarily leave. There is less legal risk, time, and expense. It's also simply easier for the company to manage.

If you're offered a buyout, I usually find it could be the best offer you'll get. If it's not, you could be settling for the same offer as someone in a layoff and miss out on collecting unemployment.

A buyout can force some very hard career choices

If you get a buyout offer, looking at your budget should be your next step. Does the offer provide you with enough to retire? Enough to support an extended job search? The buyout can be a good forcing function for some very hard career choices.

Spend time looking at your cash flows, and pay particular attention to benefits. For many, healthcare costs are a substantial part of their budget. Weighing the buyout offer against continued coverage is often a tipping point in the decision.

Also consider any equity vesting dates you may have. Compare when you might vest with and without the offer, as those dates can mean a significant change in your investments. Whether you should take the buyout is highly dependent on both the offer and your situation. If you had retirement anywhere in sight, this offer might be just the trigger you need to move on. Perhaps the best offer you'll ever see.

However, if you need to continue working, there's a great deal more to consider.

Taking a buyout can give you a head start in a tough job market

The tech industry job market has been rough for the last year or so, and shows all the signs of getting worse. If the buyout doesn't afford you the ability to retire, you should plan on an extended period of job searching, maybe six months or more. It's tough out there. Be prepared.

One thing to consider if you need to continue working is that taking the buyout might give you a short head start in the job market. Assuming Microsoft and others follow this up with more layoffs like they did the last time, the technical job market will be flooded with quality people. Of course, you can search for a job while you have one, but taking the buyout gives you time for a full-time job search.

In any case, if a job search is in your future, don't delay. This market shows no sign of getting better.

Finally, if you're offered a buyout, don't ignore it. It's a sign. I'd read it as a clear signal from the company about your value, at least from their perspective. You can bet on the odds, but if follow-up layoffs happen, I'd bet that those who declined the buyout are somewhere on that list.

Buyout or not, some things to do

This buyout is the latest signal of a broad realignment of the job market, at least in the tech sector. Even if you aren't offered it or don't think you're at risk of later layoffs, you'd be wise to keep all your options open.

Get your résumé up to date. Spend time honing it, emphasizing the clearest set of skills you can. When a market is contracting, the safest bet is having a particular skill someone is looking for. When times are tight, the generalist is often the first person let go.

Work with and expand your network. Have coffee or a Zoom chat with everyone you know. Peers in other companies, even other industries, are invaluable when things get tough. Especially when the world is changing, and predicting the next hot spot is so hard, having as many warm connections across industries is a huge asset.

Don't go asking for jobs as much as keep those connections alive. You never know when someone's manager will say, "We need someone like that." And your friend can say, "I know just the person."

Whether you are offered a buyout, or whether you decide to take it or not, having a network of people to connect with is your single biggest career asset.

What to do if you get a buyout offer

Budget first, and outreach next.

Carefully decide your near- and long-term financial future, and make the decision from hard facts. Then connect with people you know across industries, far and wide. Those connections will be excellent sounding boards and could well provide the path to your next role, or the friends you need in retirement.

When contacted about this story, a Microsoft spokesperson pointed Business Insider to its statement on the official Microsoft Blog, which read in part, "Today, we're introducing a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to eligible employees within participating organizations." They added that "the VEO is similar to a standard severance offer, which varies by market. The offer includes payment based on completed service and base pay, as well as career transition services, which includes career coaching and job search assistance."

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The European Parliament’s employment committee has highlighted the need for regulating automated control of workers after visiting Amazon warehouses in Germany and Poland this week.

Seven of the committee MEPs visited Amazon warehouses employing some 5,000 workers on Monday and Tuesday (26-27 October) ahead of the Commission’s Quality Jobs Act proposal expected in December.

The trip follows the committee’s hearing on working conditions in Amazon in January, where workers raised concerns about efficiency goals, safety, and surveillance using AI tools, which may be regulated more rigorously as a part of the upcoming act.

According to a 2023 survey by UNI Europa, a labour union federation, about a half of Amazon’s employees said their work had a negative impact on their mental and physical health.

Workers’ progress throughout the day is usually watched through security cameras, but also the work badges scanned in check points in various locations in the warehouse, and scanning devices used to identify products. 

In the city of Sosnowiec, home to one of Amazon’s Polish warehouses, employees are overworked by “constant pressure of being judged, which is very hard to cope with mentally,” Agata Wypiór, recently-named vice secretary of Amazon’s European Works Council and Solidarność union leader told EUobserver.

Leaving worker management and performance monitoring to algorithms means “these processes become almost invisible,” Li Andersson, head of the delegation, told EUobserver.

“The way the workers describe it, it sounds like a digital panopticon: when you work faster you have to work even faster.“ 

Workers themselves often do not know what data is collected on them and how it is being used to set productivity targets, Anderssen highlighted. 

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• Google's AI chip business is turning into a TPU-shaped headache for Nvidia.
• A blockbuster deal with Oracle will put Google's TPUs inside another hyperscaler.
• Is the market underestimating the potential of Google's chip business?

Earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang downplayed the threat of other companies building competing AI chips, including Google.

"Without Anthropic, why would there be any TPU growth at all?" he said in an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, referring to Google's custom chips. "It's 100% Anthropic."

That is no longer the case.

On Tuesday, Google and Oracle announced a blockbuster deal that will see Google's TPUs, short for Tensor Processing Units, made available to Oracle cloud customers from next year. As the companies underscored in a joint announcement, it's the first time Google's TPUs have been offered on a hyperscaler's platform beyond its own.

Anthropic isn't the only one Nvidia should be worried about. OpenAI has a job listing for a software engineer to optimize its models for TPUs, and The Information reported Tuesday that OpenAI plans to buy TPUs from Google.

Meanwhile, several analysts have predicted Google's TPU business is about to explode as more companies hedge their bets with a multichip strategy — providing an opening for Google and others to further move onto Nvidia's turf.

Despite this, Nvidia's chip business still eclipses everyone else's, including Google, which is also a big customer of Nvidia's GPUs. Yet Google's AI chips, which the company began building more than a decade ago to power search and other products, might be poised for takeoff.

On Wednesday, during Google's third-quarter earnings call, chief financial officer Anat Ashkenazi said the company expects a "meaningful revenue ramp in 2027" in TPU sales.

Cloud chief Thomas Kurian also said on the call that TPU sales were a "meaningful contributor" to the company's Q3 financials.

In its IPO paperwork filed this week, Anthropic said it planned to spend $114.5 billion on Google compute between April 2026 and July 2033. While it didn't specify how much of that would go to TPUs specifically, it estimated spending between $125 billion and $150 billion on TPU capacity from Google and other providers.

In the same filing, Anthropic said it's also using Amazon's Trainium chips and AMD's GPUs, as well as chips from Nvidia and Google.

All told, this might be Nvidia's nightmare scenario coming true. If companies are increasingly using a multichip strategy, it could hamper Nvidia's pricing power.

Google declined to comment, and Nvidia and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment.

TPU takeoff?

Google's TPU business may only be getting started.

In notes published this month, Japanese banking group Mizuho projected TPU revenue of $28 billion for 2026 and $67 billion in 2027. Mizuho said Google could see that number reach as high as $100 billion in 2028, while TD Cowen's John Blackledge projected it could reach $138 billion, accounting for 34% of Google Cloud's 2028 revenue.

That number is still dwarfed by Nvidia, which reported $96.2 billion in revenue in the previous quarter alone, and the market reacted with a shrug on Wednesday as its share price stayed flat.

Some analysts, though, think the market is underestimating Google, especially as more companies look to reduce their reliance on Nvidia's GPUs.

"We believe Google's TPU hardware business is emerging as a materially larger opportunity than what is currently reflected in consensus estimates," Mizuho analysts wrote in a note published October 18, adding that selling TPUs outright — rather than renting them from Google's own data centers — could ease Google's aggressive capex spending.

And even if that spending continues to soar — and right now, there are no signs the foot is coming off the accelerator — analysts at Bank of America said Google's cash-splashing looks "relatively efficient" compared to its peers, as TPUs continue to power the company's own AI efforts.

For Google, it's the payoff of a decade-plus investment in silicon that was originally designed to make Search smarter. It could also act as something of a buffer against damage to its core search business as AI agents eat Google's lunch, Mizuho also said this month.

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• "Liberty Biberty" is a much-hated new yellow puppet mascot for Liberty Mutual, appearing in ads.
• People are so riled up that there was a protest at its Boston HQ. Its organizer called the mascot "a disgusting little creature."
• But this kind of cheeky "hate" might actually work in Liberty's favor, an ad expert says.

On Sunday, a small crowd took to the streets of Boston to protest, holding signs, chanting, with one person even appearing in full costume and face paint. The protest took place in front of the Back Bay headquarters of insurance company Liberty Mutual. The protest was not against some sort of corporate malfeasance, political, or even a social justice issue.

They were protesting the existence of Liberty Biberty, the new fuzzy yellow mascot that appears in the insurance giant's TV ads.

People, for some reason, really hate the Liberty Biberty puppet.

There's a Facebook page with over 40,000 people devoted to hating it. There's TikToks. Reddit threads. I even saw a ghastly tattoo depicting the spherical character being fed into a meat grinder. John Oliver did a segment about it on HBO's "Last Week Tonight" recently.

The concept of the ads is surreal and self-referential. Liberty Biberty is a yellow puppet who has appeared in a few TV ads so far. In one, he appears on someone's car and tells them about the benefits of auto insurance, and then is carried off by a hawk. In another, he chats to a bored bartender, and then meets the aforementioned hunky actor prone to malapropisms.

Liberty Mutual is well aware of the, ahem, passionate response.

"We're encouraged by how strongly people are engaging with him, whether they love him or feel differently," Jenna Lebel, Liberty Mutual's chief marketing officer for US retail markets, told Business Insider. "We've been encouraged by the early results, including independent testing that shows Biberty performing above average on attention and brand attribution."

Insurance companies' advertising strategies for the last decade or more has been focused on a series of recognizable characters like Flo from Progressive, Jake from State Farm, and "Mayhem" from Allstate. Let us not forget the forefather of them all, the Geico gecko. Liberty Mutual has also had Doug and the LiMu Emu, as well as a hunky actor prone to malapropisms — hence "biberty." (Don't worry: Doug and the LiMu Emu are still active, Liberty Mutual's PR person assured me. Some complaints about Biberty were that people thought it had replaced the popular human/avian duo.)

Young people are watching less and less linear television, and so see fewer traditional ads, with one big exception: sports. Most of the people I talked to mentioned seeing the Liberty Biberty ads during baseball or football games, week after week.

The repeated exposure to the ads seems to be getting under people's skin.

"I think Liberty Bibberty is just a disgusting little creature," Connor Harvey, the organizer of the protest in Boston, told me. The 19 year old content creator from New Hampshire said that he considers himself a "sucker for weird advertising," but that the fluffy yellow orb seems to be intentional ragebait — purposely meant to be annoying.

"The new Biberty campaign has definitely sparked a conversation, with a wide range of reaction and opinion. We're listening to all of it," Lebel said.

Zach Johnson, 40, manages a machine shop in North Carolina and was inspired to start the Facebook group "Liberty Biberty Hate" after seeing the ad multiple times while watching TV with his wife one night. "It's a terrible mascot. Plus, they have more mascots than I can think of," he said.

The over-the-top hate towards the mascot is certainly a bit tongue in cheek; although some people may find it genuinely annoying, it's not offensive or tone deaf like the infamous Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad.

That means all that hate may actually be a good thing for Liberty Mutual.

"I think there's a real opportunity right now to jump in and have fun with this moment in a way that, frankly, a lot of brands would absolutely die for," said Simon Bruyn, ad industry vet and co-founder of the marketing strategy firm Significant.

"For that Gen Z and younger culture, who might be starting to get into insurance decisions, you suddenly have a very clean crossover into an internet nascent brand that feels like something you could really, really have fun with and play and own that idea of faux outrage," Bruyn said.

Harvey, the protest organizer, isn't in the market for home or auto insurance — for now. "I'm on my mom's insurance," he told me.