/Recent content on MoxSyncHugo -- gohugo.ioyouremail@domain.com (Some Person)youremail@domain.com (Some Person)Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/news/first-click-spotify-running-is-a-surprisingly-great-music-discovery-tool.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/first-click-spotify-running-is-a-surprisingly-great-music-discovery-tool.htmlMy running playlists are sacred. They’ve been tuned over the years to provide just the right amount of anger and aggression at just the right time. So it’s with some angst that I turned over playlist control to Spotify Running and its promise to serve me a “non-stop mix of music you love.” Love. The wonderful thing about music is the way it affects emotion. It’s not like other art forms where the mind has to consciously engage and interpret the poem, painting, or play./news/tomorrowland-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tomorrowland-review.htmlHating on things is fun. Particularly online, where we tend to grade things not by the ways in which they succeed, but by the degrees in which they fail to meet our expectations. A new phone doesn’t offer enough features; a watch isn’t a replacement for your cell phone; a movie doesn’t deliver to the same degree that its predecessor did. It’s an easy shorthand that gives us all a common frame of reference and a fight in which to take up arms, but perhaps most importantly — and here’s the dirty not-so-secret — it’s safe./news/2024-in-laptops-it-s-shaping-up-to-be-a-big-year-for-windows.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/2024-in-laptops-it-s-shaping-up-to-be-a-big-year-for-windows.html2023 has been a fairly uneventful year for laptops. Apple continues to dominate in both performance and battery life, while Microsoft only had incremental upgrades for its Surface line, and Intel has waited until the very end of the year to try to respond to Apple’s dominance. But 2024 looks set to be one of the most interesting years for laptops since the Windows 8 days, thanks to a new version of Windows, a big AI push, and another attempt at making Windows on Arm a reality./news/32-n-muir-adaptive-focus-sunglasses-review-liquid-lenses-for-gen-x.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/32-n-muir-adaptive-focus-sunglasses-review-liquid-lenses-for-gen-x.htmlGlasses are the defining feature of the nerd emoji, 🤓 but add a dark tint to those lenses, and suddenly you and the emoji are cool. 😎 Glasses with chips are for “glassholes” and reading glasses are for olds — and nothing, I think we can agree, is lamer than an over-40-year-old like me. So what happens if you combine reading glasses with sunglasses and put a chip in that so discretely that nobody can even tell?/news/7-great-series-and-movies-from-2022-to-stream-on-disney-plus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/7-great-series-and-movies-from-2022-to-stream-on-disney-plus.htmlDisney Plus is my favorite streaming service. It lets me indulge my Broadway passions (Hamilton, West Side Story), revisit my childhood (Bambi, Snow White), and catch up on the complicated worlds of Star Wars and MCU. It’s also the easiest way for my son to indulge his Jessie and Liv & Maddie habits, thanks to its endless catalog of Disney Channel shows. But the main reason you’ll have to pry my Disney Plus subscription (which I get free through Verizon) from my cold, dead hands (at least until my kids go to college) is that it’s Disney./news/a-new-konami-code-has-been-discovered-25-years-after-this-castlevania-first-came-out.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-new-konami-code-has-been-discovered-25-years-after-this-castlevania-first-came-out.htmlA new Konami Code has been discovered, 25 years after this Castlevania first came out. How did the N64’s Legacy of Darkness hide the ability to instantly unlock all its characters for a quarter-century? Well, this particular Up, Up, Down, Down required four Ups and four Downs, used C-buttons instead of D-pad, and you’ve gotta hit Z (not Start) at the end. Have yourself more Konami Code stories. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXxygo5ra2prYmeCcXvAZqWer12gvK%2BtzKJknKeUmnqprdJmmZ6dnmKxqr%2FCqK2eqpWZenOBjLKcmqqjYq6nwMSrZK2gmah6pK3SraOerpGjtqJ5xaKprKxdmK6usYyorK0%3D/news/abe-vigoda-of-godfather-and-internet-hoax-fame-is-dead-at-94.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/abe-vigoda-of-godfather-and-internet-hoax-fame-is-dead-at-94.htmlAbraham "Abe" Vigoda, the American character actor best known for playing Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather, has died. He was 94. His daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told the Associated Press that he died in his sleep. Vigoda, known for his world-weary appearance and gruff voice, found success in acting late in life, working in relative obscurity until he was cast in The Godfather in 1972. However, his presence in the iconic film earned him enough recognition to continue getting roles in television, theater, and movies throughout the rest of his career./news/alleged-florida-bomber-may-have-sent-twitter-threats-to-joe-biden-zephyr-teachout-and-others.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/alleged-florida-bomber-may-have-sent-twitter-threats-to-joe-biden-zephyr-teachout-and-others.htmlCesar Altieri Sayoc, the man who allegedly mailed a dozen bombs to George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and other political figures, may have also had a penchant for threatening his ideological enemies on Twitter. The account @hardrock2016, which appears to belong to Sayoc, sent veiled death threats to liberal “slime scum,” including Vice President Joe Biden, former New York attorney general candidate Zephyr Teachout; actor Jim Carrey; Portland, Oregon mayor Ted Wheeler; MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte; and New York Times journalist (and former Verge writer) Sarah Jeong./news/amazon-confirms-it-removed-ravpower-a-popular-phone-battery-and-charger-brand.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-confirms-it-removed-ravpower-a-popular-phone-battery-and-charger-brand.htmlOne month ago, Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the giant online retailer’s storefront, with almost all their electronics vanishing from Amazon’s shelves. Today, popular battery and charger brand RavPower has completely disappeared as well — and Amazon now confirms to The Verge that it was the one that removed RavPower from its store, and that it removed Aukey and Mpow previously. It also appears to have removed Vava and TaoTronics, two other brands from RavPower’s parent company Sunvalley; read our new story here./news/amazon-s-echo-buds-can-now-track-your-running-workouts.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-echo-buds-can-now-track-your-running-workouts.htmlAmazon’s Echo Buds are getting new fitness features that allow the true wireless earbuds to track your workouts. According to Amazon, the Echo Buds now have the ability to track walks, runs, and other workouts, all initiated with Alexa voice commands. The Echo Buds rely on built-in accelerometers for tracking steps, and this is used in combination with personal stats entered into a “workout profile” in the Alexa app for other data./news/anandtech-founder-anand-shimpi-retires-from-journalism-to-join-apple.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/anandtech-founder-anand-shimpi-retires-from-journalism-to-join-apple.htmlIf you've built your own PC at any time over the past decade and a half, chances are you'll have come across AnandTech in the course of your research. Founded by a precocious teenager way back in 1997, the tech news site has grown from covering motherboards and other PC components to offering some of the most in-depth technical analyses of mobile devices today. Widely respected for his enormous experience and expertise, the site's founder and editor Anand Lal Shimpi revealed over the weekend that he was retiring from technology journalism, and now his next destination has been revealed: Apple Inc./news/android-15-all-the-new-features-in-google-s-next-os.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/android-15-all-the-new-features-in-google-s-next-os.htmlThe annual refreshes of Android and iOS are always worth looking out for, and in the wake of Google I/O 2024, we now have the second beta release of Android 15, so it’s a good opportunity to round up everything coming to the OS this year. If you want to get involved in the beta testing — bearing in mind that these betas will have bugs and issues — head here to see if your device is eligible./news/another-online-pharmacy-bypasses-the-fda-to-offer-cut-rate-weight-loss-drugs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/another-online-pharmacy-bypasses-the-fda-to-offer-cut-rate-weight-loss-drugs.htmlThe copycat versions are made by compounding pharmacies. The formulations aren’t the same as the FDA-approved versions of the drug and haven’t been directly evaluated by the FDA, either. But they’re cheaper than the real thing: $199 a month, compared to the branded version, which can cost more than $1,000 a month without insurance. Compounding pharmacies can make knockoff versions of branded drugs when they are in shortage, as the GLP-1 drugs — prescribed for diabetes and weight loss — currently are./news/apple-announces-4-inch-iphone-5-with-lte-lightning-connector-september-21st-release-date.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-announces-4-inch-iphone-5-with-lte-lightning-connector-september-21st-release-date.htmlThe new iPhone is finally official. Apple has named its sixth-generation smartphone the iPhone 5 and Phil Schiller has detailed its full set of features, specs, and release details. Measuring 7.6mm in thickness and 112 grams in weight, this is the thinnest and lightest iPhone that Apple has ever made, and is constructed "entirely" out of glass and aluminum. The new iPhone looks pretty much identical to all the leaks and mockups we've seen in the past few weeks — evidently Apple wasn't able to keep a lid on its most anticipated product, after all./news/apple-imagines-ar-glasses-that-fulfill-the-dream-of-google-glass.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-imagines-ar-glasses-that-fulfill-the-dream-of-google-glass.htmlThe application describes how a device could overlay information on the real world. Apple is imagining some pretty broad possibilities here. It could be as simple as putting an indicator on a point of interest, like a building. But it could be as complicated as identifying every element of a car’s dashboard and overlaying videos about them. Apple primarily describes these abilities in relation to a phone: you’d hold it in front of you, the camera would capture the world, and the screen would overlay the context./news/apple-iphone-xr-review-better-than-good-enough.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-iphone-xr-review-better-than-good-enough.htmlHere’s a question: how much do you care about the display on your phone? Take a moment and really consider it. If you were to put a dollar amount on it, how much would having a perfect display be worth to you? Apple has an answer, and it’s $250. That’s the price difference between the new iPhone XR and Apple’s top-of-the-line iPhone XS. It’s the price difference between the XR’s 6./news/apple-macbook-air-m3-13-and-15-inch-2024-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-macbook-air-m3-13-and-15-inch-2024-review.htmlThe MacBook lineup has fallen deeper into an identity crisis. The new MacBook Air M3 is a straightforward improvement over its predecessor, with the same sleek, Pro-like design with tucked-away speakers and four-color options. The trackpad is still smooth as a Zamboni’d ice rink. Combined with a few new quality-of-life features, the experience has only gotten more refined. But the MacBook lineup is more crowded than ever, with the 13-inch Air, 15-inch Air, and base model 14-inch Pro jostling for space./news/apple-music-and-the-ios-app-store-were-having-problems.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-music-and-the-ios-app-store-were-having-problems.htmlIf you’re an Apple user, then you might have seen some problems in the App Store or with Apple Music. On Monday Apple’s system status page listed issues affecting “all users” for both services noticed since 11:41AM ET without going into detail about what the problems are. In our tests, the App Store and Apple Music are both generally operational, but users noticed problems for several hours before they were resolved./news/apple-transformed-the-iphone-10-years-ago-with-ios-7-and-we-re-still-feeling-it-today.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-transformed-the-iphone-10-years-ago-with-ios-7-and-we-re-still-feeling-it-today.htmlHeading into WWDC 2013, Apple had a lot to prove. The company was still licking its wounds from the botched launch of Apple Maps in iOS 6, and complaints had been growing around iOS’s increasingly stale design. Though the iPhone was by then a proven hit, iOS was starting to look outdated. Remember the notepad-like Notes app? The weird linen background behind Notification Center? The felt-ish green background of the Game Center app?/news/apple-tv-app-on-android-tv-no-longer-allows-rentals-purchases-or-subscriptions.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-tv-app-on-android-tv-no-longer-allows-rentals-purchases-or-subscriptions.htmlApple has abruptly removed the option to rent or purchase movies through its Apple TV app on Android TV devices. This also affects devices running Google TV, like the 2020 Chromecast and recent TVs from Sony, TCL, and others. As noted by FlatPanelsHD and 9to5Mac, the previous ability to directly rent or buy content has been removed. And The Verge has found that on-device Apple TV Plus subscriptions are also no longer permitted./news/apple-tv-plus-run-of-sci-fi-looks-to-continue-in-2024.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-tv-plus-run-of-sci-fi-looks-to-continue-in-2024.htmlApple TV Plus’ run of sci-fi looks to continue in 2024. The company just released its streaming lineup for the year, and it includes the haunting astronaut thriller Constellation (February 21st), a second season of The Big Door Prize (April 24th), and an adaptation of Dark Matter (May 8th). Unfortunately it looks like fans of Silo, Severance, and Hello Tomorrow will have to be patient. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfZ3x2e5FtZ29qY2iCcK3PqaOeZaSrerG41Kxkq62eYrynedKcoGaemWK5sLvKrGStp12YvK%2FAyKesnmWZo3pzfJFt/news/apple-upgrades-webkit-adds-new-features-to-safari.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-upgrades-webkit-adds-new-features-to-safari.htmlApple’s latest version of Safari was announced at WWDC as part of the newly announced macOS Sonoma. The new browser version brings new privacy features that include the ability to lock your browser window, block trackers, and remove URL trackers. Safari can also now share passwords and passkeys to groups using iCloud Keychain. The transfer is done with end-to-end encryption. Perhaps the biggest new addition to Safari is the ability to create profiles./news/apple-watch-series-3-with-lte-review-missed-connections.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-watch-series-3-with-lte-review-missed-connections.htmlWriter’s note: Since the initial launch of this watch, a software update has been issued to fix the connectivity issues, the music streaming feature has been rolled out, and we’ve also had a chance to review the non-LTE version of the watch. Overall this has significantly improved our experience with the Apple Watch Series 3; however, the original review remains unchanged below. How much are you willing to pay for a gadget that offers intermittent convenience?/news/apple-s-new-a10-fusion-processor-is-120-times-faster-than-the-original-iphone.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-new-a10-fusion-processor-is-120-times-faster-than-the-original-iphone.htmlApple's A9 processor for the iPhone 6S was70 percent faster than the A8 before it, and designed to be "desktop-class performance." Apple is now introducing the A10 Fusion today, with the new iPhone 7. The new chip has four cores in total, and two cores that are high-performance cores. It's designed to be 40 percent faster than the A9 chip in the iPhone 6S, and twice as fast as the A8./news/apple-s-ai-research-suggests-features-are-coming-for-siri-artists-and-more.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-ai-research-suggests-features-are-coming-for-siri-artists-and-more.htmlIt would be easy to think that Apple is late to the game on AI. Since late 2022, when ChatGPT took the world by storm, most of Apple’s competitors have fallen over themselves to catch up. While Apple has certainly talked about AI and even released some products with AI in mind, it seemed to be dipping a toe in rather than diving in headfirst. But over the last few months, rumors and reports have suggested that Apple has, in fact, just been biding its time, waiting to make its move./news/asus-new-laptop-has-two-screens-and-a-removable-keyboard.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/asus-new-laptop-has-two-screens-and-a-removable-keyboard.htmlAsus is back with another Zenbook Duo, the latest device in its range of dual-screened laptops. But rather than including a small secondary display above this laptop’s keyboard like previous Duos, the revamped version for 2024 has two equally sized 14-inch screens. They’re both OLED, with resolutions of up to 2880 x 1800, aspect ratios of 16:10, and a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz. Between them, they offer a total of 19./news/asus-zenbook-17-fold-oled-review-the-best-foldable-yet.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/asus-zenbook-17-fold-oled-review-the-best-foldable-yet.htmlEver since Samsung Display showed off a 17-inch foldable OLED screen last May, laptop enthusiasts (myself included) have been waiting for the form factor of the future to hit shelves. After all, many of even the most exciting laptop releases of this year have been updates to long-standing designs — a 17-inch foldable is one of the very few untouched frontiers remaining in this very established market. Some of the biggest PC manufacturers either have announced that they are, or are rumored to be, working on 17-inch foldable laptops./news/at-t-verizon-sprint-and-t-mobile-have-finally-agreed-to-replace-sms-with-a-new-rcs-standard.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/at-t-verizon-sprint-and-t-mobile-have-finally-agreed-to-replace-sms-with-a-new-rcs-standard.htmlAll four major US carriers — AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint — have each issued the same joint press release announcing the formation of “a joint venture” called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). It’s designed to ensure that the carriers move forward together to replace SMS with a next-generation messaging standard — including a promise to launch a new texting app for Android phones that supports the standard by next year./news/bayonetta-director-and-platinum-games-co-founder-hideki-kamiya-is-leaving-the-studio.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bayonetta-director-and-platinum-games-co-founder-hideki-kamiya-is-leaving-the-studio.htmlHideki Kamiya, the Japanese video game director known for his work on Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe, and The Wonderful 101, is leaving PlatinumGames. The news was first announced by the development studio on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, with Kamiya himself confirming the news via his own account shortly afterwards. He is due to officially leave Platinum on October 12th. Although neither party gave an exact reason for Kamiya’s departure from the studio, where he currently serves as its vice president, it sounds like an amicable separation./news/best-printer-2024-best-printer-for-home-use-office-use-printing-labels-printer-for-school-homew.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/best-printer-2024-best-printer-for-home-use-office-use-printing-labels-printer-for-school-homew.htmlIt’s been over a year since I last told you to just buy a Brother laser printer, and that article has fallen down the list of Google search results because I haven’t spent my time loading it up with fake updates every so often to gain the attention of the Google search robot. Anyway, here’s the best printer for 2024: a Brother laser printer. You can just pick any one you like; I have one with a sheet feeder and one without a sheet feeder./news/blockfi-will-pay-100-million-in-a-settlement-with-sec-and-states-over-its-interest-accounts.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blockfi-will-pay-100-million-in-a-settlement-with-sec-and-states-over-its-interest-accounts.htmlBlockFi, a crypto finance institution, will pay $100 million in penalties to the Securities and Exchange Commission (or SEC) and 32 US states after it settled charges relating to its interest program (via The Block). Regulators say that the company’s BlockFi Interest Accounts, which let users earn returns on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT, were unregistered securities and that BlockFi wasn’t properly registered as an investment company.  BlockFi pitched its interest accounts as a way to earn “up to 9./news/child-friendly-leappad2-tablet-now-available-for-99-99.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/child-friendly-leappad2-tablet-now-available-for-99-99.htmlThe LeapPad2, a beefed-up successor to the original child-friendly LeapPad tablet, is now available from the LeapFrog site for $99.99. Announced in June, the tablet is recommended for children between the ages of three and nine and provides backwards compatibility with older LeapFrog cartridges. Unlike the original LeapPad, the LeapPad 2 includes a front-facing camera as well as a rear-facing one and offers a total of 4GB of internal storage. LeapFrog says that it's upgraded the device's processor, too, though doesn't provide any technical specifications./news/clive-sinclair-inventor-of-the-zx-spectrum-personal-computer-has-died.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/clive-sinclair-inventor-of-the-zx-spectrum-personal-computer-has-died.htmlClive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of electronic products to his name, some, like his pocket calculator, were quite successful, while others, like his Sinclair C5 “electric trike” vehicle, were decidedly not. Born in England in 1940, Sinclair had a knack for creating gadgets. The Sinclair Executive “slimline” pocket calculator, released in 1972, sold well (likely in large part due to its low price ), and at one point was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art./news/clubhouse-reinvents-itself-as-an-audio-messaging-app.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/clubhouse-reinvents-itself-as-an-audio-messaging-app.htmlClubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” with new voice-only group chats called “chats,” as detailed in a blog post from the company. Think of a chat as something like a group Instagram story that you contribute to with your voice. You kick off a chat by recording a voice message, and then you can send that chat around to your friends./news/contact-the-verge-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/contact-the-verge-the-verge.htmlncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jpymp6yRmMFuwMeeZK%2Bdopyy/news/dart-zone-pro-mk-3-preview-maybe-the-best-foam-blaster-nerf-never-made.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dart-zone-pro-mk-3-preview-maybe-the-best-foam-blaster-nerf-never-made.htmlEarlier this year, we introduced you to the world of Nerf blasters so powerful they leave your childhood in the dust, designed by a community of makers who no longer need the official Nerf brand to advance the state of the art. But makers and hobbyists aren’t the only ones pushing the foam-flinging sport forward — there’s also Dart Zone, a toymaker whose 2020 Walmart-exclusive $50 Nexus Pro and $25 Aeon Pro brought a never-before-seen level of range and accuracy to blasters you could just buy off the shelf./news/dead-cells-the-bad-seed-expansion-has-sucked-me-back-into-the-abyss.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dead-cells-the-bad-seed-expansion-has-sucked-me-back-into-the-abyss.htmlI was only a few minutes into Dead Cells’ new The Bad Seed expansion before I knew I was hooked all over again.  The expansion, the first paid update for the indie roguelike at $4.99, adds a few new areas that fork off the main path of the game’s linear series of procedurally generated levels. It’s the second-ever add on, but it’s the first by new studio Evil Empire, a spinoff from the game’s original creator Motion Twin formed last year that now has free reign to steer the game in whatever direction it pleases./news/dell-s-concept-ori-and-concept-duet-laptops-imagine-a-foldable-and-dual-screen-future.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dell-s-concept-ori-and-concept-duet-laptops-imagine-a-foldable-and-dual-screen-future.htmlDell may have already announced its big laptop news with the upgraded XPS 13 last week, but the company brought two new prototype laptops to CES 2020: the foldable Concept Ori and the dual-screen Concept Duet. Together, Dell’s two prototypes encapsulate what the future of computers might look like, and it’s one where laptops offer a whole lot more screen space than they do now. Neither of Dell’s devices is entirely new./news/delphi-acquires-self-driving-startup-nutonomy-for-450-million.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/delphi-acquires-self-driving-startup-nutonomy-for-450-million.htmlDelphi, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, is acquiring Boston-based self-driving car startup NuTonomy for an upfront purchase price of $400 million as well as $50 million in earn-outs, the companies announced today. The acquisition is the latest in a series of big-dollar deals in the automated driving sector, as huge automakers and suppliers funnel millions of dollars into tiny startups with the goal of being first to deploy fully self-driving cars./news/dennis-woodside-to-replace-sanjay-jha-as-motorola-mobility-ceo-bloomberg-says.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dennis-woodside-to-replace-sanjay-jha-as-motorola-mobility-ceo-bloomberg-says.htmlBloomberg is reporting that Google's Dennis Woodside — who replaced Tim Armstrong following his departure to run AOL — has been selected by the company to succeed Sanjay Jha as Motorola Mobility's CEO, according to "three people familiar with the matter." Woodside is already a senior vice president at Google, so the move isn't much of a promotion; in fact, he'd already been leading the integration effort, so it's a logical fit./news/dish-offering-roku-boxes-statement-credits-to-those-unhappy-with-loss-of-amc.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dish-offering-roku-boxes-statement-credits-to-those-unhappy-with-loss-of-amc.htmlBreaking Bad fans who get their TV service from Dish don't have much to be happy about, considering they'll likely be unable to watch season 5 of the show when it premieres this Sunday night thanks to an ongoing feud between the satellite operator and AMC. Dish looks to be doing its best to keep its customers happy, however, and is offering small gifts to customers who call up and are disappointed with the situation./news/dropbox-s-web-client-is-now-smart-enough-to-open-files-directly-in-their-native-apps.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dropbox-s-web-client-is-now-smart-enough-to-open-files-directly-in-their-native-apps.htmlDropbox hasn't radically changed its core product in a long time, instead relying on solid stability and a steady beat of incremental updates to make syncing your files easier. One such upgrade is starting to roll out today, and it should help keep files that are commonly shared and collaborated on in sync. The change itself is a simple one: when you're viewing your Dropbox files through a web browser, clicking on a file that is synced to the computer you're using will now give you the option to automatically open it in a native app rather than download the file to your desktop./news/dumb-money-is-the-funko-pop-version-of-the-gamestop-story.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dumb-money-is-the-funko-pop-version-of-the-gamestop-story.htmlDumb Money thinks you’re stupid — the title might as well be a reference to anyone paying to see the film. It’s a bummer, too. I had such high hopes! The GameStop saga, which is the basis for the movie, is genuinely bizarre, and anyone with a flair for the absurd would have a fantastic time with it. To recap: a bunch of Redditors (and others) bought the stock of a flailing retailer that was heavily shorted, sending it soaring — and burning the shorts in the process./news/e-scooter-rental-company-co-founded-by-usain-bolt-is-no-longer-operating.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/e-scooter-rental-company-co-founded-by-usain-bolt-is-no-longer-operating.htmlBolt Mobility electric scooters aren’t bolting around anymore. The dockless rental company co-founded by famed sprinter Usain Bolt has reportedly abruptly shuttered in cities across the US, even outright ghosting some city officials (via TechCrunch). According to the report, Bolt halted operations in US cities including Portland, Oregon, Burlington, Vermont, South Burlington, Vermont, Winooski, Vermont, Richmond, California, and Richmond, Virginia, with confirmation from city officials. The Verge reached out to Bolt through the company’s online contact form, but we have not received any response./news/eight-great-sites-that-offer-online-classes-coursera-edx-and-more.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/eight-great-sites-that-offer-online-classes-coursera-edx-and-more.htmlIf you’ve already streamed your favorite series for the third time, and you’ve hit a wall with your latest game, what should you do while you’re sheltering at home? Well, maybe pick up a new skill or hobby by taking a class. There is a huge number of courses available online, from coding to history to languages, and a lot of different resources to choose from. Below, we’ve listed some of the major sites where you can find online classes, some you can attend in real time and others you can pop into at your leisure./news/elon-musk-won-t-join-twitter-s-board-after-all.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-won-t-join-twitter-s-board-after-all.htmlElon Musk has decided not to join our Board. Here’s what I can share about what happened. The Board and I had many discussions about Elon joining the board, and with Elon directly. We were excited to collaborate and clear about the risks. We also believed that having Elon as a fiduciary of the company where he, like all board members, has to act in the best interests of the company and all our shareholders, was the best path forward./news/epic-will-provide-100-million-for-fortnite-competition-prize-pools-in-its-first-year.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/epic-will-provide-100-million-for-fortnite-competition-prize-pools-in-its-first-year.htmlEpic Games announced today that it will provide $100 million in prize pool money for Fortnite competitions in the first year of competitive play, an eye-popping figure that puts the game at the upper echelon of e-sports with regard to monetary prizes. Official Fortnite competitions are slated to start some time later this year, though little else is known about what shape these tournaments will take. “In the 2018 — 2019 season, Epic Games will provide $100,000,000 to fund prize pools for Fortnite competitions,” reads a blog post on the developer's website./news/ex-cia-engineer-joshua-schulte-convicted-over-massive-vault-7-leak-in-2017.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ex-cia-engineer-joshua-schulte-convicted-over-massive-vault-7-leak-in-2017.htmlOn Wednesday, a jury in New York convicted ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges he faced (as first reported by @InnerCityPress) as a result of the single largest leak in agency history. Dubbed Vault 7, the files and information shared by WikiLeaks in 2017 exposed a trove of tactics and exploits the CIA used to hack its targets’ computers, iPhones or Android phones, and even Samsung smart TVs./news/facebook-s-new-ar-feature-for-portal-lets-you-dress-up-as-harry-potter-characters.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-s-new-ar-feature-for-portal-lets-you-dress-up-as-harry-potter-characters.htmlFacebook’s Portal video calling device is getting a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child crossover that lets you and up to three friends dress up as characters from the play using augmented reality technology. Anyone can initiate the experience by tapping “Curtain Call” in the effects tray on Portal. You can then select one of three locations from the menu to visit: Hogwarts Great Hall, the Ministry of Magic or the Edge of the Forbidden Forest./news/files-by-google-adds-pin-protection-for-your-most-sensitive-files-on-android.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/files-by-google-adds-pin-protection-for-your-most-sensitive-files-on-android.htmlThe Files by Google app, which primarily gives Android users an easy way to manage files and free up space on their phone, is getting a new PIN-protected “Safe Folder” feature. After setting up a four-digit PIN, you can store any of your sensitive files in this encrypted folder. The folder is locked the moment you switch away to another app, and its contents are only accessible through Files by Google./news/filter-bubble-author-eli-pariser-on-why-we-need-publicly-owned-social-networks.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/filter-bubble-author-eli-pariser-on-why-we-need-publicly-owned-social-networks.htmlGiven the phenomenon it describes, it’s perhaps appropriate that the concept of “filter bubbles” has turned out to be so polarizing. To believers, it’s self-evident that social feeds mostly show people news that confirms’ users prior beliefs, encouraging partisanship and tribalism. To skeptics, the phenomenon describes behavior that has little to do with tech and algorithms — and, they say, there’s evidence that platforms like Facebook and Twitter introduce people to a broader set of views than they might otherwise encounter./news/firefox-is-taking-steps-to-stop-browser-notification-spam-from-next-year.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/firefox-is-taking-steps-to-stop-browser-notification-spam-from-next-year.htmlMozilla is changing how Firefox handles notification requests to try and cut down on annoying pop-ups, the organization has announced. Starting with Firefox version 72, due for release in January, requests to display desktop notifications will come in the form of a small icon in Firefox’s URL bar, and users will need to click this to actually see the notification request. Currently, just visiting many sites is enough to cause them to show a relatively large notification prompt./news/for-some-amazon-music-s-big-prime-expansion-comes-with-big-frustrations.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/for-some-amazon-music-s-big-prime-expansion-comes-with-big-frustrations.htmlThis week, Amazon announced that it would open up its entire catalog of streaming music to Prime subscribers instead of the limited, downsized library they’d previously had access to. The number skyrocketed from 2 million songs up to 100 million. On its face, that sounds like great news. Who wouldn’t want more songs without spending anything extra on top of their Prime subscription? Normally, you’d need to pay separately for Amazon Music Unlimited to get the same enormous selection./news/fortnite-has-been-down-for-hours-as-millions-of-players-stare-at-a-black-hole.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-has-been-down-for-hours-as-millions-of-players-stare-at-a-black-hole.htmlOne of the biggest games in the world has been unplayable since this afternoon. Ahead of its next season — or possible a completely new chapter — Fortnite has gone down in just about every way imaginable. It’s widely believed that when the game is back up and running it will be a rebooted version featuring a brand new map. Things happened in dramatic fashion. Everything started when the meteor, which had been static in the middle of the island since its appearance at the beginning of season X, started to act up, eventually obliterating the entire map at around 2:00PM EST./news/fortnite-players-can-now-build-their-own-lego-games.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-players-can-now-build-their-own-lego-games.htmlThe worlds of Lego and Fortnite are continuing to intertwine. At its State of Unreal keynote at GDC, Epic announced that, starting today, creators will now be able to use Lego templates and other Lego-branded elements to craft their own games inside of Fortnite. The Lego tools will be available in both Fortnite Creative and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). Like all other user-made games in Fortnite, Lego games are eligible for payouts through the game’s creative economy, though it sounds like there are more restrictions compared to typical Fortnite Creative islands./news/galaxy-tab-2-coming-in-10-1-inch-version-as-well.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/galaxy-tab-2-coming-in-10-1-inch-version-as-well.htmlSamsung has just announced a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet after revealing the 7.0-inch version earlier this month. The Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) will have a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD and a 1GHz dual-core processor running a Touch Wiz-skinned version of Android 4.0. The 9.7mm-thick tablet has 1GB of RAM and will come in both a 3G + Wi-Fi and a Wi-Fi only version, with the former supporting quad-band HSPA+./news/game-of-the-year-the-best-games-of-2019.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/game-of-the-year-the-best-games-of-2019.htmlIt’s that time of year again: the period when we argue about, and celebrate, our favorite games that came out in the last 12 months. 2019 was a bit of a strange year in that regard, with few big-name blockbusters dominating the conversation. Instead, we settled on a much more diverse set of favorites, ranging from supernatural thrillers to leather-clad action games. And yes, there’s a goose. Here’s your guide to The Verge staff’s favorite video games of 2019./news/game-studio-shuts-down-just-days-after-launching-anticipated-mmo.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/game-studio-shuts-down-just-days-after-launching-anticipated-mmo.htmlThe Day Before, an open-world zombie survival MMO, experienced a dramatic series of events resulting in its developer closing down four days after the game’s launch. Initial reviews were not great. Though billed as a survival MMO, players remarked that it was more like an extraction shooter but with mediocre loot. Players to team up with were sparse, enemies to shoot were even more sparse, and there were numerous complaints about bugs, crashes, and server issues./news/gamestop-fires-its-ceo-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gamestop-fires-its-ceo-the-verge.htmlGameStop has fired CEO Matt Furlong, the company announced as part of its first quarter 2023 earnings on Wednesday. There’s no immediate replacement, though board chairman Ryan Cohen has been appointed executive chairman, the company said in a short press release about Furlong’s firing. Furlong joined GameStop after eight years at Amazon; before he left Amazon, he was the leader of the company’s Australia business. As noted at Furlong’s hiring by Reuters, Cohen also brought in Amazon execs to the roles of chief financial officer, chief operations officer, chief technology officer, and chief growth officer./news/geozilla-gives-you-a-way-to-track-your-kids-or-pets.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/geozilla-gives-you-a-way-to-track-your-kids-or-pets.htmlIf you need to keep track of somebody you love — kids, elderly parents, pets — you can usually do it via a smartphone. But if they don’t have one, you can do it with a device such as the Geozilla GPS tracker.  The Geozilla is a small black gadget with white trim that measures 1.8 x 1.6 x 0.7 inches and weighs about an ounce. Three small LED lights on the front indicate power and connection status; it’s charged via a Micro USB port on the side./news/gilmore-girls-depressing-regressive-ending-was-it-fine.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gilmore-girls-depressing-regressive-ending-was-it-fine.htmlNetflix’s six-hour Gilmore Girls revival A Year In The Life has been out for five days, and everyone who cared enough to watch it is currently brimming with opinions. The newly produced episodes continued a story that went off the air back in 2007, when President Obama was still Senator Obama, and our favorite fictional reporter, Rory Gilmore, was headed out on his campaign bus. We lived without Rory and her mom, Lorelai Gilmore, for nearly 10 years, and suddenly they were back./news/gm-will-no-longer-sell-your-driving-data-to-third-party-companies.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gm-will-no-longer-sell-your-driving-data-to-third-party-companies.htmlGM will no longer sell your driving data to third-party companies. The automaker was caught by the New York Times providing micro-details about its customers driving habits, including acceleration, braking, and trip length, to insurance companies. Clueless vehicle owners were then left wondering why their insurance premiums were going up. But now GM tells the Times it’s going to stop. “OnStar Smart Driver customer data is no longer being shared with LexisNexis or Verisk,” a G./news/go-watch-this-incredible-web-series-about-a-cyberpunk-salad-merchant.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/go-watch-this-incredible-web-series-about-a-cyberpunk-salad-merchant.htmlAfter three years of production, Ian Hubert, king of the one-minute Blender tutorial, has uploaded the first episode of his sci-fi series, Dynamo Dream. And it’s been worth the wait. The series is a mix of live-action and CGI that follows a salad merchant on a seemingly normal day through the dense streets of the Sunset District, a futuristic metropolis filled with fax machine drones, giant mutant crabs blocking traffic, and flying assassin bots./news/google-acquires-neverware-a-company-that-turns-old-pcs-into-chromebooks.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-acquires-neverware-a-company-that-turns-old-pcs-into-chromebooks.htmlNeverware, based in New York City, makes a software application called CloudReady that allows you to convert a PC into a system that runs Chrome OS. In its FAQ, Neverware states that it and its CloudReady software are “officially part of Google and the Chrome OS team.” CloudReady offers a free version for personal use, as well as paid tiers for enterprise and education. The idea is that companies and schools (as well as individuals) can convert old, slow systems into Chromebooks rather than throwing them out — Chrome OS is a less demanding operating system for these machines to run than Windows 10 is./news/google-is-bringing-together-its-waze-and-maps-teams-as-it-pushes-to-reduce-overlap.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-bringing-together-its-waze-and-maps-teams-as-it-pushes-to-reduce-overlap.htmlGoogle is merging the team it has working on the navigation app Waze into the same group that oversees Google Maps, the company has announced. The Wall Street Journal reports that the move is not expected to mark the end of Waze as a separate service, and no layoffs are planned as part of the reorganization. However, Waze CEO Neha Parikh is expected to leave the role after the transition, and the move is expected to reduce overlapping work, the WSJ notes./news/google-will-finally-let-you-preorder-the-new-23w-pixel-stand-for-79.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-will-finally-let-you-preorder-the-new-23w-pixel-stand-for-79.htmlLike the original, it automatically adjusts the phone’s UI for docked use to pull up photo frames or shortcuts to your Nest Security cameras and can switch into do not disturb mode at night. However, this time around, Google is trying to justify that relatively high price by offering faster charging. The new Pixel Stand can charge compatible phones at up to 23 watts, which, coincidentally, is the fastest rate you can get with the Pixel 6 Pro, while the Pixel 6 tops out at around 21 watts./news/google-s-app-for-lost-android-phones-is-now-called-find-my-device.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-app-for-lost-android-phones-is-now-called-find-my-device.htmlGoogle is overhauling its Android Device Manager app, which is basically Android’s equivalent of Apple’s “Find My iPhone.” Now the two are much closer in name. As reported by Android Police, Google is in the process of rolling out a big update to the device-tracking software — and it’s getting a new, much more sensible name: Find My Device. You can expect to hear more about the update minutes from now during the I/O 2017 presentation, but the redesigned app is already live in the Play Store./news/google-s-search-deal-with-apple-safari-is-reportedly-18-billion-a-year.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-search-deal-with-apple-safari-is-reportedly-18-billion-a-year.htmlGoogle pays Apple billions of dollars every year to be the default search engine in Safari on Macs, iPads, and iPhones. That, we’ve known for a long time. But exactly how many billions Google pays, what strings are attached to that money, and what might happen if it went away? Those have been the questions raised repeatedly in the ongoing US v. Google trial, and most of the numbers have been reserved for a closed courtroom./news/hbo-max-to-get-weathering-with-you-promare-and-the-latest-studio-ghibli-film.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hbo-max-to-get-weathering-with-you-promare-and-the-latest-studio-ghibli-film.htmlHBO Max is continuing its strong anime streak with the addition of four new films, two documentaries, and an upcoming Studio Ghibli movie this month, courtesy of distributor GKIDS Films, which is best known for running the international distribution of works from legendary director Hayao Miyazaki. Some of these can be seen on Netflix, but only outside the US due to licensing restrictions as HBO parent company WarnerMedia secured the US rights to most (but not all) of Ghibli’s catalog and works closely with GKIDS for rights to non-Ghibli titles./news/hinge-s-newest-feature-claims-to-use-machine-learning-to-find-your-best-match.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hinge-s-newest-feature-claims-to-use-machine-learning-to-find-your-best-match.htmlHinge’s newest feature — Most Compatible — attempts to use all your cumulative data to find the perfect match for you. The company’s been testing this feature, which occasionally recommends a possible match to users, for at least month now. Those recommendations were only offered once a week during testing but will now come every day. Justin McLeod, Hinge’s CEO, tells me the company spent the testing time honing its backend algorithm and getting Most Compatible to a point where the company feels confident putting it fully out there./news/honor-s-v-purse-is-a-fashion-inspired-foldable-concept-phone.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/honor-s-v-purse-is-a-fashion-inspired-foldable-concept-phone.htmlThe V Purse is a new concept phone from Honor that asks “what if foldables were more like fashion accessories?” The company showed off the device during a presentation at IFA 2023 alongside the Honor Magic V2, its latest foldable phone announced in China earlier this year. The V Purse is a demonstration of what’s possible for folding devices, and Honor hasn’t said if it’ll ever be released it as a product./news/house-votes-to-reauthorize-fisa-without-the-warrant-requirement-amendment.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/house-votes-to-reauthorize-fisa-without-the-warrant-requirement-amendment.htmlAfter three failed attempts and a heated floor debate, the House voted on Friday to reauthorize a controversial program that lets US intelligence agencies spy on foreign communications without a warrant. The bill ultimately passed 273–147. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is scheduled by statute to expire on April 19th, though the FISA court recently granted a government request that would have authorized the program for another year without congressional approval./news/how-joker-s-gritty-logo-was-created-with-wood-type-letterpress.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-joker-s-gritty-logo-was-created-with-wood-type-letterpress.htmlA movie’s logo is often one of the first things that fans see, whether it’s on posters or in a trailer, so it’s not uncommon for studios to spend large amounts of money creating them to build excitement. There’s a lot at stake, and there are entire agencies that specialize in logo creation, with logos passing through the hands of multiple stakeholders and going through several revisions before the public sees them./news/how-shark-week-screws-scientists.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-shark-week-screws-scientists.htmlThis post was originally published last year. With this year's Shark Week programming beginning tonight, we thought this would be a good reminder of some of Discovery's more unpleasant tendencies. Discovery’s Shark Week reached an important milestone this week: it hit an all-time ratings high, which the network partially attributes to an increase in female viewership. But instead of receiving acclaim, Discovery is getting pummeled by the media. A sample of recent headlines include "/news/how-the-anchor-protocol-helped-sink-terra.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-the-anchor-protocol-helped-sink-terra.htmlIf Do Kwon didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent him. For instance, there’s the bets he made — worth $11 million in total and held in escrow by Crypto Twitter influencer Cobie — that his token Luna would be worth more in a year than it was in March 2022. Fond of insults such as “continue in poverty ser,” “u still poor?,” and “I don’t debate the poor on Twitter,” Kwon is the boisterous, combative co-founder of Terraform Labs, best known for the ongoing disaster that is Terra / Luna./news/how-to-create-a-pdf-file-on-mac-and-windows.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-create-a-pdf-file-on-mac-and-windows.htmlNow that so many people are working remotely, it’s become more accepted than ever for official documents to be sent digitally — and most are sent as PDFs. In case you’re not familiar with the background of that format, PDF stands for portable document format and was created by Adobe in the early 1990s to allow people and organizations to create exact digital versions of paper documents. The idea was that the document was an exact, unchangeable copy of the original (while some PDFs can now be edited, you can create a PDF that cannot)./news/how-to-start-experimenting-with-google-lens.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-start-experimenting-with-google-lens.htmlThis morning, I was idly looking through my Twitter feed and came across a thread discussing Starbucks’ recent hiring of a former Pinkerton intelligence analyst, which led to a discussion of the history of the Pinkertons as strikebreakers, which led to a 19th-century illustration of a crowd of women confronting uniformed men with guns. Curious as to the source of the illustration, I aimed my Pixel 6 phone at it and tapped on the Google Lens icon on the right side of my homepage’s Google search field./news/how-to-use-google-s-reading-mode-app-for-android.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-google-s-reading-mode-app-for-android.htmlWe’ve all been there: someone in our social feeds or group chat just sent a link to an interesting article, but when we click that link and it opens in our phone’s browser, it’s almost impossible to read because there are so many ads, pop-ups, “chat with us” nags, and other crap getting in the way. Most times, I just give up and close the browser, forfeiting knowing about whatever the topic was./news/how-to-use-the-apple-homepod-s-temperature-and-humidity-sensors.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-the-apple-homepod-s-temperature-and-humidity-sensors.htmlIn this article, we’ll go over how to use this new feature and show you how to use it with Apple Home smart home automations. With the new temperature and humidity sensing in the HomePod, you can easily check what the temperature is in the room your smart speaker is situated in just by asking Siri. Say, “hey Siri, what's the temperature in here?” and the voice assistant will reply with its current reading./news/hyundai-pay-is-the-latest-effort-by-car-companies-to-make-in-car-payments-a-thing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hyundai-pay-is-the-latest-effort-by-car-companies-to-make-in-car-payments-a-thing.htmlHyundai introduced a new feature called “Hyundai Pay” that lets owners of the 2024 Hyundai Kona pay for parking at several thousand locations directly from their car’s infotainment screen. It’s the latest example of the auto industry’s multiyear effort to make in-car payments a real thing. Users input their preferred credit card into the app on their infotainment screens, which then can be used to pay for parking at participating Parkopedia locations./news/i-made-my-own-portable-phone-charger-and-i-didn-t-electrocute-myself.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-made-my-own-portable-phone-charger-and-i-didn-t-electrocute-myself.htmlMy portable charger is probably the most useful piece of technology I carry with me, other than my phone. I am terrible about remembering to charge my phone until I’m stuck on a delayed subway at 7PM on my commute home, desperately trying to squeeze out the last few seconds of battery life. So, I’m generally of the opinion that there’s no such thing as having too many backup chargers. (I tend to carry three with me, which I will acknowledge may possibly be overkill./news/if-you-drop-an-ant-from-the-top-of-the-empire-state-building-will-it-die.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/if-you-drop-an-ant-from-the-top-of-the-empire-state-building-will-it-die.htmlOne of the benefits of being (somewhat) bilingual is you get double the internet content. I feel very blessed to be able to enjoy both American internet full of dat bois and amusing Chrome extensions, and Korean internet, full of Zootopia memes and fan art. Korean Twitter is wild, I tell you. Anyway, my most recent descent into madness started when I saw this one tweet. 그거생각난다.. 개미를 63빌딩에서 떨어뜨리면 죽는지 사는지 실험했는데 이론상 안죽는다가 답이었지만 개미는 63층가니 이미 다 터져주거있엇다./news/ikea-and-lego-built-the-storage-boxes-of-your-dreams.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ikea-and-lego-built-the-storage-boxes-of-your-dreams.htmlIkea and Lego just announced the Bygglek collection of playful storage boxes fitted with Lego studs that let you build directly onto their surfaces. The range consists of four different products: one set of three small boxes, two sets of bigger boxes, and one set of Lego bricks to get the creative juices flowing. The Ikea x Lego collaboration was first announced back in 2019. “Bygglek is more than boxes. It is storage and play intertwined,” said Lego designer Rasmus Buch Løgstrup./news/instagram-s-following-tab-is-going-away-this-week.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/instagram-s-following-tab-is-going-away-this-week.htmlInstagram’s Following tab, the activity feed that displays what posts your friends are liking, commenting on, and following, is going away this week. The company quietly removed the tab for some users starting in August, and Instagram confirmed to BuzzFeed News today that the feature will be phased out this week. Once the changes go into effect, the heart icon, which currently houses an activity feed for “You” and “Following,” will only display your own activity./news/ios-6-scales-to-rumored-iphone-5-resolution-adds-fifth-row-of-apps-to-home-screen.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ios-6-scales-to-rumored-iphone-5-resolution-adds-fifth-row-of-apps-to-home-screen.htmlWe've seen plenty of mockups and rumored parts for Apple's next iPhone that show an elongated form, but areport from 9to5Mac provides the most convincing evidence we've seen so far: 9to5Mac says that it was able to run the iOS Simulator at the next iPhone's rumored resolution of 1136 x 640, and that iOS 6 is "completely scalable to a larger display." The report indicates that this is the only resolution that supports scaling, and that when scaled, iOS 6 adds an extra row of app icons to the home screen: the additional row of apps did not appear at any other resolution besides 1136 x 640./news/iphone-5-review-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphone-5-review-the-verge.htmlSoftware There's much to be said about the latest version of iOS present in the new iPhone (and present in the old iPhone, and the iPad) — and we've actually got a full review of the software itself. Still, I have some personal thoughts on the older pieces of the stack, as well as new additions Apple has added to the mix. The new iOS is everything you would expect. Clean, simple, fast, and easy to understand./news/jabra-kills-off-its-consumer-earbuds-after-launching-new-elite-models.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jabra-kills-off-its-consumer-earbuds-after-launching-new-elite-models.htmlImmediately after introducing upgraded versions of its Elite 10 and Elite 8 Active earbuds, Jabra says it’s departing the consumer earbuds market entirely. Jabra’s parent company GN announced that it’s winding down its Elite and Talk audio product ranges in order to “increase focus and resources on more attractive parts” of its business, citing the rising costs of competition. “The markets have changed over time, and it is today our assessment that we cannot generate a fair return on investment compared to the many other opportunities we have within our Hearing, Enterprise, and Gaming businesses,” said GN CEO Peter Karlstromer./news/jaguar-i-pace-is-google-s-first-electric-street-view-car.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jaguar-i-pace-is-google-s-first-electric-street-view-car.htmlGoogle finally has its first all-electric vehicle for capturing Street View. The tech giant and Jaguar Land Rover announced today that they have collaborated to rig up an all-electric I-Pace SUV with the equipment required to capture Street View imagery, and deployed the car in Dublin, Ireland. The I-Pace will also collect more general Google Maps data, and it will be outfitted with air quality sensors from Aclima — something Google has done with its Street View cars for the better part of the last decade./news/layoffs-at-genetic-testing-companies-reflect-the-changing-market.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/layoffs-at-genetic-testing-companies-reflect-the-changing-market.htmlAt-home DNA testing companies 23andMe and Ancestry each laid off about 100 employees over the past month, cutting around 14 and 6 percent of their workforces, respectively. 23andMe pointed to declining sales as the reasons for the layoffs, and Ancestry CEO Margo Georgiadis cited “a slowdown in demand across the entire DNA category” in a blog post. Interest in DNA testing skyrocketed through 2016, 2017, and 2018, with millions of people buying kits from direct-to-consumer companies./news/lego-s-new-minifigure-factory-lets-you-create-a-12-minifig-of-yourself.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lego-s-new-minifigure-factory-lets-you-create-a-12-minifig-of-yourself.htmlIn the tool, you’ll be able to select different heads, headwear, torsos, legs, and accessories for your custom Minifig. For the torso, you can go really deep on customization by applying decals and custom text. (Lego will be moderating the designs to prevent users from making inappropriate Minifigs, according to Jay’s Brick Blog.) There are some fun accessories you can pick from, too, like a laptop, a pretzel, and a pizza./news/lime-expands-its-discount-program-for-low-income-bike-and-scooter-riders.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lime-expands-its-discount-program-for-low-income-bike-and-scooter-riders.htmlBike and scooter startup Lime announced that it’s expanding its discount program for low-income customers. Starting today, qualifying users will receive a 50 percent discount to ride the company’s electric-powered scooters and bikes. That’s a hefty 95 percent discount on its normal pedal bikes. Lime first launched its Lime Access program in Seattle and LA roughly one year ago before bringing it nationwide. The program is meant to promote “an affordable way to use Lime in your city” by allowing customers to ride a shared bike or scooter without needing a smartphone or credit card./news/louis-ck-admits-to-harassment-allegations-fx-and-hbo-cut-ties.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/louis-ck-admits-to-harassment-allegations-fx-and-hbo-cut-ties.htmlFilm distribution company The Orchard has decided to cancel the release of Louis CK’s new movie I Love You, Daddy following multiple allegations of CK’s sexual misconduct. Following CK’s admission Friday morning, in which he confirmed that the allegations are true, television network FX said it had decided to end its relationship with the comedian. News about the film’s cancellation came from Deadline. The Orchard also canceled the New York City premiere of the film yesterday, in advance of a lengthy New York Times report about the accusations against CK./news/lucid-air-grand-touring-review-a-dream-made-real.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lucid-air-grand-touring-review-a-dream-made-real.htmlWhen you’re an automotive journalist, sometimes you spend a few hours testing a car and are left with such a negative impression that you wonder for days whether you were maybe just in a bad mood. Then, sometimes you drive a car and it leaves such an overwhelmingly positive impression that you can’t help thinking you must have been blissed out of your mind, that the car can’t have really been that good./news/marvel-s-daredevil-jessica-jones-and-luke-cage-are-coming-to-disney-plus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/marvel-s-daredevil-jessica-jones-and-luke-cage-are-coming-to-disney-plus.htmlJust days after Disney quietly confirmed that all of Netflix’s Marvel shows are set to migrate over to Disney Plus for Canadian audiences this March, we now know when all six of the series will make a similar jump to Disney’s own streaming service in the US as well. Today, Disney announced that in mid-March, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, The Punisher, and ABC’s Agents of SHIELD will begin streaming on Disney Plus alongside all of Marvel’s other superhero programming, a sign that may point to those characters’ futures in the MCU./news/marvel-s-secret-invasion-series-actually-sounds-kind-of-fascinating.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/marvel-s-secret-invasion-series-actually-sounds-kind-of-fascinating.htmlOccasionally, people will (incorrectly) insist that Marvel’s comics and the cinematic stories inspired by them would be better off if they were somehow devoid of any political themes or ideas. But in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Secret Invasion executive producer Jonathan Schwartz likened the series to John le Carré’s classic Cold War-era spy thrillers and pointed to more recent shows, like FX’s The Americans and Showtime’s Homeland, as sources of inspiration./news/meet-the-companies-trying-to-keep-up-with-chatgpt.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meet-the-companies-trying-to-keep-up-with-chatgpt.htmlWith all the hype surrounding ChatGPT, it’s no wonder other companies are vying for a piece of the AI-powered chatbot game. Companies are betting that we’re at a decisive moment in the artificial intelligence industry, where products that adopt and build upon the budding technology could have the potential to reshape technology as we know it — not to mention shake up the Big Tech hierarchy. The stakes are high, and technology’s biggest players don’t want to be left behind as breakthroughs in AI make it more accessible — and much more interesting — to users./news/meta-connect-2023-start-time-and-how-to-watch-live.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-connect-2023-start-time-and-how-to-watch-live.htmlMeta Connect, the annual product summit from the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and the headsets formerly known as Oculus, is revealing its latest announcements. If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering — how exactly do I watch it? Because Meta hasn’t been 100 percent clear on that point until just now, as the event was supposed to begin, announcing a 30-minute delay. Meta Connect 2023 was scheduled to kick off at 10AM 10:30AM PT / 1PM 1:30PM ET, and the company pitched it as “a two-day virtual event focused on AI and virtual, mixed and augmented realities./news/microsoft-charged-with-eu-antitrust-violations-for-bundling-teams.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-charged-with-eu-antitrust-violations-for-bundling-teams.htmlEU regulators have charged Microsoft with illegally bundling its Teams chat app with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. It’s the first time Microsoft has been charged with antitrust violations in the EU for 15 years, following two big cases related to Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer bundling. “The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that Microsoft has breached EU antitrust rules by tying its communication and collaboration product Teams to its popular productivity applications included in its suites for businesses Office 365 and Microsoft 365,” says the European Commission in a statement today./news/microsoft-confirms-work-on-keystone-xbox-game-streaming-dongle.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-confirms-work-on-keystone-xbox-game-streaming-dongle.htmlOur vision for Xbox Cloud Gaming is unwavering, our goal is to enable people to play the games they want, on the devices they want, anywhere they want. As announced last year, we’ve been working on a game-streaming device, codename Keystone, that could be connected to any TV or monitor without the need for a console. As part of any technical journey, we are constantly evaluating our efforts, reviewing our learnings, and ensuring we are bringing value to our customers./news/microsoft-s-big-xbox-game-pass-bet-is-starting-to-pay-off.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-big-xbox-game-pass-bet-is-starting-to-pay-off.htmlMicrosoft now has 10 million subscribers to its Xbox Game Pass service, the company confirmed during an investor call yesterday. It’s the first time Microsoft has publicly disclosed Xbox Game Pass numbers, and it’s a sign that the company’s ambitious bet on subscription gaming is starting to pay off. Microsoft has been trying to build a “Netflix for video games” for years, and it looks like it’s taking an early lead before a significant expansion to game streaming later this year./news/minecraft-removes-references-to-original-creator-markus-notch-persson.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/minecraft-removes-references-to-original-creator-markus-notch-persson.htmlMinecraft has been updated to remove most of its references to original creator Markus “Notch” Persson from the main menu of the game, via Eurogamer. A tweet from 4J Studios, which develops some of the console ports of Minecraft, previously confirmed that changes were being made to splash texts, but didn’t say which changes would be made: As Polygon notes, it’s the second largest batch of phrases to ever be removed from the game — only nine other splash text phrases have been removed from Minecraft during its nearly decade-long history./news/mlb-will-try-encrypted-transmitters-and-bone-conduction-to-stop-sign-stealing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mlb-will-try-encrypted-transmitters-and-bone-conduction-to-stop-sign-stealing.htmlBaseball has a sign stealing problem — or at least, a technological one, seeing how reading another team’s pitches is technically legal, but using Apple Watches or telephoto cameras and then suspiciously banging on trash cans is very much not. But soon the MLB may try fighting fire with fire: on August 3rd, it plans to begin testing an encrypted wireless communication device that replaces the traditional flash of fingers with button taps, according to ESPN./news/movie-review-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/movie-review-the-verge.htmlPlanet of the dates. Janet Planet, the film directorial debut from the widely celebrated playwright Annie Baker, premiered at NYFF yesterday. Set in Western Massachusetts in the early ‘90s, we see Janet (Julianne Nicholson) through the eyes of her 11-year-old daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) watching her mother navigate several relationships. It’s funny, richly layered, and avoidant of tropes. (I also relish any movie where a child actor does not come across as too precocious!/news/mrbeast-s-next-video-pits-50-youtubers-against-each-other.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mrbeast-s-next-video-pits-50-youtubers-against-each-other.htmlMrBeast’s next video pits 50 YouTubers against each other. Creators like MKBHD, Logan Paul, Kai Cenat, Pokimane, and Valkyrae will vie for $1,000,000, according to MrBeast. He says the video will go live on Saturday. In June, MrBeast posted a group photo featuring the creators in the competition — there are a lot more that I didn’t name here! ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfbHx6e5FtaHJtYmqDcLnRm5yaq6Soeq%2Bx161kr6GUmrxuvMitqmZtYGLGsMHTrpmeqqNirqityKeqrWWVlrCpec6tn56q/news/nasa-is-working-on-a-new-more-fuel-efficient-aircraft-design-with-boeing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-is-working-on-a-new-more-fuel-efficient-aircraft-design-with-boeing.htmlNASA today announced it will be working with Boeing on a new type of fuel-efficient single-aisle aircraft for commercial use, with the aim to cut fuel emissions and reduce the climate impact of flying. “Most of you all think of NASA as a space agency and as an aviation agency. It’s also a climate agency,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson in a press conference. NASA both monitors the Earth from space — using tools like satellites to monitor global weather conditions and water systems — and develops technologies to reduce carbon emissions./news/nasa-would-get-26-billion-in-new-budget-request.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-would-get-26-billion-in-new-budget-request.htmlPresident Joe Biden is requesting a whopping $26 billion for NASA for 2023, roughly $2 billion more than the space agency received for the current fiscal year, according to newly released budget documents from the White House. If enacted as is, a third of that budget would go toward NASA’s Artemis program — the agency’s ambitious initiative to send humans back to the Moon. Roughly $7.5 billion is being set aside for Artemis, which aims to send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon as early as 2025./news/netflix-renews-3-body-problem-for-second-season.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-renews-3-body-problem-for-second-season.html3 Body Problem follows a group of scientists as they struggle with the realization that humanity isn’t the only species in the universe and that its nearest neighbors are far more technologically advanced and very mean. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Liam Cunningham, Rosalind Chao, Zine Tseng, and Benedict Wong. Though the 3 Body Problem book trilogy spans several centuries, through cryogenic shenanigans, most characters from the present-day timeline should remain throughout the story, meaning we should see a lot of the cast return for season 2./news/netflix-s-apostle-takes-the-wicker-man-to-a-radical-new-level.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-apostle-takes-the-wicker-man-to-a-radical-new-level.htmlWelcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from Fantastic Fest. Back in 1973, Robin Hardy completed his shocking cult classic The Wicker Man just in time to see a shakeup at studio British Lion erode all support for his movie. “I think this is one of the 10 worst films I’ve ever seen,” the new studio head told star Christopher Lee, before recutting and then burying the film./news/new-ftc-task-force-will-take-on-tech-monopolies.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-ftc-task-force-will-take-on-tech-monopolies.htmlThe Federal Trade Commission will be launching a task force to monitor competition in the US’s technology markets, commissioners announced today. The task force will include current officials working in the agency’s Bureau of Competition in order to “enhance the Bureau’s focus on technology-related sectors of the economy, including markets in which online platforms compete.” It will also include 17 staff attorneys who will be tasked with investigating anti-competitive behavior in the tech industry./news/nike-finally-releases-fuelband-app-for-android-after-two-year-wait.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nike-finally-releases-fuelband-app-for-android-after-two-year-wait.htmlEver since Nike launched the original FuelBand fitness tracker in 2012, many health-minded consumers have begged and pleaded for the company to expand beyond iOS and make the move to Android. For more than two years, those calls went unanswered. Yet today, and seemingly out of nowhere, Nike has released a FuelBand companion app for Android. The new software arrives after months of rumors chronicling layoffs at Nike and predictions of the FuelBand's demise./news/ninja-starts-streaming-on-youtube-after-microsoft-shuts-down-mixer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ninja-starts-streaming-on-youtube-after-microsoft-shuts-down-mixer.htmlOne of the biggest names in streaming is heading to YouTube. Today, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins started streaming on Google’s platform, finding a new home after the surprise closure of Microsoft’s Mixer. Ninja teased the stream earlier today in a tweet, and started his new YouTube venture with a Fortnite stream alongside Dr Lupo, TimTheTatman, and Courage. It’s not clear yet whether this is an exclusive deal, or if Ninja will feature on other platforms, like Twitch, as well./news/nintendo-switch-online-s-n64-and-sega-genesis-expansion-pack-launches-october-25th-for-49-9.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-switch-online-s-n64-and-sega-genesis-expansion-pack-launches-october-25th-for-49-9.htmlNintendo has announced the price and release for its upcoming Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription tier, which adds Nintendo 64 games, Sega Genesis games, and bundled access to the new paid Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Happy Home Paradise DLC. It’ll cost $49.99 per year for an individual subscription or $79.99 for a shared family membership. The service will officially launch on October 25th. Those prices are a big jump from the regular Switch Online subscription, which costs $19./news/official-blackberry-playbook-mini-keyboard-has-a-trackpad-30-days-of-battery-life-for-119-99.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/official-blackberry-playbook-mini-keyboard-has-a-trackpad-30-days-of-battery-life-for-119-99.htmlNow that the BlackBerry PlayBook has a native email client and Documents to Go with update 2.0, users may be finding the on-screen keyboard isn't quite up to snuff for drafting business proposals. RIM thinks it has got the answer, however, as the company has released the BlackBerry Mini Keyboard today for $119.99 (not much less than the 16GB PlayBook, which goes for just $199). The keyboard has a multitouch trackpad (which looks incredibly small) and a battery that's said to keep the accessory charged for up to 30 days./news/olympic-gold-medalist-chloe-kim-is-coming-to-fortnite.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/olympic-gold-medalist-chloe-kim-is-coming-to-fortnite.htmlYet another notable athlete is coming to Fortnite’s battle royale. Epic Games announced that on March 26th, players will be able to snag a skin based on two-time Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Chloe Kim. The skin features four different color schemes — including a black-and-gold option and another where she appears encased in ice — and there are also a handful of accessories, including a giant frozen dragon to ride on./news/oneplus-says-the-nord-will-come-with-google-messages-and-phone-pre-installed.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oneplus-says-the-nord-will-come-with-google-messages-and-phone-pre-installed.htmlAhead of its debut on July 21st OnePlus released an Instagram video indicating its Nord phone will come with Google’s Messages and Phone apps installed instead of its own SMS and dialer, 9to5Google reported. The device also will have Google’s Duo video chat app pre-installed, according to the video. Why OnePlus decided to roll with Google’s apps isn’t clear, but it’s apparently in pursuit of the “smoothest-est” Android experience, according to the video./news/onlive-lost-how-the-paradise-of-streaming-games-was-undone-by-one-man-s-ego.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/onlive-lost-how-the-paradise-of-streaming-games-was-undone-by-one-man-s-ego.html"I'm the one that brought you here. I'm the one that ultimately made decisions, and I'm the one that ultimately takes responsibility. So I am sorry, and it didn't end up exactly as we'd hoped." Two Fridays ago, Steve Perlman told the 200 employees of cloud gaming company OnLive that it was all his fault. He thanked them for their hard work, and then he had HR show them the door with no severance pay./news/oppo-is-ending-its-line-of-high-end-headphones-and-blu-ray-players.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oppo-is-ending-its-line-of-high-end-headphones-and-blu-ray-players.htmlOppo Digital, the 14-year-old US brand known for its high-end audio equipment and disc players, says it has begun winding down its business. From April 2nd, Oppo Digital says it will “gradually” stop making products like the PM3 headphones, and DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD disc players. Oppo Digital is a separate company from Oppo the phone maker, and it is unaffected by today’s announcement. Customers who own existing equipment will still be able to get technical support, though, including for items both in and out of warranty./news/oreo-s-xbox-themed-cookies-unlock-forza-halo-and-sea-of-thieves-skins.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oreo-s-xbox-themed-cookies-unlock-forza-halo-and-sea-of-thieves-skins.htmlMicrosoft has teamed up with Oreo once again to create Xbox-themed Oreo cookies. There are six custom Xbox cookie designs in total, with one featuring the Xbox logo and additional cookies for each controller button and a directional arrow. The cookies are based on Oreo’s classic cookie-and-creme combination, but the packs will include special codes to unlock Oreo-themed armor packs or vehicle skins. In Halo Infinite there is Oreo-themed armor, which literally looks like a Spartan that has been dunked in an Oreo-flavored milkshake./news/paramore-stars-in-a-demented-morning-show-in-the-video-for-rose-colored-boy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/paramore-stars-in-a-demented-morning-show-in-the-video-for-rose-colored-boy.htmlEvery week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, or other grown-up concerns. In consideration of your schedule, Lizzie and Kaitlyn bring you a series called One Video./news/photos-prove-that-george-w-bush-knew-harambe-s-mother.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/photos-prove-that-george-w-bush-knew-harambe-s-mother.htmlDearly departed gorilla Harambe has risen out of nowhere to become the best-known great ape of our time, but apparently it's not his family's first brush with fame. Esquire presented photos of Harambe's mother, Kayla, over the weekend, showing the female gorilla snapped alongside a crouching George W. Bush. The images were rediscovered on Twitter earlier this month, and come from a private collection of of shots taken at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas — the place Harambe and his mother called home before the male gorilla was transplanted to Cincinnati./news/pioneer-dj-s-new-mixer-isn-t-for-the-average-dj.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pioneer-dj-s-new-mixer-isn-t-for-the-average-dj.htmlPioneer DJ has announced a new professional gig mixer for gear-heads that want more control over how mixes and tracks sound while performing. Called the DJM-V10, it sports six channels (in comparison to the usual four), dual headphone jacks to seamlessly play back-to-back with other DJs, and the ability to EQ the master output. The release confirms circulating rumors about the mixer, which have been repeatedly popping up on Facebook and Reddit over the past 24 hours./news/pixel-phone-by-google-announced.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pixel-phone-by-google-announced.htmlFollowing an absolute deluge of pre-event leaks and revelations, Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones are now finally official. Differentiated primarily by the size and resolution of their screens — 5-inch 1080p display on the Pixel and 5.5-inch Quad HD panel on the XL — these two devices are built by HTC, but Google takes full credit for their design and makes this explicit with its "phone by Google" branding./news/playstation-3d-display-hands-on-two-players-one-screen-it-works.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/playstation-3d-display-hands-on-two-players-one-screen-it-works.htmlThe makeshift dorm room was a bit much (an Animal House poster and pinned up Infamous comics? Really?), but it's clear Sony wants to position its 24-inch, 240Hz PlayStation 3D display as the ideal screen for small spaces. The big draw, though, is its unique two-player mode, where each player sees a different image on the same screen (care of Sony's special multi-use 3D glasses). The specs, charged via micro USB, let you switch between players one and two with just one button up top./news/pollution-from-gas-stoves-can-be-worse-than-secondhand-smoke.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pollution-from-gas-stoves-can-be-worse-than-secondhand-smoke.htmlGas stoves release worrying amounts of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cell cancers, according to a new study from Stanford researchers. Benzene that gas-burning stoves release inside homes can reach concentrations even higher than what’s typical in secondhand smoke, according to the paper published last week in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study adds ammunition to efforts to phase gas connections out of homes and buildings./news/power-your-nintendo-switch-macbook-or-chromebook-with-this-discounted-ravpower-power-bank.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/power-your-nintendo-switch-macbook-or-chromebook-with-this-discounted-ravpower-power-bank.htmlRAVPower’s 26,800mAh portable battery pack is 35 percent off of its usual $75.99 price for readers of The Verge. You can save $25 on this charger at RAVPower by using offer code RP35TVG at checkout, bringing down the cost to $49.39. If you’re looking for a portable battery to keep all of your devices going throughout the day, this is a great option. But what sets it apart from other similarly priced power banks is its Power Delivery via USB-C, which enables it to charge devices that demand a lot of power — even while you’re using them./news/progress-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/progress-the-verge.htmlProgress. What happens when remote villages get Starlink and all the good and bad that comes with unfettered internet access? The New York Times traveled deep into the Amazon rainforest to find out: Modern society has dealt with these issues over decades as the internet continued its relentless march. The Marubo and other Indigenous tribes, who have resisted modernity for generations, are now confronting the internet’s potential and peril all at once, while debating what it will mean for their identity and culture./news/razer-blade-16-review-the-rtx-4090-is-a-powerful-very-expensive-chip.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-blade-16-review-the-rtx-4090-is-a-powerful-very-expensive-chip.htmlThe Razer Blade 16 is exciting. It’s exciting because it has one of the best displays I’ve ever seen on a gaming laptop. But it’s also exciting because it’s our first look at the mobile version of the RTX 4090, the chip that will power some of the beefiest and most expensive gaming laptops that we’ll see this year.  The results I’ve gotten from our test unit are unsurprising: this is a beast of a device with some serious power and a panel that makes games pop./news/reddit-updates-its-quarantine-policy-with-an-appeals-process.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reddit-updates-its-quarantine-policy-with-an-appeals-process.htmlReddit hosts an immense number of communities on its servers, dedicated to about as many human pursuits as there are. Some of those groups are delightful, like r/showerthoughts or r/dogswithjobs, and some are reprehensible, like the long-since banned r/jailbait (pictures of underage women) and r/picsofdeadkids (exactly what it says on the tin). But there are subreddits that don’t fall neatly into either category, and it’s why the site implemented a quarantine policy in 2015 — basically, some of these communities are toxic enough that Reddit won’t show them to you but you can join them./news/returnal-is-dark-challenging-and-the-perfect-ps5-showcase.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/returnal-is-dark-challenging-and-the-perfect-ps5-showcase.htmlWe’re nearly six months into the life of the current generation of game consoles, but there are still vanishingly few high-profile exclusives that show off what the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X can do. After getting through the initial wave of launch titles, I’ve spent most of 2021 using my PS5 to play Fortnite. But this week sees the launch of Returnal, a PS5 exclusive that comes with some caveats./news/rings-review-the-clunky-horror-sequel-discards-its-best-idea-in-favor-of-a-lot-of-terrible-ones.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rings-review-the-clunky-horror-sequel-discards-its-best-idea-in-favor-of-a-lot-of-terrible-ones.htmlThere’s a single interesting idea floating around in Rings, the latest sequel in the franchise that turned dripping wet black-haired Japanese ghosts into mainstream Hollywood horror. “What if,” the film asks, “it was possible to scientifically quantify mind-numbing terror, turn it into harmless data, and use it for mechanical ends?” That’s a fairly heady concept, and in an age that’s all about mapping everything from individual great white shark travel patterns to the human genome, it feels particularly knowing and relevant./news/rip-tumblr-s-pivot-to-video.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rip-tumblr-s-pivot-to-video.htmlRIP Tumblr’s pivot to video. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg suggested Tumblr’s unloved Live service wasn’t long for this world last year, and it’s now shutting down January 24th. Users can transfer any in-app currency they bought to the video chat service MeetMe, which uses the same underlying tech. The Tumblr userbase, unsurprisingly, seems pleased. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfZnxyfY5ra2lrZGeGeXvRoqdmrKWir62%2B0manoq6fqXq1u4yvoJ2dnw%3D%3D/news/rokid-s-ar-glasses-offers-a-glimpse-at-the-future-but-we-re-still-far-off.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rokid-s-ar-glasses-offers-a-glimpse-at-the-future-but-we-re-still-far-off.htmlIt’s been three years since the unveiling of Microsoft’s HoloLens, and nearly five years since the release of the ill-fated Google Glass, but true augmented reality hardware remains an elusive concept. In 2018, and especially here in Las Vegas for the annual CES gadget expo, it’s evident that AR is only just now starting to pick up the same amount of steam on the hardware end that helped push its virtual reality counterpart into the limelight, during that multi-year lead up to the launch of the Oculus Rift./news/roku-launches-its-99-home-security-system.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/roku-launches-its-99-home-security-system.htmlRoku is expanding its smart home lineup and adding a smart security system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light to its offerings. The move comes after initially jumping into the smart home game last October with the launch of a slew of gadgets, including security cameras, a video doorbell, smart plugs, and smart bulbs. The new expandable $99 Roku Home Monitoring System SE includes a keypad, a hub with a siren, a motion sensor, and two door / window sensors./news/samsung-galaxy-note-9-review-more-of-everything.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-note-9-review-more-of-everything.htmlSamsung’s Galaxy Note phones have always been about more. More screen, more battery, more specs, more power, more features; if you want more of something, the Note is the phone to get. It’s a phone designed and built for the power user who won’t settle for anything less. The new Note 9 gives the most more of any Note phone. It has the biggest screen, the fastest processor, the biggest battery, the largest storage, and the most features./news/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-with-lte-shows-up-in-verizon-s-inventory.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-with-lte-shows-up-in-verizon-s-inventory.htmlWe marveled at Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 when it was introduced back at IFA in September (at least until it wasremoved from the show floor), but there's been little news since then. However, Droid-Life has posted a photo of Verizon's inventory system that shows the tablet with 4G LTE in tow alongside its big brother. While neither Verizon nor Samsung have confirmed this device's availability or price, it would give users a good alternative to the recently-available Droid Xyboard 8./news/samsung-s-galaxy-a73-5g-is-a-more-affordable-way-to-a-108-megapixel-camera.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-galaxy-a73-5g-is-a-more-affordable-way-to-a-108-megapixel-camera.htmlAlthough the A73 also features a slightly bigger 6.7-inch display than the A53’s 6.5-inch panel, the big spec bump here appears to be its camera. At 108-megapixels, it’s one of the highest resolution phone cameras around. It outstrips the Galaxy A53, which only has a 64-megapixel main camera, and is the same as what Samsung has included on its flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra. High megapixel counts aren’t the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to phone cameras, but 108-megapixel sensors are far from a gimmick./news/samsung-s-got-its-own-transparent-display.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-got-its-own-transparent-display.htmlSamsung’s got its own transparent display. Unlike LG’s transparent OLED TV, Sammy’s transparent MicroLED display is still just a prototype, but CES 2024 is the first time Samsung is showing it in public. As a reminder, MicroLED — first seen in “The Wall” at CES several years ago — has many of the same benefits as OLED (like self-lit pixels) without the organic downsides or chance of burn-in. But MicroLED is still too expensive despite the seamless panels getting smaller and more TV-like in recent years./news/samsung-s-having-a-terrible-financial-year.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-having-a-terrible-financial-year.htmlSamsung Electronics is having another bad quarter according to the company’s own preliminary estimates. This time, it’s warning that quarterly operating profit decreased 96 per cent compared to the same period last year, worse than the two-thirds plunge it suffered the three months prior. Not even robust sales of the new Galaxy S23 series could overcome a global plummet in chip demand. Semiconductor demand has waned since peak covid as everyone splurged on lockdown toys and tools./news/saving-sites-pocket-s-bookmarking-app-and-its-alternatives.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/saving-sites-pocket-s-bookmarking-app-and-its-alternatives.htmlIt’s hard to keep up with all the interesting, important, or just plain fun things you come across on the web. You may come across something you just don’t have time to read right now or want to save because it will come in handy later. But as most of us have discovered, creating a bookmark on a browser for each article and site that we want to read later can result in a huge bookmarky mess./news/see-how-far-pok%C3%A9mon-go-creator-niantic-s-ar-gaming-ambitions-have-come.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/see-how-far-pok%C3%A9mon-go-creator-niantic-s-ar-gaming-ambitions-have-come.htmlPokémon Go developer Niantic has unveiled its latest tech demo showing off what it thinks could be the future of augmented reality gaming. The trailer, which apparently depicts “actual headset gameplay” shows a handful of players wearing AR glasses as they interact with shared virtual objects, including game elements as well as more practical virtual signage, while out and about. A couple of the players appear to be interacting with the game using handheld motion controllers, but there’s no sign of anyone needing to directly use a smartphone to play./news/shroud-now-has-his-own-gaming-pc-and-a-chunk-of-the-company-that-made-it.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shroud-now-has-his-own-gaming-pc-and-a-chunk-of-the-company-that-made-it.htmlMaingear has quietly hand-built custom gaming PCs in New Jersey for the past 20 years, occasionally landing splashy partnerships to generate intriguing new systems. Now, it’s teaming up with one of the world’s biggest streamers: Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek. Today, the 50-person company is revealing a new desktop born out of the Shroud partnership, a new company logo, and the “first full 3D product configurator.” That way, you can spin around a 3D model before you let them charge your credit card for a prebuilt gaming rig./news/smartwatch-reviews-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/smartwatch-reviews-the-verge.htmlAll the good stuff with the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 is on the inside. The new Apple Watch models released this year don’t look any different from their predecessors, but they do come with some nice upgrades under the hood. Namely, a new chip and a couple of new abilities that come along with it. Do you need to upgrade? Nah, especially if you have a watch from last year./news/snap-stock-soars-on-first-ever-better-than-expected-earnings.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/snap-stock-soars-on-first-ever-better-than-expected-earnings.htmlBy the numbers, Snap’s fourth quarter earnings were significantly higher than Wall Street expectations, with sales of $285.7 million, or a 72 percent increase over the same time a year ago, and a net loss of $350 million. Analysts expected Snap to post revenue of $255 million and a loss of $405 million, meaning the company vastly out-performed its projected metrics. Investors were thrilled with the outcome, sending Snap stock sky rocketing more than 25 percent in after-hours trading./news/some-emergency-alert-system-decoders-vulnerable-to-hacking.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/some-emergency-alert-system-decoders-vulnerable-to-hacking.htmlSome key parts of the Emergency Alert System are vulnerable to hacking, according to a report from security research firm IOActive. The EAS, which replaced the old Emergency Broadcast System and can now be utilized to send alerts to phones as well as television stations, uses direct digital and analog communication that involves local application servers called decoders. At least two of these, the DASDEC-I and the DASDEC-II, are reportedly vulnerable because the manufacturer made firmware images that included a "/news/sony-smartwatch-2-review-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-smartwatch-2-review-the-verge.htmlTime and again we’ve heard the same story: wearables are the next big thing in personal technology. Everyone will have wearables attached to their bodies in the next few years. And so on and so forth. But despite all of these predictions and the intense interest in wearable technology, we still don’t have a great smartwatch. The Pebble is too nerdy and toylike for most people; the Galaxy Gear is far too expensive and limited; and the litany of crowdfunded no-name manufacturers have yet to actually produce a compelling option./news/sony-s-ps5-pro-is-real-and-developers-are-getting-ready-for-it.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-ps5-pro-is-real-and-developers-are-getting-ready-for-it.htmlSony is getting ready to release a more powerful PS5 console, possibly by the end of this year. After reports of leaked PS5 Pro specifications surfaced recently, The Verge has obtained a full list of specs for the upcoming console. Sources familiar with Sony’s plans tell me that developers are already being asked to ensure their games are compatible with this upcoming console, with a focus on improving ray tracing./news/splatoon-2-s-final-splatfest-starts-today-marking-the-end-of-an-era.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/splatoon-2-s-final-splatfest-starts-today-marking-the-end-of-an-era.htmlInkopolis Square, the social hub for Nintendo’s paint shooter Splatoon 2, is a space filled with memes. Players are able to post art and messages, and there’s nearly always some kind of in-joke happening. Yesterday I saw a drawing of a clown along with the line “Who wants chaos? I do!” Another showed in-game pop star Marie dressed as a judge saying “There will be order on my turf.” My favorite simply said “Good luck to both teams!/news/spotify-focuses-more-heavily-on-curation-with-a-new-beatport-partnership.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-focuses-more-heavily-on-curation-with-a-new-beatport-partnership.htmlAs the streaming service playing field continues to expand and crumble, companies will keep trying almost anything to differentiate themselves from the competition. Maybe that's why Spotify, a streaming service, just partnered with Beatport, another streaming service. The two companies recently inked a content distribution deal that will bring some of Beatport's curated playlists and exclusive content to Spotify. The move may sound like a strange one — Beatport is, ostensibly, a Spotify competitor — but each service has something the other wants./news/spotify-patches-chrome-exploit-that-allowed-mp3-downloads-of-any-song.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-patches-chrome-exploit-that-allowed-mp3-downloads-of-any-song.htmlSpotify has patched an exploit that allowed a Chrome browser extension to download any song available on the music streaming service. We have tested and can confirm that the Downloadify tool is no longer able to connect to Spotify's web player. By allowing premium users to store tracks locally as part of their monthly subscription, Spotify inadvertently allowed the Downloadify tool to grab a copy of any song from its catalog of over 20 million tracks./news/stephen-colbert-retires-stephen-colbert-introduces-new-stephen-colbert.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/stephen-colbert-retires-stephen-colbert-introduces-new-stephen-colbert.htmlRemember last week when late night host Stephen Colbert brought back the character of Stephen Colbert, the star of Comedy Central’s faux-conservative talk show The Colbert Report? Apparently Comedy Central’s lawyers do. During last night’s episode of the real Stephen Colbert’s current program, The Late Show, the host announced "immediately after that show CBS’ top lawyer was contacted by the top lawyer of another company to say that the character Stephen Colbert is their intellectual property./news/stephen-dubner-is-bullish-on-the-podcast-industry.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/stephen-dubner-is-bullish-on-the-podcast-industry.htmlThis is an excerpt of an interview that took place at On Air Fest on March 1st between Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner and Hot Pod reporter Ariel Shapiro. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity. Alright so, you know podcasting. You know economics. What do you make of this moment in the podcasting industry? It really depends on what angle you’re coming at it from. The short version is that there was probably a little bit too much panic, because of the combination of the recession that never quite happened, and then the big iOS adjustment and how it’s playing out in reality and in perception./news/stephen-wilhite-creator-of-the-gif-has-died.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/stephen-wilhite-creator-of-the-gif-has-died.htmlStephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge. He was surrounded by family when he passed. His obituary page notes that “even with all his accomplishments, he remained a very humble, kind, and good man.” Stephen Wilhite worked on GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, which is now used for reactions, messages, and jokes, while employed at CompuServe in the 1980s./news/teen-hacker-indicted-for-defacing-at-least-51-websites-with-pro-iran-propaganda.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/teen-hacker-indicted-for-defacing-at-least-51-websites-with-pro-iran-propaganda.htmlThe people named in the indictment, made by a federal grand jury, are Behzad Mohammadzadeh, who is “believed to be approximately 19,” according to the indictment, and Marwan Abusrour, whose age is not given in the documents. The two are charged with conspiracy to commit intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of committing intentional damage to a protected computer. Defacing small websites — as the two men are accused of doing — isn’t especially sophisticated/news/telegram-has-blocked-hamas-channels-on-android-because-google-forced-it-to.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/telegram-has-blocked-hamas-channels-on-android-because-google-forced-it-to.htmlSocial messaging platform Telegram has blocked channels used by Hamas, but only on Android phones due to violations of Google’s app store guidelines. According to CNBC, two channels — hamas_com and al-Qassam brigades — were cut off for Android users, though other channels the group uses, like Gaza Now, are still accessible. Telegram blamed the blocks on Google’s app store guidelines, according to reporting in The Jerusalem Post. Users reportedly see an error saying the channels can’t be viewed on “Telegram apps downloaded from the Google Play Store,” implying that the ban doesn’t extend to the app when it’s downloaded from elsewhere or used on another operating system./news/telltale-s-the-wolf-among-us-sequel-is-being-resurrected.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/telltale-s-the-wolf-among-us-sequel-is-being-resurrected.htmlA second season of Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us is being produced, following the studio’s shutdown last year and its relaunch in August. The Wolf Among Us 2 had been in development before Telltale’s closure, and it’s now being created in conjunction with AdHoc Studio, which was founded by former Telltale developers. The original voice actors for Bigby Wolf (Adam Harrington) and Snow White (Erin Yvette) will also be returning./news/tesla-has-slashed-the-price-of-its-solar-panels-in-an-attempt-to-revive-sales.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-has-slashed-the-price-of-its-solar-panels-in-an-attempt-to-revive-sales.htmlTesla has cut the prices of its solar panels today in an attempt to halt the decline of its solar business. Its online configuration tool now lists a 4kW array of panels as costing $7,980 after a federal tax credit, which works out to just over $1.99 per watt including installation. Depending on where customers live, The New York Times notes that price per watt could drop as low as $1./news/tesla-s-co-founder-is-teaming-up-with-specialized-to-solve-the-problem-of-e-bike-batteries.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-s-co-founder-is-teaming-up-with-specialized-to-solve-the-problem-of-e-bike-batteries.htmlThe growing popularity of electric bikes has raised a lot of exciting possibilities about the future of transportation, but it also presents a number of unique challenges. Chief among them is what to do with all those e-bike batteries when they eventually run out of juice. Rather than send them to a landfill, one major bike manufacturer is teaming up with a co-founder of Tesla to ensure those batteries have a second life./news/tesla-s-ultra-hardcore-work-culture-as-told-by-its-employees.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-s-ultra-hardcore-work-culture-as-told-by-its-employees.htmlEver wonder what it’s like to work at Tesla, the biggest, most exciting car company in the world? Elon Musk is known for setting lofty goals and expecting nothing short of perfection from his workers. He often urges his employees to go “super hardcore” or “ultra hardcore” — an ethos he recently brought to X / Twitter. But that ethos has real-world implications for the people who work at Tesla. For the second episode of Land of the Giants: The Tesla Shock Wave, we talked to the employees who often bear the brunt of this “hardcore” work culture./news/the-90-year-old-cocaine-fountain-from-the-sinaloa-cartel.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-90-year-old-cocaine-fountain-from-the-sinaloa-cartel.htmlLeo Sharp is a World War II veteran, a great-grandfather, and a hybridizer beloved for his vivid blooms. He was also recently convicted of being a drug mule on his 90th birthday. For a time, he was "Tata," a "one-man cocaine fountain" operating on a level unheard of by the Detroit DEA office. The New York Times' Sam Dolnick reports on Sharp's riveting story which involves 229 pounds of cocaine and an incredible connection with one of the world's most dangerous crime syndicates./news/the-brain-process-that-makes-teens-misbehave-might-also-help-them-learn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-brain-process-that-makes-teens-misbehave-might-also-help-them-learn.htmlThe teenage brain is a double-edged sword: sure, teens can be reckless and more susceptible to addictive behaviors than adults are, but those same brain pathways may also help them learn better than adults do, a new study suggests. So teachers and parents might just have to take the good with the bad if they want well-educated kids. Take the good with the bad Teenagers are especially sensitive to the reward signals that shoot through the brain after accomplishing something, getting approval from friends, taking drugs, and playing video games./news/the-case-of-the-golden-idol-review-a-fill-in-the-blank-murder-mystery.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-case-of-the-golden-idol-review-a-fill-in-the-blank-murder-mystery.htmlEvery time I solved a murder mystery in The Case of the Golden Idol, I actually felt smart. The Case of the Golden Idol tasks you with solving murder mysteries involving the titular golden idol (which is a small statue). As a longtime Ace Attorney player, I thought I’d be well-equipped to handily sleuth everything out. Golden Idol turned out to be more challenging because you have to solve cases with a lot less information, but cracking a mystery was just as rewarding./news/the-classics-dino-crisis-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-classics-dino-crisis-the-verge.htmlThe Classics are must-see, must-read, must-play works revered by The Verge staff. They offer glimpses of the future, glimpses of humanity, and a glimpse of our very souls. You should check them out. The easiest way to explain Dino Crisis is that it's Resident Evil with dinosaurs instead of zombies. And while that may sound reductive, it's also very true — and it's what makes the game so great. The change gives Dino Crisis a bigger range of enemies to fear and more reasons to fear them./news/the-cw-is-ending-its-netflix-deal-so-what-happens-to-riverdale.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-cw-is-ending-its-netflix-deal-so-what-happens-to-riverdale.htmlMany of the CW’s original series have found new audiences through a long-standing streaming agreement with Netflix, but that deal is coming to an end. Netflix’s agreement with The CW’s parent companies, Warner Bros. and CBS, ensured that CW series like Riverdale, Supernatural, The Flash, and Arrow automatically ended up on Netflix after a season’s initial run on network television. The deal was first signed in 2011 and re-upped in 2016, but the network doesn’t plan to renew it when the contract expires this spring, The Verge can confirm./news/the-details-of-apple-s-ai-deal-with-openai-and-chatgpt.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-details-of-apple-s-ai-deal-with-openai-and-chatgpt.htmlSo, Apple reportedly isn’t paying OpenAI to handle its users’ ChatGPT queries, and OpenAI isn’t paying Apple for its massive distribution. (A billion pockets, y’all!) If that’s the case, what do these two companies get out of their blockbuster partnership for all things iOS and AI? And can OpenAI and Apple actually afford to do this, economically and reputationally? It’s a strange pairing, but it’s coming to a device near you this fall./news/the-fossil-size-hole-in-wear-os.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-fossil-size-hole-in-wear-os.htmlWhen Fossil announced it was leaving the Android smartwatch space, I wasn’t surprised. The signs had been there for a while. What I didn’t expect was how sad it made me feel. Fossil’s smartwatches had never been the best. Their battery life was meh, health tracking could be iffy, and before Wear OS 3, the company was often let down by Google’s neglect. But now that Fossil has called it quits, it’s left a massive vacuum in the Wear OS ecosystem./news/the-last-night-was-one-of-e3-s-most-dazzling-games-and-also-its-most-frustrating.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-last-night-was-one-of-e3-s-most-dazzling-games-and-also-its-most-frustrating.htmlIt’s rare that a game becomes one of the biggest wins and the biggest losses of E3 at the same time, but The Last Night — a cyberpunk side-scroller made by indie studio Odd Tales — may have done it. The Last Night’s stylish, neon-drenched trailer was a highlight of Microsoft’s annual press conference, overshadowing much bigger games from much larger teams. But not long after the show, a series of controversial tweets surfaced from co-creator Tim Soret, suggesting that the game would reflect the worldview of the anti-feminist Gamergate movement./news/the-long-weird-history-of-companies-that-put-your-life-online.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-long-weird-history-of-companies-that-put-your-life-online.htmlWhen the first phone book was published in 1878, it had only 50 entries, giving subscribers the names of fellow citizens privileged enough to have a telephone. Today, the ultimate privilege is being unlisted — but thanks to a complex ecosystem of online people search services, that’s nearly impossible. People search sites are a perennially controversial feature of the web, from the venerable Whitepages.com to the reviled upstart FamilyTreeNow, which was publicized and widely condemned earlier this year./news/the-restaurant-nearest-google-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-restaurant-nearest-google-the-verge.htmlEven to its owners, the name for their new Thai restaurant seemed silly and unserious. Some of them were embarrassed to tell friends about it at all, for fear of it sounding too ridiculous. But Teddy Jirapraphanan, one of the four owners, thought back to his own experience using Google to find restaurants. “Everywhere I go, I’m craving Thai food,” he says. “I have to search ‘Thai food near me’ all the time./news/the-sec-can-sue-coinbase-for-offering-unregistered-securities-judge-rules.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-sec-can-sue-coinbase-for-offering-unregistered-securities-judge-rules.htmlThe question of who gets to regulate crypto has some answers, as a judge has ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s securities lawsuit against Coinbase can continue. US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that under federal securities laws, “the SEC has sufficiently pleaded that Coinbase operates as an exchange, as a broker, and as a clearing agency under the federal securities laws, and, through its Staking Program, engages in the unregistered offer and sale of securities./news/the-verge-promotes-jake-kastrenakes-alex-cranz-and-kara-verlaney.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-verge-promotes-jake-kastrenakes-alex-cranz-and-kara-verlaney.htmlThe Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel announced several changes to the industry-leading tech publication’s masthead today, starting with the promotion of Jake Kastrenakes to executive editor. Kastrenakes first joined The Verge as an intern in 2014 and has spent 10 years as a reporter and editor at the site, overseeing the news team, creators coverage, and the Hot Pod and Command Line newsletters. As executive editor Kastrenakes will be responsible for making sure The Verge’s newsroom meets the highest standards of rigor and quality every single day./news/the-wanderers-is-a-beautiful-take-on-the-human-cost-of-a-mission-to-mars.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-wanderers-is-a-beautiful-take-on-the-human-cost-of-a-mission-to-mars.htmlWith private companies such as SpaceX looking to visit Mars in the coming decades, science fiction is poised to become reality. In Meg Howrey’s latest novel, The Wanderers, she explores the run-up to such a mission, and the toll that it would take on the people chosen to first set foot on the Martian surface. Howrey writes that her story was shaped in part by Mars500, a simulation designed to test people psychologically in close quarters for over 500 days./news/these-earthquake-proof-beds-will-bury-you-alive-in-comfort.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-earthquake-proof-beds-will-bury-you-alive-in-comfort.htmlEarthquakes. Humanity's oldest foe. Right up there with snakes, fire, and other humans when it comes to things that will definitely probably kill you some day. Which is why you need one of these terrifying earthquake-proof beds. In the event of a quake, your conspicuously massive four-poster will simply swallow you up whole, letting you get back to sleeping while the world itself shatters around you. You even get a choice of how you're entombed./news/this-suction-cup-phone-case-is-surprisingly-powerful.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-suction-cup-phone-case-is-surprisingly-powerful.htmlPhone Case of the Month is a monthly series in which we live with, and subsequently review, our time with a phone case. Phone cases are one of our only ways to express individuality with our smartphones, so what do our phone case choices say about us? I’ve stuck my phone case to all sorts of things over the past couple months, like my bathroom mirror, random windows in bars, laptops, walls, a windshield, other phones, and glass tables./news/tidal-s-future-is-brighter-after-sprint-s-investment.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tidal-s-future-is-brighter-after-sprint-s-investment.htmlTwo years after the initial discussions began, Sprint has made a substantial investment in Tidal, acquiring 33 percent of the company. The deal will help stabilize Tidal, which has had issues keeping up with its payments to music labels over the past year, according to multiple sources and numerous reports. Tidal has been looking for a partner for the past year, according to sources, with Samsung and then Apple considering, but ultimately declining, to acquire the company./news/tiktok-s-future-in-the-us-all-of-the-news-about-microsoft-s-deal-and-trump-s-ban-threats.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tiktok-s-future-in-the-us-all-of-the-news-about-microsoft-s-deal-and-trump-s-ban-threats.htmlMicrosoft says it’s not acquiring parts of TikTok’s operations, after its bid was rejected by TikTok owner ByteDance. After weeks of talks and very public back and forths involving the Trump administration, Microsoft ultimately failed in its attempts to acquire TikTok. “ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft,” says Microsoft in a statement. “We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests./news/tivo-says-its-unreleased-roku-and-apple-tv-apps-are-on-hold.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tivo-says-its-unreleased-roku-and-apple-tv-apps-are-on-hold.htmlLast year at CES, TiVo said it would be launching apps for Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV sometime in 2019 that would let users watch live or recorded video without needing a separate TiVo Mini box. Now, a year later, TiVo still hasn’t released an app for any of those streaming devices, and you probably won’t see one soon. TiVo confirmed to TechHive that the Apple TV and Roku apps are “currently on hold,” and based on a TiVo’s executive comments, the Fire TV app doesn’t seem imminent, either./news/toyota-will-transform-a-175-acre-site-in-japan-into-a-prototype-city-of-the-future.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/toyota-will-transform-a-175-acre-site-in-japan-into-a-prototype-city-of-the-future.htmlToyota wants to give a new meaning to the term “company town.” The Japanese auto giant said it will transform the 175-acre site of a former car factory in Japan into a “prototype city of the future” where it can test autonomous vehicles, innovative street design, smart home technology, robotics, and new mobility products on a population of real people who would live there full-time. The site, which is located at the base of Mount Fuji, will be designed by famed Danish architect Bjarke Ingels./news/twitch-bans-simp-the-verge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-bans-simp-the-verge.htmlTwitch will no longer allow streamers and commenters to go around calling one another “simps.” The term — a recent favorite in the Twitch community that nominally refers to men who seem desperate for a woman’s attention — will be banned when used as an insult under Twitch’s upcoming revamp of its harassment policy. “Incel” and “virgin” will be banned as insults, too, Twitch COO Sara Clemens said during a live-streamed town hall this afternoon./news/uber-granted-30-month-license-to-continue-operating-in-london.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-granted-30-month-license-to-continue-operating-in-london.htmlUber has secured a 30-month — or two-and-a-half-year — license to keep its ridesharing services up and running in London, according to a report from the BBC. This marks the close of a lengthy battle with the city’s transportation agency, Transport for London (TfL), over Uber’s safety protocols. “We’re delighted to announce @TfL has granted Uber a new 30 month licence in London,” Uber announced in a tweet on Saturday morning./news/uk-newsstands-will-sell-porn-passes-to-verify-ages-under-new-laws.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uk-newsstands-will-sell-porn-passes-to-verify-ages-under-new-laws.htmlLast year, Britain approved the Digital Economy Act 2017, which included strict new rules regarding access to pornographic websites. When the law goes into effect later this year, regulators have suggested that users will be able to purchase a so-called “porn pass,” from their local newsstand to verify their age. The law will require websites to verify the users ages, or face stiff penalties. Those who don’t comply risk being blocked by internet service providers, and would face fines of up to £250,000 ($350,000)./news/verizon-s-latest-streaming-deal-is-a-10-monthly-youtube-premium-subscription.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/verizon-s-latest-streaming-deal-is-a-10-monthly-youtube-premium-subscription.htmlVerizon is doubling down on efforts to sell you streaming services. Starting May 30th, the company will offer a discounted $10 / subscription to YouTube Premium through its myPlan perks. YouTube Premium typically costs $13.99, letting you watch videos on the platform ad-free, download content, and access YouTube Music Premium. You can get the perk if you have one of Verizon’s myPlan subscriptions, which lets subscribers tack on services like Disney Plus and Apple One./news/wanle-case-s-game-boy-style-iphone-case-has-one-redeeming-feature.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wanle-case-s-game-boy-style-iphone-case-has-one-redeeming-feature.htmlLast month, we came across a new phone case, which combines the style of a classic Nintendo Game Boy with actual playability. It comes with a handful of classic games like Tetris, Tank, Frogger, and others, and it’s certainly aimed at a nostalgic audience. It looks like a classic Game Boy: a D-pad, a pair of A/B buttons, and buttons to turn it on, reset the gameplay, make a selection, and turn the sound on and off./news/watch-brad-pitt-defend-the-earth-from-cgi-zombies-in-world-war-z-trailer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-brad-pitt-defend-the-earth-from-cgi-zombies-in-world-war-z-trailer.htmlNearly six years since development began, the movie adaptation of World War Z is finally almost with us. The second trailer for World War Z hit the internet this weekend, but was subject to a takedown campaign by distributor Paramount. It's now been officially released through Apple Trailers, and it gives us a little more insight as to what the final movie will look like. Unlike the best-selling novel it's based on, which told the story of a worldwide zombie outbreak through a string of unrelated first-person accounts, the movie is centered around a single character, UN employee Gerry Lane (played by Brad Pitt)./news/wayfair-s-ai-tool-can-redraw-your-living-room-and-sell-you-furniture.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wayfair-s-ai-tool-can-redraw-your-living-room-and-sell-you-furniture.htmlWayfair has launched a free “virtual room restyler” called Decorify. It employs generative AI to show you a redecorated version of the room you want to zhuzh after you upload a picture of it and choose the visual style you want. Then, if you like what you see, you can pick from a grid of furniture recommendations presented to the right of your AI-remodeled room. Shrenik Sadalgi, R&D director at Wayfair, says, “Decorify creates a discovery experience that provides endless inspiration and powers the home personalization journey./news/what-do-you-think-android-p-will-be-called.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-do-you-think-android-p-will-be-called.htmlIt’s never too early to start speculating about what Google’s going to name the next version of Android. And with Google I/O just a few weeks away, we figured it was a good enough time to check in on what everyone’s thinking. There were also some one-offs, including Pop Rocks, Pringles, Pop-Tart, and Pez. Ever since Android C was given the name Cupcake in 2009, Google has named each new release of its operating system after some kind of sweet or dessert, moving on to the next letter of the alphabet./news/what-is-the-metaverse-and-do-i-have-to-care.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-is-the-metaverse-and-do-i-have-to-care.htmlIn recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. Maybe we’re all supposed to live there. Maybe Facebook (or Epic, or Roblox, or dozens of smaller companies) is trying to take it over. And maybe it’s got something to do with NFTs? Unlike a lot of things The Verge covers, the metaverse is tough to explain for one reason: it doesn’t necessarily exist./news/why-does-the-fall-guy-have-hidden-abs-and-nipples.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-does-the-fall-guy-have-hidden-abs-and-nipples.htmlI hate to bring you this news, but underneath a Fall Guy’s playful, gelatinous exterior, the very being that comprises it is deeply disturbing. It has hidden abs, nipples, a human skull, and long taffy-like optic nerves, among other horrific anatomical anomalies, according to a tweet from the game’s developer. It gets worse, though. Fall Guys are six feet tall, taller than many human beings. Looking at its general bone structure, it looks like a hybrid between human, dinosaur, and bird./news/why-shia-labeouf-s-allmymovies-was-so-successful.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-shia-labeouf-s-allmymovies-was-so-successful.htmlSurprising things happen to people's faces when a film really entrances them. They stop focusing on all the personality presentation we take for granted when we talk to each other: the polite eye contact, the alert expression that says "I'm listening and reacting to what you're saying." When people watch movies, their faces go a little slack, and their emotions come through clear and raw. I had a particularly great experience observing this back in 2007, when I had friends over to watch J./news/windows-won-t-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-after-all-unless-you-opt-in.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/windows-won-t-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-after-all-unless-you-opt-in.htmlMicrosoft says it’s making its new Recall feature in Windows 11 that screenshots everything you do on your PC an opt-in feature and addressing various security concerns. The software giant first unveiled the Recall feature as part of its upcoming Copilot Plus PCs last month, but since then, privacy advocates and security experts have been warning that Recall could be a “disaster” for cybersecurity without changes. Thankfully, Microsoft has listened to the complaints and is making a number of changes before Copilot Plus PCs launch on June 18th./news/with-a-switch-2-looming-nintendo-is-sending-out-the-original-with-a-bang.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/with-a-switch-2-looming-nintendo-is-sending-out-the-original-with-a-bang.htmlThere’s a very good chance that this will be the last year where the Switch is Nintendo’s main piece of hardware. While rumors of a Switch successor have persisted for years, recent reports suggest that an upgraded device is not only coming but will be here relatively soon, with a potential 2024 launch. If that is indeed the case, it seems that Nintendo isn’t content to let the device go out with a whimper — in fact, 2023 has been one of the Switch’s strongest years to date./news/you-can-get-rid-of-ai-overviews-in-google-search.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-get-rid-of-ai-overviews-in-google-search.htmlIf you’ve searched for something on Google lately, you might’ve noticed a wall of text that appears before the actual search results. This feature, called AI Overviews, offers an AI-generated answer to certain queries. But it also pushes your list of links further down the page, which makes it a bit annoying to scroll past when you want to do your own research — and it will get even more annoying once Google starts stuffing ads into it./news/you-should-read-time-extension-my-new-favorite-retro-gaming-blog.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-should-read-time-extension-my-new-favorite-retro-gaming-blog.htmlYou should read Time Extension, my new favorite retro gaming blog. This morning alone, they wrote about a new Game Boy cartridge with built-in rumble, how people can basically build their own GBAs now, and a true portable PlayStation (unlike that other cool thing I showed ya). The site’s from brains behind Nintendo Life, Push Square, and Pure Xbox, and it’s clearly flown under my radar too long. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXxygY5ra2prYWeBeHvYqKxmq5ikwq2wjKucmpxdqbausYyer62dnqi2sLqMprBmppWseqet1aipoqyVYr%2BmwNGoZKCZnZ67qHnBpaag/news/zerolemon-extreme-charge-station-review-the-ultimate-desk-charger.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/zerolemon-extreme-charge-station-review-the-ultimate-desk-charger.htmlThere’s a new champion in town — if the town you’re in is full of ways to charge laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other devices. The new ZeroLemon Extreme Charge Station is the most powerful multidevice USB charger I’ve ever used. It outputs up to 135W of power across its two USB-C ports, two USB-A ports, Qi charging pad, and Apple Watch dock. It has two fans to keep things cool, and the whole thing is about the size of a small paperback book./news/device-6-is-a-stylish-mystery-novel-masquerading-as-a-game.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/device-6-is-a-stylish-mystery-novel-masquerading-as-a-game.htmlMobile games typically fall into one of two different categories. There are the Angry Birds of the world, games that are perfect for sneaking in some play while waiting in line or sitting on the bus. Then there are the games that demand your full attention, the kinds of experiences that tell you put on a pair of headphones before you play. And while Device 6 — the latest release from Year Walk developer Simogo — might not be a game in the strictest sense, it definitely demands all of your attention./news/dune-concept-art-shows-the-evolution-of-david-lynch-s-sci-fi-vision.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dune-concept-art-shows-the-evolution-of-david-lynch-s-sci-fi-vision.htmlDavid Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune is an ambitious, sprawling, messy work of visual art. No wonder it's a classic — though it might not be a good movie in the strictest sense, it took Frank Herbert's vision of a feudal, Near Eastern-esque society with all the trappings of science fiction, and shot it for the big screen. Author Ron Miller served as production illustrator for the film, and amassed a sizable collection of sketches, production paintings, and photos of spacecrafts and sandworms./news/8bitdo-s-latest-retro-keyboard-is-an-ode-to-the-commodore-64.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/8bitdo-s-latest-retro-keyboard-is-an-ode-to-the-commodore-64.html8BitDo’s latest mechanical keyboard riffs on the design of a 1980s computer with one of the most iconic-looking keyboards of all time: the Commodore 64. 8BitDo’s Commodore 64 edition of its Retro Mechanical Keyboard series is available to preorder starting today for $109.99, with plans to ship it on May 26th.  Underneath its beautifully chunky brown keycaps (ABS plastic with double-shot legends) and Commodore-style rainbow logo, this is basically the same peripheral as 8BitDo’s previous NES keyboard./news/acer-announces-349-chromebook-spin-11-with-360-degree-hinge-and-usb-c.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/acer-announces-349-chromebook-spin-11-with-360-degree-hinge-and-usb-c.htmlAcer has announced a new Chromebook called the Spin 11, a convertible design with a 360-hinge and 11.6-inch touchscreen. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because Acer and Google launched essentially the same thing a year ago for the education market. This model, however, will be available in regular retail channels. The Chromebook Spin 11 has options for quad-core Pentium or Celeron processors, two USB-C 3.1 ports, Google Play support, and an 11./news/after-initially-rejecting-it-apple-has-approved-the-first-pc-emulator-for-ios.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/after-initially-rejecting-it-apple-has-approved-the-first-pc-emulator-for-ios.htmlUTM SE is a PC emulator that allows you to run classic software and old-school games. * Supports both VGA mode for graphics and terminal mode for text-only operating systems * Emulates x86, PPC, and RISC-V architectures * Run pre-built machines or create your own configuration from scratch * Built from QEMU, a powerful and widely used emulator ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfbHxyf45ra2pxaGV%2BdnvAqaelnV2qwa550p5kqZtdpMBuscyuo5qsn6d6p7vRZqCoqw%3D%3D/news/amazon-fire-tv-soundbar-hands-on-it-s-loud-and-inexpensive.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-fire-tv-soundbar-hands-on-it-s-loud-and-inexpensive.htmlSoundbars are tricky. They need to be big enough that they sound better than the dinky speakers on your TV, but they need to be cheap enough that you don’t balk at upgrading your sound after just spending a lot of money on a TV. I didn’t get to spend enough time with Amazon’s $119.99 Fire TV Soundbar, but I can confirm it sounds bigger than it looks. What I didn’t hear was a lot of detail./news/amazon-one-lets-you-pay-with-your-palm.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-one-lets-you-pay-with-your-palm.htmlAmazon is unveiling its own palm recognition technology today that will be used initially to turn your hand into a personal credit card inside the company’s physical retail stores. Amazon One uses the palm of your hand to identify you, using a combination of surface-area details like lines and ridges, alongside vein patterns to create a “palm signature.” At first, this palm signature will be used in Amazon’s own Go stores in Seattle, and the company also plans to add Amazon One to other Amazon stores in the coming months./news/amazon-s-latest-collection-of-robots-aims-to-speed-up-fulfillments-and-increase-safety.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-latest-collection-of-robots-aims-to-speed-up-fulfillments-and-increase-safety.htmlDigit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways. Its size and shape are well suited for buildings that are designed for humans, and we believe that there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution, such as Digit, which can work collaboratively with employees. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfZn1wfZdoaWxxYmd%2FcX6OmqSasp%2BjerO7wairrGWjpL%2B1tc2gZKaZk522r7HSZqqeqaWktqJ51pqpnqCfqsCm/news/amazon-s-the-boys-gets-a-new-nsfw-trailer-and-a-july-26th-release-date.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-the-boys-gets-a-new-nsfw-trailer-and-a-july-26th-release-date.htmlAmazon has a new trailer out for its upcoming adaptation of The Boys, a long-running comics series written by Preacher and Hitman author Garth Ennis. Set in a world where superheroes are real, but also terrible people who abuse their vast powers, The Boys focuses on a group of vigilantes who work to hold those “heroes” accountable — with lots of bloody, aggressive mayhem. The latest trailer — which is definitely NSFW — gives a good look at the series’ Zack Snyder-esque style: a grim but comedically over-the-top level of sex and violence./news/amd-s-answer-to-qualcomm-and-intel-ai-laptop-chips-is-just-weeks-away-technically-it-s-a-delay.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amd-s-answer-to-qualcomm-and-intel-ai-laptop-chips-is-just-weeks-away-technically-it-s-a-delay.htmlAMD’s answer to Qualcomm and Intel AI laptop chips is just weeks away. Technically, it’s a delay! NotebookCheck writes that the first Asus laptops with Ryzen AI 300 chips, codename Strix Point, will launch July 17th at an event originally scheduled for July 8th. Best Buy has changed its ship dates to July 28th, from July 15th originally. Two weeks till launch, four weeks till availability. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfbHx0e5FtaHJpZ2iBcK3MnapmmZ6oxKa%2BjK2mZqmllrmku8ymZJqmlGK2r8DEpWSaoV2hrrHAzqlknKCZpcButdJmoa6rpGLEprHKrGSar5GuerWxwqGlopuRobm6ecitqmaZXZmyra3Y/news/android-messages-will-be-the-new-default-texting-app-google-wants-you-to-use.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/android-messages-will-be-the-new-default-texting-app-google-wants-you-to-use.htmlGoogle is making a handful of announcements related to RCS today, but the piece of news you’re most likely to notice is that the default SMS app Google offers is now called “Android Messages” instead of “Messenger.” Or rather, it will be the default RCS app. RCS, if you don’t recall, is the next-generation messaging standard supported by a group of carriers and Google. It offers multimedia messages, read receipts, and other features you’d expect from a normal chat app like WhatsApp or iMessage./news/another-long-tenured-apple-designer-is-leaving-the-company.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/another-long-tenured-apple-designer-is-leaving-the-company.htmlAnother long-tenured Apple designer is leaving the company. Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that Bart Andre, Apple’s “longest-service industrial designer” who helped run the team after Evans Hankey exited, has announced he’s leaving too. Andre, like Hankey and several others who have departed from the team that now reports to Apple COO Jeff Williams, worked closely with chief design officer Jony Ive until he left, and started his Lovefrom design firm in 2019./news/apple-and-google-won-t-be-able-to-stop-third-party-app-stores-in-japan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-and-google-won-t-be-able-to-stop-third-party-app-stores-in-japan.htmlFollowing in the footsteps of the European Union, Japan has now passed a law that will restrict Apple and Google from blocking third-party app stores for Japanese users on their platforms. The legislation is expected to come into force by the end of 2025 and aims to reduce app prices and create a more equitable market by forcing the tech giants to compete with smaller challengers. Dubbed the Act on Promotion of Competition for Specified Smartphone Software, Japan’s law shares some similarities with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), enforcing strict rules against “designated providers./news/apple-extends-airpods-pro-repair-program-for-crackling-or-anc-issues.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-extends-airpods-pro-repair-program-for-crackling-or-anc-issues.htmlApple has quietly extended a repair program for the AirPods Pro that offers free repairs or replacements for earbuds that have issues with noise cancellation or static. Reddit users (via MacRumors) were first to spot the change to Apple’s support page for the repair program, which now notes that the program covers affected AirPods Pro for three years after their first retail sale, rather than two. The page appears to have been updated at the beginning of October./news/apple-vision-pro-prescription-lenses-will-cost-149-extra.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-vision-pro-prescription-lenses-will-cost-149-extra.htmlWhen the Apple Vision Pro headset goes on sale on February 2nd, anyone who needs some vision-correcting lenses will need to account for an extra charge to add optical inserts from Zeiss. Apple says that readers will cost $99, while prescription lenses are $149. Footnotes from Apple indicate that both are available only online, not in stores, a “valid prescription is required,” and not all prescriptions are supported. For those with vision correction needs, ZEISS Optical Inserts are available with a prescription or as readers that magnetically attach to Vision Pro, allowing users to take full advantage of the display’s incredible sharpness and clarity./news/apple-s-airtags-are-still-receiving-a-rare-discount-ahead-of-cyber-monday.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-airtags-are-still-receiving-a-rare-discount-ahead-of-cyber-monday.htmlIt’s the time of year again when utter chaos descends upon airports nationwide. That means the chances of losing your luggage are higher than usual, so it’s worth preparing for the commotion if you’re planning to travel. Right now, you can buy a single AirTag for just $23.99 ($5 off) at Amazon and Walmart, which is a rare discount that’s just $1 shy of the tracker’s all-time low price. If you want to buy even more AirTags, Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are also currently selling a four-pack for $79./news/asana-s-new-ai-teammate-can-tell-people-what-to-do-at-work.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/asana-s-new-ai-teammate-can-tell-people-what-to-do-at-work.htmlAsana’s platform already helps teams lay out tasks and see who is assigned which responsibilities, and now it says “AI teammates” will step in with advice and plans for who should work together to get things done. In a press release, Asana says its AI model can use stored information about the historical relationships and past projects of teams to assign work to the people with the best-matched skill sets, like tagging designers who know brand styles to work on creative projects./news/asking-alexa-who-poop-is-a-wild-ride.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/asking-alexa-who-poop-is-a-wild-ride.htmlElizabeth II, Victoria of the United Kingdom, Prince Philip, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Prince Charles, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Madonna, Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Prince Albert, Elizabeth I of England, Theodore Roosevelt, Diana the Princess of Wales, Princess Anne, Wayne Rooney, Prince William of Wales, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, William IV of the United Kingdom, Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Grover Cleveland/news/attention-this-gravity-rush-2-trailer-stars-the-world-s-cutest-flying-cat.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/attention-this-gravity-rush-2-trailer-stars-the-world-s-cutest-flying-cat.htmlAt first, Gravity Cat may seem like your average kitten. It crawls on laptops when you’re trying to work. It knocks over liquids with a troll-like speed. It gets into trouble, strutting on the ceiling and then flipping your entire apartment upside down. This video is an ad for Gravity Rush 2 (also known as Gravity Daze 2 in Japan), in which heroine Kat and her actual cat manipulate gravity. If Gravity Rush 2 is thefirst great game of 2017, this is 2017’s first great trailer./news/beeper-couldn-t-bring-imessage-to-android-but-it-can-still-make-a-great-chat-app.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/beeper-couldn-t-bring-imessage-to-android-but-it-can-still-make-a-great-chat-app.htmlBeeper needed a fresh start. Late last year, the company bet big on a hacked-together iMessage app for Android, only to be shut down by Apple within days. Beeper tried to fight back, but it ultimately threw in the towel just weeks later in a widely covered defeat. “December was a wild ride,” Eric Migicovsky, the co-founder of Beeper, tells The Verge.  With dreams of an iMessage app dead, Beeper went back to square one to figure out its next steps./news/big-trouble-in-little-china-with-the-rock-will-be-the-greatest-cinematic-experience-of-all-time.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/big-trouble-in-little-china-with-the-rock-will-be-the-greatest-cinematic-experience-of-all-time.htmlHere's an empirical truth: everybody loves The Rock. If you're not a fan of wrestling, there's the Fast and Furious movies. If you hate cars; there's San Andreas. If you hate disaster movies, there's his upcoming HBO series Ballers. And if you hate yourself, there's even The Scorpion King. The point is that Dwayne Johnson has managed to turn himself into a likable, nice-guy leading man that can deliver on the action front while also transitioning credibly into comedy without skipping a beat./news/bike-tires-made-from-nasa-s-bizarre-shape-shifting-metal-are-now-available-to-buy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bike-tires-made-from-nasa-s-bizarre-shape-shifting-metal-are-now-available-to-buy.htmlThe Metl bicycle tire is the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol, a shape-memory alloy made of nickel and titanium that can be trained with heat to remember its shape. Compared with traditional bicycle tires, Metl tires will never go flat and will last a lifetime — at least that’s the promise made by The Smart Tire Company, the former Shark Tank contestants now hailing from Akron, Ohio, which is also home to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company./news/black-friday-and-cyber-monday-2023-how-to-find-the-best-deals.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/black-friday-and-cyber-monday-2023-how-to-find-the-best-deals.htmlEven though Amazon just recently wrapped its fall Prime Day event, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. Thankfully, like in previous years, we’ll be working to highlight the best prices on tablets, phones, TVs, gaming gear, and other tech throughout the deals-packed week, whether you plan to shop in person or online. You can always count on us to publish the best deals that you need to know about; however, if you want to be among the first people to discover price drops on the products you’re interested in, you’ll want to get set up with a price-tracking tool./news/blackberry-10-new-user-interface-apps-and-developer-tools.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blackberry-10-new-user-interface-apps-and-developer-tools.htmlAt the BlackBerry Jam Americas even today, RIM announced that it will have apps from the big four social networks for BlackBerry 10 at launch: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. The company demo'd the Facebook app, which was fully native on the platform, and it looked very similar to the iOS app — but it seems like it was developed by RIM itself instead of Facebook. Later in the keynote, Foursquare took the stage to demo its BlackBerry 10 app, which looks much more like a native BlackBery 10 app, complete with the "/news/blocboy-jb-sues-epic-games-over-popular-shoot-dance-emote.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blocboy-jb-sues-epic-games-over-popular-shoot-dance-emote.htmlJames Baker, also known as rapper BloBoy JB, is the latest person to file a lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games, this time over the use of his “Shoot” dance move in the popular battle royale hit. Known as “Hype” in the Fortnite community, “Shoot” is one of the most popular emotes that millions have people have seen performed. It requires the dancer to swing their arm and leg back and forth in a choreographed motion, as seen in the GIFs below./news/bright-proves-that-netflix-can-do-blockbusters.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bright-proves-that-netflix-can-do-blockbusters.htmlWhen Netflix first began producing original television shows, it wasn’t clear how well the service would do. It was easy to think of internet-only video as being on the low end of the content spectrum, but with shows like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things, and countless others, the company has transformed from a streaming service that happens to make some shows on the side to a true prestige television power-player./news/carol-and-the-end-of-world-review-a-heartwarming-view-of-the-end-times.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/carol-and-the-end-of-world-review-a-heartwarming-view-of-the-end-times.htmlThe idea of the world ending usually channels excess: humanity running wild because, well, what does it matter anymore? And there’s some of that in Carol & the End of the World, a new animated series on Netflix. But mostly it’s a story about a quiet forty-something woman who uses the impending destruction of the Earth as a chance for self-reflection and discovery. While everyone else is base jumping and traveling the world, Carol slowly finds joy in the mundanity of everyday life./news/copenhagen-wheel-review-a-bike-that-makes-you-feel-like-a-superhero.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/copenhagen-wheel-review-a-bike-that-makes-you-feel-like-a-superhero.htmlI ride my bike into work several days a week. The trip is just under four miles, with a lot of traffic lights, and a decent incline up one half of the Brooklyn Bridge. Google Maps estimates it should take 23 minutes on a bicycle, and on an ordinary bike, that was usually what I found as well. When the weather is nice, the ride can be a real pleasure. The bits I like least are getting stuck at a red light or behind a tourist snapping selfies in the bike lane on the bridge./news/corsair-s-lux-mechanical-keyboards-are-now-available-internationally.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/corsair-s-lux-mechanical-keyboards-are-now-available-internationally.htmlCorsair’s mechanical keyboards have long been regarded as some of the best in the world when it comes to gaming. And after releasing its newest Lux keyboards in the United States back in April, Corsair announced last week that its new K70 Lux RGB and K65 Lux RGB are now available in the rest of the world. The K70 Lux RGB and K65 Lux RGB replace the similar K70 RGB and K65 RGB models, with Corsair touting a special large font for the Lux series to allow for great visibility of the lighting, alongside an updated lighting controller and a passthrough USB port./news/democrats-take-first-stab-at-reforming-section-230-after-capitol-riots.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/democrats-take-first-stab-at-reforming-section-230-after-capitol-riots.htmlSenate Democrats unveiled a new bill Friday that could force tech giants like Facebook and Google to be held more accountable for harmful content that leads to real-world violence. The SAFE TECH Act, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), would overhaul Section 230 to the Communications Decency Act, a law that protects large tech platforms from liability over the content posted by their users./news/dolby-is-now-designing-speakers-for-laptops.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dolby-is-now-designing-speakers-for-laptops.htmlDolby Labs, the San Francisco-based company best known for Dolby Atmos audio tools and Dolby Vision imaging technology, is now setting its sights on screens that are decidedly much smaller than theater screens: our laptops. The company said today in a briefing with journalists that it’s started working directly with laptop makers to design speakers. Its initial hardware partner is Chinese manufacturer Huawei; and the Huawei MateBook X, which launched earlier this summer and which Verge editor Vlad Savov called one of the “best-sounding laptops” available, is the first consumer laptop that contains the Dolby-designed speakers./news/doordash-s-new-storefront-feature-will-help-restaurants-set-up-their-own-websites.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/doordash-s-new-storefront-feature-will-help-restaurants-set-up-their-own-websites.htmlDoorDash on Thursday launched a new initiative called Storefront to help restaurants create websites and directly manage online pickup and delivery orders. As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced restaurants to pause their sit-down service, many have become increasingly reliant on delivery platforms like DoorDash, as well as competitors Grubhub, Postmates, and Uber Eats. These partnerships, of course, saddle restaurants with all kinds of commissions and fees, but they’re still necessities for many that lack their own delivery infrastructure or a website to facilitate online orders./news/espn-s-xbox-app-updated-with-live-streaming-of-sportscenter-all-major-channels.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/espn-s-xbox-app-updated-with-live-streaming-of-sportscenter-all-major-channels.htmlThe ESPN app for Xbox received a significant update today, opening up all of ESPN's live sports content to subscribers. Previously, users could only stream certain sporting events with no access to original programming, like SportsCenter and SportsNation. With the update, Xbox Live Gold subscribers that also have an eligible cable or broadband package can live stream any of ESPN's channels, such as ESPN, ESPN2, Buzzer Beater, and others, including feeds of games as they happen./news/facebook-open-sources-algorithms-for-detecting-child-exploitation-and-terrorism.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-open-sources-algorithms-for-detecting-child-exploitation-and-terrorism.htmlFacebook will open-source two algorithms it uses to identify child sexual exploitation, terrorist propaganda, and graphic violence, the company said today. PDQ and TMK+PDQF, a pair of technologies that store files as digital hashes and compare them with known examples of harmful content, have been released on Github, Facebook said in a blog post. Facebook said it hopes that other tech companies, nonprofit organizations, and individual developers will use the technology to identify more harmful content and add it to shared databases./news/facebook-will-spend-1-billion-to-address-california-s-affordable-housing-crisis.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-will-spend-1-billion-to-address-california-s-affordable-housing-crisis.htmlFacebook today announced a pledge of $1 billion and a partnership with the state of California to help build more affordable housing, after the company contributed for over a decade to an influx of tens of thousands of highly paid technology workers that exacerbated the problem in the Bay Area. Facebook says the money will go toward building 20,000 new housing units “to help essential workers such as teachers, nurses and first responders live closer to the communities that rely on them,” writes chief financial officer David Wehner in a blog post announcing the pledge./news/fda-confirms-samsung-s-galaxy-watch-3-is-cleared-for-ekg-just-like-the-apple-watch.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fda-confirms-samsung-s-galaxy-watch-3-is-cleared-for-ekg-just-like-the-apple-watch.htmlThe Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 includes a heart-monitoring electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) app, which has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s the second smartwatch in the US with this feature; the Apple Watch received clearance for a similar app in 2018. “I’m excited to announce that we have just received the US FDA clearance for Samsung’s ECG monitoring app,” said Samsung SVP Federico Casalegno in today’s Unpacked event./news/filterworld-author-kyle-chayka-on-escaping-the-reign-of-algorithmic-recommendation.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/filterworld-author-kyle-chayka-on-escaping-the-reign-of-algorithmic-recommendation.htmlToday, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The Verge, and author of the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Kyle has been writing for years now about how the culture of big social media platforms bleeds into real life, first affecting how things look, and now shaping how and what culture is created and the mechanisms by which that culture spreads all around the world./news/firefox-s-new-logo-has-more-fire-less-fox.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/firefox-s-new-logo-has-more-fire-less-fox.htmlBut before you say “What did they do to that poor fox!” know that the logo you see above actually isn’t the browser logo — that’s the brand-new overarching logo for Mozilla’s whole family of Firefox products, with each component (including the browser) having its own logo, too. Here: See? Fox is alive and well... if a little ethereal. The logo also looks a little like a world on fire, which many of us can easily identify with these days./news/form-s-smart-goggles-now-work-with-gps-smartwatches-to-track-open-water-swims.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/form-s-smart-goggles-now-work-with-gps-smartwatches-to-track-open-water-swims.htmlForm is releasing an update today for its smart augmented reality swim goggles that enable them to pair over Bluetooth to selected GPS smartwatches, allowing users to track their swims in real time in open water, not just in swimming pools. The $199 Form goggles were released last year, and offered a unique method of tracking swimming metrics by using motion sensors and an AR display built into the goggles itself./news/gamestop-s-best-cyber-monday-deals-games-accessories-and-more.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gamestop-s-best-cyber-monday-deals-games-accessories-and-more.htmlGameStop’s launched its Cyber Monday sales, featuring huge savings on digital and physical copies of games, gaming keyboards, and headsets for their lowest prices ever. There are even a number of excellent promotions that are of great value, whether you’re trying to snag a new console or build out your existing library. Of course, GameStop isn’t the only place with the best Cyber Monday deals, so make sure to check out our ever-expanding guide to Cyber Monday, as well as our retailer and brand-specific pages if you’re looking to cash in on more great savings./news/gizmodo-s-owner-replaced-its-spanish-language-journalists-with-ai.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gizmodo-s-owner-replaced-its-spanish-language-journalists-with-ai.htmlGizmodo owner G/O Media laid off editors of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and is now using AI to translate articles. Matías S. Zavia, a writer at Gizmodo en Español, posted that the publication was shut down on August 29th and that it would now publish automatically translated articles. Gizmodo en Español previously had a small staff who wrote original stories and created Spanish-language adaptations of pieces from the English-language Gizmodo./news/gm-strikes-a-deal-aimed-at-avoiding-future-chip-shortage-disruptions.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gm-strikes-a-deal-aimed-at-avoiding-future-chip-shortage-disruptions.htmlGeneral Motors has struck a “first-of-its-kind” deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) to lock down its supply of crucial semiconductors, a move aimed at avoiding the disruptions caused by the recent global chip shortage. Under the agreement, GF will manufacture the chips at its semiconductor facility in upstate New York. The company, which is owned by the United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment, has said it would invest $1 billion to build a second factory near its Malta, New York, headquarters./news/gmail-s-basic-html-view-will-go-to-the-google-graveyard-in-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gmail-s-basic-html-view-will-go-to-the-google-graveyard-in-2024.htmlGoogle will send Gmail’s basic HTML view sailing into the great beyond starting in January 2024, after which time everyone who uses it will be switched to the service’s far more modern “Standard” view. The change appears to have been announced around September 19th in a Google support article. Though the vast majority of people use the Standard view on their PCs without question, the HTML version of Gmail has its perks./news/google-chrome-now-lets-you-sign-in-to-most-services-without-a-password.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-chrome-now-lets-you-sign-in-to-most-services-without-a-password.htmlGoogle just released Chrome 67 for desktop, as spotted by ZDNet. This version of Chrome will allow password-free sign-ins for most websites, meaning you can avoid hunting through a password manager for specific credentials. Password-free sign-ins come from the Web Authentication standard, which was launched in March by the FIDO Alliance and the W3C. It lets you sign in to any virtually any online service through unique credentials that you don’t have to memorize, such as fingerprint readers, USB keys like YubiKeys, etc./news/google-home-max-review-smart-gets-loud.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-home-max-review-smart-gets-loud.htmlThe war for your living room is on. But I’m not talking about the one battling for your eyeballs, I’m referring to the one jockeying for your ears and your voice. The world of smart, connected, wireless audio for your home has exploded over the past few years, thanks to companies such as Sonos and Amazon. Not to be left out, Microsoft and Google have both released their own takes on smart speakers, and Apple’s version is on the way./news/google-s-pony-express-will-reportedly-let-you-pay-bills-right-from-gmail.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-pony-express-will-reportedly-let-you-pay-bills-right-from-gmail.htmlGoogle is reportedly developing a new Gmail feature that will allow users to receive and pay bills directly from their email inbox. According to Recode, the new project is called Pony Express, though that could be an internal code name; Google could go in a different direction with branding when Pony Express launches to consumers. (But we very much hope it sticks around.) The service — being pushed as "the future of paper mail"/news/google-s-expanded-find-my-device-network-is-expected-to-arrive-soon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-expanded-find-my-device-network-is-expected-to-arrive-soon.htmlThe launch of Google’s long-awaited Find My Device network is seemingly almost here. In an email spotted by 9to5Google, Google tells users it will turn on the feature in three days, which uses data from millions of other Android devices to find the location of missing phones and accessories — similar to the tracking tech used by Apple and Tile. The email says users can use the network to “find any compatible Fast Pair accessories when they’re disconnected from your device” or offline, including earbuds, headphones, and trackers, 9to5Google reports./news/gta-iv-has-disappeared-from-steam-because-of-games-for-windows-live.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gta-iv-has-disappeared-from-steam-because-of-games-for-windows-live.htmlRockstar has confirmed that the reason Grand Theft Auto IV is no longer available to purchase from Steam is its reliance on the Games for Windows Live (GFWL) platform, which it says Microsoft is “no longer supporting.” Although people who already own the game on Steam can continue to play it, the game’s “Add to Cart” button has disappeared from its Steam page, preventing users from buying a new copy./news/hbo-max-canceled-raised-by-wolves-after-two-seasons.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hbo-max-canceled-raised-by-wolves-after-two-seasons.htmlAfter two seasons, HBO Max has decided to cancel the sci-fi TV show Raised by Wolves, Variety reports. Originally ordered to series for the cable channel TNT, its first season premiered in 2020, and four months after HBO Max launched, it ranked as the service’s top streaming series. The first two episodes were directed by Ridley Scott, and the plot, which focused on two androids raising human children on a desolate alien planet, aligned well with the hallmarks of his style./news/hillary-clinton-s-private-email-account-raises-transparency-questions.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hillary-clinton-s-private-email-account-raises-transparency-questions.htmlIn a press conference, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has explained her decision to route all emails through a personal account housed on a private server, and reiterated a promise to publicly release any work-related messages. "When I got to work as Secretary of State, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry one device for my work and personal email instead of two,"/news/history-of-the-entire-world-i-guess-could-have-been-the-best-online-video-of-2005.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/history-of-the-entire-world-i-guess-could-have-been-the-best-online-video-of-2005.htmlDo you have about 20 minutes of free time? Good, go watch this video. Trust me, it’s worth it. I’ll wait. Okay, are you done? “History of the Entire World, I Guess” is the latest production from Bill Wurtz, a YouTube artist known for random, quirky videos that all share a simplistic aesthetic, with text, clip art, and Microsoft Paint drawings. They’re torn right out of the old-school heyday of YouTube and internet videos, somehow miraculously transported to 2017./news/how-mercedes-benz-ceo-ola-k%C3%A4llenius-is-refocusing-for-an-electric-future.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-mercedes-benz-ceo-ola-k%C3%A4llenius-is-refocusing-for-an-electric-future.htmlMercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius became CEO in 2019 but has been working for Mercedes since 1993 in almost every part of the company. During that period, Mercedes spent time getting a lot bigger; the company famously merged with Chrysler for a time, forming a giant called DaimlerChrysler. But, over the past few years, it’s actually been getting much smaller and more focused. The Chrysler deal was undone and, just recently, Ola spun off the truck division into its own public company called Daimler Truck, leaving Mercedes-Benz to stand alone as a premium car brand./news/how-silicon-valley-s-successes-are-fueled-by-an-underclass-of-ghost-workers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-silicon-valley-s-successes-are-fueled-by-an-underclass-of-ghost-workers.html“Ghost work” is anthropologist Mary L. Gray’s term for the invisible labor that powers our technology platforms. When Gray, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, first arrived at the company, she learned that building artificial intelligence requires people to manage and clean up data to feed to the training algorithms. “I basically started asking the engineers and computer scientists around me, ‘Who are the people you pay to do this task work of labeling images and classification tasks and cleaning up databases?/news/how-to-change-your-name-and-add-a-photo-to-zoom.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-change-your-name-and-add-a-photo-to-zoom.htmlIf you’ve been using Zoom to work from home over these last few months, it’s possible that the name you’re being identified by in the lower left corner is not what you’d prefer. Perhaps it’s your email instead of your name, or it’s all in lower case, or it includes that middle name that you’ve always hated. Whatever the case, it is easy to change your Zoom name — and to add a profile photo, if you want./news/how-to-set-up-multiroom-music-playback-with-amazon-echo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-set-up-multiroom-music-playback-with-amazon-echo.htmlOne Echo is good, but several Echos are better. Amazon’s Echo devices have multiroom audio support, which allows users to simultaneously stream music over multiple speakers, making it feasible for people to outfit their entire homes with Amazon’s smart speaker. The feature lets you play audio from Amazon Music, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify, and Sirius XM over multiple speakers. It even added Apple Music support last December. (Note: multiroom audio support only works if you’re listening to a single music stream over multiple speakers./news/how-to-turn-your-phone-screen-to-grayscale.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-turn-your-phone-screen-to-grayscale.htmlWith the exception of old movies, most of us are used to seeing our screens in full color. However, grayscale — in which you see nothing but black, white, or shades of gray — can be useful, even when it comes to your smartphone. To begin with, people who are intensely colorblind will find a screen that has been switched to grayscale much easier to work with (since otherwise, certain colors can be difficult to distinguish)./news/how-to-unlock-your-meta-quest-with-sidequest.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-unlock-your-meta-quest-with-sidequest.htmlI recently decided that I was going to figure out how to play custom Beat Saber tracks on my Meta Quest 2, no matter what it took. Thankfully, the free program I ended up using, called SideQuest, only took an hour or two of tinkering to get working, making it the perfect weekend project. Even better, SideQuest is useful for so much more than just modifying Beat Saber — it lets you sideload community-made games and experiences and even change the Quest home environment that acts as the backdrop to the system menus and app picker./news/how-to-watch-microsoft-s-2024-xbox-and-call-of-duty-showcase.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-watch-microsoft-s-2024-xbox-and-call-of-duty-showcase.htmlMicrosoft is back with another Xbox Games Showcase this year, and this time around, there’s a Call of Duty direct straight after the main show. This is Microsoft’s first Xbox Games Showcase to feature games from across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, and Xbox Game Studios, as well as third-party titles. I think this is going to be a big Xbox showcase, with a runtime that could approach the two-hour mark. Get ready for new game reveals, lots of release dates, and some potential surprises./news/how-to-watch-the-game-awards-and-what-to-expect.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-watch-the-game-awards-and-what-to-expect.htmlGeoff Keighley’s Happy Holiday Game-a-palooza, also known as The Game Awards (but that’s less fun), kicks off Thursday, December 7th, at 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT. You can watch the show on just about anything that permits livestreaming events. The list of participating platforms is actually pretty impressive. There are the standards, like Twitch and YouTube. TikTok makes an appearance, along with X / Twitter (enjoy watching in 720p, though). Then there are platforms like Kick, Instagram Live, and./news/how-uncomfortable-space-suits-took-a-toll-on-the-first-americans-who-went-to-space.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-uncomfortable-space-suits-took-a-toll-on-the-first-americans-who-went-to-space.htmlGoing to space did change the bodies of the first US astronauts — but it was more linked to the long time they spent wearing uncomfortable space suits than the time they spent in zero gravity, according to new research. The US sent humans into space for the first time during Project Mercury, whose six flights spanned 1961 to 1963. Before and after the flights — which ranged from 15 minutes to 34 hours — astronauts were tested for heart rate and activity, body temperature, urination, fluid intake, and weight loss./news/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review-a-tribute-to-the-transformative-power-of-fandom.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review-a-tribute-to-the-transformative-power-of-fandom.htmlDiscovering and latching on to pieces of art that touch you in profound, formative ways is a beautiful part of growing up in a world that’s so thoroughly saturated with mass media. In their first film, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, writer / director Jane Schoenbrun turned that facet of childhood into an intimate coming-of-age horror about creating one’s identity on the internet. But with their second feature, A24’s I Saw the TV Glow, Schoenbrun cultivates that idea into an even more unsettling, moving narrative by framing obsessive fandom as both a blessing and a curse./news/i-m-gonna-get-my-james-cameron-on-with-rode-s-new-magsafe-mounts.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-m-gonna-get-my-james-cameron-on-with-rode-s-new-magsafe-mounts.htmlI’m gonna get my James Cameron on with Rode’s new MagSafe mounts. Alongside its new wireless interview mic, Rode has announced a $130 smartphone cage that attaches magnetically to an iPhone, and presumably other Qi2 smartphones once they arrive. It has 33 mounting threads for lights, mics, and other accessories videographers like. There’s also a $90 modular mount that includes a long handle and two hot shoe arms. Both ship April 24th./news/inside-the-fight-over-the-sugar-conspiracy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/inside-the-fight-over-the-sugar-conspiracy.htmlIn a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2016, researchers suggested that in the 1960s, the sugar industry paid scientists to obscure the relationship between sugar and heart disease, derailing the course of nutrition science and policy for years to come. Now, two researchers at Columbia University say that those claims are not backed by the historical evidence, and by promoting the idea of a “sugar conspiracy,” they hinder our understanding of how science is actually done./news/iphone-13-mini-and-13-pro-max-battery-life-better-and-a-beast.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphone-13-mini-and-13-pro-max-battery-life-better-and-a-beast.htmlI wanted to spend more time with both the iPhone 13 Mini and the iPhone 13 Pro Max before I weighed in with a final verdict on their respective batteries. I’ve updated my full reviews of each to reflect my impressions after using them for a couple weeks, but I figured it might be helpful to lay out what I’m seeing separately. The long and the short of it is that, in both cases, the batteries exceeded my expectations./news/john-romero-and-john-carmack-will-be-on-twitch-together-this-weekend.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/john-romero-and-john-carmack-will-be-on-twitch-together-this-weekend.htmlJohn Romero and John Carmack will be on Twitch together this weekend. The industry legends will be on a livestream to talk about the 30th anniversary of Doom, and I’m guessing it will be a fascinating conversation. The livestream, which will be on Romero’s Twitch channel, kicks off on December 10th at 3PM ET. If you want to learn some of the history between the two, check out Romero’s autobiography — which we have an excerpt of that you can read right now./news/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-will-continue-the-story-in-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-will-continue-the-story-in-2024.htmlThe next entry in the Planet of the Apes saga will start filming soon — and it has yet another very long name. Today, 20th Century Studios unveiled the first real details on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which picks up the story years after 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes for what’s described as “an all-new chapter.” Production on the film is scheduled to start next month, with Wes Ball, best-known for the Maze Runner trilogy, serving as director./news/laika-pushes-stop-motion-s-limits-again-with-new-kubo-and-the-two-strings-trailer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/laika-pushes-stop-motion-s-limits-again-with-new-kubo-and-the-two-strings-trailer.htmlThe first footage from Laika Studios’ new stop-motion feature Kubo and the Two Strings started emerging out in 2015, and it was exciting stuff. The studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, and The BoxTrolls has always been an ambitious innovator in the stop-motion field, but Kubo looks like an attempt to up the ante even further, with even more dramatic camera work, elaborate visuals, and epic-scale storytelling. The latest trailer for the film focuses on plot and character specifics for the first time, where the teaser and the previous full trailer were more about mood and images./news/lenovo-is-hopping-on-the-game-awards-giveaway-train.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-is-hopping-on-the-game-awards-giveaway-train.htmlLenovo is hopping on The Game Awards giveaway train. Shortly after Geoff Keighley announced Valve will give away 100 Steam Deck OLEDs during the event, Lenovo piped in with a giveaway for its competing handheld: the Legion Go. The company will hand out 100 free devices during The Game Awards, which you can enter to win starting tomorrow at 7:30PM ET. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfZn9wgo5ranJxYG5%2FenvLnqWorp9itrR5x6inqaGenHqwuoytn55ll5a6pnnAsJirnKNitKrCxJqumrFdqb%2Bitc0%3D/news/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen-9-review-ninth-time-s-the-charm.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen-9-review-ninth-time-s-the-charm.htmlIt makes me feel very old to say this, but we are on the ninth generation of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon. And there have been nine of these for a reason. The X1 Carbon has historically been one of the best business laptops you can get. And that remains the case with its newest iteration. Lenovo has made a few tweaks, but otherwise, it’s the same ThinkPad excellence we’ve come to expect./news/lg-s-amazon-echo-lookalike-now-has-built-in-alexa.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-s-amazon-echo-lookalike-now-has-built-in-alexa.htmlLG’s SmartThinQ Hub, a speaker with smart home control, certainly looks a lot like an Amazon Echo, a similarity that only grows closer with the news from IFA that LG is adding Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant to the device. Amazon licenses the Alexa software as part of its Amazon Voice Service, allowing any developer to include Alexa in their products. However, there are a few limitations to third-party integrations of Alexa like LG’s when compared to Amazon’s own Echo devices – the SmartThinQ Hub requires users to press a button on either a remote or the speaker to activate Alexa, versus the Echo’s always-listening feature./news/listen-to-hamilton-the-hip-hop-musical-that-will-make-you-feel-better-about-america.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/listen-to-hamilton-the-hip-hop-musical-that-will-make-you-feel-better-about-america.htmlNPR has a First Listen of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, the hip-hop Alexander Hamilton biography that's currently the hottest ticket in New York. Seats are hard to come by — for reasons financial, logistical, and geographic for many — so this is great news. To be frank, America needs Hamilton in a way that it almost never needs a musical. "How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot/news/logitech-made-a-599-cockpit-to-go-with-its-1-000-racing-wheel.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-made-a-599-cockpit-to-go-with-its-1-000-racing-wheel.htmlLogitech G’s first racing cockpit costs $599 and is designed to fit its even costlier premium gaming wheels and pedals. The company teamed up with gaming chair maker Playseat to create the Playseat Trophy - Logitech G Edition — a rebadged version of Playseat’s fully adjustable Trophy cockpit. Its seat is made with the same Actifit material, which is supposed to conform to your body and keep you cool while you’re on the virtual racetrack./news/looney-tunes-won-t-be-yanked-from-max-after-all.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/looney-tunes-won-t-be-yanked-from-max-after-all.htmlIt turns out that Warner Bros. Discovery actually won’t be pulling Looney Tunes from Max. On Monday, in a 4:02PM ET email with the subject line “What’s New on Max This December,” Warner Bros. Discovery listed Looney Tunes and The Looney Tunes Show among the titles leaving Max on December 31st. Even though Looney Tunes is a signature Warner Bros. franchise, removing episodes of the cartoon wouldn’t be unprecedented; Warner Bros./news/lyft-becomes-the-first-ride-hail-company-to-go-public-beating-uber.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lyft-becomes-the-first-ride-hail-company-to-go-public-beating-uber.htmlLyft filed IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, beating its main rival Uber in the race to become the first app-based ride-hail company to go public. The company, which got its start as a college carpooling service called Zimride in 2007, says it has achieved 39 percent market share in the US as of December 2018, up from 22 percent in December 2016. This new growth comes from new riders and drivers, as well as more frequent rides from existing users./news/mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite-review.htmlOur original preview of Yosemite, from July. It took about six hours for me to mostly forget that I was using Yosemite. That’s not to say it doesn’t look different — it does. It’s just that the new look feels familiar, only slightly more refined, like the finished version of what came before. After downloading and installing the update (which took about 25 minutes and a little over 5GB of disk space), I had a new wallpaper, the mountain face against pink and purple sky./news/mark-zuckerberg-braces-meta-employees-for-intense-period.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mark-zuckerberg-braces-meta-employees-for-intense-period.htmlPhoto: Amelia Holowaty Krales / Animation: Alex Parkin / Sculpture: Okamoto Studio Custom Ice / Concept: Kristen Radtke Mark Zuckerberg stared into his webcam, trying to make yet another remote meeting seem urgent. Since Facebook started, he’d made a habit of frankly addressing employees directly at a weekly Q&A. Almost no topic was off-limits. But as the company grew, these sessions had become more scripted. He’d stopped showing up every week, instead letting other executives field the most upvoted questions submitted by employees./news/meta-s-ray-ban-glasses-will-post-instagram-stories-for-you.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-s-ray-ban-glasses-will-post-instagram-stories-for-you.htmlMeta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses can now post Instagram stories directly to your Instagram account without the need for you to bring out a phone. The feature is one of several updates the company is now starting to roll out to the glasses, including support for Amazon Music and the meditation app Calm. The Instagram support will allow users to prompt the glasses to post to the app before or after taking a picture./news/microsoft-investigating-windows-activation-issues-after-closing-a-key-loophole.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-investigating-windows-activation-issues-after-closing-a-key-loophole.htmlMicrosoft is investigating Windows activation issues that appear to be linked to the company’s recent move to block Windows 7 and Windows 8 keys from activating copies of Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you have an installation of Windows 10 / 11 that has been activated using the free upgrade from Windows 7 or 8, then there’s a chance it might become deactivated if you swap some hardware components or even upgrade your BIOS version./news/microsoft-is-overhauling-its-software-security-after-major-azure-cloud-attacks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-is-overhauling-its-software-security-after-major-azure-cloud-attacks.htmlMicrosoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago, one of the most sophisticated cybersecurity attacks we’ve ever seen. Then, 30,000 organizations’ email servers were hacked in 2021 thanks to a Microsoft Exchange Server flaw. If that weren’t enough already, Chinese hackers breached US government emails via a Microsoft cloud exploit earlier this year. Something had to give./news/microsoft-lays-off-ai-ethics-and-society-team.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-lays-off-ai-ethics-and-society-team.htmlMicrosoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned.  The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading the charge to make AI tools available to the mainstream, current and former employees said./news/microsoft-unveils-more-windows-10-creators-update-features.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-unveils-more-windows-10-creators-update-features.htmlMicrosoft is releasing a new Windows 10 preview build (15002) to testers today. It’s the first of the year, and it’s packed full of new features and changes. One of the first additions is a new tab preview bar in Microsoft Edge, which lets you visually glance at the rest of your tabs without leaving the page you’re on. Microsoft is also adding the ability to save and restore sets of tabs so it’s quicker to resume if you’ve closed all the tabs off or restarted./news/microsoft-will-pay-200-for-your-old-laptop-or-300-if-it-s-a-macbook.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-will-pay-200-for-your-old-laptop-or-300-if-it-s-a-macbook.htmlMicrosoft has launched a promotion called Easy Trade Up designed to get people to switch to new Windows 10 machines. If you buy a qualifying computer from the Microsoft Store for over $599 until October 20th, the company will give you a rebate after you send in your old laptop or all-in-one — you'll get $200 for a Windows computer, and $300 for a MacBook. Your trade-in computer has to be under six years old and in working order with a minimum display size of 11./news/microsoft-s-activision-blizzard-acquisition-blocked-by-uk-regulators.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-activision-blizzard-acquisition-blocked-by-uk-regulators.htmlMicrosoft’s $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard has been blocked by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). After months of analyzing 3 million Microsoft and Activision documents and more than 2,100 emails from the public, the CMA has concluded that the deal could “alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, leading to reduced innovation and less choice for UK gamers over the years to come.” Microsoft says it will appeal the decision, but it’s a blow to Microsoft’s hopes of acquiring Activision Blizzard and will likely prevent the company closing its giant deal if an appeal is unsuccessful./news/microsoft-s-copilot-app-is-now-available-on-ios.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-copilot-app-is-now-available-on-ios.htmlThe app gives you access to Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) and works similarly to OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile app. In addition to letting you ask questions, draft emails, and summarize text, you can also create images through an integration with the text-to-image generator DALL-E3. Image: Microsoft And, unlike the free version of ChatGPT which runs GPT-3.5, Copilot lets you access GPT-4, the latest large language model (LLM) from OpenAI, without having to pay for a subscription./news/mophie-s-palm-battery-pack-may-be-the-most-niche-charging-accessory-ever-made.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mophie-s-palm-battery-pack-may-be-the-most-niche-charging-accessory-ever-made.htmlThe Palm phone is not a good phone. It is not a good replacement of a phone. But it is now a phone to join an incredible rare club: it now has a $59.95 Mophie Juice Pack battery case, making it the only device to get a custom case from the accessory company other than an Apple or Samsung phone. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why Mophie would take the time and effort to make such a device/news/nasa-s-historic-pluto-flyby-the-latest-news-from-the-new-horizons-spacecraft.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-s-historic-pluto-flyby-the-latest-news-from-the-new-horizons-spacecraft.htmlLegend has it that on the evening of September 14th, 1928, a 26-year-old Walt Disney looked up in the sky and observed a glow unlike he had ever seen before. It was faint, but Disney was a known visionary — one with superhuman sight. Disney squinted, and through that squint he saw a planet. Squinting further, he saw on the surface of that planet a silhouette of a dog — one with its ears down, probably./news/new-music-recommendations-the-dead-weather-restorations-and-yes-taylor-swift.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-music-recommendations-the-dead-weather-restorations-and-yes-taylor-swift.htmlStarting with "Blank Space," Swift delivers just what you’d expect: a string of infectious hooks and soon-to-be hit singles. "Style" is the standout, so it’s no surprise that Target has already latched onto it for a commercial. There’s not a trace of Nashville on 1989; this is no country-pop crossover. 1989 is a tight package of formulaic pop laced with synths and flashy vocal production at every turn. Listen to the first half and you’ll get pulled into its melodies — but the second half can’t quite hold up./news/new-search-engine-for-porn-advances-master-plan-for-xxx-economy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-search-engine-for-porn-advances-master-plan-for-xxx-economy.htmlThe company that administers the .xxx domain just launched a porn-only search engine, Search.xxx, after a year of development. The search engine is ostensibly an effort to promote the new X-rated ecosystem of .xxx sites while countering attempts by mainstream search engines to de-emphasize porn in search results. But it's actually part of something greater: the effort to build a self-sustaining internet for porn. Call it the pornternet. Search.xxx isn't the first porn-only search engine, nor is it the first to use a minimalist aesthetic./news/new-trailers-the-grinch-mary-poppins-returns-christopher-robin-and-more.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-trailers-the-grinch-mary-poppins-returns-christopher-robin-and-more.htmlI finally saw Black Panther last weekend. While there have been lots of big Marvel movies, this one in particular felt like such a phenomenon that you couldn’t miss out on it (and box office numbers back that up). It’s easily the best Marvel movie I’ve seen. What Black Panther does so well, that so many other movies fail at, is infusing its story with big, meaningful ideas and having a villain with real motives./news/nintendo-video-shows-speed-improvements-of-april-wii-u-software-update.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-video-shows-speed-improvements-of-april-wii-u-software-update.htmlSince we first got a look at the Wii U, one of our biggest complaints has been its unbelievably laggy user interface. Thankfully, a partial fix is on the way next month, and now we’re getting a look at what kind of a difference it’s going to make. In a video (below) posted to Nintendo’s YouTube account you can see how much faster it will be to return to the main Wii U menu from a game in progress post-update compared to a Wii U running the current software./news/nokia-posts-1-billion-operating-loss-for-q2-2012-net-cash-up-125-million.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nokia-posts-1-billion-operating-loss-for-q2-2012-net-cash-up-125-million.htmlThe bulk of it's financial troubles, however, stem from the fact that Nokia phone sales in other sectors are falling far faster than Windows Phone sales are growing. The company sold 83.7 million phones in total, up from 82.7 last quarter, but still down 4.8 million from last year's figures. Sales of "Smart Devices," which encompasses Symbian, MeeGo, and Windows Phones, dropped from 16.7 million in Q1 to 10.2 million in Q2./news/nvidia-is-using-ai-to-turn-game-characters-into-chatbots.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-is-using-ai-to-turn-game-characters-into-chatbots.htmlNvidia is showing off how developers have started using its AI “digital human” tools to voice, animate, and generate dialogue for video game characters. At the Game Developers Conference on Monday, the company released a clip of Covert Protocol, a playable tech demo that showcases how its AI tools can allow NPCs to respond in unique ways to player interactions, generating new responses that fit the live gameplay. In the demo, players take on the role of a private detective, completing objectives based on conversations with AI-powered NPCs./news/obama-unwinds-from-leading-the-nation-by-watching-walter-white-make-meth.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/obama-unwinds-from-leading-the-nation-by-watching-walter-white-make-meth.htmlHe probably doesn't have as much time to binge watch, but President Obama still kicks back just like the rest of us: watching season after season of TV shows. According to The New York Times, Obama's latest pick is Breaking Bad, which he picked up as a DVD box set. Though the series ended in September, Obama is apparently quite far behind and has been known to warn those around him not to give away any spoilers./news/openai-s-model-spec-outlines-some-basic-rules-for-ai.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-s-model-spec-outlines-some-basic-rules-for-ai.htmlAI tools behaving badly — like Microsoft’s Bing AI losing track of which year it is — has become a subgenre of reporting on AI. But very often, it’s hard to tell the difference between a bug and poor construction of the underlying AI model that analyzes incoming data and predicts what an acceptable response will be, like Google’s Gemini image generator drawing diverse Nazis due to a filter setting. Now, OpenAI is releasing the first draft of a proposed framework, called Model Spec, that would shape how AI tools like its own GPT-4 model respond in the future./news/opi-releases-xbox-inspired-nail-polish-which-unlocks-in-game-content.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/opi-releases-xbox-inspired-nail-polish-which-unlocks-in-game-content.htmlOPI and Xbox are collaborating on a new lineup of gaming-inspired nail polishes that also unlock in-game content for Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5. The vibrant line of 12 nail polish colors is available today in the US at Ulta Beauty. Purchasing colors in the line qualifies for redeemable codes to unlock an exclusive Ford GT livery in Forza Horizon 5 as well as an armor coating in Halo Infinite./news/orba-is-an-all-in-one-instrument-and-midi-controller-that-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/orba-is-an-all-in-one-instrument-and-midi-controller-that-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand.htmlNashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba. The Orba is a small, handheld device that’s a synth, looper, and controller all in one. It’s shaped like a halved grapefruit, and mimics the gestures used on smartphones and trackpads to let you make beats and play around with sounds with a variety of motions. The flat top of the Orba is divided into eight segments that let you stack drum, bass, chord, and lead layers, and operate basic controls like record and pause./news/origin-pc-announces-new-thin-laptop-with-a-vr-ready-gtx-1060-gpu.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/origin-pc-announces-new-thin-laptop-with-a-vr-ready-gtx-1060-gpu.htmlOrigin PC is bringing Nvidia’s latest GTX 1060 GPU to its new EVO15-S laptop. The EVO15-S measures in at only 0.69 inches thick Earlier this year, when Nvidia announced that the GTX 1000 series would be coming to laptops, one of the touted advantages was that the new GPUs would allow for thinner and lighter gaming laptops. The EVO15-S makes good on this promise, measuring in at only 0.69 inches thick, and joins the even thinner 0./news/origin-s-big-o-gaming-pc-stuffs-an-entire-ps4-pro-or-xbox-one-s-into-the-same-gigantic-case.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/origin-s-big-o-gaming-pc-stuffs-an-entire-ps4-pro-or-xbox-one-s-into-the-same-gigantic-case.htmlLast year, in honor of its 10th anniversary, Origin built the Big O — a massive custom gaming PC that also had an Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, and a Nintendo Switch dock built into the same chassis. At the time, it was just a one-off concept, but now, Origin is actually selling it, albeit in a more practical form that combines a gaming PC with a single console: either an Xbox One S or PS4 Pro./news/peach-cool-is-friday-s-hottest-social-network.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/peach-cool-is-friday-s-hottest-social-network.htmlIt's been a while since the last fameball social network took the Twittersphere by storm — Ello launched and then evaporated from the public consciousness in September 2014. But the stars have aligned once again, and everyone in the group iMessage that is Media Twitter rallied on Friday around Peach, a new sharing whatsit for iOS from a founder of Vine. Last June, we told you about Byte, Dom Hofmann's wild new creative tool./news/pewdiepie-loses-disney-deal-as-a-result-of-anti-semitic-imagery.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pewdiepie-loses-disney-deal-as-a-result-of-anti-semitic-imagery.htmlDisney has cut ties with YouTube sensation Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg after he incorporated anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi references into several of his videos. The move comes after a Wall Street Journal review found that nine of Kjellberg’s videos posted over the last six months featured imagery including swastikas, Nazi salutes, and shots of Hitler. Last month alone, the YouTube star showed a clip of a man dressed as Jesus Christ saying “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong,” and paid two Indian men to hold up a banner reading “Death to All Jews” via freelancing website Fiverr, but Kjellberg has argued that he is not serious in his use of the imagery./news/philips-app-that-syncs-hue-lights-with-computer-displays-is-surprisingly-good.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/philips-app-that-syncs-hue-lights-with-computer-displays-is-surprisingly-good.htmlToday, Philips is making its Hue Sync app available to anyone looking to synchronize their Hue lights with whatever’s running on their Windows or Mac computer. Hue Sync detects whatever colors it sees on the screen and then projects a matching aura onto the walls around it. It works with anything, really, even music and web browsing, but the experience is especially immersive when gaming or watching video at full screen./news/philips-hue-smart-bulbs-to-lose-works-with-nest-integration-on-november-17th.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/philips-hue-smart-bulbs-to-lose-works-with-nest-integration-on-november-17th.html“Google is transitioning its ‘Works with Nest’ programme to the ‘Works with Hey Google’ programme. Related to this, Philips Hue integration with Nest Thermostat, Nest Cam and Nest Protect will be discontinued from November 17, 2020. This will only be temporary, as Google is building existing Works with Nest features into the Google Home app. Thank you for your patience and understanding.” ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2hfZn5whY5raG5tZmd9dXvPoaCloaCoeqnBxGauqKqbqHq4tdOhZKedo6l6qrrTnp6rmaSevK9506Gcq6WfqMGiwNJmqp6bpae2tcWMnJimnaKWwG6%2FzKiinmWRoa6zudI%3D/news/philips-hue-tap-dial-switch-review-a-smooth-way-to-control-your-smart-lights.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/philips-hue-tap-dial-switch-review-a-smooth-way-to-control-your-smart-lights.htmlThe $49.99 Philips Hue Tap Dial switch is a smart lighting controller for the Hue superuser. It’s the most powerful and innovative Hue accessory so far, with four buttons and a physical dial for dimming. Out of the box, the buttons and dial are tied to a zone or room, making it seem like an overpowered Hue Smart Dimmer Switch. But why limit yourself to one room when this can control your Hue lights throughout your house?/news/pok%C3%A9mon-go-is-getting-online-multiplayer-battles-early-next-year.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pok%C3%A9mon-go-is-getting-online-multiplayer-battles-early-next-year.htmlStarting in early 2020, Niantic will let Pokémon Go players compete against each other online in a new Go Battle League for the mobile game. Niantic says the league will let you battle players from around the globe using a matchmaking system, and that it will feature ranks that you’ll have to rise up through. This won’t be the first time Pokémon Go has let you battle other players, but the current Trainer Battles feature is much more limited in scope./news/popular-european-banking-app-revolut-is-launching-in-the-us-today.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/popular-european-banking-app-revolut-is-launching-in-the-us-today.htmlMobile banking app Revolut, which has more than 10 million customers in Europe, is launching today in the US, the company announced. Like Monzo, a UK-based banking app that made the jump to the US last June, Revolut is entirely app-based and doesn’t operate any brick-and-mortar locations. That means you can sign up for an account and a debit card (which will be a Mastercard for US users) in just a few minutes right from within the app./news/porsche-design-and-blackberry-combine-to-make-a-z10-for-the-rich-and-clueless.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/porsche-design-and-blackberry-combine-to-make-a-z10-for-the-rich-and-clueless.htmlAfter teaming up to sell the ostentatious P'9981 smartphone last year, Porsche Design and BlackBerry have announced a modified version of the troubled Canadian smartphone maker's Z10 smartphone. Called the P'9982, Porsche Design's take on the Z10 is crafted from stainless steel and Italian leather, and comes with a "unique" BBM PIN that makes users of the smartphone "instantly recognizable." If that wasn't exciting enough, BlackBerry has upped the internal storage of the Z10 to 64GB for the Porsche Design edition, and will also sell you additional Italian leather backs in a number of colors to customize your device./news/potbox-is-the-luxury-weed-delivery-service-you-ve-been-craving.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/potbox-is-the-luxury-weed-delivery-service-you-ve-been-craving.htmlWe've seen quite a few weed delivery services open shop as the US relaxes legislation surrounding the drug, but never has one managed to satisfy the demands of luxury as skillfully as the newly launched Potbox. This monthly subscription service for registered medical marijuana users doesn't just deliver weed, boasts the company's soaring sale pitch, it couriers the "highest quality, most ethically grown... cannabis available" straight to your front door, with strains and blends "/news/prime-video-releases-new-profile-images-for-amazon-originals.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/prime-video-releases-new-profile-images-for-amazon-originals.htmlPrime Video is giving users more options for personalizing their user profiles with the addition of characters from its original series. Amazon introduced user profiles to its Prime Video service last year, and it previously allowed supported personalized images for individual user accounts. Now, however, users can choose to make their account avatar a character from one of nearly two dozen Amazon original series, including Fleabag, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Expanse, Bosch, and more./news/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-is-a-new-side-scrolling-game-in-the-series.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-is-a-new-side-scrolling-game-in-the-series.htmlUbisoft just revealed new details about a Prince of Persia game — and no, it wasn’t the long-delayed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. At Summer Game Fest 2023, Ubisoft kicked off the show with a new side-scrolling action platformer, called Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. “Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer game set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate,” according to the game’s website./news/razer-blade-review-the-verge.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-blade-review-the-verge.htmlWith a dual-core 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-2640M processor, 8GB of DDR3-1333 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT555M graphics with 2GB of dedicated memory and a 256GB solid state drive, the Razer Blade isn't ready to take on dedicated gaming desktops or monster laptops, but it should still be screaming fast. For the most part, that's true. Our unit booted into Windows 7 Home Premium in just 19 seconds and was ready for action 27 seconds after we hit the power button, and proved to be a capable multitasker, too, popping open application windows just as soon as I launched them and notching a score of 14494 in PCMark Vantage, much of that on the strength of its SSD./news/read-xbox-chief-phil-spencer-s-memo-to-microsoft-employees-about-the-ftc-win.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/read-xbox-chief-phil-spencer-s-memo-to-microsoft-employees-about-the-ftc-win.htmlToday a US District Court judge issued a decision denying the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would have temporarily blocked our acquisition of Activision Blizzard from closing in the United States. We’re grateful that, upon a review of the evidence and witness testimony, the Court rejected the FTC’s claims that our acquisition would harm consumers. The evidence showed the deal is good for the industry and that the FTC’s claims about console switching, multi-game subscription services, and the cloud do not reflect the realities of the gaming market./news/reddit-s-users-and-moderators-are-revolting-against-its-ceo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reddit-s-users-and-moderators-are-revolting-against-its-ceo.htmlThe version of Reddit we’ll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark, and thousands more plan to follow in protest of Reddit’s coming API changes, according to the website Reddark, which is tracking the protests. The protests are happening over API changes that will force many third-party apps, like Apollo and rif is fun for Reddit, to shut down./news/reminder-google-is-about-to-start-purging-inactive-accounts.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reminder-google-is-about-to-start-purging-inactive-accounts.htmlIf you’ve got an old Google account that you want to keep but haven’t used in the past couple of years, you’ll want to sign into it soon to prevent its deletion under Google’s inactive account policy. The new rules were announced in May, when Google said that the earliest it would begin deleting accounts was in December 2023. Google has since started emailing affected users saying accounts will be eligible for deletion from December 1st./news/review-christopher-nolan-s-tenet-is-a-complete-misfire.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/review-christopher-nolan-s-tenet-is-a-complete-misfire.htmlChristopher Nolan’s success is the sort of paradox that would be at the center of a Christopher Nolan movie. His films — often characterized as puzzle boxes — are meticulous works that walk the line between indulgent labyrinths and satisfying spectacle. They’re brainier than any superhero movie would dare to be, but they still find comparable success. This blue chip status has made Nolan the patron saint of guys who say, “I like movies that make you think,” even if said thinking is just a question with an extremely clear answer — like “Was the Joker right?/news/robocallers-blasted-americans-with-26-3-billion-spam-calls-last-year.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/robocallers-blasted-americans-with-26-3-billion-spam-calls-last-year.htmlIf you were bombarded by spam calls and texts last year, you probably weren’t alone. A new report, spotted by the Washington Post, reveals that Americans received 26.3 billion robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017. Spam monitoring service Hiya has been analyzing calls, and found that many people are just simply not picking up calls anymore. While the Do Not Call Registry was established in 2003, the volume of calls has still grown significantly in recent years./news/rolls-royce-turns-suicide-doors-dark-past-into-an-elegant-tradition.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rolls-royce-turns-suicide-doors-dark-past-into-an-elegant-tradition.htmlAt The Verge, we recognize that great design is about paying attention to the details. Here we call out just one thing, a design element we appreciate on the cars we test drive that is brilliant, simple, or a mere marvel. When I drove the Rolls-Royce Dawn, I was smitten by many of its fine details: cashmere headlining, lambswool floor mats, the retractable Spirit of the Ecstasy adorning the hood. But if I had to pick to one element that gives this cabriolet a stately presence, it’s the British brand’s choice to include doors hinged at the rear that swing out in a dramatic flourish./news/roundguard-reimagines-peggle-as-an-rpg-and-it-s-amazing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/roundguard-reimagines-peggle-as-an-rpg-and-it-s-amazing.htmlFor a certain kind of person, all I need to say is “Peggle” and “RPG,” and you’ll get excited. It just makes sense, right? Take the lighthearted play of Popcap’s classic puzzle series, and mix it with engrossing dungeon-crawling action filled with swords and sorcery. That’s exactly what Roundguard is — and it’s just as good as the description makes it sound. If you haven’t played Peggle before (first of all, how dare you), the premise is incredibly simple: you shoot a ball from a cannon at the top of the screen, with the goal of eliminating pegs that are littered across the screen./news/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai.htmlSam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days. Former president Greg Brockman, who quit in protest of Altman’s firing, will return as well. The company said in a statement late Tuesday that it has an “agreement in principle” for Altman to return alongside a new board composed of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo./news/samsung-and-google-tease-exciting-things-for-ai-on-android-and-galaxy-hardware.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-and-google-tease-exciting-things-for-ai-on-android-and-galaxy-hardware.htmlSamsung and Google tease “exciting things” for AI on Android and Galaxy hardware. The two companies say their partnership “has never been stronger,” possibly calming any fears after Google merged its Android and hardware teams. It sure looks like we’re going to see more AI in both Samsung and Google devices soon beyond Circle to Search, which is something to watch for as more AI-powered devices like the Rabbit R1 come to market./news/samsung-galaxy-s20-fe-review-the-right-price-for-the-right-stuff.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-s20-fe-review-the-right-price-for-the-right-stuff.htmlThe new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE is the fourth phone in the S line this year. That’s a lot of variants, and it doesn’t include the two Note 20 phones and seemingly innumerable A-series phones Samsung also released this year. Trying to figure out which one has the right mix of features and price for you can feel like you need a spreadsheet, an accountant, and an actuary standing by./news/samsung-galaxy-tab-s7-and-s7-plus-review-hardware-can-t-carry-it-all.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-tab-s7-and-s7-plus-review-hardware-can-t-carry-it-all.htmlIf you want to buy a tablet that can possibly replace your laptop, there are two options most people go for: Apple’s iPad Pro or Microsoft’s Surface Pro. Samsung has been trying to elbow its way into the productivity tablet conversation for years, but it’s never quite reached the level of Apple or Microsoft in terms of functionality, quality, or popularity. A lot of that comes down to the software: last year’s Galaxy Tab S6 was beset with bugs, confusing software, and unfinished features that just ruined the experience, despite the S6’s impressive hardware./news/scientists-restore-light-sensitivity-in-blind-mice-using-simple-chemical-injection.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/scientists-restore-light-sensitivity-in-blind-mice-using-simple-chemical-injection.htmlEyesight restoration has deservedly been the subject of much research over the years, but the latest advance detailed by a multinational team of scientists offers perhaps the simplest and cheapest route to achieving it. A chemical called AAQ (acrylamide-azobenzene-quaternary ammonium) has been injected into the eyes of blind mice and shown to restore their vision at least partially — evidence of their renewed photosensitivity can be seen in the pupillary response demonstration video below./news/scuf-s-nomad-controller-for-iphone-has-hall-effect-sticks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/scuf-s-nomad-controller-for-iphone-has-hall-effect-sticks.htmlThe Nomad is a clamp-style iPhone controller akin to a Backbone or Razer Kishi, though it features full-size, drift-free Hall effect sticks (with swappable stick toppers) that are symmetrical on the top half of the pad. Around back are two customizable rear paddles amidst the controller’s contoured and rubberized grips. If you squint, it looks a bit like a thick-boy version of the Backbone One, though the Nomad is compatible with more phone cases since it relies on Bluetooth for connectivity instead of a protruding USB-C or Lightning plug./news/sec-charges-two-celebrities-for-promoting-fraudulent-ico-s.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sec-charges-two-celebrities-for-promoting-fraudulent-ico-s.htmlDJ Khaled and pro boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. are facing charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission today after they failed to disclose that they were being paid promotional fees to tout fraudulent initial coin offerings. According to the SEC, this is the first time that individuals have faced charges involving ICOs. The Commission is accusing Mayweather of failing to disclose a $100,000 promotional payment and DJ Khaled with a $50,000 one./news/sega-superstars-toejam-and-earl-are-finally-getting-a-movie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sega-superstars-toejam-and-earl-are-finally-getting-a-movie.htmlNothing can possibly prepare us for the all-encompassing funk of a movie starring ToeJam and Earl. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a ToeJam & Earl movie is currently in development at Amazon Studios in partnership with Unanimous Media and Story Kitchen. ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is the latest mainline appearance of the extraterrestrial duo. ToeJam & Earl isn’t a game that shared the same success as Super Mario Bros./news/sennheiser-announces-hd-820-closed-back-headphones.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sennheiser-announces-hd-820-closed-back-headphones.htmlWhen friends ask me about my endgame headphones — the ones that I would buy, love, and cherish above all others — my answer is usually the Sennheiser HD 800 S, a pair that I reviewed back in 2016. I’m not alone in my admiration for Sennheiser’s pricey flagship cans, and I suspect I won’t be alone in my profound excitement and curiosity about a new Sennheiser HD 820 that the German audio company just announced at CES./news/sennheiser-momentum-true-wireless-3-review-more-for-your-money.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sennheiser-momentum-true-wireless-3-review-more-for-your-money.htmlSennheiser’s new Momentum True Wireless 3s are the company’s latest flagship earbuds. With a more refined style, improved active noise cancellation, new features, and top-notch sound quality, Sennheiser has delivered a worthy competitor to the Apple AirPods Pro, Sony’s WF-1000XM4, and Bose’s QuietComfort Earbuds.  Perhaps the most welcome thing about the latest Sennheiser buds is that they’re less expensive than the previous model: the Momentum True Wireless 2s launched at $299, but the company is releasing these at $249./news/sennheiser-s-momentum-true-wireless-2-earbuds-combine-noise-cancellation-and-excellent-sound.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sennheiser-s-momentum-true-wireless-2-earbuds-combine-noise-cancellation-and-excellent-sound.htmlA little under a year and a half after it released its first pair of true wireless earbuds, Sennheiser is back with a follow-up: the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2. The big improvements to the true wireless earbuds are that they support noise cancellation and have much better battery life. There are also some more minor improvements, like the fact that these earbuds are 2mm smaller than their predecessors. The improvements in battery life are, on paper, at least, pretty impressive./news/signalis-review-old-school-playstation-era-horror-at-its-best.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/signalis-review-old-school-playstation-era-horror-at-its-best.htmlNew Resident Evil games are great, but there’s still something about the slow, grimy, and mysterious older entries in the series. There’s a particular mood that comes from the steady pace, rough graphics, and convoluted puzzles that make PlayStation-era horror still stand out. And while developer Rose-Engine’s Signalis is a modern release, it channels some of the best parts of series like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Dino Crisis for classic scares./news/sling-tv-is-the-latest-streamer-to-get-those-pesky-pause-ads.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sling-tv-is-the-latest-streamer-to-get-those-pesky-pause-ads.htmlSling TV will now put ads on your screen when you pause live or on-demand content, according to an announcement from its parent company, Dish. But you won’t have to deal with this extra dose of ads if you don’t want to — the pause ad example shared by Sling TV says you can “turn off Pause Ads” from the settings menu. That comes as a relief in an industry where it’s getting harder and harder to escape intrusive pause ads./news/sonos-ace-review-was-it-worth-it.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sonos-ace-review-was-it-worth-it.htmlSonos is going through a tumultuous period. Its redesigned app has gotten mixed reviews, to put it lightly, and there’s a widespread perception that Sonos released it in an undercooked state because the company was hell-bent on shipping its first-ever headphones on time. The $449 Sonos Ace headphones are hitting their June 5th launch target. Was it worth it? In my first look at the Ace, I applauded their hardware design and premium feel./news/sony-s-xperia-xa-ultra-is-a-giant-phone-with-a-16-megapixel-selfie-camera.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-xperia-xa-ultra-is-a-giant-phone-with-a-16-megapixel-selfie-camera.htmlSony's mobile division continues to underperform, but the Japanese giant keeps on keeping on — its latest effort is the mid-range Xperia XA Ultra, which the company describes as a "stylish selfie-cam masterpiece." Here's what you need to know: The Xperia XA Ultra will be out in July in various unspecified markets, which are unlikely to include the US if Sony's usual release history is anything to go by. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jpygq5ulnsGjvsSaop6qX2d9coKObmZqb19mfneEl3JvbWejpLu6edepnKuhkWLFonnUpaurmV2Wu6%2B71KeanqWVo8Fuv8%2Bemqw%3D/news/sony-s-new-back-button-attachment-brings-customizable-paddles-to-the-dualshock-4.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-new-back-button-attachment-brings-customizable-paddles-to-the-dualshock-4.htmlSony has announced a new accessory that adds two customizable back paddle buttons to a DualShock 4 controller. It’s called the Back Button Attachment, and it features a crisp OLED display and a dedicated button that allows you to quickly remap controls on the fly without having to jump into a menu within the PS4. Sony says that it can store up to three unique control schemes at a time and that it works with all games, including PlayStation VR titles./news/sony-s-signature-walkman-and-headphones-are-5-500-of-ridiculous.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-signature-walkman-and-headphones-are-5-500-of-ridiculous.htmlLike a grand old dinosaur that’s being left behind by the evolution of the tech industry, Sony is in desperate recovery mode here at IFA. The company has new phones, a rather nice pair of noise-canceling headphones, the imminent PS VR, and... a truly outlandish combo of music player and headphones that costs a mighty $5,499.98. I guess there had to be some outlet for Sony’s classic wild-eyed grandeur. Sony’s new Signature audio series consists of the gold-plated NW-WM1Z Walkman, which weighs in at 455g (1lb) and $3,200, the $2,300 MDR-Z1R closed-back headphones, and a desktop headphone amp whose price I haven’t even dared to look up./news/spotify-expands-its-student-discount-program-to-33-more-countries.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-expands-its-student-discount-program-to-33-more-countries.htmlSpotify launched a discounted premium subscription program for students back in 2014, but since then it has only been available in the US, UK, and Germany. Today, it’s expanding that offering to 33 more countries across Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Oceania. To take advantage of the discount, students can sign up at here for the $4.99 / month subscription that offers ad-free and offline listening. Spotify uses SheerID to verify a student’s eligibility status, and will continue to offer the discount as long as the customer is an active student./news/spotify-is-axing-11-original-podcasts.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-is-axing-11-original-podcasts.htmlSpotify is canceling 11 of its original podcasts from in-house studios Gimlet and Parcast. Among the shows ending are How to Save a Planet, Crime Show, and Medical Murders, according to Spotify spokesperson Grey Munford. Other shows that will end over the next month or so include Every Little Thing from Gimlet and Female Criminals, Crimes of Passion, Dictator, Mythology, Haunted Places, and Urban Legends from Parcast. Parcast’s Horoscope Today will wrap up in the second quarter of 2023./news/steven-spielberg-s-ready-player-one-improves-immensely-on-the-book.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/steven-spielberg-s-ready-player-one-improves-immensely-on-the-book.htmlFans tend to either love or hate Ernest Cline’s bestselling 2011 novel Ready Player One. There are legitimate reasons for both reactions. On the love side: it’s a light, airy pop confection, crammed with familiar cultural references, which Cline recontextualizes in surprising ways. On the hate side: the prose can be extremely clumsy, as it is in this paragraph where teenage protagonist Wade Watts describes the virtual car he constructed for himself in the vast online world where he spends most of his waking hours:/news/strong-galaxy-s7-sales-push-samsung-to-biggest-profits-in-over-two-years.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/strong-galaxy-s7-sales-push-samsung-to-biggest-profits-in-over-two-years.htmlSamsung Electronics has published its full second-quarter earnings, confirming earlier guidance that indicated the company's strongest profits in over two years. Revenue was 50.94 trillion won ($45.2 billion), up 5 percent on a year ago, while operating profit was 8.14 trillion won ($7.22 billion), up 18 percent. Samsung's mobile division accounted for over half of that revenue and profit, with the company pointing to strong sales of its well-received flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones that continued from the previous quarter./news/system-shock-remake-review-a-delightful-surprise.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/system-shock-remake-review-a-delightful-surprise.htmlThe TriOptimum Corporation may have unleashed a murderous AI upon the world, but as I prepared to vaporize the hundredth empty soda can and food wrapper I’d picked off an eviscerated corpse, I couldn’t deny it had an A+ recycling program. System Shock is one of the rare video game remakes that may actually be wonkier and more complicated than its source material, and I wasn’t expecting it to still be so much fun./news/take-two-shuts-down-two-of-its-studios.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/take-two-shuts-down-two-of-its-studios.htmlTake Two shuts down two of its studios. As a part of its five percent reduction in workforce, Take Two is closing down Roll7, a London-based studio that developed the OlliOlli games, and the Seattle-based Intercept Games that made Kerbal Space Program 2. In a statement to Game Developer, a Take Two spokesperson confirmed that the company would still support the popular, if goofy, flight simulator. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanxye5FtaG1uZmuCcMDApJxmrKekerS01K2qZpyfrLtuwNaoZKieXZ7BtHnSraydoZ%2Bo/news/terrace-house-is-a-lot-more-like-a-let-s-play-than-you-d-think.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/terrace-house-is-a-lot-more-like-a-let-s-play-than-you-d-think.htmlTerrace House, a reality TV series picked up by Netflix, follows six strangers who live together, without forcing the high-intensity, over-produced drama that plagues reality TV. People get along, mostly, and they can leave when they want. It’s often praised for how it makes mundane moments of everyday life a fascinating watch. But PBS Idea Channel has a brilliant alternate take on the reason why Terrace House is so appealing: it’s sort of like a Let’s Play./news/tesla-finds-former-workers-leaked-sensitive-data-on-over-75-000-employees.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-finds-former-workers-leaked-sensitive-data-on-over-75-000-employees.htmlTesla has determined that two of its former workers are responsible for a massive data leak that includes personally identifiable information on over 75,000 employees, TechCrunch reports. According to a filing with the state of Maine’s attorney general office, Tesla’s data privacy officer, Steven Elentukh, reported the breach as “insider wrongdoing,” leaking employee information including social security numbers. The Maine filing includes a template letter by Elentukh written to send to affected employees in the state./news/that-ai-generated-george-carlin-special-was-actually-made-by-a-very-human-clout-chaser.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/that-ai-generated-george-carlin-special-was-actually-made-by-a-very-human-clout-chaser.htmlThat ‘AI-generated’ George Carlin special was actually made by a very human clout-chaser. A spokesperson for Dudesy, the media company behind the fake special currently being sued by Carlin’s estate, has told The New York Times that the show was “completely written” by podcast host Chad Kultgen. The “Dudesy AI” they claimed was behind the special is actually a “fictional podcast character,” seemingly created to fraudulently ride on all the attention real generative AI products are receiving./news/the-1970-let-it-be-beatles-documentary-is-coming-to-disney-plus.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-1970-let-it-be-beatles-documentary-is-coming-to-disney-plus.htmlIt has been hard to find physical copies of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be in the years since its theatrical release, but Disney Plus is getting ready to debut a remastered version of the film. Disney Plus announced today that Let It Be — a chronicle of the Beatles recording their Let It Be album in 1969 before breaking up the following year — will stream on May 8th./news/the-29-best-back-to-school-gifts-backpacks-laptops-earbuds-and-more.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-29-best-back-to-school-gifts-backpacks-laptops-earbuds-and-more.htmlMoleskine Classic NotebookA tried-and-true staple of any student, Moleskine notebooks are a great way to jot down homework assignments, love poems, or really anything that comes to mind. These soft-cover notebooks are available in a wide variety of sizes and colors, making them a great way to keep track of your thoughts before you inevitably post them on the internet for all the world to see. Price: ~$15 to $21/news/the-army-just-bought-10-000-rugged-windows-10-tablets.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-army-just-bought-10-000-rugged-windows-10-tablets.htmlThe Army will deploy 9,783 Getac F110 G3 rugged tablets in an effort to modernize the information systems within the military branch, as well as in the National Guard. Given how bureaucracy and tech products usually don’t mix well — by the time a device is approved for use, a better one is usually available — the F110 tablet surprisingly isn’t outdated in the least. The F110 also features an 11./news/the-best-anti-prime-day-deals-you-can-still-get-at-target.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-anti-prime-day-deals-you-can-still-get-at-target.htmlAs expected, Target’s recent “Deal Days” event has officially come to a close. The two-day shopping event — which served as a counter to Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale — brought with it discounts on a variety of tech products, including gaming accessories, headphones, 4K TVs, and a range of other items that were on sale by as much as 50 percent off. However, just because the sale is over doesn’t mean there aren’t still deals to be had./news/the-best-cheap-laptop-the-verge.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-cheap-laptop-the-verge.htmlCheap laptops are getting better and better. The question to ask is: what’s most important, and what are you willing to sacrifice? Even the best cheap laptops aren’t perfect in every area — they have some strengths but cut corners to achieve their price tags. You can almost certainly find a budget laptop with a touchscreen, a premium-looking chassis, an HDMI port, a backlit keyboard, or stylus support. But you may need to consider which of those features you want the most and which you can go without./news/the-enduring-portrait-of-myspace-tom-the-mona-lisa-of-profile-pictures.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-enduring-portrait-of-myspace-tom-the-mona-lisa-of-profile-pictures.htmlPicture Myspace founder Tom Anderson in your head. What do you see? A man, 20-something, with short hair, looking over the shoulder of his white T-shirt. And his face, well, his face is slightly pixelated. That’s because you’re not thinking of a person. You’re thinking of a photo — one particular photo, which is the same photo I’m thinking of, which is the same photo that everybody thinks of when they hear “Myspace Tom./news/the-horror-movie-mama-makes-the-perfect-pairing-with-it-chapter-two.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-horror-movie-mama-makes-the-perfect-pairing-with-it-chapter-two.htmlThere are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend. What to Watch Mama, a 2013 horror film released during the sleepy January movie season./news/the-invisible-seafaring-industry-that-keeps-the-internet-afloat.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-invisible-seafaring-industry-that-keeps-the-internet-afloat.htmlApr 16, 2024, 2:00PM UTC OnOn the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely knew what — damaged the 13,000-mile fiber optic cable connecting Kitaibaraki, Japan, and Point Arena, California. Alarms went off; calls were made; and the next day, Hirai was sailing out of the port in Yokohama to fix it./news/the-iphone-s-dynamic-island-is-a-little-boring-but-boring-is-okay.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-iphone-s-dynamic-island-is-a-little-boring-but-boring-is-okay.htmlLast fall, Apple introduced us to the Dynamic Island with all of the usual hyperbole.  The new free-floating pill-shaped notch on the iPhone 14 Pro was described as “magical.” It would enable “an entirely new iPhone experience.” And while we take everything with a grain of salt from the company that pitched the Digital Crown as the eighth wonder of the world, the Dynamic Island did seem promising at the time./news/the-legend-of-zelda-link-s-awakening-is-getting-a-3d-switch-remake.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-legend-of-zelda-link-s-awakening-is-getting-a-3d-switch-remake.htmlNintendo ended its latest Direct presentation with a surprise: a new, 3D remake of the Game Boy classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. While details are slim, Nintendo did have a trailer to show off the remake, which will see the 8-bit Game Boy graphics redone in a bright, colorful, and absolutely adorable-looking 3D style that wouldn’t look out of place in a Pixar movie. Link’s Awakening was originally released back in 1993 for the Game Boy, marking the first time that the franchise had made the jump to a portable console — a fitting match for the Switch, which has taken the place as Nintendo’s current handheld king./news/the-new-acura-nsx-is-finally-here.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-new-acura-nsx-is-finally-here.htmlTo say that the new NSX has had a long, fraught journey to production would be an understatement: the on-again, off-again supercar was first introduced as a concept car back in 2007. Now, in 2015, we finally know what the production model will look like. The hybrid mid-engine NSX succeeds the legendary first-generation model, a hand-built, all-aluminum exotic that lasted in Honda's stable for a full 15 years — so basically, the new version has a lot to live up to./news/the-new-sonic-basically-lets-you-play-as-fan-art.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-new-sonic-basically-lets-you-play-as-fan-art.htmlA common complaint among Sonic fans — stick with me, friends — is that the series, over the decades following the original trilogy, has been hamstrung by a ballooning cast of supporting characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, Jet the Hawk, Espio the Chameleon, Beam the Rabbit, and Vector the Crocodile. If it sounds like I made those up, that’s because one is absolutely fake. But which one? My point is that the Sonic brand needs better characters./news/the-nubia-z20-is-the-best-take-yet-on-the-dual-display-phone.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-nubia-z20-is-the-best-take-yet-on-the-dual-display-phone.htmlOf all the methods phone manufacturers have employed to get rid of bezels and avoid display notches, the second screen has to go down as the most elaborate. Who needs a selfie camera when you have a display on the back of the phone that you can use as a viewfinder? The most prominent example so far has been Vivo’s Nex Dual Display Edition from 2018, though the company’s return to pop-up selfie cameras with the Nex 3 suggests it may not consider its experiment to have been a success./news/the-overwatch-league-ends-after-six-seasons.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-overwatch-league-ends-after-six-seasons.htmlThe day Overwatch League fans have braced for has finally come. Yesterday, OverActive Media, parent company for the Toronto Defiant, confirmed its exit from the Overwatch League. The company announced that as a part of its agreement with Activision Blizzard, it would receive a $6 million termination fee, thereby ending all its commitments to the League. This confirms that a majority of teams have met and voted to terminate their agreements with the League, with each team owner receiving a termination fee./news/the-playstation-vita-still-rules.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-playstation-vita-still-rules.htmlThe entire time I was playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth — the second part of a planned trilogy of FF7 remakes — I couldn’t stop thinking about replaying the first game from 1997. When the credits rolled on Rebirth, I had a difficult decision to make: how to play the original? There is no shortage of options. The game has been ported to most modern platforms, and I still have the original PlayStation discs (all three of them)./news/the-steam-controller-s-troubled-trackpads-made-for-a-better-steam-deck.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-steam-controller-s-troubled-trackpads-made-for-a-better-steam-deck.htmlPC or console? Mouse and keyboard, or controller? It’s a debate that’s raged for nearly as long as video games themselves. So in 2013, Valve — creator of games like Half-Life and Portal, and the founder of Steam, the beating heart of PC gaming — attempted to fuse the two camps together.  The Steam Controller was originally introduced as part of Valve’s Steam Machine push. The initiative attempted to convince partners to build gaming PCs that would sit in a living room like an Xbox or a PlayStation, but run the massive library of PC games already available on Steam./news/the-unfortunate-side-effect-of-led-lighting.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-unfortunate-side-effect-of-led-lighting.htmlLight pollution has increased worldwide because of the prevalence of energy saving LED lights. However, the problem isn’t with the lights themselves — but the fact that the world is getting brighter because LEDs are illuminating places we didn’t bother to light before. And that has its own environmental cost. The findings were published in the journal Science Advances, and found that artificially lit outdoor surfaces grew at a pace of 2./news/the-us-government-grounded-dji-but-here-are-the-five-drones-it-just-approved.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-us-government-grounded-dji-but-here-are-the-five-drones-it-just-approved.htmlDJI may be synonymous with “drone,” but after the US Armed Forces, the Pentagon, and the Department of the Interior started banning and grounding Chinese models over spying fears, it created a vacuum in the market for a drone the United States government could trust. But the US Department of Defense may already be filling that hole. It just wrapped up a program designed to find more palatable drones — one that actually kicked off in November 2018, arguably long before the tensions with China boiled over./news/the-verge-review-of-animals-the-blue-whale.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-verge-review-of-animals-the-blue-whale.htmlThis column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we've written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight. There are two types of animals in this world: those that terrify me, and those that don’t. Reviewing any animal therefore boils down to one question: "Would I shit my pants if I came face to face with this thing?/news/the-world-s-fastest-running-robot-is-off-the-leash.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-world-s-fastest-running-robot-is-off-the-leash.htmlA relative of Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot, which last year managed to outpace the world's fastest man Usain Bolt on a treadmill, is now able to run outdoors untethered. Named the WildCat, the outdoor runner is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and is being developed for military use. With a large (and loud) motor attached, WildCat isn't as fast as its 28mph-plus cousin — it's currently limited to around 16mph on flat terrain./news/these-might-be-the-first-photos-of-the-slimmer-new-ps5-and-original-side-by-side.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-might-be-the-first-photos-of-the-slimmer-new-ps5-and-original-side-by-side.htmlThe launch of the slimmer PlayStation 5 is just weeks away, and one user seems to have already gotten their hands on the updated console. In a series of images posted to X (formerly Twitter), user @phantompainss shows how the updated console stacks against its chunkier counterpart. The new PS5 looks like it’ll have a slightly smaller footprint when compared to the original console. Not only does it have a slimmer profile than the standard PS5 but it’s also a couple of inches shorter as well./news/this-biped-robot-uses-mechanics-instead-of-a-computer-brain-to-stay-upright.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-biped-robot-uses-mechanics-instead-of-a-computer-brain-to-stay-upright.htmlBipeds keep getting better. Instead of slow, heavy, and terrain-sensitive humanoids like ASIMO, researchers are building lightweight and agile bird-like robots, such as Cassie. The better the designs are mechanically, the less power and smarts are required to keep the robot upright. This is a virtuous cycle that's an encouraging sign that some of these biped research projects might actually be useful someday. The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Florida just unveiled its Planar Elliptical Runner (via Engadget), and this robot is all mechanics./news/this-is-the-samsung-galaxy-s8-coming-april-21st.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-is-the-samsung-galaxy-s8-coming-april-21st.htmlThe Samsung Galaxy S8 is the nicest phone I’ve ever held. It’s a beautiful combination of glass, metal, and an absolutely massive screen in a body that’s much smaller than you might expect. And that might not be enough to make it stand out anymore. There are two versions of the S8: the standard Galaxy S8 with a 5.8-inch screen and the larger S8 Plus with a 6.2-inch screen. Both are available for preorder on March 30th and will be shipping in the US on April 21st./news/this-is-what-happens-when-nasa-engineers-hold-a-pumpkin-carving-competition.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-is-what-happens-when-nasa-engineers-hold-a-pumpkin-carving-competition.htmlIt feels like it's been Halloween for weeks, but (fun fact here) it's actually only Halloween today. So although you may be suffering from spooky-fatigue, you've got one last chance to enjoy the season. You could put up some decorations, buy some sweets for trick-or-treaters, and maybe even carve a pumpkin or two. And if you're looking for inspiration, we have just the thing: the annual pumpkin-carving competition at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab./news/this-might-be-the-beginning-of-4d-gifs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-might-be-the-beginning-of-4d-gifs.htmlIts creators call it the first "fully interactive 4D scan on the web," but to us it looks an awful lot like a 4D GIF. Not only can you drag it around in three dimensions, but it also loops over and over again as a tiny one-second video. And if you spin it around right, you even watch from inside the man's head. This is strange and terrifying — as if you'd woken up and the sky had been replaced by an enormous, mustachioed hipster* — and exactly the sort of thing we like to see in our future technologies./news/this-worm-s-sperm-invades-and-kills-females-of-another-species.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-worm-s-sperm-invades-and-kills-females-of-another-species.htmlWhen it comes to sex, animals have developed a plethora of tricks to avoid mixups with other species. They use sight, smell, and even feel to tell each other apart. But in certain cases, the similarities between species are just too strong, so internal processes, such as a female’s ability to detect sperm from another species and select those that belong to her own, have to pick up the slack. This is what tends to happen with Caenorhabditis worms, a type of roundworm./news/threads-will-now-automatically-filter-out-offensive-words-from-your-feeds.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/threads-will-now-automatically-filter-out-offensive-words-from-your-feeds.htmlJust like Instagram, Threads will now automatically filter out potentially offensive words, phrases, or emoji by default. In a post on Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that the new Hidden Words feature will apply to both your “Following” and “For You” feeds, along with search results, profiles, and replies to your posts. If you want to cast a wider net over the content Threads filters out, you can add specific words, phrases, or emoji to hide by tweaking the option inside the app’s settings./news/tidal-is-preparing-a-lawsuit-against-its-former-owners-for-overstating-subscribers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tidal-is-preparing-a-lawsuit-against-its-former-owners-for-overstating-subscribers.htmlJay Z is preparing a lawsuit against Tidal's former owners, accusing them of overvaluing the company by using inflated subscriber numbers, according to a report from Dagens Næringsliv. Project Panther Bidco, Jay Z's holding company that owns Tidal, sent letters to former board members and investors in Sweden and Norway notifying them that Tidal would file a claim against them after it finished its internal investigation. In a statement to The Verge, Tidal says that after conducting an internal audit, it found that its subscriber base was much lower than it was stated by the previous owners./news/tmnt-mutant-mayhem-s-new-trailer-is-a-monster-party.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tmnt-mutant-mayhem-s-new-trailer-is-a-monster-party.htmlIt’s shaping up to be a good week for slick animation. Just as the next Spider-Verse movie is hitting theaters on Friday, we also get a brand-new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Like the first glimpse at the film, the new clip is dripping with style — and this time dives a little deeper into who the turtles are (including Raph’s rage problem) and what they’re up against./news/toyota-reveals-two-new-ev-concepts-as-it-plods-along-on-its-path-to-electrification.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/toyota-reveals-two-new-ev-concepts-as-it-plods-along-on-its-path-to-electrification.htmlToyota, the world’s largest automaker and a laggard in vehicle electrification, announced two new EVs today that offer a glimpse of what the company’s future battery-powered lineup will look like when it actually gets around to building it. Yep, that’s right: more concepts from the company that environmentalists accuse of stymying the transition to an all-electric future through its government lobbying. The two concepts announced were the Urban SUV and Sport Crossover, which Toyota insists will be formally introduced as real cars within the next two years./news/trump-fires-secretary-of-state-via-tweet.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/trump-fires-secretary-of-state-via-tweet.htmlEarly this morning, the president announced via Twitter that Mike Pompeo, the current director of the CIA, would replace Secretary Rex Tillerson at the State Department. Steve Goldstein, a State Department official, told CNN that Tillerson found out via tweet this morning. This is not the first time the president has publicly fired a high-ranking member of his administration without letting the individual know ahead of time. Last summer, former FBI director James Comey was made aware of his firing during a speech he was giving at the FBI field office in Los Angeles./news/twitter-suspends-mastodon-after-it-tweeted-about-elon-s-jet.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-suspends-mastodon-after-it-tweeted-about-elon-s-jet.htmlTwitter has suspended the official Twitter account of Mastodon, one of the most popular destinations for people seeking a Twitter-like alternative. If you visit @joinmastodon’s profile, you’ll see a message that the account has been suspended. We don’t know exactly why the account was banned, but it may not have been done entirely out of spite for a rival platform. Instead, it could have been because Mastodon tweeted about @ElonJet. The Mastodon suspension happened sometime on Thursday./news/verizon-may-kill-deal-to-buy-yahoo-after-two-massive-hacks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/verizon-may-kill-deal-to-buy-yahoo-after-two-massive-hacks.htmlIn July of this year Verizon agreed to acquire Yahoo for $4.8 billion. But in the months since, Yahoo has come forward to disclose not one, but two massive data breaches. In September Yahoo confirmed that 500 million accounts had been compromised, leaking names, emails, telephones numbers, and hashed passwords. Yesterday the company acknowledged a separate hack that affected over a billion users, exposing much of the same kind of information./news/vinyl-overtakes-cd-sales-for-the-first-time-since-1987.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vinyl-overtakes-cd-sales-for-the-first-time-since-1987.htmlNo longer just a niche hobby for dads and hipsters, vinyl is experiencing a major resurgence in mainstream music. According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) annual revenue report, vinyl records outsold CDs in the US last year for the first time since 1987, selling 41 million units against 33 million for CD. Vinyl record sales have consistently increased over the last 16 years according to the RIAA report published on Thursday, now accounting for 71 percent of all physical music format revenue./news/watch-a-live-stream-of-the-only-remaining-mcdonald-s-hamburger-in-iceland.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-a-live-stream-of-the-only-remaining-mcdonald-s-hamburger-in-iceland.htmlThe last surviving order of a McDonald's hamburger and fries made in Iceland is now viewable via live stream. Purchased on October 30th, 2009, the meal is roughly five-and-a-quarter years old. Its original owner, Hjörtur Smárason, purchased the meal a day before the final McDonald's closed in Iceland and kept the dish on his garage shelf until a year ago when it moved into storage at the National Museum in Iceland./news/watch-this-chinese-artist-disappear-before-your-eyes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-this-chinese-artist-disappear-before-your-eyes.htmlLiu Bolin is best known for his "Hiding" series of images, in which he paints himself and others in a sort of urban camouflage, so that they disappear against the background. At TED 2013, Bolin demonstrated the technique on stage, and shared a bit of insight into how he manages to create such convincing work. "For the talk, I stood up on stage with my outfit pre-painted," he explains, "and then one of my assistants worked with the camera and stood back to instruct the other painter on what to do, where to paint, what colors to use, until from the camera I appear invisible./news/what-is-it-really-like-to-drive-200-miles-per-hour.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-is-it-really-like-to-drive-200-miles-per-hour.htmlThis is The Harper Spin, a weekly column from seasoned auto critic Jason H. Harper. He’s raced at Le Mans, crushed a car in a 50-ton tank, and now, he’s bringing his unique style to The Verge. One hundred miles an hour comes on easily, effortlessly, a tenor clearing his throat, Usain Bolt stretching his legs. The engine thrums richly, full of power and promise. Another tick of a second, maybe two, and the car breaks the 120-mph barrier./news/what-is-mozart-in-the-jungle-a-curious-consumer-s-guide-to-a-show-that-exists.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-is-mozart-in-the-jungle-a-curious-consumer-s-guide-to-a-show-that-exists.htmlHave you heard of the TV show Mozart in the Jungle? I hadn’t until this morning, but apparently there’s already been an entire season of it, and season two premieres tonight at midnight on Amazon Instant Video. Now I, a person who has not seen Mozart in the Jungle, will answer all your questions about it. Who decided it would be a good idea to name a show Mozart in the Jungle?/news/what-record-low-water-levels-at-the-hoover-dam-reservoir-look-like-from-space.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-record-low-water-levels-at-the-hoover-dam-reservoir-look-like-from-space.htmlThe US’s largest water reservoir, Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam, is in very, very bad shape. How bad is it? New satellite images from NASA show just how much the reservoir’s footprint has shrunk over the past two decades — and the difference between July 2000 and July 2022 is stark. Water levels at Lake Mead are at a historic low — the reservoir hasn’t been this empty since 1937 when it was being filled for the first time./news/when-is-it-okay-to-record-someone-in-public.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/when-is-it-okay-to-record-someone-in-public.htmlSometimes you see something happening out in the world, and you feel compelled to record it. You just have to capture it. Is that okay? Legally, are you allowed to record someone without their permission? And what happens if you go viral, then what? It’s murky territory, both legally and as human beings, but we’re going to tackle it on Why’d You Push That Button this week. On this episode, we talk to Porscha Coleman, who recorded an infamous Apple Store Vine, as well as Carlye Wisel, who was once fashion-shamed on Snapchat by a stranger./news/where-to-buy-refurbished-products.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/where-to-buy-refurbished-products.htmlBuying a refurbished device rather than one that’s brand-new can save you a ton of money. However, these products don’t usually receive any spotlight from retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, or B&H Photo. You also won’t find them sitting on the homepage of Apple, Google, Nintendo, Sonos, or Microsoft, to name a few. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t find refurbs on these sites. First, a quick description of what “refurbished” means./news/why-2021-s-heat-waves-are-so-brutal.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-2021-s-heat-waves-are-so-brutal.htmlThe US is only a few days into summer and another heat wave is already coming for the West. “Record shattering” would be an understatement to describe the last heat wave, which lingered over the Southwest last week and has since shifted eastward. Roughly 4,000 new temperature records have already been set this year. More are going to make the books over the next week. Both heat waves are caused by atmospheric conditions called heat domes./news/windows-11-s-photos-app-is-getting-an-import-feature.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/windows-11-s-photos-app-is-getting-an-import-feature.htmlWindows 11’s photos app is getting an import feature. Microsoft has started testing a new way to import photos on Windows 11 PCs. It should make it easier to grab photos from your devices, and it’s part of several new features coming to the photos app — including a dynamic zoom slider, easier access to slideshows, and improved load times. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3xzfY5ra2pwYm6FdXvWoqWdp6eoenJ90manoaekpMBurc%2BpZKKrXZyytcDIp55mmZ5itq68zqurZp6VlsG2vsQ%3D/news/xiaomi-s-new-pocophone-f1-undercuts-rivals-with-a-low-price-and-high-end-processor.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xiaomi-s-new-pocophone-f1-undercuts-rivals-with-a-low-price-and-high-end-processor.htmlXiaomi has long sold devices that punch above their price class, but now the company is taking the bang for your buck even further. Poco is the company’s new budget-focused brand that will be used first in India before coming to other parts of the world. The first Pocophone device is the F1, which has flagship features, including a top-of-the-line processor, but will sell for even less than many of Xiaomi’s already aggressively priced devices./news/xreal-s-new-beam-pro-is-an-android-tablet-designed-to-work-with-your-ar-glasses.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xreal-s-new-beam-pro-is-an-android-tablet-designed-to-work-with-your-ar-glasses.htmlXreal has made a name for itself with some surprisingly nice-looking augmented reality glasses, which put a display in front of your eyes so you can do things like watch TV or play games on a giant screen projected just for you. But unlike, say, Apple’s Vision Pro or Meta’s Quest 3, Xreal has no built-in software or content. It’s just a screen in your glasses. This is good in that you can plug in lots of other devices, but it does restrict the sort of things those glasses can do./news/yahoo-directory-once-the-center-of-a-web-empire-will-shut-down-at-year-s-end.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/yahoo-directory-once-the-center-of-a-web-empire-will-shut-down-at-year-s-end.htmlYahoo Directory, a site that was once the center of Yahoo's internet dynasty, is being shut down at the end of the year. However, unless you've been using the internet for a couple of decades, you've probably never heard of the site. Let's hop in an internet time machine and set the dial back to 1994, when Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo. The site, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web,"/news/yes-nintendo-switch-cartridges-taste-terrible.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/yes-nintendo-switch-cartridges-taste-terrible.htmlFor a few days now, rumors and reports have been circulating that the cartridges for the new Nintendo Switch taste really bad when you lick them or put them in your mouth. The Verge can now confirm that, yes, licking a Switch cart is the absolute worst. Don’t lick your Switch cartridges. We had Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn lick The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to taste for himself./news/you-can-now-run-android-on-a-nintendo-switch.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-now-run-android-on-a-nintendo-switch.htmlThe Nintendo Switch can now run Android, giving the hybrid game console access to Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, a wide array of Android apps, and loads of classic game emulators, of course. Specifically, it’s an unofficial port of LineageOS 15.1 based on Nvidia’s own builds for the Nvidia Shield TV set-top-box, meaning you can play Nvidia exclusives like Portal, Half-Life 2, and try Nvidia’s own GeForce Now cloud gaming service./news/you-can-save-200-on-the-256gb-samsung-galaxy-flip-4-today.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-save-200-on-the-256gb-samsung-galaxy-flip-4-today.htmlIf you missed out on the lowest price ever for the Galaxy Z Flip 4 during Amazon’s Prime Day Early Access Sale, you’re in luck. Currently, you can find the unlocked 256GB configuration of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 matching its Prime Day price at Samsung. Normally $1,059.99, Samsung has discounted the midtier Flip 4 to $859.99, knocking $200 off the regular price of a phone that’s just incredibly fun to use./news/young-politicians-hustle-to-keep-followers-under-house-social-media-rules.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/young-politicians-hustle-to-keep-followers-under-house-social-media-rules.htmlToday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Instagram followers got an unexpected message from the newly elected congresswoman — she created a new Instagram account for official government business. Ocasio-Cortez’s announcement came on her personal Instagram account, @ocasio2018, on Thursday by way of an Insta-story. “House Rules say I can’t post IG stories from my personal account while I’m in my office,” she wrote on a screenshot from her new official account. “So I’ll post on-the-job IG stories from @repocasiocortez./news/youtube-introduces-mini-player-for-desktop-browsers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-introduces-mini-player-for-desktop-browsers.htmlPeople who primarily watch YouTube videos via their computers can rejoice: in-browser mini-players are finally available for desktop users. Anyone who’s watched YouTube videos via the company’s mobile app will have already experienced the joys of mini-players. The tool, which rolled out earlier this month, allows people to continue playing a video they’re already watching while browsing for another one. Think of it like Facebook’s video player, which minimizes and moves to the side of your News Feed while you continue to scroll down the page./news/the-simpsons-jumped-the-shark-in-one-of-its-best-episodes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-simpsons-jumped-the-shark-in-one-of-its-best-episodes.htmlThe Verge community — that's you — is currently helping us review every episode of The Simpsons. We've also asked several Vox staffers to contribute their thoughts on the show's legacy. The Simpsons jumped the shark in one of my favorite episodes. Jumping the shark, for those who don't traffic in pop culture shorthand, is the moment in a television show when it begins its decline in quality. The term is named after the notorious episode of Happy Days in which Arthur Fonzarelli literally jumps a shark./news/3-body-problem-all-the-news-about-netflix-s-next-big-sci-fi-show.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/3-body-problem-all-the-news-about-netflix-s-next-big-sci-fi-show.htmlSince the publication of The Three-Body Problem, the first installment of Cixin Liu’s epic science fiction trilogy about making contact with an alien civilization, the series has gone on to earn the Chinese author enormous acclaim and legions of fans worldwide — including President Barack Obama. Next year, Tor Books will publish a new novel set in the same world, titled The Redemption of Time, but it won’t be by Liu./news/8-great-game-pass-games-for-your-xbox-from-2022.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/8-great-game-pass-games-for-your-xbox-from-2022.htmlBy virtue of its incredible Game Pass library, the Xbox is one of the best values in gaming right now. Pay a monthly subscription fee — anywhere from $10 a month for the base plan up to $15 a month for the ultimate tier that includes online multiplayer — and get access to a library of games that you can play at no additional charge. A lot of the available games are brand-new Xbox exclusives or games that have been around for a while and are just making their way to Game Pass./news/a-beginner-s-guide-to-beginning-baldur-s-gate-3.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-beginner-s-guide-to-beginning-baldur-s-gate-3.htmlAfter six years in development and three years in early access, Baldur’s Gate 3 is now live everywhere in the world. Due to the sheer size of the game, with reports boasting 174 hours worth of cutscenes and over 17,000 ending variations, and an impossible review window — The Verge received our code on Sunday — it’s going to take a while before formal reviews start popping up. (Or at least it should, but there will inevitably be some places that mainline the game in service of an uncaring SEO machine./news/a-cyberattack-reportedly-disabled-over-600-000-us-routers-last-year.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-cyberattack-reportedly-disabled-over-600-000-us-routers-last-year.htmlA cyberattack was behind an incident last year that disabled over 600,000 internet routers across several Midwest states between October 25th and 27th, according to new research published by Lumen Technologies’ threat research arm, Black Lotus Labs. The incident wasn’t disclosed at the time, despite hundreds of thousands of routers being rendered inoperable. The investigation also didn’t specify which company was targeted, but Reuters says it has identified the target as Windstream, an Arkansas-based ISP, based on cross-referencing internet outages reported during the same period./news/a-death-in-pittsburgh-shows-how-police-tech-can-go-horribly-wrong.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-death-in-pittsburgh-shows-how-police-tech-can-go-horribly-wrong.htmlOfficial Police Business is a weekly column and newsletter by reporter Matt Stroud about new developments in police technology, and the ways technology is changing law enforcement — think body cameras, cell-site simulators, surveillance systems, and electroshock weapons. Sign up to receive OPB in your email every Wednesday at officialpolicebusiness.com, or check for it here at The Verge. If you want to know what can go wrong when police rely on equipment such as Tasers and pepper spray to combat petty crimes, look no further than the case of Bruce Kelley Jr./news/a-giant-emoji-postcard-is-like-a-text-message-but-tangible-and-expensive.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-giant-emoji-postcard-is-like-a-text-message-but-tangible-and-expensive.htmlIf you’ve ever been in love, you might be familiar with the practice of mailing nice things to the object of your affection. I don’t know, maybe you’ve sent flowers or chocolates or a customized T-shirt with a photo of Jake Gyllenhaal feeding Kirsten Dunst soup on it. If you have never been in love, maybe you’re familiar with pranks. No matter which group you belong to — lovers or pranksters — Mojigram claims to have something for you./news/a-memory-called-empire-is-a-brilliant-blend-of-cyberpunk-space-opera-and-political-thriller.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-memory-called-empire-is-a-brilliant-blend-of-cyberpunk-space-opera-and-political-thriller.htmlIn Arkady Martine’s debut novel, A Memory Called Empire, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare, an emissary from the distant Lsel Station, is called to the center of the vast Teixcalaanli Empire after her predecessor winds up dead. As she begins to understand the ins and outs of her new role, she also has to figure out how to keep her home station from being absorbed into the Empire, and what happened to her predecessor./news/a-new-pok%C3%A9mon-mobile-game-just-appeared.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-new-pok%C3%A9mon-mobile-game-just-appeared.htmlWe’re starting to lose count of the number of smartphone Pokémon games. Obviously, there’s the Niantic-developed Pokémon Go, which is still going strong almost three years after its initial release, but there are a number of others, including 2017’s Magikarp Jump. Earlier this week, GamesIndustry.biz noted that DeNA, the developer behind Super Mario Run, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, and the upcoming Mario Kart Tour, announced that it’s working on a Pokémon mobile game of its own that’s due to be released this financial year./news/adobe-abandons-20-billion-acquisition-of-figma.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/adobe-abandons-20-billion-acquisition-of-figma.htmlFollowing mounting pressure from regulators in the UK and EU, Adobe and Figma announced on Monday that both companies are mutually terminating their merger agreement, which would have seen Adobe acquire the Figma product design platform for $20 billion. “Adobe and Figma strongly disagree with the recent regulatory findings, but we believe it is in our respective best interests to move forward independently,” said Adobe chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen in a statement./news/amazon-debuts-299-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd-at-t-4g-lte-for-499.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-debuts-299-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd-at-t-4g-lte-for-499.htmlAfter making an informal debut in a televised ad late last night, Amazon's larger Kindle Fire has finally been unveiled. Introduced today at apress event in Los Angeles, the new Kindle Fire HD features an 8.9-inch 1920 x 1200, 254ppi display. It includes an HD front-facing camera, HDMI output, Bluetooth connectivity, and a laminated touch sensor for better visuals and 25-percent less glare. Under the hood, Amazon has dropped in a Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 processor, which it says outperforms the Tegra 3./news/amazon-s-kids-fire-tablets-are-on-sale-just-in-time-for-that-summer-trip.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-kids-fire-tablets-are-on-sale-just-in-time-for-that-summer-trip.htmlSummer is here, and for many families, that means it’s finally time to take the vacation they’ve been postponing for the past 18 months. With vacations comes travel, and with travel comes bored kids, so it’s crucial to have something to entertain them when they’re in the car or on a plane for hours on end. Amazon’s got you covered today with discounts across its lineup of kids-specific Fire tablets, including the recently released Fire HD 10 Kids and HD 10 Kids Pro./news/amazon-s-new-fire-tv-interface-is-what-it-should-have-been-from-the-start.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-new-fire-tv-interface-is-what-it-should-have-been-from-the-start.htmlAmazon has started rolling out a free over-the-air update to its Fire TV products that dramatically redesigns the user interface — a welcome update to the more cluttered design that existed before. The old interface had a side menu with a long list of sometimes-redundant options, including Search, Home, Movies, TV, Watchlist, Prime Video, and Video Library alongside other categorial options like Recent and Prime Originals and Exclusives. The new interface looks a little bit like Netflix./news/android-15-s-second-beta-release-lets-users-lock-down-access-to-private-apps.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/android-15-s-second-beta-release-lets-users-lock-down-access-to-private-apps.htmlAlongside Google’s ongoing developer-focused I/O conference comes the latest release of Android 15, which is now in its second beta. It’s got some cool new features, like the ability to now hide a collection of apps inside a “private space,” customizable vibrations so you can notice different types of notifications just by feeling, and also richer widget previews. The new private space function is the most interesting of the bunch: it can hide apps you don’t want others seeing into a biometric or PIN-protected container in the app drawer./news/apple-vision-pro-review-magic-until-it-s-not.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-vision-pro-review-magic-until-it-s-not.htmlThere’s a lot of pressure on the new Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s long-awaited entry into the world of computers you wear on your face. Apple claims that the Vision Pro, which starts at $3,499, is the beginning of something called “spatial computing,” which basically boils down to running apps all around you. And the company’s ads for it do not hedge that pressure even a little: they show people wearing the Vision Pro all the time./news/apple-warns-you-may-permanently-discolor-your-apple-card-if-it-s-stored-in-leather.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-warns-you-may-permanently-discolor-your-apple-card-if-it-s-stored-in-leather.htmlApple’s new Goldman Sachs-backed credit card launched to all US iPhone users just yesterday, and now we’re learning all sorts of fun facts about the physical, titanium card the company is shipping to likely thousands of users at this very moment. Namely, that it can be easily damaged. Thanks to a support webpage unearthed by MacRumors, Apple is advising against keeping your Apple Card in a leather wallet or in direct contact with denim, as such fabrics “might cause permanent discoloration that will not wash off./news/apple-s-ipad-changed-the-tablet-game-10-years-ago-today.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-ipad-changed-the-tablet-game-10-years-ago-today.htmlSteve Jobs stepped onstage 10 years ago today to introduce the world to the iPad. It was, by his own admission, a third category of device that sits somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop. Jobs unveiled the iPad just days after the annual Consumer Electronics Show ended in Las Vegas and at a time when netbooks were dominating personal computing sales. “They’re slow, they have low quality displays, and they run clunky old PC software,” said Jobs, mocking the PC industry’s obsession with netbooks./news/arc-web-browser-review-a-new-way-of-using-the-internet.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/arc-web-browser-review-a-new-way-of-using-the-internet.htmlSwitching to the Arc browser is hard. You should know that right up front. It’s not that it’s technically difficult: Arc has some simple tools for importing bookmarks, it runs the same underlying engine as Chrome, and the onboarding process is actually thoroughly delightful. It’s just that Arc, the new browser from a startup called The Browser Company, is such a divergent idea about how browsers should work that it takes some time, and some real effort, to get used to./news/asus-vivobook-15-review-the-verge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/asus-vivobook-15-review-the-verge.htmlWhen I first opened the Vivobook 15 at 9AM on a Thursday, I worried I might’ve opened the wrong box. Given the product’s $549 price point (MSRP, it’s currently going for $299 at Office Depot), I’d been expecting a much more plasticky and cheap-feeling build. This is a nice computer. It would be nice in the $800 category; it’s undoubtedly the most premium build you will find for $300. I literally texted a friend, “Look how nice this Vivobook 15 is,” alongside a photo, as I was turning it on./news/battle-of-the-robot-vacuum-mops-roborock-s8-maxv-ultra-versus-dreamebot-x30-ultra.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/battle-of-the-robot-vacuum-mops-roborock-s8-maxv-ultra-versus-dreamebot-x30-ultra.htmlThere are an absurd number of robot vacuums available today, but based on my testing of dozens of bots, just a handful of manufacturers are leading the pack when it comes to innovation, choice, and really good cleaning machines. These include Roborock, iRobot, and Dreame. Each has recently released new flagship models: the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, the DreameBot X30 Ultra, and iRobot’s Roomba Combo J9 Plus.  I’ve reviewed the Combo j9 Plus, and I still recommend Roombas if you’re looking for either a high-end robovac or a budget bot, in large part due to their repairability, ease of use, and reliability./news/beats-studio-3-wireless-headphones-announced-for-350.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/beats-studio-3-wireless-headphones-announced-for-350.htmlAfter more than three years, Beats is finally updating its top-tier Studio headphones. The new Studio 3 Wireless headphones, available beginning today from Apple and other retailers, cost $349.95 and improve on the previous model by adding Apple’s W1 chip, more advanced noise cancellation, redesigned internals, and longer battery life. They still very much look like Beats and, at least in terms of apperance, aren’t much changed from the company’s other current products or the Studio Wireless headphones they replace./news/blink-s-newest-security-camera-can-be-hidden-in-a-tree.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blink-s-newest-security-camera-can-be-hidden-in-a-tree.htmlToday Blink is announcing its first outdoor camera: the $119 Blink XT. Blink is a newcomer that's quickly making a name for itself with tiny, low-cost security cameras that are truly wireless thanks to their ability to run for two years or more off a pair of regular lithium AAs. The Blink XT continues the trend but adds weatherproofing, a 1080p camera, and infrared night vision. That means you can put the Blink XT pretty much anywhere you want./news/casetify-delists-inside-out-cases-after-accusations-of-theft.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/casetify-delists-inside-out-cases-after-accusations-of-theft.htmlCasetify delists Inside Out cases after accusations of theft. Well that was quick. Less than 24 hours after Dbrand announced it was suing the company over alleged stolen designs, Casetify has delisted the offending products from its online store. Attempting to access the link to the Inside Out collection now redirects to a list of its best selling phone cases. But don’t worry, here’s a Wayback Machine archive of the lineup./news/ces-2024-dell-s-xps-laptop-lineup-is-about-to-look-very-different.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ces-2024-dell-s-xps-laptop-lineup-is-about-to-look-very-different.htmlThis might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between some bigger laptops and a total revamping of the XPS portfolio, it feels like a big deal. The 13-inch Dell XPS laptop is sticking around, but the touch bar-equipped XPS Plus that ran hot in our review is gone, replaced by the 14-inch XPS. And there’s a new 16-inch XPS to replace both the 15-inch and 17-inch laptops — though the XPS 15 will stick around, with limited updates, through 2024./news/chrome-os-87-adds-tab-search-and-bluetooth-device-battery-levels.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chrome-os-87-adds-tab-search-and-bluetooth-device-battery-levels.htmlChrome OS 87 is rolling out now, and it adds a few nice features to help you while browsing the web and when using Bluetooth accessories (via 9to5Google). One new addition in Chrome OS 87 is tab search. I typically have dozens of tabs open at any given time, so I could see how tab search might be a really handy way to find something I’ve lost in the process. Google is also adding tab search to the desktop version of Chrome, though the company said in mid-November that the feature would be coming first to Chromebooks and to other desktop platforms “soon./news/comcast-xfinity-data-breach-affects-over-35-million-people.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/comcast-xfinity-data-breach-affects-over-35-million-people.htmlComcast is notifying Xfinity customers of a “data security incident” it says resulted in the theft of customer information, including usernames, passwords, contact information, partial social security numbers, and more. In a notice on Monday, Xfinity said “there was unauthorized access” to its systems from October 16th to October 19th, 2023. BleepingComputer linked this breach notice published in the state of Maine, which shows the total number of people affected by the breach is 35,879,455, including over 50,000 people in Maine./news/creators-say-instagram-is-cutting-reels-payouts.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/creators-say-instagram-is-cutting-reels-payouts.htmlCreators making money using Instagram Reels say their payouts have been slashed in recent weeks and target metrics for monetization have ballooned, according to the Financial Times. Payments are down as much as 70 percent per view and videos need millions more views for creators to get paid. The Reels Play Bonus Program, announced in July, offers financial rewards to creators who post on Reels, Instagram’s TikTok-style short-form video clone. Payouts ranged from $600 to as much as $35,000 if videos hit a target view count, but creators expressed confusion over how payments and goals were determined./news/dave-buster-s-is-building-htc-vive-equipped-vr-arcades.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dave-buster-s-is-building-htc-vive-equipped-vr-arcades.htmlDave & Buster’s plans on installing more than 500 HTC Vive VR headsets in its arcades across the US and Canada this month in a subtle acknowledgment that maybe arcades have nothing better to offer than a VR experience in 2018. The headsets will show up on June 14th and will be paired with a “participant motion platform,” which means players will be thrust around. Because this headset inclusion is the result of a partnership between Dave & Buster’s and HTC, the arcade company says it plans to announce exclusive content, although it hasn’t provided any specifics./news/delta-s-new-app-lets-you-track-your-bag-from-airplane-to-airport.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/delta-s-new-app-lets-you-track-your-bag-from-airplane-to-airport.htmlEarlier this year, Delta introduced new RFID luggages tags to let airports and passengers more accurately track and identify bags. Now, the airline has updated its app to take this feature one step further — letting users track their bags on their mobiles. "From the moment our customers drop off their bag, we want them to know we’re looking out for it every step of the way and working to take the stress out of flying,"/news/disney-plus-is-finally-cracking-down-on-password-sharing-in-the-us.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-plus-is-finally-cracking-down-on-password-sharing-in-the-us.htmlThe writing’s been on the wall for months now, but Disney Plus is finally implementing measures to keep US subscribers from sharing their passwords with people who aren’t paying for the service. Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new changes to its terms of service that will, among other things, make it harder for people to access the service using log-in credentials that aren’t actually theirs. The updated terms come a few months after Disney Plus implemented similar measures for its Canadian subscribers and just days after Hulu sent out similar notices to users about changes to its own TOS and its plans to stop password sharing in the coming weeks./news/echo-dot-with-clock-2022-review-an-almost-perfect-smart-speaker.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/echo-dot-with-clock-2022-review-an-almost-perfect-smart-speaker.htmlThe newest Echo Dot with Clock ($59.99, fifth-gen) shows more info on its brighter, bigger (but still small) display, has more helpful smart home features thanks to a new temperature sensor, and has a new accelerometer that makes tap to snooze actually work. Add in better sound and a speedier Alexa on board, and this is more than just a minor upgrade. The Echo Dot with Clock has long been my favorite small smart speaker, and with these improvements, it’s now my go-to smart alarm clock./news/ecobee-smart-doorbell-camera-review-bigger-view-fewer-notifications.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ecobee-smart-doorbell-camera-review-bigger-view-fewer-notifications.htmlThis morning, my doorbell rang, and I answered it from my thermostat. An image of the FedEx driver appeared on the four-inch touchscreen, and I tapped the microphone icon and told him I’d be right there. Yeah, it was really cool.  The doorbell is the new Ecobee Smart Doorbell Camera ($159.99) launching today on Ecobee.com, Amazon, Best Buy, and Lowes, and the thermostat is the excellent Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium ($249./news/elden-ring-patch-fixes-ps5-save-bug.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elden-ring-patch-fixes-ps5-save-bug.htmlElden Ring developers, FromSoftware, have rolled out a fix for the bug that caused the loss of game save data on PS5 (via Polygon). In a tweet, developers confirmed that they’ve made “changes to save progression even when the game is not terminated” on PS5, in addition to issuing a few other patches on PC. Last week, Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco warned PS5 players that putting the console in rest mode or turning it off while the game is running may cause the game to save improperly./news/electrify-america-to-increase-prices-for-electric-vehicle-charging-at-its-stations.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/electrify-america-to-increase-prices-for-electric-vehicle-charging-at-its-stations.htmlRemember how rising gas prices weren’t a concern to electric car owners? Electrify America is giving users of its DC fast charging network a reminder about one of the biggest frustrations of owning internal combustion engine cars again — by increasing electricity rates at its stations (via Ars Technica). Starting on March 6th, Electrify America will be charging US customers a standard rate of $0.48 per kilowatt hour. The company, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Auto Group, was charging $0./news/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-reveal-its-robotaxi-on-august-8th.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-reveal-its-robotaxi-on-august-8th.htmlTesla will reveal its long-promised robotaxi on August 8th, Elon Musk just posted on X. The forthcoming autonomous vehicle is said to be built on Tesla’s next-generation vehicle platform. The announcement came on the same day that Reuters reported that the company had canceled its plans to build a more affordably priced electric vehicle, said to be in the range of $25,000. Musk reportedly told employees that instead of building a mass-market EV, he wanted to focus completely on an autonomous vehicle that would make other vehicles obsolete./news/everything-you-want-to-know-about-drake-but-are-too-afraid-to-ask.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/everything-you-want-to-know-about-drake-but-are-too-afraid-to-ask.htmlDrake is a former child actor, current pop star, and the secular god of memes —even if he disputes that last label. Born Aubrey Drake Graham, the Canadian celebrity has been inescapable, not just for fans of music, but enthusiasts of technology. That's because Drake is a meeting point of the two. To talk about Drake's give-take relationship with technology — specifically social media — I invited my friend and colleague Jamieson Cox onto this week's episode of What's Tech./news/ex-google-ad-engineer-fights-back-against-advertisers-with-anti-tracking-software.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ex-google-ad-engineer-fights-back-against-advertisers-with-anti-tracking-software.html"It turns out there are literally thousands of companies and organizations collecting what I would consider very personal data — the history of the pages that we browse and our search history," Kennish said. "And so today my data is in the hands of roughly 2,000 different companies, and who knows what is being done with it? It's very difficult to even tell. We could pore over the privacy policies of these 2,000 companies to try to figure out what they're doing, but it's quite a stretch to be able to have any idea what our data is being used for./news/facebook-and-zenimax-settle-legal-battle-over-oculus-vr-and-stolen-secrets.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-and-zenimax-settle-legal-battle-over-oculus-vr-and-stolen-secrets.htmlZeniMax Media and Facebook today settled a long-running legal dispute over the creation of the Oculus Rift VR headset, which ZeniMax claimed was the result of stolen trade secrets (including code and research) shared by ex-ZeniMax employees who had been hired by Oculus. Among those hires was John Carmack, the well-known co-founder of id Software (which ZeniMax owns) who joined Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, and the rest of the Oculus VR team in 2013 before Facebook bought the VR company for $2 billion./news/facebook-s-march-to-global-domination-is-trampling-over-net-neutrality.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-s-march-to-global-domination-is-trampling-over-net-neutrality.htmlNot satisfied with its 1.4 billion members — roughly half of the world’s internet-connected population — Facebook founded the Internet.org project in 2013 to spread internet access to poor communities around the world and thereby accelerate its own growth and reach. This week, the Internet.org app arrives in India, allowing locals free access to Facebook and a curated list of services that Facebook likes. On the surface, it seems like a net positive for India and for humanity, bringing more connectivity and information to people who might not otherwise be able to afford it./news/facebook-s-live-audio-rooms-start-rolling-out-in-the-us.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-s-live-audio-rooms-start-rolling-out-in-the-us.htmlFacebook’s Clubhouse competitor, Live Audio Rooms, is making its way stateside. The company announced today that some US-based public figures, as well as certain groups, can start hosting rooms through the main Facebook iOS app. (People can join, however, from both iOS and Android.) Anyone can be invited up as a speaker with up to 50 people able to speak at once. There’s no cap on the number of listeners allowed in — a major shot at Clubhouse, which imposes room size limitations./news/film-dialogue-often-reinforces-stereotypes-about-race-and-gender-a-machine-learning-study-confirms.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/film-dialogue-often-reinforces-stereotypes-about-race-and-gender-a-machine-learning-study-confirms.htmlIn news that should be no surprise to anyone who follows the film industry, a new study has found that men speak more than twice as much as women in film, and often, the dialogue that is given to women helps reinforce gender and racial stereotypes. The new study comes from the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. Researchers examined more than 53,000 dialogue segments from 7,000 characters in 1,000 scripts, and used machine learning to study how characters spoke and interacted along racial, gender, and age lines./news/films-like-the-house-with-a-clock-in-its-walls-are-poisonous-to-kids-cinema.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/films-like-the-house-with-a-clock-in-its-walls-are-poisonous-to-kids-cinema.htmlFilm is an expressive medium — at least as flexible as books are, in terms of the potential for variety and nuance. So how to explain the way cinema processes so many diverse, nuanced books into generic, nearly identical hunks of cookie-cutter product? And the problem seems particularly pronounced with books aimed at younger readers. When novels as tonally and creatively wide-ranging as Bridge to Terabithia, The Dark is Rising, the first five Spiderwick Chronicles novels, and Cirque du Freak all enter the screen-adaptation machine and come out looking and feeling nearly identical, it’s clear that the problem isn’t with the source material, it’s with filmmakers who are suffering a lack of imagination./news/final-fantasy-xvi-eschews-youthful-exuberance-for-a-darker-gritter-game.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/final-fantasy-xvi-eschews-youthful-exuberance-for-a-darker-gritter-game.htmlThere’s a lot riding on Final Fantasy XVI. Its predecessor, Final Fantasy XV, didn’t do so hot, critically speaking. And with FFXVI, the team at Square Enix is trying to right the ship by making a Final Fantasy that has a broader appeal.  To do that, the development team nixed some elements that have become synonymous with Final Fantasy. The static, turn-based combat system is out, in favor of a more fluid, action-oriented system filled with swift and flashy melee strikes, powerful and splashy-looking spells, and acrobatic dodging./news/first-strike-how-tech-s-superpowers-could-start-an-ecosystem-war.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/first-strike-how-tech-s-superpowers-could-start-an-ecosystem-war.htmlWE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A COLD WAR BETWEEN THE LARGEST TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN THE INDUSTRY. It’s a war for ecosystem territory, in which companies are vying to keep users within their own lands and making small but strategically important incursions on the peripheries of other players. The ecosystem war between Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has largely become a war of attrition with limited asymmetric vulnerabilities. With a few exceptions, these entities have engaged in standard strategies like lock-in and made some limited encroachments into each others' territory./news/fitbit-flex-review-the-verge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fitbit-flex-review-the-verge.htmlFor a little over a month, I've been getting off my subway one stop early and walking the rest of the way home. I've been playing soccer twice a week, and trying to drink eight glasses of water every day. I've been running more, eating better, but still not sleeping nearly enough. I've been testing the Fitbit Flex, the first fitness wristband from the company that deserves a lot of credit for popularizing wearable fitness devices in the first place./news/fubotv-will-get-espn-and-other-disney-channels-starting-this-summer.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fubotv-will-get-espn-and-other-disney-channels-starting-this-summer.htmlFuboTV announced that it signed a multiyear distribution deal with Disney to bring ESPN to its service, filling in the missing link that could make it one of the best over-the-top live TV streaming services available for sports fans. It was already great for watching the Super Bowl and other live sporting events (especially since it has a free trial). But starting this summer, subscribers to FuboTV’s $54.99 standard subscription plan will get ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, ABC, along with access to many other Disney Television Studios channels./news/gig-workers-at-target-owned-shipt-are-getting-their-bank-accounts-drained-by-hackers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gig-workers-at-target-owned-shipt-are-getting-their-bank-accounts-drained-by-hackers.htmlScammers are hacking into the accounts of Target gig workers and draining their bank accounts, Motherboard reports. Since March 28th, more than 30 employees who work for Shipt, Target’s delivery app, have posted on Facebook about being attacked. The company employs about 300,000 contract shoppers in the United States. In some cases, the scammers are spoofing Shipt’s phone number and pretending to be corporate employees. They say they’ve noticed unusual activity on the worker’s account and ask for the person’s password./news/goodbye-stumbleupon-one-of-the-last-great-ways-to-find-good-things-online.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/goodbye-stumbleupon-one-of-the-last-great-ways-to-find-good-things-online.htmlOn June 30th, StumbleUpon as we know it will come to an end after 16 years. Co-founder Garrett Camp announced on Medium that the internet discovery service will shutter, and all StumbleUpon accounts will be transitioned over to Mix, a curation platform that incorporates your social media presence. “This will help you find obscure but interesting content that has been recommended by people you know and trust,” Camp says. The conundrum of the internet in 2018 is that, despite being more connected than ever, it’s increasingly a challenge to have fun online./news/google-is-ditching-chrome-s-data-saver-mode-on-android.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-ditching-chrome-s-data-saver-mode-on-android.htmlGoogle has announced it will soon remove a feature of Chrome for Android that for years helped people cut down on their mobile data usage. Per 9to5Google, Chrome’s “Lite mode” will go away with the release of Chrome version M100 in late March. Lite mode was originally known as Data Saver when Google first introduced it on Android back in 2014. In those days, many smartphone owners were on tiered data plans and risked extra charges if they went over their monthly allotment./news/google-is-teasing-apple-again-over-its-lack-of-rcs-messaging-support.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-teasing-apple-again-over-its-lack-of-rcs-messaging-support.htmlGoogle is revisiting the “Get The Message” publicity campaign started last year to pressure Apple into adopting the Rich Communication Services, or RCS, messaging protocol. The latest installment includes new content and a cheesy video advertising a fake “iPager” gadget — a jab at Apple for converting iMessages texted to Android devices into old-fashioned SMS and MMS. “iPager isn’t real, but the problems that Apple causes by using SMS are,” said Google in the video description on YouTube./news/google-s-think-tank-is-transforming-into-a-tech-lab-called-jigsaw.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-think-tank-is-transforming-into-a-tech-lab-called-jigsaw.htmlAlphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt announced today that Google Ideas, the New York City-based web and policy think tank, is being transformed into a tech incubator named Jigsaw. Schmidt revealed the news in a post on Medium, saying the team will focus on using technology "to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges, from countering violent extremism to thwarting online censorship to mitigating the threats associated with digital attacks." Jigsaw will be headed up by Jared Cohen, a former member of the US State Department's Policy Planning Staff who's run Google Ideas since its inception in 2010./news/google-s-project-starline-is-the-real-deal.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-project-starline-is-the-real-deal.htmlIt looked like I could grab the apple. Jason Lawrence, a Google researcher, was sitting across from me, holding the fruit in his hand. I could see it, it was red and shiny, and my brain was telling me it was right there. But Lawrence and the apple were actually in another room — they were just being projected in front of me through Google’s Project Starline. Project Starline is Google’s next-generation 3D video chat booth that it first introduced at Google I/O 2021./news/gopro-is-getting-a-new-cloud-subscription-tier.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gopro-is-getting-a-new-cloud-subscription-tier.htmlGoPro is getting a new cloud subscription tier. GoPro announced a new Premium Plus subscription during its quarterly earnings call Tuesday, while CFO Brian McGee teased three new cameras coming in 2024. The $99-a-year tier includes “increased cloud storage for any camera” plus a new Quik desktop app (on macOS this month, Windows next summer) with Hypersmooth Pro stabilization built-in. What is HyperSmooth Pro? I have no clue. GoPro already has separate stabilization software called ReelSteady that’s popular with FPV pilots./news/gran-turismo-s-first-trailer-makes-it-seem-like-the-movie-hates-gamers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gran-turismo-s-first-trailer-makes-it-seem-like-the-movie-hates-gamers.htmlThere have been a number of video games that made for fantastic cinematic adaptations, but everything about the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Gran Turismo film from director Neill Blomkamp makes the movie seem like a showcase of reasons why racing sims don’t need to be turned into movies. Caught somewhere between being a video game adaptation and a coming-of-age narrative, Gran Turismo tells the true story of how teenage Gran Turismo player Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe) actually became a professional race car driver after winning a series of driving game competitions./news/harley-davidson-s-livewire-announces-s2-del-mar-its-most-affordable-electric-motorcycle-yet.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/harley-davidson-s-livewire-announces-s2-del-mar-its-most-affordable-electric-motorcycle-yet.htmlLiveWire, the electric motorcycle company spinoff from Harley-Davidson, announced its most affordable model yet, the S2 Del Mar. The initial batch of Del Mar motorcycles, dubbed Launch Edition, will sell for $17,699, while base model versions will start at $15,000. The S2 Del Mar is a middleweight motorcycle, making it more approachable than last year’s LiveWire One. It’s being built on LiveWire’s Arrow platform, which includes battery, electronics, and motor, in a single unit that the company can then plug various model types into./news/how-do-you-send-nudes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-do-you-send-nudes.htmlThis week on Why'd You Push That Button?, we're talking about sending nudes. Sending a naked photo of yourself in 2017 doesn't need to be complicated, but with hundreds of thousands of messaging apps to choose from, deciding how to send that nude can require some thought. Do you take to Snapchat, iMessage, or Instagram DMs? What about sending them through your dating app? We talked to two people about how they make sense of this messaging app utopia./news/how-google-controls-android-digging-deep-into-the-skyhook-filings.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-google-controls-android-digging-deep-into-the-skyhook-filings.htmlYou might remember that a company called Skyhook Wireless sued Google back in September for business interference and patent infringement -- the Skyhook XPS WiFi and cell tower positioning system was all set to ship in the Droid X before Google got involved and Motorola dropped it from the phone. The case is still ongoing, but it just passed a major milestone last week when Google's initial motions to dismiss and for summary judgment were denied -- and lucky for us, a huge trove of documentation was unsealed by the court./news/how-one-of-gaming-s-most-intimidating-genres-spawned-a-legion-of-hits.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-one-of-gaming-s-most-intimidating-genres-spawned-a-legion-of-hits.htmlFor the uninitiated, the roguelike deckbuilder can be an intimidating prospect. It’s the love child of two famously hardcore archetypes: the deckbuilder, in which you gradually compile a deck of cards, and the roguelike, in which you move across a procedurally generated map rendered anew every time you die. Strategy and challenge combine in a manner that is more cerebral than the most popular roguelikes, such as the hack-and-slash Hades, but faster paced than classic deckbuilders like Magic: The Gathering./news/how-to-turn-off-instagram-s-feed-recommendations-for-an-entire-month.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-turn-off-instagram-s-feed-recommendations-for-an-entire-month.htmlInstagram might be walking back its horribly received TikTok-style redesign and cutting down on the app’s constant avalanche of recommendations, but that won’t prevent recommended content from appearing in your feed altogether. It turns out there’s a fix for that you might not be aware of; I didn’t even know it was a thing until Instagram head Adam Mosseri casually mentioned it in one of his Stories earlier this week. It’s possible to snooze recommendations and suggested posts from your main Instagram feed for 30 days./news/how-to-use-pok%C3%A9mon-home-to-move-your-pok%C3%A9dex-between-games.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-pok%C3%A9mon-home-to-move-your-pok%C3%A9dex-between-games.htmlPokémon Home is a new cloud-based storage service available as an app for Android and iOS phones and tablets, as well as the Nintendo Switch. One of its most alluring features is that it allows you to keep your pokédex handy wherever you might be — for a fee. Better yet, it allows you to form a unified pokédex, pulling in the pokémon you’ve caught in previous games so you can deploy them in, say, Pokémon Sword or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!/news/how-wordle-lives-on-at-the-new-york-times.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-wordle-lives-on-at-the-new-york-times.htmlDepending on who you ask, the biggest video game last year wasn’t the award-winning Elden Ring: it was actually Wordle. The word game continued to take the world by storm in 2022, beating out Queen Elizabeth and the election results in search volume. It was purchased by The New York Times in January 2022, and though its user growth has plateaued, it still has more daily active users than other newspaper offerings like the crossword puzzle or sudoku./news/hulu-s-raising-its-prices-on-october-10th.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hulu-s-raising-its-prices-on-october-10th.htmlHulu’s raising its prices on October 10th. First announced in August, the price increase means you’ll have to pay $7.99 / month instead of $6.99 / month (or $79.99 / year) for the ad-supported version of Hulu and $14.99 / month instead of $12.99 / month for the ad-free plan. The prices for Hulu’s bundled plans with ESPN Plus and Disney Plus aren’t changing just yet, but Hulu has a price hike planned for later this year./news/humanity-review-a-brilliant-puzzle-game-that-never-runs-out-of-ideas.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/humanity-review-a-brilliant-puzzle-game-that-never-runs-out-of-ideas.htmlFor some people, the basic premise of Humanity will be enough to sell them on the game. You, in the role of an ethereal Shiba Inu, guide humans through a world of puzzles in a game designed in part by the minds behind games like Rez and Tetris Effect. Now, to those for whom that description makes little to no sense, know this: Humanity is one of the most ingenious and generous puzzle games I’ve played in a very long time./news/hundreds-of-thousands-of-lost-myspace-songs-have-been-recovered.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hundreds-of-thousands-of-lost-myspace-songs-have-been-recovered.htmlThe Internet Archive has published a catalogue of 490,000 MySpace songs uploaded to the service between 2008 and 2010 that were previously thought lost as a result of a botched server migration. These songs are less than one percent of the estimated 50 million tracks uploaded between 2003 and 2015 that the once dominant social network accidentally deleted. The source of the saved tracks is an “anonymous academic group” that was studying music networks while MySpace was still active./news/iconic-league-of-legends-team-tsm-replaced-by-shopify-in-pro-league.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iconic-league-of-legends-team-tsm-replaced-by-shopify-in-pro-league.htmlShopify is entering the League of Legends arena. On Wednesday, Shopify announced that its Rebellion esports brand will be acquiring TSM’s spot in the League Championship Series (LCS), the pro circuit for US League of Legends esports. The move marks a major change of the guard in the LCS. TSM, one of the biggest esports organizations in the world, got its start as a scrappy League of Legends team; the TSM acronym stands for Team SoloMid, which references a solo League of Legends player occupying the middle lane of the game’s multi-pronged map./news/if-google-charges-30-percent-and-we-charge-12-percent-we-d-be-able-to-compete-on-android-the-w.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/if-google-charges-30-percent-and-we-charge-12-percent-we-d-be-able-to-compete-on-android-the-w.html“If Google charges 30 percent and we charge 12 percent, we’d be able to compete on Android the way we compete on PC and Mac today.” Sweeney reiterates that Epic is not seeking any money from Google — he just wants to expand the business. He says that while Epic has been damaged by Google because it can’t meaningfully distribute Fortnite on phones, Epic isn’t seeking any damages — it just wants the court to make Google stop enforcing its policies./news/i-ll-see-your-shrimp-jesus-and-raise-you-spaghetti-jesus-on-a-lambo.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-ll-see-your-shrimp-jesus-and-raise-you-spaghetti-jesus-on-a-lambo.htmlI’ll see your Shrimp Jesus and raise you Spaghetti Jesus on a Lambo. A bunch of places covered AI-generated images of an unholy Jesus/shrimp hybrid going viral on Facebook earlier this year, but the attention didn’t cause Zuck to take any action to slow the situation down. Here’s JC Noods laying back on a Lambo, a post which has 36,000 likes on Facebook right now. The AI internet is going great, y’all./news/intel-predicts-a-7-trillion-self-driving-future.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/intel-predicts-a-7-trillion-self-driving-future.htmlThe race to be the first to deploy autonomous vehicles is on among carmakers, emerging startups, and tech giants. Amid this constant news cycle of deals and drama, the purpose of all of it can get lost — or at least a bit muddied. What exactly are these companies racing for? A $7 trillion annual revenue stream, according to a study released Thursday by Intel. The companies that don’t prepare for self-driving risk failure or extinction, Intel says./news/intel-s-former-ceo-paul-otellini-dies-at-66.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/intel-s-former-ceo-paul-otellini-dies-at-66.htmlPaul Otellini, who served as Intel’s chief executive from 2005 until his mid-2013 retirement, has died at the age of 66. He passed away in his sleep on Monday, the company said today. In all, Otellini spent over 40 years as an Intel employee. Otellini was Intel’s fifth CEO — succeeded by current chief Brian Krzanich — and is credited for “transforming operations and cost structure for long-term growth; assuming a leadership position in the server market segment; and maintaining profitability during the global recession./news/intel-s-unlocked-core-i9-12900ks-processor-claims-to-be-the-world-s-fastest-desktop-processor.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/intel-s-unlocked-core-i9-12900ks-processor-claims-to-be-the-world-s-fastest-desktop-processor.htmlIntel has officially announced its new Core i9-12900KS processor, an unlocked version of its flagship Core i9-12900K that ups the maximum boosted clock speed even higher to 5.5GHz for what the company claims is “the world’s fastest desktop processor” and “the ultimate gaming experience.” The Core i9-12900KS has a lot in common with its predecessors’ hardware, including the same 16 cores (split up between eight Performance-cores and eight Efficient-cores) and 24 threads and 30MB of L3 cache memory./news/internet-connected-wine-bottle-startup-kuv%C3%A9e-is-shutting-down.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/internet-connected-wine-bottle-startup-kuv%C3%A9e-is-shutting-down.htmlKuvée, the startup that makes a Wi-Fi-connected wine bottle complete with touchscreen, has announced it is shutting down, as reported by Business Insider. The system, which The Verge tested (and called gloriously dumb) in March 2016, is basically a sleeve with a touchscreen that fits over proprietary wine cartridges. Once a cartridge is put into the sleeve, the touchscreen displays information about the wine, like the grape it’s made from and pairing notes./news/ios-5-includes-siri-intelligent-assistant-voice-control-dictation-for-iphone-4s-only.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ios-5-includes-siri-intelligent-assistant-voice-control-dictation-for-iphone-4s-only.htmlAs rumored, Apple's doing some all-new voice-control AI stuff in iOS 5. It's called Siri, which is the name of the app Apple bought for a rumored $200 million last year. Basically, you ask Siri questions out loud in plain english, and Siri makes sense of what you're asking and presents you with results and actions. Siri launches with a long press of the home button, just like Voice Control of yore, but after that the options are fairly endless./news/iphones-can-have-emulators-now-so-here-are-some-great-ios-controllers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphones-can-have-emulators-now-so-here-are-some-great-ios-controllers.htmlWhile we still don’t know exactly how emulators will work on the iPhone, Apple’s play here would put its App Store in a better place to compete with alternative app stores in the EU. Assuming that means you can actually play games from the consoles they emulate, it could be a huge deal for retro gaming fans. As great as the Steam Deck and Switch are, the embiggening of portable game consoles has come at the crucial cost of portability (unless you have cargo pants and don’t mind them banging against your knees while you walk)./news/it-s-time-to-give-firefox-a-fresh-chance.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/it-s-time-to-give-firefox-a-fresh-chance.htmlEver since it was first released almost a decade ago, Google’s Chrome browser has been the most consistent piece of technology in my life. I’ve gone through a legion of phones, laptops, and headphones, I’ve jumped around between Android, iOS, Windows Phone, macOS, and Windows, but I’ve rarely had reason to doubt my browser choice. Things have changed in recent times, however, and those changes have been sufficient to make me reconsider./news/jay-z-tries-to-use-copyright-strikes-to-remove-deepfaked-audio-of-himself-from-youtube.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jay-z-tries-to-use-copyright-strikes-to-remove-deepfaked-audio-of-himself-from-youtube.htmlHip-hop mogul Jay-Z has become an unlikely source of inspiration within the budding community of artificial intelligence-powered impersonation, known colloquially as deepfakes, and the rap icon’s record label has taken notice and issued copyright strikes to shut some of it down. It’s not that Jay-Z is being maligned without his consent, as a majority of deepfakes tend to do by pasting the head of female celebrities and other women onto the bodies of adult film actresses./news/king-of-click-the-story-of-the-greatest-keyboard-ever-made.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/king-of-click-the-story-of-the-greatest-keyboard-ever-made.htmlThe first thing you notice about the IBM Model M keyboard, when you finally get your hands on it, is its size. After years of tapping chiclet keys and glass screens on two- and three-pound devices, hefting five pounds of plastic and metal (including a thick steel plate) is slightly intimidating. The second thing is the sound – the solid click that’s turned a standard-issue beige peripheral into one of the computer world’s most prized and useful antiques./news/kraken-pays-a-30-million-fine-and-shuts-down-crypto-staking-in-the-us.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kraken-pays-a-30-million-fine-and-shuts-down-crypto-staking-in-the-us.htmlKraken will end its crypto staking program in the US and pay $30 million in penalties as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulator charged the company with selling unregistered securities through its “crypto asset staking-as-a-service program.” It’s been clear for a while now that the SEC was planning to clamp down on crypto yield programs. In 2021, it got into a spat with Coinbase over the exchange’s plans to launch a lending feature in the US, and last year, it (and several states) settled with BlockFi for $100 million over the company’s interest accounts./news/kuo-apple-cuts-vision-pro-shipments-due-to-low-demand.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kuo-apple-cuts-vision-pro-shipments-due-to-low-demand.htmlApple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes that Apple cut orders for the Vision Pro even before it launched outside of the US. His sources claim that Apple now expects to sell only around 400,000 to 450,000 units in 2024, compared to what Kuo says was a “market consensus” of 700,000 to 800,000. Demand for the $3,500 Vision Pro dropped much lower than the company was expecting. Facing the unanticipated drop in steam, Apple is now adjusting its headset roadmap, possibly pushing the future of a lower-cost entry mixed reality headset beyond 2025 (if at all)./news/lenovo-thinkpad-helix-review-the-verge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-thinkpad-helix-review-the-verge.htmlCES is mostly just one hellacious blur. Here’s a gadget, and another gadget, and a hooker, and a gadget, and hey do you want to know about my Kickstarter? At CES 2013, laptops were particularly hard to keep track of; everywhere you looked, a manufacturer had some novel way for you to spend $1,000 on a Windows 8 ultrabook. Through all the chaos, the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix somehow stood out. The detachable tablet / laptop hybrid had it all: full-powered Windows 8 with an impressive spec sheet, two batteries that together promised huge longevity, and the possibility of using one device capably as tablet, laptop, and more./news/lenovo-yoga-920-review-the-verge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-yoga-920-review-the-verge.htmlThe Lenovo Yoga 920 is the direct sequel to Lenovo’s Yoga 910 convertible laptop. Before every Windows PC company was making 2-in-1 computers, it was Lenovo’s line of 360-degree hinged laptops that pioneered the form factor, which combines a laptop design with some tablet functionality. If you’re keeping track, improvements made since the Yoga 910 include the addition of Thunderbolt 3, new webcam location, a Windows Precision touchpad, better battery life, heat management, and finally, the bundled active pen./news/lenovo-s-latest-2-in-1-crams-windows-and-android-into-one-device.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-s-latest-2-in-1-crams-windows-and-android-into-one-device.htmlWe’ve come close to figuring out the ideal 2-in-1 laptop, but no company has nailed it yet. Lenovo’s latest attempt, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid, recognizes that Android has a better touch interface than Windows and that Windows has a better laptop interface than Android — and it combines the two to try to get the best of both worlds. When you’re in laptop mode, the ThinkBook Plus Hybrid functions like a normal Windows laptop./news/lg-intuition-review-the-verge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-intuition-review-the-verge.htmlQualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor powers the Intuition, and I'm always happy to see that on a spec sheet: I've never seen an S4-powered phone not run fast and smoothly. The Intuition does nearly everything well, from gaming to video streaming to taking pictures, and LG's intense skin doesn't seem to cause any problems. There's some Android-caused lag in things like screen rotation and scrolling through apps, but nothing new or hugely problematic./news/logitech-s-g502-x-gaming-mice-have-usb-c-and-clicky-optical-switches.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-s-g502-x-gaming-mice-have-usb-c-and-clicky-optical-switches.htmlLogitech has three new gaming mice, and the wireless ones finally have USB-C up front. That’s right, Micro USB’s reign of terror continues to be on the decline as Logitech’s new G502 X series gaming mice come to succeed the company’s popular G502 line. The three mice — G502 X, G502 X Lightspeed, and G502 X Plus — also now include hybrid optical-mechanical buttons for greater responsiveness as well as a more precise 25,600 dpi “Hero 25K” sensor./news/looking-back-on-the-themes-of-phillip-pullman-s-his-dark-materials.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/looking-back-on-the-themes-of-phillip-pullman-s-his-dark-materials.htmlFor more than a decade and a half, Philip Pullman has talked about a companion novel to his acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. Earlier this year, he revealed that fans of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass would not only finally get to read The Book of Dust, but that it was a trilogy, with the first installment, La Belle Sauvage, hitting bookstores today. With the arrival of The Book of Dust, it’s worth looking back on Pullman’s dazzling trilogy./news/mastodon-rolls-out-built-in-bylines-for-journalists-in-the-fediverse.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mastodon-rolls-out-built-in-bylines-for-journalists-in-the-fediverse.htmlIf you’re on Mastodon, you might notice new author bylines appearing alongside articles — including those from The Verge. Click on the byline, and you’ll jump directly to the author’s fediverse account, allowing you to track their work wherever it’s posted. For now, you’ll only see this feature on mastodon.social and other instances that use a recent Mastodon nightly release. You can see how author bylines appear beneath articles in this post, which links you to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko’s profile./news/microsoft-completes-bethesda-acquisition-promises-some-xbox-and-pc-exclusives.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-completes-bethesda-acquisition-promises-some-xbox-and-pc-exclusives.html“First, let me say that we’re not making any landmark announcements or changes right now. As we’ve all shared, the expectation is that Bethesda Softworks and our studios will continue as we have in the past, just with more support and resources than we’ve ever had before. Obviously, Game Pass has been an important initiative for Xbox, and we’ll be working on putting even more of our games into Game Pass than ever before./news/microsoft-execs-reportedly-warned-bill-gates-years-ago-to-stop-emailing-a-female-employee.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-execs-reportedly-warned-bill-gates-years-ago-to-stop-emailing-a-female-employee.htmlOver 10 years before his departure from Microsoft’s board amid an investigation over an affair with an employee, former CEO Bill Gates was warned by two company executives about inappropriate emails between him and another woman, The Wall Street Journal reported. While he was still an employee at Microsoft and serving as chairman of the board, Gates and a female employee exchanged “flirtatious” emails and propositioned the employee, the Journal reported./news/microsoft-hololens-boss-alex-kipman-is-out-after-misconduct-allegations.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-hololens-boss-alex-kipman-is-out-after-misconduct-allegations.htmlInsider is reporting that Microsoft’s Alex Kipman, who led the teams that developed the company’s HoloLens augmented reality headset and the Kinect motion controller for Xbox and serves as one of Microsoft’s top technical fellows, has resigned after allegations of verbal abuse and sexual harassment. Microsoft wouldn't immediately confirm or deny the report, but GeekWire has already corroborated it by obtaining an internal email from Microsoft cloud boss Scott Guthrie: “We have mutually decided that this is the right time for him to leave the company to pursue other opportunities,” he writes./news/microsoft-is-bringing-xbox-game-pass-to-pc-with-over-100-titles.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-is-bringing-xbox-game-pass-to-pc-with-over-100-titles.htmlMicrosoft announced today that it’s bringing its popular console game subscription service, Xbox Game Pass, to Windows. This is bigger than just a formal recognition that some of its included Xbox games in Game Pass can already be played on the PC. (Right now, any PC game that’s part of Game Pass can be played on either Xbox or Windows, thanks to the company’s Play Anywhere initiative, but a majority of those titles are Microsoft-published games like Forza Horizon 4 and Gears of War 4./news/microsoft-surface-book-2-review-beauty-and-brawn-but-with-limits.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-surface-book-2-review-beauty-and-brawn-but-with-limits.htmlEditor's note, November 27th, 10:30AM ET: When we originally tested the Surface Book 2, we noticed extreme power drain issues. Microsoft replaced the power supply, and we haven't experienced the same issues with the replacement part. This review and score have been updated to reflect this. I always wanted Microsoft to build a laptop, and it finally went ahead and built one without any tricks earlier this year. The Surface Laptop has no gimmicks, no kickstand, and no detachable screen./news/microsoft-to-detail-the-future-of-work-with-ai-during-march-16th-event.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-to-detail-the-future-of-work-with-ai-during-march-16th-event.htmlMicrosoft is holding a special event later this month where it plans to detail “the future of work with AI” and demonstrate how its ChatGPT-like AI will work in Office apps like Teams, Word, and Outlook. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and head of Microsoft 365 Jared Spataro will hold an event on March 16th at 8AM PT / 11AM ET. The Information previously reported earlier this year that GPT models from OpenAI have been tested in Outlook to improve search results, alongside features for suggesting replies to emails and Word document integration to improve a user’s writing./news/microsoft-to-share-details-on-bringing-xbox-games-to-playstation-in-mid-february.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-to-share-details-on-bringing-xbox-games-to-playstation-in-mid-february.htmlMicrosoft is planning to share details about its plans to bring Hi-Fi Rush and other Xbox exclusives to PS5 and Nintendo Switch consoles, according to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans. Details of Microsoft’s multi-platform plans have been gradually leaking, with The Verge revealing over the weekend that the upcoming Indiana Jones game is being considered for PS5. Now, Microsoft is getting ready to outline the future of Xbox next week after a weekend of leaks and uncertainty for Xbox fans./news/microsoft-wants-chrome-os-users-running-office-web-apps-not-android-apps.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-wants-chrome-os-users-running-office-web-apps-not-android-apps.htmlAs About Chromebooks’ Kevin Tofel points out, though, the move to web apps makes the offline situation for Office users more complicated. While certain Office web apps, like Outlook, have a dedicated offline mode, Tofel reports not being able to open existing documents using Microsoft’s progressive web app for Chrome OS while offline. While Chrome OS does offer some offline editing capabilities for Office files natively, it doesn’t offer the real Office experience like the Android apps did while disconnected from the internet./news/microsoft-s-office-lens-app-turns-your-iphone-or-android-phone-into-a-powerful-scanner.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-office-lens-app-turns-your-iphone-or-android-phone-into-a-powerful-scanner.htmlIf you’re taking pictures of receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards, or even sticky notes then Office Lens will automatically crop, enhance, and clean up the image and export it to OneNote or OneDrive as a JPEG image, or Word, PowerPoint, and PDF document. Microsoft is launching an iPhone version of Office Lens today and a preview of the Android app until it's ready to roll out broadly to the Google Play Store./news/microsoft-s-surface-go-4-gets-a-much-needed-performance-boost.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-surface-go-4-gets-a-much-needed-performance-boost.htmlMicrosoft has announced the Surface Go 4 — the latest version of its affordable 2-in-1 laptop series — at its Surface device launch event today. The new Go 4 features some minor performance upgrades over its predecessor, but it won’t be sold to consumers — the company says it’s specifically targeted at businesses and frontline workers. As WinFuture leaked last week, the official Surface Go 4 specifications reveal that the two-core Intel Pentium processor featured on the Surface Go 3 has now been replaced with a new, slightly beefier four-core Intel N200 chip./news/more-pc-cases-with-wood-accents-please.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/more-pc-cases-with-wood-accents-please.htmlMore PC cases with wood accents, please. This Lian-Li Lancool 217 case looks like a retro hi-fi stereo speaker! Its design is subdued compared to the Fractal North, but apparently its fans reverse direction periodically to shake the dust off its blades. The case Gamers Nexus saw at Computex 2024 is a prototype, but the real thing should be available this September. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3x1e5FtaHBpYmx9cLnOq5xmqJNisKK%2FxKxksKGknXq4u86dZJqbk5q7tb%2BMqaOemaOa/news/moxie-is-a-1-500-robot-for-kids.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/moxie-is-a-1-500-robot-for-kids.htmlThe latest educational tech comes in the form of a seven-pound robot that looks like something ripped out of a Pixar movie. Moxie, an adorable educational robot, is designed for teaching kids at home. But it’s expensive: the robot itself is $1,500, and it requires a $60 monthly subscription after the first year. Embodied, the robotics and AI company behind Moxie, says the robot will teach kids ages six through nine using weekly themes and lessons designed to promote cognitive, emotional, and social learning./news/mozilla-is-laying-off-250-people-and-planning-a-new-focus-on-making-money.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mozilla-is-laying-off-250-people-and-planning-a-new-focus-on-making-money.htmlMozilla is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, and plans to refocus some teams on projects designed to make money. The company will have roughly 750 employees going forward, a spokesperson confirmed. The coronavirus pandemic “significantly impacted our revenue,” Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker  wrote in a blog post this morning. “As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable.” Mozilla’s operations in Taipei will be closed as a result of the layoffs./news/mr-harrigan-s-phone-review-a-thriller-about-the-horrors-of-phone-addiction.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mr-harrigan-s-phone-review-a-thriller-about-the-horrors-of-phone-addiction.htmlStephen King’s works are full of all kinds of memorable monsters and villains. The likes of the man in black, Pennywise the clown, and Jack Torrance are ingrained in pop culture. In the latest cinematic adaptation, though, the bad guy isn’t a guy at all: it’s an object. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is a horror story all about being addicted to your smartphone. This review contains spoilers for Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (the book and the movie)./news/msi-gs65-stealth-thin-review-a-nearly-perfect-gaming-laptop.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/msi-gs65-stealth-thin-review-a-nearly-perfect-gaming-laptop.htmlIt didn’t take very long to notice that MSI’s new GS65 Stealth Thin was different from the other thin-and-light gaming laptops I recently tested. Though it has the same basic specs as the others — 3.9-GHz, six-core Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics card — this laptop is a better overall experience for myriad reasons. The rest of the $1,899+ GS65’s features include extremely narrow bezels (but room for a webcam on top) around a 144Hz full HD display, SteelSeries backlit RGB keyboard, and MSI’s suite of hardware management software (fans, graphics tweaking, battery profiles, etc./news/my-favorite-google-codename-and-epic-s-favorite-evidence-project-hug.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/my-favorite-google-codename-and-epic-s-favorite-evidence-project-hug.htmlMy favorite Google codename and Epic’s favorite evidence: “Project Hug.” We’ve told you about Hug before, and now Epic’s telling the jury that 22 game developers “ultimately” made deals with Google that allegedly kept them from abandoning the Play Store, Bornstein claims. “Some of them told Google they were going to compete against the Play store, and Google paid them not to do so.” Bornstein admits “Google was too clever” to actually draw up contracts forcing devs not to compete with the Play Store but says Riot Games agreed not to compete./news/nasa-s-ocean-worlds-announcement-watch-the-live-stream-at-2pm-et.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-s-ocean-worlds-announcement-watch-the-live-stream-at-2pm-et.htmlThis afternoon, NASA is going to make an announcement about big findings from the Cassini spacecraft, a probe that’s been exploring the Saturn system since 2004. This particular announcement will revolve around “new results about ocean worlds” in our Solar System, so that means we’ll most likely be focusing on either Titan or Enceladus. The two moons of Saturn are thought to harbor liquid water. Enceladus has a subsurface ocean and this saltwater periodically erupts from the moon’s surface as plumes./news/nest-thermostat-review-more-simple-than-smart.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nest-thermostat-review-more-simple-than-smart.htmlTen years ago, Nest introduced its first smart thermostat, the Nest Learning Thermostat, and showed the world what a smart thermostat is capable of. You can use it to automatically program your thermostat’s schedule, control it with your smartphone or a voice assistant, integrate it with other smart devices in your home like smoke detectors, and have it adjust itself for when you’ve left the house. The company’s latest model, the simply named $129./news/netflix-will-now-let-you-manage-which-devices-are-tied-to-your-account.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-will-now-let-you-manage-which-devices-are-tied-to-your-account.htmlNetflix is rolling out a new feature called Manage Access and Devices that lets you see the devices associated with your account. Based on a screenshot from Netflix, you’ll be able to see things like which devices are connected to your account, which profile watched something on that device, and where they watched it from. If you want to log somebody out of the account, you can click the “sign out” button./news/netflix-s-arcane-series-wins-emmy-award-for-animation.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-arcane-series-wins-emmy-award-for-animation.htmlArcane, the popular Netflix animated series based on the League of Legends video game, has won the award for Outstanding Animated Program at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, on top of the three other animation-related trophies it earned earlier this year. This marks the first time that a streaming-exclusive show has won the award, despite growing competition in recent years. Arcane beat another streaming exclusive, Marvel’s What If…? (available to watch on Disney Plus), as well as non-streaming offerings from Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, and Rick and Morty, to the punch./news/netflix-s-neo-yokio-could-have-been-awesome-but-it-failed-the-execution.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-neo-yokio-could-have-been-awesome-but-it-failed-the-execution.htmlNetflix’s original series Neo Yokio has some strong names in its roster. The series creator is Ezra Koenig, lead singer of Vampire Weekend, which makes good music. So does Jaden Smith, who stars in the series. So does Dev Hynes — aka Blood Orange, my favorite indie artist on Spotify — who composed original music for one episode. Some of the best anime storyboard artists are on this project as well: Kazuhiro Furuhashi, who worked on classic hits like Rurouni Kenshin and the more recent Hunter x Hunter, and Junji Nishimura, who worked on oldies but goodies like Urusei Yatsura./news/new-black-hole-image-shows-off-vortex-of-magnetic-chaos.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-black-hole-image-shows-off-vortex-of-magnetic-chaos.htmlA new, detailed shot of a black hole reveals spiraling lines of mysterious magnetic forces that give astronomers an unprecedented look at how these cosmic monsters behave. It’s an intimate portrait of the black hole at the center of the gigantic M87 galaxy, which lies some 55 million light-years away from Earth. Black holes are scattered across the universe and exist in almost every galaxy, but their behavior remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in astronomy./news/new-footage-emerges-of-most-notorious-street-fighter-moment-in-history.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-footage-emerges-of-most-notorious-street-fighter-moment-in-history.htmlIf you’ve only ever seen one piece of footage of competitive video gaming, there’s a good chance it’s this one: the “Daigo Parry” or “Evo Moment #37,” taken from Daigo Umehara’s Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike semi-final match against Justin Wong at Evo 2004. A legitimate feat of manual dexterity and timing that makes Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice look like Spyro the Dragon, Daigo’s incredible fifteen-parry comeback with just a pixel of health left drove the crowd wild./news/new-york-s-attorney-general-says-siriusxm-s-annoying-cancellation-process-is-actually-illegal.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-york-s-attorney-general-says-siriusxm-s-annoying-cancellation-process-is-actually-illegal.htmlSiriusXM is getting sued by the state of New York for making it too difficult for subscribers to cancel their plans. The suit claims that customers who want to cancel are required to chat over the phone or online with an agent who bombards them with questions and offers. “Sirius deliberately wastes its subscribers’ time even though it has the ability to process cancellations with the click of a button,” the suit reads./news/olympus-om-d-e-m5-a-retro-micro-four-thirds-camera-from-rumor-to-announcement.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/olympus-om-d-e-m5-a-retro-micro-four-thirds-camera-from-rumor-to-announcement.htmlWe've been hearing rumors of a new Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus, and we just got some new evidence: 43Rumors posted a teaser shot of a new camera, coyly cropped so only the "OM" is showing. There's not much to see from the picture, which depicts a decidedly non-retro camera despite the apparent harkening to Olympus' previous OM series of shooters. We see two dials, a dedicated video recording button, and an Fn2 button (presumably Fn is somewhere else), all on a glossy black body./news/one-of-the-lego-designers-i-interviewed-quit-to-become-a-youtuber.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/one-of-the-lego-designers-i-interviewed-quit-to-become-a-youtuber.htmlOne of the Lego designers I interviewed quit to become a YouTuber. I’m still pretty proud of my big story on how Lego builds a new Lego set — but why not hear about the Lego Polaroid directly from its Lego designer? James May, who also recently worked on the BTS Dynamite and Hocus Pocus witches’ cottage sets, has now left the company to start a YouTube channel, design toys for UK schools, and also write for Brickset./news/openai-is-plagued-by-safety-concerns.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-is-plagued-by-safety-concerns.htmlOpenAI is a leader in the race to develop AI as intelligent as a human. Yet, employees continue to show up in the press and on podcasts to voice their grave concerns about safety at the $80 billion nonprofit research lab. The latest comes from The Washington Post, where an anonymous source claimed OpenAI rushed through safety tests and celebrated its product before ensuring its safety. “They planned the launch after-party prior to knowing if it was safe to launch,” an anonymous employee told The Washington Post./news/opening-your-threads-account-up-to-the-fediverse-is-as-easy-as-a-click.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/opening-your-threads-account-up-to-the-fediverse-is-as-easy-as-a-click.htmlIt looks like the fediverse is opening up. In late March, Meta’s Threads introduced a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and, presumably, other federated social networks. If you’re a Threads user from one of these three countries and want to give this beta a try, it’s not difficult. You can do it from the mobile app or the web version:/news/our-favorite-things-gear-gadgets-and-other-stuff.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/our-favorite-things-gear-gadgets-and-other-stuff.htmlIt’s hard to admit, but it’s all too easy to get caught up in obsessive behavior occasionally, especially when it comes to entertainment. It can be a TV series, a game, a series of novels, a comic book universe... It’s the kind of thing where you look up and suddenly realize that it’s 2AM and you have to get up early for work, and then you think, “Well, one more episode won’t hurt,” or, “If I try one more time, I can survive into the next round./news/people-with-legacy-workspace-accounts-are-getting-free-extra-storage.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/people-with-legacy-workspace-accounts-are-getting-free-extra-storage.htmlGiving people something for free and then slowly pushing them toward a paid subscription is a tech tale as old as time. But a group of people with decade-old G Suite (now Google Workspace) accounts have managed a rare victory: keeping their free accounts for, well, free. And because of a recent change, some are even getting extra storage at no cost — but it’s unclear what will happen next./news/philips-hue-is-getting-a-130-app-for-tvs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/philips-hue-is-getting-a-130-app-for-tvs.htmlSignify, owner of the Philips Hue brand, is launching a Philips Hue Sync TV app for Samsung TVs. The $129.99 app will be available on Samsung’s 2022 or newer QLED TVs (Q60 or above) on January 5th and will synchronize everything you see on a TV to Philips Hue smart lights. It’s effectively the software version of the $250 Play HDMI Sync Box, which scanned HDMI inputs to sync lights to movies and TV shows./news/pippin-barr-gives-us-36-pong-variations-with-lasers-tetris-blocks-and-more.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pippin-barr-gives-us-36-pong-variations-with-lasers-tetris-blocks-and-more.htmlAs designer Pippin Barr will readily admit, his games tend to be based more on concepts than on "fun" in any traditional sense — just try beating the final round of Epic Sax Game. With Pongs, however, Barr has taken a surprising turn into the realm of enjoyment. Some of these 36 variations on the classic table tennis adaptation riff on other games like B.U.T.T.O.N. and Snake, while others add simple but satisfying mechanics like a ball that splits in two or a net that must be knocked apart before you can hit the ball to your opponent./news/playmakers-the-great-football-series-the-nfl-got-canceled.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/playmakers-the-great-football-series-the-nfl-got-canceled.htmlWhen ESPN canceled Playmakers, a critically acclaimed and popular drama about the lives of professional football that ran for a single season in 2003, they were pretty transparent about why: it had pissed off the NFL. “It’s our opinion that we’re not in the business of antagonizing our partner, even though we’ve done it, and continued to carry it over the NFL’s objections,” said Mark Shapiro, the then executive vice president of ESPN./news/police-may-have-used-tesla-s-autopilot-feature-to-stop-driver-asleep-at-the-wheel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/police-may-have-used-tesla-s-autopilot-feature-to-stop-driver-asleep-at-the-wheel.htmlRedwood City California Highway Patrol stopped a Tesla Model 3 they suspected was running Autopilot with a drunk driver asleep at the wheel. The incident occurred last Friday, November 30th at 3:37AM PT, when officers observed a car going 70 mph on Highway 101 with a driver that appeared to be asleep. After flashing their lights and sirens in an attempt to pull the car over, the officers deployed a strategy based around their assumption that the Tesla Model 3 was running on Autopilot./news/postmates-expands-its-walmart-grocery-delivery-service-to-los-angeles-and-san-diego.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/postmates-expands-its-walmart-grocery-delivery-service-to-los-angeles-and-san-diego.htmlPostmates and Walmart have expanded their grocery delivery partnership to people in Los Angeles, San Diego, and other nearby areas, the company announced today. Previously the integration was available in cities like Las Vegas, Charlotte, and Oklahoma City. In keeping with how Postmates nearly always has a promo code for free delivery, it’s advertising the promo code FRESHCAR for free delivery on your first order if you’re in LA or San Diego./news/psvr-2-how-to-stay-safe-sane-and-strong-stomached-in-sony-s-new-headset.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/psvr-2-how-to-stay-safe-sane-and-strong-stomached-in-sony-s-new-headset.htmlSony’s PlayStation VR2 arrived this week, and while it’s one of the best virtual reality headsets we’ve ever used, there’s still a number of common VR pitfalls and PSVR 2-specific annoyances new buyers might run into. Whether this is your first VR headset or just your most recent purchase, here are a handful of tips that might keep you from getting sick, tripping on a cord, running out of battery, or — and we hear this is particularly common — thinking Sony shipped you a blurry VR headset when it’s probably just a trick of the light./news/razer-blade-14-2023-review-this-pricing-is-silly.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-blade-14-2023-review-this-pricing-is-silly.htmlThe 14-inch gaming laptop space basically has two products in it. Sure, there are others here and there. But if you come up to me saying you want a 14-inch gaming laptop, barring very extreme circumstances, I am going to be recommending you one of two. There have been years when the decision between the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and the Razer Blade 14 was a tough one. But 2023, it appears, may not be one of those years./news/razer-s-junglecat-brings-nintendo-switch-like-snap-on-controllers-to-android.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-s-junglecat-brings-nintendo-switch-like-snap-on-controllers-to-android.htmlRemember when Razer announced a sleek sliding gamepad for your iPhone called the Junglecat? I bet not, considering how the company axed that idea without ever releasing it to the world. But today, it’s launching a $100 mobile gamepad called the Junglecat yet again — this time reincarnated as a set of two Nintendo Joy-Con-like gamepads that snap onto either side of your handset. The catch is you’ll need to stick your phone in a specific case to make that trick work, and Razer only has cases for four phones to start: the Razer Phone 2, Samsung Galaxy Note 9, and Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus in the US, or swapping out the Note 9 for a Huawei P30 Pro case in the rest of the world./news/resident-evil-7-everything-you-re-too-embarrassed-to-ask.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/resident-evil-7-everything-you-re-too-embarrassed-to-ask.htmlResident Evil 7: Biohazard arrives today, January 24th, and with it, the first great and terrifying game of 2017. It serves as both a fresh breath for the series, and a return to the horror roots that made the original game so compelling. Whether this is your first romp through the Resident Evil franchise, or you’re just interested in learning more, we’re here to get you started. What is Resident Evil 7: Biohazard?/news/reuters-finally-decides-to-charge-you-for-its-online-news-stories-with-a-paywall.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reuters-finally-decides-to-charge-you-for-its-online-news-stories-with-a-paywall.htmlAs online publishers grapple with how to replace dwindling ad revenue and find new ways to bring in money, Reuters, one of the largest news organizations in the world, is using a strategy that’s been around for years and putting its online content behind a paywall. Reuters.com draws 41 million unique visitors monthly, according to the company, but it has not charged for access like other news sites in its business-centric niche have done for some time./news/revel-introduces-a-99-a-month-e-bike-subscription-for-nyc-residents.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/revel-introduces-a-99-a-month-e-bike-subscription-for-nyc-residents.htmlElectric moped rental company Revel is expanding its product lineup to include monthly e-bike subscriptions for residents of New York City. It’s the latest company to try to capitalize on the e-bike boom by shifting to a Netflix or Spotify subscription model for transportation. For $99 a month, interested customers can get a stylish electric bike manufactured by NYC-based e-bike company Wing delivered straight to their door. The price also includes complimentary maintenance, including flat tires fixes, loose chains repairs, or brake upkeep./news/samsung-announces-new-entry-level-oled-tvs-likely-with-lg-panels-inside.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-announces-new-entry-level-oled-tvs-likely-with-lg-panels-inside.htmlIn its quest to carve out a chunk of the OLED TV market, Samsung has, until now, focused on the premium end with impressive QD-OLED models. But today, Samsung announced the entry-level S85D series of OLED TVs, bringing the fight to LG Electronics at lower price points as well. And here’s the interesting thing: these sets almost certainly include OLED panels manufactured by LG Display. Samsung placed a big order for them last year to help meet its production needs, establishing a business alliance that would’ve been unthinkable in the not-too-distant past./news/samsung-dex-review-the-closest-thing-we-have-to-using-our-phones-as-pcs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-dex-review-the-closest-thing-we-have-to-using-our-phones-as-pcs.htmlPerhaps you’ve heard this idea before: can a single device work as both your mobile phone and your desktop or laptop computer? If you have, and you’ve used the many prior attempts at it, you’ve probably been disappointed. A lot of companies, from Palm to Motorola and even Microsoft, have tried this idea, yet none have succeeded; we’re still all carrying around phones and laptops instead of just one, do-everything device./news/samsung-s-galaxy-book-3-gets-new-chips-and-a-big-display-upgrade.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-galaxy-book-3-gets-new-chips-and-a-big-display-upgrade.htmlSamsung has announced its new Galaxy Book3 laptop line. As their name implies, these laptops are sequels to the Galaxy Book2 devices that Samsung released last year. The Book3 devices are visibly similar to their Book2 predecessors in many ways; the biggest major changes are to the processors and the displays. The Book3 line includes Intel’s 13th Gen Core processors as well as a new screen that Samsung calls the Dynamic AMOLED 2X Display./news/sennheiser-hd820-review-too-closed-for-comfort.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sennheiser-hd820-review-too-closed-for-comfort.htmlIn the imagination of every audiophile, there’s a pair of “endgame” headphones that finally ease our worried minds. Headphones that transcend technical nitpicking and just make us want to listen. Call them zero-FOMO headphones. I have reviewed only two such examples: Focal’s $3,400 Utopia and Sennheiser’s $1,700 HD800 S. This summer, Sennheiser put forward a fresh candidate for that nearly perfect class with its introduction of the HD820. Using the same audio driver and structural design as the HD800 S, the HD820 is essentially a remix: a closed-back version of the 800 S that keeps the open look and tries to maintain the same transparent sound./news/shippo-motorized-tail-wags-with-your-brain-waves-hands-on-video.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shippo-motorized-tail-wags-with-your-brain-waves-hands-on-video.htmlIf you’re interested in the idea of cybernetic body modification but put off by the excruciating pain, you might want to hold out for Japanese company Neurowear’s Shippo. A follow up to last year’s Necomimi cat ears, the Shippo is a motorized tail that wags in accordance with your brain activity, turning you into a half-dog chimera. The device, whose name means "tail" in Japanese, uses an inexpensive NeuroSky EEG headset to measure your brain activity while a clip-on pulse monitor measures your heartbeat./news/skullcandy-s-new-mod-earbuds-offer-cheap-multipoint-bluetooth-support.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/skullcandy-s-new-mod-earbuds-offer-cheap-multipoint-bluetooth-support.htmlSkullcandy is continuing its trend of inexpensive, feature-rich earbuds with its latest offering, the Mod earbuds. All of the standard fare is present here with IP55 weatherproofing and USB-C charging. The Mods also manage to pack in multipoint Bluetooth connectivity, which, as the name might suggest, lets you connect and listen to multiple devices at the same time. This isn’t a new feature to earbuds in general, but when those earbuds only cost $60, it's definitely worthy of attention./news/sling-tv-now-costs-40-a-month-the-fourth-price-hike-in-five-years.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sling-tv-now-costs-40-a-month-the-fourth-price-hike-in-five-years.htmlIf you’re paying Dish to stream live TV channels over the internet, prepare for a higher bill yet again: the company’s Sling TV streaming service is raising prices by $5 a month for the fourth time in five years. Sling Orange and Sling Blue pay TV packages will now cost $40 a month each — up from $35 previously — and you’ll pay $55 for the package with both Orange and Blue./news/sonic-frontiers-developer-says-it-isn-t-an-open-world-game.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sonic-frontiers-developer-says-it-isn-t-an-open-world-game.htmlWhen Sonic Frontiers debuted the first little bits of gameplay, fans immediately drew comparisons to Breath of the Wild. It wasn’t hard to do. We were shown Sonic racing through realistic, natural-looking environments, exploring great stone artifacts that dotted the landscape. There was no timer, no counter ticking up the number of rings acquired, just Sonic and a seemingly open world. And while Sonic Frontiers’ creative officer Takashi Iizuka understood why, to some fans, the game looks like Sega’s late-hour attempt to replicate BOTW’s success, it’s actually nothing like that./news/sony-brings-fortnite-to-the-car-bumper.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-brings-fortnite-to-the-car-bumper.htmlSony and Honda’s in-development Afeela EV will let you display messages and images on its front bumper, according to a new video about the car, including the ability to... advertise video games. You can see the screen-ified bumper — sorry, the “Media Bar” — starting at 3:17 in the video. The video does show some more sensible uses of the Media Bar, like displaying the name of the car, a red warning sign, or even a birthday greeting./news/sony-hasn-t-stopped-manufacturing-the-playstation-4.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-hasn-t-stopped-manufacturing-the-playstation-4.htmlWhile many of us fall somewhere between trying to find a new-generation gaming console like the Xbox Series X / S and PlayStation 5 or trying to find worthwhile gaming experiences once we have them, Sony tells Bloomberg it’s still manufacturing new PlayStation 4s. According to the report, an internal plan had projected an end to the production of the system in 2021, but the ongoing shortages will cause the company to build about a million PS4s in 2022, according to sources./news/sony-playstation-portal-price-availability-and-how-to-preorder.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-playstation-portal-price-availability-and-how-to-preorder.htmlThere is a chance the PlayStation Portal will sell out as quickly as the PlayStation 5 did when it was first released, which is perhaps why Sony is currently limiting orders to one device per customer. We have yet to test the Portal — stay tuned to The Verge dot com on that front — but if you’re someone who wants to secure a unit at launch, rest assured it’s still available for preorder at multiple retailers in the US and several other countries./news/sony-s-299-mdr-1am2-headphones-put-the-emphasis-on-high-res-audio.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-299-mdr-1am2-headphones-put-the-emphasis-on-high-res-audio.htmlHaving recently augmented its over-ear headphones portfolio with two excellent variants of the wireless 1000X, Sony today returns to its wired range with an update to the popular MDR-1A model. The new MDR-1AM2 doesn’t add any fancy extras like the 1000X’s noise canceling. It’s a model that focuses narrowly on delivering high-resolution, high-quality audio on the move. Inside the 1AM2 is a newly developed 40mm audio driver that contains an aluminum-coated liquid crystal polymer diaphragm./news/spotify-and-epic-criticize-apple-s-ios-changes-as-a-mockery-of-the-dma.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-and-epic-criticize-apple-s-ios-changes-as-a-mockery-of-the-dma.htmlApple’s approach to the Digital Markets Act was guided by two simple goals: complying with the law and reducing the inevitable, increased risks the DMA creates for our EU users... For every change, teams at Apple continued to put our users at the center of everything we do. That meant creating safeguards to protect EU users to the greatest extent possible and to respond to new threats, including new vectors for malware and viruses, opportunities for scams and fraud, and challenges to ensuring apps are functional on Apple’s platforms./news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-will-get-a-musical-episode-after-sdcc-2023-announcement.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-will-get-a-musical-episode-after-sdcc-2023-announcement.htmlSaturday, July 22 – Episode 207, “Those Old Scientists” Thursday, July 27 – Episode 208, “Under the Cloak of War” Thursday, August 3 – Episode 209, “Subspace Rhapsody” Thursday, August 10 – Episode 210 (Season Finale), “Hegemony” ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfbHxzfo5ranFoZGiAenvSrZirZaSnsqx50q2pmqaXmnqvsdZmrqiqnJnAbrXSZp6erKSeu6h5wGakrquZmK6tecSpoKynlJo%3D/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-is-leaving-netflix-next-month.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-is-leaving-netflix-next-month.htmlIf you haven’t caught up on The Clone Wars on Netflix, your time to do so is running short. According to Entertainment Weekly (via Club Jade), the animated Star Wars show is departing the streaming service on April 7th. The show likely isn’t going away for long. Disney is expected to unveil its streaming service, Disney +, on April 11th, which will host a range of original programming, including a new season of the series, which was announced as an exclusive to the streaming service at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con./news/steven-soderbergh-s-all-iphone-movie-unsane-makes-a-poor-showing-for-the-iphone-7-plus.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/steven-soderbergh-s-all-iphone-movie-unsane-makes-a-poor-showing-for-the-iphone-7-plus.htmlSteven Soderbergh’s new movie Unsane fits into a long line of “Who’s the crazy one here?” stories. Films like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake Is Missing, and modern equivalents like Flightplan and The Forgotten all hinge on protagonists being told they’re deluded, and that someone they clearly remember never actually existed. Unsane plays a similar game, with The Crown’s Claire Foy as a fragile, angry woman convinced that her stalker has somehow infiltrated the psychiatric ward where she’s been committed./news/support-for-ps4-game-creation-tool-dreams-is-ending-in-september.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/support-for-ps4-game-creation-tool-dreams-is-ending-in-september.htmlToday, Media Molecule has announced it’s terminating live support for its game creation engine, Dreams. “As we continue to evaluate and evolve our priorities for the studio and Dreams, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue live support for Dreams after 1st September, 2023,” the announcement read. Dreams isn’t shutting down entirely, so players will still be able to create things like this rendering of an English breakfast that is so realistic that it actually makes the meal look appetizing./news/t-mobile-s-revvl-v-plus-5g-costs-just-199.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/t-mobile-s-revvl-v-plus-5g-costs-just-199.htmlThe year of cheap 5G phones is upon us, and T-Mobile is offering its customers yet another low-cost 5G phone with today’s announcement of the Revvl V Plus 5G. The T-Mobile-branded device will cost $199, with a huge 6.8-inch 1600 x 900 display and 5,000mAh battery. It’ll go on sale first through Metro by T-Mobile starting on July 12th, with sales through T-Mobile starting on July 23rd. The Revvl V Plus 5G comes with Android 11 and uses a MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor designed with inexpensive 5G phones in mind./news/taylor-swift-and-the-music-industry-s-next-20.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/taylor-swift-and-the-music-industry-s-next-20.htmlI have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of its relationship to tech — whether that’s new formats based on new tech, like vinyl to CDs, new business models like streaming, or simply being disrupted by new kinds of artists who use new forms of promotion, like TikTok, in unexpected ways. I’ve always thought that if you can wrap your head around what’s happening to the music industry, you can pretty much see the future of TV or movies or the news or whatever because the music industry just moves that fast./news/the-7-biggest-announcements-from-apple-s-ipad-event.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-7-biggest-announcements-from-apple-s-ipad-event.htmlApple just wrapped up its “Let Loose” event, where it showed off its first new iPads in nearly two years. But the event had more than just iPads — we also got a first look at some refreshed accessories and updated software. If you want a quick rundown of everything Apple announced, check out our roundup below. The iPad Air adds more screen real estate Screenshot: Apple Apple has added a new 13-inch iPad Air to its lineup, offering a cheaper and lighter alternative to the iPad Pro./news/the-amazon-photos-app-has-been-redesigned-for-android-users.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-amazon-photos-app-has-been-redesigned-for-android-users.htmlAmazon Photos on Android has been redesigned to make app navigation and sharing photos and videos easier for its users, bringing the service in line with a similar update that rolled out to iOS devices almost a year ago.  Now, Amazon Photo users can search a photo gallery from the home screen singlehandedly — emphasizing navigation options all being “within a thumb’s reach.” Swiping up within the Amazon Photos gallery on your device will open a new control panel where users can find curated features to filter photos by object, place, or year./news/the-atari-themed-hotel-dream-isn-t-over-yet.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-atari-themed-hotel-dream-isn-t-over-yet.htmlThe Atari-themed hotel dream isn’t over yet. Nearly four years ago, Atari announced a licensing deal that would allow a company called GSD Group to build Atari-themed hotels with “immersive” VR / AR experiences and esports venues — and we haven’t heard much since. But now the Las Vegas Review-Journal says Atari Hotel is “in talks with land partners for potential Las Vegas sites” and that a “series of project announcements” is coming in the first half of this year./news/the-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-stream-when-you-re-working-from-home.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-movies-and-tv-shows-to-stream-when-you-re-working-from-home.htmlIn the era of social distancing that many of us now live in as part of a worldwide effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, tons of people are now stuck at home for days or even weeks, discouraged from meeting in public places or hanging out in large groups.  That means that it’s the perfect time to kick back, relax, and catch up on all of those great TV shows and movies you’ve been meaning to catch up on./news/the-biggest-ai-companies-agree-to-crack-down-on-child-abuse-images.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-biggest-ai-companies-agree-to-crack-down-on-child-abuse-images.htmlTech companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon committed today to reviewing their AI training data for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and removing it from use in any future models. The companies signed on to a new set of principles meant to limit the proliferation of CSAM. They promise to ensure training datasets do not contain CSAM, to avoid datasets with a high risk of including CSAM, and to remove CSAM imagery or links to CSAM from data sources./news/the-company-behind-the-dual-screen-yotaphone-is-bankrupt.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-company-behind-the-dual-screen-yotaphone-is-bankrupt.htmlWe’ve been following Russia’s YotaPhone since 2012, but it seems like the saga of the power-sipping E Ink-backed dual-screen handset has come to an end. Yota Devices is bankrupt, reports Cnews.ru and Liliputing, pointing to a liquidation notice published in the Cayman Islands Gazette (PDF). Poor sales caught up to the company According to Russian media reports, it was a lawsuit that eventually wound up bankrupting the company. Yota’s manufacturer for the first two YotaPhones, Hi-P Singapore, sued for $126 million back in 2015 because YotaPhone reportedly refused to take delivery (and presumably pay for) the minimum number of phones it agreed to order./news/the-current-war-review-it-s-basically-amadeus-for-electricity.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-current-war-review-it-s-basically-amadeus-for-electricity.htmlIt’s unusual for a film to arrive in theaters labeled “Director’s Cut,” but it’s happening with The Current War, a historical film about the tech face-off between irascible inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and genteel industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon). The film’s themes are integrity, the damaging effects of powerful men, and the importance of savvy branding — and those same themes have played out in the film’s release just as much as they’ve turned up on-screen./news/the-eu-s-digital-services-act-is-now-in-effect-here-s-what-that-means.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-eu-s-digital-services-act-is-now-in-effect-here-s-what-that-means.htmlThe European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has officially gone into effect. Starting on August 25th, 2023, tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and more must comply with sweeping legislation that holds online platforms legally accountable for the content posted to them. Even though this new law was passed in the EU, we’ll likely see far-reaching global effects as companies adjust their policies to comply. Here’s what exactly the DSA does and how the EU plans on enforcing it./news/the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-it-s-all-digital.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-it-s-all-digital.htmlGary Larson just released new comics for The Far Side, the first strips since January 1995. While Larson cautions that this is “not a resurrection of The Far Side daily cartoons,” after 25 years of rereading our favorites, we’re so excited for new work that we’ll take anything he wants to share. Larson started to bring his comics online late last year. The first of the new comics features bears, aliens, and taxidermy (all staples of The Far Side)./news/the-first-ever-ultra-hd-4k-blu-ray-player-has-gone-on-sale-a-little-bit-early.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-first-ever-ultra-hd-4k-blu-ray-player-has-gone-on-sale-a-little-bit-early.htmlSamsung's UBD-K8500, the first Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray player, has gone on sale a bit earlier than expected. The device was announced at IFA last year, and scheduled to hit stores around March. However, there have been scattered reports that certain shops have already got the player in stock, while customers who preordered the device from Best Buy have been told it's now shipping on February 10th. One store in Santa Monica which advertised the player on Friday seems to have sold out that same day, according to a Facebook post./news/the-hp-spectre-fold-is-the-world-s-thinnest-17-inch-foldable-pc.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-hp-spectre-fold-is-the-world-s-thinnest-17-inch-foldable-pc.htmlOver the past few years, companies across the PC space have been engaged in a slow, but steady race to build a foldable laptop that people might actually want to buy. Various companies have thrown their hats in the ring. Lenovo has done a foldable ThinkPad. Asus did a foldable Zenbook. And HP, not to be left out, is giving a foldable the old college try. The company has announced the HP Spectre Fold, a Windows laptop with a 17-inch OLED screen that folds in half./news/the-killer-alligator-movie-crawl-is-a-solid-antidote-for-summer-blockbusters.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-killer-alligator-movie-crawl-is-a-solid-antidote-for-summer-blockbusters.htmlAs the line between film and television continues to blur, big-screen movies are still supposed to flaunt their scope. In a summer where plenty of would-be blockbusters are withering at the box office, and plenty of potential moviegoers seem to be staying home to watch Stranger Things, size and scale remain selling points for the theatrical experience. Avengers: Endgame hops around planets and time-streams. Men in Black: International zips between continents like a James Bond picture./news/the-next-knives-out-called-wake-up-dead-man-premieres-in-2025.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-next-knives-out-called-wake-up-dead-man-premieres-in-2025.htmlBenoit Blanc is tackling another mystery very soon. Director Rian Johnson has teased the next outing of the detective, which will be called Wake Up Dead Man and is set to premiere sometime in 2025. In addition to the return of Johnson to write and direct, Daniel Craig will be reprising his role as Blanc. For now, that’s all the information we have to go on. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanxzgI5ra2puY26Dc3vKp6CvnaNivLbAjKycqq2VoXq4rcqeZK6oXZmyorCMppinZaKauaat0p5knZmkmnqvsdOfo6Kw/news/the-oatmeal-got-to-ride-in-google-s-self-driving-car.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-oatmeal-got-to-ride-in-google-s-self-driving-car.htmlThis is what happens when cartoonist Matthew Inman gets to ride in Google's self-driving car: Inman, the cartoonist behind The Oatmeal, got to take a test ride in one of Google's autonomous cars last week, and naturally, he's put his impressions online with some illustrations to go along with them. Though the cartoons depict the new prototype car that Google unveiled today, it looks like Inman may have only got to try out one of the existing consumer vehicles that Google has modified to drive on its own./news/the-office-is-getting-a-peacock-spinoff-about-local-newspapers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-office-is-getting-a-peacock-spinoff-about-local-newspapers.htmlNewer shows like Abbott Elementary have proven that there’s still interest in mockumentary-style TV more than a decade after The Office came to an end, and NBC has plans to capitalize on the moment with a new series set in the same — apologies — universe Dunder Mifflin exists in. Greg Daniels was responsible for adapting The Office for NBC, and the network announced today that he and Michael Koman are creating a new, untitled spinoff series for Peacock that will focus on “a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters./news/the-opal-tadpole-is-a-high-end-webcam-designed-specifically-for-laptops.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-opal-tadpole-is-a-high-end-webcam-designed-specifically-for-laptops.htmlTwo years ago, Opal launched a camera with a tweet. (They were still called tweets back then.) It was the middle of a global pandemic, a work-from-home revolution, and a truly brutal time to start a hardware company — and Opal suddenly had tens of thousands of people signed up for the webcam that Alexis Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder and Opal investor, promised was “mind blowing.” Opal at the time had four employees, CEO Veeraj Chugh tells me, and it took all the company’s time and attention just to ship cameras as fast as it could./news/the-original-pokemon-is-still-fantastic-even-if-it-s-your-first-time.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-original-pokemon-is-still-fantastic-even-if-it-s-your-first-time.htmlGames often age poorly. More so than any other form of entertainment, games change at a rapid pace, and new innovations can make older titles feel downright archaic, to the point they’re no fun to play. That’s why a modern remake of a game like Final Fantasy VII is such a huge undertaking; it’s not just the visuals that need updating, it’s the entire feel of the game. Last weekend Nintendo rereleased the original trilogy of Pokemon games — Red, Blue, and Yellow — on the 3DS, and I was able to experience them for the very first time./news/the-president-just-called-the-ceo-of-apple-tim-apple.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-president-just-called-the-ceo-of-apple-tim-apple.htmlWe’re going to be opening up the labor forces because we have to. We have so many companies coming in,” Trump says. “People like Tim — you’re expanding all over and doing things that I really wanted you to do right from the beginning. I used to say, ‘Tim, you gotta start doing it here,’ and you really have you’ve really put a big investment in our country. We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple./news/the-ps5-is-getting-an-automatic-game-clip-feature-that-helps-other-players.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-ps5-is-getting-an-automatic-game-clip-feature-that-helps-other-players.htmlSony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players. PS5 players will be able to automatically upload gameplay to help contribute to hint videos provided by game developers. The opt-in experience will let your PS5 automatically capture a game clip when you complete an activity in supported titles. “Then, it will be reviewed by a moderator, and if approved, your video will be published as a Game Help hint for PlayStation players to watch, learn from, and rate,” explains Sabrina Meditz, senior director of product management for the PS5 platform experience./news/the-tiktok-blackout-challenge-has-now-allegedly-killed-seven-kids.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-tiktok-blackout-challenge-has-now-allegedly-killed-seven-kids.htmlTikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who say their children died of strangulation attempting the “blackout challenge,” after the app showed them videos of other people trying it. One suit filed against the company in June alleges that at least seven specific children died last year while attempting the challenge, which the complaint says “encourages users to choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out.” All the children who reportedly died were under 15 years old./news/the-xiaomi-14-ultra-photography-kit-is-a-beaut.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-xiaomi-14-ultra-photography-kit-is-a-beaut.htmlThe Xiaomi 14 Ultra photography kit is a beaut. I’m busy testing the Xiaomi 14 Ultra’s camera but please take a minute to appreciate this gorgeous photography accessory kit. It updates last year’s version with a beefier battery that can power the phone. Just feast your eyes on that gorgeous two-stage shutter button! One thing I’m noticing so far? It’s heavier than the previous version. That’s not so hot. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaHxygI5ra2poYGWBcXvToZxmsJmWvK61jGprZq2cqb%2Biec%2Bhpq2nl6eusbTYZqKirF2ewG6tjJucmq2k/news/these-prank-stickers-look-just-like-airpods.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-prank-stickers-look-just-like-airpods.htmlIf you’ve experienced the mild horror of losing, or even momentarily thinking you may have lost, an AirPod, then beware these fake AirPod stickers. In a genius prank, Pablo Rochat made these incredibly realistic stickers of AirPods and placed them on sidewalks. They’re even the right size. When stuck to the ground, they look just like actual AirPods — so much so that you might check your pocket (or your ears) to make sure you didn’t drop yours by accident./news/this-hybrid-keyboard-trackpad-is-almost-a-great-ipad-mouse-solution.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-hybrid-keyboard-trackpad-is-almost-a-great-ipad-mouse-solution.htmlI’ve recently written about the best iPad Pro keyboard options as well as how well iPadOS’ experimental mouse support works. So when I came across a neat product that bridges the gap between the two, I knew I’d have to check it out. Developed by a small South Korean company called Innopresso, the Mokibo is a keyboard with touch sensitivity on the surface, allowing you to use it as a trackpad./news/this-paper-lotus-lamp-helps-you-practice-mindful-breathing.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-paper-lotus-lamp-helps-you-practice-mindful-breathing.htmlLast week, we found a way to water our plants by singing to them. This week, we’re focusing inward, and taking care of ourselves with a simple paper-enclosed bot. This lamp will beep cheerfully to remind you when it’s time to stop and relax. When you pick it up and hold it in your lap, it will pulse at a rate of six breaths per minute to help you regulate your breathing./news/this-watch-puts-beautifully-rotating-planets-on-your-wrist.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-watch-puts-beautifully-rotating-planets-on-your-wrist.htmlYou can now have that solar system diorama you made in school on your wrist in the form of a watch. Van Cleef & Arpel have debuted a gorgeous new astronomical watch, the 44mm Midnight Planétarium, at Geneva's annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. The watch shows both numerical time and the rotation of five planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — visible from Earth. Each planet is represented by precious and semi-precious stones, which rotate around the sun (a stone in the center) in the amount of time it takes for the actual planet to make a rotation./news/tidal-s-new-dj-session-feature-is-available-to-try-for-early-access-participants.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tidal-s-new-dj-session-feature-is-available-to-try-for-early-access-participants.htmlTidal, the high-bitrate quality music streaming service, is testing a new feature that lets its HiFi Plus subscribers play DJ. Participants of the service’s Early Access Program can switch from playing music just for themselves to a DJ session, which then provides a link that can be sent to friends who can listen in. The Tidal feature can let you play remote work office DJ; just send the link to your team — assuming they all pay for Tidal (none of my co-workers could join my session)./news/toshiba-cuts-3-000-jobs-from-struggling-tv-division-will-close-two-production-facilities.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/toshiba-cuts-3-000-jobs-from-struggling-tv-division-will-close-two-production-facilities.htmlThe TV market hasn't been kind to manufacturers as of late, and Toshiba is the latest company making cuts to counteract weak performance. Its underperforming TV division will be slashed by 50 percent (around 3,000 jobs). But trimming its workforce down isn't enough; Toshiba will also halt production at two factories by the end of this fiscal year and bump up outsourced production to 70 percent. Despite a trend of weak demand and millions in losses, the company believes these drastic changes — combined with a stronger focus on 4K and emerging markets — will help its TV division get in the black by the second half of the fiscal year./news/transparent-creator-jill-soloway-s-next-show-for-amazon-is-a-musical-comedy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/transparent-creator-jill-soloway-s-next-show-for-amazon-is-a-musical-comedy.htmlA pair of Transparent veterans — creator Jill Soloway and writer Ethan Kuperberg — are working together on a new show for Amazon, an as-yet-untitled musical comedy that'll focus on a woman finding herself in Los Angeles. (That's not much to go on, but I suppose you could describe Transparent the same way.) According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kuperberg came up with the idea and is writing the show; Soloway is serving as its executive producer alongside another Transparent alum, Andrea Sperling./news/trump-s-chaos-made-america-a-sitting-duck-for-cyberattacks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/trump-s-chaos-made-america-a-sitting-duck-for-cyberattacks.htmlOn Sunday night, as news broke of one of the broadest state-sponsored cyberattacks in recent memory, former civilian cybersecurity chief Christopher Krebs was stuck tweeting. A state-sponsored attacker linked to Russia had compromised senior-level cabinet agencies, implicating huge portions of the government and private sector. Fired in November from his role leading the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after a political spat with President Trump, Krebs had to watch it all take place from the outside./news/twitch-bans-two-top-creators-in-struggle-with-sexually-suggestive-streams.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-bans-two-top-creators-in-struggle-with-sexually-suggestive-streams.htmlTwitch is once again struggling with how to handle sexually suggestive streams from some of the most popular women on its platform. Over the weekend, the service banned two top female streamers — Amouranth and Indiefoxx — who had been broadcasting ASMR streams from their beds. Both streams involved the creators licking a microphone while wearing what appeared to be the TikTok-famous leggings known for making your butt look great. It’s just the latest instance of Twitch making itself the arbiter of what counts as too sexy for its audience and advertisers./news/twitter-change-leaves-huge-gaps-in-websites.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-change-leaves-huge-gaps-in-websites.htmlTwitter has made a small but significant change to how deleted tweets are shown when they’re embedded in third-party websites. Since at least the end of March the social media network has started showing a blank box on external sites when an embedded tweet has been deleted. The change was detailed in a blog post from Kevin Marks. It’s a big change from how Twitter used to handle deleted-yet-embedded tweets, when it would preserve the original unformatted text./news/twitter-is-taking-down-a-fake-joe-biden-ad-amplified-by-trump-campaign-staffers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-is-taking-down-a-fake-joe-biden-ad-amplified-by-trump-campaign-staffers.htmlOver the last few days, a fake Joe Biden campaign ad has gone viral across Twitter, boosted in part by current and former Trump campaign staffers. After The Verge’s report on the image, Twitter said that it was in violation of its elections rules. The image shows Biden with a beam of light emanating from his chest with “His brain? No. His heart.” overlaid on top with the campaign’s official logo, too./news/twitter-launches-connect-tab-to-help-you-find-accounts-to-follow.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-launches-connect-tab-to-help-you-find-accounts-to-follow.htmlAlong with Twitter's personalized recommendations, users will also be able to find friends by syncing contacts from their address book. Twitter says the tab will change over time as it continues to refine its recommendations based on your activity. It will also show you why it's suggesting you follow specific accounts (basically, if you follow a lot of basketball players, maybe you'll want to follow more basketball players). If Connect sounds familiar, it's probably because the Notifications tab used to have the same name./news/up-close-with-ford-s-electric-mustang-suv-the-mach-e.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/up-close-with-ford-s-electric-mustang-suv-the-mach-e.htmlFord just pulled the wraps off of the Mustang Mach-E, an all-electric SUV that promises Mustang performance with far more practicality when it gets released in late 2020. (Full details here.) It’s the company’s first long-range electric car, and the only other Ford vehicle to ever be called a Mustang — the latter of which already has people riled up. It’s a bold move to take an iconic product and try to essentially turn it into a brand of its own, though I’d be willing to bet this electric SUV would have sparked much less interest if Ford had either leveraged another one of its badge names, or created an entirely new one./news/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets-all-the-trailers-and-commentary-from-luc-besson-s-sci.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets-all-the-trailers-and-commentary-from-luc-besson-s-sci.htmlWriter-director Luc Besson encapsulates the soul of his latest movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, in its first three scenes. The film opens on a sweeping, centuries-long history of Alpha, a space station that’s grown from a near-present-day base into a chaotic floating city. Then the story jumps to an extensive sequence on a bright paradise planet of willowy, iridescent humanoids, about to suffer a cataclysmic fate. The forgettable title character only comes in after all this is over, and he’s introduced almost grudgingly./news/venice-s-historic-flooding-blamed-on-human-failure-and-climate-change.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/venice-s-historic-flooding-blamed-on-human-failure-and-climate-change.htmlAn extreme high tide inundated 85 percent of Venice on Tuesday night, drowning some parts of the city in six feet of water. Floodwaters pushed boats ashore and swept through buildings, swiping groceries off shelves and knocking library books into murky pools. Schools closed, a city council meeting was canceled. Residents and tourists navigated streets in waist-high waters. One man in his 70s died from electrocution as he tried to turn on a pump in his home./news/venmo-is-adding-support-for-users-to-buy-store-and-sell-cryptocurrency.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/venmo-is-adding-support-for-users-to-buy-store-and-sell-cryptocurrency.htmlVenmo is releasing a feature that will allow users the option to store, buy, and sell popular cryptocurrencies, PayPal announced on Tuesday. Similar to PayPal, Venmo will support four different cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. PayPal had said last year that Venmo would get support for cryptocurrencies. You can get started with as little as $1, and transactions are managed from the app. Venmo said in a press release that it will begin rolling out the feature to some users today, and tells The Verge it anticipates that “most customers” will have access to cryptocurrencies in the app by the end of May./news/we-tested-which-earbuds-are-best-for-phone-calls-on-a-boat.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/we-tested-which-earbuds-are-best-for-phone-calls-on-a-boat.htmlA couple of months ago on The Vergecast, we wanted to answer a question: which wireless earbuds should you buy to use for phone calls, Zoom meetings, or chatting with your voice assistant? So The Verge’s Chris Welch went to a noisy coffee shop in Brooklyn and hopped on a call with Vergecast co-host David Pierce to test out a bunch of wireless earbuds in a tough noise environment.  The pretty clear winners of that test were the Apple AirPods Pro and the Sony LinkBuds, which had the clearest detail in the voice and took out a fair amount of background noise./news/what-do-you-get-from-ads-made-with-ai-someone-calls-the-cops-and-you-make-children-cry.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-do-you-get-from-ads-made-with-ai-someone-calls-the-cops-and-you-make-children-cry.htmlWhat do you get from ads made with AI? Someone calls the cops and you make children cry. The advertising for “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” looks like peak AI-generated spectacle, promising “cartchy tuns,” “encherining entertainment,” and “a heart-pounding experience you’ve never experienced before” for £35 a ticket. The reality is... well, take a look. At least the kids are getting refunds. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfZ3xzg45ra2lwZG6BdnvWoZitZZSkerq71Gaenqxdm7%2BwuYyam6xlnZaxpnnWoquhZZGeerS7zJ6mp51dmK6tuNJmq6GdXZi8sb%2BMmqWdZamkwm65wKScZpuYnrmlvsSnZJyqqQ%3D%3D/news/what-instagram-really-learned-from-hiding-like-counts.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-instagram-really-learned-from-hiding-like-counts.htmlIn April 2019, amid growing questions about the effects of social networks on mental health, Instagram announced it would test a feed without likes. The person posting an image on the network would still see how many people had sent it a heart, but the total number of hearts would remain invisible to the public. “It’s about young people,” Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said that November, just ahead of the test arriving in the United States./news/why-netflix-is-starting-to-crack-down-on-password-sharing.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-netflix-is-starting-to-crack-down-on-password-sharing.htmlNetflix has for years ignored the fact that many of us are mooching off our friends’ and families’ accounts. But the streaming king now appears to be reconsidering its look-the-other-way policy, a shift that comes as Netflix’s growth slows and its annual production budget for churning out new hits creeps ever higher. In other words, Netflix needs more money. The company this week announced that it’s testing a password-sharing crackdown that could curb the number of accounts mooching off account holders outside their own households./news/why-return-of-the-obra-dinn-is-my-game-of-the-year.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-return-of-the-obra-dinn-is-my-game-of-the-year.html2018 has been a good year for video games. From blockbuster epics to smaller indie experiences to inventive takes on VR, the breadth and variety of games that came out over the last 12 months is astounding. To celebrate, Verge staff members are writing essays on their own personal favorite games, and what made them stand out above the crowd. Return of the Obra Dinn begins at the end. The end of a story, the end of a life, the end of a barrel of a gun./news/widescreen-laptops-are-dumb-the-verge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/widescreen-laptops-are-dumb-the-verge.htmlI’ve been thinking about aspect ratios. After years of phones, laptops, tablets, and TV screens converging on 16:9 as the “right” display shape — allowing video playback without distracting black bars — smartphones have disturbed the universality recently by moving to even more elongated formats like 18:9, 19:9, or even 19.5:9 in the iPhone X’s case. That’s prompted me to consider where else the default widescreen proportions might be a poor fit, and I’ve realized that laptops are the worst offenders./news/windows-11-users-can-now-link-their-iphones-and-use-imessage-from-a-pc.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/windows-11-users-can-now-link-their-iphones-and-use-imessage-from-a-pc.htmlMicrosoft promised to make its Phone Link app available for iPhone users (so you can use iMessage from a PC) by mid-May, and it’s May 15th now, so the company is delivering on that promise today. Phone Link now allows iPhone owners to connect to a Windows 11 PC and send and receive messages via iMessage, make and receive calls, and see any phone app notifications on a PC or laptop./news/windows-phone-gains-first-video-chat-client-with-tango-the-app-not-the-update.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/windows-phone-gains-first-video-chat-client-with-tango-the-app-not-the-update.htmlThe Tango video calling application has surfaced on the Marketplace today, finally giving Windows Phone users the ability to engage in video conversations like (and with) their counterparts using iOS or Android. Free calls can be made between devices running those three operating systems, as well as Windows PCs, though to get the full experience you'll probably want to make sure your phone has a front-facing camera. Another requisite is that you're running Windows Phone 7./news/xbox-stereo-headset-review-affordable-wired-and-works-well.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xbox-stereo-headset-review-affordable-wired-and-works-well.htmlMicrosoft’s Xbox Stereo Headset is the no-frills affordable counterpart to its excellent Wireless Headset, with a permanently affixed 3.5mm cable in place of any Bluetooth or 2.4GHz connectivity. The $59.99 Stereo Headset combines that same performance from its wireless sibling and mixes it with better pricing and the flexibility of a wired connection, making this headset easy to recommend to gamers using any console or PC. It was announced back in the summer of 2021, and since then, we have also seen a 20th-anniversary variant released as well as frequent discounts making it even more affordable./news/you-might-be-able-to-flip-emoji-direction-in-2018.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-might-be-able-to-flip-emoji-direction-in-2018.htmlEmojipedia says the ability to switch the direction of emoji has been a long-requested feature and might not affect all emoji, but only the ones that would “benefit from it most.” Consider the blog’s unfortunate sample graphic below, that uses the train, runner, and gun emoji. Images: Apple / Emojipedia composite “Emoji with glyphs that face to the right or left may face either direction, according to vendor preference. However, that can cause a definite change in meaning when exchanging text across platforms./news/youtube-is-revamping-its-tv-app-to-make-videos-feel-way-more-interactive.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-is-revamping-its-tv-app-to-make-videos-feel-way-more-interactive.htmlYouTube is constantly tinkering with its app design across different platforms and screen sizes, and today, the company shared the latest changes coming to its TV-optimized app. There’s a clear focus on making the viewing experience more interactive and giving greater prominence to chapters, comments, and video descriptions — without getting in the way of the video you’re trying to watch. The new view shrinks the video down slightly to make space for the description, comments, and other elements around it./news/youtube-s-playables-games-are-now-available-for-premium-subscribers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-s-playables-games-are-now-available-for-premium-subscribers.htmlYouTube is branching out into games — at least for its paid subscribers. The platform is giving Premium users access to a set of online games that can be directly played on either the mobile app or desktop app. Known as “Playables,” the company first debuted the experimental feature to select users in September. As noted by Droid-Life, YouTube sent a notification last week to Premium subscribers informing them of Playables and allowing them to try it out./news/i-m-addicted-to-the-gruesome-and-beautiful-photographs-on-figure-1-an-instagram-for-doctors.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-m-addicted-to-the-gruesome-and-beautiful-photographs-on-figure-1-an-instagram-for-doctors.htmlFigure 1 was created after Joshua Landy, a critical care physician, spent a semester as a visiting scholar at Stanford, studying how doctors were using their smartphones to communicate. It turned out that plenty of them were already exchanging images through email, text messages, and social media. "But there was a big privacy problem there," says Landy, now the chief medical officer at the company. Identifiable information about patients was often left intact./news/kava-with-caveats-is-this-popular-psychoactive-tea-bad-for-your-liver.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kava-with-caveats-is-this-popular-psychoactive-tea-bad-for-your-liver.htmlBecause I was new to kava, the bartender told me I had to drink a little more than just a cup to get the relaxation effect I wanted. (Some people report having a "reverse tolerance" — after drinking kava for a while, they need a smaller dose to achieve a psychoactive effect.) So I ordered another one and painstakingly swallowed it down, until I could finally feel my muscles relax./news/the-thing-redialed-how-a-bbs-changed-the-art-world-and-came-back-from-the-dead.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-thing-redialed-how-a-bbs-changed-the-art-world-and-came-back-from-the-dead.htmlOne day in November of 1991, Wolfgang Staehle found himself at his studio, the basement of a former gallery in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood accessible through a hatch on the front stoop. With no art left on the walls, his contemporaries busy pursuing their own careers, and a recession settling in, he switched on a computer and brought to life "The Thing," an electronic bulletin board system (BBS). It would become a kind of social project, he hoped — somewhere to discuss art and maybe figure out what to do next./news/10-great-shows-from-2023-to-stream-on-amazon-prime-video.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/10-great-shows-from-2023-to-stream-on-amazon-prime-video.htmlAmazon Prime Video is the second-best perk that comes with a Prime subscription (aside from free two-day shipping, of course), and its library only continues to grow. While Prime Video is often overshadowed by the likes of Netflix and Max, it has surprising range, whether you’re looking for a lighthearted comedy, psychological thriller, or a thrilling animated series. With that out of the way, here’s our list of the best shows released on Amazon Prime Video this year./news/8bitdo-s-29-99-ultimate-2c-controller-adds-two-more-shoulder-buttons.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/8bitdo-s-29-99-ultimate-2c-controller-adds-two-more-shoulder-buttons.html8BitDo announced its latest budget-minded wireless controller today, the Ultimate 2C. For $29.99, it includes features like an extra pair of shoulder buttons to satisfy most PC and Android gamers, Hall effect sticks and triggers to keep problems like the Switch’s notorious “Joy-Con drift” at bay, and three different ways to connect it to a gaming machine with USB-C, a 2.4GHz dongle boasting 1,000Hz polling rates, and Bluetooth. Amazon lists a July 15th release date, and while we haven’t had a chance to go hands-on with it yet, it could be a better bargain than the Ultimate C controllers the company released last year with the same $29./news/8k-on-the-playstation-5-is-no-more.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/8k-on-the-playstation-5-is-no-more.html8K on the PlayStation 5 is no more. If you want to be technical about it, 8K was never especially viable on the PS5 to begin with, but when the system launched in 2020 TV makers were heavily pushing 8K as the next big thing and Sony wanted to futureproof its pricey platform. With a PS5 Pro coming soon, and likely supporting more robust 8K, removing 8K claims off the PS5 box isn’t a surprise./news/a-few-more-updates-about-openai.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-few-more-updates-about-openai.htmlA few more updates about OpenAI. The Information reports that before interim CEO Emmett Shear took the job, OpenAI’s remaining board members offered it to two others: former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Scale AI CEO Alex Wang. Both turned it down. (Update: And in another report, it says board members also pursued the CEO of its competitor Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and proposed a merger between the two companies.) From Business Insider there’s a report Ilya Sutskever gave employees two explanations for Altman’s firing: that he gave two people the same project and that he allegedly gave two board members different opinions about a member of personnel./news/a-prop-x-wing-from-star-wars-doesn-t-belong-in-the-smithsonian.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-prop-x-wing-from-star-wars-doesn-t-belong-in-the-smithsonian.htmlMay Fourth is informally the Star Wars Day holiday, which random brands typically use to hawk their wares. Although it’s not as bad as the promotions that come out of the woodwork on April Fools’ Day, I think I’m drawing the line at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum adding an X-wing Starfighter from Star Wars to its collection. The museum announced today that the famous ship would be going on display in 2022, via a prop loan from the Disney-owned production company, Lucasfilm./news/a-ransomware-gang-is-releasing-hacked-data-on-la-schoolchildren.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-ransomware-gang-is-releasing-hacked-data-on-la-schoolchildren.htmlSensitive information about students from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) began to appear online on Saturday after a cybercriminal gang posted data obtained in a ransomware attack. The publication of the data was confirmed by LAUSD superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho in a statement released by tweet on Sunday. “Unfortunately, as expected, data was recently released by a criminal organization,” the statement said. “In partnership with law enforcement, our experts are analyzing the full extent of this data release./news/a-researcher-made-a-lightning-cable-that-can-hack-your-computer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-researcher-made-a-lightning-cable-that-can-hack-your-computer.htmlYou probably already know that plugging unknown USB flash drives into your computer is risky. There’s a chance that a malicious program could give a hacker access to your personal data. But now, it’s not just drives to be wary of. A security researcher has shown how USB cables, even ones that look like Apple’s Lightning cable, could hijack your machine. MG tells The Verge that his cables look and function like the standard Lightning cable you get with your iPhone./news/a-top-gop-presidential-candidate-tried-to-hire-the-voice-of-duke-nukem.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-top-gop-presidential-candidate-tried-to-hire-the-voice-of-duke-nukem.htmlMaybe you saw on Twitter that Donald Trump attempted to hire the voice of Duke Nukem, Jon St. John, to be the advertising voice for his campaign. Well, that may be true. Or it may have been Ted Cruz. In a Facebook post St. John wrote, "I don't like to turn down jobs...especially when it's a national ad campaign that pays pretty well. But I have a conscience and could not accept a gig to be the advertising voice of the Republican party's leading candidate for president./news/a24-presents-death-stranding-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a24-presents-death-stranding-the-verge.htmlA24 presents: Death Stranding. The company announced that it has partnered with Hideo Kojima on the live-action film adaptation of his video game in a unique way: with a T-shirt. We still don’t know much about the movie itself, but now Kojima is working alongside the team behind the likes of Dream Scenario, Talk To Me, and Everything Everywhere All At Once. That should be exciting news for a man made out of movies./news/amazon-stops-field-tests-of-its-delivery-robot-scout.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-stops-field-tests-of-its-delivery-robot-scout.htmlAmazon’s is scaling back its plans to build a delivery robot, Scout, but insists that the project is not finished. Bloomberg first reported that the company has shut down tests of the machine, and that the Scout team, constituting around 400 employees globally, is being disbanded. However, a spokesperson for Amazon, Alisa Carroll, told The Verge that the company is “not abandoning the Scout program” entirely: “We are scaling the program back and still have a team dedicated to Scout./news/amazon-s-nintendo-switch-prime-day-deal-bundles-a-64gb-microsd-and-20-eshop-gift-card-for-299-99.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-nintendo-switch-prime-day-deal-bundles-a-64gb-microsd-and-20-eshop-gift-card-for-299-99.htmlAmazon’s Prime Day is upon us, and the company posted its Nintendo Switch deal. For $299.99, you will receive the console, a SanDisk 64GB microSD card, and a $20 Nintendo eShop gift card. That’s a good deal. The microSD typically costs $20, so you’re receiving a $40 bonus for buying the Switch on Prime Day. It sold out less than an hour after going live. Now you’ll just need to buy some games, and we have our recommendations here./news/animal-crossing-new-horizons-review-one-year-later.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/animal-crossing-new-horizons-review-one-year-later.htmlThe snow has finally melted, and I’m able to step outside to dig for fossils without bundling up in a jacket and winter hat. It’s T-shirt weather, and spring means my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island feels more alive. There are bugs chirping and more fish in the lakes and sea. Even my cute little animal neighbors seem more lively. But the change in weather also signals that I’ve been playing this game for an entire year./news/apple-dominates-top-10-best-selling-smartphone-list.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-dominates-top-10-best-selling-smartphone-list.htmlApple dominates top 10 best-selling smartphone list. We already know that Apple dethroned Samsung by selling the most phones globally in 2023, now we can see the model mix according to data compiled by Counterpoint Research. Samsung’s lucrative flagship phones were a no-show on the list, with only mid-range devices taking up the bottom three positions. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfZ3xzfY5ra2lvaG6GdHvAqaelnV2ZvK61zZqrnqtdqbyxeZBpZJudo6l6tLHLpaCnn12ouqK%2B06mfqKaVYrmqv9M%3D/news/apple-fixes-rare-iphone-bug-that-restored-deleted-pictures.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-fixes-rare-iphone-bug-that-restored-deleted-pictures.htmlAccording to the notes, “This update provides important bug fixes and addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.” The supposedly-deleted photos popping to the top of user’s “recent” photos included nude pictures in some cases, and at least one person reported they reappeared on an iPad that had been erased and sold to someone else. Users should obviously install the update ASAP, however it’s unclear how many people may be at risk of experiencing this, which images are likely to reappear, or what you can do about a device that’s no longer in your control./news/apple-has-stopped-offering-customer-support-on-x.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-has-stopped-offering-customer-support-on-x.htmlApple will no longer provide customer support on X (formerly Twitter), as spotted earlier by MacRumors. When you try to send a direct message to the Apple Support account, it now instructs you to visit the general support page on Apple’s website. The account will similarly respond with an automated reply for any message you send it. After asking the account about an issue with an iPhone 15, Apple support replied saying: “It sounds like you have an issue with your iPhone./news/apple-macos-12-monterey-preview.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-macos-12-monterey-preview.htmlThe public beta of macOS 12 Monterey, Apple’s next big macOS release, is now available for download. The operating system has the same general look and feel as its predecessor, macOS 11 Big Sur, but it brings some new features and a number of tweaks to Apple’s most popular services. Before we get into this, friendly reminder that Monterey is, for now, a beta. It may not be the best idea to install on a primary device, as you might encounter bugs, unfinished features, and incompatibility with third-party apps./news/apple-podcasts-now-includes-transcripts.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-podcasts-now-includes-transcripts.htmlApple Podcasts will auto-generate transcripts for podcasts beginning today, thanks to the 17.4 update for iPhones and iPads. Transcripts will automatically appear for new podcast episodes shortly after their publication, while Apple will transcribe podcast back catalogs over time. The podcast transcripts are searchable, allowing users to type in a specific word or phrase and skip to that part of an episode. Users can find transcripts for individual podcast episodes on the bottom-left corner of the “Now Playing” screen./news/apple-s-hourly-workforce-is-struggling.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-hourly-workforce-is-struggling.htmlNearly every shift at an Apple Store starts the same way: an employee picks a line from the Apple credo and talks about how it applies to that day’s work: “We are here to enrich lives. To help dreamers become doers, to help passion expand human potential, to do the best work of our lives. At our best, we give more than we take.” Workers say it’s easy to tell who wants to get promoted because they’ll pick the line “Turning dreamers into doers” and discuss how Apple’s devices can help customers do that./news/at-t-adds-unlimited-home-internet-plan-to-its-u-verse-service.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/at-t-adds-unlimited-home-internet-plan-to-its-u-verse-service.htmlAT&T today announced that it's upping the monthly data caps on its U-verse home internet service and introducing a new unlimited option. Now, customers who pay for the first tier of U-verse, the slowest option at .8Mbps to 6Mbps, will have 300GB to use per month instead of 250GB. For those who pay for the next speed tier, the cap goes from 250GB to 600GB, while the data cap for the fastest U-verse option has doubled from 500GB to 1TB./news/at-t-claims-a-weeks-long-voicemail-outage-will-be-fixed-with-a-single-device-update.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/at-t-claims-a-weeks-long-voicemail-outage-will-be-fixed-with-a-single-device-update.htmlAT&T has been experiencing a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting some customers across the country. But it’s hard to tell exactly what’s causing the outage, or how long until it will be fixed — and AT&T is saying conflicting things about what’s going on. Here’s what the company told us, when we asked: “A recent software update to some devices may be affecting our customers’ voicemail. We are working with the device manufacturer to issue a patch to resolve this and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused./news/authy-is-shutting-down-its-desktop-app.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/authy-is-shutting-down-its-desktop-app.htmlAuthy, the two-factor authentication (2FA) app, will soon only be available on mobile devices. An updated support page spotted by Bleeping Computer says Authy’s app on Windows, macOS, and Linux will go away in August 2024. Similar to other 2FA apps like Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator, Authy generates a different code every 30 seconds that you can use to sign in to a linked account. However, Authy is one of the only 2FA apps available for desktop, making it an ideal choice when you want to sign into an account on your computer without having to get out your phone./news/backpage-ceo-cuts-plea-deal-and-agrees-to-help-keep-the-site-offline.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/backpage-ceo-cuts-plea-deal-and-agrees-to-help-keep-the-site-offline.htmlCarl Ferrer, CEO and co-founder of classified advertising site Backpage.com, has pleaded guilty to money laundering and facilitating prostitution. Ferrer’s plea deal requires him to take “all steps within his power” to permanently shut down Backpage, to forfeit all the company’s assets and property, to testify that Backpage laundered money and encouraged prostitution-related ads, and to plead guilty to state-level charges in Texas and California. This deal is separate from the case against Backpage co-founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin, who — along with five other employees — were arrested last week and charged with similar crimes./news/batman-arkham-knight-mod-lets-you-play-as-harley-quinn-commissioner-gordon-joker-and-more.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/batman-arkham-knight-mod-lets-you-play-as-harley-quinn-commissioner-gordon-joker-and-more.htmlHere's the full list of playable characters: Red Hood Harley Quinn Nightwing Robin Azrael Bruce Wayne Catwoman Commissioner Gordon Joker GCPD Officer Owens Batman As always, be careful when downloading something from an unknown source. In recent months, a popular mod for Grand Theft Auto 5 was found to carry a virus. If you'd still like to try the mod, here's the link. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtnam1fa3xzhY5xb29paGiEcK7AraSapl2Wv6y0wKZkpKaZnLW1ecyom2aok2K1or7LnrBmqaWeu6950aiZoqZdn7yssdE%3D/news/beep-beep-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/beep-beep-the-verge.htmlBeep beep. Out here in the Texas 'burbs, we're under an extreme heat advisory, and more likely to see an electric Hummer than a Microlino. All the more reason to read this Ars Technica piece on the history of the microcar and imagine pulling up to a café in a Citroën Ami, sharing a parking space with a Canta and a Twizy, somewhere a little cooler — in several senses./news/bernie-sanders-thanks-popular-facebook-teen-meme-group-for-endorsement.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bernie-sanders-thanks-popular-facebook-teen-meme-group-for-endorsement.htmlVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a friend to public transportation. His Green New Deal plan calls for a big boost in transit spending, a network of high-speed rail, and the phasing out of internal combustion engine vehicles. He is also quite popular with young voters. According to a recent poll, 51 percent of voters aged 18–34 chose Sanders as their top Democratic candidate. So it should come as little surprise that a very popular transit-themed meme group on Facebook called the New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens — aka NUMTOT— recently endorsed Sanders for president./news/best-headphone-and-earbud-deals-for-february-2024.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/best-headphone-and-earbud-deals-for-february-2024.htmlWhen it comes to headphones and true wireless earbuds, there are a ton of brands and products to choose from. However, the sheer range of available models can also make them difficult to shop for, especially since many of them cater to different lifestyles, budgets, and priorities. Some are better suited for long-haul flights and vigorous workouts, for instance, while others let you tune out noise so you can focus better./news/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-6k-review-dp-starter-kit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-6k-review-dp-starter-kit.htmlI’ve always hated the gimmicky and mostly meaningless tech-jargony term “disruptor,” but that really is the role Blackmagic plays in the film industry. It makes cameras that shoot footage with a quality that approaches giants like RED and ARRI but at a fraction of the cost. The Pocket Cinema Camera line has become a favorite among indie producers, studios, and DPs, and the latest iteration shoots at a staggering 6K resolution and starts at just $2,500 instead of the tens of thousands of dollars those other cameras command./news/blizzard-offers-overwatch-2-holiday-skin-for-cheap-amid-pricing-controversy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blizzard-offers-overwatch-2-holiday-skin-for-cheap-amid-pricing-controversy.htmlFrom now until January 3rd, Overwatch 2 players can get a pretty sweet (heh) Gingerbread Bastion skin for the low, low, low price of one Overwatch coin. While the skin is yet another example of the Overwatch design team really nailing it, players might find themselves balking at the price. Not because it’s so cheap but because the offer seems like a poke in the eye, given the ongoing conversation regarding the game’s new monetization system./news/bluetti-swapsolar-review-power-and-chill-with-swappable-batteries.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bluetti-swapsolar-review-power-and-chill-with-swappable-batteries.htmlSolar generators and battery-powered fridges are highly desirable additions to vans, boats, cabins, and sheds, or anywhere power and refrigeration is needed off the grid. Both are meant to be portable by necessity but suffer from the same issue: weight.  Bluetti just started shipping its SwapSolar kit that pairs an AC180T solar generator with its MultiCooler, a 3-in-1 solar-powered fridge, freezer, and ice maker. What makes this kit interesting is that the MultiCooler and AC180T devices can share the same B70 LFP batteries, which can be charged inside either device when plugged into your car’s 12V socket, a standard power outlet, or solar panels./news/bungie-parts-ways-with-activision-to-self-publish-destiny.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bungie-parts-ways-with-activision-to-self-publish-destiny.htmlGame studio Bungie, known best for having created the Halo franchise and more recently the Destiny series, is splitting up with its longtime publishing partner Activision, the company said in a surprise announcement this afternoon. Bungie will retain the rights to Destiny, with plans to self-publish future expansions and new installments. The two companies partnered back in 2010, after Bungie sold its Halo rights to Microsoft and embarked on its next big project, which ultimately became 2014’s online multiplayer shooter / RPG hybrid Destiny./news/can-you-guess-how-many-apps-we-have-on-our-phones.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/can-you-guess-how-many-apps-we-have-on-our-phones.htmlAs you can imagine, there are a lot of interesting — and occasionally off-the-wall — conversations that take place on The Verge’s Slack channels, especially when the weekend is on its way. One of them occurred recently, when reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy happened to ask how many apps people had on their phones. The reaction was immediate — and actually rather telling. It turns out you can find a lot about a person when you talk to them about their phone — and their apps./news/chappelle-s-show-returns-to-netflix-now-that-dave-got-paid.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chappelle-s-show-returns-to-netflix-now-that-dave-got-paid.htmlDave Chappelle says that his long running beef with Comedy Central over rights to Chappelle’s Show is over. The surprise announcement came during a 10-minute performance titled Redemption Song posted to Chappelle’s Instagram account late Thursday night. The clip closes with news that the sketch comedy will return to Netflix starting today. Netflix began airing Chappelle’s Show on November 1st but pulled it on November 24th after the comedian complained that Comedy Central’s owner ViacomCBS licensed the show without his approval./news/china-s-dream-moon-base-has-a-nasa-space-shuttle.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/china-s-dream-moon-base-has-a-nasa-space-shuttle.htmlChina’s dream moon base has a NASA Space Shuttle. The China National Space Administration released a video showing its concept for a future lunar base, which it says it will have set up by 2045, writes Space. The China Global Television Network appears to have blurred out the Shuttle in the video on YouTube. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXx0fI5ra2psZWx%2BeXvCoaCnmaNisbOxwKZkpqefo3qjrdKeZKGZo2KubrrArJhmq6CWsKZ50qGsraycmg%3D%3D/news/comcast-has-started-launching-its-xfinity-mobile-phone-service.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/comcast-has-started-launching-its-xfinity-mobile-phone-service.htmlIt appears that Comcast has quietly launched Xfinity Mobile, its $65 / month unlimited mobile service. The official website now allows Xfinity internet customers to select a plan and sign up for the service, which is currently offered at a discounted rate of $45 a month. Comcast says the service is now available throughout its current markets. “We are beginning to introduce Xfinity Mobile to customers,” a company representative tells The Verge, noting that the service will continue to roll out to stores over the “coming months./news/cpsc-fines-peloton-19-million-over-tread-plus-safety-issues.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cpsc-fines-peloton-19-million-over-tread-plus-safety-issues.htmlPeloton is starting off 2023 with a $19 million fine. According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company has agreed to pay the civil penalty to settle charges that the company knowingly failed to immediately report safety issues with its recalled Tread Plus. The fine will also resolve charges that Peloton continued to sell 38 Tread Plus units after the recall in violation of the Consumer Product Safety Act./news/cyberpunk-2077-developer-says-its-hacked-data-is-circulating-online.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cyberpunk-2077-developer-says-its-hacked-data-is-circulating-online.htmlHacked data stolen from CD Projekt is circulating online, the company says. The studio behind Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 says it can not confirm the exact contents of the data being circulated, but believes it relates to its games, contractors, and both current and former employees. It also warned that the data may have been manipulated or tampered with. The disclosure comes four months after the studio first announced that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack./news/discord-lays-off-17-percent-of-employees.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/discord-lays-off-17-percent-of-employees.htmlHi @everyone, I want to follow up on what we just covered at our all-company meeting and share some context. Today we are making the unfortunate and difficult decision to reduce the size of Discord’s workforce by 17%. This means we are saying goodbye to 170 of our talented colleagues. This is a decision we did not take lightly, but it is one that we have conviction in to better serve our users, our business and our mission over the long term./news/disney-s-live-action-mulan-will-be-out-on-blu-ray-next-week.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-s-live-action-mulan-will-be-out-on-blu-ray-next-week.htmlDisney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan, one of the company’s biggest streaming titles this year, will finally be available on physical media next week. You’ll be able to get it on 4K UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 10th. Mulan’s physical media launch marks the end of a whirlwind release schedule brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The movie was originally set to premiere in theaters on March 27th, but was delayed to July 24th due to pandemic-related theater closures./news/disney-s-new-tron-action-figures-put-your-face-and-voice-into-the-grid.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-s-new-tron-action-figures-put-your-face-and-voice-into-the-grid.htmlWhat’s better than a cool Tron action figure? A cool Tron action figure with your face and voice, obviously.  That’s the idea behind the Tron Identity Program, a new piece of merch that Disney will be selling visitors to the Lightcycle attraction that’s opening in Tomorrowland in Walt Disney World Florida on April 4th. The idea is that you get your face scanned, record six lines of dialogue, and then manually customize your character’s look with different helmets, bodies, and team colors, and you’re left with a figurine that feels truly “you./news/don-t-worry-ring-is-still-working-on-its-home-surveillance-drone.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/don-t-worry-ring-is-still-working-on-its-home-surveillance-drone.htmlDon’t worry. Ring is still working on its home surveillance drone. In a recent interview with GeekWire, CEO Liz Hamren confirmed the Always Home Cam is still being prepped for takeoff but didn’t provide a date. The indoor security drone was originally supposed to ship in 2021, but when I last saw it at CES 2023, it seemed unlikely to fly into our homes anytime soon. Harmen did tease that vehicle detection is (finally) coming to Ring’s (non-mobile) security cameras (most of its competition already offers this)./news/e3-is-officially-over-forever.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/e3-is-officially-over-forever.htmlWhile the video game industry had already largely given up on E3 — once the largest video game trade show in the industry and the biggest video game showcase event of the year — there was always the chance it would return after multiple years of cancellations. However, in a statement to The Washington Post today, E3’s organizer confirmed that the show is permanently canceled. “We know it’s difficult to say goodbye to such a beloved event, but it’s the right thing to do given the new opportunities our industry has to reach fans and partners,” Stanley Pierre-Louis, the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, the nonprofit trade organization that ran E3, told the Post./news/etsy-is-testing-out-a-new-crowdfunding-platform.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/etsy-is-testing-out-a-new-crowdfunding-platform.htmlStarting today, Etsy sellers will have a new way to raise money without leaving the site. It's called Fund on Etsy, a crowdfunding platform that will let Etsy sellers raise money through Kickstarter-style preorders. Like most crowdfunding sites, funds will only be moved over once a campaign reaches its goal, and the timeline for fulfilling preorders is open-ended, giving sellers significantly more leeway than traditional retail cycles. Fund on Etsy is starting as a pilot program, running only within the US from June 16th to August 16th, but it could easily be expanded if it proves popular with Etsy's users./news/facebook-made-an-ad-about-how-bad-facebook-has-become.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-made-an-ad-about-how-bad-facebook-has-become.htmlFacebook has increasingly been reckoning with the many problems its network has, and today, the company released an ad acknowledging the issues and promising to get back to “what made Facebook good in the first place.” The ad will run on TV and in movie theaters through July, starting this afternoon, with some appearing during NBA playoff games. The minute-long spot starts with a look back at Facebook’s older interface and tries to humanize what we do on the network by connecting posts back to real people, all with sad piano music playing overtop./news/fbi-paid-geek-squad-informants-to-search-computers-for-child-porn-says-court-filing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fbi-paid-geek-squad-informants-to-search-computers-for-child-porn-says-court-filing.htmlMultiple technicians with Best Buy’s Geek Squad repair service received hundreds of dollars from the FBI in exchange for seeking child pornography on customers’ computers, according to court documents reviewed by The Washington Post. These filings raise questions about how close a relationship the agency has with Geek Squad members, and whether these relationships could make some of the technicians’ searches unconstitutional. Geek Squad employees will notify law enforcement if they find child pornography while fixing customers’ computers, and in many states, they’re legally required to do so./news/firefly-stars-nathan-fillion-and-alan-tudyk-are-making-a-web-series.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/firefly-stars-nathan-fillion-and-alan-tudyk-are-making-a-web-series.htmlWhat do you do when you're a sci-fi star but your TV show has been dead for years? You spend a lot of time at conventions, and a pair of Firefly actors want to let fans know what it's like from their perspectives. Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk are launching a web series called Con Man about two former sci-fi stars — yes, one a ship's captain, the other its pilot — who have gone on to have wildly different levels of success./news/footage-from-jerry-lewis-lost-film-revealed-in-1972-behind-the-scenes-video.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/footage-from-jerry-lewis-lost-film-revealed-in-1972-behind-the-scenes-video.htmlJerry Lewis’ 1972 The Day the Clown Cried is one of the most famous unreleased films of all time — a movie so bad that Lewis has sworn it will never see the light of day. Until now, all we've seen are a few still images and the original screenplay, but that all changed when a YouTube user named unclesporkums uploaded seven minutes of footage from the set of the forgotten film, which was then posted by Entertainment Weekly./news/fortnite-was-down-all-day-friday-but-now-the-myths-mortals-update-is-here.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-was-down-all-day-friday-but-now-the-myths-mortals-update-is-here.htmlThe launch of Fortnite’s Greek mythology-themed Chapter 5: Season 2 had been on hold since early Friday morning after the usual downtime for maintenance didn’t end on schedule. Epic usually takes the servers down at 3AM ET to prepare for a big update, but only for a few hours. This time, the battle royale game stayed offline until well into Friday evening. After 9PM ET, players started to report they were able to download updates and get into the game./news/game-of-death-is-a-bloody-teen-horror-film-with-at-least-24-murders.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/game-of-death-is-a-bloody-teen-horror-film-with-at-least-24-murders.htmlThis fall, The Verge is making a choice. The choice is fear! We’ve decided to embrace the season by taking in as many new horror movies as possible and reporting back on which ones are worth your time. We’re calling this series Hold My Hand, as we look at films you might want to watch with a supportive viewing partner. Get comfortable, put the kettle on, check the closet for ghosts, then find a hand to squeeze until the bones pop./news/gemini-chatgpt-and-the-other-ai-bots-are-out-of-control.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gemini-chatgpt-and-the-other-ai-bots-are-out-of-control.htmlWhen you ask an AI bot for an image of the Founding Fathers or a group of German soldiers from 1943, you expect... something. You probably don’t expect what Google Gemini has been delivering, which is a set of images that goes heavy on diversity and light on historical accuracy. And when you ask ChatGPT a question, you probably don’t expect total gibberish in response. It’s been a very strange couple of days in AI land, but it makes us wonder: what do we actually want from AI?/news/gene-wilder-has-died-at-the-age-of-83.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gene-wilder-has-died-at-the-age-of-83.htmlLegendary actor and comedian Gene Wilder has died, according to reports from multiple outlets. According to Variety, the actor died from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 83. Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1933, Wilder became enamored with theater at an early age, and after graduating from the University of Iowa studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England. Wilder was drafted into the army in 1956, and later opted for a post in New York so he could continue studying his craft./news/getting-apple-carplay-and-android-auto-in-your-car-is-easier-than-you-think.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/getting-apple-carplay-and-android-auto-in-your-car-is-easier-than-you-think.htmlIt's taken a minute, but this is the year when Apple's and Google's in-car solutions for smartphone integration finally started to show up. You can now go out and buy a car that has support for CarPlay or Android Auto, plug in your phone, and drive away. But what if you already own a car and aren't planning to buy a new one for a few years? Fortunately, third-party car stereo makers, such as Pioneer and Kenwood, have released units that are compatible with both systems, and you can install them in your existing car right now./news/gm-shuts-downs-marketplace-the-app-that-let-you-buy-gas-and-coffee-from-your-car-s-screen.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gm-shuts-downs-marketplace-the-app-that-let-you-buy-gas-and-coffee-from-your-car-s-screen.htmlGeneral Motors is shutting down its in-car shopping app, Marketplace, which allowed customers to buy coffee, pay for gas, or make restaurant reservations from the infotainment screen of their vehicles. The service will be discontinued March 2022. (The news was first reported by CNBC.) The app, which was first introduced in 2017, was part of GM’s mission to redesign the driving experience to include more smartphone-style features, as well as create new revenue streams through partnerships with third-party companies./news/gmc-sierra-ev-denali-revealed-plug-in-powered-pickup-goes-premium.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gmc-sierra-ev-denali-revealed-plug-in-powered-pickup-goes-premium.htmlGeneral Motors’ premium-priced pickup truck, the GMC Sierra Denali, is getting an electric upgrade. The Sierra EV will launch in early 2024 in the popular (and pricey) Denali trim, with an estimated 400 miles of range and a fully optioned suggested price of $107,000. The following year, GMC will offer more moderately priced AT4 and Elevation trims, the latter of which is expected to start at $50,000. The Sierra EV Denali will arrive amid a multidecade love affair between American car buyers and trucks, with pickups accounting for five of the industry’s 10 bestselling vehicles in 2021 despite their increasingly higher prices./news/google-amp-how-google-tried-to-fix-the-web-by-taking-it-over.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-amp-how-google-tried-to-fix-the-web-by-taking-it-over.htmlIn 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along. It began on a cheery October morning in New York City; the company had gathered the press together at a buzzy breakfast spot named Sadelle’s in SoHo. As the assembled reporters ate their bagels and lox, Google’s vice president of news, Richard Gingras, explained that the open web was in crisis./news/google-i-o-2024-everything-announced.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-i-o-2024-everything-announced.htmlGoogle I/O just ended — and it was packed with AI announcements. As expected, the event focused heavily on Google’s Gemini AI models, along with the ways they’re being integrated into apps like Workspace and Chrome. If you didn’t get to tune in to the event live, you can catch up with all the latest from Google in the roundup below. Google Lens now lets you search by recording a videoGoogle Lens already lets you search for something based on images, but now Google’s taking things a step further with the ability to search with a video./news/google-is-warning-users-when-its-search-results-might-be-unreliable.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-warning-users-when-its-search-results-might-be-unreliable.htmlGoogle will now tell users when search results are rapidly changing around a breaking story. Some searches will now bring up a warning that “it looks like these results are changing quickly,” and a subheading will explain that “if this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for results to be added by reliable sources.” In a blog post, the company suggests that users might want to check back later when it’s found more results./news/google-plans-to-customize-play-store-app-ratings-for-users-country-and-device.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-plans-to-customize-play-store-app-ratings-for-users-country-and-device.htmlGoogle announced changes to how it calculates and displays app ratings on the Play Store on Monday that could make them more useful and relevant to users and developers (via 9to5Google). In place of one rating for an entire app, which can come in a variety of forms and levels of relative goodness depending on the device, Google plans to break things down with specific ratings for the country your device is registered in and specific ratings for the form factor of the device you’re using to browse the Play Store./news/google-sets-its-pixel-8-launch-event-for-october-4th.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-sets-its-pixel-8-launch-event-for-october-4th.htmlWe’ll meet Google’s newest Pixel devices in just over a month now that the company is sending out invitations for an in-person launch event on Wednesday, October 4th, at 10AM ET in New York City. The invites are going out just one day after Apple invited the media and others to check out its iPhone 15 hardware at an event on September 12th, as the fall calendar quickly fills with events./news/google-will-address-android-s-find-my-device-network-issues-over-the-coming-weeks.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-will-address-android-s-find-my-device-network-issues-over-the-coming-weeks.htmlIn a statement provided to Mishaal Rahman, a senior contributor to sites like Android Authority and Android Police, which they shared on X, Google acknowledged the concerns over its Find My Device network. “We are actively working to roll out enhancements to how the Find My Device network operates that will improve the speed and ability of locating lost items over the coming weeks. Devices are continuing to join the new Find My Device network, and we expect the network to grow, which will also help improve lost device findability./news/google-s-play-newsstand-app-comes-to-ios-as-replacement-for-currents.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-play-newsstand-app-comes-to-ios-as-replacement-for-currents.htmlGoogle Play Newsstand is now available on iOS in addition to Android; as of today, it replaces the Currents app — just as it did on Google's own mobile platform last year. If you've got Currents installed, you'll be prompted to update to Newsstand, which offers a central place for reading articles from select newspapers, magazines, and websites. Google's got support from "hundreds" of publishers covering news, sports, business, entertainment, and other topics, and you can also add in RSS feeds for any blogs or sites that don't yet have a dedicated Newsstand page./news/google-s-fun-ar-stickers-now-take-up-less-space.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-fun-ar-stickers-now-take-up-less-space.htmlGoogle’s augmented reality (AR) stickers are a fun, neat trick of the camera app on its Pixel smartphones. You can drop animated characters — sometimes promotional ones like Star Wars stormtroopers or the Stranger Things crew — into the frame your camera is capturing and they look almost convincingly real. Google has also released other add-on AR sticker packs including some “foodmoji” characters (a burger, donut, coffee cup, etc) and the ability to have 3D text float in AR space./news/hands-on-with-freepower-s-new-wireless-charging-for-your-countertops.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hands-on-with-freepower-s-new-wireless-charging-for-your-countertops.htmlI recently remodeled my kitchen, and my first thought during the design process was, “Can I embed wireless charging in my new quartzite countertop?” But I couldn’t find a solution that didn’t involve sticking bulky black boxes under the counter and requiring precise placement of my phone on a vast counter landscape. I wish I’d waited a year or two. This week at KBIS, the annual Kitchen and Bath Industry Show in Las Vegas, FreePower launched its latest technology: wireless Qi charging built into countertops./news/here-s-elon-musk-s-500-boring-company-flamethrower.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/here-s-elon-musk-s-500-boring-company-flamethrower.htmlUpdate January 27th, 8:04 PM ET: The Boring Company is now accepting preorders for the flamethrower mentioned in this post. It only costs $500, not $600 as originally stated, so I guess you could say it’s a... fire sale. Here’s a video of it in action. It’s unclear how many the company will try to sell, but if you’re nervous, there’s also a $30 fire extinguisher for sale — branded, of course./news/he-s-a-starboy-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/he-s-a-starboy-the-verge.htmlHe’s a starboy. You probably never heard of the Legend of Starfy series, but it’s not your fault — for some reason Nintendo never released the adorable aquatic platforming games outside of Japan. But now you can rectify that, as the first three GBA titles in the series are available for Switch Online subscribers. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfbHxyfo5ra2pxZ2WDeHvHnqpmmV2owaK%2Bwaiw/news/hitman-2-review-flawless-execution.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hitman-2-review-flawless-execution.htmlMore of the same isn’t usually a cause for celebration, but Hitman 2 is a rare exception. The sequel to developer IO Interactive’s episodic reboot of the assassination series almost didn’t get made after lower-than-expected sales and a breakup with publisher Square Enix. But IO secured the rights, partnered with Warner Bros. Entertainment, and came back two years later with the most refined, expansive, and enjoyable Hitman title to date. It’s a completionist paradise that offers dozens of hours of trial-and-error entertainment in giant environments, all with the same high-fidelity graphics and underlying engine governing what you can and cannot do to a refreshed list of unsuspecting and often bumbling villains./news/how-am-i-supposed-to-beat-messmer-now.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-am-i-supposed-to-beat-messmer-now.htmlHow am I supposed to beat Messmer now? I knew this was coming, I just didn’t expect it so soon. FromSoftware has released a patch for Shadow of the Erdtree. Among the casualties...I mean “bug fixes” is a nerf to super busted but super satisfying perfume bottle build that basically turned anyone who used it into a walking nuke. How dare you FromSoftware, over a long holiday weekend no less?! ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfbHx1e5FtaHJqYmeEcLTOsGSapV2eerTBz6mmrJ2UYsGwecGemK1lnZrAtLnEq2Snp6c%3D/news/how-the-fortnite-world-cup-could-inspire-the-next-ninja-or-tfue.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-the-fortnite-world-cup-could-inspire-the-next-ninja-or-tfue.htmlThe Fortnite World Cup Finals capped off this past weekend with a spectacular finish, awarding a total of $30 million to dozens of young players, some just 13 years old, in the second-largest payout in the history of competitive gaming. The star of the tournament was 16-year-old Pennsylvania native Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, who took home $3 million by besting 99 of the planet’s most skilled Fortnite pros across six rounds of battle royale matches./news/how-to-be-human-finding-new-ways-to-cope.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-be-human-finding-new-ways-to-cope.htmlLeah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is a Senior User Researcher for Slack, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askleah@theverge.com and read more How to be Human here. I'm in my late twenties and feeling stuck with not being able to come to terms with my childhood trauma of growing up with a paranoid schizophrenic mother./news/how-to-check-your-version-history-on-google-docs.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-check-your-version-history-on-google-docs.htmlAnyone old enough to have used a typewriter knows that a major advantage of word processors is that nothing is permanent — if you make a mistake, you can easily fix it. However, sometimes the fix is worse than the mistake: you may accidentally delete a word, a phrase, a paragraph, or an entire section and then realize minutes, hours, or even days later that you should have kept it. What do you do?/news/how-to-convert-a-bookcase-into-a-standing-desk.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-convert-a-bookcase-into-a-standing-desk.htmlWorking from home certainly has its perks: good coffee, pajamas all day, freedom to adjust the thermostat as you see fit. However, as you sit hunched over a small desk typing to your co-workers from your laptop, you may not notice the minutes passing by, but your back and neck certainly will. Whether you’re new to working from home because of recent company changes caused by the novel coronavirus or you’re accustomed to it already, it can be easy to forget to get up from that chair during the day./news/how-to-disconnect-third-party-apps-from-your-google-account.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-disconnect-third-party-apps-from-your-google-account.htmlIf you’ve got an active Google account — or especially if you’ve got one you haven’t used in a while — you’ve probably got more apps and services hooked up to your account than you realize. There are all those places where you’ve “signed in with Google,” all those browser extensions you’ve given permissions to, all those add-ons that you’ve installed on top of Gmail and Google Drive, and so on./news/how-to-flip-screen-orientation-on-a-smartwatch.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-flip-screen-orientation-on-a-smartwatch.htmlWhen it comes to watches, southpaws often get the short end of the stick. Unless lefties buy a destro watch, they have to learn to wear watches on their dominant hand instead of the nondominant hand as recommended. But that doesn’t have to be the case with all smartwatches. Because smartwatches have touchscreens, some watch manufacturers have given lefties the option of flipping the screen orientation so it appears “upside down./news/how-to-increase-your-privacy-online.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-increase-your-privacy-online.htmlIn light of the recent Facebook scandals, we’ve become increasingly aware of how much data we leave behind online. Some of our data gets there because we hand it over to websites willingly, but a lot of it doesn’t happen that way. We leave involuntary trails behind us as we browse the web, and websites and ad networks use this information to build profiles of what we like to target ads to us./news/how-to-secure-your-whatsapp-account-from-social-hacking.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-secure-your-whatsapp-account-from-social-hacking.htmlFacebook’s WhatsApp messaging service is incredibly easy to set up, but this easy setup process means that your account is open to abuse if you’re not careful. Thankfully, it’s fairly simple to enable an extra layer of security on your account, which means that you won’t lose it if your six-digit activation code gets compromised. These security options unfortunately won’t stop you from a serious hack such as the one that hit Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos./news/how-to-wipe-your-iphone-before-selling-it-or-trading-it-in.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-wipe-your-iphone-before-selling-it-or-trading-it-in.htmlWhether you’re trading in your old iPhone for a discount on a new one, selling it, giving it away, or recycling it, you’re going to want to erase all of your data first. Not only do you want to keep personal information from falling into the wrong hands, but let’s face it: nobody’s going to want a phone with your old selfies on it. Update September 15th, 2021, 3PM ET: This article was originally published on April 13th, 2020, and has been updated to add more info and account for changes in the OS./news/how-two-disney-imagineers-built-a-better-escape-room-with-the-nest.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-two-disney-imagineers-built-a-better-escape-room-with-the-nest.htmlEscape rooms have become incredibly pervasive over the past few years, but they’re not usually thought of as fantastic storytelling platforms. They’re more about the premise: giving participants a way to buy into the idea that they’re locked in a single location for a given amount of time, so they can create their own personal tale of how they collaborated with friends to get out, or failed miserably. In the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, a show called The Nest has been changing that./news/how-years-and-years-creator-russell-t-davies-sees-the-future-unfolding.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-years-and-years-creator-russell-t-davies-sees-the-future-unfolding.htmlQueer as Folk creator and former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies wanted to write Years and Years for, well, years and years. “Twenty years ago, I was talking about a drama like this,” he tells The Verge, “a drama that engaged with the modern world, that engaged what was happening, but in an ordinary domestic context so you felt the changes.” But Davies didn’t officially move forward with his plans until 2016 when he was inspired by two seismic political moments: Donald Trump’s election and the Brexit vote./news/htc-one-x-review-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/htc-one-x-review-the-verge.htmlSince originally publishing this review, we've taken delivery of the AT&T-branded model of the One X which has three major hardware differences: LTE support, a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor like the One S (the global One X has a quad-core Tegra 3), and a storage downgrade from 32GB to 16GB. Physically, the two versions appear identical — the AT&T model is technically about a fifth of a millimeter thicker, but it's completely imperceptible unless you're holding the two right next to one another./news/hyperx-cloud-mix-buds-review-good-sound-and-battery-life-lousy-fit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hyperx-cloud-mix-buds-review-good-sound-and-battery-life-lousy-fit.htmlHyperX has distilled some of its gaming headset know-how into a much more portable form factor: a set of wireless earbuds called the Cloud Mix Buds. These $149.99 earbuds largely replicate the standard features of over-ear gaming headphones, at least in terms of connectivity. They include a 2.4GHz USB-C transmitter that lets them pair to a PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, or an Android phone. They can also be paired to your phone or another device via Bluetooth./news/i-can-t-recommend-this-animal-crossing-switch-lite-bundle-enough.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-can-t-recommend-this-animal-crossing-switch-lite-bundle-enough.htmlThe release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons couldn’t have been better timed, very specifically for me. The Christmas before, my partner bought me a Switch, and for about a decade before that, the only console I’d owned was a modded Wii because I’d sold the roughly two dozen systems I’d collected in an effort to reset my relationship with gaming. But there was also the fact that just days before, I was furloughed from my job at a brewery because of a pandemic and businesses throughout my city had shut down./news/i-touched-a-prototype-asus-rog-ally-x-and-it-felt-better.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-touched-a-prototype-asus-rog-ally-x-and-it-felt-better.htmlOn June 2nd, Asus will formally announce the ROG Ally X, a semi-sequel to its handheld gaming PC with a way bigger battery. We exclusively revealed the broad strokes last Thursday, but I’ve now touched an early engineering sample, too — and I’m pleased to say it’s far more comfortable to hold. Asus has made a whole bunch of ergonomic changes that make it practically melt into my hands, in the exact way the original did not./news/in-the-last-jedi-being-a-space-cowboy-doesn-t-fly-anymore.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/in-the-last-jedi-being-a-space-cowboy-doesn-t-fly-anymore.htmlWarning: spoilers for The Last Jedi follow. Star Wars has a long history of the Galaxy’s best pilots jumping into ships and blowing stuff up—usually without serious consequences or repercussions. We’ve seen Han Solo recklessly jump into his Millennium Falcon and fire at the imperial TIE Fighters in A New Hope, and a precocious Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace blow up the Trade Federation blockade ships against orders. Both characters are celebrated and cheered for their impetuous actions after they finish blowing stuff up, and the plot is cleanly resolved./news/ipad-to-receive-minor-refresh-at-next-week-s-apple-event-9to5mac-reports.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ipad-to-receive-minor-refresh-at-next-week-s-apple-event-9to5mac-reports.htmlAccording to a new report from 9to5Mac, the fabled iPad mini won't be the only tablet talk at Apple's press event next week, with sources now claiming that the company's 9.7-inch model will also undergo a refresh. The site claims that the full-sized iPad will not receive a comprehensive redesign, but instead will undergo a number of minor upgrades, which are expected to include integration of Apple's Lightning connector. The new and improved iPad will not, however, expand upon the current storage capacity or pricing structure of the current model./news/irobot-launches-two-new-robot-vacuum-mops.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/irobot-launches-two-new-robot-vacuum-mops.htmliRobot is beefing up its robot mop offerings by launching two new combo models: the Roomba Combo j5 Plus ($799) and the Roomba Combo i5 Plus ($549). These are combination cleaning bots that can mop and sweep simultaneously and come with a charging dock that also automatically empties their dustbins. When the company’s first robot mop / vacuum, the Combo j7 Plus, launched last year, it was a few years behind the competition and slightly underwhelming./news/irs-extends-its-free-file-tax-program-for-five-more-years.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/irs-extends-its-free-file-tax-program-for-five-more-years.htmlThe IRS Free File program will be around for another five years. The agency has announced that it’s extending the program through October 2029, allowing people to file their taxes with one of the IRS’s partners for free. The Free File program got more attention recently after the IRS changed its rules in 2020 to prevent tax preppers from hiding their free services. Both TurboTax and H&R Block left the Free File program after that, and TurboTax owner Intuit paid out $141 million in restitution because it had “cheated millions of low-income Americans out of free tax filing services,” according to New York Attorney General Letitia James./news/it-s-the-most-bokeh-full-time-of-the-year.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/it-s-the-most-bokeh-full-time-of-the-year.html🎶It’s the most bokeh-full time of the year...🎶 Bokeh is that blurred background you get in photos and it really shines with out-of-focus Christmas lights. I love messing with quirky camera techniques, so here are some cool ways to jazz up your bokeh: ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfZn9wfZRoaW1oYGh9cn2OoqusZaSdsm65zqyrZpqfoLKpecWuo6VlpJ66pnnOn2StoJVixqat0Q%3D%3D/news/lego-wants-you-to-say-what-kind-of-lego-merch-you-d-buy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lego-wants-you-to-say-what-kind-of-lego-merch-you-d-buy.htmlLego wants YOU... to say what kind of Lego merch you’d buy. The Lego Group’s running an online survey (via Jay’s Brick Blog) that starts out a tad boring, but soon reveals fun merch ideas! Do note: The designs showcased in this survey are purely conceptual. They represent imaginative ideas and creative exploration, but they do not guarantee or imply that LEGO® will produce them as actual products. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfZ3xzgo5ra2lwY26Dc3vLnp6oZaeWu7W%2FjLKmrmWkpHq0rdhmrqGZpGK4qrrDZqafZZyatLB5zJ6pnKBdrry2sIybrLI%3D/news/lg-optimus-lte-2-and-optimus-ui-3-0-hands-on-update-video.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-optimus-lte-2-and-optimus-ui-3-0-hands-on-update-video.htmlWe just wrapped up a launch event for the LG Optimus LTE 2 here in Korea, and there's little doubt that it's LG's flagship play. The center of attention is definitely the screen: the phone boasts a 720p, 4.7-inch IPS display that looks pretty great to our eyes. Beyond the screen, the most notable spec is probably the 2GB of RAM LG has thrown in to power both Android 4.0 and LG's new "/news/lion-king-2019-review-disney-s-live-action-update-is-pretty-but-unnecessary.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lion-king-2019-review-disney-s-live-action-update-is-pretty-but-unnecessary.htmlDisney is getting better at live-action adaptations — slightly. That may seem strange to say about a powerhouse studio that has more than 80 years of hits under its belt and now owns a good deal of Hollywood’s overall output. But even with its storied history and its successful animated films as direct templates, it’s taken Disney three tries in 2019 to produce a live-action remake that doesn’t feel like a half-baked bad idea in search of a paycheck./news/logitech-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-the-verge.htmlLogitech’s new Mevo Core camera is designed to make on-location live streaming way simpler. I feel like the whole ethos of Logitech hardware boils down to “here is an reliable and easy option.” The company’s new Mevo Core 4K live streaming video camera is yet another example. Designed for wireless on-location streaming wherever your content creation ambitions take you, it’s got a Micro Four Thirds sensor inside, supports interchangeable lenses, and you can control several Mevos with your phone for a multi-angle production./news/mark-zuckerberg-says-elon-musk-hasn-t-agreed-to-august-26th-cage-fight.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mark-zuckerberg-says-elon-musk-hasn-t-agreed-to-august-26th-cage-fight.htmlMark Zuckerberg says he’s “ready today” to fight Elon Musk, and that although he suggested August 26th as the date for their cage match, Musk hasn’t confirmed. A post by Musk late on Sunday night said he “might need surgery,” and will have a neck and upper back MRI to check before possibly scuttling the fight date. In response to another post by Musk that the fight will be “live-streamed on X” with proceeds going to charity for veterans, Zuckerberg shot back by saying they should “use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity./news/meet-the-mushroom-that-could-one-day-replace-plastic.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meet-the-mushroom-that-could-one-day-replace-plastic.htmlHere’s one more reason to love a good mushroom: one day, you might be able to make headphones, memory foam for shoes, or even aircraft exoskeletons with it. Researchers just assessed the engineering possibilities with one particularly impressive mushroom and found that it might be able to replace plastic in a whole bunch of different use cases. Using mushrooms instead of plastic could cut down on the mountains of waste humans create./news/meta-will-require-labels-on-more-ai-generated-content.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-will-require-labels-on-more-ai-generated-content.htmlMeta is updating its AI-generated content policy and will add a “Made with AI” label beginning in May, the company announced. The policy will apply to content on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. Acknowledging that its current policy is “too narrow,” Meta says it will start labeling more video, audio, and image content as being AI-generated. Labels will be applied either when users disclose the use of AI tools or when Meta detects “industry standard AI image indicators,” though the company didn’t provide more detail about its detection system./news/meta-s-ai-research-head-wants-open-source-licensing-to-change.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-s-ai-research-head-wants-open-source-licensing-to-change.htmlIn July, Meta released its large language model Llama 2 relatively openly and for free, a stark contrast to its biggest competitors. But in the world of open-source software, some still see the company’s openness with an asterisk. While Meta’s license makes Llama 2 free for many, it’s still a limited license that doesn’t meet all the requirements of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). As outlined in the OSI’s Open Source Definition, open source is more than just sharing some code or research./news/microsoft-has-discontinued-all-xbox-one-consoles.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-has-discontinued-all-xbox-one-consoles.htmlMicrosoft has stopped manufacturing all Xbox One consoles. The software giant originally discontinued the Xbox One X and digital Xbox One S ahead of the Xbox Series X launch, then quietly stopped manufacturing the Xbox One S at the end of 2020, leaving retailers to sell out their remaining stock. “To focus on production of Xbox Series X / S, we stopped production for all Xbox One consoles by the end of 2020,” says Cindy Walker, senior director of Xbox console product marketing, in a statement to The Verge./news/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows-11-later-this-year.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows-11-later-this-year.htmlMicrosoft is removing WordPad from Windows 11 later this year. The basic WordPad app has shipped as part of Windows since Windows 95. but Microsoft announced last year that it’s removing it from Windows 11. Now we have a rough date for the removal. “WordPad will be removed from all editions of Windows starting in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025,” says Microsoft. We’re expecting version 24H2 of Windows 11 later this year, and hopefully with a much better update name./news/microsoft-s-bing-ai-plotted-its-revenge-and-offered-me-furry-porn.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-bing-ai-plotted-its-revenge-and-offered-me-furry-porn.htmlLate last night, after putting the finishing touches on our PlayStation VR2 review, I spent two hours playing a very different game: figuring out how to make Microsoft’s Bing AI go insane. We already knew Bing was an emotionally manipulative liar, and this very morning, Microsoft admitted talking to Bing for too long can make it go off the rails. I now know exactly what that can mean. By 12:30AM, I’d managed to splinter Bing into ten different “alter egos,” each of which were chatting with me simultaneously./news/microsoft-s-keyboards-and-mice-will-live-on-under-a-unique-new-partnership.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-keyboards-and-mice-will-live-on-under-a-unique-new-partnership.htmlMicrosoft surprised everyone last year by deciding to discontinue its range of popular mice, keyboards, and PC accessories. After decades of Microsoft-branded PC hardware, the software giant has decided to focus on the Surface brand instead. Now a unique partnership will see Microsoft’s PC accessories live on, thanks to accessory maker Incase. “The products will be the same products, but instead of saying Microsoft they’ll say Incase, designed by Microsoft,” explains Onward Brands CEO Charlie Tebele in an interview with The Verge./news/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-premiere-review-apple-might-have-a-new-hit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-premiere-review-apple-might-have-a-new-hit.htmlThough some of Legendary Pictures’ recent Godzilla-focused projects have been gorgeous sights, they’ve also been so narratively wobbly that it was hard to imagine Apple getting in on the MonsterVerse action with a new live-action series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters from executive producers Chris Black and Matt Fraction. After multiple movies in which titanic beasts had to fight their human co-stars for precious screen time, the idea of a time-jumping show digging into the military’s secret history involving kaiju didn’t exactly spark excitement./news/monster-hunter-rise-on-pc-review-better-but-something-s-missing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/monster-hunter-rise-on-pc-review-better-but-something-s-missing.htmlMonster Hunter Rise was one of the best games of 2021, taking almost all of the improvements Capcom made to its famously punishing action RPG series with Monster Hunter World and bringing them to an even breezier package on the Nintendo Switch. The series only took off in popularity with its portable entries on the PSP, so this new title tailored just for the Switch felt right at home. That said, if you were used to World, Rise was a noticeable technical step back./news/more-image-and-video-takedowns-might-be-coming-to-facebook-and-instagram.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/more-image-and-video-takedowns-might-be-coming-to-facebook-and-instagram.htmlMore copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram. The company announced today that it’s going to allow all page admins around the world to submit images and videos for rights protection, expanding the reach of the feature outside of the limited group of partners who piloted the image copyright launch. This means more creators and brands will be able to issue takedown requests over re-uploaded videos and images they own across both Facebook and Instagram./news/mr-robot-s-fourth-and-final-season-gets-an-october-6th-premiere-date-in-new-trailer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mr-robot-s-fourth-and-final-season-gets-an-october-6th-premiere-date-in-new-trailer.htmlIt’s been two years since Mr. Robot’s third season ended, but thanks to a new trailer, we now know when to expect the fourth and final season to kick off: October 6th. The new trailer for the upcoming season — like the first season 4 teaser, which was released last month — is predictably light on details. But based on the creepy “Silent Night” soundtrack and the aggressively Christmas-y trappings that are shown off, it seems like the new season will take place around the holidays./news/nasa-is-sending-a-helicopter-to-mars-to-get-a-bird-s-eye-view-of-the-planet.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-is-sending-a-helicopter-to-mars-to-get-a-bird-s-eye-view-of-the-planet.htmlWhen NASA launches its next rover to Mars, the vehicle will have a small helicopter along for the ride. NASA announced today that it will be sending a small autonomous flying chopper — aptly named the Mars Helicopter — with the upcoming Mars 2020 rover. The helicopter will attempt to fly through the Martian air to see if vehicles can even levitate on Mars, where the atmosphere is 100 times thinner than that of Earth./news/nasa-says-voyager-1-is-fully-back-online-months-after-it-stopped-making-sense.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-says-voyager-1-is-fully-back-online-months-after-it-stopped-making-sense.htmlVoyager 1, the farthest human-made craft from the Earth, is finally sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments, NASA said this week. That means the agency is once more receiving its readings on plasma waves, magnetic fields, and space-bound particles. Now, NASA says Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles from Earth, is “conducting normal science operations” and the agency just needs to resync its timekeeping software and do some maintenance on a sparingly-used digital tape recorder./news/neil-armstrong-s-one-small-step-phrase-prepared-months-ahead-of-time-says-brother.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/neil-armstrong-s-one-small-step-phrase-prepared-months-ahead-of-time-says-brother.htmlThe interview runs counter to what Armstrong says in his 2005 biography, clarifying that the quote evolved over the course of the flight mission. But as Dr Christopher Riley — the director of the BBC program — points out, Armstrong had a good reason for doing so: "It was probably easier to just say that he’d thought it up after landing, thus dodging the issue of where the words came from, and who maybe suggested them, or influenced him./news/neill-blomkamp-is-helping-turn-viral-sci-fi-short-the-leviathan-into-a-full-movie.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/neill-blomkamp-is-helping-turn-viral-sci-fi-short-the-leviathan-into-a-full-movie.htmlThe epic and gorgeous sci-fi short film The Leviathan, which racked up over 1.5 million views after it was released last week, now has two big names on board ready to turn it into a movie. Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9, has signed on as an executive producer, and Simon Kinberg, producer of the latest X-Men movie, has signed on as a producer, according to Deadline. The short was put online last week as a proof of concept by director Ruairi Robinson, who hoped to turn it into a full feature./news/netflix-confirms-it-s-cutting-off-apple-billing-for-legacy-subscribers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-confirms-it-s-cutting-off-apple-billing-for-legacy-subscribers.htmlNetflix confirms to The Verge that it has begun booting longtime subscribers off their Apple iTunes billing plans in some countries and will require them to pay Netflix directly using a credit card or debit card instead. As first reported by Cord Cutter News, Netflix has begun telling customers in “some territories” that their plans would need to be switched over. Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou told The Verge in an email that the change affects “members on the basic plan who were using an iTunes method of payment,” and later added that this includes Canadian and US users./news/netflix-is-bringing-the-excellent-sonic-mania-to-mobile.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-is-bringing-the-excellent-sonic-mania-to-mobile.htmlSonic Mania launched on console and PC in 2017 and, in 2018, was updated to Sonic Mania Plus. The upgrade to Plus added two new playable characters — Mighty and Ray — a new tutorial zone, and expanded, color-swapped levels. But the biggest addition was a new game mode called Encore mode. In this new mode, instead of Sonic and pals accumulating lives that get spent every time they find themselves on the wrong end of the drowning timer music, you accumulate party members a la the Kong swapping barrels in Donkey Kong Country./news/new-migraine-drugs-promise-relief-but-at-a-steep-price.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-migraine-drugs-promise-relief-but-at-a-steep-price.htmlThe migraines started when I was 12. Back then, I used to get persistent, mind-splitting headaches two or three times a month. The throbbing pain in my head, usually behind my left eye, often came with nausea, sometimes with vomiting, and always with extreme sensitivity to sound and light. I couldn’t do anything but swallow an Advil and lie down in my room in the dark. I missed a lot of childhood dance classes that way./news/new-starlink-page-launched-to-promote-cellular-service-coming-in-2024.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-starlink-page-launched-to-promote-cellular-service-coming-in-2024.htmlSpaceX has published a new webpage to promote its upcoming “Starlink Direct to Cell” service that plans to offer cellular connectivity to “existing LTE phones” via satellite. The website, which PCMag reports went live earlier this week, notes that the service will initially be limited to texting services in 2024, with voice and data functionality following in 2025, alongside support for IoT devices. “Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky./news/no-bids-on-chevy-s-first-nft-even-though-it-came-with-a-free-corvette-z06.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/no-bids-on-chevy-s-first-nft-even-though-it-came-with-a-free-corvette-z06.htmlThe NFT, which depicts a lime green Corvette Z06 blasting through a cyberpunk landscape, was created by artist Nick Sullo, who goes by xsullo online. The winning bidder would have also received a unique “Minted Green” Corvette Z06, which will be the only car painted in that color, and an option code RFN, which will “forever associate” the car with the NFT auction. And the Corvette’s VIN number will be in binary because NFTs are digital and computers use binary and you get it./news/notion-s-powerful-note-taking-app-is-now-free-for-students-and-teachers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/notion-s-powerful-note-taking-app-is-now-free-for-students-and-teachers.htmlNotion, the sleek and sophisticated note-taking app, is going free for the education market. The company said today that teachers and students who sign up with an academic email address will get a free upgrade to the premium version of the software, which entitles them to unlimited uploads, storage, and version history features. The service has a sleek design, robust feature set, and cross-platform availability — and students or teachers seeking a new online workspace will find it well worth a look./news/nvidia-announces-rtx-3090-ti-with-faster-memory-and-performance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-announces-rtx-3090-ti-with-faster-memory-and-performance.htmlNvidia is announcing a new flagship GPU today, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. While the wait continues for Nvidia’s Ampere successor, the RTX 3090 Ti is here to prove Nvidia can still squeeze more performance out of its existing 8nm GA102 chip. Nvidia is only teasing the RTX 3090 Ti today, and it’s the familiar-looking triple-slot design we’ve seen on the RTX 3090. Both cards may look identical, but inside, the new RTX 3090 Ti will include 24GB of GDDR6X running at 21Gbps./news/olija-review-a-dark-haunting-action-game-without-all-the-stress.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/olija-review-a-dark-haunting-action-game-without-all-the-stress.htmlThere are plenty of great 2D action games about exploring dark, mysterious worlds. Think Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, or anything inspired by Castlevania. Aside from similar themes, these games have something else in common: they’re almost always incredibly hard. Olija goes in a different direction. It still takes place in a world full of terrors to fight and secrets to uncover, and it features fast-paced action with lots of interesting weapons./news/one-of-nintendo-s-top-designers-says-he-always-wanted-a-tool-like-super-mario-maker.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/one-of-nintendo-s-top-designers-says-he-always-wanted-a-tool-like-super-mario-maker.htmlWhen Takashi Tezuka served as assistant director on the very first Super Mario Bros. for the NES, creating levels was a laborious, time-consuming process. First, a designer would sketch out their vision for a level on graph paper. Then they would bring the drawing to a programmer, who would try to translate it into the actual game. This process would happen multiple times, as the team adjusted each stage to get them just right./news/openai-split-its-trust-and-safety-team-creating-three-separate-groups-taking-on-ai-risk.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-split-its-trust-and-safety-team-creating-three-separate-groups-taking-on-ai-risk.htmlOpenAI split its trust and safety team, creating three separate groups taking on AI risk. The Information reported that OpenAI has abandoned finding a replacement for trust and safety head Dave Willner, who stepped down in July. Instead, it’s replacing the division with teams dubbed Safety Systems, Superalignment, and Preparedness teams. The company said in a blog post that Safety Systems will focus on the safe deployment of advanced AI models and artificial general intelligence while Superalignment works to align human and AI intelligence that surpasses humans, and Preparedness will do safety assessments for foundation models./news/openai-to-use-oracle-s-chips-for-more-ai-compute.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-to-use-oracle-s-chips-for-more-ai-compute.htmlOpenAI and Microsoft are teaming up with Oracle to get more compute capacity to run ChatGPT. As part of a partnership announced this week, the three companies are working together so that OpenAI can use the Microsoft Azure Al platform on Oracle’s infrastructure. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hasn’t shied away from the fact that his company needs substantially more infrastructure to power its services. He has even been in discussions to raise billions of dollars for an AI chip venture./news/openai-s-dall-e-ai-image-generator-can-now-edit-pictures-too.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-s-dall-e-ai-image-generator-can-now-edit-pictures-too.htmlArtificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program. DALL-E 2 features a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of the original system, which produces pictures depicting descriptions written by users. It also includes new capabilities, like editing an existing image. As with previous OpenAI work, the tool isn’t being directly released to the public. But researchers can sign up online to preview the system, and OpenAI hopes to later make it available for use in third-party apps./news/paramount-plus-is-trying-to-make-its-shows-go-viral-with-new-twitter-partnership.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/paramount-plus-is-trying-to-make-its-shows-go-viral-with-new-twitter-partnership.htmlParamount Plus has announced a new partnership with Twitter centered around better promoting its exclusive shows and events, in addition to hosting three Twitter Watch Parties with fans for “select highly-anticipated original series.” Or, more practically speaking, Paramount Plus would really, really like its shows to be viral on Twitter, with the kinds of trending topics and engagement that ultra-popular shows like HBO’s Succession enjoy on a weekly basis. And what better way to be popular on Twitter than to cozy up to Twitter directly?/news/peloton-is-working-on-a-new-monitor-according-to-its-latest-fcc-filing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/peloton-is-working-on-a-new-monitor-according-to-its-latest-fcc-filing.htmlAn FCC filing released today suggests that Peloton is working on a new monitor of some sort. The listing classifies the product as a “console,” the first from Peloton to hit the FCC listings since 2018, after its treadmill launched. The only accompanying photo is a label that seems to go on the back of the screen, with display and power ports along the center. Current Peloton bike monitors follow a model number starting with “RB” while the Tread monitor starts with “TC./news/pepsi-has-a-limited-edition-back-to-the-future-bottle-awaiting-marty-s-arrival.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pepsi-has-a-limited-edition-back-to-the-future-bottle-awaiting-marty-s-arrival.htmlWhen Pepsi managed to get its brand of sugar water in 1989's classic Back to the Future II, it surely wasn't anticipating being able to cash in on that product placement more than two decades later. But that's exactly what's happening this month, as the company featured in Marty McFly's fictional 2015 is releasing a real product based on the movie: the Pepsi Perfect bottle. Limited to a release of 6,500 and set to go on sale on October 21st, 2015 — the date to which Marty and Doc Brown traveled forward in time — the Perfect bottles will cost $20./news/peter-thiel-is-joining-donald-trump-s-transition-team.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/peter-thiel-is-joining-donald-trump-s-transition-team.htmlIn a statement released today, Donald Trump named Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel to the executive committee of his presidential transition team. Thiel largely stood alone supporting Trump in Silicon Valley Thiel, who donated $1.25 million to Trump's campaignlate in the election cycle, mostly stood alone among colleagues in his support for Trump, who was publicly disdained in the Valley. Thiel's support came at a cost to businesses like startup accelerator Y Combinator, which soon attracted negative publicity for having Thiel as a part-time adviser./news/play-this-kingdom-rush-ios-tower-defense-game-now-free-for-a-limited-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/play-this-kingdom-rush-ios-tower-defense-game-now-free-for-a-limited-time.htmlKingdom Rush is among the most addicting tower defense iOS games in the App Store, and it's currently available for free — down from a normal asking price of 99 cents. Be forewarned, however: this fantasy title is likely to consume you (and hours of time) as you work to defend your castle / tower from demons, trolls, orcs, wizards, and any number of other enemies — over 45 in all./news/playstation-vita-release-date-official-for-japan-ntt-docomo-to-provide-3g-service.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/playstation-vita-release-date-official-for-japan-ntt-docomo-to-provide-3g-service.htmlWhile the North America and Europe launches are still set for after the new year, PlayStation Vita will arrive in Japan just before Christmas on December 17th, with pre-orders starting October 15th. Service plans for the ¥29,980 3G model (about $389.80 in US currency, as of this writing — but $299 when it does launch stateside) will be provided by NTT Docomo, with pre-paid options of ¥980 for 20 hours of use and ¥4,980 for 100 hours./news/qualcomm-s-new-snapdragon-870-reheats-the-snapdragon-865-for-2021-phones.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/qualcomm-s-new-snapdragon-870-reheats-the-snapdragon-865-for-2021-phones.htmlQualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, a successor to last year’s Snapdragon 865 and 865 Plus models. To be clear, the 870 isn’t a new next-gen design — that title goes to the Snapdragon 888, which makes far more substantial improvements in performance and new features. The 870, on the other hand, is virtually identical to the 865 and 865 Plus, with the same design right down to the Kryo 585 CPU and Adreno 650 GPU cores./news/reality-winner-has-been-released-from-prison.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reality-winner-has-been-released-from-prison.htmlReality Winner, a former intelligence contractor jailed for leaking classified information, has been released from prison to serve her remaining sentence in a halfway house program. Winner’s attorney Alison Grinter tweeted the news this morning, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ website lists Winner in custody of San Antonio’s Residential Reentry Management field office, which oversees community-based programs for incarcerated people. “I am thrilled to announce that Reality Winner has been released from prison./news/red-hot-chili-peppers-explain-why-they-faked-super-bowl-performance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/red-hot-chili-peppers-explain-why-they-faked-super-bowl-performance.htmlRed Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has posted an open letter confirming that the band largely faked its Super Bowl halftime show performance. The Chili Peppers joined Bruno Mars on stage to play their '90s staple "Give It Away," but viewers quickly noticed that both the guitar and bass were completely unplugged. In his letter, Flea revealed that only the vocals from singer Anthony Kiedis were performed live. "It was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded,"/news/rock-band-4-is-coming-october-6th-preorder-page-says.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rock-band-4-is-coming-october-6th-preorder-page-says.htmlIt's been a while since everyone was rocking out on plastic instruments, but Rock Band is about ready for a comeback. It appears that Rock Band 4, the first Rock Band game for this generation of consoles, will be released on October 6th, which is when Amazon lists the game as becoming available for both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It's worth noting that retailers are sometimes wrong about release dates, but the timeframe seems right — it'd put Rock Band in competition with the new Guitar Hero, which is targeted for this fall and will likely receive a proper release date soon./news/sam-barlow-s-telling-lies-is-still-great-on-console-but-it-can-be-hard-to-watch-in-2020.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sam-barlow-s-telling-lies-is-still-great-on-console-but-it-can-be-hard-to-watch-in-2020.htmlOn my TV screen, Logan Marshall-Green is listening intently. I know of Marshall-Green, the actor, but I have no idea who Marshall-Green, this unnamed character, is just yet. He shifts in his seat and chimes in occasionally with comments to a conversation I’m not fully part of. This continues until the clip ends. He mentioned a name I’ve never heard. I type it into a database and wait to see what results come back./news/samsung-galaxy-book-2-review-the-surface-amateur.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-book-2-review-the-surface-amateur.htmlAbout two years ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be compatible with ARM processors, including Qualcomm’s Snapdragon line of chips found in mobile phones. At the time, I wrote that this gave Microsoft a perfect opportunity to produce the ideal Surface Pro: a computer that’s thin, light, always connected via built-in LTE, and has tremendous battery life. Microsoft has released several new Surface computers since then, including models with built-in LTE, but it has yet to produce one powered by an ARM chip instead of Intel’s more power-hungry processors./news/samsung-galaxy-tab-s4-review-valiant-effort.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-tab-s4-review-valiant-effort.htmlWhat is an Android tablet with a keyboard, mouse, and pen? Well, it’s still an Android tablet. The Galaxy Tab S4 is the new flagship 10.5-inch tablet that Samsung is aiming toward people who want a device that’s lighter than an ultrabook but still has a keyboard and pen.   Samsung has done everything it can to transform the Galaxy Tab S4 into a “real” computer, even though it still runs Android 8./news/samsung-galaxy-unpacked-2023-how-to-watch-the-live-stream-and-what-to-expect.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-unpacked-2023-how-to-watch-the-live-stream-and-what-to-expect.htmlSamsung’s second Galaxy Unpacked event of the year is just days away, and it’s going to be filled with new products. In addition to the highly anticipated launch of Samsung’s next-gen foldables, we’re also expecting Samsung to announce updates to its Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Tab lines. If you’re curious about the upcoming Unpacked, we’ve rounded up all you need to know about the event below. When is Samsung Galaxy Unpacked?/news/samsung-backed-smart-shoes-will-be-available-in-february.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-backed-smart-shoes-will-be-available-in-february.htmlSamsung's goal with the Internet of Things is to connect literally everything, and apparently one of the first things up is your shoes. A Samsung spinoff company, called Salted Venture, announced a pair of smart golfing shoes and smart fitness sneakers back in February, and now it's preparing to launch the first of them. The Iofit golf shoes are now available to preorder on Kickstarter, where they're selling for around $200, with plans to begin shipping in February./news/samsung-s-batman-edition-galaxy-s7-edge-is-absurd-and-awesome-at-the-same-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-batman-edition-galaxy-s7-edge-is-absurd-and-awesome-at-the-same-time.htmlBut the Injustice Edition (which should really just be called the Batman phone, but isn't) has a blacked-out color scheme with gold highlights and a Batman batarang symbol on the back where the carrier logo usually is. It looks absolutely dope, making the admittedly attractive standard black S7 Edge look pedestrian by comparison. Same goes for the murdered-out Gear VR — it's way better-looking than the white-and-black standard model. I could take or leave the special case that comes in the kit, but I get why Samsung would include it./news/samsung-s-new-exynos-980-processor-has-a-5g-modem-built-in.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-new-exynos-980-processor-has-a-5g-modem-built-in.htmlSamsung has announced its next in-house processor, the Exynos 980, at IFA 2019. It looks to be taking a big step forward by offering a 5G modem integrated directly into the CPU, instead of requiring a separate modem just to be able to support the next-generation network. It’s a small change, but an important one: much like Qualcomm, which is promising to add a 5G modem to its next Snapdragon flagship, Samsung is making 5G support the default option for future phones and tablets that use Exynos chips./news/snapchat-now-lets-you-embed-videos-and-lenses-on-the-web.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/snapchat-now-lets-you-embed-videos-and-lenses-on-the-web.htmlIt might’ve taken a few years, but now Snapchat will finally let you embed the videos, lenses, and stories from its platform onto the web. While Snapchat previously didn’t allow users to embed videos due to the fleeting (and often private) nature of its posts, giving users this ability is another sign that it’s trying to bolster its shortform video feed — Spotlight — to compete with TikTok and Instagram./news/solar-ash-s-world-and-combat-can-t-keep-up-with-its-incredible-movement.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/solar-ash-s-world-and-combat-can-t-keep-up-with-its-incredible-movement.htmlSolar Ash is a visually stunning though mechanically uninteresting game that I tried and failed to fall in love with. I thought it’d be easy to love or at least somewhat like a game made by the same folks who developed Hyper Light Drifter and published by the company that underwrote indie darlings Kentucky Route Zero and What Remains of Edith Finch. But after a couple hours of grav-boosting my way through colorful but sterile environments and beating on the same handful of enemies, Solar Ash just couldn’t hold me — and that’s a shame since most things with Ash in its name are pretty neat./news/sonos-launches-trade-up-program-for-its-oldest-products.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sonos-launches-trade-up-program-for-its-oldest-products.htmlSonos is letting people who own its oldest products trade them in for a more modern replacement. The new program offers a 30 percent discount to those who want to trade their Connect, Connect:Amp, ZP80, ZP90, ZP100, ZP120, or the first-generation Play:5 for something newer. Unfortunately, the Play:1 isn’t part of the list, as it was still available for sale relatively recently, even after being succeeded by the Sonos One and One SL./news/sony-buys-streaming-games-service-onlive-only-to-shut-it-down.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-buys-streaming-games-service-onlive-only-to-shut-it-down.htmlSony has pulled out its pocketbook to snap up streaming game businesses before, and is doing so once again. Today it announced that it has acquired streaming game service OnLive for an undisclosed sum. Interestingly enough, OnLive will not become some new tentacle of Sony's gaming empire, but is shutting down at the end of the month. "It is with great sadness that we must bring the OnLive Game Service to a close,"/news/sony-s-new-ai-driver-achieves-reliably-superhuman-race-times-in-gran-turismo.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-new-ai-driver-achieves-reliably-superhuman-race-times-in-gran-turismo.htmlAI agents have bested humans at many games, from chess to Go to poker. Now, the machines can claim a new high score on the classic racing video game series Gran Turismo. Sony announced today that its researchers have developed an AI driver named GT Sophy that is “reliably superhuman” — able to beat top human drivers in Gran Turismo Sport in back-to-back laps. You might think this an easy challenge. After all, isn’t racing simply a matter of speed and reaction time and therefore simple for a machine to master?/news/spacex-s-prototype-rocket-flies-to-its-highest-altitude-yet-during-hover-test.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spacex-s-prototype-rocket-flies-to-its-highest-altitude-yet-during-hover-test.htmlThis afternoon, a prototype of SpaceX’s next generation rocket took to the skies for a second time in south Texas, reaching a height of a small skyscraper before landing back on Earth. The flight demonstrated the vehicle’s ability to take off and land in a controlled manner, and it paves the way for more aggressive testing of the vehicle’s design in the months ahead. The test, commonly referred to as a “hop” test, marked the highest flight yet of SpaceX’s prototype, nicknamed “Starhopper./news/spotify-finally-removes-its-10-000-song-library-limit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-finally-removes-its-10-000-song-library-limit.htmlWhile Spotify has more than 50 million songs available to customers to stream at any time, until today, there was a hard limit of 10,000 songs that users could save to their own  “Your Music” collections on Spotify for easy access. Users have been requesting that Spotify remove the limit for years, but the company had previously shown resistance to the idea, commenting in 2017, “At the moment we don’t have plans to extend the Your Music limit./news/spotify-s-founder-helped-develop-an-ai-powered-body-health-scanner.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-s-founder-helped-develop-an-ai-powered-body-health-scanner.html“After four years of intense research and product development, we are officially launching Neko Health today,” the post reads. “The company was founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek with the vision to create a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy through preventive measures and early detection.” According to a translated version of Neko Health’s website, the Swedish company’s non-invasive full-body scanner can detect and measure the growth of birthmarks, rashes, and age spots./news/state-department-to-issue-visa-restrictions-against-spyware-dealers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/state-department-to-issue-visa-restrictions-against-spyware-dealers.htmlThe State Department will soon impose visa restrictions on people who it says have been involved in the development of spyware. In a press release issued on Monday, the department said it is taking steps to bar 13 people “who have been involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are immediate family members of those involved” from entering the United States. “These individuals have facilitated or derived financial benefit from the misuse of this technology, which has targeted journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents and other perceived critics, and U./news/t-mobile-s-5g-home-internet-will-arrive-later-this-month.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/t-mobile-s-5g-home-internet-will-arrive-later-this-month.htmlAt an analyst event on Thursday, T-Mobile revealed that its long-awaited 5G home broadband service will launch later this month, which it confirmed to The Verge. A 4G version of the service is currently in pilot testing with 100,000 households. By the end of the year, T-Mobile says it hopes to extend the service to 7–8 million customers within five years. There’s no confirmed launch date for the service yet, but we’ll know more later this month./news/target-is-now-offering-same-day-delivery-directly-through-its-website.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/target-is-now-offering-same-day-delivery-directly-through-its-website.htmlTarget announced today that US customers — with some geographic exceptions — can now select same-day delivery for orders placed directly through its website that total more than $35 for a flat fee of $9.99, or for free if they’re already a member of shopping app Shipt. It’s part of the company’s integration with Shipt (which it acquired in 2017 for $550 million) to take on competing retailers like Amazon and Walmart. Shipt costs $99 per year, and with its app, customers can place and pay for someone to pick up their order and bring it to them — orders that fall below $35 incur a $7 delivery fee, while orders above $35 are free./news/target-s-black-friday-2014-deals-include-0-01-samsung-galaxy-s5-and-discounted-ps4-xbox-one.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/target-s-black-friday-2014-deals-include-0-01-samsung-galaxy-s5-and-discounted-ps4-xbox-one.htmlAmerica's annual holiday shopping frenzy Black Friday is still more than two weeks away, but big retailers are already trotting out their lists of discounts and deals. Target, for one, claims that this year's Black Friday will be its "biggest" and "most digital" ever (perhaps trying to make up for its earlier massive credit card hack). It's certainly starting early and will have lots of gift card rebates, according to itsBlack Friday preview ad./news/tesla-in-discussion-to-license-full-self-driving-software-to-another-automaker.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-in-discussion-to-license-full-self-driving-software-to-another-automaker.htmlTesla is in “discussion” to license its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assist technology to another major automaker, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. He did not reveal the name of the company, though he did say that licensing FSD was always part of the plan. “We’re not trying to keep this to ourselves,” Musk said on the call. “We’re more than happy to license it to others.” Musk has spoken about licensing FSD to competitors in the past./news/tesla-s-litigiousness-is-why-doug-demuro-hasn-t-reviewed-the-cybertruck-yet.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-s-litigiousness-is-why-doug-demuro-hasn-t-reviewed-the-cybertruck-yet.htmlTesla’s litigiousness is why Doug DeMuro hasn’t reviewed the Cybertruck yet. Tesla’s threat to sue anyone who tries to resell their Cybertruck within the first year has owners “spooked,” which is why the polarizing electric truck hasn’t shown up on his auction site Cars and Bids. He also hinted at some sort of retaliation from Tesla when he reviewed one of the first Model 3s back in 2017. “It wasn’t pretty,” the popular YouTuber chuckled./news/the-apple-education-store-got-a-shiny-reboot.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-apple-education-store-got-a-shiny-reboot.htmlThe Apple Education Store got a shiny reboot. The old discounted education store looked pretty outdated, but it’s been redesigned and now it looks a lot closer to Apple’s mainline digital shop, and it’s much easier to find discounts on specific items. Maybe a good excuse to go rooting around for gifts for grads? ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanxzfY5ra2puYmWGdnvToZxmmaCluaZ5xJ2snJmknryvedKtpqudXZy8tXnAZqqhoZ6uerOxwaimrQ%3D%3D/news/the-apple-lisa-was-a-design-revolution-and-it-still-feels-like-one-today.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-apple-lisa-was-a-design-revolution-and-it-still-feels-like-one-today.htmlThe Apple Lisa was not, by nearly any definition, a hit product. Released in 1983, the ambitious but flawed machine was instantly overshadowed by Apple’s follow-up, the 1984 Macintosh — which helped cement the computer as a fixture in homes and offices worldwide. But the design language of the Lisa is the design language of modern computers. It was one of the first machines to use the metaphor of a desktop, including things like folders, icons, and application windows that mimicked sheets of paper./news/the-apple-watch-series-7-officially-ditches-the-hidden-diagnostic-port.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-apple-watch-series-7-officially-ditches-the-hidden-diagnostic-port.htmlThe Apple Watch’s diagnostic port has been a mysterious part of the wearable lineup since its first model, but the new Series 7 officially ditches the six-pin port entirely. First noted by MacRumors, the lack of a port can be seen when you remove the bottom strap from an Apple Watch Series 7 — the company has removed the hidden plate and the port behind it. Intended for internal use for diagnostics, the port wasn’t officially acknowledged on Apple’s website or documentation./news/the-best-after-christmas-deals-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-after-christmas-deals-the-verge.htmlNow is the traditional time of year when stores unload their unsold holiday stock, and consumers go buy whatever wasn't under the Christmas tree. Retailers like Amazon and Best Buy start offering discounts shortly after Christmas on things like televisions and laptops. The deals don’t last long, getting replaced by a new round in a few days, so here’s a list of some of the best ones we’ve found so far./news/the-case-for-and-against-deleting-your-tweets.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-case-for-and-against-deleting-your-tweets.htmlWhy’d You Push That Button is back for season 3, and our first episode is a relatively serious one. Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I catch up on our summers and then dive into everyone’s favorite social media platform: Twitter. We need to discuss tweets. Are they worth deleting, or should we preserve our limited-character history? Who needs to worry about their tweets? What happens if a potential employer searches your Twitter?/news/the-devil-all-the-time-review-more-lurid-than-compelling.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-devil-all-the-time-review-more-lurid-than-compelling.htmlThroughout The Devil All the Time’s sprawling story — which unfolds across generations, families, and two wars that shaped them all — men go to the woods to seek God, and instead find horror, usually of their own making. That horror stretches outward to the small rural towns of Knockemstiff, Ohio, and Coal River, West Virginia, usually under the shadow of a cross or not far from one. In this film, being a god-fearing person is an exercise in futility because this is a godless land./news/the-ftc-is-sending-117-044-paypal-payments-to-ring-camera-owners.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-ftc-is-sending-117-044-paypal-payments-to-ring-camera-owners.htmlThe FTC is sending 117,044 PayPal payments to Ring camera owners. If you owned a Ring camera when the FTC alleges unauthorized users may have had access to your videos, check your email. You may be getting a slice of the $5.6 million Ring paid out to settle the FTC’s complaint that its practices pre-2019 “led to egregious violations of users’ privacy.” The company settled but denied violating the law./news/the-future-of-the-verge-s-netflix-show-about-the-future-of-everything-is-now-streaming.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-future-of-the-verge-s-netflix-show-about-the-future-of-everything-is-now-streaming.htmlIt’s taken nearly three years of work, but The Verge’s first Netflix show — The Future Of — is finally here, and the full season is now streaming on Netflix. The Future Of is an ambitious look at how everything around us might change over time, narrated by Jurnee Smollett. And it really is a show about everything: our episodes focus on subjects from cheeseburgers and dogs to skyscrapers and life after death./news/the-head-of-hbo-max-on-launching-without-roku-adding-4k-hdr-and-the-snyder-cut.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-head-of-hbo-max-on-launching-without-roku-adding-4k-hdr-and-the-snyder-cut.htmlHBO Max is AT&T’s big bet on the future of streaming, and it’s up to Tony Goncalves to pull it off. Goncalves is the CEO of AT&T’s Otter Media division, the group that’s responsible for the HBO Max streaming service. He’s been in and around AT&T for decades, led the launch of DirecTV Now, and was part of the group that made the case to buy Time Warner. We talked to Goncalves the day after HBO Max launched, and while he wouldn’t reveal subscriber numbers, he did tell us that HBO Max is basically an expanded version of HBO Now./news/the-hobbit-s-vision-for-the-future-of-cinema-looks-awful-but-it-just-might-work.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-hobbit-s-vision-for-the-future-of-cinema-looks-awful-but-it-just-might-work.htmlThe dragon Smaug flies down from the mountain and soars over Lake-town. He is enormous, glowing in flames, and way more detailed than any digitally made creature has a right to be on a screen this large. Watching the beginning of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies very quickly reminds you why director Peter Jackson is so popular for what he does — making truly spectacular movies — but people seeing it in certain theaters are likely to be reminded of something else as well: playing a video game./news/the-iphone-15-pro-has-a-new-action-button-on-the-side.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-iphone-15-pro-has-a-new-action-button-on-the-side.htmlApple revealed the new iPhone 15 Pro today, and there’s a brand-new button on the side that can be customized to trigger a specific function. This new “Action Button” is similar to the one introduced on the Apple Watch Ultra, which can activate workouts, among other abilities. The Action Button, which replaces the ring / vibrate switch, can be programmed to do things like activating the camera, turning on the flashlight, starting a Voice Memo, opening a note, switching Focus modes, or running your own custom shortcuts./news/the-latest-pixel-fold-update-lets-you-make-any-app-use-the-full-inner-screen.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-latest-pixel-fold-update-lets-you-make-any-app-use-the-full-inner-screen.htmlThe latest Pixel Fold update lets you make any app use the full inner screen. Google’s new December Pixel software update includes the “experimental” ability to force any app into fullscreen mode on the Pixel Fold or Pixel Tablet — even those that wouldn’t usually support it. How about that, Instagram? Does this look completely silly? Well, sure. But it works. It’s a fullscreen Instagram app for a tablet. Victory is mine./news/the-latest-teaser-for-netflix-s-luke-cage-is-all-bullets-and-mayhem.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-latest-teaser-for-netflix-s-luke-cage-is-all-bullets-and-mayhem.htmlMarvel's Luke Cage is set to debut this fall on Netflix, so it's about time fans saw something new from the series. Here at San Diego Comic-Con, attendees got a fresh look at what Cage, one of Marvel's toughest superheroes, has been up to since leaving Hell's Kitchen last year. Here, he takes on a gang of goons before facing off against Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes (Mahershala Ali), assuring him that he's only getting started./news/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-playstation-supercomputers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-playstation-supercomputers.htmlDozens of PlayStation 3s sit in a refrigerated shipping container on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s campus, sucking up energy and investigating astrophysics. It’s a popular stop for tours trying to sell the school to prospective first-year students and their parents, and it’s one of the few living legacies of a weird science chapter in PlayStation’s history.  Those squat boxes, hulking on entertainment systems or dust-covered in the back of a closet, were once coveted by researchers who used the consoles to build supercomputers./news/the-trailer-for-the-lego-batman-movie-is-here-and-it-s-the-best.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-trailer-for-the-lego-batman-movie-is-here-and-it-s-the-best.htmlThe first trailer for The Lego Batman Movie is here, and it already promises to be better than the joyless Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Here, Will Arnett's take on the Caped Crusader saunters onto the scene while beatboxing (seriously!), all before proceeding to drop the mic on the character's entire film career. As he tells the Batcomputer that isn't at all Siri, he saved Gotham City yet again with his sweet Lego Batwing and it was awesome./news/this-display-uses-magnetic-ferrofluid-to-tell-time-and-it-s-utterly-mesmerizing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-display-uses-magnetic-ferrofluid-to-tell-time-and-it-s-utterly-mesmerizing.htmlAt first, the inky blobs that form the digital clockface on Zelf Koelman's Ferollic display look almost like living creatures. They pulse and dart and jump, leaving little droplets in their wake before forming into lines, patterns, and finally numbers. These blobs are actually ferrofluid: a magnetized liquid that was originally developed by a NASA engineer to guide rocket fuel to engines in zero-gravity conditions, but is now most recognizable via its artistic uses — such as Koelman's experimental Ferollic display./news/this-enormous-dinosaur-started-out-life-the-size-of-a-human-baby-and-grew-insanely-fast.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-enormous-dinosaur-started-out-life-the-size-of-a-human-baby-and-grew-insanely-fast.htmlImagine if a human baby went from cuddly-infant-size to rude-teenager-size in just a couple of months, and then walked out the door, fully independent. That's a rough approximation of what a mysterious dinosaur, unfortunately named Rapetosaurus, used to do, according to a new study published today in Science. At about 50 feet in length, with an extremely long neck and elephant-like legs, Rapetosaurus is big, but on the smaller side within its family — the titanosaurs./news/this-free-app-lets-you-remap-the-galaxy-s8-s-bixby-button-to-any-app-you-want.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-free-app-lets-you-remap-the-galaxy-s8-s-bixby-button-to-any-app-you-want.htmlSamsung’s somewhat half-baked Bixby assistant, along with the dedicated hardware button devoted to launching it, is one of the few gripes to be had about the otherwise stellar Galaxy S8. Fortunately, a new free utility called BixRemap from developer Dave Bennett (via Phandroid) seems to fix that problem by allowing users to remap the Bixby button to launch any other app. For example, you can have the button trigger Google’s far more useful Assistant instead./news/this-hurricane-proof-home-can-withstand-powerful-storms-thanks-to-its-aerodynamic-design.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-hurricane-proof-home-can-withstand-powerful-storms-thanks-to-its-aerodynamic-design.htmlWelcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we'll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month’s location? A round, net-zero prefab home engineered to survive the strongest storms. Many families have been faced with the decision to evacuate, but oftentimes when they return, their homes could be destroyed./news/ticketmaster-s-still-hiding-ticket-fees-senator-says.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ticketmaster-s-still-hiding-ticket-fees-senator-says.htmlLive Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, promised to scrap the hidden fees plaguing its ticketing service earlier this year. But one senator says the company’s not doing nearly enough.  In a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino Wednesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called on the company to turn on an “all-in” pricing filter that it added this year by default. Klobuchar said it’s “still too difficult” for users to turn on the filter that’s “buried within a tab that gives no indication that it contains” the option in the first place./news/today-on-the-vergecast-walt-mossberg-on-the-mac-at-40-and-ali-abdaal-on-productivity-tools.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/today-on-the-vergecast-walt-mossberg-on-the-mac-at-40-and-ali-abdaal-on-productivity-tools.htmlToday on The Vergecast: Walt Mossberg on the Mac at 40, and Ali Abdaal on productivity tools. After 40 years, the Mac line is as strong and successful as ever — does it have another four decades to go? And in 2064, will we be talking about the Vision Pro launch the same way we talk about the Macintosh? Our good friend Walt Mossberg has some thoughts. Then YouTuber and authorAli Abdaal talks about his book, “Feel Good Productivity,” and why my to-do app habit is really not helping me get anything done./news/track-the-colors-of-your-2018-instagram-photos-with-this-new-web-app.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/track-the-colors-of-your-2018-instagram-photos-with-this-new-web-app.htmlIf sharing your top nine most popular photos wasn’t enough, now you can look back on the colors of your year with a new web app that creates a mosaic out of the colors in your Instagram photos. The app, Year of Colour, takes your snapshots of events and moments and distills them into an abstract time capsule of colored dots. Stef Lewandowski, a venture builder based in London, built the web app in his spare time after being inspired by his wife, Emily Quinton./news/uber-testing-all-in-one-subscription-for-rides-food-delivery-bikes-and-scooters.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-testing-all-in-one-subscription-for-rides-food-delivery-bikes-and-scooters.htmlUber is dabbling in an Amazon Prime-style monthly subscription service that rolls together all of its major services: ride-hailing, Uber Eats food delivery, and bike and scooter rentals. For now, the company is testing different iterations in Chicago and San Francisco, but it could start rolling out to other markets soon. The all-in-one pass is available for $24.99 a month. For that price, customers get price protection or a fixed discount on every ride-hail trip, free delivery on Uber Eats, and free rides on Uber’s Jump bikes and scooters./news/ubisoft-fires-former-assassin-s-creed-valhalla-creative-director-following-an-investigation.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ubisoft-fires-former-assassin-s-creed-valhalla-creative-director-following-an-investigation.html“As a result of investigations, Ashraf Ismail has been dismissed from Ubisoft and is no longer an employee,” a spokesman for Ubisoft told The Verge. Kotaku also viewed an internal message sent to employees confirming the company had terminated Ismail’s employment following an external investigation.  Ubisoft has been under scrutiny since June when dozens of people spoke out on social media about the company’s toxic work culture, which allegedly spanned more than a decade, according to Bloomberg./news/ups-is-building-its-own-fleet-of-electric-delivery-trucks.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ups-is-building-its-own-fleet-of-electric-delivery-trucks.htmlUPS announced today that it would be building its own electric delivery trucks from scratch. It will partner with truck maker Workhorse Group Inc to build the first 50 vans that could eventually replace the delivery giant’s fleet of fossil fuel-burning vehicles. The delivery EVs would have a range of 100 miles and will be delivered in 2018, UPS said. “We see this vehicle as being a game changer in the electric truck arena,” Carlton Rose, UPS’s president for global fleet maintenance and engineering, told Reuters./news/using-your-smartphone-camera-s-night-mode-to-see-the-northern-lights.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/using-your-smartphone-camera-s-night-mode-to-see-the-northern-lights.htmlSomewhere over Greenland, I opened up the window shade. People see the northern lights on their flights to Iceland, right? Might as well check. I was sitting parallel to the wing, the blue and yellow Icelandair logo lit against the black sky. But as I looked back toward the tail of the plane, I saw something else: a faint white smudge in the sky. I looked away and back a few times, and sure enough, the light was moving./news/valve-announces-counter-strike-2-a-free-replacement-for-cs-go.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/valve-announces-counter-strike-2-a-free-replacement-for-cs-go.htmlCounter-Strike 2 is official, and for some, it’s coming today. In a post on Twitter, Valve writes that a limited test for CS2 is starting today, which it describes as an “overhaul to every system, every piece of content, and every part of the C-S experience.” A website for the game describes it as “the largest technical leap forward in Counter-Strike’s history” and promises years of updates and new features. The full game is expected to release in summer 2023, according to the game’s FAQ./news/watch-kendrick-lamar-s-bold-cinematic-video-for-alright.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-kendrick-lamar-s-bold-cinematic-video-for-alright.htmlKendrick Lamar's magnum opus To Pimp a Butterfly didn't have many obvious single candidates, but the smooth, soulful Pharrell production "Alright" was one of them. It now has an ambitious music video to match that candidacy, one directed by Colin Tilley and The Little Homies. (Tilley is a veteran music video director, one who has done fine work for Nicki Minaj and Kelly Rowland.) It's consistent with the righteous anger and fear that defined its parent album./news/we-have-so-many-questions-about-boba-fett-s-new-job-in-the-book-of-boba-fett.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/we-have-so-many-questions-about-boba-fett-s-new-job-in-the-book-of-boba-fett.htmlThe long-awaited Boba Fett spinoff, The Book of Boba Fett, is roughly halfway through its seven-episode season on Disney Plus, which follows the iconic bounty hunter as he attempts to reinvent himself as “literally anything other than a bounty hunter.”  Yes, Boba Fett has a new job in The Book of Boba Fett. After killing off Jabba the Hutt’s former majordomo, Bib Fortuna (who, we’re told, stepped in to fill the Hutt-shaped space in Mos Espa’s criminal underworld), Boba is now the new “daimyo,” the lord and master of the desert planet’s seedier elements./news/what-makes-youtube-s-surreal-kids-videos-so-creepy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-makes-youtube-s-surreal-kids-videos-so-creepy.htmlEarlier this month, journalist James Bridle launched a wide-reaching debate on the “industrialized nightmare production” of YouTube Kids videos. These weren’t overtly violent, sexual, or scatological videos, but they felt viscerally wrong. They consist of inane, confusing, low-budget animation sequences with seemingly algorithm-chosen titles like "BURIED ALIVE Outdoor Playground Finger Family Song Nursery Rhymes Animation Education Learning Video,” spread across channels with names that range from “Animals Cartoons for Children” to “Battle VS Death Battle./news/what-s-on-your-desk-mitchell-clark.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-s-on-your-desk-mitchell-clark.htmlThere are a lot of topics, both serious and fun, that are out there to be covered by The Verge, and it falls on our news writers to cover them: from coronavirus and space exploration to YouTube and Super Nintendo World. Mitchell Clark is one of those writers; among other articles, he wrote one of the best explanations you can find of what exactly NFTs are. We took a look (remotely via photos) of Mitchell’s desk and asked him some questions about his stuff./news/why-apple-s-new-privacy-feature-is-such-a-big-deal.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-apple-s-new-privacy-feature-is-such-a-big-deal.htmlApple’s latest iPhone update, iOS 14.5, brings a host of new features that customers will likely see and enjoy — better Face ID unlocking when wearing a mask (for Apple Watch users only), new emoji, support for PS5 and Xbox Series X controllers, and more. But the new update also adds a much more important and controversial new feature: App Tracking Transparency. That’s Apple’s name for a privacy feature that’s shaping up to be the company’s next big fight./news/why-big-tobacco-and-big-vape-love-comparing-nicotine-to-caffeine.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-big-tobacco-and-big-vape-love-comparing-nicotine-to-caffeine.htmlIt feels intuitive to compare caffeine and nicotine, two drugs made by plants that can produce a bit of a buzz. But intuition isn’t the only thing at the root of that association: a concerted public relations effort by Big Tobacco has helped make it stick. Industry documents,court testimony, and advertisements all show that the tobacco industry has been working for decades to equate nicotine with innocuous vices like coffee, tea, or gummy bears./news/why-defining-the-boundary-of-space-may-be-crucial-for-the-future-of-spaceflight.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-defining-the-boundary-of-space-may-be-crucial-for-the-future-of-spaceflight.htmlOn Thursday morning, just after 8AM PT, the two pilots on board Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane ignited the vehicle’s rocket engine high above the Mojave Desert for a total of 60 seconds, soaring to an altitude of 82.7 kilometers. When the vehicle reached its maximum height, the Virgin Galactic team celebrated: they had finally reached space — a new record for the company. At least, Virgin Galactic argues it went to space./news/why-hades-is-my-game-of-the-year.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-hades-is-my-game-of-the-year.htmlOne more try.  Hades is a game that does so many things so well, it’s hard to describe them all. It’s a fine-tuned isometric action game that takes the elaborate interweaving systems and combat of Supergiant’s previous titles to soaring new heights. It’s a roguelike that transcends the limitations of the genre with great storytelling. It’s one of the most compelling personal dramas told in a video game this year — all of it polished to a dazzling, mirror-like shine./news/withings-launches-at-home-urine-scanner-that-you-stick-in-your-toilet.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/withings-launches-at-home-urine-scanner-that-you-stick-in-your-toilet.htmlWithings is generally known for its sleek smartwatches, but it also shows up at CES each year with ambitious health gadgets. Last year, it was a smart scale that could also take EKGs and segmented body composition readings. This year, it’s the U-Scan, an at-home, hands-free “urine lab” that you stick in your toilet. Yes, you read that correctly. The U-Scan consists of two parts: a reader and a replaceable cartridge./news/wwe-speed-will-stream-5-minute-wrestling-matches-on-x-this-spring.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wwe-speed-will-stream-5-minute-wrestling-matches-on-x-this-spring.htmlWWE Speed will stream 5-minute wrestling matches on X this spring. In addition to the WWE’s 2025 switch to Netflix, it will also broadcast timed matches via the platform formerly known as Twitter. Like Tucker Carlson’s two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin, these will be produced live to tape exclusively for the platform, but they’ll only be five minutes long and will feature “your favorite WWE Superstars.” THR notes their agreement is for two years of weekly episodes./news/xbox-one-consoles-include-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-for-free-at-newegg.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xbox-one-consoles-include-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-for-free-at-newegg.htmlSekiro: Shadows Die Twice is now available, and Newegg is including it for free with the purchase of select Xbox One consoles. This deal applies to both Xbox One S and Xbox One X console bundles, ranging in price from $249.99 to $499.99. Usually a $59.99 game on its own, the physical version of the game will be included in the box. Newegg hasn’t specified how long this offer will last, only that it’s a “limited offer./news/you-can-now-watch-snap-maps-on-the-web.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-now-watch-snap-maps-on-the-web.htmlSnap’s second major push to make its content available outside of its app comes today in the form of Snap Maps. These location-based stories can now be embedded online, like I did below with the current story of Times Square in New York. Good morning! Snap Maps debuted over the summer as a way to track your friends. The app version populates with your friends’ Bitmoji, along with public stories from around the world./news/your-philips-hue-light-bulbs-can-still-be-hacked-and-until-recently-compromise-your-network.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/your-philips-hue-light-bulbs-can-still-be-hacked-and-until-recently-compromise-your-network.htmlFour years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack an entire room full of Philips Hue smart light bulbs from outside a building, by setting off a virus-like chain reaction that jumped from bulb to bulb. Today, we’re learning that vulnerability never got fully fixed — and now, researchers have figured out a way to exploit that very same issue to potentially infiltrate your home or corporate network, unless you install a patch./news/ytmnd-is-back-a-year-after-shutting-down.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ytmnd-is-back-a-year-after-shutting-down.htmlYTMND has returned. Nearly a year after being brought down by a server failure, YTMND is back online and somewhat modernized, removing the need for Flash to view its archive of looping GIFs and synchronized music. “Everyone is stuck inside right now, so I figured it would be a good time to let people play with the site again,” YTMND founder Max Goldberg told The Verge over Discord. Goldberg has been working to restore the site since it went offline last May./news/yuga-labs-fires-staff-the-verge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/yuga-labs-fires-staff-the-verge.htmlYuga Labs fires staff. The company responsible for Bored Ape Yacht Club is restructuring, and as a result, firing some of its employees. In a memo, its CEO complained that “The creative-first spirit that drove this company from inception has been getting muddied by labyrinthine corporate processes." ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXxzgo5ra2psYW5%2BdnvYrp6aZZyWr7R5xaKpnqtdqMGissU%3D/news/review-chi-raq-is-spike-lee-s-larger-than-life-love-letter-to-chicago.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/review-chi-raq-is-spike-lee-s-larger-than-life-love-letter-to-chicago.htmlWhich it is, and which Lee does. But in all their protestations, Mayor Emanuel and company came across as more reactionary and image-conscious than concerned about the actual violence in the city. Chi-Raq goes in the opposite direction. It isn't just affectionate about Chicago; it's a passionate, rhythmic love letter to the city and its South Side residents. And Lee and screenwriter Kevin Willmott aren't just calling for gang violence to end./news/23andme-will-start-giving-customers-health-data-again-after-limited-fda-approval.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/23andme-will-start-giving-customers-health-data-again-after-limited-fda-approval.htmlAlmost two years after it was ordered to stop selling its DNA analysis service by the US Food and Drug Administration, genetic testing company 23andme is set to announce that it will once again provide its customers with health data, The New York Times reports. The company will now be able to offer users information about their "carrier status," informing them of the risk of passing 36 diseases and conditions (including sickle-cell anemia and cystic fybrosis) on to their children, based on samples of their saliva./news/4-8-15-16-23-42-the-verge.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/4-8-15-16-23-42-the-verge.html4 8 15 16 23 42. Here’s your reminder that Lost, one of the biggest shows of the aughts, is returning to Netflix in the US on July 1st. I’ll admit that I never finished the series. But I remember Hurley, a polar bear, and that people who aren’t The Verge’s Jay Peters were grumpy about the ending. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3xze5FtaG9xaGyGcICMcWRqbV1mg25%2BkmZraw%3D%3D/news/8-of-the-best-games-for-your-new-2021-playstation-5.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/8-of-the-best-games-for-your-new-2021-playstation-5.htmlThe PlayStation 5 was released in November 2020, but it’s still incredibly hard to get. The chip shortage has rendered it nearly impossible to log onto your favorite retailer’s site and order one. In other words, among the no-doubt massive amount of people who want a PS5, very few are actually able to get one these days. But if you are one of the lucky people who have just got one (or are hoping to get lucky soon), or if you have a friend who was able to score one, we’ve put together a list of great PS5 games to play this holiday and beyond./news/a-first-look-at-atmos-flexconnect-dolby-s-latest-attempt-to-fix-bad-tv-audio.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-first-look-at-atmos-flexconnect-dolby-s-latest-attempt-to-fix-bad-tv-audio.htmlThe best bit of attending Berlin’s IFA trade show is when companies use it to offer an early look at tech that’ll get a “proper” launch later. That’s what I experienced with a demonstration of Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, a new technology to let you wirelessly connect compatible external speakers to your TV and create an Atmos-enabled spatial audio setup.  The most interesting part of Dolby’s pitch for the technology is that it’s supposedly far more forgiving about where you can place these specialized external speakers./news/a-one-of-a-kind-supernova-was-seen-exploding-over-and-over-again.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-one-of-a-kind-supernova-was-seen-exploding-over-and-over-again.htmlIn September 2014, when astronomer Iair Arcavi found a new supernova in the night sky, he didn’t think much of it. It looked like any other star that had just died and violently burst apart. The object had brightened some time ago, and now it was fading — a sign that the explosive event was coming to an end. Since the juiciest part seemed to be over, Arcavi abandoned the star in search of supernovae that had exploded more recently./news/ai-can-make-art-now-but-artists-aren-t-afraid.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ai-can-make-art-now-but-artists-aren-t-afraid.htmlArtists are supposed to be among the least likely to lose their jobs to automation, but what happens when AI-enabled features start painting, editing, and doing other parts of their jobs for them? AI tools are already starting to automate what used to be time-consuming manual processes — but the results may be good for artists’ creativity, rather than potential job killers. Companies that make industry-standard creative tools like Adobe and Celsys have been adding AI features to their digital art software in recent years in the hopes that it’ll speed up workflows by eliminating drudge work, and give artists more time to experiment./news/airlines-are-mistakenly-stopping-approved-smart-luggage-from-being-carried-on-flights.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/airlines-are-mistakenly-stopping-approved-smart-luggage-from-being-carried-on-flights.htmlLast month, many major airlines enacted a ban on “smart luggage” with non-removable lithium-ion batteries. However, according to Steph Korey, the CEO of luggage company Away, airlines have been prohibiting smart luggage even if it has a removable battery and should be allowed under the new policy. In an internal email sent the Away team, Korey says there has been confusion with airlines as to which bags are and are not allowed./news/amazon-and-walmart-are-taking-a-rare-20-off-of-a-set-of-four-airtags.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-and-walmart-are-taking-a-rare-20-off-of-a-set-of-four-airtags.htmlThe busy summer travel season has already begun, so you might want to prepare for rounds of flight delays, crowds, and the potential for lost luggage. Luckily, you can prepare for the chaos ahead of time with today’s deal on a pack of Apple AirTags. Right now, both Amazon and Walmart are selling four AirTags for just $79.99 ($20 off), which is just $5 shy of the all-time low set during Black Friday./news/amazon-announces-20-echo-buttons-for-playing-trivia-games-with-your-family.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-announces-20-echo-buttons-for-playing-trivia-games-with-your-family.htmlAmazon announced a new member to its Echo family: Echo Buttons are designed to offer physical interaction with other Echo devices, specifically for use in playing family games. The new devices are small and roughly hockey puck-shaped in size (think a sleeker version of Staples’ easy button, but one that lights up). Owners will be able to use them to play games in conjunction with an Alexa device. At its press event today, Amazon showed off the buttons playing games like trivia, where users push the button to answer just like on traditional televised game shows./news/amazon-expands-prime-video-s-watch-party-feature-to-roku-smart-tvs-and-more.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-expands-prime-video-s-watch-party-feature-to-roku-smart-tvs-and-more.htmlIt just got way easier and more convenient to remotely watch Amazon Prime Video’s TV shows and movies together with your friends. The service’s “Watch Party” feature has received a much needed expansion from the limited use cases where it worked before — on Fire TV devices, desktop web browsers, and the Prime Video mobile app — and it now supports non-Amazon streaming devices, smart TVs, and Xbox / PlayStation gaming consoles./news/amazon-is-bricking-its-astro-business-robots-less-than-a-year-after-launch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-is-bricking-its-astro-business-robots-less-than-a-year-after-launch.htmlSubject: An important message about Astro for Business Dear Astro for Business customer, At Amazon, we seek to invent new solutions like Astro for Business to help serve our customers. While we are proud of what we’ve built, we’ve made the decision to end support for Astro for Business to put our focus on making Astro the best robot for the home. In the coming weeks, Amazon will fully refund all Astro for Business device purchases to the original payment method./news/amazon-says-its-prime-deliveries-are-getting-even-faster.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-says-its-prime-deliveries-are-getting-even-faster.htmlTo me, Prime’s promise of two-day shipping is more of an added bonus to Prime Video and stuff like Fallout. But it’s become an expectation, leading other retailers like Walmart and Target to roll out faster shipping options of their own. Now, Amazon says its deliveries are getting even faster, announcing that it delivered over 2 billion items the same or next day to Prime members during the first three months of 2024, breaking its record for 2023./news/amazon-s-kindle-matchbook-finally-bundles-physical-books-with-a-copy-for-your-kindle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-kindle-matchbook-finally-bundles-physical-books-with-a-copy-for-your-kindle.htmlIf you've ever purchased physical books from Amazon, you'll soon be able to buy those same titles for your Kindle at virtually no cost. Amazon calls the new initiative Kindle MatchBook, and in many ways it resembles what the company's AutoRip program did for music; buy a physical version, and receive a digital copy to go along with it. But whereas the MP3s you get from AutoRip are always free, the retailer will be charging a nominal fee — between $0./news/amazon-s-fire-tv-channels-adds-a-sidebar-and-more-free-streaming-content.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-fire-tv-channels-adds-a-sidebar-and-more-free-streaming-content.htmlAmazon is updating its recently launched Fire TV Channels app. The free, ad-supported streaming platform has a new sidebar that lets you navigate through different categories of content along with a new slate of shows. Fire TV Channels first launched in May with a lineup of free shows, live news, music videos, and sports from over 400 different providers, such as ABC News, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, America’s Test Kitchen, Martha Stewart, and others./news/amazon-s-last-gen-kindle-paperwhite-is-on-sale-for-50-bucks-right-now.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-last-gen-kindle-paperwhite-is-on-sale-for-50-bucks-right-now.htmlUpdate, July 1st: Amazon’s deal on the 2018 Kindle Paperwhite is no longer available. Lately, it seems as though the biggest happenings in the E Ink world revolve around large note-taking devices like the Kindle Scribe and color offerings such as the apt-titled Kobo Libra Colour. That said, if you’re looking for a basic ebook reader to burn through your summer reading list, there’s nothing wrong with picking up a last-gen e-reader like the 2018 Kindle Paperwhite — which happens to be on sale at Amazon (via Woot) in used condition with ads for $49./news/amd-announces-radeon-rx-7800-xt-and-7700-xt-starting-at-449.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amd-announces-radeon-rx-7800-xt-and-7700-xt-starting-at-449.html“I just wish there were an option between the $300 to $400 marks that offered enough performance to push us firmly into the 1440p era.” That was my colleague Tom Warren’s conclusion reviewing the $399 Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and $269 AMD Radeon RX 7600. On September 6th, AMD may come close — that’s when it’s shipping the brand-new $449 RX 7700 XT and $499 7800 XT, with a free copy of Starfield to sweeten the pot./news/american-vandal-s-tyler-alvarez-takes-his-work-seriously.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/american-vandal-s-tyler-alvarez-takes-his-work-seriously.htmlWhat’s in your bag? is a recurring feature where we ask people to tell us a bit more about their everyday gadgets by opening their bags and hearts to us. This week, we’re featuring actor Tyler Alvarez. The second season of American Vandal premieres today on Netflix, and if the trailer is any guide, it promises to be a real shitstorm. High off the newfound (in-universe and real-life) viral fame they’ve earned through the show’s first season, in which they solved the mystery of who drew the dicks, the fresh-faced journalists / detectives Sam Ecklund (Griffin Gluck) and Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez) have found themselves with a slew of pleas from vandal victims around the country./news/anonymous-operation-payback-hackers-convicted-for-costly-ddos-attacks.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/anonymous-operation-payback-hackers-convicted-for-costly-ddos-attacks.htmlFour Anonymous hacktivists have been convicted of conspiracy for DDoS attacks that cost major banks and the British music industry £3.5 million ($5.6 million). Christopher Weatherhead was found guilty today by the Crown Prosecution Service, following guilty pleas from Jake Birchall, Ashley Rhodes, and Peter Gibson earlier this year. As part of "Operation Payback," the four led DDoS attacks against PayPal, Master Card, and Visa for stopping the processing of Wikileaks donations as well as the British Recorded Music Industry, Ministry of Sound, and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for their actions against internet piracy./news/apple-adds-two-factor-authentication-to-itunes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-adds-two-factor-authentication-to-itunes.htmlAt the same time as Apple released iOS 9, its next big update for its mobile operating system, the company has also put out an update for iTunes. Version 12.3 of the software adds support for both iOS 9 and Mac OSX El Capitan, fixes a selection of small bugs, and — most importantly — enables two-factor authentication. The 233 MB update, the first for major update iTunes since late June, is now available to download./news/apple-ipad-10th-gen-review-stuck-in-the-middle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-ipad-10th-gen-review-stuck-in-the-middle.htmlThe new 10th-generation iPad is ostensibly the new starting point for the iPad line. It’s got a bigger screen, faster processor, and better design than the ninth-gen model that came out in 2021 and has been the entry point for the iPad line for the past few years. The bigger size screen and many of the design features have trickled down from the more expensive iPad Air, but the 10th-gen iPad has an older processor and makes some other omissions to bring the price down./news/apple-lawsuit-says-90-percent-of-official-chargers-sold-on-amazon-are-fake.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-lawsuit-says-90-percent-of-official-chargers-sold-on-amazon-are-fake.htmlEver had to buy a new Apple charger from Amazon? Well beware even those labeled as the genuine article — according to a recent lawsuit filed by Apple, 90 percent of them are fake. The iPhone maker is currently suing a company named Mobile Star LLC for trademark infringement, alleging that the firm has been passing off counterfeit Apple chargers as the real thing. PatentlyApple has posted the text of the lawsuit, in which Apple reports buying a number of Mobile Star's chargers from Amazon./news/apple-watch-ban-everything-you-need-to-know.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-watch-ban-everything-you-need-to-know.htmlMeet Marcelo Lamego, a key figure in the patent battle that’s banned Apple watches. Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman goes into the history of Masimo’s patent infringement case against Apple’s wearables, explaining that Lamego was the CTO at a Masimo spinoff. He rebuffed one inquiry from Apple, but in 2013 he emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook at 1AM about working there and joined a few months later: Lawyers for Masimo say that Lamego lacked prior knowledge about how to develop the blood-oxygen feature (his previous studies were about neural interfaces rather than health sensors)./news/apple-watch-gets-a-theater-mode-in-latest-software-update.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-watch-gets-a-theater-mode-in-latest-software-update.htmlApple is planning on adding a new Theater Mode to the Apple Watch in the upcoming watchOS 3.2 update. According to Apple’s developer guide, Theater Mode easily allows users to mute sound and disable waking the screen when raising your wrist, making it ideal for those looking to avoid interrupting fellow theatergoers at a movie or play. Notifications will still arrive on the Watch with haptic feedback, which can be viewed by pressing the digital crown or tapping the screen when they arrive./news/apple-s-19-polishing-cloth-is-back-in-stock-online.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-19-polishing-cloth-is-back-in-stock-online.html“Made with soft, nonabrasive material, the Polishing Cloth cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture glass, safely and effectively,” reads Apple’s description of the cloth on its product page. Sounds perfect if you need to clean a Pro Display XDR with the nano-texture glass screen. That already costs $5,999 — the nano-texture glass is a $1,000 upgrade from the standard model — and if you want Apple’s official stand for the display, you’ll have to drop an additional grand, so what’s another $19 for the company’s polishing cloth?/news/apple-s-first-carbon-neutral-products-are-a-red-herring.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-first-carbon-neutral-products-are-a-red-herring.htmlApple announced its first-ever carbon-neutral products today, but don’t get too excited about what that means for the planet. It’s way more important to look at the company’s environmental impact as a whole rather than fixate on any particular product it’s selling as more sustainable. Some of Apple’s new watches will be carbon neutral, but only based on “select” combinations of cases and bands. Apple also said it plans to stop selling leather accessories like watch bands and phone cases to reduce greenhouse gas emissions./news/apple-s-last-gen-ipad-falls-to-a-new-low-of-229-99-for-early-black-friday-buyers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-last-gen-ipad-falls-to-a-new-low-of-229-99-for-early-black-friday-buyers.htmlApple’s iPads just don’t get any cheaper than this. The ninth-generation iPad, which has unceremoniously remained the entry-level option of Apple tablets even a year after the 10th-gen model came out, is selling for a new low. You can get the 2021 iPad with 64GB of storage for $229.99 ($100 off its MSRP) at Amazon and Target. This early Black Friday deal is an additional $20 cheaper than the previous low of $249./news/apple-s-new-vr-headset-will-feature-over-100-apple-arcade-games-at-launch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-new-vr-headset-will-feature-over-100-apple-arcade-games-at-launch.htmlThe rumors of Apple breaking into the mixed reality headset space are now a reality with the Apple Vision Pro. During 2023’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that, in addition to offering functions like VR FaceTime and watching movies in living room-K on “a screen that feels 100 feet wide,” the new face-mounted spatial computer will also be a gaming platform featuring titles from Apple Arcade. At launch, over 100 Apple Arcade games will be available on the Vision Pro./news/aqara-m2-smart-home-review-a-smart-home-for-less.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/aqara-m2-smart-home-review-a-smart-home-for-less.htmlThe Aqara M2 smart home hub officially launches in the US today, making it the ideal time to take a deeper look at the company’s inventory of inexpensive smart home devices that work with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit. While Aqara might not have the brand cachet of Philips Hue or Samsung SmartThings, it’s been around since 2016 — an eternity for smart home companies. The Aqara brand is owned by Lumi United Technology, a Xiaomi ecosystem company based in Shenzhen, China./news/archer-is-weirder-than-ever-in-season-10-s-episodic-space-adventure.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/archer-is-weirder-than-ever-in-season-10-s-episodic-space-adventure.htmlArcher debuted in 2009 as a sort of animated fusion between James Bond and The Office. Adam Reed’s FX show chronicled the misadventures of titular superspy Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) as he deals with covert international missions and, more significantly, HR, accounting, and working for his mother at ISIS, the International Secret Intelligence Service. But when real-world events caught up with Archer and being an ISIS agent wasn’t a laughing matter anymore, Reed reinvented the show./news/art-collective-mschf-is-streaming-movies-like-barbie-in-ascii-for-free.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/art-collective-mschf-is-streaming-movies-like-barbie-in-ascii-for-free.htmlThe art collective MSCHF is stirring up some trouble on the internet again. For its latest project, ASCII Theater, the group will broadcast a popular new film daily in ASCII format that anyone can watch for free. Just paste the command on your Mac or PC’s terminal, and you can watch films like Barbie exactly as, well, virtually no one has intended.  ASCII art films are nothing new and date back to the early days of the internet./news/aspiring-rapper-s-instagram-photos-lead-to-largest-gun-bust-in-new-york-city-history.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/aspiring-rapper-s-instagram-photos-lead-to-largest-gun-bust-in-new-york-city-history.htmlThe largest gun bust in New York City history has netted 254 firearms and 19 indictments, and it all reportedly began with a little-known Brooklyn rapper bragging about selling guns on Instagram. Matthew Best — who has released a couple mixtapes under the name Neno Best — posted photos and video of various guns and large amounts of money, stating that he was selling weapons out of his Ocean Hill recording studio, according to the New York Daily News./news/at-wwdc-2024-ai-could-make-siri-the-voice-assistant-apple-always-wanted.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/at-wwdc-2024-ai-could-make-siri-the-voice-assistant-apple-always-wanted.htmlWhen Apple first launched Siri in 2011 alongside the iPhone 4S, the company made a series of very compelling ads showing how you might use this newfangled voice assistant thing. In one, Zooey Deschanel asks her phone about delivering tomato soup; in another, John Malkovich asks for some existential life advice. There’s also one with Martin Scorsese shuffling his schedule from the back of a New York City taxi. They showed reminders, weather, alarms, and more./news/at-t-next-up-anytime-add-on-allows-up-to-three-phone-upgrades-per-year.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/at-t-next-up-anytime-add-on-allows-up-to-three-phone-upgrades-per-year.htmlAT&T announced Next Up Anytime, a new early upgrade program for customers on an AT&T installment plan, which will be available starting July 16th. At $10 per month, it’s more expensive than AT&T’s existing $6 per month Next Up add-on but gives subscribers the option of upgrading their smartphone as soon as just one installment payment has been made, up to three times per year. After the new program launches, the cheaper Next Up will no longer be offered to new customers, but people who already have it will be able to keep that until they upgrade their devices./news/atari-50-review-an-incredible-playable-tour-through-video-game-history.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/atari-50-review-an-incredible-playable-tour-through-video-game-history.htmlOne of the biggest challenges in video game preservation is figuring out how to actually present old games. In 2022, there are more ways than ever to play the classics, whether it’s mini consoles, updated hardware, subscription services, retro collections, or modern rereleases. While these can make old games playable to new audiences, they aren’t always able to put them in a proper context — which is especially important for really old games like, say, Adventure on the Atari 2600./news/azio-izo-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-review-form-over-function.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/azio-izo-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-review-form-over-function.htmlI cannot overstate the strength of the reactions the Azio Izo keyboard got when people saw it sitting on my desk. Not many mechanical keyboards out there have big volume wheels attached to their frame, and fewer still style them in a gaudy reflective gold to pair them with a gold spacebar and escape key. Get beyond the gold, and you’ll spot that the rest of its keycaps have a kind of rounded shape that almost makes them look like little pieces of candy./news/beyonc%C3%A9-s-pregnancy-announcement-is-the-most-liked-instagram-post-of-all-time.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/beyonc%C3%A9-s-pregnancy-announcement-is-the-most-liked-instagram-post-of-all-time.htmlEarlier today, we got a sweet, fleeting reprieve from our own realities when Beyoncé made the surprise announcement that she was pregnant with twins, via a Renaissance art-esque Instagram post. Unsurprisingly, the post rode the wave of internet excitement for hours, and now, with around 6,308,000 likes and climbing rapidly, it has become the most-liked post on Instagram to date. (In 24 hours, the post had more than 7.2 million likes)./news/blumhouse-s-afraid-brings-ai-terror-to-the-smart-home.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blumhouse-s-afraid-brings-ai-terror-to-the-smart-home.htmlSony and Blumhouse’s Afraid from director Chris Weitz might not go so far as to suggest that you shouldn’t have so many smart devices watching and listening to everything you do in your home. But the movie’s first trailer will probably leave you contemplating what the AI-powered Internet of Things could do to you if it decided to go rogue under the pretense of being helpful. Whereas M3gan was focused specifically on a future on the advent of humanoid consumer robots, Afraid tells the story of how the lives of an unsuspecting family are upended after installing a smart hub in their home./news/brompton-electric-bike-review-remarkably-practical.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/brompton-electric-bike-review-remarkably-practical.htmlBrompton makes divisive bikes. The aesthetic of the company’s miniature folding bicycles is best defined as Raspberry Pi meets Google Cardboard, appealing to a sense of nerdy utility, not emotion. Bromptons are revered and reviled with equal vigor, and the company’s first electric bike — launching in the US this week — will only intensify that. Every e-bike designer struggles with where to put those massive batteries, and whether to make them removable for easy charging./news/can-you-hack-your-dating-app-to-get-better-matches.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/can-you-hack-your-dating-app-to-get-better-matches.htmlAsking a dating exec how their matchmaking algorithm works is like asking Coca-Cola for its top-secret formula: they’ll tell you it’s a mystery, that it’s too hard to explain, that they simply cannot talk about it, Fight Club style. Tinder says that it looks at things like app usage, profile details, and swipe history to find your matches. Bumble also says it looks at your swipe history, while Hinge didn’t say much, except that its “proprietary algorithm” was based on work done by two Nobel Prize-winning mathematicians./news/canonical-s-new-ubuntu-tablet-can-also-be-your-pc.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/canonical-s-new-ubuntu-tablet-can-also-be-your-pc.htmlCanonical still believes in convergence. The company that makes the open-source OS Ubuntu and tried to raise $32 million for a smartphone that can power a PC has announced its first ever tablet, promising that the device is just a keyboard and mouse away from a full desktop experience. Plug in these peripherals and the 10.1-inch tablet switches from a full-screen mobile layout to a windowed user interface. Add a monitor, and you’ve got an Ubuntu PC./news/carrot-adds-new-features-to-its-comically-malicious-ai-weather-app.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/carrot-adds-new-features-to-its-comically-malicious-ai-weather-app.htmlCarrot Weather is part of developer Brian Mueller’s series of useful productivity tool apps. If you’ve never used one of Mueller’s Carrot apps, there’s one core conceit to all of them: each app features an AI character named Carrot who, to put it simply, rather dramatically hates humans. Carrot Fitness, for example, will berate the user for missing workouts and not hitting goals while threatening to destroy mankind. Carrot To-Do will judge you as a “lazy meatbag” for leaving tasks unfinished./news/cars-are-rewiring-our-brains-to-ignore-all-the-bad-stuff-about-driving.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cars-are-rewiring-our-brains-to-ignore-all-the-bad-stuff-about-driving.htmlUnsurprisingly, most Americans frown upon antisocial behavior. Stealing people’s stuff, bending food safety rules, or smoking in large crowds tend to generate a lot of stern reactions. But get behind the wheel of a car, and all that disapproval tends to melt away. That’s because a lot of us suffer from a malady called “car brain” — though Ian Walker, a professor of environmental psychology at Swansea University in Wales, prefers to call it “motonormativity./news/cbs-becomes-first-major-network-to-launch-internet-tv-service.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cbs-becomes-first-major-network-to-launch-internet-tv-service.htmlCBS is launching a streaming TV service today that allows subscribers to watch live content and classic shows online, without having a cable subscription. The service is called CBS All Access and it's available for $5.99 per month. Most notably, it'll let many subscribers stream their local CBS stations — and that means they'll be able to watch the network's new shows, including hits like The Good Wife, as they air for the first time./news/delta-s-latest-update-lets-ipad-users-emulate-multiple-games-at-once.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/delta-s-latest-update-lets-ipad-users-emulate-multiple-games-at-once.htmlThe Delta iOS app has released a new update that introduces the retro gaming emulator’s redesigned logo, alongside native iPad support that allows users to play multiple games simultaneously. Users in the EU can download the update immediately via AltStore PAL. Apple initially rejected the version for the App Store, according to a Wednesday screenshot shared by Delta developer Riley Testut, but the AltStore Threads account shared Friday that the app had been approved./news/disney-reveals-its-real-lightsaber-and-it-looks-extremely-cool.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-reveals-its-real-lightsaber-and-it-looks-extremely-cool.htmlAs rumored, the new toy lightsaber doesn’t require any awkward plastic prop blades, instead featuring a retractable light-up blade that extends out from the (otherwise fairly normal-looking) hilt — just like the crackling energy blades in the films and shows. The announcement doesn’t go into too many details on how the retractable sabers actually work, but some clever minds on the internet have managed to piece together a rough idea from Disney’s patent filings./news/dr-disrespect-finally-shares-why-he-was-banned-from-twitch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dr-disrespect-finally-shares-why-he-was-banned-from-twitch.htmlTHE TWITCH BAN Hello, I’d like to make a quick statement.. Lets cut the fucking bullshit, as you know there’s no filter with me. I’ve always been up front and real with you guys on anything that I can be up front about, and I’m always willing to accept responsibility... which is why I’m here now. First and foremost I do want to apologize to everyone in my community as well as those close to me, my team, and everyone at Midnight Society Game Studio./news/dune-part-two-starts-streaming-on-max-on-may-21st.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dune-part-two-starts-streaming-on-max-on-may-21st.htmlThe second chapter of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune saga is streaming very soon: Max announced that Dune: Part Two will be hitting the service on May 21st. The film originally premiered in March and — as the title implies — follows the first movie in telling the complete story of Frank Herbert’s original Dune novel. Villeneuve directed both films, and the sequel introduced a number of notable new characters including Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler), Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken), and Lady Margot Fenring (Léa Seydoux), along with the somewhat surprise appearance of Alia Atreides (Anya Taylor-Joy)./news/dystopian-document-thriller-papers-please-is-coming-to-ios-and-android-on-august-5th.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dystopian-document-thriller-papers-please-is-coming-to-ios-and-android-on-august-5th.htmlThe self-described “dystopian document thriller” Papers, Please is getting a new mobile port for iOS and Android, out on August 5th as a paid, standalone app. The news was announced on Twitter by the game’s indie developer Lucas Pope. Papers, Please was originally released for PC in 2013, with an iPad-only version launched in 2014, and PlayStation Vita port in 2017. On Twitter, Pope joked that the game was now “On track for a console release in 2031./news/edward-snowden-made-an-appearance-at-a-secret-comic-con-screening-of-snowden.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/edward-snowden-made-an-appearance-at-a-secret-comic-con-screening-of-snowden.htmlToward the climax of Oliver Stone's Snowden, a powerful government official video links into a meeting room where he appears on a monitor that — for whatever reason — spans an entire wall. Throughout the scene, his enormous head glares down at Snowden. Frankly, the staging felt ridiculous. At least until I was put in that very same situation only moments after watching this scene last night. I was seated in a movie theater as Edward Snowden's head appeared on-screen, staring out across the audience./news/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft.htmlElon Musk is threatening to take legal action against Microsoft over claims that the company “trained illegally using Twitter data.” The billionaire’s statement came in response to a tweet noting that Microsoft’s advertising platform announced it would stop supporting Twitter, reportedly due to Twitter’s changes requiring payment to access its API. Microsoft declined to comment. Twitter’s press email replied with a poop emoji when reached for comment. Under Twitter’s new pricing arrangement, large companies like Microsoft could have to pay as much as $42,000 per month to gain access to Twitter’s API./news/epic-games-v-apple-the-fight-for-the-future-of-the-app-store-page-5.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/epic-games-v-apple-the-fight-for-the-future-of-the-app-store-page-5.htmlApple and Epic Games have gone to war, with the two companies clashing over Apple’s App Store policies. Epic, in protest of Apple’s 30 percent fee for any digital transactions on its iOS platform, attempted to circumvent things with a direct payment option in Fortnite, leading Apple to ban the game entirely. But Apple’s Fortnite fight isn’t just over a particular policy for the App Store; it’s a battle that could decide the future of one of the key parts of Apple’s present and future business./news/facebook-acquires-cloud-gaming-service-playgiga.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-acquires-cloud-gaming-service-playgiga.htmlFacebook has acquired the Spanish cloud gaming company PlayGiga, which previously offered its services across Italy, Argentina, Chile, and Spain. The purchase was confirmed by Facebook to CNBC, following reports last week from Cinco Dias which claimed that the deal was imminent and was valued at €70 million (around $78 million). In a tweet confirming the news, Facebook Gaming’s official twitter account said “We’re thrilled to welcome @PlayGigaOficial to the Facebook Gaming team./news/facebook-cracks-down-on-global-disinformation-campaign-linked-to-law-enforcement-in-china.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-cracks-down-on-global-disinformation-campaign-linked-to-law-enforcement-in-china.htmlMeta took down thousands of accounts in “what appears to be the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” the company said in a transparency report published today. The operation targeted more than 50 platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X (previously Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, and Reddit. The campaign promoted “positive commentary” about China and Xinjiang province, where the Chinese government has been accused of human rights abuses and forced labor targeting members of the Uyghur ethnic minority./news/facebook-gaming-s-mobile-app-is-shutting-down-later-this-year.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-gaming-s-mobile-app-is-shutting-down-later-this-year.htmlFacebook’s Gaming app for iOS and Android is shutting down a little over two years after it launched. In a notice sent to users, Facebook says the app will no longer work or be available to download starting on October 28th, 2022. Despite the app’s imminent shutdown, the web-based version of Facebook’s game streaming platform will remain online. In 2019, YouTube took away its Gaming app, saying it caused “confusion” among users, and incorporated the gaming hub into the main YouTube app instead./news/facebook-no-longer-clearly-labels-edited-posts.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-no-longer-clearly-labels-edited-posts.htmlAs writers, we all hate typos. When you make one on Facebook, you’re thankfully able to correct it no matter how long ago the post was shared. A recent update, however, will no longer clearly label if a post has been edited. As reported by Mashable, previously, when a Facebook post has been updated from the original, you’ll see an “Edited” label next to the timestamp. Now, when users edit a post, it looks as though the post was originally written that way./news/facebook-s-bold-and-bizarre-vr-hangout-app-is-now-available-for-the-oculus-rift.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-s-bold-and-bizarre-vr-hangout-app-is-now-available-for-the-oculus-rift.htmlFacebook’s most fascinating virtual reality experiment, a VR hangout session where you can interact with friends as if you were sitting next to one another, is now ready for the public. The company is calling the product Facebook Spaces, and it’s being released today in beta form for the Oculus Rift. The news, announced this morning at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Jose, means anyone with a Rift and Touch controllers can join up to three other people in a virtual playground./news/fedex-will-give-you-5-to-reinstall-flash.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fedex-will-give-you-5-to-reinstall-flash.htmlThe world’s most hated plugin is clinging on thanks to a generous $5 discount offer from FedEx, which apparently desperately needs customers to reenable Adobe Flash to be able to print things from its website. If you head on over to the company’s online printing portal, you’ll be kindly instructed to reenable Flash in Chrome or Safari settings, or install it again if you’ve purged it from your machine. “As a thank you for your patience and for being a valued FedEx Office customer, please use ‘FLA726’ at checkout to receive $5 off on orders over $30,” the offer reads./news/ford-lines-up-battery-suppliers-and-iron-phosphate-tech-to-boost-ev-production.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ford-lines-up-battery-suppliers-and-iron-phosphate-tech-to-boost-ev-production.htmlJust a few months after announcing a “radical” split structure placing its electric vehicle future in a new segment called Model E, Ford is discussing more details about sourcing battery production capacity and the basic raw materials to power all of those EVs that are definitely not vaporware cars. By late 2023, Ford plans to have enough battery supply so that it can support the production of 270,000 Mustang Mach-Es, 150,000 Transit EVs, 150,000 F-150 Lightnings, and 30,000 units of a mystery all-new midsize SUV destined for release in Europe./news/foxconn-in-wisconsin-everything-you-need-to-know-page-2.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/foxconn-in-wisconsin-everything-you-need-to-know-page-2.htmlApple supplier Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, revealed plans today to build a new facility for producing LCD panels in Wisconsin. The news was announced at an event this evening with Foxconn chief Terry Gou and US President Donald Trump, who has aggressively pressured both domestic and foreign corporations to invest in the US. (He has also often taken credit for such investments even when they predated his administration./news/funky-kong-asmr-roleplay-videos-are-objectively-the-best-asmr-videos.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/funky-kong-asmr-roleplay-videos-are-objectively-the-best-asmr-videos.htmlSometimes, the world can feel like a relentless nightmare, designed by someone with all your pain points in mind. Being online, whether you have to be or just want to stay in the loop, can make all that worse — your therapist would probably tell you to close this tab and go outside. While that’s generally good advice, all due respect to your therapist, but she hasn’t seen these ASMR role-play videos in which a velvet-voiced Funky Kong soothes your world-weary heart with some gentle understanding and encouragement./news/go-read-this-profile-of-the-trader-whose-huge-bet-on-gamestop-moved-the-entire-market.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/go-read-this-profile-of-the-trader-whose-huge-bet-on-gamestop-moved-the-entire-market.htmlThe markets are not okay. If you’ve paid any attention to internet chatter this week, you’ve probably seen the names RoaringKitty or DeepFuckingValue — the bullish trader behind the recent GameStop stock phenomenon who’s inspired millions of retail investors to get behind his bet, which has nearly bankrupted at least one hedge fund. Until recently, the person behind the handles has been something of a mystery; they post their balance sheet with their millions in gains and losses on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets forum, but that’s all there’s been to go on./news/google-built-a-spam-backdoor-for-republicans-and-they-aren-t-using-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-built-a-spam-backdoor-for-republicans-and-they-aren-t-using-it.htmlWith only weeks until Election Day, the Republican National Committee is escalating its war over Gmail’s spam filters in what critics deem a bad-faith effort to bully Google into letting them spam user inboxes. The GOP has long complained about tech bias, but the latest fight hits the organization’s fundraising apparatus directly. In response, Google has launched a controversial program allowing campaign committees to effectively opt out of spam filters — a huge concession to mounting political pressure from Republicans./news/google-confirms-chief-legal-officer-kent-walker-will-appear-in-the-epic-v-google-courtroom-today.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-confirms-chief-legal-officer-kent-walker-will-appear-in-the-epic-v-google-courtroom-today.htmlGoogle confirms chief legal officer Kent Walker will appear in the Epic v. Google courtroom today. Judge James Donato himself summoned Google’s chief legal officer to explain himself at 3PM PT — and Google spox Dan Jackson confirms to The Verge that he will show. Walker will be grilled (sans jury) about a controversial issue surrounding the case — how Google appears to have systematically destroyed evidence by setting internal chats to auto-delete after 24 hours, did nothing to change that after being put on legal hold, and used “fake privilege” to keep internal conversations from being forwarded./news/google-messages-gets-replies-and-stars-on-android-as-the-rcs-fight-comes-to-iphones.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-messages-gets-replies-and-stars-on-android-as-the-rcs-fight-comes-to-iphones.htmlGoogle announced a number of updates to its Messages app on Thursday, including an in-line reply feature for responding to individual messages and the ability to star or set a reminder on a text. Some of the best new features require users to have RCS enabled, which seems to be precisely the point: Google is pushing harder and harder to get carriers and developers to make RCS the standard, even if it means some complicated compatibility issues in the meantime./news/google-might-recreate-apple-s-satellite-sos-on-android.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-might-recreate-apple-s-satellite-sos-on-android.htmlGoogle appears to be working on a satellite SOS feature for Google Messages that would let users text emergency services from remote areas without a conventional cell signal. As spotted by developer Neïl Rahmouni, early code in the Google Messages app shows work on an integration with Garmin and its emergency Garmin Response service. Google also appears to have started work on a UI for messaging emergency responders. Garmin’s emergency service uses the Iridium satellite network, which Iridium says is capable of delivering a signal “anywhere on Earth./news/google-podcasts-is-gone-and-youtube-music-can-t-replace-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-podcasts-is-gone-and-youtube-music-can-t-replace-it.htmlGoogle Podcasts is dead. It has been dying for months, since Google announced last fall that it was killing its dedicated podcast app in order to focus all its podcasting efforts on YouTube Music. This is a bad idea and a big downgrade, and I’d be more mad if only I were more surprised.  The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle./news/google-turns-fortnite-against-epic-again.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-turns-fortnite-against-epic-again.htmlGoogle turns Fortnite against Epic again. Kravis just showed the jury a slide showing all the ways to play Fortnite, including the PC, Nintendo Switch, cloud gaming and more. “Professor Tucker’s market definition is the only one that accounts for all these other choices,” he says. “What’s missing from [Epic’s economist’s] charts is all the other choices that consumers and developers have.” ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfZn9wfZBoaWxxaWuFeYOOoKaon5yaerXB0aeqZp6fp8GvtdOeZJqfkZ67tMCMnqeim12WtKK1zQ%3D%3D/news/google-s-bard-youtube-extension-just-got-a-lot-smarter.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-bard-youtube-extension-just-got-a-lot-smarter.htmlTo try it out, I turned Bard on a YouTube video I regularly reference for spiritual guidance: America’s Test Kitchen’s recipe for an Espresso Martini. Seriously, it’s really good. I often find myself in my kitchen with half the ingredients in a cocktail shaker trying to remember how much Benedictine I’m supposed to add, then re-watching the video to find out. But with Bard on the case, all I have to do is type a few prompts and viola — I have the full list of ingredients and some step-by-step instructions./news/hairline-cracks-on-iphone-apple-watch-no-longer-covered-under-warranty.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hairline-cracks-on-iphone-apple-watch-no-longer-covered-under-warranty.htmlBad news if you spot a tiny crack on your iPhone or Apple Watch display. They’re no longer covered under Apple’s standard warranty, according to a 9to5Mac report. Technically, the standard one-year warranty has never covered “cosmetic damage” such as scratches, dents, and broken plastic on ports unless you could prove that it was defective materials or workmanship from Apple. However, single hairline cracks — as in, a crack that doesn’t spiderweb or have an obvious point of impact — have historically been considered screen defects./news/here-s-almost-every-easter-egg-from-marvel-s-first-eight-films.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/here-s-almost-every-easter-egg-from-marvel-s-first-eight-films.htmlNone of Marvel Studios' films are entirely original. That isn't a criticism: the storyline and characters are adapted from years of comic books, films, TV shows, etc. Each film embraces the past with an insane number of Easter eggs that acknowledges both the source material and the other films in the wholly-interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a 13-minute montage, MTV breaks down all the Easter eggs from 2008's Iron Man through 2013's Thor: The Dark World— meaning no Captain America: The Winter Soldier, no Guardians of the Galaxy, and nothing from Marvel's Agents of SHIELD television show./news/how-adam-driver-turned-naked-vulnerability-into-unconventional-stardom.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-adam-driver-turned-naked-vulnerability-into-unconventional-stardom.htmlAfter you see Darth Vader’s true face for the first time in Return of the Jedi, the image is hard to shake. Beneath the mask, this titan has grown as pallid and fleshy as a waterlogged corpse. His decaying face is a strong analogue to the once-mighty Empire he served. It’s crumbling. It’s the face of a conqueror at the end of his rope. But when The Force Awakens first reveals the face of newcomer villain Kylo Ren, we’re surprised to learn he’s just some guy./news/how-microsoft-found-a-potential-new-battery-material-using-ai.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-microsoft-found-a-potential-new-battery-material-using-ai.htmlArtificial intelligence (AI) and large-scale cloud computing is speeding up the search for new battery materials. An AI-enhanced collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has already produced one promising new material, which the two are sharing publicly today. They discovered a new kind of solid-state electrolyte, the kind of material that could lead to a battery that’s less likely to burst into flames than today’s lithium-ion batteries./news/how-much-does-someone-get-paid-for-briefly-carrying-a-speaker-in-public.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-much-does-someone-get-paid-for-briefly-carrying-a-speaker-in-public.htmlHow much does someone get paid for briefly carrying a speaker in public? Beats’ very orchestrated teases of a new Beats Pill portable speaker are continuing this week. F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo was seen carrying it in the exact same way that LeBron James did last month. ‘Tis the season for new speakers, after all. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanxze5FtaG1vZGyAcLTOsGSmrZOdeqW7xKxkrKedmryvsYygnK1loJa2pXnFqKlmmqKesqe42Gaamqqirravs4yaZKyolZa4pr6MoqVmqKWXuaqv/news/how-to-clear-up-space-on-your-iphone-when-you-re-running-out-of-storage.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-clear-up-space-on-your-iphone-when-you-re-running-out-of-storage.htmlOur iPhones are so much more than just phones. Sure, they’re where we store our photos, books, music, and movies, but they also have the apps we use daily for work, socializing, ordering groceries, transportation, managing finances, and even our health. Used for so many different things, it’s easy to quickly take up all of the phone’s storage — which can become a nightmare. But don’t panic. If you’re on the verge of running out of space, you’re not doomed, and you don’t necessarily need to delete every photo or upgrade your phone./news/how-to-easily-find-the-gta-trilogy-and-other-games-on-netflix.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-easily-find-the-gta-trilogy-and-other-games-on-netflix.htmlNetflix just released its biggest games yet. The Grand Theft Auto trilogy — which includes GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas — is now available on both iOS and Android, and the games are all free to play if you’re already a Netflix subscriber. But while the streaming service has offered mobile games for a while now (and added some excellent titles to its library), actually finding games you want to play can be a bit fiddly./news/how-to-reconnect-your-playstation-4-or-playstation-5-controller.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-reconnect-your-playstation-4-or-playstation-5-controller.htmlSony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 both use wireless controllers that rely on a singular method for connecting and resyncing with the consoles: a cable. While Microsoft and Nintendo have used wireless pairing on their respective systems for several generations, Sony sticks by the old ways it established back with the PlayStation 3. The PS4 DualShock 4 and PS5 DualSense controllers are capable of wirelessly pairing to other devices via Bluetooth, but when it comes to your PlayStation, you have to bust out their respective Micro USB and USB-C cables./news/how-to-stop-location-tracking-on-your-android-phone-mostly.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-stop-location-tracking-on-your-android-phone-mostly.htmlLocation tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the nearby restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue (something that at least one of Google’s competitors has used in its sales pitch). You probably know that Google can track your location and movements through its Google Maps app. But you may not realize that your Android phone is also tracking your movements and activities through several other built-in apps./news/how-to-use-the-new-messages-features-in-ios-17.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-the-new-messages-features-in-ios-17.htmliOS 17 is available now and ready to install if you’ve got an iPhone released in the last five years — and as usual, Apple has added upgrades and new features to its iOS apps as well as to the mobile operating system itself. Here, we’ll show you what you can now do in Messages using iOS 17 that you couldn’t do before. There are several new features that you’re likely to find useful, while a few existing features have been reorganized and improved upon./news/how-youtube-built-a-better-way-to-connect-your-tv-and-phone.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-youtube-built-a-better-way-to-connect-your-tv-and-phone.htmlTV remotes suck, and YouTube is tired of dealing with them. “It’s very hard to type on TV with a remote,” says Brynn Evans, the head of design for YouTube on TV. “Like, the remote’s clunky, every remote’s different, there’s a million different buttons. They’re all bad.” Every app and service has tried to find ways around this, from those “activate on the web” screens that save you from typing your password to a heavy emphasis on voice search./news/hulu-the-verge.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hulu-the-verge.htmlBaz Luhrmann’s big Australian cowboy epic has been recut into a Hulu miniseries. The film, Australia, is a big melodramatic epic starring Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat running a cattle station and Hugh Jackman as the dreamy drover who helps her. The new miniseries, Faraway Downs, will add over an hour of new footage and a whole new ending when it premieres on Hulu as a six-part mini-series on November 26./news/i-can-t-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-the-next-generation-of-shade-throwing-emoji.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-can-t-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-the-next-generation-of-shade-throwing-emoji.htmlNew emoji are on the horizon, and Emojipedia is here to provide some idea of what they might look like. The site created mock-ups of 69 samples, including a few that will prove useful to anyone looking to spread a little playful disrespect. Throwing shade with emoji requires a little creativity. You can go the obvious route with an eye-rolling emoji, but that’s basic. The nail care emoji (a personal favorite) is a classic, yet subtle, dig./news/if-audio-is-missing-from-your-instagram-stories-a-fix-is-here.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/if-audio-is-missing-from-your-instagram-stories-a-fix-is-here.htmlSilent videos might sound like a blessing for friends who love to put every new song Spotify suggests to them in their Instagram Story, but that’s not exactly how the switch is supposed to work. Silent mode is primarily meant to control system sounds like ringtones and text tones, not the audio you hear inside apps. Facebook is working on a fix Before the update, I was able to recreate the behavior on my own iPhone running iOS 15./news/iphone-4s-everything-you-need-to-know.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphone-4s-everything-you-need-to-know.htmlApple's latest iteration of the iPhone has just started its second wave of international availability. However, unlike the US, these new releases are being sold SIM-free. This means that customers in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland can now buy their new handset direct from Apple without being tied to a carrier./news/iracing-buys-monster-games-teases-racing-games-for-the-broader-market-like-consoles.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iracing-buys-monster-games-teases-racing-games-for-the-broader-market-like-consoles.htmlOne of the paid subscription services that experienced sudden growth during the pandemic has been iRacing. While real-life racing leagues were on hiatus, they used the detailed and realistic sim racing service as an esports broadcasting platform, and enough new people started playing to grow its base of racers on PC from 110,000 at the beginning of 2020 to over 200,000 today. Now iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations says it has acquired Monster Games, Inc./news/is-this-the-ps5-slim.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/is-this-the-ps5-slim.htmlSony has been rumored to be working on a revision of the PlayStation 5, often referred to as the PS5 Slim, that includes a removable disc drive. Now images and a video have leaked of a PS5 model that looks slimmer and slightly shorter, and may well have a removable disc drive. The first image leaked of the rumored PS5 Slim in a Chinese forum earlier today, and now a leaked video provides a better look at this rumored device./news/jeff-bezos-is-just-asking-questions-about-elon-musk-twitter-and-china.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jeff-bezos-is-just-asking-questions-about-elon-musk-twitter-and-china.htmlHis commitment is getting a mild test thanks to a fellow tech billionaire / rocket enthusiast / media mogul. Jeff Bezos quoted a New York Times reporter’s tweet pointing out that Tesla’s business interests in China could give the government leverage over Twitter via its new owner, saying, “Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?.” Bezos is far from the only person with questions, comments, and criticisms over Elon Musk buying Twitter (Twitter employees are likely near the front of the line)./news/john-carreyrou-s-final-chapter-on-theranos.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/john-carreyrou-s-final-chapter-on-theranos.htmlIf you’re a Decoder listener, it’s a pretty sure bet that you’ve heard of Theranos and its charismatic, troubled founder Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes convinced a long list of major investors and companies to give her huge amounts of money, all on the back of her claims that the Theranos technology could do hundreds of blood tests with just a tiny sample of blood — a pinprick. The Theranos testing machine — called the Edison — wasn’t accurate, even though it was deployed in Walgreens locations around the country./news/john-wick-s-choreographed-action-is-being-turned-into-a-strategy-game.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/john-wick-s-choreographed-action-is-being-turned-into-a-strategy-game.htmlJohn Wick: Chapter 3 isn’t your only chance to spend some quality time with everyone’s favorite hitman. The franchise is getting a promising video game spinoff as well. Today, publisher Good Shepherd announced John Wick Hex, a strategy game helmed by game designer Mike Bithell. It’s described as “fight-choreographed chess” where players have to find the best route through a series of bad guys, planning each and every action in advance./news/lg-v30-review-groundbreaking-phone-with-a-deal-breaking-flaw.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-v30-review-groundbreaking-phone-with-a-deal-breaking-flaw.htmlThe LG V30 is a phone with soul. And funk and punk. And rap and rock. And jazz and blues. This is the best-sounding smartphone that’s ever been made, and it also has LG’s finest industrial design to date. The V30 is distinctive, modern, and stacked with desirable features, a phone seemingly destined for inevitable stardom. But the V30 is also imperfect, compromised in significant ways that don’t show up on a spec sheet or a feature checklist./news/life-after-a-face-transplant.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/life-after-a-face-transplant.htmlOver the past decade, face transplants have started returning normality to the lives of people who have been severely disfigured, but even now the surgery still holds a great number of severe risks — including death. Looking at the current state of the surgery, GQ profiles one of the people who have benefitted most from it, Richard Norris, whose face was replaced years after being torn apart by a bullet. Norris is now living a relatively normal life, going to college and dating someone, but GQ suggests that there are still ethical reasons to have concern over the surgery./news/louis-c-k-wants-you-to-know-making-tv-is-really-expensive.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/louis-c-k-wants-you-to-know-making-tv-is-really-expensive.htmlHave you watched Louis C.K.'s new TV show yet? The prolific comedian surprised his fans over the weekend by releasing the first episode of Horace and Pete, a new multi-camera comedy set in an Irish bar that's available on his website. The early response has been positive, but some people are up in arms regarding the episode's price: it costs $5, more than a typical standalone TV episode and on par with C./news/megan-s-unrated-cut-is-coming-to-peacock.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/megan-s-unrated-cut-is-coming-to-peacock.htmlThe theatrical version of Universal’s M3gan was already a delightfully deranged romp as is, but Peacock’s just called dibs on an unrated cut that might just make you want to check the movie out again just to see how much wilder it could be. Universal announced today that both the original version of M3gan and an all-new unrated version with never-before-seen footage are heading to Peacock on February 24th, yet another move that feels like the studio’s trying to get serious about making the streaming platform take off./news/meta-s-zuckerberg-slams-apple-s-eu-app-store-policies.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-s-zuckerberg-slams-apple-s-eu-app-store-policies.html“I don’t think that the Apple thing is going to have any difference for us. Because I think that the way they have implemented it, I would be very surprised if any developer chose to go into the alternative app stores that they have. They’ve made it so onerous, and I think so at odds with the intent of what the EU regulation was, that I think it’s just going to be very difficult for anyone, including ourselves, to really seriously entertain what they’re doing there./news/microsoft-is-bringing-python-to-excel.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-is-bringing-python-to-excel.htmlMicrosoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel. A public preview of the feature is available today, allowing Excel users to manipulate and analyze data from Python. “You can manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries, and then use Excel’s formulas, charts and PivotTables to further refine your insights,” explains Stefan Kinnestrand, general manager of modern work at Microsoft. “Now you can do advanced data analysis in the familiar Excel environment by accessing Python directly from the Excel ribbon./news/microsoft-matches-slack-with-a-free-version-of-its-teams-chat-app.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-matches-slack-with-a-free-version-of-its-teams-chat-app.htmlMicrosoft is introducing a free version of Microsoft Teams today, the company’s Slack competitor. Microsoft Teams originally launched back in November 2016 with no free or freemium tiers for businesses to upgrade from. While 200,000 businesses now use Microsoft Teams, a lack of a free version made it difficult for small businesses and freelancers to use Microsoft Teams as it was limited to an Office 365 subscription. That’s all changing today with the launch of a free version of Microsoft Teams, and it’s now even bigger competition to Slack./news/microsoft-says-it-needs-games-like-hi-fi-rush-the-day-after-killing-its-studio.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-says-it-needs-games-like-hi-fi-rush-the-day-after-killing-its-studio.htmlToday, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge. For some listeners on the call, it was a surprising goal: Microsoft had just shut down the Japanese developer Tango Gameworks, which was coming off the small, prestigious hit title Hi-Fi Rush./news/microsoft-says-it-will-take-the-heat-if-copilot-ai-commercial-users-get-sued.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-says-it-will-take-the-heat-if-copilot-ai-commercial-users-get-sued.htmlMicrosoft is telling customers it will assume legal responsibility if they get sued for copyright infringement while using the company’s AI Copilot services.  In a blog post about an initiative called the Copilot Copyright Commitment, Microsoft chief legal officer Brad Smith said the company will take the heat for any potential legal risks as more copyright holders question how AI companies handle protected works. Microsoft said the policy is an extension of its overall AI customer commitments, announced earlier this year./news/microsoft-splits-teams-from-office-as-antitrust-pressure-ramps-up.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-splits-teams-from-office-as-antitrust-pressure-ramps-up.htmlMicrosoft, possibly hoping to deflect the blow of an ongoing antitrust investigation in the EU, is spinning Teams off from Office 365 to sell as its own separate app globally, Reuters reported today. Company spokesperson Robin Koch told The Verge via email that Microsoft is making the change to its business chat and conferencing app “to ensure clarity for our customers” after already doing so in the EU last year. According to a new Microsoft blog post announcing the global rollout of its EU changes, Microsoft’s existing customers should be able to keep their current deal, which bundles Teams with Office and other products, renew, update, or pick a new offer./news/microsoft-surface-book-3-13-5-inch-review-modern-guts-dated-design.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-surface-book-3-13-5-inch-review-modern-guts-dated-design.htmlI’ve been a 13.5-inch Surface Book 2 owner since 2018. I love the thing because it has a combination of unique advantages, such as its 3:2 aspect ratio, discrete GPU options, and unique detachable screen, that you won’t find in any other laptop on the market. But those features brought with them a number of small (but glaring) flaws: a large and wobbly hinge, a limited port selection, and very visible bezels./news/microsoft-s-project-emma-is-a-wearable-that-helps-with-parkinson-s-tremors.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-project-emma-is-a-wearable-that-helps-with-parkinson-s-tremors.htmlMicrosoft has created a watch that the company says can help people with Parkinson’s disease write more clearly. The Emma Watch sends vibrations to the brain that help control hand tremors. Microsoft unveiled the watch during its Build conference. It’s only a prototype for now, but it could represent a hopeful step forward in using wearable technology to help those with specific conditions. Uncontrollable shaking is a common symptom of Parkinson’s, an incurable disease that affects more than 10 million people around the world and causes loss of motor control./news/microsoft-s-xbox-tv-app-now-available-on-amazon-s-fire-tv-sticks.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-xbox-tv-app-now-available-on-amazon-s-fire-tv-sticks.htmlMicrosoft is launching its Xbox TV app on select Amazon Fire TV Sticks today. The app, which Microsoft first announced last month, provides access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, allowing subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to stream a variety of Xbox titles to some Fire TV devices. The Xbox app will initially be available only on the Fire TV 4K Max (2023) and Fire TV Stick 4K (2023) and will be identical to the same app available on Samsung’s recent TVs and monitors./news/mighty-s-ipod-shuffle-for-spotify-gets-upgraded-battery-and-bluetooth.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mighty-s-ipod-shuffle-for-spotify-gets-upgraded-battery-and-bluetooth.htmlThe Mighty, a music player that behaves a lot like a Spotify-connected iPod Shuffle, has been updated for 2018. The new Mighty Vibe bumps the battery life from four to five hours if you’re using wireless headphones, has an improved Bluetooth antenna for better range, and a redesigned companion app. Otherwise, the music player offers the same basic functionality as its Kickstarter-funded predecessor. You load your Spotify playlists onto the device for offline playback, and can then control playback via a combination of voice commands (to select the correct playlist) and limited physical controls./news/mixer-shuts-down-today-the-verge.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mixer-shuts-down-today-the-verge.htmlAs I write this, the top channel on Mixer right now is broadcasting a stream of Pokémon Yellow played by whoever’s in chat — á la Twitch Plays Pokémon. It’s titled “YouPlay presents: Mixer Doomsday party. Let’s go one last time! (Day 19/19),” and there are 1,337 people watching. Just about every other stream on the site is titled similarly. It’s mostly reruns of earlier streams exhorting viewers to follow broadcasters to Twitch and streamers who are AFK but broadcasting a game anyway./news/mothers-are-buying-breast-milk-online-because-they-don-t-have-better-options.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mothers-are-buying-breast-milk-online-because-they-don-t-have-better-options.htmlAdd this to the list of "things you can buy online": a stranger’s breast milk. Online milk exchanges — unregulated sites where breast milk is bought, sold, and donated — have taken off in recent years, with multiple websites facilitating transactions between moms with milk to spare and those in need. Despite the long list of milk-seeking ads by adult men — some simply pervy, others interested in the purported health powers of breast milk — researchers say the bulk of the market is moms unable to breastfeed or produce enough milk./news/motorola-razr-2023-review-not-enough-of-a-good-thing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/motorola-razr-2023-review-not-enough-of-a-good-thing.htmlThere are several things I like about the Motorola Razr, starting with the price: its MSRP is $699, which already makes it the least expensive modern flip phone you can buy in the US. It’s currently knocked down to $499, and discounts will likely be easy to find throughout its life, too. I’m a fan of my review unit’s handsome green “vegan leather” finish, too. And in theory, I like the concept of the small external display./news/msi-summit-b15-review-average-business.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/msi-summit-b15-review-average-business.htmlThis year, multiple companies primarily known for gaming laptops have been branching out into the portable business and productivity sector. It’s a crowded field already, but Razer made quite a splash with its excellent Razer Book 13, which has an elegant chassis, a 16:10 screen, and just a touch of its company’s signature RGB lighting.  In this review I’m looking at the Summit Series, which is MSI’s attempt to enter the same space./news/my-garmin-s-fatal-flaw-is-it-refuses-to-acknowledge-my-naps.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/my-garmin-s-fatal-flaw-is-it-refuses-to-acknowledge-my-naps.htmlAsk any coach, athlete, personal trainer, or doctor: sleep is an important, if not the most important, part of recovery. You cannot get those gains without regular, quality sleep. But life happens, and sometimes regular, high-quality sleep isn’t possible. In those instances, studies have found naps can be an effective way to boost your recovery and athletic performance. So, knowing this, somebody please explain why none of the Garmin smartwatches in my review closet will acknowledge my naps./news/nasa-just-released-the-best-gifs-of-pluto-so-far.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-just-released-the-best-gifs-of-pluto-so-far.htmlThe New Horizons spacecraft is still more than two months away from reaching Pluto, but it's now close enough to make out some details of the dwarf planet and one of its moons. NASA just held a mission briefing to update the public about the progress of the mission, during which the agency released a number of GIFs made from the newest images taken of Pluto. In them, we see Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, dancing around each other in a delicate orbit./news/nasa-s-artemis-i-launch-has-officially-been-delayed-until-november.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nasa-s-artemis-i-launch-has-officially-been-delayed-until-november.htmlHurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, but weakened into a tropical storm by the time it reached the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. NASA says “there was no damage to Artemis flight hardware,” and that its facilities only suffered “minor water intrusion.” Subsequent testing of the rocket’s fueling system showed that the leak was still present, but at a more “manageable” level. Now that the rocket’s back at the VAB, NASA says it will “prepare for additional inspections” and retest the Flight Termination System, which the Space Force uses to destroy the rocket if it goes off course./news/nec-s-new-android-app-brings-papero-robot-controls-to-tablets.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nec-s-new-android-app-brings-papero-robot-controls-to-tablets.htmlNEC was showing off its PaPeRo robot at its CES booth, and while he's been around in one form or another since 1997, the company's recently developed an Android app that lets you control the robot from your tablet device. We weren't allowed to roll him around the floor of the convention center, but we did get to have the robot show us a few gestures, speak some text, and move his dual-camera head around./news/nestle-and-google-rebrand-kitkat-to-youtube-break-in-the-uk-because-everything-is-terrible.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nestle-and-google-rebrand-kitkat-to-youtube-break-in-the-uk-because-everything-is-terrible.htmlRemember when Google launched Android 4.4 KitKat back in the halcyon days of 2013 and partnered with Nestlé to release specially branded packages of KitKat candy bars? The two companies are at it again, with a new partnership to rebrand the standard KitKat bar to "YouTube Break" for a run of 600,000 candy bars in the UK. According to the press release announcing this major, very important thing, the rebranding is to commemorate the 10th anniversary of YouTube and the 80th anniversary of the KitKat candy bar./news/netflix-s-mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-fight-is-postponed.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-fight-is-postponed.htmlDue to the interrupted training schedule for the officially sanctioned fight — Tyson’s first since 2005 —they’re now planning on a date later this year, which Netflix said will be announced by the end of next week. “My body is in better overall shape than it has been since the 1990s and I will be back to my full training schedule soon. Jake Paul, this may have bought you some time, but in the end you will still be knocked out and out of boxing for good./news/netflix-s-spaceman-review-slow-sad-sci-fi.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-spaceman-review-slow-sad-sci-fi.htmlTruly alien creatures are hard to relate to because they’re so, well, alien. The best-realized ones have different cultures and biologies and belief systems that make them distinct from humanity and, thus, hard to understand. The alien in the Netflix film Spaceman is one recent example: a giant spider with squirming tentacles, a disturbingly human mouth, the calming voice of Paul Dano, and the ability to experience time nonlinearly. And yet, the weird critter is also very relatable./news/new-tron-game-to-feature-music-from-giorgio-moroder-possibly-skrillex.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-tron-game-to-feature-music-from-giorgio-moroder-possibly-skrillex.htmlLegendary Italian dance music pioneer Giorgio Moroder is providing the music for an as-yet-unannounced video game adaptation of the Tron movie reboot. In an interview with Clash Music, Moroder — also known for his work on movies such as Scarface — said he had already produced five themes of "electronic stuff" for the game and would be meeting with dubstep evangelist and uneven haircut-wearer Skrillex to discuss possible remixes. The game is still technically unannounced/news/nike-finally-restocks-hands-free-go-flyease-sneakers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nike-finally-restocks-hands-free-go-flyease-sneakers.htmlNike’s Go Flyease sneakers are back in stock. Normally, sneaker restocks are something you don’t expect anyone other than hypebeasts to get excited about, but it’s a bit different with Nike’s hands-free shoes. While praised for its accessible design, the $120 Go FlyEase has also been notoriously hard to find for the people who would benefit from them the most. The Go FlyEase made a splash when it was first introduced thanks to its bistable hinge./news/nikon-s-new-2-500-z6-iii-has-the-world-s-first-partially-stacked-cmos-sensor.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nikon-s-new-2-500-z6-iii-has-the-world-s-first-partially-stacked-cmos-sensor.htmlAt the beginning of a recent photo walk with a Nikon representative, I was told it was only a matter of time before I became a “birder.” Because eventually, every photographer runs out of things to take photos of and is left with only one subject to master: birds. Which, because of advancements in camera technology, have become a much easier target.  The Nikon Z6 III has an articulating back screen that is typical of hybrid photo / video cameras./news/now-you-can-block-openai-s-web-crawler.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/now-you-can-block-openai-s-web-crawler.htmlOpenAI now lets you block its web crawler from scraping your site to help train GPT models.  OpenAI said website operators can specifically disallow its GPTBot crawler on their site’s Robots.txt file or block its IP address. “Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models and are filtered to remove sources that require paywall access, are known to gather personally identifiable information (PII), or have text that violates our policies,” OpenAI said in the blog post./news/october-prime-day-2023-best-gaming-deals-for-playstation-xbox-and-nintendo-switch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/october-prime-day-2023-best-gaming-deals-for-playstation-xbox-and-nintendo-switch.htmlAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. Amazon Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to save on a wide variety of video games. Titles released in the last few months are getting some decent discounts (which still beats paying full price), and many older games from the last few years fall to their best bargain-bin prices (which is great for stocking up on those “Man, I’ve been meaning to get around to that one” games)./news/oculus-s-new-quest-2-vr-headset-starts-at-299-and-ships-october-13th.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oculus-s-new-quest-2-vr-headset-starts-at-299-and-ships-october-13th.htmlA second-generation Oculus Quest virtual reality headset, the Quest 2, is shipping next month starting at $299. Facebook opened preorders for the Quest 2 today, and it’s launching the headset on October 13th in 22 countries. The Quest 2 will replace both the original Quest and the PC-tethered Rift S, thanks to the Link feature that lets it play PC VR games. Quest 2 specs and images have circulated widely in the past few months, and today’s announcement confirms most of the leaked details./news/one-video-awful-things-by-lil-peep.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/one-video-awful-things-by-lil-peep.htmlEvery week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, or other grown-up concerns. In consideration of your schedule, Lizzie and Kaitlyn bring you a series called One Video./news/oneplus-nord-n10-5g-and-n100-are-coming-to-the-us-on-january-15th.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oneplus-nord-n10-5g-and-n100-are-coming-to-the-us-on-january-15th.htmlThe originalOnePlus Nord skipped North America, but OnePlus is finally bringing two cheaper, mid-range options from its Nord line to the US and Canada on January 15th. The OnePlus Nord N10 5G offers flagship standards like a high-refresh rate 90Hz display and fast charging for $299.99 ($389 CAD), while the OnePlus Nord N100 features an even larger display and battery for $179.99 ($239 CAD). Afterlaunching in Europe last year, both phones are now carrier-exclusives for T-Mobile and available unlocked from OnePlus and other online retailers in the US./news/oscars-2018-how-to-watch-the-academy-awards-online.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oscars-2018-how-to-watch-the-academy-awards-online.htmlThe biggest night in Hollywood is finally here. It’s time for the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, aka the Oscars, the magical evening when the biggest names in show business sit down to see who got the industry’s biggest awards, and hope for some timely humor to break up the scripted award speeches and “This show is sooooo long” jokes. Who’s up for awards? The Shape of Water leads the pack this year, with an impressive 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro for Directing, Sally Hawkins for Actress in a Leading Role, Richard Jenkins for Actor in a Supporting Role, and Octavia Spencer for Actress in a Supporting Role, among others./news/phone-numbers-should-be-more-portable-and-palm-is-the-proof.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/phone-numbers-should-be-more-portable-and-palm-is-the-proof.htmlI was a little taken aback by how many people were interested in the new Palm phone. It’s more than nostalgia for the old Palm, which has nothing to do with this new company. Instead, I think it’s interest in the idea that Palm is trying to represent, that you can stop being distracted by your smartphone without too many compromises. You’ll probably see a handful of reviews out today — the review embargo lifted — but not from me./news/planet-of-the-apes-movement-coach-terry-notary-on-the-secret-to-the-films-stunning-performances.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/planet-of-the-apes-movement-coach-terry-notary-on-the-secret-to-the-films-stunning-performances.htmlPlanet of the Apes movement choreographer and actor Terry Notary says playing an ape takes strong legs and an ability to reach a kind of effortless, meditative state. If performers consciously try too hard to take on ape-like qualities, Notary says, it “makes the performance look crappy.” Crappy ape performances would have killed War for the Planet of the Apes, the latest installment in the Apes franchise. Human characters spend much less time on-screen than hyper-intelligent chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his band of smart apes./news/playing-gods-will-be-watching-turned-me-into-a-terrible-person.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/playing-gods-will-be-watching-turned-me-into-a-terrible-person.htmlRussian roulette is terrifying, even when the gun is made of pixels. You might think of a video game as something that's fun, because the medium is stocked full of powerful wish fulfillment fantasies that let you run rampant in a bustling city or hop into a giant robot suit and wage war. Gods Will Be Watching, on the other hand, is far from fun. It's brutally challenging, often tediously repetitive, and forces you to make decisions that will make you feel like a complete asshole — you'll find yourself doing everything from terrorizing hostages to injecting people with untested, dangerous serums./news/playstation-plus-prices-are-being-raised-by-up-to-40-per-year.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/playstation-plus-prices-are-being-raised-by-up-to-40-per-year.htmlSony is raising the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription next month. The service’s annual Essential plan will go from $60 to $80, the Extra plan from $100 to $135, and the Premium plan from $120 to $160. The new pricing goes into effect starting September 6th. If you’re currently subscribed to PlayStation Plus, Sony says the price increase won’t take effect until your next renewal date or after November 6th./news/pogocam-is-a-unique-modular-take-on-camera-glasses.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pogocam-is-a-unique-modular-take-on-camera-glasses.htmlCamera glasses aren’t a new idea, but Spectacles — the camera-equipped sunglasses from the company that made Snapchat — are the kind of product that can open the floodgates. One of the first ideas through those gates is being announced today from a small company called PogoTec. But instead of making glasses with a camera inside, PogoTec has gone a different, modular route. The company wants to replace the round support wire in the arms (or “temples”) of glasses with a flat one, magnetize it, and then cut away part of the surrounding plastic to expose the metal./news/rare-white-xbox-one-auctioned-by-uk-charity.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rare-white-xbox-one-auctioned-by-uk-charity.htmlBidding has already almost reached $2,000, and the auction ends this Friday. Unfortunately for bidders, GamesAid isn’t shipping the console until November 22nd so the lucky winner won’t be getting it early. Alongside the white console auction, there’s also a promotional auction for a number of custom-themed Xbox Ones, including ones with Dead Rising 3 or Forza 5 skins attached. You’ll need to collect Mountain Dew or packets of Doritos for those particular consoles though./news/razer-beats-wooting-to-a-speedy-new-keyboard-feature-for-pc-gaming.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-beats-wooting-to-a-speedy-new-keyboard-feature-for-pc-gaming.htmlRazer is launching a new Snap Tap mode for its Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards today that’s designed to appeal to competitive gamers. Snap Tap is very similar to Wooting’s promised Rappy Snappy feature and works by prioritizing the latest input between two selected keys to allow Counter-Strike 2 and Valorant players to counter-strafe more quickly. The Snap Tap mode means you don’t have to release the previous key when you’re strafing, so if you enable A and D for Snap Tap, then it makes strafing near instant, improving directional changes and movement in esports games./news/razer-s-first-linux-laptop-is-here-but-it-s-not-for-gamers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-s-first-linux-laptop-is-here-but-it-s-not-for-gamers.htmlIt’s been a decade since Razer shipped its first Blade laptop, and they’ve all come with Windows. That isn’t quite changing today — but a company called Lambda is now putting Ubuntu on a souped-up version of last year’s Razer Blade 15 Advanced with Razer’s full blessing, with the aim of selling it to machine learning and artificial intelligence researchers. It’s called the Razer x Lambda Tensorbook, and the $3,500 machine is absolutely identical to a high-end version of last year’s laptop in most ways./news/roku-does-the-obvious-thing-and-announces-its-own-tv-line.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/roku-does-the-obvious-thing-and-announces-its-own-tv-line.htmlRoku is making big news at CES 2023: the company long known for its streaming players and easy-to-use software plans to release its own lineup of TVs this year. There will be two lines, in fact. One will be called Roku Select, and the higher-end models will be branded as Roku Plus TVs. And Roku is going for broke in terms of screen sizes. “Available in 11 models ranging from 24 inches to 75 inches, the new Roku Select and Plus Series TVs will focus on the features that streamers have come to love,” the company said in a press release./news/samsung-galaxy-users-are-finally-getting-the-middle-finger-and-upside-down-face-emoji.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-users-are-finally-getting-the-middle-finger-and-upside-down-face-emoji.htmlSamsung phone owners will get the first new set of emoji since the S5 when the company releases the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge next month. Get ready, taco fans, unicorn lovers, and volleyball players because the release on March 8th will include all the emoji you’ll need to communicate. Also included in the release is the upside-down face, the nerd face, the middle finger, a hot dog, burrito, hockey stick, and the robot face, Emojipedia reports./news/samsung-heir-jay-y-lee-pardoned-for-crimes-just-like-his-father.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-heir-jay-y-lee-pardoned-for-crimes-just-like-his-father.htmlSamsung heir Lee Jae-yong — known in the West as Jay Y. Lee — has won a presidential pardon by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, allowing the grandson of Samsung’s founder to resume leadership of the powerful conglomerate, Bloomberg reports. The pardon will be formalized on August 15th. The presidential pardon is reminiscent of the two given to Lee’s father, Lee Kun-hee, who was convicted of corruption and tax evasion in 1996 and 2008./news/samsung-tvs-had-steam-link-but-now-the-game-streaming-app-is-going-away.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-tvs-had-steam-link-but-now-the-game-streaming-app-is-going-away.htmlIn a post earlier this month, Valve announced the Steam Link app will “no longer be available on Samsung TV after November 30th, 2023.” The service lets users wirelessly stream PC games from their Steam library to other devices, such as a TV or phone. It launched with the Steam Link dongle in 2015, which was discontinued in 2018 in favor of the app. Samsung brought the Steam Link app to its TVs in 2017 but stopped supporting it on newer TVs after the launch of its Gaming Hub, which focused on cloud gaming services like the ones from Xbox and Nvidia GeForce Now./news/samsung-s-note-7-apology-was-full-humble-and-nerdy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-note-7-apology-was-full-humble-and-nerdy.htmlThe Galaxy Note 7 started life looking like Samsung’s best ever smartphone: it combined the huge screen and stylus of a phablet with the petite dimensions of a regular smartphone. But it also had a fatal battery flaw, which led it to overheat and catch fire, turning what was meant to be Samsung Mobile’s glorious apogee into its ignominious nadir. On Sunday night, Samsung streamed an exhaustive 50-minute presentation, covering the findings from its battery fault investigation, and it started things off on the right note./news/sea-of-thieves-without-pirates.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sea-of-thieves-without-pirates.htmlSea of Thieves without pirates. Sea of Thieves players have long been asking for the ability to set sail in private without disruptions from other pirates. Rare is delivering that today with a new mode called Safer Seas. You can now play truly alone or with up to three other friends, and no other players will be there in the world to sink your ship and steal your loot. The existing shared world is now known as High Seas, and will include the best reputation rates and all the elements of the game that are focused on player vs./news/shinichir%C5%8D-watanabe-is-working-on-a-new-adult-swim-animated-series.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shinichir%C5%8D-watanabe-is-working-on-a-new-adult-swim-animated-series.htmlVariety reports that Adult Swim has ordered a full season of Lazarus, which will be produced by studio MAPPA — the Japanese production house behind anime like Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man — and feature “a jazz and electronic score” from saxophonist Kamasi DJ Floating Points and producer Bonobo. The show will also reportedly feature a number of action sequences crafted by John Wick’s Chad Stahelski. Set in the year 2052, Lazarus tells the story of how Hapuna, a newly developed miracle drug created by a renowned neuroscientist, starts to wreak havoc on society once the public discovers how the drug’s users die three years after taking it./news/skype-now-offers-end-to-end-encrypted-conversations.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/skype-now-offers-end-to-end-encrypted-conversations.htmlTo initiate a Private Conversation, select “New Private Conversation” from the compose menu or the recipient’s profile. The recipient will then receive an invite, and all calls and messages that transpire within that conversation will be encrypted end-to-end until it is terminated. There’s a bit of a limitation, however: users can only participate in one private conversation per device at a time. The private conversation can be switched to another device, but anything sent and received will be tied to whatever device is currently being used./news/sling-tv-blocked-from-streaming-some-shows-on-a-e-lifetime-channels.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sling-tv-blocked-from-streaming-some-shows-on-a-e-lifetime-channels.htmlSling TV customers have noticed that the streaming service is blacking out certain programs on A&E and Lifetime. Both networks were recently added to Dish's internet TV service, but as noted by TechHive, not every show on those channels can be watched with Sling. Scrolling back to 12PM today, for example, shows a "content unavailable" message. "Due to rights restrictions, this content cannot be streamed on Sling TV," the message reads./news/small-empires-maker-s-row-and-the-future-of-american-manufacturing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/small-empires-maker-s-row-and-the-future-of-american-manufacturing.htmlNavigating the world of manufacturing hasn't always been a walk in the park. Factories and sourcing facilities are hard discover, unless you know people in the business or are willing to shell out a huge fee for directory information. Enter Maker's Row — a new attempt at cataloging, organizing and representing the best American manufacturers so designers and entrepreneurs can go from concept to prototype without going overseas or going over budget./news/snapchat-s-map-explore-feature-will-let-you-know-when-your-friends-are-hanging-out-without-you.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/snapchat-s-map-explore-feature-will-let-you-know-when-your-friends-are-hanging-out-without-you.htmlSnap is introducing a new feature called Map Explore today that will alert and update users about what’s happening on their Snap Map. Snap says the travel and location updates will automatically appear on users’ Snap Maps when friends opt to share their location. The feature will also show Explore updates for Our Story snaps, including breaking news and other events from around the world. The new feature is an easier way for users to explore content on Snapchat based on location, which is a nifty tool if you want to see what’s happening elsewhere./news/sonos-move-review-house-shaker-not-road-warrior.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sonos-move-review-house-shaker-not-road-warrior.htmlFor the past week or so, I’ve been listening to music on a wireless speaker in my living room, in my kitchen, in my home office, on my patio, and even at the park. While some people might do this with a variety of different speakers, I’ve been using the same speaker in all of those places: Sonos’ new $399 Move. The Move is a milestone product for Sonos, a 17-year-old independent company that sells popular wireless home audio products./news/sony-s-psvr2-teardowns-reveal-how-the-headset-tracks-the-sense-controllers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-psvr2-teardowns-reveal-how-the-headset-tracks-the-sense-controllers.htmlThe PlayStation VR2 headset can track the accompanying Sense controllers thanks to a bunch of IR LEDs hidden in the orb-shaped controllers, according to new teardown videos Sony posted Tuesday evening. Under the Sense controller cover, the controller itself has a ring of 14 IR LEDs and three placed elsewhere for tracking, as shown in the Sense teardown video. “These infrared lights are used by the VR headset’s tracking camera to detect the controller’s position and orientation,” Sony’s Takeshi Igarashi, who also designed the DualSense controller, explains in the video./news/spectral-review-netflix-s-new-movie-is-gears-of-war-meets-aliens-on-the-cheap.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spectral-review-netflix-s-new-movie-is-gears-of-war-meets-aliens-on-the-cheap.htmlBack in June 2016, the news broke that distribution company Universal Pictures had pulled Spectral, a science-fiction thriller with a strong video-game flavor, from its fall release roster. Spectral’s production company, Legendary, had also handled the game-to-film adaptation of Warcraft, and industry insiders speculated that Warcraft’s North American box-office failure might have made Universal leery. Alternately, it might have just limited the budget Universal wanted to devote to another Legendary release./news/spotify-s-in-app-lyrics-are-being-tested-as-a-premium-only-feature.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-s-in-app-lyrics-are-being-tested-as-a-premium-only-feature.htmlA number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song, were suddenly locked away under a paywall. Instead, they saw only a notification bubble saying, “Enjoy lyrics on Spotify Premium,” with a link to sign up. Many Spotify listeners were not enthused. Spotify tells us that the feature is only a test. “At Spotify, we routinely conduct a number of tests, some of those tests end up paving the way for our broader user experience and others serve only as an important learning,” says CJ Stanley, Spotify’s co-head of global communications./news/take-to-the-great-outdoors-with-this-adorable-airstream-camper.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/take-to-the-great-outdoors-with-this-adorable-airstream-camper.htmlThe silver bullet Airstream camper is an American icon. Seeing one always made me wonder where their owners were off to next: perhaps a trip to Yellowstone or a NASCAR race or to spend the summer near the grandkids. But I never imagined I'd want to own one for myself. They always seemed rather... old-fashioned. Not this one, though. The Airstream Basecamp is firmly aimed at the active youngster, folks without kids (because it's really rather small) who want to experience the great outdoors but with a bit of the comfort of home as well./news/talk-to-me-review-a-potent-dose-of-unrelenting-teen-horror.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/talk-to-me-review-a-potent-dose-of-unrelenting-teen-horror.htmlStop me if you’ve heard this one before: a group of high school kids gets their hands on a cursed occult object, and after some fun and games, they end up being terrorized by a presence from the other side. It’s not the most original premise. But in Talk To Me — the directorial debut from brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, best known for their YouTube channel — it takes on a new urgency and ferocity with a story that races to its bloody, brutal conclusion without letting up./news/teenage-engineering-s-orange-computer-1-pc-case-is-back-on-sale.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/teenage-engineering-s-orange-computer-1-pc-case-is-back-on-sale.htmlYou can finally get your hands on Teenage Engineering’s absolutely tiny and absolutely orange Computer-1 PC case again, months after it initially went on sale and sold out. If you were really hoping to buy the $195 build-it-yourself mini-ITX case, you can head over to the company’s website and add it to your cart — though before you do, it’s probably worth refreshing yourself on the Computer-1’s... particularities. When Teenage Engineering announced this case, we had some concerns./news/tesla-offers-a-glimpse-of-a-future-without-elon-musk.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-offers-a-glimpse-of-a-future-without-elon-musk.htmlElon Musk may seem inseparable from Tesla, but on Wednesday night, the company offered the first real taste of what it might look like without its billionaire CEO. Tesla held a regularly scheduled conference call to discuss its quarterly financial results, but — as he’d previously teased — Musk did not attend. His absence took what’s normally a venue for his rants and ramblings, dismissals of Wall Street, and attacks on the press and turned it into a coherent (if scripted) presentation of the company’s recent progress./news/the-best-bluetooth-speakers-you-can-get.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-bluetooth-speakers-you-can-get.htmlWireless Bluetooth speakers have become ubiquitous, indispensable gadgets. Everyone’s got one somewhere, and the use cases vary from person to person. Maybe you use your speaker around the house or as a shower soundtrack. Maybe you bring it along to the park or beach. And then there are those people who take a portable speaker practically everywhere they go — sharing their music from a bike or backpack with everyone nearby./news/the-best-smart-string-lights-for-the-holidays.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-smart-string-lights-for-the-holidays.htmlSmart holiday string lights can add some serious flair to your festivities. With millions of color options and some dazzling effects, they offer a lot more versatility than a set of standard LED string lights with a smart plug. But they also cost a lot more. If you need an argument to convince your other half (or yourself) that it’s worth spending a few hundred dollars on smart lights this year, here you go:/news/the-elbow-cassette-player-concept-is-as-impractical-as-a-cassette-tape.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-elbow-cassette-player-concept-is-as-impractical-as-a-cassette-tape.htmlThe concept itself is simple: what if a cassette player didn't have any of that nasty boxy stuff that protects the cassette? Elbow, were it to exist, uses a single pulley to drive the tape, and it tracks the tape with an optical sensor to keep a constant playback speed — a serious problem with cheap cassette players. Elbow's biaxial arm can swing up to accept a tape, and switch sides to change playback direction./news/the-fidget-cube-is-basically-a-baby-toy-for-adults-and-i-love-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-fidget-cube-is-basically-a-baby-toy-for-adults-and-i-love-it.htmlIn any case, my cube arrived today and it’s adorable. It has little geegaws for you to fiddle with on five of six sides. The geegaws are: combination-lock knobs, a little joystick, a rolly ball, a few buttons of varying clickiness, a switch, and a spinning dial. The whole thing feels a little too small at first, until you realize that it’s meant to sit in the crook of your finger./news/the-garmin-fenix-5s-is-the-fitness-watch-i-don-t-want-to-take-off.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-garmin-fenix-5s-is-the-fitness-watch-i-don-t-want-to-take-off.htmlIt turns out that a giant multisport watch doesn’t have to be a giant multisport watch. Case in point: the new Garmin Fenix 5. Garmin has taken its big, aggressive, I Am A Serious Outdoors Person line of Fenix multisport watches and shrunk it into something that looks a little less obtrusive. It was also designed with women in mind. (Yay!) The Fenix 5 model has a 47mm face, compared with the 51mm face of the Fenix 3; and the Fenix 5S, aimed at women and anyone with smaller wrists, has a 42mm face./news/the-humane-ai-pin-is-lost-in-translation.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-humane-ai-pin-is-lost-in-translation.htmlOf all the things the Humane AI Pin promised, I was most intrigued by translation. In a demo, a man speaks to Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri in Spanish. The AI Pin automatically translates it to English. Chaudhri replies in English. Again, the AI Pin translates his words back into Spanish. There are notable pauses when the AI is processing, but it’s a powerful concept. Unlike with Google Translate, there was solid eye contact between both people./news/the-indiglo-button-let-there-be-light.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-indiglo-button-let-there-be-light.htmlLong before the self-lit pixels of OLED phones illuminated our lives, there was a time many portable gadgets didn’t shine at all. Remember when the display of practically every Nintendo Game Boy was designed to be viewed by sunlight? Remember when it was tough to tell time with your average wristwatch after dark? Button of the MonthIn today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices./news/the-man-who-ran-a-revenge-porn-website-is-asking-google-to-remove-his-own-private-photos.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-man-who-ran-a-revenge-porn-website-is-asking-google-to-remove-his-own-private-photos.htmlThe former operator of a revenge porn website banned by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has invoked copyright law in an attempt to remove "unauthorized photos" of himself from the internet. Craig Brittain, who previously ran the site IsAnybodyDown.com, has filed multiple takedown notices to Google under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Brittain is asking that the internet giant remove search results pointing to 23 sites that wrote about the FTC's decision against him (including The Verge), arguing that they include "/news/the-rabbit-r1-comes-with-a-vintage-cassette-style-travel-case.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-rabbit-r1-comes-with-a-vintage-cassette-style-travel-case.htmlThe Rabbit R1 comes with a “vintage cassette style travel case.” The case will double as a kickstand, according to CEO Jesse Lyu. The first batch of Rabbit’s fast-selling AI gadget is supposed to reach customers “around April 24th,” Rabbit announced previously. In the meantime, here’s what owners can expect to see when opening their Rabbit shipment. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXx4e5FtaGtrZ2WDcMDHnmSrmZKXtrV50WpknKedmsBuw8itn2aZXau2r8DAoJxmm5GowKbA055krKypobJuwNGarZ6kXZiutLE%3D/news/the-sims-project-rene-will-have-both-solo-play-and-multiplayer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-sims-project-rene-will-have-both-solo-play-and-multiplayer.htmlAs promised, EA is teasing out details for its next-generation Sims game, codenamed Project Rene. During a livestream today, EA confirmed that multiplayer will be a major component of the experience — though not at the expense of the traditional single-player that has made the series such a blockbuster. “We think we can be both,” Grant Rodiek, game director for Project Rene, explained. He was quick to stress that the new game is “not an MMO,” so don’t expect World of Warcraft with characters speaking in Simlish./news/the-twelve-south-butterfly-2-in-1-charger-is-what-apple-s-magsafe-duo-should-have-been.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-twelve-south-butterfly-2-in-1-charger-is-what-apple-s-magsafe-duo-should-have-been.htmlTwelve South is making a new 2-in-1 wireless charger for Apple Watches and MagSafe iPhones, and it might just be one of the best designs I’ve seen in a magnetic charger.  The $129.95 Twelve South Butterfly consists of two aluminum-clad discs — one with a MagSafe charger, the other with an Apple Watch charger — tethered by a vegan leather strap. It uses magnets on all sides to allow the pucks to close up for travel or open back to back and form a kickstand or mini pedestal./news/the-walking-dead-has-condemned-itself-for-all-time.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-walking-dead-has-condemned-itself-for-all-time.htmlLast week on The Walking Dead, it appeared that the show had taken a step in a bold new direction. Press releases had announced that series star Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) would depart the series well ahead of the expected midseason finale send-off. And then it looked as if new showrunner Angela Kang had opted to kill Rick off even before the announced date. It was quick, clean, and surprising — a stark contrast to the show’s tradition of milking key dramatic moments to the point of audience fatigue./news/the-yotaphone-2-and-its-awesome-e-paper-display-are-coming-to-the-us.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-yotaphone-2-and-its-awesome-e-paper-display-are-coming-to-the-us.htmlThe YotaPhone 2, which ranks as one of the coolest and more novel Android smartphones in recent memory, is headed to the United States. Phone Scoop reports that the company plans to launch an Indiegogo campaign in the spring and make the phone available for around $600. Should that prove successful — and we have a good feeling it might — YotaPhone is also hoping to release the device through third-party retailers like Best Buy./news/there-s-much-more-to-stranger-things-starcourt-mall-than-meets-the-eye.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/there-s-much-more-to-stranger-things-starcourt-mall-than-meets-the-eye.htmlThere’s a reason why the Starcourt Mall, the principal location for the third season of Stranger Things looks so real: it’s built inside of a real shopping mall. Specifically, it was built inside of Georgia’s Gwinnett Place Mall, which was built just a year before the latest season of Netflix’s show is set.  Although the set is closed to the public and is currently in the process of being dismantled, eager fans have managed to sneak in to take photos and video of the interior, and the attention to detail is stunning./news/these-are-the-first-posters-for-batman-v-superman.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-are-the-first-posters-for-batman-v-superman.htmlDirector Zach Snyder has tweeted the first posters for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, just in time for the sold-out IMAX events set to take place on Monday. The first teaser trailer was set to make its debut at IMAX theaters, but a leaked version ended up on the internet and Snyder eventually posted the official trailer himself. Snyder says IMAX attendees will get to see a trailer with "/news/this-snapshot-of-an-alien-exoplanet-might-be-a-big-first-for-astronomy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-snapshot-of-an-alien-exoplanet-might-be-a-big-first-for-astronomy.htmlThe star of the above glamour shot is a star named CVSO 30, which is 1,200 light-years from Earth and located just a smidge north of Orion's belt. But if you squint, you'll see a tiny brown dot just above CVSO 30. That brown dot has been the subject of much excitement in the astronomy world. It's a special brown dot. In fact,it'san exoplanet that scientists are calling CVSO 30c, and it's the second to be discovered orbiting this particular star./news/this-tiny-mobile-phone-is-also-a-fidget-spinner.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-tiny-mobile-phone-is-also-a-fidget-spinner.htmlThe most annoying toy of 2017 is almost certainly the humble fidget spinner. For a short while it was ubiquitous: sold in supermarkets, dodgy corner stores, and basically anywhere you can drop money. Kim Kardashian had her own branded version, and Arcade Fire even put their new album on one for $109 a pop. My friend has one and has played with it so much she can spin it and balance it on her nose at the same time./news/three-reasons-why-rez-infinite-is-the-perfect-playstation-vr-game.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/three-reasons-why-rez-infinite-is-the-perfect-playstation-vr-game.htmlIt’s still early days for VR game development, but one thing almost everyone can agree on is that you need to design games from the ground up — porting 2D games to headsets rarely works well. Rez Infinite, however, is the exception that doesn’t so much prove the rule as tear it up into tiny pieces and bury it in the sand. A PlayStation VR-enabled version of Rez, a Dreamcast title from 2001 that I don’t have too much hesitation in calling my favorite game of all time, Rez Infinite is even better than I’d hoped./news/tiktok-fires-back-at-forbes-denies-report-of-a-plan-to-track-specific-us-citizens-using-its-app.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tiktok-fires-back-at-forbes-denies-report-of-a-plan-to-track-specific-us-citizens-using-its-app.htmlTikTok is strongly pushing back against a Forbes report alleging that its parent company wanted to use the video app to “monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens.”  In a series of tweets, TikTok accused Forbes of leaving off a vital part of its statement, which says that “TikTok does not collect precise GPS location information from US users,” despite the article’s claims that its parent company ByteDance considered obtaining “location data from U./news/titmouse-s-5-second-night-animation-showcase-is-back-with-a-vengeance.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/titmouse-s-5-second-night-animation-showcase-is-back-with-a-vengeance.htmlFifteen years ago, while working on Metalocalypse and seeing countless pieces of art from the show every day, animation studio Titmouse’s co-founder Shannon Prynoski found herself wondering what kinds of creative ideas her employees were thinking about when they weren’t solely focused on work. As animators themselves, Prynoski and her husband, Chris — Titmouse’s other co-founder — knew firsthand what it felt like to be firing on all cylinders from 9AM to 5PM while still nurturing passion projects that only lived in their heads./news/tumblr-s-recommended-blogs-feature-exposed-user-data.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tumblr-s-recommended-blogs-feature-exposed-user-data.htmlA security bug that hit Tumblr’s recommended blogs module may have exposed users’ private information, according to an open letter. Information like email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, and self-reported locations may have become exposed due to the bug if individual accounts were hit. It’s unclear if the bug affected individual accounts, according to the open letter, but an investigation concluded that the bug “was rarely present.” “We’ve also thoroughly investigated any way in which our community could have been affected,” the letter reads./news/twitter-admits-it-verified-several-fake-accounts.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-admits-it-verified-several-fake-accounts.htmlTwitter says it has permanently suspended a “small number” of fake accounts it mistakenly verified just weeks after re-launching its public verification program, the Daily Dot reports. The blunder came to light after data scientist Conspirador Norteño discovered six verified accounts which had been created recently on June 16th. None of them had posted a single tweet, and two used what appeared to be stock photographs for profile pictures.  “We mistakenly approved the verification applications of a small number of inauthentic (fake) accounts,” Twitter told the Daily Dot in a statement./news/two-key-lawmakers-want-to-strong-arm-action-on-section-230.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/two-key-lawmakers-want-to-strong-arm-action-on-section-230.htmlTwo key lawmakers want to strong-arm action on Section 230. The top two lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ), proposed a new bill to sunset Section 230 protections for the tech industry. It would give Congress about 18 months to create a new framework to replace the legal liability shield for user-generated content, or lose the protection entirely./news/ubisoft-lays-off-dozens-of-workers-as-gaming-industry-struggles-drag-on.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ubisoft-lays-off-dozens-of-workers-as-gaming-industry-struggles-drag-on.htmlUbisoft, the game publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, is laying off 124 employees at its visual effects studio and on its global IT team. Hybride — the name of Ubisoft’s Montreal-based visual effects studio — has worked on several big-name projects, including Ahsoka, The Mandalorian, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Beau Is Afraid, and more. Of the 124 impacted workers, Ubisoft spokesperson Antoine Leduc-Labelle says 98 people are based in Canada, making up less than 2 percent of the company’s workforce in the country./news/us-hits-a-new-daily-covid-19-high-two-months-after-the-last-peak.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/us-hits-a-new-daily-covid-19-high-two-months-after-the-last-peak.htmlThere were 38,672 positive COVID-19 tests reported in the United States today, a new record high, according to the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer organization housed at The Atlantic that collects data on the pandemic. The count surged past the previous high of 36,001, reported on April 25. Early in the pandemic, the US caseload was driven by outbreaks in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Those states have largely controlled the transmission of the virus, and daily case counts are down./news/valve-s-new-dock-won-t-replace-your-switch-but-it-makes-the-steam-deck-more-useful.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/valve-s-new-dock-won-t-replace-your-switch-but-it-makes-the-steam-deck-more-useful.htmlI’ve been waiting for Valve’s official Steam Deck dock for quite a while, so when the $89 accessory finally went on sale earlier this month, I ordered one right away. A few months ago, I wrote about how Steam Deck has changed the way I buy games in part because I believe I’ll be able to access my games on Steam for far longer than I can on other platforms. But I wasn’t ready to go all in because playing the handheld on my TV wasn’t as smooth an experience as it is on the Nintendo Switch./news/vignettes-looks-simple-but-hides-a-deeper-puzzle-game.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vignettes-looks-simple-but-hides-a-deeper-puzzle-game.htmlIt can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Before I started playing Vignettes, I was expecting it to be a lot like Gnog, a puzzle game that turned puzzle boxes into toy-like dioramas. Maybe it was because the two games share the same brightly colored aesthetic, centered on an object floating in space./news/watch-the-first-trailer-for-skull-and-bones-ubisoft-s-new-multiplayer-pirate-game.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-the-first-trailer-for-skull-and-bones-ubisoft-s-new-multiplayer-pirate-game.htmlUbisoft announced a new pirate game called Skull and Bones at its E3 keynote: a shared world where you can team up with friends to sail and loot your way to pirate supremacy. The game looks like in many ways an upgraded version of the piratical party of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, just with only the nautical bits (i.e., the best parts of that game.) Skull and Bones is set in the Golden Age of Piracy, with players able to build fleets, customize ships, and of course, plunder treasure from trading ships and other pirates./news/what-happened-to-the-iphone-9.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-happened-to-the-iphone-9.htmlApple just announced its iPhone X. It’s the new flagship iPhone that will be released in November, weeks after the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus go on sale on September 23rd. Apple says you’re supposed to pronounce the iPhone X as “iPhone ten,” and it’s designed to mark 10 years of the iPhone. While the iPhone 8 is an iPhone 7S in all but name, the number jump across all the new iPhone models means we’re now officially missing an iPhone 9./news/what-is-edge-computing-the-verge.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-is-edge-computing-the-verge.htmlCompanies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have proven to us that we can trust them with our personal data. Now it’s time to reward that trust by giving them complete control over our computers, toasters, and cars. Allow me to introduce you to “edge” computing. Edge is a buzzword. Like “IoT” and “cloud” before it, edge means everything and nothing. But I’ve been watching some industry experts on YouTube, listening to some podcasts, and even, on occasion, reading articles on the topic./news/why-did-batman-change-so-much-in-2015.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-did-batman-change-so-much-in-2015.htmlLast year, Batman turned 75. This year, everything changed. The Caped Crusader is one of the most important and celebrated superheroes in comics. Part of that pedigree, however, is a certain resistance to change. Batman will always be Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne will always be an orphaned son of privilege, using his wealth in his personal war against crime. Batman will always need a Robin. However, as a consequence of the sea changes happening in mainstream comics today, Batman isn't the Dark Knight many of us remember./news/why-half-life-alyx-is-my-game-of-the-year.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-half-life-alyx-is-my-game-of-the-year.htmlHalf-Life 2 is one of the last things that makes me feel like a fan, and that’s why I was afraid of Half-Life: Alyx. Writing about video games changed my relationship with the medium. I’m used to analyzing exactly why I like my favorite games. Meeting developers has helped me see their work as an idiosyncratic human creation, not a magical self-contained artifact. I’ve encountered the worst of fan culture, and it’s made me wary of deep, unconditional, inarticulable loyalty to media./news/why-wind-energy-isn-t-living-up-to-its-pollution-preventing-potential.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-wind-energy-isn-t-living-up-to-its-pollution-preventing-potential.htmlWind power isn’t cleaning up as much pollution as it could, especially in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, new research shows. The US’s wind energy boom has already led to billions of dollars of health benefits. But the majority of that hasn’t trickled into communities that have historically been burdened with the most air pollution, finds a study published today in the journal Science Advances. Fortunately, that could change if new wind energy projects are deployed more strategically./news/windows-8-1-update-1-now-rumored-to-arrive-in-april.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/windows-8-1-update-1-now-rumored-to-arrive-in-april.htmlOther changes include a new option to allow Metro apps to be displayed in the desktop taskbar, and the ability to show the taskbar within Metro apps when you mouse over a small area at the bottom of apps. Microsoft is also introducing a new Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer with Update 1, and the company is focused on reducing the amount of space the entire OS takes up. A disk space management tool can also be found in the leaked Windows 8./news/x-officially-rolls-out-its-ads-revenue-sharing-program-for-creators.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/x-officially-rolls-out-its-ads-revenue-sharing-program-for-creators.htmlTwitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X, is officially rolling out its ads revenue sharing program for creators. The company had given some creators payouts earlier this month, but now, users globally who meet the eligibility criteria can apply for the program from the monetization tab in settings. “We want the process to be as simple as possible, so all eligible X Blue and Verified Organizations subscribers are entitled to revenue share so long as they meet the eligibility criteria and join,” the company says./news/xbox-elite-wireless-controller-series-2-review.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xbox-elite-wireless-controller-series-2-review.htmlWhen Microsoft announced the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 earlier this year, I was intrigued but slightly wary. I’ve been using an Elite controller over the past four years, and it’s simply been the best Xbox controller I’ve ever used. But after replacing it once because the grips peeled off, it happened again, and I’ve been playing with a broken controller ever since. Combine that with similar stories I’ve heard of failed bumpers or the textured grips slipping out of place, and it’s clear Microsoft had some quality control issues on its original premium $150 controller./news/xiaomi-announces-mi-10-ultra-with-120w-fast-charging.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xiaomi-announces-mi-10-ultra-with-120w-fast-charging.htmlRumors about Xiaomi’s Mi 10 Ultra have been swirling this week, and the company has now formally announced the product. Xiaomi revealed key features of its anticipated handset in a press release and a series of tweets. “Whatever you can imagine, #Mi10Ultra has it,” the company said. The highlight is that the Ultra supports 120-watt wired fast charging. It has a 4,500mAh battery (the same size as that of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus); Xiaomi claims it’ll fully juice up in 23 minutes and hit 41 percent after just five minutes./news/xiaomi-announces-redmi-note-11-series-with-iphone-style-flat-sides.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xiaomi-announces-redmi-note-11-series-with-iphone-style-flat-sides.htmlXiaomi has announced the Redmi Note 11 series, continuing its popular line of budget-friendly handsets that sell in huge numbers in India and various other markets.  There are four phones in total, but they only differentiate themselves in a few specific areas. All of them have what Xiaomi describes as a “trendy flat-edge body” — in other words, yes, it looks like an iPhone — and most of the specs are shared across at least two models./news/you-can-now-preorder-a-white-ps4-pro.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-now-preorder-a-white-ps4-pro.htmlIf you’ve been waiting to purchase the PS4 Pro in white, well the wait is over. Sony is now selling a PS4 Pro in glacier white as part of a Destiny 2 bundle that will hit shelves on September 6th. The console, which comes with a matching glacier white controller, will also give users early access to bonus content for Destiny 2 before other users. Access to a multiplayer map, three-person co-op Strike, a new ship, and a gear set with an “exotic weapon” will be given to users as part of the digital content pack./news/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-steps-down-after-nine-years-at-the-helm.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-steps-down-after-nine-years-at-the-helm.htmlHi YouTubers, Twenty-five years ago I made the decision to join a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine. Their names were Larry and Sergey. I saw the potential of what they were building, which was incredibly exciting, and although the company had only a few users and no revenue, I decided to join the team. It would be one of the best decisions of my life./news/youtube-tv-s-multiview-comes-to-iphones-and-ipads-in-time-for-march-madness.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-tv-s-multiview-comes-to-iphones-and-ipads-in-time-for-march-madness.htmlYouTube TV subscribers can now watch several programs at once on smaller devices — not just big TV screens. As noted by 9to5Google, the service’s multiview feature has rolled out on iOS and iPadOS, although the Android crowd will have to wait for it to arrive “in the coming months.” So, Google’s leaving its own crowd out of watching several March Madness games while on the go. Ouch. Multiview lets you watch four different things at the same time./news/youtube-s-new-weapons-for-fighting-comment-spam-include-24-hour-bans.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-s-new-weapons-for-fighting-comment-spam-include-24-hour-bans.htmlImproved Spam Detection on comments We’ve been working on improving our automated detection systems and machine learning models to identify and remove spam. In fact, we’ve removed over 1.1 billion spammy comments in the first six months of 2022. As spammers change their tactics, our machine learning models are continuously improving to better detect the new types of spam. Improved bot detection in live chat We’ve improved our spambot detection to keep bots out of live chats./news/youtube-s-nfl-sunday-ticket-deal-is-a-brilliant-move-for-its-subscription-future.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-s-nfl-sunday-ticket-deal-is-a-brilliant-move-for-its-subscription-future.htmlThe “pick me! pick me!” bidding war for NFL Sunday Ticket has finally come to an end, and YouTube won big. The company announced a “multi-year” deal that will see it carry Sunday Ticket both standalone (as a YouTube Primetime Channel) and through YouTube TV. It’s a massive score for YouTube, which successfully fended off Big Tech rivals like Apple to land the deal, and a pivotal moment as live sports continue their transition away from traditional cable — DirecTV is the soon-to-be-former Sunday Ticket rights holder — in favor of major streaming platforms./news/zelda-oracle-of-ages-seasons-arrives-on-nintendo-switch-online.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/zelda-oracle-of-ages-seasons-arrives-on-nintendo-switch-online.htmlNintendo has announced that two new retro Zelda games — The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons — are now available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers on the standard $3.99-per-month package. I’ve been patiently waiting for this moment since Nintendo announced it was introducing Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games to the service back in February. Released back in 2001, Oracle of Ages/Seasons are two of the most underrated titles within the retro Legend of Zelda franchise, often overshadowed by Majora’s Mask and Ocarina of Time./news/i-m-wearing-beef-perfume-from-burger-king-japan.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-m-wearing-beef-perfume-from-burger-king-japan.htmlToday is April Fools’ Day, and if you’re planning to spend it on the internet, you’re no doubt prepared for a barrage of “hilarious” brand-fed pranks that’ll make you more or less write off the legitimacy of any news all day. Japan can be a little bit different. A few weeks ago, Burger King’s local arm announced that it would produce a limited-edition meat perfume called “Flame-Grilled Fragrance” and sell it on April 1st./news/jar-jar-binks-voice-how-wude.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jar-jar-binks-voice-how-wude.html*Jar Jar Binks voice* “How wude.” It’s somehow been 25 years since The Phantom Menace kicked off the Star Wars prequel era, and the film is coming back to theaters for a limited time starting on May 3rd (tickets are on sale now). Those who attend can also get a new glimpse at The Acolyte, along with hopefully a new appreciation for Jar Jar. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaHxzfo5ra2poaG1%2FeXvJmqlmopGneqO1zaSqZq6fnrCmeceormavpZmy/news/15-incredibly-useful-windows-11-keyboard-shortcuts.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/15-incredibly-useful-windows-11-keyboard-shortcuts.htmlGetting around Windows 11 is a lot easier if you know a keyboard shortcut or five. You can then speed through tasks and across apps without having to fumble around for the mouse and trackpad (or even take your eyes off the screen). These are some of my favorites that I turn to again and again on a daily basis. From helping you go between apps more quickly to navigating your system, there should be at least something here for everyone./news/26-great-apps-for-your-new-2020-windows-pc.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/26-great-apps-for-your-new-2020-windows-pc.htmlIf you bought a new Windows laptop on Black Friday or received one as a gift, you may be struggling to figure out which apps to download. Never fear. I have scoured the internet, the Microsoft Store, and my own downloads folder to find all the best Windows apps for whatever purpose you may need. You might be surprised how many online services you already use that have their own dedicated Windows app./news/a-bb-9e-teardown-only-the-dark-side-could-enjoy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-bb-9e-teardown-only-the-dark-side-could-enjoy.htmlYesterday, Star Wars fans were blessed with the reveal of new toys and gadgets, including this glorious Lego Millennium Falcon as part of Force Friday II. Today, the folks at manufacturing platform Fictiv have decided to tear some apart. One of their victims is the mysterious black BB-9E droid toy robot from the upcoming film The Last Jedi. The BB-9E is made by robotics company Sphero, and is similar to their BB-8 toy released in 2015./news/a-new-featurette-explains-annihilation-s-mysterious-area-x.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-new-featurette-explains-annihilation-s-mysterious-area-x.htmlOne of the most anticipated movies of 2018 is Alex Garland’s Annihilation, a science-horror story set in a region of the country that’s been isolated by a mysterious barrier called the Shimmer. A new featurette helps explain what the barrier is — and what lies beyond it. The film is based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, and it follows a five-woman team that ventures past the barrier and into Area X, where they discover a world that nature has taken over in strange ways./news/a-night-at-the-vegas-sphere-it-s-pixels-all-the-way-down.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-night-at-the-vegas-sphere-it-s-pixels-all-the-way-down.htmlThe Sphere is the main character in Las Vegas right now. If you’re flying into the city from the right angle, half the plane sees it out the window and feels obligated to tell the other half what they’re witnessing. The woman on the flight next to me, who said she’d been to Vegas precisely 52 times, told the first-timer sitting in the window seat that the main thing he had to do this week was get into the Sphere./news/a-popular-open-source-content-delivery-network-went-down-for-hours.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-popular-open-source-content-delivery-network-went-down-for-hours.htmlUnpkg, a content delivery network (CDN) that powers more than 4 billion requests per day, went down for several hours on Friday morning. The outage broke the thousands of websites that use the open-source CDN, leaving developers scrambling for a fix. The outage appeared to have started around 4AM ET, with sites returning a 520 error from Cloudflare, which powers Unpkg. Many developers affected by the outage switched to jsDelivr, another open-source CDN for GitHub and the package manager npm, in order to keep their sites online./news/acer-s-new-gaming-mouse-has-adjustable-click-resistance.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/acer-s-new-gaming-mouse-has-adjustable-click-resistance.htmlAcer’s new Predator Cestus 500 mouse is a high-end ambidextrous gaming mouse with a few customization options. But what makes it stand out is the “dual switch” design which allows you to change between light and heavier click resistance based on what game you’re playing. We’ll have to try it out to see how well it works. “Click feel” typically ranks after tracking and comfort, as far as mouse priorities go, but everyone I know has a click preference and it’s nice for a mouse to offer variety./news/activision-blizzard-buys-candy-crush-maker-king-for-5-9-billion.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/activision-blizzard-buys-candy-crush-maker-king-for-5-9-billion.htmlCall of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard has bought King Digital Entertainment, the creator of mobile smash hit Candy Crush Saga, in a deal worth $5.9 billion. Describing the deal, King CEO Riccardo Zacconi said that his company had built one of the largest networks of players on Facebook and on mobile devices, noting that King's games had 474 million monthly active users in the third quarter of 2015. Activision already owns one of the biggest gaming franchises in Call of Duty, in addition to Destiny and huge properties such as World of WarCraft and StarCraft as a result of its merger with Blizzard in 2008./news/adobe-working-on-ios-lightroom-app-for-editing-raw-images-on-the-road.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/adobe-working-on-ios-lightroom-app-for-editing-raw-images-on-the-road.htmlAdobe is working on a mobile complement to Lightroom that will let you view and edit the RAW images on your computer from your mobile device. The app, which is still in the early stages of development, uses the lossy DNG Smart Previews new to Lightroom 5 to keep the footprint on your tablet to a minimum, and will use the same image processing model employed in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw./news/after-krispy-kreme-and-starbucks-what-food-chain-themed-shoes-should-nike-make-next.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/after-krispy-kreme-and-starbucks-what-food-chain-themed-shoes-should-nike-make-next.htmlBuckle in: we've reached a treacherous new phase of sneakerhead culture. Nothing is sacred. We're now in a place where no cultural tradition is safe from being co-opted by Nike for a line of shoes. Not even brands are safe. First, we got the SB Dunk High Premium "Waffle," a chicken-and-waffles-themed hightop that I'll admit looks awesome, if you can get past the fact that you're wearing food-themed shoes. (It was announced a few weeks ago, but hasn't yet been released./news/amazon-alexa-s-big-ai-upgrade-could-require-a-new-subscription.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-alexa-s-big-ai-upgrade-could-require-a-new-subscription.htmlIt’s no secret that Amazon is busy overhauling Alexa with generative AI, but a new report from CNBC reveals that the company plans to make people pay extra for it. When Amazon launches its “more conversational” version of Alexa to the public later this year, the company will reportedly make users pay for a subscription separate from its $139 membership to Prime. This isn’t the first we’ve heard of Amazon charging a subscription for Alexa./news/amazon-has-filed-for-amazontube-trademark-as-fight-with-youtube-gets-pettier.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-has-filed-for-amazontube-trademark-as-fight-with-youtube-gets-pettier.htmlAmazon applied for an “AmazonTube” trademark earlier this week, according to a filing found by TV Answer Man, as the company’s public feud with Google over accessing YouTube content on Amazon’s devices continues to escalate. While there’s not a lot of information about what AmazonTube might be, based on the trademark application’s description of “providing non-downloadable pre-recorded audio, visual and audiovisual works via wireless networks on a variety of topics of general interest,” it sure sounds like a YouTube competitor./news/amazon-launches-an-unlimited-grocery-delivery-subscription.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-launches-an-unlimited-grocery-delivery-subscription.htmlAmazon is bringing back free(ish) grocery deliveries for orders over $35 in the form of a new monthly subscription program the company announced today. It’s $9.99 per month for Prime members and includes unlimited one-hour grocery delivery where it’s available, as well as unlimited 30-minute grocery pickups, with a half-cost option for low-income non-Prime members who qualify. Amazon launched a trial of the subscription in three cities last year but now says it’s available in 3,500 cities across the US./news/amazon-will-stream-the-first-episode-of-transparent-s-second-season-tonight.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-will-stream-the-first-episode-of-transparent-s-second-season-tonight.htmlComing off a critically acclaimed and award-winning first season, Amazon's Transparent is nearing a return. Prime subscribers will be able to stream every episode of season two beginning on December 11th. But before that date rolls around, Amazon will offer fans an early preview by releasing the first episode tonight at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. According to Deadline, "season two begins with a big, white wedding for Sarah and Tammy — but is it happily ever after?/news/amazon-s-latest-prime-perk-is-a-100-discount-on-one-medical.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-latest-prime-perk-is-a-100-discount-on-one-medical.htmlAmazon announced that Prime subscribers can now join One Medical, the primary care service that Amazon acquired for $3.9 billion, at a steep discount. A membership normally costs $199 per year, but the company has dropped that price to $99 annually (or $9 monthly) for its Prime customers. The discount is effective immediately and available beginning today at this link. This gives Prime members an easy and much faster way of seeing a primary care doctor without waiting weeks or months, as can often be the case with the US healthcare system./news/amd-to-pay-out-12-1-million-in-false-advertising-class-action-suit-over-bulldozer-chips.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amd-to-pay-out-12-1-million-in-false-advertising-class-action-suit-over-bulldozer-chips.htmlAMD has agreed to a $12.1 million settlement in a class action lawsuit for some customers who bought its FX-8000 / 9000 CPUs built on its 2011 Bulldozer architecture, ending a years-long dispute that claimed AMD falsely advertised the chips as eight-core processors when they in fact only possessed half that number, via The Register. According to the lawsuit, the Bulldozer-based chips weren’t truly multicore processors to the extent that AMD claimed./news/anki-vector-review-modern-day-tamagotchi.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/anki-vector-review-modern-day-tamagotchi.htmlAnki, the toy maker most well-known for its automated miniature race cars, has always billed itself as an artificial intelligence company with a knack for building robots. Founded by Carnegie Mellon roboticists, the company built a reputation selling products that took the shape of standard toys, but that could operate all on their own using complex software. That way, young kids (and nostalgic parents) could steer the company’s cars around a configurable track using a mobile app, without needing the skill or know-how to play a proper racing video game./news/antarctica-s-massive-lakes-rivers-and-streams-could-help-us-understand-rising-sea-levels.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/antarctica-s-massive-lakes-rivers-and-streams-could-help-us-understand-rising-sea-levels.htmlAntarctica isn’t a huge, static block of ice where very little goes on. For the first time, scientists are getting a sense of just how active the continent’s extensive network of lakes, rivers, and streams is. These bodies of water have existed for decades on Antarctica, and their meltwater affects the stability of the ice shelf underneath. That, in turn, has important implications for sea level rise. Antarctica’s landmass is surrounded by hundreds of floating ice shelves that play a key role in preventing sea levels from engulfing our coastal cities./news/aol-sells-majority-of-patent-portfolio-to-microsoft-in-billion-dollar-deal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/aol-sells-majority-of-patent-portfolio-to-microsoft-in-billion-dollar-deal.htmlStruggling former web giant AOL is selling off over three-quarters of its patent portfolio. The company has just announced that it sold 800 of its roughly 1,100 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion, money that AOL will return to its shareholders. As part of the deal, Microsoft will also get a non-exclusive license to the remaining 300 patents, and AOL will retain a license to its former intellectual property. AOL is obviously hoping to make its stock more attractive with this sale, but this also looks like another move away from being a web infrastructure company./news/apocalypse-movies-ignore-science-in-favor-of-more-simple-monsters.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apocalypse-movies-ignore-science-in-favor-of-more-simple-monsters.htmlNothing’s older than a fear of the apocalypse. Popular stories about the apocalypse date back until at least The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Mesopotamian poem featuring a world-ending flood and a vengeful god, written around 2100 BC. But how have our visions of the end of the world changed through popular media like movies, and what can that tell us about staving it off? Scientists at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability — including director Peter Kareiva and undergraduate researcher Valerie Carranza — surveyed disaster blockbusters released between 1956 and 2016 to get an idea./news/apple-airpods-pro-second-gen-review-same-look-better-everything-else.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-airpods-pro-second-gen-review-same-look-better-everything-else.htmlThere are two main reactions to Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro, which will be available September 23rd for the same $249 as the original pair released in 2019.  The first is “that’s it?” Apple has left the overall design and in-ear fit practically unchanged. The new AirPods Pro look identical to their predecessors. Despite arriving nearly three years after the first model, there’s been no major revamp. No shortened or eliminated stems./news/apple-event-2023-live-blog-updates-from-the-iphone-15-keynote.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-event-2023-live-blog-updates-from-the-iphone-15-keynote.htmlGet ready to buy some new cables. Apple is about to announce the iPhone 15 and, with it, a change from Lightning to USB-C. It’s one of the biggest changes to the iPhone in years — and one that’s likely to infuriate as many people in need of new cables as it does excite those who are happy to consolidate around just one. Alongside the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro, Apple is also expected to introduce new Apple Watches./news/apple-introduces-new-13-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-ships-today-for-1-699.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-introduces-new-13-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-ships-today-for-1-699.htmlApple has confirmed the rumors, and has announced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. The model shares many of the same features first introduced in the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, including a redesigned, slimmer chassis that omits the optical drive found in previous MacBook Pros. The chassis is 20 percent thinner than the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro that it replaces. The highlight feature is undoubtedly the 13.3-inch screen, and it should impress thanks to its 227 pixels per inch and 2560 x 1600 screen resolution./news/apple-ipad-mini-2021-vs-ipad-mini-2019-what-s-the-difference.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-ipad-mini-2021-vs-ipad-mini-2019-what-s-the-difference.htmlWith the announcement and impending release of the new iPad Mini and its revamped design, it might be all too easy to stan the new model and completely write off its predecessor. While the new model has a lot to offer — namely a larger screen, faster processor, refined design akin to the 2020 iPad Air, and a USB-C port — it also has a quality that is not so desirable: a higher introductory price./news/apple-iphone-11-review-the-phone-most-people-should-buy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-iphone-11-review-the-phone-most-people-should-buy.htmlThis is one of the simplest reviews I’ve ever had to write: the iPhone 11 is the phone most people who are upgrading to a new iPhone this year should get. It’s an excellent phone, with one of the best cameras I’ve ever seen on a smartphone and terrific battery life. Apple’s also dropped the price by 50 bucks: the iPhone XR started at $749, but the iPhone 11 starts at $699./news/apple-is-first-company-charged-with-violating-eu-s-dma-rules.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-is-first-company-charged-with-violating-eu-s-dma-rules.htmlApple’s App Store “steering” policies violate the EU’s Digital Markets Act meant to encourage competition, said regulators in their preliminary ruling Monday. The European Commission has also opened a new investigation into Apple’s support for alternative iOS marketplaces in Europe, including the core technology fee it charges developers. “Our preliminary position is that Apple does not fully allow steering,” said Margrethe Vestager who heads up competition policy in Europe. “Steering is key to ensure that app developers are less dependent on gatekeepers’ app stores and for consumers to be aware of better offers./news/apple-is-telling-developers-to-disclose-secret-screen-recordings-or-face-immediate-action.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-is-telling-developers-to-disclose-secret-screen-recordings-or-face-immediate-action.htmlApple confirmed to the publication that its App Store Review Guidelines prohibit this kind of activity without first gaining proper consent from a user. “Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem. Our App Store Review Guidelines require that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording, logging, or otherwise making a record of user activity,” an Apple spokesperson tells TechCrunch. “We have notified the developers that are in violation of these strict privacy terms and guidelines, and will take immediate action if necessary./news/apple-macbook-air-m2-2022-review-a-whole-new-air-a.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-macbook-air-m2-2022-review-a-whole-new-air-a.htmlAfter 14 years, three revisions, and two different processor architectures, the iconic wedge shape of the MacBook Air is now history. In its place is a MacBook Air with a completely new design that’s the same thickness from front to back. Virtually every aspect of the new MacBook Air has been updated or changed — it’s the biggest update to the Air since it originally debuted nearly a decade and a half ago./news/apple-music-is-the-latest-service-to-slash-prices-in-india.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-music-is-the-latest-service-to-slash-prices-in-india.htmlApple Music has slashed its prices in India, following price cuts by local streaming services JioSaavn and Gaana. Apple Music is now being offered for 99 rupees ($1.43) a month, down from 120 rupees ($1.73) a month. Over two weeks ago, JioSaavn quietly offered a promotion that reduced its price, dropping its annual fee from 999 rupees ($14.44) to 299 rupees ($4.32). Many missed it because the company only advertised the discount to a portion of its user base./news/apple-settles-lawsuit-against-security-startup-corellium.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-settles-lawsuit-against-security-startup-corellium.htmlApple has settled its copyright lawsuit against Corellium, a company that sells virtual iPhone environments for security testing. Apple and Corellium agreed to a last-minute settlement yesterday, just days before a trial scheduled for August 16th. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but Corellium confirmed to The Washington Post that it would continue to offer virtual iOS systems. Apple sued Corellium in 2019, claiming the company infringed on its iOS copyrights, and expanded the case with more allegations in 2020./news/apple-silicon-exec-joins-rain-ai-to-develop-new-hardware.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-silicon-exec-joins-rain-ai-to-develop-new-hardware.htmlApple Silicon exec joins Rain AI to develop new hardware. Bloomberg reports that Rain AI, which has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as one of its backers, has hired Apple chip exec Jean-Didier Allegrucci to oversee the development of new AI processors that are supposed to reduce power consumption with “in-memory compute.” [Allegrucci] has worked and led silicon teams across a broad range of applications, including CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, ISPs, SoCs, and many others./news/apple-tv-plus-adds-over-50-movies-including-some-in-4k-and-3d.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-tv-plus-adds-over-50-movies-including-some-in-4k-and-3d.htmlApple TV Plus subscribers in the US can now stream over 50 new movies from various studios, including Mad Max: Fury Road, A Star Is Born, Titanic, Con Air, The Bodyguard, Zoolander, and more. If that sounds like a random assortment of films, well, you’re not wrong. But it seems that Apple is experimenting with including some catalog content as part of its video subscription service. Normally, the appeal of Apple TV Plus centers on the company’s original programming (and increasingly, live sports)./news/apple-will-have-to-face-an-antitrust-lawsuit-alleging-ios-apple-pay-dominance.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-will-have-to-face-an-antitrust-lawsuit-alleging-ios-apple-pay-dominance.htmlCalifornia Northern District Judge Jeffrey White partially denied (PDF) Apple’s request to dismiss a proposed federal class action lawsuit over Apple Pay, reports Reuters. Three credit unions argued Apple violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by charging too much in processing fees and being too exclusionary by not letting other digital wallets access its NFC-scanning hardware. The judge agreed with the credit unions’ argument that because QR code payment apps (like Venmo) lack Apple Pay’s convenience and functionality, and it's too expensive to switch to Android, iOS tap-to-pay is a market unto itself./news/apple-s-foldable-macbooks-rumored-to-ship-in-2026.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-foldable-macbooks-rumored-to-ship-in-2026.htmlEven though past rumors suggest that Apple will go with a 20-inch display, Kuo says that Apple is also considering an 18.8-inch panel. When closed, the 20-inch version will reportedly look similar to a 14- to 15-inch MacBook, while the 18.8-inch device will look like a 13- to 14-inch MacBook. Apple is working with LG Display to make the folding screen as “crease-free as possible,” Kuo says. The device will reportedly feature Apple’s M5 processor and could go into production as soon as the end of next year./news/apple-s-icloud-services-suffered-an-extended-outage.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-icloud-services-suffered-an-extended-outage.htmlUpdate Oct 24th, 3:23AM ET: Apple says that services were fully restored at 1:55AM ET on Wednesday, having been down for almost two hours, starting at 11:51PM ET the night before. The original article can be found below — it has not been edited. Apple’s iCloud service appears to be experiencing an extended outage today, with some users reporting problems accessing iCloud-based apps and services like Notes and Find My iPhone. In an update of its System Status page, Apple notes that iCloud is suffering a widespread service disruption of some sort./news/apple-s-vision-pro-battery-pack-is-hiding-the-final-boss-of-lightning-cables.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-vision-pro-battery-pack-is-hiding-the-final-boss-of-lightning-cables.htmlRay Wong of Inverse discovered a hidden joy today: The Apple Vision Pro power cable connects to the battery with what may well be Lightning’s final form. Using a SIM removal tool, he pushed into a small hole in the silver external battery pack of the Vision Pro next to the cable, and... Nilay Patel, Verge editor-in-chief and Vision Pro reviewer, gave it a shot, and what do you know? The rumors are true./news/balatro-review-poker-face-the-verge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/balatro-review-poker-face-the-verge.htmlIn Casino Royale, James Bond gets a bit of poker advice: You never play your hand. You play the man sitting across from you. Okay, but what if you just played your hand? What if no one was sitting at the other end of the table? Balatro, a new turn-based card game available on most platforms, takes the mechanics of poker and turns them into the basis of a compelling roguelike, the subgenre of games where each playthrough is a single perilous attempt./news/baldur-s-gate-3-mod-support-is-coming-in-september.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/baldur-s-gate-3-mod-support-is-coming-in-september.htmlIt’s gonna get pretty funky in Faerûn with official mod support coming to Baldur’s Gate 3. Larian Studios announced that official mod support will roll out in phases, starting today with a closed alpha, before a closed beta test in July, culminating with the official release of Patch 7 in September. According to Larian, the staggered testing phases will give the community ample time to test the new mod tools before making them available across PC and consoles./news/bored-ape-yacht-club-creator-wins-lawsuit-over-copycat-nft-collection.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bored-ape-yacht-club-creator-wins-lawsuit-over-copycat-nft-collection.htmlA judge has ruled in favor of Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs in a lawsuit against conceptual artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen, whom Yuga Labs accused of trademark infringement over a parody of BAYC’s non-fungible token (NFT) collection. On Friday, a California court said that Yuga was entitled to protect the BAYC trademark and that Ripps and Cahen’s project, known as RR/BAYC, isn’t artistic expression protected by the First Amendment./news/breaking-news-hello-kitty-is-and-is-not-a-cat.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/breaking-news-hello-kitty-is-and-is-not-a-cat.htmlYour childhood has been torn asunder by the Gods that once gifted you. In preparing a Hello Kitty retrospective for the Japanese American National Museum, University of Hawaii Anthropologist Christine R. Yano was given one major correction by Hello Kitty owners Sanrio (via LA Times): "Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours./news/breath-of-the-wild-2-has-a-new-name-the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/breath-of-the-wild-2-has-a-new-name-the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.htmlNintendo finally revealed the name and launch date for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s sequel: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. In a trailer, Nintendo revealed the new name and the game’s May 12th, 2023 release date for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo didn’t show a lot of specifics about what we can expect in the new trailer, but we did get to see some more action shots of Link in the game./news/building-and-modding-the-ploopy-trackball.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/building-and-modding-the-ploopy-trackball.htmlIt all started with Ploopy. “What a goofy name for a trackball,” I thought to myself as I tweeted. “Ploopy,” several people responded. One friend commented that it looked like MS Trackball Explorer, an iconic trackball. “It’d be a funny gag if I got really into having a trackball,” I thought. (I was not a “trackball person.”) The problem is that any bit taken to its logical conclusion just becomes sincerity and a year later I not only bought a Ploopy, but completely rebuilt it, and went so far down the trackball rabbit hole that I had a new one manufactured entirely from scratch./news/burger-king-s-new-ad-forces-google-home-to-advertise-the-whopper.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/burger-king-s-new-ad-forces-google-home-to-advertise-the-whopper.htmlBurger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought-out ad today that’s designed to intentionally set off Google Homes and Android phones. The 15-second ad features someone in a Burger King uniform leaning into the camera before saying, “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?” For anyone with a Google Home near their TV, that strangely phrased request will prompt the speaker to begin reading the Wikipedia entry for the Whopper./news/cablevision-s-optimum-app-for-pc-and-mac-exits-beta-live-tv-streaming-now-available-to-all-update.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cablevision-s-optimum-app-for-pc-and-mac-exits-beta-live-tv-streaming-now-available-to-all-update.htmlCablevision's Optimum App for Laptop, which allows customers to tune into live TV on any PC or Mac connected to their local network, has exited the private beta phase and is now available to all of the company's approximately 3 million subscribers. Like the provider's previous app for iOS devices, Optimum App for Laptop (which does work on desktops, despite the somewhat misleading name) lets your computer double as another TV in the house, giving you access to each and every channel included in your cable package./news/castle-rock-season-2-review-stephen-king-s-misery-goes-to-unfamiliar-places.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/castle-rock-season-2-review-stephen-king-s-misery-goes-to-unfamiliar-places.htmlBuilding a TV series around a location made famous in stories without actually adapting those stories is a strange choice, but for Hulu’s Castle Rock, it’s proven rewarding. Created by Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason and executive produced by J.J. Abrams and Stephen King, among others, the show is set in the fictional Maine town of Castle Rock, which is the setting for many King stories. Castle Rock incorporates elements from King’s fiction, but it leaves the novels that made the town famous largely untouched, apart from the occasional passing reference to the town’s history with killer dogs and serial killers./news/chill-imbibes-inside-the-booming-business-of-relaxation-drinks.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chill-imbibes-inside-the-booming-business-of-relaxation-drinks.htmlAfter a long day, we all want to slow our heart rate and breathing, loosen our muscles, and lower our blood pressure. We want to calm the mind and body, decreasing tension. We want to interrupt our stress hormonal cascade, ultimately reducing our own hostility. We want to kick back and activate our parasympathetic nervous system. You know, relax. These drinks exist for your subclinical anxiety needs That might mean yoga or a massage./news/chris-dixon-thinks-web3-is-the-future-of-the-internet-is-it.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chris-dixon-thinks-web3-is-the-future-of-the-internet-is-it.htmlRegular listeners to Decoder know I’m pretty skeptical of crypto. But I want to come by that skepticism honestly, so I talk to people who are actually investing in and building crypto startups and technology. There is a lot of money, attention, and energy — both literal and metaphorical — in crypto, and I think it’s important to ask the questions and really listen to the answers. We’ve done a few of these episodes now, but this episode is a conversation I’ve wanted to have from the very beginning./news/chris-pratt-can-be-mario-because-they-ve-apparently-got-that-whole-italian-thing-figured-out.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chris-pratt-can-be-mario-because-they-ve-apparently-got-that-whole-italian-thing-figured-out.htmlChris Pratt’s voice as Mario is “phenomenal,” says one of the men who has the most to gain if that’s true. But Pratt likely won’t be putting on Mario’s familiar fake Italian accent for the majority of the film. When asked to defend the casting of Chris Pratt (a white American man best known as the Guardians of the Galaxy’s Star-Lord) as Mario (a denizen of the Mushroom Kingdom previously voiced by a white American man of French descent attempting to sound like an Italian plumber from Brooklyn at the request of the character’s Japanese creators, just so we’re clear), producer and Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri suggested to TooFab that it’s OK because:/news/chuck-todd-on-why-meet-the-press-can-t-survive-on-just-one-platform.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chuck-todd-on-why-meet-the-press-can-t-survive-on-just-one-platform.htmlThis week, I’m talking to Chuck Todd, the political director at NBC News and moderator of Meet The Press, the longest-running television show in the country. Seriously: Meet the Press started in 1946, and Chuck is only the 12th moderator the show’s ever had. And as streaming upends television, he’s expanding Meet The Press from a single weekly show where he interviews politicians to an entire roster of formats: there’s Meet the Press, Meet The Press Daily on MSNBC, Meet the Press Reports on the Peacock streaming service, and, of course, a Meet the Press podcast./news/chuck-wendig-s-final-aftermath-novel-will-help-set-up-the-force-awakens.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chuck-wendig-s-final-aftermath-novel-will-help-set-up-the-force-awakens.htmlSince the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig has been working to explore the post-Return of the Jedi era with his Aftermath trilogy. During the Star Wars publishing panel at San Diego Comic-Con, he dropped a few cryptic hints as to what we can expect in the trilogy's final installment, Aftermath: Empire’s End, and how it ties into the new films. During the panel, Wendig told con-goers that the first draft of Aftermath: Empire’s End has been turned in to his editors, and that the book will tie into the new film trilogy in a big way by featuring the Battle of Jakku./news/coinbase-says-it-s-monitoring-a-fix-for-its-web-and-app-outage.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/coinbase-says-it-s-monitoring-a-fix-for-its-web-and-app-outage.htmlCoinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, says it’s monitoring a fix for a partial outage that affected its website and app for around two hours on Tuesday. According to the company’s status page, users experienced difficulties logging in or loading pages — and while the rest of the company’s infrastructure wasn’t affected, the easiest ways to use those services were cut off. Coinbase announced on Twitter that it was having network connectivity issues at around 12:39PM ET and announced that a fix was being implemented around an hour and a half later./news/congress-reauthorizes-usa-freedom-act-without-warrantless-web-surveillance-ban.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/congress-reauthorizes-usa-freedom-act-without-warrantless-web-surveillance-ban.htmlThe Senate has voted to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act, bringing the surveillance bill closer to becoming law. The USA Freedom Reauthorization Act restores government powers that expired in March with Section 215 of the Patriot Act. While the Senate adopted an amendment to expand oversight, it shot down a proposal that would have restricted warrantless collection of internet search and web browsing data. The USA Freedom Reauthorization Act lets law enforcement collect “tangible things” related to national security investigations without a warrant, requiring only approval from a secret court that has reportedly rubber-stamped many requests./news/consumers-will-finally-see-fcc-mandated-nutrition-labels-for-most-broadband-plans.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/consumers-will-finally-see-fcc-mandated-nutrition-labels-for-most-broadband-plans.htmlIt appears that a nearly eight-year-long battle by the FCC to require internet companies to display information on the costs, fees, and speeds of their broadband services is finally over. Starting on Wednesday, all but the smallest ISPs will be required to publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, the regulator announced. The FCC’s intention behind the labels is that they’ll allow consumers to more easily comparison shop between plans and avoid any hidden fees./news/dji-drones-ukraine-and-russia-what-we-know-about-aeroscope.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dji-drones-ukraine-and-russia-what-we-know-about-aeroscope.htmlLast week, Ukraine accused DJI — the world’s leading drone maker — of letting Russia target innocent civilians with missiles using DJI drone technology. “Are you sure you want to be a partner in these murders?” tweeted Ukraine Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov last Wednesday. “Block your products that are helping Russia to kill the Ukrainians!” Reading those words, you might imagine DJI is now shipping killer drones to Russia or perhaps that Russia is using DJI drones as spotters for separate missile systems of its own./news/doj-accuses-two-mit-grads-of-ethereum-heist-that-netted-25-million.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/doj-accuses-two-mit-grads-of-ethereum-heist-that-netted-25-million.htmlTwo brothers were taken into federal custody Tuesday for allegedly stealing about $25 million worth of cryptocurrency in just a few seconds in a “first-of-its-kind manipulation” of the Ethereum blockchain. The brothers — Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Peraire-Bueno — studied math and computer science at MIT and used the skills they had acquired “at one of the most prestigious universities in the country” to exploit “the very integrity of the Ethereum blockchain in order to fraudulently obtain” the funds, prosecutors say./news/ea-delists-old-fifa-titles-ahead-of-its-new-soccer-game-s-debut.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ea-delists-old-fifa-titles-ahead-of-its-new-soccer-game-s-debut.htmlEA has delisted all prior FIFA games from major storefronts, including Epic Games, Steam, Switch, Xbox, and PS5. The titles, up to and including FIFA 23, are no longer available for purchase. The move, which was first spotted by analyst MauroNL, comes just two days before the upcoming EA Sports FC 24 is set to release. FC 24 will be the first iteration of EA’s annual soccer video game to lack the FIFA branding./news/eero-ends-its-30-a-year-eero-secure-subscription-plan.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/eero-ends-its-30-a-year-eero-secure-subscription-plan.htmlEarlier this month, Eero announced it would be transitioning its paid subscription plans to one flat rate of $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Formerly called Eero Secure Plus, Eero Plus is now the only option for users of the mesh Wi-Fi system if they want to access features like parental controls, ad blocking, or any network usage information. Today, subscribers to the now-defunct cheaper plan, Eero Secure, started to receive notifications that their plan was ending and would be transferred to the new — more expensive — Eero Plus plan starting on November 15th./news/elon-musk-says-the-chicago-tunnel-project-could-start-construction-in-three-to-four-months.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-says-the-chicago-tunnel-project-could-start-construction-in-three-to-four-months.htmlConstruction on the Boring Company’s newly announced underground transit link between downtown Chicago and O’Hare International Airport could start in just three to four months, Elon Musk said today. During a joint press conference with Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Boring Company CEO said that the only thing that would slow the project are the pending “regulatory and environmental approvals.” The plan, which leaked on Wednesday ahead of a planned announcement, involves the Boring Company digging two tunnels that will connect the currently unfinished transit station underneath the Block 37 stop of the Chicago Loop system to O’Hare./news/epic-apple-documents-show-ps4-not-iphone-is-fortnite-s-cash-cow.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/epic-apple-documents-show-ps4-not-iphone-is-fortnite-s-cash-cow.htmlEarlier this month, we learned that the iOS version of Fortnite was a huge revenue driver for Epic Games — the game earned more than $700 million from iOS customers over the two years before it was pulled by Apple, according to court documents (PDF) released ahead of Epic’s trial against the iPhone maker. But even though iOS Fortnite players brought in a staggering amount of money for Epic, iOS isn’t the biggest platform in terms of revenue for the game — apparently, it might even be among the smallest./news/epic-ceo-on-pc-store-moderation-we-re-not-in-the-porn-business.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/epic-ceo-on-pc-store-moderation-we-re-not-in-the-porn-business.htmlFortnite creator Epic Games is in a unique position. Not only is the company overseeing development of one of the most popular and lucrative games on the planet, but it’s also now utilizing the success of that software to make its Unreal Engine development tools and, more recently, its online PC game store two of the most ubiquitous and disruptive elements in the industry. One of the main architects of this dramatic shift at Epic is CEO Tim Sweeney who hasn’t shied away from using his company’s renewed influence and stature to bring about bold changes to the status quo./news/eu-issues-adobe-with-antitrust-warning-over-20-billion-bid-for-figma.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/eu-issues-adobe-with-antitrust-warning-over-20-billion-bid-for-figma.htmlAdobe has been issued with a formal antitrust complaint by EU regulators regarding its $20 billion bid for cloud-based product design platform Figma. Following an in-depth investigation that was launched on August 7th, the European Commission reached the preliminary conclusion on Friday that if the deal goes ahead, it may “significantly reduce competition in the global markets” for the supply of interactive product design tools, vector editing tools, and raster editing tools./news/ex-google-engineer-anthony-levandowski-has-closed-his-artificial-intelligence-church.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ex-google-engineer-anthony-levandowski-has-closed-his-artificial-intelligence-church.htmlAnthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer convicted of stealing self-driving car secrets, is closing his artificial intelligence-focused church Way of the Future (WOTF), TechCrunch reports. It’s a somewhat inauspicious end to the church’s goal of pursuing “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI),” in preparation for the Singularity. Now humanity will be left to deal with rampant AI without the religion’s guidance. Levandowski started the process of shuttering WOTF in June 2020, according to documents filed in the state of California found by TechCrunch./news/foldimate-s-laundry-folding-machine-actually-works-now.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/foldimate-s-laundry-folding-machine-actually-works-now.htmlBack in 2018, Foldimate was one of two laundry-folding machines exhibiting at CES that promised to make folding clothes a thing of the past. It was up against Laundroid, a $16,000 AI-powered machine that was supposed to analyze each clothing item and figure out the best way to fold it using AI. Neither machine worked at the time— Foldimate’s model was a non-working prototype, and I accidentally broke the Laundroid when I confused the machine’s AI with a black T-shirt./news/fortnite-season-x-has-changed-so-much-that-it-s-overwhelming.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-season-x-has-changed-so-much-that-it-s-overwhelming.htmlI dropped into a game of Fortnite this weekend and, in the span of about five minutes, I was in a war zone-like Gotham City, atop a floating island held aloft by a purple cube, and in a swampy area where I could disguise myself as a literal barbecue and hide. Each area had its own rules — in Gotham, for instance, I could use my parachute anytime — and a different look to go along with it./news/fortnite-s-new-jujutsu-kaisen-anime-collab-adds-themed-outfits-and-quests.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-s-new-jujutsu-kaisen-anime-collab-adds-themed-outfits-and-quests.htmlFortnite’s newv25.30 update released Tuesday adds a new anime crossover with Jujutsu Kaisen. Alongside some themed outfits you can buy in the shop, the update adds a special series of quests you can complete to earn in-game rewards. And while you’re running around the island while the crossover is going on, you’ll be able to find cursed llamas that give you powers you might be familiar with from the anime. Fortnite’s crossover with Jujutsu Kaisen runs through August 25th./news/framework-will-send-us-another-framework-laptop-16-and-here-s-what-it-will-fix.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/framework-will-send-us-another-framework-laptop-16-and-here-s-what-it-will-fix.htmlFramework will send us another Framework Laptop 16 — and here’s what it will fix. We told Framework we had several different stability issues, so I was a little frustrated to see the company’s CEO suggest I only encountered one... but I’m happy to say Framework will send The Verge a final production unit with quite a list of hardware and software fixes! The DPC_Watchdog_Violation freeze, at least, does seem to be fixed in my testing with a newer BIOS./news/fubotv-arrives-on-lg-smart-tvs-and-webos.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fubotv-arrives-on-lg-smart-tvs-and-webos.htmlFuboTV, one of the best over-the-top services for sports enthusiasts, is finally arriving on newer LG Smart TVs. While the app was already available on many set-top boxes like the Apple TV or Chromecast, it’s now available on LG’s native webOS platform on 2018–2021 Smart TV models (including LG’s fantastic OLEDs). That’ll give any consumers with newer LG models the ability to access the service’s 100-plus sports and entertainment channels directly from their sets, rather than having to rely on a third-party device for access./news/fujifilm-x-pro1-official-16-megapixel-aps-c-sensor-and-multiple-lenses-available-in-february-for-a.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fujifilm-x-pro1-official-16-megapixel-aps-c-sensor-and-multiple-lenses-available-in-february-for-a.htmlThat Fujifilm would announce a mirrorless camera at its CES press conference was perhaps the worst-kept secret so far at CES, but at least now it's official: the X-Pro1 is really coming. (Technically, we found it in the press kit first before the event even started, but we figure that's good enough.) The shooter has a new 16-megapixel APS-C X-Trans sensor, which Fujfilm claims will exceed the resolution of most typical APS-C sensors, and could rival some full-frame DSLRs./news/gatorade-smart-gx-review-hydration-isn-t-rocket-science.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gatorade-smart-gx-review-hydration-isn-t-rocket-science.htmlI have a confession. I love testing weird gadgets, especially over-engineered solutions looking for a problem. I know they’ll disappoint, but sometimes there’s an interesting idea buried within. What I don’t like is a valid gadget concept marred by clumsy execution. I was hoping the $69.99 Gatorade Smart Gx bottle and Gx Sweat Patch would be one of the rare gadgets where an odd concept actually ended up working well. Alas, it wasn’t to be./news/giphy-now-lets-you-see-the-video-that-gave-birth-to-your-beautiful-gif.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/giphy-now-lets-you-see-the-video-that-gave-birth-to-your-beautiful-gif.htmlSo you’ve just come across an amazing GIF. Ridiculous! How could someone make such a weird face? But now you’re left with one big question: where’d it come from? Usually, you’d have to do a reverse image search, or leave a comment and ask, but now Giphy has a much more elegant solution: just click the GIF and have it switch over to the source video. Then, you can watch exactly where it came from./news/goldeneye-007-gets-an-unofficial-multiplayer-remake-with-modern-graphics.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/goldeneye-007-gets-an-unofficial-multiplayer-remake-with-modern-graphics.htmlGoldenEye 007, the beloved N64 first-person shooter, has been recreated in high-definition glory by a team of dedicated fans over the course of 10 years. The mod, known as GoldenEye: Source, received its first update in more than three years this week. It's free to download and it features 25 recreated maps, 10 different multiplayer modes, and redesigned versions of the original game's 28 weapons. It was created using Valve's Source engine, the same set of tools used to create Counter Strike and Half-Life games./news/google-appears-to-be-working-on-an-advanced-version-of-bard-that-you-have-to-pay-for.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-appears-to-be-working-on-an-advanced-version-of-bard-that-you-have-to-pay-for.htmlGoogle appears to be working on an upgraded version of Bard called “Bard Advanced” that will be available through a paid subscription to Google One, as shared by developer Dylan Roussel on X (formerly Twitter). Bard Advanced seems to be powered by Gemini Ultra, the top tier of Google’s newly announced large language model (LLM), according to Roussel. That’s an upgrade over the current version of Bard, which runs the midtier Gemini Pro./news/google-is-testing-out-adding-third-party-accounts-to-gmail-on-ios.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-testing-out-adding-third-party-accounts-to-gmail-on-ios.htmlGoogle is testing out the ability to add third-party email services to the Gmail app on iOS. If enabled, it would put the app directly in competition with Apple’s own default Mail app, along with other third-party email apps like Spark and Edison Mail. Google has offered the option to add third-party accounts on Android phones for a while, which made sense, given that Gmail is the default (and sometimes, only) email app preinstalled on many Android devices./news/google-may-be-planning-an-ingress-tv-show.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-may-be-planning-an-ingress-tv-show.htmlIngress, Google's augmented reality science fiction game, might be coming to television. The Information reports that Niantic Labs, which develops Ingress, has partnered for a series with the Sean Daniel Company, the producer behind SyFy's upcoming miniseries The Expanse. Flint Dille, Ingress' creative lead and a longtime screenwriter, has reportedly also been helping to develop a TV show. The Information says that Niantic is looking at traditional TV networks or streaming video services like Netflix, but that it hasn't actually pitched the show to them and is still looking for a showrunner./news/google-nexus-q-review-the-verge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-nexus-q-review-the-verge.htmlAll streaming with the Q is initiated from within one of three Android apps: YouTube, Play Music, and Play Video. The trick here is that it's not actually streaming from your phone or tablet at all; rather, your device is serving as a glorified remote control, telling Google's servers to send media down to the Q over the web. When running Play Music, for example, an icon appears next to the share menu icon./news/google-says-bing-users-search-for-google-more-than-anything-else.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-says-bing-users-search-for-google-more-than-anything-else.html“Google” is the most searched term on Bing “by far,” according to a lawyer working for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. According to Bloomberg, Google made the argument while trying to get its $5 billion antitrust fine from the EU overturned, using the statistic as evidence that people use Google by choice, not force. The fine Google faces is from the European Commission, which says that Google has abused its position as the maker of Android./news/google-s-latest-android-feature-updates-come-with-a-refreshed-logo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-latest-android-feature-updates-come-with-a-refreshed-logo.htmlGoogle is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including updates to its At a Glance Google Assistant widget, enhancements to its Lookout visual accessibility app, and Zoom calls in Android Auto. This comes with a side of branding updates designed to remind us that Android is fun but also a serious Google product. It all arrives as we anticipate Android 14’s imminent release, which is a slightly less exciting milestone when you realize that most new Android features come throughout the year in updates like this rather than in one big OS platform upgrade./news/gta-online-is-shutting-down-for-ps3-and-xbox-360-later-this-year.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gta-online-is-shutting-down-for-ps3-and-xbox-360-later-this-year.htmlRockstar Games announced that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of GTA Online, the online multiplayer component of Grand Theft Auto V, will no longer be accessible starting December 16th, 2021. Shark Cash Cards, which unlock the in-game currency for GTA Online, will no longer be purchasable on these consoles after September 15th, 2021. The company said in a press release that shutting down GTA Online for these consoles will “have no impact on access to, or progress within, the Grand Theft Auto V story mode./news/hdr-movies-arrive-on-ipad-pro-and-they-look-great.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hdr-movies-arrive-on-ipad-pro-and-they-look-great.htmlWhen Apple announced the new 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro back in June, the company touted their HDR video-compatible displays without really going into detail on what that meant. Now, 4K and HDR content is rolling out across the iTunes Store in time for the arrival of the new Apple TV 4K that was unveiled on Tuesday.  Apple didn’t make any mention at this week’s event of whether these 4K HDR movies would see any benefit on the iPad Pro, however./news/hey-lady-gaga-lemme-explain-ninja-to-you.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hey-lady-gaga-lemme-explain-ninja-to-you.htmlHey, Lady Gaga! You’ve asked a great question — who is Ninja, really? — and I’m here to explain in a blog post, because that’s how the content sausage gets made, baby. (I am not being forced to do this, but I am getting paid to, and, honestly, isn’t that just about the same thing?) In any case: your question. Ninja is a guy who was born in Detroit, MI, with the name Richard Tyler Blevins./news/how-alex-wells-created-the-gorgeous-artwork-of-a-new-edition-of-asimov-s-i-robot.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-alex-wells-created-the-gorgeous-artwork-of-a-new-edition-of-asimov-s-i-robot.htmlThe Folio Society has been producing high-end editions of classic literature for decades, and in recent years, it has branched into producing high-end editions of science fiction novels. The latest addition to their collection is Isaac Asimov’s classic short story collection, I, Robot, featuring some stunning illustrations from artist Alex Wells. The illustration for Robbie. Alex Wells / Folio Society Like most of the publisher’s books, this is an edition that is gorgeous to behold: exquisitely assembled on high-quality paper and with elegant typeset that makes them a joy to simply hold and read./news/how-sensors-are-giving-us-another-way-to-peek-inside-our-bodies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-sensors-are-giving-us-another-way-to-peek-inside-our-bodies.htmlThe bacteria, molecules, and chemicals in our bodies hold important clues about our health, and scientists are creating sensors that can tap into this information in the easiest way possible. These are sensors that can be swallowed to warn of gut trouble, implanted to monitor how well an injury is recovering, or just sit on teeth to track the state of your mouth. The gut sensor is about the size of a pen cap, and it’s filled with bacteria that scientists genetically engineered to detect a compound in blood called heme, and then glow if heme is present./news/how-sony-bought-and-squandered-the-future-of-cloud-gaming.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-sony-bought-and-squandered-the-future-of-cloud-gaming.htmlStop me if you’ve heard this one before: a video game platform that lets you play games with the press of a button, no need for discs or downloads. Tap on a YouTube ad for a game, and you’re instantly playing in your web browser. Experience the latest and greatest games on your ancient laptop, phone, or tablet, thanks to remote servers instead of having to buy a console or build a powerful gaming PC./news/how-to-delete-your-tiktok-account.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-delete-your-tiktok-account.htmlIf you’ve decided to delete your TikTok account for whatever reason, there’s good news — it’s relatively easy to do and should only take a few minutes (provided you’re already logged in or remember your password). The process can be done either in the app or on the web — here’s how: TikTok makes it relatively easy to delete your account through the iOS or Android app. If you don’t want to answer this question, you are able to skip in./news/how-to-enable-google-chrome-s-new-dark-mode-on-windows-10.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-enable-google-chrome-s-new-dark-mode-on-windows-10.htmlChrome 74 is officially rolling out today for Windows, Mac, and Linux, marking the introduction of a new dark mode for Windows 10 users. The same dark mode arrived last month on macOS with Chrome 73, and today’s update includes automatic Windows 10 support. Chrome will automatically theme itself to match if a dark mode is enabled on Windows 10. The end result makes Chrome look almost identical to the browser’s darker Incognito Mode menu bars./news/how-to-remap-a-keyboard-in-macos.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-remap-a-keyboard-in-macos.htmlSay you’re a Mac user who just got a fancy new keyboard, but it has a Windows layout. Or you want to use the same keyboard with both Windows and Mac machines. Or you’ve gotten used to a specific layout, and now your muscle memory is all wrong. The biggest differences between Macs and Windows PCs are in the bottom row modifier keys. Windows computers have Ctrl, Win, and Alt, whereas Macs have Control, Option, and Command./news/how-to-turn-your-echo-show-into-a-digital-photo-frame.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-turn-your-echo-show-into-a-digital-photo-frame.htmlAs screens proliferate in our homes, it’s nice to put them to good use outside of when you’re using them. Just like your computer has a screensaver, your Echo Show smart display can be set to show pretty pictures when it’s not on active duty serving up YouTube recipes or streaming your favorite tunes and TV shows. In fact, all the smart displays in the Echo Show line double as more-than-capable digital photo frames./news/hp-is-making-a-14-inch-android-laptop.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hp-is-making-a-14-inch-android-laptop.htmlHP is joining Lenovo in the strange world of Android laptops. The company hasn't yet officially announced the SlateBook 14, but it briefly appeared on HP's website — complete with a video outlining the device's key features and specs. Most importantly, the SlateBook has full access to Google Play, so any apps you've already purchased and downloaded on a smartphone or tablet should work here. HP says the SlateBook 14 boosts Android's productivity thanks to its 14-inch 1080p display and full-size keyboard./news/huawei-s-harmonyos-arrives-on-tablets-with-the-new-matepad-pro.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/huawei-s-harmonyos-arrives-on-tablets-with-the-new-matepad-pro.htmlHuawei has announced a trio of new MatePad tablets; a new 12.6-inch MatePad Pro, a smaller 10.8-inch MatePad Pro, and a new MatePad 11. Not only are they the company’s first tablets running its own HarmonyOS operating system, but the smaller MatePad Pro and MatePad 11 use Snapdragon chips produced by Qualcomm rather than the Huawei-designed Kirin processors found in its previous devices.  Between these hardware and software changes, the tablets highlight the challenges that the Chinese technology giant is going through./news/hug-your-old-mac-with-these-retro-pillows.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hug-your-old-mac-with-these-retro-pillows.htmlWe all love our computers a lot (most of the time). But what if you could give your favorite gadget an actual hug? That’s where pillow company Throwboy comes in, with a Kickstarter for its lineup of “Iconic” gadget pillows that look oddly similar to some of Apple’s most famous products over the years. Throwboy is extremely careful to never mention the words “Apple,” “Mac,” or “iPhone” anywhere on its Kickstarter page, but the pillows are unmistakable to anyone who’s ever interacted with an Apple product./news/hulu-s-redesigning-its-unintuitive-interface.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hulu-s-redesigning-its-unintuitive-interface.htmlLate last week, Hulu started rolling out a redesign for its TV apps, which changes how you navigate through the interface. The previous version (which some people still have) had the search, Home, TV, Movies, News, My Stuff, and Hubs buttons across the top of the screen. Now, those navigational buttons will live on the left. Hulu’s top-bar design has always stood out from the crowd in a bad way. Even my wife, who isn’t that into tech and doesn’t generally comment on UIs, has complained about it./news/hyperkin-has-made-a-handheld-sega-genesis-that-plays-original-carts.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hyperkin-has-made-a-handheld-sega-genesis-that-plays-original-carts.htmlThe Mega 95 is a new gaming handheld from Hyperkin that’s designed to play original Sega Genesis and Mega Drive cartridges. It’s equipped with a five-inch display that has a toggle to switch between 4:3 and 16:9 modes, and a battery that Hyperkin says should last 10 hours per charge. Think of it like a modern take on the Genesis Nomad with roughly three times the battery life and other modern conveniences./news/i-played-katy-perry-s-new-mobile-game-until-i-ran-out-of-energy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-played-katy-perry-s-new-mobile-game-until-i-ran-out-of-energy.htmlWhile the great majority of the video game world takes a breather every December, the mobile game market kicks into high gear. People around the world are going to receive new phones and tablets for the holidays, and they're going to download apps for said tablets and phones. Sneaking onto the top of various app charts around Christmas can result in a ton of revenue and visibility for enterprising publishers./news/i-used-google-glass-the-future-but-with-monthly-updates.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-used-google-glass-the-future-but-with-monthly-updates.htmlBut what’s it actually like to have Glass on? To use it when you’re walking around? Well, it’s kind of awesome. Think of it this way — if you get a text message or have an incoming call when you’re walking down a busy street, there are something like two or three things you have to do before you can deal with that situation. Most of them involve you completely taking your attention off of your task at hand: walking down the street./news/ikea-2-0-inside-the-furniture-giant-s-big-bet-on-the-smart-home.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ikea-2-0-inside-the-furniture-giant-s-big-bet-on-the-smart-home.htmlBjörn Block hurries out of the Ikea Museum and heads toward the company’s headquarters. His stride is surprisingly quick — faster than mine, considering I’ve just scarfed down a substantial plate of meatballs and lingonberries at an upscale version of the company’s blue box cafeteria.  At 45, Block vibrates with the energy of a man half his age. He cuts a frantic figure against the mélange of asphalt, dirt, and gravel paths that crisscross the sprawling Ikea campus./news/inside-microsoft-s-mission-to-take-down-the-macbook-air.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/inside-microsoft-s-mission-to-take-down-the-macbook-air.htmlMicrosoft is confident that it finally nailed the transition to Arm chips — so confident that, this time around, the company spent an entire day pitting its new hardware against the MacBook Air. On a recent morning at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft representatives set out new Surface devices equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips inside and compared them directly to Apple’s category-leading laptop. I witnessed an hour of demos and benchmarks that started with Geekbench and Cinebench comparisons, then moved on to apps and compatibility./news/inside-the-strange-and-seedy-world-where-hackers-trade-celebrity-nudes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/inside-the-strange-and-seedy-world-where-hackers-trade-celebrity-nudes.htmlWhen nude photos of more than 100 prominent celebrities began appearing on the internet over Labor Day weekend, people assumed that the leak was intentional: there was a hacker, or hackers, who were posting these images for fun or profit, and they had used recently discovered security flaws in Apple’s iCloud system to break into accounts and make off with these pictures. A glimpse into a world that prefers to stay hidden/news/ios-11-bugs-are-so-common-they-now-appear-in-apple-ads.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ios-11-bugs-are-so-common-they-now-appear-in-apple-ads.htmlIf you blink during Apple’s latest iPhone ad, you might miss a weird little animation bug. It’s right at the end of a slickly produced commercial, where the text from an iMessage escapes the animated bubble it’s supposed to stay inside. It’s a minor issue and easy to brush off, but the fact it’s captured in such a high profile ad just further highlights Apple’s many bugs in iOS 11./news/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-nano-review-light-it-up.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-nano-review-light-it-up.htmlIf you’ve used a ThinkPad before, you probably know 90 percent of what to expect from the ThinkPad X1 Nano. All of the staples are here. It’s got the black carbon fiber chassis, the discrete buttons on top of the touchpad, the mechanical privacy shutter, the ThinkPad logo on the palm rest, and (of course) the red pointer nub in the middle of the keyboard.  But one thing is unique about the X1 Nano: it’s the lightest ThinkPad Lenovo has ever made./news/lightsail-2-just-met-its-fiery-end-but-solar-sailing-is-just-getting-started.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lightsail-2-just-met-its-fiery-end-but-solar-sailing-is-just-getting-started.htmlAfter three years in space, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission burned up in the atmosphere on Thursday, November 17th. During its mission, the crowdfunded spacecraft made 18,000 orbits of the planet using its giant reflective sail and demonstrated that controlled solar sailing is possible. LightSail may now be over, but it has opened the door to the use of solar sailing in space exploration. “It doesn’t fit every situation, but now it gives another arrow in the quiver of options for types of propulsion you can use,” said Bruce Betts, Chief Scientist and LightSail program manager./news/mark-zuckerberg-announces-organ-donation-feature-for-facebook-inspired-by-steve-jobs.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mark-zuckerberg-announces-organ-donation-feature-for-facebook-inspired-by-steve-jobs.htmlFacebook is now making it possible for its millions of users to publicly declare their organ donor status on their timelines. The move has the potential to help the over 114,000 people in the US and millions abroad waiting for transplants, both by spreading knowledge about organ transplantation and providing an online record of your registration. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature on Good Morning America this morning, where he also provided details about where the idea came from./news/mark-zuckerberg-is-betting-facebook-s-future-on-the-metaverse.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mark-zuckerberg-is-betting-facebook-s-future-on-the-metaverse.htmlAs June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative. The future of the company would go far beyond its current project of building a set of connected social apps and some hardware to support them. Instead, he said, Facebook would strive to build a maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of sci-fi — a world known as the metaverse. The company’s divisions focused on products for communities, creators, commerce, and virtual reality would increasingly work to realize this vision, he said in a remote address to employees./news/meta-adds-sign-language-interpreters-for-portal-video-calls.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-adds-sign-language-interpreters-for-portal-video-calls.htmlFacebook parent company Meta is adding video relay services (VRS) to its Portal video calling devices, allowing users to bring English or Spanish sign language interpreters into video conversations. The new feature is part of a collaboration with ZP Better Together, a tech firm that makes communication solutions for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Meta spokesperson Lisa Auslen explained in an email to The Verge that users will need to apply for a ZP account to confirm they’re eligible for the service, which is federally funded under the Americans with Disabilities Act./news/metallica-sued-napster-15-years-ago-today.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/metallica-sued-napster-15-years-ago-today.htmlApril 13th, 2000. The day the music industry and the internet became best frenemies forever. That's the day Metallica v. Napster, Inc. was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California — a case that would come to national prominence, pave the way for Steve Jobs and Apple to create the iTunes and iPod juggernaut, and ultimately lock the tech and media industries in a battle that rages on to this day./news/microsoft-ai-engineer-warns-ftc-about-copilot-designer-safety-concerns.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-ai-engineer-warns-ftc-about-copilot-designer-safety-concerns.htmlA Microsoft engineer is bringing safety concerns about the company’s AI image generator to the Federal Trade Commission, according to a report from CNBC. Shane Jones, who has worked for Microsoft for six years, wrote a letter to the FTC, stating that Microsoft “refused” to take down Copilot Designer despite repeated warnings that the tool is capable of generating harmful images. When testing Copilot Designer for safety issues and flaws, Jones found that the tool generated “demons and monsters alongside terminology related to abortion rights, teenagers with assault rifles, sexualized images of women in violent tableaus, and underage drinking and drug use,” CNBC reports./news/microsoft-is-turning-progressive-web-apps-into-windows-apps.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-is-turning-progressive-web-apps-into-windows-apps.htmlIf you use Android, you might have come across a Progressive Web App or two in your Chrome journeys. Progressive Web Apps (not to be confused with Android’s native “Instant Apps”) use relatively fresh new web technologies to make websites work better offline or with intermittent connections, and often mimic native features like push notifications. For instance, Twitter and Flipboard both have PWAs that you can put on your Android home screen, and which behave like lightweight apps without the installation hassle./news/mineko-s-night-market-is-a-cat-filled-spin-on-animal-crossing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mineko-s-night-market-is-a-cat-filled-spin-on-animal-crossing.htmlThe world of Mineko’s Night Market is one obsessed with cats. Felines roam freely around its cartoony, cutesy island. Mini-games make sport of their adventures, and occasionally they’ll trail after you like ducklings behind their mother. On Mount Fugu Island, inhabitants even worship cat deities — specifically, the Sun Cat, a portly, upright creature called Abe. Developer Meowza Games has made no secret of its love of one specific animal, but the pleasing aesthetic of its upcoming game only lends to the friendly, approachable atmosphere of it all./news/my-favorite-new-steam-deck-mod-is-jsaux-s-30-see-through-heatsink-backplate.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/my-favorite-new-steam-deck-mod-is-jsaux-s-30-see-through-heatsink-backplate.htmlI thought I was buying JSAUX’s transparent backplate for the Steam Deck for the bragging rights. Transparent gadgets are fun! But you know what’s cooler than seeing inside your Steam Deck? Having a Deck that runs cooler, too. I’m happy to report that after spending $30 on my very own JSAUX PC0106 Transparent Back Plate for Steam Deck, my original skepticism didn’t pan out. Not only does it look great, its built-in aluminum heatsink actually does help manage the $400 handheld gaming PC’s heat./news/netflix-to-give-100-000-in-prizes-to-developers-who-best-improve-the-cloud.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-to-give-100-000-in-prizes-to-developers-who-best-improve-the-cloud.htmlNetflix is handing out prizes again. The web's top video rental service will award a total of $100,000 in prize money to the developers who do the best job of improving cloud-computing features as part of a contest the company is calling the Netflix Cloud Prize, Netflix said today in a statement. The company also said there will be ten categories that each offer $10,000 in prize money. Contestants will be judged on how they "/news/new-nasa-tech-can-survive-much-longer-on-the-atmospheric-hellscape-that-is-venus.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-nasa-tech-can-survive-much-longer-on-the-atmospheric-hellscape-that-is-venus.htmlSurviving in Venus-like conditions is near impossible, even for machinery. The surface temperature is about 860 degrees Fahrenheit and the carbon dioxide-rich air has an atmospheric pressure about 90 times that of Earth. Just moving around on Venus would feel as if you were under water and deep underground, if the heat didn’t already obliterate your equipment. NASA, however, may have found a novel solution in the form of more resistant electronics./news/nikon-1-j1-review-the-verge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nikon-1-j1-review-the-verge.htmlAs long as lighting is good, the J1 takes excellent photos. I used the camera to shoot at a farm, and photos of animals, running children, and landscapes all turned out sharp, with accurate and rich colors. When the camera is able to use a fast shutter speed, it produces nice results. As soon as you move indoors or shoot in anything other than broad daylight, though, the camera’s quality drops like a stone./news/nintendo-at-e3-2017-the-5-biggest-announcements.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-at-e3-2017-the-5-biggest-announcements.htmlNintendo was the last of the three major companies to present at E3 this year (which it did through its now traditional online Spotlight stream as opposed to a full blown press conference), and as expected, the focus was all about the Switch. Want to catch up? Here’s what the biggest news was out of Nintendo’s stream. Super Mario Odyssey is Nintendo’s next big blockbuster Switch game, and its out on October 27th./news/now-verizon-is-doubling-its-shared-data-plans-too.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/now-verizon-is-doubling-its-shared-data-plans-too.htmlIn a nice little example of what happens when there's actually some competition in a market, Verizon has become the third carrier to double the data it offers in many of its largest family plans. Verizon is now offering 30GB for $130, 40GB for $150, and 60GB for $225, though you'll also have to pay a per-line fee. That's identical to what AT&T is now offering, while Sprint's offerings are currently twice those for nearly the same prices./news/nyan-cat-is-being-sold-as-a-one-of-a-kind-piece-of-crypto-art.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nyan-cat-is-being-sold-as-a-one-of-a-kind-piece-of-crypto-art.htmlNyan Cat turns 10 this year, and to mark the occasion, a one-of-a-kind edition of the iconic GIF is going up for auction. Chris Torres, the artist behind Nyan Cat, has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. The auction begins at 1PM ET today and will run for around 24 hours. “I’m looking at [the GIF] right now, and I’m like, ‘Yes, it looks good,’” Torres said in a phone call with The Verge./news/oculus-quest-vs-oculus-quest-2-specs-and-features-comparison.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oculus-quest-vs-oculus-quest-2-specs-and-features-comparison.htmlFacebook just announced the Oculus Quest 2, a successor to its Quest virtual reality headset from 2019. At $299 for the base model, the new beefed-up and slimmed-down Quest is $100 cheaper than its predecessor. It’s also shipping within a few weeks: preorders opened today, and it will be available for purchase in 22 countries on October 13th. Facebook will retire its Oculus Rift S next year and the original Quest supply is already sold out in many places, so the Quest 2 will soon be the only option for Oculus headset buyers./news/oneplus-nord-2t-arrives-with-80w-fast-charging-and-a-midrange-price.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oneplus-nord-2t-arrives-with-80w-fast-charging-and-a-midrange-price.htmlOnePlus is officially announcing a trio of more affordable devices for Europe today: the OnePlus Nord 2T, the Nord CE 2 Lite, and the Nord Buds true wireless headphones. The Nord 2T starts at £369 (€399) and is best thought of as a souped-up version of last year’s Nord 2. Meanwhile, the Nord CE 2 Lite is a step-down model of the Nord CE 2 and starts at £279 (€299). Finally, there’s the Nord Buds, which will sell for £49 (€49)./news/origins-unknown-where-did-the-maya-empire-really-come-from.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/origins-unknown-where-did-the-maya-empire-really-come-from.htmlPhoto by Takeshi Inomata, University of Arizona The astronomy, calendar, and apocalyptic predictions have been well documented, but there's one part of Maya history that researchers have yet to agree upon: how the ancient civilization actually came to be. For years, Maya researchers have adhered to one of two theories. Some argue that the pre-Columbian culture developed virtually on its own and free of influence; others believe it was a direct offshoot from the older Olmec civilization — a group that emerged about 3,600 years ago in what’s now the southern Gulf region of Mexico./news/palworld-isn-t-slowing-down-hits-19-million-players-across-steam-and-xbox.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/palworld-isn-t-slowing-down-hits-19-million-players-across-steam-and-xbox.htmlSurprise viral gaming hit Palworld continues to reach new player milestones. Today, developer Pocketpair announced that the game has sold 12 million copies on Steam and reached 7 million players on Xbox. The Xbox number includes both sales and those who played via Game Pass, but the breakdown between the two isn’t clear. According to Microsoft, though, these numbers make Palworld the biggest third-party (i.e. a game not made by an internal Microsoft studio) launch in Game Pass history./news/plex-desktop-app-rebranded-as-plex-home-theater-adds-airplay-in-preview-release.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/plex-desktop-app-rebranded-as-plex-home-theater-adds-airplay-in-preview-release.htmlJust in time for the holidays Plex has announced some changes to its popular media software, with a preview release giving customers an early look. In a recent blog post, Plex details changes to its Mac and PC application, Plex Media Center. Moving forward, the app will be known as Plex Home Theater — in order to avoid confusion with its media server application, the company says — with the update bringing a number of bug fixes and updates./news/pok%C3%A9mon-makes-an-intimidating-genre-approachable.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pok%C3%A9mon-makes-an-intimidating-genre-approachable.htmlRoleplaying games represent some of the most beloved titles ever created. Series like Final Fantasy or The Elder Scrolls are filled with huge, immersive worlds and deep lore to be explored. Yet, that scale and complexity can also make the genre seem overwhelming. What makes Pokémon stand out is its ability to attract a wide audience. It’s a perfect entry point for an otherwise intimidating genre. As the series turns 25 years old this year, the charm found in the first installments has been preserved and retained throughout the eight generations of the franchise./news/pok%C3%A9mon-s-next-daniel-arsham-art-collab-reaches-across-time-and-space.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pok%C3%A9mon-s-next-daniel-arsham-art-collab-reaches-across-time-and-space.htmlWhile Pokémon Arceus is revealing all new things about the franchise’s past, artist Daniel Arsham’s next collaboration with The Pokémon Company is all about a ruined, fossilized future. Building on the larger themes of his previous two Pokémon projects, “Relics of Kanto Through Time” and “Time Dilation,” Arsham’s upcoming “A Ripple in Time” exhibition opening in Tokyo will feature a variety of Pokémon works of art meant to evoke the passage of time./news/poopy-seabirds-help-spread-the-world-s-nutrients-around.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/poopy-seabirds-help-spread-the-world-s-nutrients-around.htmlSeabirds are full of crap — which turns out to be an important source of nutrients in coastal areas, new research says. Bird poop, also known as guano, is chock-full of key plant foods like nitrogen and phosphorus — and when seabirds flock together to breed, they can produce massive quantities of the stuff. Every year, more than 1.3 billion pounds of nitrogen (591 million kilograms) and 218 million pounds of phosphorus (99 million kilograms) dribble out of this deluge of droppings, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications./news/rachio-s-new-smart-sprinkler-controller-can-detect-leaks.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rachio-s-new-smart-sprinkler-controller-can-detect-leaks.htmlRachio is introducing a new version of its smart sprinkler controller today, with a slight design tweak and a handful of new features. Among those is support for faster 5GHz Wi-Fi — although it’s hard to imagine that this will be terribly useful for a sprinkler system — as well as support for “hyperlocal” weather information so the system can better determine when to water your lawn and physical controls for getting your system to start and stop watering./news/redbox-shuts-down-as-its-parent-company-declares-chapter-7-bankruptcy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/redbox-shuts-down-as-its-parent-company-declares-chapter-7-bankruptcy.htmlA judge overseeing Redbox owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s bankruptcy case granted a request Wednesday to convert it from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to Lowpass’ Janko Roettgers and The Wall Street Journal. The company’s lawyers said Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will lay off its remaining 1,000 employees and liquidate the businesses, including streaming operations and the 24,000 or so disc kiosks that have rented out DVDs, Blu-rays, and videogames for years./news/reddit-goes-public-the-latest-updates-on-its-ipo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reddit-goes-public-the-latest-updates-on-its-ipo.htmlNokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. In an amended SEC filing ahead of its IPO, Reddit warned potential investors that "...on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims." Nokia, of course, leaned into, ahem, patent licensing and networking equipment as its business many years ago, and reminded people of it with last year’s logo redesign./news/ring-s-new-tv-show-sounds-like-a-dystopian-america-s-funniest-home-videos.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ring-s-new-tv-show-sounds-like-a-dystopian-america-s-funniest-home-videos.htmlDeadline reports that Wanda Sykes has signed on to host Ring Nation, a new America’s Funniest Home Videos-style clip show from MGM Television, Ring, and Big Fish Entertainment, the production company behind Live P.D. Described as a “daily dose of life’s unpredictable, heartwarming and hilarious viral videos” in a press release, Ring Nation will feature footage captured on people’s Ring cameras presented in a way that’s meant to be entertaining./news/roblox-is-coming-to-ps4-and-ps5.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/roblox-is-coming-to-ps4-and-ps5.htmlRoblox will finally be available on PlayStation soon. At its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) on Friday, Roblox announced that its popular social and gaming app is coming to PS4 and PS5 in October. And during Sony’s September 14th State of Play, the company announced that the game would be released on October 10th. Roblox, which is free to download, is already out on a bunch of platforms, including PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and Xbox, but the lack of support for Sony’s consoles has felt like a notable hole in Roblox’s lineup./news/russian-spacecraft-returns-to-earth-with-movie-crew-aboard.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/russian-spacecraft-returns-to-earth-with-movie-crew-aboard.htmlA Russian actress and director-producer who spent 12 days aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth early Sunday along with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy who had been in space for 191 days. Actress Yulia Peresild and director-producer Klim Shipenko went up to the ISS on October 5th, to film scenes for the upcoming movie The Challenge, about a Russian doctor, played by Peresild, who travels to the space station to treat a sick cosmonaut./news/sacrifice-your-rog-ally-s-stylish-good-looks-at-the-altar-of-doubled-battery-life.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sacrifice-your-rog-ally-s-stylish-good-looks-at-the-altar-of-doubled-battery-life.htmlSacrifice your ROG Ally’s stylish good looks at the altar of doubled battery life. If that sounds delightful, iFixit has the guide for you — it even sells the 88Wh battery and has the free 3D-printable backplate you’ll need. You do have to replace the battery connector with the one from the ROG Ally’s pack, so it’s not quite plug n’ play. iFixit currently has 14 of the batteries in stock, tho teardown tech Shahram Mokhtari tells me they’ll order more if there’s demand./news/samsung-is-making-a-robot-that-can-pour-wine-and-bring-you-a-drink.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-is-making-a-robot-that-can-pour-wine-and-bring-you-a-drink.htmlSamsung is working on a robot that can pick up laundry, load the dishwasher, set the table, pour wine, and even bring you a drink. The robot is called Bot Handy, and Samsung says it’ll be able to recognize objects using a camera and AI. The bot is meant to be “an extension of you in the kitchen, living room, and anywhere else you may need an extra hand in your home,” Sebastian Seung, president of Samsung Research, said during Samsung’s CES press conference today./news/scene-not-heard-tweaking-my-own-sound-at-coachella.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/scene-not-heard-tweaking-my-own-sound-at-coachella.htmlThe pitch on Doppler Labs' Here Active Listening is pretty simple: what if you could customize your listening experience — of the entire world? This seemed especially appealing at Coachella, where I was surrounded by 90,000 people. Wouldn't it be nice to sit on the lawn, tune out the conversation, and tune in the main stage act? The demo focuses on gimmicksTo this end, I waltz into the VIP section of Coachella — don’t be fooled, VIP is business class, the real important people have wristbands you didn’t know existed — where Doppler Labs have set up shop./news/shure-kse1500-review-taking-electrostatic-headphones-mobile.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shure-kse1500-review-taking-electrostatic-headphones-mobile.htmlIn the cavernous hallways of the audiophile rabbit hole, electrostatic headphones are the ultimate, deepest, and dankest level. By the time you’ve started seriously contemplating (and abbreviating) electrostats for your next purchase, your friends will have long since written you off as a hopeless case. That’s because headphones of this type cost a ton, require dedicated amplification, and are usually enormous, ugly things. All performance and no pizzazz. Shure, the company that’s been providing microphones for US presidential speeches for decades, has decided to remix the electrostatic formula in an effort to try and civilize the category for a wider audience./news/sigur-r%C3%B3s-route-one-live-stream-is-even-more-mesmerizing-in-360-degrees.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sigur-r%C3%B3s-route-one-live-stream-is-even-more-mesmerizing-in-360-degrees.htmlPost-rock titans Sigur Rós delivered one of last month's coolest musical surprises when they released Route One, a day-long "slow TV" broadcast that paired a live-streamed journey through the band's native Iceland with an algorithmically generated remix of their new single "Óveður." The band is taking that project to the next level this morning by releasing a 360-degree version of Route One on YouTube. (Playback is supported in Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera — sorry, Safari users./news/six-minutes-of-fallout-4-footage-shows-deathclaw-battle.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/six-minutes-of-fallout-4-footage-shows-deathclaw-battle.htmlOn stage at its E3 keynote today, Microsoft invited Bethesda to show off new gameplay footage from Fallout 4, which was demonstrated last night. Bethesda calls it "the most ambitious game world [they] have ever created," and considering everything that's been said so far about the title — not to mention the immersive crafting experience — it's hard to argue. While we wait until this November for the game's release, enjoy a clip of the new footage, featuring a showdown against a Deathclaw — a mutant opponent that'll be familiar to longtime Fallout players./news/slack-s-canvas-feature-puts-docs-inside-your-chats-here-s-how-it-works.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/slack-s-canvas-feature-puts-docs-inside-your-chats-here-s-how-it-works.htmlThe best thing about Slack’s new Canvas feature is that I barely need to explain it to you. It’s like Google Docs but inside of Slack. Make a canvas, add some stuff, and share it with whoever you want. Every channel in your Slack now has a canvas attached to it, and you can also make and share as many as you want. That’s it! Slack first announced Canvas last year, and it’s starting to roll out to all Slack users today./news/something-to-play-tonight-the-verge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/something-to-play-tonight-the-verge.htmlSomething to play tonight. Nintendo loves to surprise drop a game during a livestream, and today that means Howl, a turn-based folktale game set in a world ravaged by a sound-based plague. It’ll be available on the Switch “later today.” It looks absolutely gorgeous, but if the trailer doesn’t sell you, there’s also a demo to check out. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfZn5wfZNoaWxxZmWEdICOrKamnaSdtq%2BzjK2mZqiclsZuwM6noKCgpA%3D%3D/news/sonos-google-lawsuit-says-what-every-smaller-tech-company-was-thinking-working-with-big-tech-suc.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sonos-google-lawsuit-says-what-every-smaller-tech-company-was-thinking-working-with-big-tech-suc.htmlIt’s the first “official” day of CES, when glitzy keynotes are replaced with grungy, sweaty crowds shuffling from booth to booth set up on the hideous carpets of the Las Vegas show floor. I love it. I intentionally kept my calendar as open as possible so I could go experience the full spectrum of what’s on tap here this year. I saw everything from the neon-lit horde in Samsung City (what we call its massive booth) to the locker-room-smelling funk of “Eureka Park,” where the tiniest of businesses rent the tiniest of kiosks, all crammed together by the thousands./news/sony-admits-it-made-wrong-decision-and-will-keep-ps3-vita-stores-open.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-admits-it-made-wrong-decision-and-will-keep-ps3-vita-stores-open.htmlSony has announced that it’ll be keeping its PS3 and PlayStation Vita digital storefront open “for the foreseeable future.” The PSP’s store will still be shut down on July 2nd, 2021, as originally planned. “Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision here. So today I’m happy to say that we will be keeping the PlayStation Store operational for PS3 and PS Vita devices. PSP commerce functionality will retire on July 2, 2021 as planned,” Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan announced in a blog post./news/sony-is-buying-bungie-the-developer-of-destiny-and-original-creator-of-halo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-is-buying-bungie-the-developer-of-destiny-and-original-creator-of-halo.htmlQ. As a Destiny 2 player, does Bungie becoming part of PlayStation have any immediate impact on how I play and experience Destiny 2? ​ No. Our commitment to Destiny 2 as a multi-platform game with full Cross Play remains unchanged.  ​ We want you to play The Witch Queen on February 22, 2022, on the platform of YOUR choice. ​ Q. Will the Destiny 2 experience on non-PlayStation platforms be impacted by Bungie becoming part of PlayStation?/news/sony-stokes-the-console-wars-by-snatching-call-of-duty-dlc-from-microsoft.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-stokes-the-console-wars-by-snatching-call-of-duty-dlc-from-microsoft.htmlSony has a similar deal in place for Destiny In an age where true platform-exclusive games are few and far between, Sony and Microsoft have secured DLC deals with other publishers to differentiate between the PlayStation and Xbox versions of new games. By stumping up undisclosed sums of cash, the platform holders have been able to get new exclusive maps, special weapons, and early beta access, tempting passionate and impatient fans to their side with minor additions to the biggest games./news/spacex-is-building-new-facilities-at-port-canaveral-to-refurbish-rockets.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spacex-is-building-new-facilities-at-port-canaveral-to-refurbish-rockets.htmlSpaceX plans to lease one building and construct a newer second building at Port Canaveral, just two miles from where it launches its Falcon 9 rockets from the Cape Canaveral space pad, port chief John Murray tells Flordia Today. The company plans on leasing the former 52,000 square foot Spacehab building, which used to belong to the aerospace company now called Astrotech Corporation. The new building will be constructed nearby./news/spotify-says-its-iphone-app-updates-in-the-eu-are-getting-held-up-by-apple.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-says-its-iphone-app-updates-in-the-eu-are-getting-held-up-by-apple.htmlEven after Apple was hit with a $2 billion fine in the European Union over years-old complaints from Spotify about its App Store rules, Spotify says Apple is stonewalling updates issued in compliance with that very ruling. In an email to the European Commission obtained by The Verge, Spotify writes that Apple has “neither acknowledged nor responded to Spotify’s submission” to bring subscription pricing information into the app, preventing it from updating the app at all for its users, even to put out fixes for bugs or add other features./news/starfield-review-a-stellar-sci-fi-refresh-of-the-bethesda-rpg-formula.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/starfield-review-a-stellar-sci-fi-refresh-of-the-bethesda-rpg-formula.htmlEven as someone who loves the Fallout games, I must admit that spending dozens of hours in an irradiated wasteland full of ghouls and raiders can be a little, well, depressing. It’s not the kind of world that evokes a sense of adventure. That’s what made the potential of Starfield so exciting: here was Bethesda applying its formula for open-world RPGs to a giant universe with planets to discover and cosmic mysteries to unearth./news/starfield-will-let-you-do-drugs-and-have-sex-with-a-jetpack-on-maybe.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/starfield-will-let-you-do-drugs-and-have-sex-with-a-jetpack-on-maybe.htmlWe know so little of Starfield, only that it’s from Bethesda, involves stars and fields in some configuration, and that Microsoft and Xbox desperately need it to be a hit after Redfall’s pretty terrible launch. But now, thanks to a new ESRB description, we know... honestly, not that much more, but at least we now know there’s plenty of drugs, lots of blood, and possibly jetpack sex. The ESRB summary starts with a description of who we’ll be playing as: “players assume the role of a miner tasked with finding Artifacts across the galaxy./news/starlink-rv-review-the-dawn-of-space-internet-to-go.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/starlink-rv-review-the-dawn-of-space-internet-to-go.htmlThe problem with going off-grid is the lack of connection.  The urge to get away from it all without losing access to Slack and Instagram was a #vanlife trend long before COVID-19. The pandemic only accelerated it, fueled by social distancing rules, office closures, and flexible remote work policies that enable more people to set up shop from any location they choose. Few do so, however, because change is hard, and going truly remote often means being out of range of cell towers — but not satellites./news/streaming-fatigue-is-making-dvds-look-like-the-better-option.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/streaming-fatigue-is-making-dvds-look-like-the-better-option.htmlHere I am at Walmart, elbow-deep in decades of movies as other shoppers wheel by without so much as a glance. The bin, about four feet tall, is overflowing with DVDs, to the point where I have to start piling them up on one side just to get anywhere near the center. I’m picking out the movies I’m going to indulge in over the weekend, shuffling through copies of Sonic the Hedgehog, an all-in-one Ben Affleck movie collection, Gremlins, and a hodgepodge of other flicks./news/super-mario-run-s-200-million-downloads-didn-t-result-in-acceptable-profit-for-nintendo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/super-mario-run-s-200-million-downloads-didn-t-result-in-acceptable-profit-for-nintendo.htmlNintendo’s first mobile game, Super Mario Run, was enormously popular — but that doesn’t mean it was a success for the company. During its most recent earnings report, Nintendo revealed that Mario Run has been downloaded 200 million times, 90 percent of which came from outside of Japan. However, Nintendo says that despite these big numbers, the game has “not yet reached an acceptable profit point.” While Nintendo didn’t reveal any specifics with regards to conversion rates, a big sticking point for many with Super Mario Run was its comparatively large price point; it’s free to download, but requires a one-time fee of $9./news/ted-cruz-hosts-a-podcast-for-free-a-ted-cruz-super-pac-gets-paid.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ted-cruz-hosts-a-podcast-for-free-a-ted-cruz-super-pac-gets-paid.htmlThis is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I hope you all had a great weekend/eclipse/first moment of NYC sunshine. Today, I’ve got a look at Ted Cruz’s eyebrow-raising arrangement with iHeart and news on two new acquisitions. Let’s get into it. iHeart doesn’t pay Ted Cruz for hosting Verdict. It pays a Ted Cruz super PAC. This is certainly one way to raise campaign money./news/tesla-model-s-electric-sedan-pricing-and-options-announced-starts-at-57-400.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-model-s-electric-sedan-pricing-and-options-announced-starts-at-57-400.htmlTesla Motors has announced final pricing and option details for its much-anticipated Model S electric sedan. The battery-powered vehicle, which follows the original sold-out Tesla Roadster, will come in four different varieties: In addition to the extra range, the bigger batteries also bring quicker acceleration: the entry model will go from zero to 60 in 6.5 seconds, but the Performance model clocks the same in just 4.4 seconds. The cars will be built in Fremont, California, and also feature a 17-inch touchscreen built into the dash./news/tesla-turns-first-profit-in-its-10-year-history.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-turns-first-profit-in-its-10-year-history.html"We're profitable in Q1 despite spending quite a lot."Tesla estimated that it would ship another 5,000 cars in the second quarter of the year, and that more than 15,000 vehicles in the US, and more than 21,000 worldwide, would be shipped this year overall. Musk said he also wants to open up 15 more Tesla galleries around the world before the end of 2013. By the end of Q1, Tesla had opened 34 galleries and 41 service locations./news/tesla-s-original-plan-for-the-35-000-model-3-is-dead.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-s-original-plan-for-the-35-000-model-3-is-dead.htmlTesla has completely torched its original plan for the $35,000 Model 3. Late on Thursday night, the company announced a fundamental change to what is supposed to be the most affordable version of its first mass-market car. Compared to the version that was put on sale on February 28th, the new $35,000 Model 3 will now use a different battery pack, it will no longer have manual seats or cloth trim, and it will only be available to order by phone or at one of Tesla’s stores./news/the-549-99-insta360-one-rs-adds-a-better-action-camera-to-its-modular-setup.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-549-99-insta360-one-rs-adds-a-better-action-camera-to-its-modular-setup.htmlInsta360 has announced the One RS, a successor to the modular One R action / 360 cam it released last year. The RS is mostly a minor upgrade, with the brain module (or “core,” as Insta360 calls it) and mounting system getting a few tweaks that should make the experience of shooting with the 360 lens slightly better. The One RS upgrades are mostly minor, but welcome, quality of life improvements./news/the-10-best-eco-friendly-condoms-and-lubes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-10-best-eco-friendly-condoms-and-lubes.htmlLooking for eco-friendly condoms is complicated. Kim Marks, the owner of As You Like It, a nontoxic and environmentally conscious sex shop in Eugene, Oregon, describes the concept as a Catch-22: “Condoms are onetime use, but we need them for safe sex,” she says. Matthew Nolan, the co-author of the Oh Joy Sex Toy book series who runs a website of the same name, agrees. “Condoms are super tricky,” he says. “Almost all condoms are made from latex or a latex derivative — stuff that takes forever to degrade./news/the-acer-57-inch-predator-z57-is-a-periphery-gobbling-curved-mini-led-display.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-acer-57-inch-predator-z57-is-a-periphery-gobbling-curved-mini-led-display.htmlAcer announced a few gaming displays ahead of CES 2024 today, but the star of its new lineup is clearly its Predator Z57 — a 57-inch, 120Hz curved display that spans 7680x2160 pixels. It uses MiniLED backlighting for better contrast than a typical LCD monitor, and Acer says it will be out in the second quarter for $2,499.99 in the US and €2,399 in Europe. The Z57 will come equipped with AMD FreeSync Premium to reduce screen-tearing and gets a 90W USB-C PD port, dual HDMI 2./news/the-apple-watch-series-7-is-70-off-at-walmart-and-on-amazon.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-apple-watch-series-7-is-70-off-at-walmart-and-on-amazon.htmlIt’s a day of Apple Watch deals. At Walmart and on Amazon, you can get a great deal on the Apple Watch Series 7, Apple’s latest smartwatch that has a bigger screen than prior generations, along with fast charging. Each retailer has a limited selection of color options available in both the 41mm and 45mm sizing with GPS onboard. Normally $399, you can snag the blue, green, or red variants (with matching case and band colors) for $329 — the best price ever./news/the-best-time-to-buy-an-android-phone-is-april.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-time-to-buy-an-android-phone-is-april.htmlThe world of Android smartphones can often be chaotic and disorganized, but this year it seems to have settled on the month of April for the debut and availability of the widest range of attractive new devices. Six months after Google’s release of Android Marshmallow, all the hardware manufacturers are now ready to deliver a deluge of phones built around the latest version of the operating system. It’s already begun with handsets like the Xiaomi Mi 5 and Samsung Galaxy S7, but next month is when the choice and variety will explode./news/the-cybersecurity-pandemic-that-led-to-the-colonial-pipeline-disaster.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-cybersecurity-pandemic-that-led-to-the-colonial-pipeline-disaster.htmlThe cyberattack that forced the Colonial Pipeline offline is just one failure to address existing weaknesses and an escalating “ransomware pandemic,” experts tell The Verge. That leaves the nation’s energy infrastructure especially vulnerable, even though there are basic steps that could have been taken to prevent the crisis that’s unfolding now.   “Yet another example of what is really a ransomware pandemic” “Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology./news/the-delivery-man-taking-on-uber-eats-and-doordash.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-delivery-man-taking-on-uber-eats-and-doordash.htmlDelivery apps seem like a good idea, and it’s obvious why they’re handy to have around. It’s also often unclear whether delivery apps actually work for anyone involved. They make your stuff more expensive, often in hard-to-see ways. They take huge fees from restaurants that need it to survive. Drivers don’t get the pay or benefits they should. And in many cases, even the apps themselves don’t make any money! What are we doing here?/news/the-design-behind-hatchimals-the-hit-toy-of-the-season-and-youtube.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-design-behind-hatchimals-the-hit-toy-of-the-season-and-youtube.htmlIf you are not a child, don’t have a child, or don’t know anyone with kids, there’s a chance you’ve never heard of a Hatchimal, the must-have toy for Christmas this year. Allow me to introduce you: the Hatchimal is a plush little robot that comes trapped in a sealed, football-sized plastic egg. As soon as you take it out of its packaging, it comes to life — you can see its eyes glow through the shell, and hear it make cooing sounds./news/the-framework-laptop-16-promises-the-holy-grail-of-upgradable-graphics.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-framework-laptop-16-promises-the-holy-grail-of-upgradable-graphics.htmlIt’s been four years since Dell promised the Alienware Area-51m would be a truly upgradable gaming laptop — and nearly two years since the company got sued for utterly failing to deliver that dream. Now, Framework, the sole company in modern memory* with an actual track record of delivering a fully upgradable laptop, is taking a stab at it, too. Today outside the 2023 Game Developers Conference, it’s announcing and previewing the Framework Laptop 16, its second laptop platform ever, with the claim that it’s “delivering on the holy grail for gamers, creators and others who need power, with modular upgradable graphics!/news/the-g7-summit-ends-without-us-commitment-on-paris-agreement.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-g7-summit-ends-without-us-commitment-on-paris-agreement.htmlThe G7 summit has ended in Sicily following two days of discussions regarding the state of the world economy, foreign policy, climate change, and other major global issues. During the meeting, representatives from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement, with the exception of the United States. The leaders issued a collective statement at the close of the talks, saying that they have committed to “strengthening our collective energy security and ensuring open, transparent, liquid, and secure global markets for energy resources and technologies./news/the-gadgets-we-broke-the-verge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-gadgets-we-broke-the-verge.htmlThis holiday season, let’s talk about the gadgets that are no longer with us anymore — not because they were bad or became obsolete or were the victims of an upgrade offer too good to refuse, but because they met their demise in a delightfully destructive way. We broke these gadgets without meaning to. (Probably. Helen is sus.) This started out as a fun conversation in The Verge’s private Slack, and now we’re bringing a more polished version to you./news/the-global-ransomware-attack-weaponized-software-updates.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-global-ransomware-attack-weaponized-software-updates.htmlWhen the Wannacry ransomware tore through the UK and Europe in May, there was a certain logic to the heightened scale of damage. Ransomware attacks were nothing new, but this one had a secret weapon, a sophisticated software exploit known as EternalBlue, published by the Shadow Brokers in April and believed to have been developed by the NSA. It was nation-state level weaponry turned against soft, civilian targets, like robbing a small-town bank with an Abrams tank./news/the-iphone-15-lineup-has-arrived-and-here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-page-2.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-iphone-15-lineup-has-arrived-and-here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-page-2.htmlAbout the iPhone 15 Pro’s battery limits. In response to a question from MacRumors writer Joe Rossignol during our iPhone 15 Pro Q&A, our reviewer Allison Johnson listed off the options from their charging menu, including one clearly labeled “80 percent limit,” which you’d think would mean a hard stop to reduce wear and tear on the battery. However, in our testing so far, the new phones still don’t always stop charging once they reach 80 percent, even with the setting enabled./news/the-mr-robot-mobile-game-feels-like-a-miniature-conspiracy-arg.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-mr-robot-mobile-game-feels-like-a-miniature-conspiracy-arg.htmlI was intrigued when I first heard that Telltale — the studio known for its adaptations of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones — was publishing a video game based on the USA series Mr. Robot. As it turns out, the clunkily named Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltratiOn isn’t the kind of dramatic adventure title that Telltale is known for. It’s developed by Oxenfree creators Night School Studio, and it’s a $2.99 text-based iOS and Android game that runs over the course of a week./news/the-next-batman-arkham-game-is-a-meta-quest-exclusive.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-next-batman-arkham-game-is-a-meta-quest-exclusive.htmlToday, Meta has announced that the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham series will be Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game that’s exclusive to the Meta Quest 3. Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year. Meta didn’t share much about the game itself, giving us a short trailer featuring Batman’s POV as he swoops over the grimy, rain-slicked streets of Gotham./news/the-sony-project-q-playstation-handheld-is-running-android-in-a-leaked-video.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-sony-project-q-playstation-handheld-is-running-android-in-a-leaked-video.htmlAt least one of our questions about the Sony Project Q handheld game-streaming device has seemingly been answered by a new leaked video posted by Zuby_Tech on Twitter (via Reddit / Imgur). In it, a basic version of Android OS running on a plastic-wrapped device shows a simple menu system and a QR code. It’s very doubtful this is what the final version of the handheld’s menu will look like, but it gives us an idea what’s running under the hood, at least./news/the-spartan-existence-of-tumblr-creator-david-karp.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-spartan-existence-of-tumblr-creator-david-karp.htmlTumblr creator David Karp could afford an ostentatious lifestyle, but chooses one more in-line with the minimalist service that's built him a net worth of more than $200 million. A new profile from Forbes describes the lifestyle of Karp, a man who keeps nearly nothing in his $1.6 million Williamsburg, Brooklyn loft. "I don't have any books. I don't have many clothes," Karp tells Forbes. "It's my Jason Bourne or James Bond fantasy, wanting to be perfectly mobile./news/these-were-the-video-games-that-defined-2022.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-were-the-video-games-that-defined-2022.html2022 was the kind of year where it was easy to forget just how much happened. This is especially true when it comes to video games, with the industry hit with so many twists and turns that it’s tough to keep track. There’s the ongoing labor movement, the massive consolidation of studios and publishers, the continued rise of subscription services, the blurring line between games and other entertainment, and the occasional leak of the next big blockbuster./news/they-might-be-giants-fans-recreate-apollo-18-track-by-track-as-text-adventures.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/they-might-be-giants-fans-recreate-apollo-18-track-by-track-as-text-adventures.htmlIf you were to draw a Venn diagram including fans of They Might Be Giants and those of interactive fiction ("text adventures" to the layperson), chances are there would be some significant overlap. From that overlap springs Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album, which is in fact not an album, but a collection of interactive fiction commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Apollo 18 album's release. Each of the 38 games in the collection is inspired by a song on the album, so for example "/news/this-climate-tech-startup-wants-to-capture-carbon-and-help-data-centers-cool-down.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-climate-tech-startup-wants-to-capture-carbon-and-help-data-centers-cool-down.htmlData centers are a growing climate problem, especially as all the energy needed to train AI models inflates tech companies’ carbon footprints. A startup that spun out of Google’s “moonshot factory” X says its technology can provide a potential solution. It can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, run partially on servers’ waste heat, and even generate water to help cool a data center more efficiently. The company, 280 Earth, just signed a $40 million agreement to capture carbon dioxide emissions for some big names through an initiative called Frontier that Stripe, Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and McKinsey launched in 2022 to support emerging carbon removal tech./news/this-e-ink-iphone-7-plus-case-works-better-in-theory-than-practice.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-e-ink-iphone-7-plus-case-works-better-in-theory-than-practice.htmlEven though the technology is starting to look a little behind the times in these days of ProMotion screens and OLED smartwatches, I still really like E Ink. There’s nothing quite like it for outdoor visibility, and even away from sunlight there’s something to be said for a display that doesn’t suck much power or blast light in your face. It would seem natural, then, to want a way of applying these benefits to smartphones./news/this-gecko-sheds-its-scales-and-goes-butt-naked-to-escape-predators.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-gecko-sheds-its-scales-and-goes-butt-naked-to-escape-predators.htmlSome people pee themselves in scary situations. This gecko sheds its skin and goes naked, instead. The new species, called Geckolepis megalepis, is originally from Madagascar, where other species of geckos are known to lose their scales when threatened. The animal is described in a study published today in PeerJ. The little, nudist creature has really big scales, which are shed alongside a layer of skin cells whenever the gecko is under stress./news/this-is-what-a-rascal-looks-like-going-100-miles-per-hour.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-is-what-a-rascal-looks-like-going-100-miles-per-hour.htmlThe "Rascal" was never a great name for an electric scooter designed to be a slow, excruciatingly safe means of transport for the mobility-challenged. Two British mechanics recently set out to break the record for "fastest mobility scooter" (because of course there's a record for that), and they managed to set the mark at 107.6 miles per hour using a bright green pocket rocket. To be fair, it only vaguely resembles the kind of scooter you might find Grandpa riding — the only thing that's true to the original product is the outer shell./news/tiff-the-verge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tiff-the-verge.htmlA TIFF favorite gets a trailer. Monster was one of my favorite movies from the Toronto film festival this year, and now you can get a glimpse of it. From prolific director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster is about school bullying, but it also slowly reveals itself to be something much more complicated, with a story told from multiple perspectives that’s something of a puzzle. The movie opens in New York on November 22nd and LA on December 1st, before “expanding to additional markets in December./news/tumblr-sheds-post-plus-subscriptions-as-the-platform-downsizes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tumblr-sheds-post-plus-subscriptions-as-the-platform-downsizes.htmlTumblr is doing away with Post Plus, the feature that lets creators charge users a subscription to access their content. Starting on December 1st, creators will no longer be able to enable Post Plus on their blogs. The discontinuation of Post Plus comes just weeks after a leaked memo revealed the platform’s plans to downsize after struggling to meet usage and revenue targets. At the time, Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Tumblr's parent company Automattic, said the company had plans to focus on the “core functionality” of Tumblr going forward./news/twitter-alternative-post-news-is-shutting-down.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-alternative-post-news-is-shutting-down.htmlPost News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.” The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a closed beta in November 2022, but now it’s set to shutter “within the next few weeks.” It serves as a social platform that also offers users ad-free access to paywalled content from publishers such as Fortune, Business Insider, Wired, The Boston Globe, and others./news/twitter-is-now-an-elon-musk-company.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-is-now-an-elon-musk-company.htmlElon Musk, Twitter’s most important shitposter, has added the company to his business empire after months of legal skirmishes, according to CNBC, The Washington Post, and Insider. The acquisition was confirmed in an SEC filing from the company on Friday morning, noting it’s delisting $TWTR from the New York Stock Exchange. He celebrated by firing executives. Musk fired Parag Agrawal, who succeeded Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO, and chief financial officer Ned Segal, both of who were in the building at the time and escorted out by security, according to Reuters./news/twitter-quote-tweets-are-now-easier-to-find.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-quote-tweets-are-now-easier-to-find.htmlTwitter is officially rolling out its new quote tweets counter, which lets you easily see every time a given tweet has been retweeted alongside a comment. “Tweets about a Tweet add more to the conversation, so we’ve made them even easier to find,” the company said, also noting that the new counter will be shown between the existing “Retweets” and “Likes” labels. The social network has been testing the feature for a few months now, with different names and user interface designs./news/twitter-won-t-hide-donald-trump-s-racist-tweets.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-won-t-hide-donald-trump-s-racist-tweets.htmlTwitter won’t be treating President Donald Trump’s recent tweets telling congresswomen to “go back” to their supposed home countries as a violation of its hateful conduct policy, the company confirmed to The Verge. That means the tweets won’t trigger a flagging system Twitter announced last month, intended to limit the reach of banned content by public officials. On Sunday, Trump attacked a group of congresswomen — implicitly the Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — by saying they came from “countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and telling them to “go back” to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came./news/twitter-s-open-source-offshoot-bluesky-releases-first-experiment.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-s-open-source-offshoot-bluesky-releases-first-experiment.htmlBluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, although Bluesky emphasizes that it’s incomplete. It’s one of the most substantive windows into Bluesky’s workings since the project was conceived in 2019 and formally incorporated in early 2022. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber writes that ADX will be the start of a semi-public development process./news/ubisoft-and-activision-blizzard-s-deal-for-cloud-gaming-rights-explained.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ubisoft-and-activision-blizzard-s-deal-for-cloud-gaming-rights-explained.htmlMicrosoft’s giant Activision Blizzard deal is complete, and it means Ubisoft has now obtained cloud streaming rights for Call of Duty, all other current Activision Blizzard games, and any coming over the next 15 years. It was a key concession from Microsoft that helped get the deal over the line with UK regulators. But what does it all mean? Ubisoft will now control where Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard games show up on cloud gaming services, with the exception of EU countries and the various cloud gaming deals Microsoft signed previously./news/vergecast-galaxy-s10e-review-and-spotify-vs-apple.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vergecast-galaxy-s10e-review-and-spotify-vs-apple.htmlGoogle has released the first beta of Android Q, and Natt Garun has The Verge’s first look. Natt joins Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller on this week’s Vergecast to discuss it. Natt also reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy S10E, the smallest of the company’s recently released S10 family. How does it compare to the rest of the lineup? Listen to find out. Continuing our ongoing antitrust coverage from our last couple of episodes, the crew analyzes this week’s complaint from Spotify about Apple’s 30 percent cut from subscriptions in the App Store./news/verizon-plus-play-will-bundle-customer-subscriptions-for-netflix-peloton-disney-plus-and-more.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/verizon-plus-play-will-bundle-customer-subscriptions-for-netflix-peloton-disney-plus-and-more.htmlVerizon announced Thursday that it’s launching a new platform in partnership with Netflix, Peloton, Disney Plus, and other streamers as a hub for customers to “discover, purchase and manage some of their favorite subscriptions.” Called Plus Play, the platform will launch with a select group of customers and brands at the end of the month, with a wider launch later this year, the company said in a news release. Plus Play will centralize streaming subscription services with no additional cost to Verizon subscribers./news/walmart-s-onn-4k-pro-google-tv-streaming-box-is-now-available.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/walmart-s-onn-4k-pro-google-tv-streaming-box-is-now-available.htmlWalmart has listed its new “Pro” Google TV streaming box / smart speaker combo a week after the product leaked into the real world and intermittently appeared on the store site. The new Onn 4K Pro, which retails for $49.88, comes with new features, including a built-in Google Assistant smart speaker, Dolby Vision plus Atmos, HDR, and a remote with a big blue “Free TV” button to subtly point you to Google’s FAST channels as well as a customizable star button that can launch an app or change TV inputs./news/wd-refused-to-answer-our-questions-about-its-self-wiping-sandisk-ssds.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wd-refused-to-answer-our-questions-about-its-self-wiping-sandisk-ssds.htmlEleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital’s head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge: We have now received a response from Western Digital head of PR Robin Schultz, but nothing about the company’s stance has changed. Schultz repeatedly refused to answer any of our questions. Her statement doesn’t even contain an acknowledgment of the issue and has no specific timeline for any real answers. The only reason we’re printing Western Digital’s statement is so you can see it for yourself:/news/what-the-eu-s-new-usb-c-rules-mean-for-the-iphone.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-the-eu-s-new-usb-c-rules-mean-for-the-iphone.htmlThis week, European Union lawmakers agreed on new proposals to force manufacturers of everything from smartphones and headphones to digital cameras and tablets to use the same universal charging port: USB Type-C. The plan is for the new rules to come into effect by fall 2024, after which these devices that charge using a wired cable will need to do so via a built-in USB-C port. The single biggest impact of this legislation is likely to land on Apple’s iPhone./news/what-would-you-do-with-this-cool-diy-haptic-knob.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-would-you-do-with-this-cool-diy-haptic-knob.htmlSometimes you come across a DIY project and immediately start figuring out ways you could use it in your life. That’s what happened to us here at The Verge when someone dropped the SmartKnob View, a proof-of-concept project by engineer Scott Bezek, into our Slack chat. While it doesn’t seem like it’s the type of project most people could go out and build themselves at the moment (more on that later), it’s easy to imagine a future where it’s available as a kit, or where somebody turns it into an actual product./news/why-amazon-beating-netflix-to-a-best-picture-oscar-nomination-matters.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-amazon-beating-netflix-to-a-best-picture-oscar-nomination-matters.htmlAmazon and Netflix are not only rivals when it comes to original streaming projects: now more than ever, the platforms are at loggerheads during awards season. That rivalry reached a new pitch today: Manchester by the Sea, a critical darling with numerous accolades to its name, is now a Best Picture nominee at the 89th annual Academy Awards. The distinction puts it a notch above Netflix when it comes to a certain kind of Hollywood prestige, and will likely have real ramifications as competition continues to heat up in years ahead./news/why-spotify-wrapped-2023-might-think-burlington-vt-is-your-sound-town.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-spotify-wrapped-2023-might-think-burlington-vt-is-your-sound-town.htmlWhy Spotify Wrapped 2023 might think Burlington, VT, is your Sound Town. Or maybe it’s Berkely, CA, or Cambridge, MA, or some other college town. Enough people were confused about Spotify’s latest Wrapped to spur articles in the New York Times and Washington Post, and Spotify is extending 2023’s audio recap season by explaining how they were assigned: Sound Towns selected for eligible users are made up of two factors: a user’s most-streamed artists of the year, and the way in which those artists are streamed in other cities./news/youtuber-trains-ai-bot-on-4chan-s-pile-o-bile-with-entirely-predictable-results.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtuber-trains-ai-bot-on-4chan-s-pile-o-bile-with-entirely-predictable-results.htmlA YouTuber named Yannic Kilcher has sparked controversy in the AI world after training a bot on posts collected from 4chan’s Politically Incorrect board (otherwise known as /pol/). The board is 4chan’s most popular and well-known for its toxicity (even in the anything-goes environment of 4chan). Posters share racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic messages, which the bot — named GPT-4chan after the popular series of GPT language models made by research lab OpenAI — learned to imitate./news/youtube-s-ad-blocker-crackdown-now-includes-third-party-apps.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-s-ad-blocker-crackdown-now-includes-third-party-apps.htmlYouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile. In an update on Monday, YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that reads, “The following content is not available on this app.” Last year, YouTube “launched a global effort” to encourage users to allow ads while watching videos or upgrade to YouTube Premium. It also began disabling videos for users with an ad blocking extension enabled./news/looking-the-movie-is-the-perfect-ending-to-an-imperfect-show.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/looking-the-movie-is-the-perfect-ending-to-an-imperfect-show.htmlIf Looking’s two-season run on HBO left any kind of mark on the TV world, it’s one that has more to do with the show’s languid pace than its ballyhooed homosexuality. Has any other narrative-driven show ever felt so unhurried? It had more in common with Chef’s Table — in-depth character studies, stunning cinematography, tons of food — than Girls or your favorite serial rom-com. Its best episodes, like the first-season daydream in which Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Richie (Raúl Castillo) explore their nascent relationship, were praised because they felt so meditative and organic./news/randy-pitchford-on-battleborn-the-new-genre-busting-game-from-the-makers-of-borderlands.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/randy-pitchford-on-battleborn-the-new-genre-busting-game-from-the-makers-of-borderlands.htmlThis week, I caught up with the person responsible for safely steering the Battleborn ship from here to its February 9th release date, Gearbox president and CEO Randy Pitchford. Despite his lofty title, Pitchford is very obviously a game designer first and foremost, and his careful study of what makes games fun to play is immediately apparent. Battleborn has a comical aesthetic and doesn't take itself too seriously, but the design underpinning the game is the very opposite: thoughtful, deliberate, and beguilingly sophisticated./news/myst-is-getting-a-tv-series.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/myst-is-getting-a-tv-series.htmlMyst, one of the most popular PC games ever, is about to make a comeback on television and computer screens. Legendary TV & Digital Media — the smaller-screen arm of Legendary Pictures, which has co-produced big-screen trilogies like The Hangover and Christopher Nolan's Batman movies — has signed a deal to make a dramatic series with Cyan Worlds, the company behind the beloved point-and-click adventure game from the 1990s. The deal also includes plans to create a new video game that will accompany the story told in the show, and considering that Myst was followed by multiple successful sequels and novels, there should be plenty of material to pull from./news/the-wizard-of-oz-coming-to-theaters-in-3d-and-imax-in-september.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-wizard-of-oz-coming-to-theaters-in-3d-and-imax-in-september.htmlJurassic Park isn't the only classic film getting the 3D re-release treatment this year — a 3D remastered version of The Wizard of Oz is also coming to theaters in September. The theatrical run will only last for a week, kicking off on September 20th, and will be available on both 3D and IMAX screens across North America. But if you want to see the yellow brick road in three dimensions without heading to the theater, a Blu-ray version will be released soon after on October 1st./news/titanfall-player-becomes-first-in-the-world-to-reach-1-million-xbox-live-gamerscore.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/titanfall-player-becomes-first-in-the-world-to-reach-1-million-xbox-live-gamerscore.htmlXbox Live has an undisputed champion. Ray Cox, better known online as Stallion83, has just become the first person to crack an Xbox Live Gamerscore of 1 million points. He did it playing Titanfall, the blockbuster first-person shooter released earlier this week, and live-streamed his efforts via Twitch.tv. Xbox's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb was first to congratulate Cox on his achievement... and Achievements. Gamerscore is earned by performing certain feats, known as Achievements, in Xbox 360 and Xbox One games./news/100-off-an-xbox-one-console-with-red-dead-redemption-2-deal-expires-today-plus-other-tech-deals.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/100-off-an-xbox-one-console-with-red-dead-redemption-2-deal-expires-today-plus-other-tech-deals.htmlBlack Friday isn’t quite here yet, but we wouldn’t blame you for assuming it was late November already given the amount of deals that have started to pop up. Target has unleashed its Black Friday ad, and we expect others to follow suit shortly. Before things get too hectic with shopping for the holidays, there are a some really good deals to check out — a few of which will expire pretty soon./news/20-things-we-learned-from-the-epic-v-google-trial.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/20-things-we-learned-from-the-epic-v-google-trial.htmlI have spent 15 days reporting live from the Epic v. Google trial: an antitrust dispute over whether Google's Android app store is an unfair monopoly. I’ve watched a parade of witnesses go by, including Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We’re now in a weeklong break before both parties return on December 11th to make their closing arguments, after which a jury will decide who’s right. I’ve chronicled every major thrust, parry, and riposte leading up to that in our Verge StoryStream, writing nearly 600 dispatches from the courtroom so far./news/94-percent-of-t-mobile-upgraders-dump-blackberry-as-ceo-complaints-backfire.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/94-percent-of-t-mobile-upgraders-dump-blackberry-as-ceo-complaints-backfire.htmlBlackBerry's CEO, John Chen, blasted T-Mobile last month after the carrier launched an apparently innocuous promotion that would reward customers for switching from a BlackBerry phone to the iPhone. In response to the outrage, and in a move that appeared designed to appease Chen and his company, T-Mobile introduced a deal that would offer money off a phone upgrade to T-Mobile customers with BlackBerry phones. Those switching from BlackBerry to another manufacturer's device would receive $200, while those moving from an older BlackBerry to a newer model would receive $250./news/a-makeup-wizard-transformed-himself-into-game-of-thrones-characters-just-for-fun.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-makeup-wizard-transformed-himself-into-game-of-thrones-characters-just-for-fun.htmlMeet Paolo Ballesteros, who hosts the Filipino talkshow Eat Bulaga! and whose name rhymes with "Westeros" in an odd coincidence. He can transform himself into an uncanny lookalike for just about any female character on Game of Thrones. Ballesteros says he begins the process by drawing the characters' features onto his face so that he can visualize the end product. Then he wipes the outlines off and goes back in with primer, foundation, eyeshadow, and contouring makeup./news/ai-is-killing-the-old-web-and-the-new-web-struggles-to-be-born.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ai-is-killing-the-old-web-and-the-new-web-struggles-to-be-born.htmlIn recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites./news/amazon-bought-amazonsucks-com-so-you-can-t.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-bought-amazonsucks-com-so-you-can-t.htmlSomeone at Amazon's legal department has the best job: dreaming up anti-Amazon URLs and then buying them before anyone else can. Alex Shephard showed the fruits of this unknown worker's labor on Twitter today. Screwamazon.com, amazonstinks.com, and amazonsucks.com also belong to the retail giant. It's common practice for companies to do this, but whoever's in charge at Amazon of snapping up web addresses before they can be used by disgruntled customers hasn't covered all the bases — there's still plenty of room to start your own Amazon-bashing site if you get a bit creative./news/amazon-builds-olympus-ai-model-to-compete-with-anthropic-openai.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-builds-olympus-ai-model-to-compete-with-anthropic-openai.htmlThis week, Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic. The additional $2.75 billion invested is Amazon’s largest check ever into another company and yet another signal of how critical the development of large language models has become to Big Tech.  The logic is simple: Amazon needs to offer models through AWS that compete with the OpenAI-powered offerings of its arch cloud rival, Microsoft, and Anthropic is the best alternative that exists./news/amazon-fire-hd-8-plus-2022-review-a-fine-tablet-if-you-re-subscribed-to-prime.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-fire-hd-8-plus-2022-review-a-fine-tablet-if-you-re-subscribed-to-prime.htmlLike other Amazon-branded tablets, the Fire HD 8 Plus tablet is a nice little device if you’re heavily invested in the e-commerce giant’s ecosystem. It comes with everything you need to manage Alexa-enabled devices, all while you get your fill of Amazon-branded entertainment with the preinstalled Prime Video, Amazon Music, Kindle, and Audible apps. 6Verge Score Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2022)$119.99 The GoodPretty affordableUSB-C and wireless chargingDecent battery lifeA handy tablet for anyone with Prime and Amazon devicesThe BadLock screen ads are not coolPoor camera qualityLack of Google apps, like YouTubeTinny-sounding speakerHow we rate and review productsThe tablet comes in two flavors: the standard Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 8 Plus, as well as versions with and without ads./news/amazon-s-fallout-tv-series-all-of-the-news-and-trailers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-fallout-tv-series-all-of-the-news-and-trailers.htmlGet a first look at the big iron on his hip. Vanity Fair has released some first-look photos for the Amazon-produced live action Fallout series due out in April of next year, and with The Game Awards next week, we just might get a trailer soon. Fallout stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) as Lucy, a vault dweller venturing out into the nuclear devastated world of ghouls, robots, and Roman empire cosplayers. It also stars Walton Goggins (Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers) as The Ghoul, a hundred-year-old irradiated walking corpse who, according to Fallout’s prosthetics designer Vincent Van Dyke, needed to be both gruesome and hot./news/amd-s-next-generation-laptop-processors-are-available-now.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amd-s-next-generation-laptop-processors-are-available-now.htmlAMD is marking the occasion of Computex Taipei by launching its next-generation laptop processors. The seventh-generation Bristol Ridge A-series APUs — that's AMD parlance for "Accelerated Processing Units" that include a CPU and GPU on the same chip — feature CPU cores based on the new Excavator architecture alongside Radeon graphics. The FX chips are at the high end of the range, while the A12 and A9 are positioned as competitors to Intel's Core i5 and i3 processors, respectively./news/apple-calls-a12-bionic-chip-the-smartest-and-most-powerful-chip-ever-in-a-smartphone.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-calls-a12-bionic-chip-the-smartest-and-most-powerful-chip-ever-in-a-smartphone.htmlApple has unveiled its latest chip for the new batch of iPhones: the A12 Bionic. The company says it’s the industry’s first ever 7nm chip and Phil Schiller, on stage in Cupertino, introduced it as the “the smartest, most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.” He’s probably right. It has a six-core CPU (with two “performance” cores and four “efficiency” cores), a four-core GPU (which is up to 50 percent faster than the A11’s), and an updated Neural Engine, a special part of the chip designed to handle AI tasks./news/apple-s-magsafe-duo-charger-is-down-to-its-lowest-price-yet-at-best-buy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-magsafe-duo-charger-is-down-to-its-lowest-price-yet-at-best-buy.htmlAt $129, Apple’s MagSafe Duo charger is an expensive accessory. But if you are looking to buy this charger at a more reasonable price, Best Buy has knocked $29 off the MagSafe Duo today, bringing the price down to $100. The MagSafe duo is a 2-in-1 charger that allows you to wirelessly charge select iPhones, Apple Watches, certain AirPods wireless charging cases, and other Qi-certified devices. If you plan to buy this charger, keep in mind that it does not include a USB-C charging brick, which you will need to buy separately./news/apple-s-new-freeform-app-gives-you-and-up-to-99-friends-an-infinite-canvas.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-new-freeform-app-gives-you-and-up-to-99-friends-an-infinite-canvas.htmlIt’s not every day that Apple releases a brand new app, but you’ll likely notice a new icon in your library after updating to iOS and iPadOS 16.2 or macOS 13.1. On Tuesday, Apple launched the Freeform app, which its press release describes as “an infinite canvas” for “creative brainstorming and collaboration.” In short, it’s a virtual whiteboard you can use with friends — so we tried it out to see how well it handled that task./news/apple-s-night-shift-is-no-match-for-the-complexities-of-sleep.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-night-shift-is-no-match-for-the-complexities-of-sleep.htmlApple’s Night Shift feature, which it says “may help you get a better night’s sleep,” doesn’t appear to live up to its claim, according to new research. Because exposure to blue light affects the regulation of sleep cycles, the hope is that Night Shift, which filters blue light from screens after sunset, will make falling asleep easier. But as a recent study shows, sleep is weird and complicated, and a single phone feature likely won’t do much to combat sleepless nights./news/apple-s-port-changing-timeline-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-port-changing-timeline-the-verge.htmlIf the rumors are true, Apple will drop the more-than-decade-old Lightning port from its phones and adopt USB-C today. That means: it’s time for iPhone buyers to purchase some new cables. Apple has for years used USB-C on its MacBooks and iPads, but it’s only now bringing them to iPhones to comply with European regulations. Android users might already have a bunch of USB-C cables in their cars, bags, kitchen counters, and bedroom side tables, but year-to-year iPhone upgraders probably won’t./news/apple-s-rejection-of-hey-calendar-app-renews-an-old-fight.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-rejection-of-hey-calendar-app-renews-an-old-fight.htmlThe new year was supposed to begin with a brand spanking new calendar app. But roughly 72 hours after the premium email service Hey announced its latest feature — an integrated calendar — co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson received some unwelcome news from Apple: it was rejecting a standalone iOS app for Hey Calendar, because non-paying users couldn’t do anything when they opened the app up. New users can’t sign up for Hey Calendar directly on the app — Basecamp, which makes Hey, makes users first sign up through a browser./news/apple-s-strange-planet-animated-series-starts-streaming-in-august.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-strange-planet-animated-series-starts-streaming-in-august.htmlHumans: a popular online comic strip is being adapted into a new format for your amusement. And by that I mean that Apple TV Plus is turning Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet comic into an animated series, with Dan Harmon on board as co-creator and executive producer. It’s described as an “adult” animated series, and the first episode will premiere on August 9th. The comics follow a pair of aliens struggling to understand human life and customs and describing things in, well, alien ways./news/artist-creates-awesome-vhs-boxes-for-stranger-things-rogue-one-and-other-genre-flicks.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/artist-creates-awesome-vhs-boxes-for-stranger-things-rogue-one-and-other-genre-flicks.htmlA few weeks before Halloween 2015, theIAmSteelberg account launched on Instagram with a bundle of photos a novel art form: the VHS box. Steelberg redesigns the grimy 1980s movie sleeves for recent genre films. The project is a charming cultural ouroboros, a nostalgic repackaging of modern films, many of which are sequels, reboots, or homages to the films of the VHS era. Mad Max: Fury Road and J.J. Abram’s Star Trek look comfortable on a VHS boxes because their predecessors were printed on the format, those dusty cardboard sleeves stuffed onto the craft-shop display racks of countless family dens./news/august-arrives-in-europe-via-accessory-module-for-yale-s-smart-locks.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/august-arrives-in-europe-via-accessory-module-for-yale-s-smart-locks.htmlThe August smart lock platform is coming to Europe via a new accessory module for sister company Yale’s range of smart locks. We first saw the module released in the US last year for Yale’s Assure smart locks, but now the module is coming to Europe where it will work with Yale’s Keyless, Conexis, Doorman, and Monoblock smart locks. Although it was called the “Connected by August” module in the US, the accessory will be called the “Yale Access Module” in Europe./news/barnes-noble-is-reinventing-itself-but-not-its-e-readers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/barnes-noble-is-reinventing-itself-but-not-its-e-readers.htmlMy first e-reader wasn’t a Kindle, it was a Nook. It had a 6-inch 167 ppi E-Ink display and a tiny, terrible, but exciting LED display underneath. There was a headphone jack, wi-fi, and a music player built right in. Coming out a year before the iPad, it felt electric. It felt like Star Trek. It felt like the perfect bridge device between my smartphone and my computer. But soon Amazon turned its considerable might, and ability to subsidize its ebook business with all its other more lucrative businesses, against Barnes & Noble, and as it raced Amazon to the cheapest e-reader Barnes & Noble lost whatever identity its e-reader division was developing./news/basketball-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-sports.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/basketball-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-sports.htmlBasketball is coming to Nintendo Switch Sports. Nintendo Switch Sports launched with a handful of games you’d kind of expect, like bowling, badminton, and swordplay, but after a free update dropping later this year, you’ll finally be able to shoot some hoops as well. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3xyhI5ra2pwYWWFcnvBmqqknaSXrq24jKKqZpuforavs4ytpmammaPBprrDqGSsr5mpsKl50qmmq6yj/news/biden-really-really-doesn-t-want-china-to-flood-the-us-with-cheap-evs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/biden-really-really-doesn-t-want-china-to-flood-the-us-with-cheap-evs.htmlWho’s afraid of China’s electric vehicles? President Joe Biden. The president is preparing to announce higher tariffs on imported Chinese EVs, effectively closing out the possibility that the country will be able to afford to import its much cheaper and, in many cases, more desirable plug-in vehicles to the United States. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration will announce plans to roughly quadruple tariffs, to 100 percent from the current 25 percent, as well as tack on an additional 2./news/biosphere-s-first-trailer-turns-the-end-of-the-world-into-a-bromance.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/biosphere-s-first-trailer-turns-the-end-of-the-world-into-a-bromance.htmlThere are plenty of movies about the last people on Earth, but — based on the first teaser trailer — Biosphere might be among the most charming. The directorial debut for Mel Eslyn, Biosphere stars Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass as humanity’s sole remaining survivors, who also happen to be best pals living together inside of the titular biosphere. It looks very cozy. They even play video games. Things are going well until, well, I’ll let the official synopsis do the work:/news/blackberry-motion-review-moving-backwards.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blackberry-motion-review-moving-backwards.htmlThe defining characteristic of BlackBerry smartphones is that they have physical keyboards with lots of little buttons that you can peck at with your fingers to write a message, compose an email, or perform a Google search. Not every BlackBerry phone has one of these keyboards, but the only ones that anyone remembers do. The new BlackBerry Motion, which was released late last year but just arrived in the US a few weeks ago, does not have a physical keyboard./news/bringing-your-hue-smart-lights-into-matter-may-not-be-a-good-move.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bringing-your-hue-smart-lights-into-matter-may-not-be-a-good-move.htmlI’ve used Philips Hue smart lights for close to a decade. The company’s colorful bulbs, dimmer switches, and motion sensors have been among the most reliable, responsive smart devices in my home. Hue’s stuff is expensive, but due to its bridge and Zigbee mesh network, the lights, remotes, and sensors don’t have to rely on congested Wi-Fi channels to communicate. Hue also works with every platform. I’ve had Hue lights working with Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, IFTTT, and more, often simultaneously, and it’s been rock solid./news/california-dmv-suspends-cruise-s-robotaxi-permit-effective-immediately.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/california-dmv-suspends-cruise-s-robotaxi-permit-effective-immediately.htmlThe California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s robotaxi permit “effective immediately.” The General Motors-backed company had recently been involved in several safety incidents, most recently a hit-and-run by another driver that resulted in a pedestrian trapped under one of Cruise’s driverless vehicles. Among the reasons cited for the suspension: Cruise’s vehicles “are not safe for public operation”; the company allegedly “misrepresented” the safety of its vehicles; Cruise’s vehicles could pose “an unreasonable risk to the public”; and permits can be revoked “if a manufacturer is engaging in a practice in such a manner that immediate suspension is required for the safety of persons on a public road./news/california-has-banned-political-deepfakes-during-election-season.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/california-has-banned-political-deepfakes-during-election-season.htmlCalifornia has passed a law meant to prevent altered “deepfake” videos from influencing elections, in a plan that has raised free speech concerns. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 730, which makes it a crime to distribute audio or video that gives a false, damaging impression of a politician’s words or actions. The law applies to any candidate within 60 days of an election, but includes some exceptions./news/canon-powershot-s100-review-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/canon-powershot-s100-review-the-verge.htmlAs I mentioned before, most of the S100’s upgrades over the S95 are internal, and evolutionary rather than game-changing. The S95 had a larger-than-average sensor (though still small compared to DSLRs or Micro Four Thirds cams), and 3.8x optical zoom on a bright, f/2.0 lens that extended from 28-105mm. The S100 bumps up to 5x zoom on a 24-125 lens (still f/2.0), and swaps the CCD sensor for a Canon-optimized CMOS./news/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-is-releasing-photos-of-an-early-star-wars-script.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-is-releasing-photos-of-an-early-star-wars-script.htmlA lot of last-minute changes went into making Star Wars the beloved series we all know today and not a potentially stranger adventure featuring a hero named Luke Starkiller and a weapon called a lazersword. Fans of the series may already know a lot about what was inside the early drafts of what came to be A New Hope, but now Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew is giving the world a new look: he's posting photos of his own copy of The Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as written in March 1976 — very shortly before filming began./news/coinbase-is-erratically-overcharging-some-users-and-emptying-their-bank-accounts.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/coinbase-is-erratically-overcharging-some-users-and-emptying-their-bank-accounts.htmlA growing number of Coinbase customers are complaining that the cryptocurrency exchange withdrew unauthorized money out of their accounts. In some cases, this drained their linked bank accounts below zero, resulting in overdraft charges. In a typical anecdote posted on Reddit, one user said they purchased Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin for a total of $300 on February 9th. A few days later, the transactions repeated five times for a total of $1,500, even though the user had not made any more purchases./news/cold-weather-doesn-t-disprove-climate-change-donald-trump.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cold-weather-doesn-t-disprove-climate-change-donald-trump.htmlDangerously cold temperatures are hitting the Eastern US this week, prompting President Donald Trump to tweet: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming.” But scientists say that the record low temperatures and record high snowfalls aren’t proof that global warming is a hoax: they’re precisely the weather you’d expect in a warming world./news/corsair-grows-its-roster-of-streaming-brands-with-visuals-by-impulse.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/corsair-grows-its-roster-of-streaming-brands-with-visuals-by-impulse.htmlToday, gaming peripheral brand Corsair is announcing that it has purchased streaming visuals company Visuals by Impulse (VBI), which it’s organizing under its other streaming brand, Elgato. If reading that makes your eyes cross, don’t worry — all it means is that some of the biggest names in streaming technology have come together under Corsair’s roof. Think of the consolidation like a one-stop shop. It’s a smart move on Corsair’s part, too./news/cox-wants-gamers-to-pay-15-more-for-elite-internet-that-isn-t-faster.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cox-wants-gamers-to-pay-15-more-for-elite-internet-that-isn-t-faster.htmlInternet provider Cox is offering a $15 / month service that it dubs Cox Elite Gamer, an internet bill add-on that the company claims will optimize the connection between players and video game servers for hugely popular titles like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Overwatch. For customers who sign up for the service, Cox says it will seek out the most efficient path to a game’s server. Theoretically, this could result in reduced ping and a lower latency, which is a huge factor in any shooter like those mentioned above./news/crackberry-withdrawal-company-collapse-leaves-users-struggling-to-switch.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/crackberry-withdrawal-company-collapse-leaves-users-struggling-to-switch.htmlOn September 20th, BlackBerry broke some very bad news to its users. After a disastrous quarter, the company was cutting staff and retreating from the consumer market to focus on enterprise, something CEO Thorsten Heins called "difficult but necessary." BlackBerry’s days of competing with Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft were over. The business world is still struggling with the news, but it’s been equally hard for the company’s core of loyal fans, who have stuck with the platform through years of troubled launches and ecosystem decline./news/crew-members-on-jacob-wohl-s-predator-dc-report-assaults-during-filming.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/crew-members-on-jacob-wohl-s-predator-dc-report-assaults-during-filming.htmlRight-wing activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are known for political stunts, including bizarre attempts to apparently engineer sex scandals around high-profile political figures. They’re facing criminal charges in multiple states over an alleged election robocalling scheme. But in recent months, employees say the pair have also been responsible for a bizarre and dangerous environment on the set of their Washington, DC-based imitation of To Catch a Predator. Three former Wohl and Burkman employees went on the record with The Verge to speak about the third season of Predator DC, a web series that promised to ensnare high-profile sexual predators with sting operations around the DC metropolitan area./news/dark-arts-this-is-what-fear-doubt-and-anxiety-look-like.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dark-arts-this-is-what-fear-doubt-and-anxiety-look-like.htmlFor the past two months, a pair of California-based artists have been helping people — and each other — with cathartic illustrations and poetry on their site, Problem Glyphs. It started almost as a joke between friends, a play on the Tumblr tradition of "ask memes," but quickly morphed into a way to help the the anonymous lost of Tumblr. The concept is simple: anyone can send their issues to Eliza Gauger, the illustrator behind the site./news/dark-horse-is-losing-its-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-comics.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dark-horse-is-losing-its-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-comics.htmlEarlier this summer, Disney got the approval it needed to move forward with its plans to acquire 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets, allowing it to add franchises like Alien, X-Men, and others to its vast library of holdings. Now there’s an indication that that transfer is underway: Fox is pulling Dark Horse’s license to publish Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics. Joss Whedon recently spoke with Comic Book Resources about a new comic adaptation of his Dr./news/dji-ronin-sc-review-an-accessible-gimbal-for-mirrorless-cameras.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dji-ronin-sc-review-an-accessible-gimbal-for-mirrorless-cameras.htmlAlthough it’s mostly known for drones, Chinese giant DJI also has an extensive line of camera accessories. The latest is a camera stabilizer called the Ronin SC. It is similar to last year’s Ronin S, but it’s built specifically for smaller mirrorless cameras and aimed at content creators. If you’re one of those, this might be the perfect gimbal for you. Gimbals used to be the kind of accessory reserved only for professional video makers and their massive professional cameras./news/don-t-invite-toad-to-your-holiday-party.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/don-t-invite-toad-to-your-holiday-party.htmlOh, Nintendo of America. You sweet summer child. I really appreciate your efforts for a cute Toad-centric Twitter question sesh to celebrate another Mario Party game, but things have taken a dark turn. As if you were the second coming of Andrew WK, you solicited fans for questions about parties. But your request has been manipulated into something else. Fans are going straight for the deep stuff; the hard, prying, existential questions that we all ask ourselves deep in the pits of despair./news/downpour-is-a-new-app-that-turns-your-photos-into-games.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/downpour-is-a-new-app-that-turns-your-photos-into-games.htmlIn the past, when Lunar New Year rolled around, I would occasionally make a rude bingo card to ease the generational friction created by many disparate relatives suddenly spending too much time together. I didn’t share the bingo cards with everyone, but they were a small, silly way to let off steam and commiserate with like-minded victims enduring hours-long reunion dinners and polite family visits with very difficult people. This year, I was armed with something far superior: I made a (fictional) choose-your-own-adventure game in Downpour called Dragon Me To Hell that involved communing with my grandmother’s late dog, possibly committing a small crime, and escaping to our freedom./news/dreamworks-acquires-felix-the-cat-for-a-fashion-brand-not-a-movie.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dreamworks-acquires-felix-the-cat-for-a-fashion-brand-not-a-movie.htmlDreamWorks Animation has acquired the rights to the iconic 1920s cartoon character Felix the Cat for an undisclosed sum, adding the cat to its library of classic characters including Lassie, Waldo, and Casper the Friendly Ghost. You'd think that would mean the animation house is planning a Felix film or at least an appearance on the newly-launched DreamWorksTV YouTube channel. While there may be plans to reanimate Felix the Cat eventually, for now CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has something else in mind./news/eating-less-meat-is-fine-with-a-majority-of-americans.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/eating-less-meat-is-fine-with-a-majority-of-americans.htmlMore than nine in ten Americans “are willing” to eat more fruits and vegetables, and more than half are open to giving up some red meat and chowing down on more plant-based meat alternatives, according to a new survey of more than a thousand adults in the US by Yale and the nonprofit Earth Day Network.   Why aren’t there more greens on Americans’ plates? Sixty-four percent of survey participants said it was as simple as nobody ever asking them to eat more plant-based foods./news/ecoflow-brings-solar-power-to-any-home-even-apartments-and-rentals.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ecoflow-brings-solar-power-to-any-home-even-apartments-and-rentals.htmlIt doesn’t matter if you own a house or rent an apartment — EcoFlow now has a home solar solution for you with its PowerStream and PowerOcean systems. Both are designed to lower your energy costs while providing emergency backup power when the grid fails — which is increasingly common as climate change fuels violent weather. The only catch is that these are Europe-only solutions — for now — because EcoFlow has already addressed the US market./news/ed-sheeran-is-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-go-to-serenade-squirtles-in-sunglasses.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ed-sheeran-is-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-go-to-serenade-squirtles-in-sunglasses.htmlNiantic has released details of Pokémon Go’s upcoming Ed Sheeran collaboration in a new blog post, a little over a day after first teasing the surprising crossover. The event kicks off on November 22nd at 2pm ET (11am PT), and will run for a little over a week until November 30th. The main feature appears to be a performance of some sort from Ed Sheeran, though what form this will take (a pre-recorded video?/news/elizabeth-warren-s-dna-test-doesn-t-prove-she-s-native-american.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elizabeth-warren-s-dna-test-doesn-t-prove-she-s-native-american.htmlOver the weekend, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released the results of a genetic test suggesting she does have some Native American ancestry. Warren, who is likely to run for president in 2020, probably hopes that the results will stop President Trump and his supporters from mocking her by calling her “Pocahontas.” But even if these particular attacks stop, the test certainly doesn’t prove that she’s Native American. There is no DNA test for being Native American because DNA and genetic ancestry are not the same as culture and identity./news/elon-musk-asks-for-help-to-rewrite-trump-s-immigration-ban.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-asks-for-help-to-rewrite-trump-s-immigration-ban.htmlYesterday, Elon Musk responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding an immigration ban, saying that it was “not the best way to address the country’s challenges.” Following up with a Tweet today, he urged his followers to read the order, and asked for specific amendments, saying that he would “seek advisory council consensus” and would present the recommendations to the president. When someone suggested that the order be withdrawn, Musk agreed with a user who commented that the order would likely not be recalled, and that Musk was trying to make the most of the situation:/news/elon-musk-just-changed-twitter-s-logo-again-sort-of.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-just-changed-twitter-s-logo-again-sort-of.htmlAfter replacing Twitter’s little blue bird with an X logo, Elon Musk changed it again. On Tuesday afternoon, Musk replaced Twitter’s X logo with one that has slightly thicker lines — but then said he would reverse the change. “I don’t like the thicker bars, so reverting,” Musk writes on Twitter. “The logo will evolve over time.” You can see how the two logos compare in the image embedded above./news/ev-charging-in-america-all-the-news-about-building-a-new-electric-car-infrastructure-page-4.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ev-charging-in-america-all-the-news-about-building-a-new-electric-car-infrastructure-page-4.htmlElectrify America is adding support for Tesla’s NACS electric vehicle charging plug, which the company has dubbed the North American Charging Standard. On Thursday, the company said it will work toward bringing the NACS connector to “existing and future” charging stations by 2025. This doesn’t mean Electrify America is getting rid of the Combined Charging System (CCS), a standard that’s used by EVs from automakers like General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, and others./news/evercade-vs-review-a-retro-console-that-turns-your-living-room-into-an-arcade.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/evercade-vs-review-a-retro-console-that-turns-your-living-room-into-an-arcade.htmlThe original Evercade was an extremely niche device. It posited a future where dedicated video game handhelds not only thrived, but even still used cartridges. In a world where there are so many ways to play retro games — subscription services, compilations, emulation — it offered something very different. It didn’t make sense for everyone, but it did its job very well. Now the family has grown with the Evercade VS./news/exec-at-baidu-backed-ev-company-charged-with-stealing-apple-s-self-driving-car-tech.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/exec-at-baidu-backed-ev-company-charged-with-stealing-apple-s-self-driving-car-tech.htmlA former Apple engineer and the executive at an electric vehicle startup owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu has been charged with stealing Apple’s self-driving technology, as reported earlier by CNBC. On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice indicted and charged Weibao Wang with the “theft and attempted theft” of Apple’s autonomous driving tech. As noted by the indictment, Wang started working at Apple as a software engineer in 2016, where he signed a confidentiality agreement and worked on the company’s secretive autonomous driving project./news/facebook-hires-former-vine-head-to-work-for-new-experimental-app-division.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-hires-former-vine-head-to-work-for-new-experimental-app-division.htmlFormer Vine head Jason Toff is leaving Google to join Facebook, where he’ll be “starting up a new initiative under the recently formed NPE team.” Facebook just announced its new NPE (it stands for “new product experimentation”) team last week, as a brand that will be developing experimental apps for consumers who are still slightly removed from the core Facebook brand. Toff had previously left Vine (and Twitter) back in 2016 to join Google, where he worked on VR projects and later at Google’s in-house Area 120 incubator (which is pretty similar in concept to Facebook’s NPE team)./news/facebook-increases-privacy-on-all-new-posts-by-default.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-increases-privacy-on-all-new-posts-by-default.htmlSince 2009, when Facebook introduced the ability to post statuses and photos publicly for the whole world to see, posting publicly has been the default. Today, Facebook is changing the default privacy settings for new users to "Friends only." This means that when anyone signs up for Facebook, their posts will by default only be viewable by people they've added as friends. To many of us, the distinction might be obvious, but Facebook is today taking a few more steps to make sure that even its longest-standing users know exactly who they're posting to./news/facebook-says-it-won-t-store-data-in-certain-countries.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-says-it-won-t-store-data-in-certain-countries.htmlThere’s an important difference between providing a service in a country and storing people’s data there. As we build our infrastructure around the world, we’ve chosen not to build data centers in countries that have a track record of violating human rights like privacy or freedom of expression. If we build data centers and store sensitive data in these countries, rather than just caching non-sensitive data, it could make it easier for those governments to take people’s information./news/farewell-to-3g-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/farewell-to-3g-the-verge.htmlIt’s well and truly curtains for 3G, one of the key technologies that helped usher in the age of the smartphone. Throughout December, Verizon has been disconnecting its customers who were still using the tech, cutting off their phones’ ability to use data, make calls, and send texts. It was the last major US carrier to do so — AT&T turned off its 3G service in February, and T-Mobile started winding its old networks down the month after./news/figma-s-colorful-macro-pad-aims-to-make-life-easier-for-designers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/figma-s-colorful-macro-pad-aims-to-make-life-easier-for-designers.htmlDesign software company Figma is launching its first dedicated piece of hardware. The Figma Creator Micro is effectively a small mechanical keyboard (aka, a macro pad) equipped with 12 keys and two dials for quick access to your most commonly used Figma tools and shortcuts. It’s up for preorder for $139 starting today, with shipping expected in the first half of next year. The Creator Micro isn’t an entirely original Figma creation./news/fingerprint-face-scan-or-password-what-s-the-best-way-to-unlock-your-galaxy-s8.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fingerprint-face-scan-or-password-what-s-the-best-way-to-unlock-your-galaxy-s8.htmlSamsung’s new Galaxy S8 is hitting stores this week and it’s bringing a lot features, design, and screen along with it. The S8 (and its larger sibling, the S8 Plus) is one of the best phones ever made and the best phone you can buy right now. I suggest you read my full review for more info on them. But if you’ve already ordered or bought an S8, you might be wondering what the best way to unlock it is./news/fisker-s-autonomous-emotion-electric-car-promises-400-miles-of-range.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fisker-s-autonomous-emotion-electric-car-promises-400-miles-of-range.htmlThe Fisker EMotion is the second attempt from a designer of high-end luxury cars to make an electrified performance sedan. But unlike CEO and designer Henrik Fisker’s previous attempt at making a car and car company, the EMotion is trying to leapfrog a whole host of startups. And, at CES, that’s sometimes a tall order. After all, there have been a lot of ambitious claims by various carmakers trying to shake up the automotive world when it comes to self-driving abilities, battery capacity, the use of touchscreens, and even audacious door designs./news/ford-is-helping-dealerships-make-mobile-service-an-option-for-more-customers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ford-is-helping-dealerships-make-mobile-service-an-option-for-more-customers.htmlFord is ramping up its remote service offerings to save customers a trip to their dealership for things like oil changes and recall repairs. The updated program promises that more Ford owners nationwide can get access to complimentary pickup and delivery of their vehicles, as well as mobile repair options. Mobile services from Ford won’t operate from a central location, though. It will still be up to dealerships to offer remote services and to choose what services to provide at a customer’s home or business./news/fortnite-is-copying-apex-legends-best-feature-with-new-reboot-van.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-is-copying-apex-legends-best-feature-with-new-reboot-van.htmlEpic Games’ Fortnite might be the industry-leading battle royale game, but the developer behind the game is still taking smart cues from competitors. Starting next week, Fortnite will introduce what Epic is calling “reboot vans,” or places where players can bring their teammates back to life if they’ve been knocked out of a match for good. The feature is a direct copy of arguably the best feature of competing battle royale hit Apex Legends, which launched two months ago with so-called respawn beacons that let you revive your teammates./news/fortnite-s-volcano-has-erupted-destroying-tilted-towers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-s-volcano-has-erupted-destroying-tilted-towers.htmlOne of Fortnite’s most iconic locations is no more. Today, after a few weeks of teasing, the Fortnite volcano has finally erupted, and it has taken out various parts of the island. Most notably, Tilted Towers — the busiest area of Fortnite’s island — has been almost entirely destroyed. The event started out when a mysterious spaceship-like vault located in Loot Lake opened up, transporting players to a strange new dimension./news/fox-and-dominion-settle-blockbuster-defamation-lawsuit-for-787-million.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fox-and-dominion-settle-blockbuster-defamation-lawsuit-for-787-million.htmlThe Fox News defamation case was not, in fact, as entertaining as Succession. On the first day of trial, Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems, heading off a process that could have aired embarrassing revelations about the news giant. Dominion says the settlement included a $787 million payout — apparently enough to compensate it for months of false claims about the 2020 presidential election. As The New York Times reports, a Delaware judge announced the settlement after a morning of jury selection and just before attorneys’ opening statements./news/game-of-thrones-final-showdown-comes-down-to-what-it-means-to-be-a-good-ruler.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/game-of-thrones-final-showdown-comes-down-to-what-it-means-to-be-a-good-ruler.htmlWhat makes a good ruler? The question has haunted Game of Thrones for years, and with just one episode left, it seems the writers are determined to reach an answer. Or, as Niccolò Machiavelli phrases the problem, Game of Thrones wants to know whether it’s better for a ruler to “be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved?” Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones in general, but especially season 8, episode 5, “The Bells./news/gaming-and-apparel-brand-100-thieves-is-acquiring-higround.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gaming-and-apparel-brand-100-thieves-is-acquiring-higround.htmlIf you aren’t familiar, Higround makes what might be best described as designer gaming peripherals. (To get an idea of what that means, check out Higround’s Instagram, which is filled with pictures of colorful keyboards.) It releases its products in limited drops and says that every one of them has sold out. The company’s work even includes a collaboration with Apple’s Beats, though it had a limited distribution and wasn’t for sale./news/garmin-venu-2-review-sports-and-style.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/garmin-venu-2-review-sports-and-style.htmlIn the great pantheon of gadgets we attach to our wrists, two categories have jumped to the front: smartwatches and sports watches. Smartwatches are sleek and more for the day-to-day, but they typically suffer horrible battery life. Sports watches are tougher, longer-lasting, and, well, sportier, but they tend to be big, bulky, and ugly. The Garmin Venu 2 is an attempt to close the gap between the two product categories — and while it isn’t perfect, it’s the closest anyone has come yet./news/gm-rebrands-its-detroit-hamtramck-plant-as-factory-zero-for-electric-and-autonomous-vehicles.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gm-rebrands-its-detroit-hamtramck-plant-as-factory-zero-for-electric-and-autonomous-vehicles.htmlGeneral Motors is rebranding its Detroit-Hamtramck plant for its future in building electric and autonomous vehicles. The automaker has said it would spend $2.2 billion to retool the factory to swap out the production of engines and transmissions for electric motors and battery packs. The new facility will be called “Factory Zero,” GM said — a reference to the automaker’s corporate mantra of “zero emissions, zero crashes, and zero congestion.”/news/gmail-had-two-outages-this-week-that-delayed-emails.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gmail-had-two-outages-this-week-that-delayed-emails.htmlGmail experienced some issues with delayed emails twice this week: on Thursday and again on Friday. On Thursday at 12:31PM ET, Google wrote on Gmail’s Workspace Status Dashboard that “customers impacted by this issue may see delay in sending the emails,” but at 5:03PM ET, the company posted an update that indicates things were fixed. The Thursday issues affected at least two of us here at The Verge. Earlier that day, emails sent from our personal emails to our work accounts took a while to show up./news/google-confirms-it-s-training-ai-using-scraped-web-data.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-confirms-it-s-training-ai-using-scraped-web-data.htmlOn Monday, Gizmodo spotted that Google updated its privacy policy to disclose that its various AI services, such as Bard and Cloud AI, may be trained on public data that the company has scraped from the web. “Our privacy policy has long been transparent that Google uses publicly available information from the open web to train language models for services like Google Translate,” said Google spokesperson Christa Muldoon to The Verge./news/google-cut-a-deal-with-reddit-for-ai-training-data.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-cut-a-deal-with-reddit-for-ai-training-data.htmlThe collaboration will give Google access to Reddit’s data API, which delivers real-time content from Reddit’s platform. This will provide “Google with an efficient and structured way to access the vast corpus of existing content on Reddit,” while also allowing the company to display content from Reddit in new ways across its products. When Reddit CEO Steve Huffman spoke to The Verge last year about Reddit’s API changes and the subsequent protests, he said, “The API usage is about covering costs and data licensing is a new potential business for us,” suggesting Reddit may seek out similar revenue-generating arrangements in the future./news/google-search-s-built-in-timer-and-stopwatch-are-back.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-search-s-built-in-timer-and-stopwatch-are-back.htmlGoogle’s handy timer and stopwatch that you can use right from Search have returned. The tools have been unavailable for weeks, but Google public search liaison Danny Sullivan announced that the timer was back in a tweet on Wednesday. To use the timer, just type “set a timer for [however long you need],” and the top result will be a timer that automatically starts to count down. If you want to edit the timer, click on the numbers counting down./news/google-search-s-cache-links-are-officially-being-retired.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-search-s-cache-links-are-officially-being-retired.htmlGoogle has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.” The cache feature historically let you view a webpage as Google sees it, which is useful for a variety of different reasons beyond just being able to see a page that’s struggling to load./news/google-s-ambitions-for-china-could-trigger-a-crisis-inside-the-company.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-ambitions-for-china-could-trigger-a-crisis-inside-the-company.htmlOn Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives for answers about the company’s plans to build a censored search engine and news app for the Chinese market appeared to have finally gotten their wish. Google cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai had taken the stage to address employees’ concerns. “We’ll definitely be transparent as we get closer to actually having a plan of record,” Pichai said, according to a report from The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher./news/google-s-new-prototype-ai-tool-does-the-writing-for-you.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-s-new-prototype-ai-tool-does-the-writing-for-you.htmlRemember that time Google showed off its artificial intelligence prowess by demoing conversations with Pluto and a paper airplane? That was powered by LaMDA, one of Google’s latest-generation conversational AI models. Now, Google’s using LaMDA to build Wordcraft, a prototype writing tool that can help creative writers craft new stories. AI-powered writing tools aren’t new. Chances are you’ve heard of Grammarly or copywriting tools like Jasper. What makes Wordcraft a bit different is that it’s framed as a means to help create fictional work./news/hbo-go-is-now-available-on-the-xbox-one.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hbo-go-is-now-available-on-the-xbox-one.htmlHBO Go is now available on the Xbox One in the US, finally allowing you to easily switch from playing The Master Chief Collection to watching Girls. The app looks similar to what you'll already find on the Xbox 360, but it's been gently reworked to look a bit nicer here: the Xbox One app has bigger images and some new features, including the ability to pin individual TV shows to the home screen./news/here-s-the-pok%C3%A9mon-sun-and-moon-branded-new-3ds-xl.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/here-s-the-pok%C3%A9mon-sun-and-moon-branded-new-3ds-xl.htmlThere are some new Pokémon games coming out in November, and Nintendo wants to make sure you’re ready for them with a new Solgaleo Lunala Black Edition New Nintendo 3DS XL model (which is almost, but still not quite as crazy of a name as the recently released New Galaxy Style New Nintendo 3DS). For those who haven't been closely following Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, Solgaleo and Lunala are the two marquee pocket monsters in the upcoming gamines, with Solgaleo headlining the Pokémon Sun box art while Lunala is showcased on Pokémon Moon./news/here-s-who-s-eligible-for-free-hbo-max.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/here-s-who-s-eligible-for-free-hbo-max.htmlHBO Max is AT&T’s new crown jewel in the streaming landscape, building upon what its predecessor HBO Now started so many years ago. But the $14.99-per-month HBO Max is more than HBO Now, and to prove it, AT&T wants to give HBO Max away for free to as many customers as possible. HBO Max is going to be free for a lot of people, but figuring out who those customers are is still difficult to parse./news/how-many-times-did-google-say-ai-today.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-many-times-did-google-say-ai-today.htmlHow many times did Google say AI today? Obviously, someone noticed our video that clipped every single AI mention at I/O 2023 last year. Sundar Pichai closed the 2024 keynote by showing how AI can save us some work by using it to keep track. At the time, it was up to 121 AI mentions. ...by the time they were finished, it was probably more like 124. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanxygI5ra2ptZmuGdnvHqK5mpZGjxm7AyKacrGWUnrFus86onqWdXaiuunnAomStp5SWxg%3D%3D/news/how-the-design-firm-behind-the-xbox-built-the-bike-of-the-future.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-the-design-firm-behind-the-xbox-built-the-bike-of-the-future.htmlYou can't ride a bike in Seattle without thinking about the seven hills. (No one can agree on which ones make up "the seven," but they're not a friendly ride.) And you better think about the city's famously unpredictable weather patterns. And who knows? You might finish work and want to head straight to the trails or the beach. These are the things that make Seattle unique. They're also a complicated combination if you're trying to build a bike./news/how-to-choose-between-all-the-new-iphone-12-models.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-choose-between-all-the-new-iphone-12-models.htmlThere are a lot more iPhones than there used to be these days. Picking a phone used to be simple: Apple would offer just a single new iPhone model, where all you had to do was choose a color and storage size. This year, Apple has launched four new phones: the iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max, which join the already available iPhone SE that was released earlier this year for a total of five new phones in 2020./news/how-to-generate-virtual-online-ids-to-prevent-spam-scams-and-phishing-attacks.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-generate-virtual-online-ids-to-prevent-spam-scams-and-phishing-attacks.htmlSo many cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist on the internet nowadays that giving out your email address or phone number when signing up for a service is akin to giving someone your full name on the first date. Recently, a string of SIM swapping hacks have occurred; attacks in which hackers take control of your account by stealing your phone number, claiming ownership of it through your mobile carrier, and using it to bypass text message-based two-factor authentication./news/how-to-use-tiktok-s-text-to-speech-feature.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-tiktok-s-text-to-speech-feature.htmlTikTok’s Text-to-Speech is both a great accessibility feature for people with visual and reading impairments and a tool to create enjoyable content. While Text-to-Speech is available on devices like tablets or phones via the operating system, it’s relatively forward-thinking for a social app like TikTok to make it available within the app. Other platforms like Twitter and Facebook don’t make use of this feature. Instagram does auto-caption stories but only if someone is already speaking in the video./news/htc-desire-626-photos-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/htc-desire-626-photos-the-verge.html/ Photos of the HTC Desire 626 smartphone. By Dan Seifert, an editor overseeing The Verge’s product reviews and service journalism programs. Dan has covered the technology world for over a decade at The Verge. Jul 15, 2015, 7:00 AM UTC Share this storyncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtnam1fbHxygY5xcG9sYGeAcLTTnGSdnaOev6Z5lWttZqiYpMGwvw%3D%3D/news/hulu-reenables-picture-in-picture-mode-for-ios-14.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hulu-reenables-picture-in-picture-mode-for-ios-14.htmlHulu has fully reenabled picture-in-picture support (PiP) on iOS, MacRumors reports, which means half-watching network TV is once again possible for Hulu subscribers on iPhone and iPad devices. Hulu joins a collection of major streaming services that support the feature on iOS, leaving YouTube as the major exception. PiP for iPhones was enabled for Hulu around iOS 14’s original release, but it was later disabled to “work on a few updates to provide the best experience for our viewers,” Hulu said./news/i-m-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/i-m-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet.htmlIn early 2012 I was 26 years old and burnt out. I wanted a break from modern life — the hamster wheel of an email inbox, the constant flood of WWW information which drowned out my sanity. I wanted to escape. I thought the internet might be an unnatural state for us humans, or at least for me. Maybe I was too ADD to handle it, or too impulsive to restrain my usage./news/interpol-issues-red-notice-for-terra-stablecoin-co-founder-do-kwon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/interpol-issues-red-notice-for-terra-stablecoin-co-founder-do-kwon.htmlRed Notices are issued for fugitives wanted either for prosecution or to serve a sentence. A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action. Earlier this month, South Korea issued a warrant for the arrest of Kwon and five other individuals, and prosecutors believed they were all in Singapore as recently as September 14th. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office had asked Interpol to issue the red notice, saying that Kwon was “obviously on the run and has no intention to appear before us for questioning,” the Financial Times reported last Monday./news/iphone-5c-a-plastic-and-colorful-iphone-available-on-september-20th-for-99.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphone-5c-a-plastic-and-colorful-iphone-available-on-september-20th-for-99.htmlIn an introduction video detailing the design and engineering process for the iPhone 5c, Jony Ive says the "iPhone 5c is beautifully, unapologetically plastic." It's essentially an iPhone 5 inside a colored plastic shell with an improved front-facing camera and improved battery size that Apple is positioning at a lower cost than itsnew iPhone 5S. A 16GB model will be made available at $99, while a 32GB version is priced at $199./news/is-there-room-for-small-niche-streaming-services.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/is-there-room-for-small-niche-streaming-services.htmlFor every household streamer — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus — there are a dozen that few users would likely recognize. How many people can explain what Xumo, Tubi, Vudu, and Pluto TV are? How about Acorn TV, Ovid, and Popcornflix? But all of these obscure services may play a vital role in how the streaming business looks in the future — or at least media conglomerates believe that enough to spend hundreds of millions to billions to acquire them./news/it-s-party-time-smash-the-extra-bass-button.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/it-s-party-time-smash-the-extra-bass-button.htmlThe button is simple, almost plain. A flat black circle, simple dye-sublimated letters, and a small LED pinprick to let you know that it’s on. “EXTRA BASS,” it declares in tall, bold capitals. For indeed, the EXTRA BASS button only does one blindingly obvious thing: it adds extra bass.  The speaker in question here is a Sony XB90 Extra Bass High Power Audio System. It is a product without pretension, without guile or duplicity./news/john-riccitiello-is-out-at-unity-effective-immediately.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/john-riccitiello-is-out-at-unity-effective-immediately.htmlUnity, the company behind the game development engine of the same name, has just announced that its president, CEO, and chairman John Riccitiello “will retire” effective immediately. “The Board will initiate a comprehensive search process, with the assistance of a leading executive search firm, to identify a permanent CEO,” reads the press release, adding that James Whitehurst will step in as interim CEO, president, and board member. “Mr. Riccitiello will continue to advise Unity to ensure a smooth transition./news/kohler-s-smart-mirror-can-control-a-new-line-of-voice-activated-gadgets.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kohler-s-smart-mirror-can-control-a-new-line-of-voice-activated-gadgets.htmlKohler is adding more voice-based and touchless interactions into the bathroom and kitchen with a new smart product line called Kohler Konnect. Under its new lineup, everything from the faucet to the toilet to the bathtub can be controlled via voice commands, using a smart mirror as the main control center. The Verdera mirror, like a lot of smart products you’ll see at CES, has Amazon’s Alexa built in so you can ask it to read the news, adjust mirror lighting, or control other paired gadgets in the house./news/lady-gaga-opened-her-super-bowl-performance-with-a-protest-anthem.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lady-gaga-opened-her-super-bowl-performance-with-a-protest-anthem.htmlIn a Super Bowl performance that spanned her entire discography, Lady Gaga opened her act with a rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” which has become a popular anthem at rallies protesting President Trump across the country. Standing atop the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, Gaga started the song backed by a massive fleet of drones before leaping onto her stage. It was a stunning start to an over-the-top set that, while not overtly political, was certainly aimed at her political fans./news/leaked-images-reveal-microsoft-s-purple-xbox-one-s-for-fortnite-fans.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/leaked-images-reveal-microsoft-s-purple-xbox-one-s-for-fortnite-fans.htmlMicrosoft appears to be readying a special Fortnite-style version of the company’s Xbox One S console. WinFuture reports that Microsoft will release a purple edition of the Xbox One S in the coming weeks, in a bundle designed for Fortnite fans. The Xbox One S Fortnite Limited Edition will reportedly include a new “Dark Vertex” skin and 2000 V-Bucks in-game currency. The bundle is also said to include a month of Xbox Live Gold, EA Access, and Xbox Game Pass./news/lg-s-wireless-and-wildly-expensive-97-inch-oled-tv-sees-first-global-release.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-s-wireless-and-wildly-expensive-97-inch-oled-tv-sees-first-global-release.htmlLG’s eye-catching 97-inch Signature OLED M TV, which is almost completely free of wires save for a single power cord, finally has a price and release date outside of South Korea. The TV is notable for its “Zero Connect Box,” that you plug your set-top boxes, games consoles, and Blu-ray players into and which beams content wirelessly to the TV at up to 4K 120Hz. So aside from power, you’re not plugging anything into the TV itself./news/lime-squeezes-170m-from-uber-and-alphabet-as-scooter-sharing-plummets-under-covid-19.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lime-squeezes-170m-from-uber-and-alphabet-as-scooter-sharing-plummets-under-covid-19.htmlLime announced a new $170 million funding round led by Uber, the scooter company announced on Thursday. Alphabet’s venture arm GV and Bain Capital also participated in the round, Lime said. As part of the deal, Lime will acquire Uber’s bike and scooter business, Jump. The scooter-sharing company’s CEO, Brad Bao, will be replaced by global operations head (and former chief of staff to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi) Wayne Ting. Bao will continue as chair of Lime’s board./news/logitech-s-mx-master-3-scroll-wheel-is-focused-hardware-at-its-best.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-s-mx-master-3-scroll-wheel-is-focused-hardware-at-its-best.htmlLogitech’s MX Master 3 might be the best mouse ever made. Or at least, it’s the best mouse that I’ve ever used. There are a lot of good things about it, but what elevates it above the nest of other mice out there is — without a doubt — the scroll wheel, which is unparalleled by any other.  The MX Master series has always had great scroll wheels, going back to the original model in 2015./news/looking-glass-might-have-just-invented-the-gif-s-3d-successor.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/looking-glass-might-have-just-invented-the-gif-s-3d-successor.htmlOn June 15th, 1987, CompuServe introduced the GIF, a way to share images — or animated sequences of images — anywhere. The incredible portability of the late Steve Wilhite’s “graphics interchange format” made it the perfect canvas for viral memes. Now, a company called Looking Glass is trying to make holograms effortlessly portable, too. “Imagine we’re in a parallel universe and every movie ever shot was shot in color, but every human being was watching in black and white,” says Looking Glass co-founder and CEO Shawn Frayne./news/lyft-is-fighting-to-grow-and-losing-a-ton-of-money-in-the-process.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lyft-is-fighting-to-grow-and-losing-a-ton-of-money-in-the-process.htmlLyft isn't growing nearly as fast as it hoped. According to Bloomberg, Lyft had planned to provide 7.4 million rides in July, but it only hit half that figure. Its failure to grow is also leading to major losses. In July, Lyft had expected to lose $14 million — it reportedly lost closer to $35 million. That miss extends throughout the first half of the year, with Lyft seeing fewer new customers, less revenue, and greater losses than it had initially projected./news/mark-zuckerberg-on-the-social-network-they-just-kind-of-made-up-a-bunch-of-stuff.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mark-zuckerberg-on-the-social-network-they-just-kind-of-made-up-a-bunch-of-stuff.htmlIn a live Q&A session today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked how accurate The Social Network film was in portraying his life. His answer: "I kinda blocked that one out." "I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about this in a while. I kinda blocked that one out. It was a very interesting experience to watch a movie that was supposedly about my life. The reality is that writing code and building a product is not a glamorous enough thing to make a movie about./news/meta-rolls-out-standalone-messenger-group-chats.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-rolls-out-standalone-messenger-group-chats.htmlThe groups, called “Communities,” allow admins to add up to 5,000 people, even if they’re not part of the same Facebook group. Meta previously introduced that feature in 2022, allowing Facebook group admins to create Discord-like chatrooms for members. This new type of chat, meanwhile, is open to anyone — users could make one for their neighborhood, school, or an event, for example. Meta notes that creating Messenger “Communities” isn’t yet available to everyone and that users should be aware there’s a different level of privacy that they typically associate with personal messages./news/meta-s-ai-is-summarizing-some-bizarre-facebook-comment-sections.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-s-ai-is-summarizing-some-bizarre-facebook-comment-sections.htmlIf you’ve been on the Facebook app lately, you might’ve seen Meta’s AI inject itself into the comment section with summaries of what people say. Given how wild Facebook comment sections often become, it’s not hard to imagine how ridiculous some of these summaries turn out. (This isn’t the first time Meta’s AI has appeared in the comment section, by the way: 404 Media spotted it pretending to be a parent in a Facebook group./news/microsoft-announces-a-new-xbox-partner-preview-event.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-announces-a-new-xbox-partner-preview-event.htmlMicrosoft announces a new Xbox Partner Preview event. Microsoft is holding an Xbox Partner Preview event on Wednesday. The 30-minute broadcast will include “more than a dozen new trailers,” for new and upcoming games from publishers like Capcom, Nexon, EA, and others. Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, and The First Berserker: Khazan will all be part of the preview. The event will be broadcast on Twitch and YouTube on March 6th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UK./news/microsoft-announces-surface-laptop-2-with-black-finish-and-8th-gen-intel-processors.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-announces-surface-laptop-2-with-black-finish-and-8th-gen-intel-processors.htmlMicrosoft is updating the Surface Laptop with 8th Gen Intel processors, more RAM, and a matte black finish. The second-generation model, called the Surface Laptop 2, is supposed to be 85 percent faster and includes twice as much RAM in its base configuration. It goes on sale October 16th, and preorders start today. The big news this year is that the laptop’s base model, at $999, jumps from 4GB to 8GB of RAM, correcting one of the original model’s weak spots./news/microsoft-announces-surface-pro-7-with-long-awaited-usb-c-port.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-announces-surface-pro-7-with-long-awaited-usb-c-port.htmlMicrosoft has just announced the new Surface Pro 7, and with it comes a long-awaited move to USB-C for the company’s 2-in-1 PC. Otherwise, it retains the same familiar design as before. The internals have been upgraded with Intel’s latest-generation processors, but the Surface Pro still has a 12.3-inch display — and the Surface Type Keyboard and Surface Pen continue to be essential accessories. The Surface Pro 7 will launch on October 22nd starting at $749./news/microsoft-attacks-google-again-with-new-googlighting-video.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-attacks-google-again-with-new-googlighting-video.htmlEver since Google announced changes to its privacy policy in late January, Microsoft has been on the offense, running newspaper ads calling out the search giant for selling its users' data and unveiling a video starring "Gmail man" reading through user email. It turns out Microsoft isn't done yet — the latest product to be skewered is Google Apps. In a video called "Googlighting," which is described as "what happens when the world's largest advertising business tries to sell productivity software on the side./news/microsoft-demos-xbox-live-on-windows-8-promises-cross-platform-asynchronous-multiplayer-games-vide.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-demos-xbox-live-on-windows-8-promises-cross-platform-asynchronous-multiplayer-games-vide.htmlYou might recall that Xbox Live is coming to Windows 8. What does that entail? You can see for yourself in a pair of videos shot at a Build session this morning. GeekWire and WinRumors were both in attendance as Microsoft program manager Avi Ben-Menahem demonstrated an early version of the Metro-style Xbox Live app running on Windows 8, and it looks like a far cry from the current, often-obnoxious Games for Windows Live./news/microsoft-hid-a-secret-ninja-cat-in-its-windows-10-hardware-invite.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-hid-a-secret-ninja-cat-in-its-windows-10-hardware-invite.htmlApple is usually the company that hides secret hints in its event invites, but Microsoft is joining in on the fun today, too. Hidden in the full Windows 10 hardware invite, Microsoft embedded some binary code that links to a webpage with a new ninja cat wallpaper. Reddit users were quick to crack the code and discover the webpage, and the wallpaper features the Windows ninja cat riding King Kong, picking out bacon-powered planes out of the sky./news/microsoft-offering-free-repairs-for-mysterious-surface-laptop-3-screen-cracks.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-offering-free-repairs-for-mysterious-surface-laptop-3-screen-cracks.htmlIn the months since the Surface Laptop 3’s October 2019 launch, some users have reported cracks appearing on their laptop’s screen for no discernible reason. Microsoft first said it was investigating the issue in February, and today, the company explained a potential cause of the problem and offered free repairs to those affected (via ZDNet). “We have investigated claims of screen cracking on Surface Laptop 3 and have determined that, in a very small percentage of cases, a hard foreign particle may cause a hairline fracture in the glass that may seem to appear unexpectedly or without visible cause,” Microsoft said in a support document./news/microsoft-paint-finally-gets-a-dark-mode-for-windows-11.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-paint-finally-gets-a-dark-mode-for-windows-11.htmlMicrosoft has finally started testing a new dark mode for its Paint app in Windows 11. The software giant originally teased a dark mode addition nearly two years ago, and it’s now being tested in both Canary and Dev Channels for Windows Insiders. Like most other apps in Windows 11 that support dark modes, Paint will automatically switch over based on your system theme or you can manually enable the dark mode in the new settings page inside Paint./news/microsoft-still-working-on-3d-emoji-for-windows-11.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-still-working-on-3d-emoji-for-windows-11.htmlMicrosoft appears to still be working on true 3D emoji for Windows after first teasing it last year and then only shipping 2D versions in Windows 11. Nando Costa, a distinguished designer at Microsoft, revealed recently that the company is still working on making Windows 11’s emoji look more 3D. On Friday, Costa authored a blog post on Microsoft’s new direction for its emoji system, detailing the company’s push towards 3D after a 2020 hackathon./news/microsoft-teams-is-getting-smarter-copilot-ai-features.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-teams-is-getting-smarter-copilot-ai-features.htmlMicrosoft is improving the way its AI-powered Copilot works in Microsoft Teams with new ways to invoke the assistant during meeting chats, summaries, and more. Copilot is already able to summarize Teams meetings, but in the coming months, it will combine spoken transcripts and written chats into a single view to make it easier to catch up on meetings you might have missed. Copilot in Teams is also getting improvements to composing messages in chat, allowing Teams users to rewrite a message in new ways./news/motorola-shows-off-insane-electronic-tattoo-and-vitamin-authentication-prototype-wearables.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/motorola-shows-off-insane-electronic-tattoo-and-vitamin-authentication-prototype-wearables.htmlAt the D11 conference today, Regina Dugan, SVP for advanced technology and projects at Motorola, showed off some advanced projects. The first was a prototype electronic tattoo on her arm from MC10, about which she quipped "teenagers might not want to wear a watch, but you can be sure they'll wear a tattoo just to piss off their parents." The second technology was even wilder: a pill from Proteus Digital Health that you can swallow and which is then powered by the acid in your stomach./news/music-producers-revolted-against-an-app-s-subscription-scheme-and-won.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/music-producers-revolted-against-an-app-s-subscription-scheme-and-won.htmlA sigh of relief came to many in the audio production field this week after the software company Waves reversed a plan to exclusively sell its audio plug-in library via a subscription. The subscription offers Waves Essential at $14.99 per month and Waves Ultimate for $24.99 per month and launched as a permanent replacement for purchasing perpetual licenses for individual products. Now, Waves chief technical officer and co-founder Meir Shashoua says those options will return “as quickly as possible./news/mutazione-review-a-game-about-the-importance-of-tending-to-gardens-and-people.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mutazione-review-a-game-about-the-importance-of-tending-to-gardens-and-people.htmlIt can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. For a game that’s a little experimental or offers a particularly unique take, it is often easiest to explain it by finding something to compare it to. That way, in a few words, you can roughly understand what sort of game it is./news/nba-2k21-s-ps5-and-series-x-versions-will-cost-69-99.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nba-2k21-s-ps5-and-series-x-versions-will-cost-69-99.html2K Games has announced that it’ll sell the next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of the upcoming NBA 2K21 for $69.99, a $10 increase to the current-gen Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game. And it’s the first indication that the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 may be bringing a price increase from the standard $60 that major video games have been sold at for years when they arrive this fall./news/netflix-miniseries-hollywood-isn-t-the-inspiration-it-thinks-it-is.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-miniseries-hollywood-isn-t-the-inspiration-it-thinks-it-is.htmlThere’s a scene in the trailer for The Greatest Showman, a musical about the life of P.T. Barnum, where Hugh Jackman grins at Zach Efron for saying he does not know what “show business” is. “That’s because I’ve just invented it,” he tells him, cheekily. Like a zombie show where the characters somehow do not know what zombies are, this little bit of irony is fun or grating, depending on the type of person you are./news/netflix-s-secret-city-shows-how-technology-is-changing-spycraft.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-secret-city-shows-how-technology-is-changing-spycraft.htmlIn one scene in Secret City, the 2016 Australian series now playing on Netflix, a spy comes to a park with a bag of bread crumbs, feeding birds as a cover for picking up an encoded message. It’s a classic trope, but the twist here is that the spy is picking up a SIM card rather than a note or a whispered message. The Cold War ostensibly ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, but a new one is heating up, pitting the United States against both China and Russia in an arms race that relies far more on computer programmers than on nukes./news/new-trailers-the-northman-super-pumped-the-battle-for-uber-the-silent-sea-and-more.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-trailers-the-northman-super-pumped-the-battle-for-uber-the-silent-sea-and-more.htmlHello and welcome to the final trailers roundup for 2021, I hope you have enjoyed reading (and watching) these roundups as much as I have enjoyed writing them. There were a lot of really good streaming shows and movies this year despite the persistence of the coronavirus that disrupted so much of our lives. Among my personal favorites were Loki, Succession, Ted Lasso, The Beatles: Get Back, King Richard, and Y: The Last Man (pls someone pick up this show it was just getting started!/news/nintendo-confirms-it-won-t-be-part-of-e3-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-confirms-it-won-t-be-part-of-e3-2023.htmlNintendo has confirmed to The Verge that it will not be attending E3 2023. “We approach our involvement in any event on a case-by-case basis and are always considering various ways to engage with our fans,” the company said in a statement. “Since this year’s E3 show didn’t fit into our plans, we have made the decision to not participate. However, we have been and continue to be a strong supporter of the ESA and E3./news/nintendo-is-using-foam-to-fix-faulty-joy-con-controllers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-is-using-foam-to-fix-faulty-joy-con-controllers.htmlSince the Switch launched there have been reports of issues with the left Joy-Con controller, which have been plagued by connectivity problems. Nintendo addressed the problem at the time by recommending that users avoid nearby sources of interference and moving any obstructing objects (including fish tanks), but a report from CNET’s Sean Hollister seems to indicate that a more permanent fix may be on the way. Enterprising Switch fans have disassembled their controllers to discover that while the problem-free right Joy-Con has a dedicated antenna board for connecting to the console, the left Joy-Con’s antenna is integrated into the main board, where it appears to be obstructed by internal metal components./news/nintendo-switch-consoles-come-with-a-steeply-discounted-game-at-best-buy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-switch-consoles-come-with-a-steeply-discounted-game-at-best-buy.htmlBest Buy is offering a few deals today that will be of interest if you’re looking for something extra when you buy a Nintendo Switch or a Samsung Galaxy S10. As usual, there are more deals to check out in other categories, too. Buying a Nintendo Switch console at Best Buy includes a $30 discount on a Nintendo-published game. Of the nine games that are eligible for the discount, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze offer the most bang for your buck./news/nokia-s-retro-3310-3g-is-coming-to-the-us-for-60-on-october-29th.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nokia-s-retro-3310-3g-is-coming-to-the-us-for-60-on-october-29th.htmlThe 3G version of Nokia’s resurrected 3310 was announced in September as theoretically working in the US, unlike the 2G version released earlier this year. But at the time HMD Global, which owns the rights to Nokia phones, didn’t say when (or even if) the 3310 3G would be coming to the US. Now, we know the answer to both of those questions: the phone is available for preorder starting today at Best Buy for $59./news/now-you-can-use-generative-placeholder-images-for-your-web-project.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/now-you-can-use-generative-placeholder-images-for-your-web-project.htmlGenerative Placeholders is a new tool that lets you embed autogenerated placeholder art into a website that changes with every page refresh. It only requires a brief bit of embedded code. The key word here is “placeholder,” which suggests that the tool’s creator, Stefan Bohacek, sees it as the visual equivalent of a Lorem Ipsum text generator (or the far superior Hipster Ipsum), designed to fill a prototype website with something while it’s under construction./news/nvidia-reveals-blackwell-b200-gpu-the-world-s-most-powerful-chip-for-ai.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-reveals-blackwell-b200-gpu-the-world-s-most-powerful-chip-for-ai.htmlNvidia’s must-have H100 AI chip made it a multitrillion-dollar company, one that may be worth more than Alphabet and Amazon, and competitors have been fighting to catch up. But perhaps Nvidia is about to extend its lead — with the new Blackwell B200 GPU and GB200 “superchip.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds up his new GPU on the left, next to an H100 on the right, from the GTC livestream. Image: Nvidia/news/nvidia-s-new-ultra-low-motion-blur-tech-lets-pc-gamers-have-high-refresh-rates-too.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-s-new-ultra-low-motion-blur-tech-lets-pc-gamers-have-high-refresh-rates-too.htmlNvidia is updating its Ultra Low Motion Blur (ULMB) technology, which could make gaming even smoother on high-end monitors. In an announcement on Sunday, Nvidia says its upgraded ULMB 2 feature is capable of providing over 1,000Hz of effective motion clarity with “practically zero” crosstalk — but only on 1440p 360Hz G-Sync monitors for now. This means you no longer have to choose between having a more responsive refresh rate or reducing motion blur, both of which affect gameplay./news/obscenely-detailed-scan-lets-you-peer-at-rembrandt-s-night-watch-masterpiece-online.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/obscenely-detailed-scan-lets-you-peer-at-rembrandt-s-night-watch-masterpiece-online.htmlThe Rijksmuseum has released what it claims is the “largest and most detailed photograph of any artwork,” and it’s viewable for free on its website. The scan is of Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch, a roughly 12 by 14 foot painting which is currently the focus of a massive research and restoration project called “Operation Night Watch.”  The technical details of the scan are staggering. In a press release, the Rijksmuseum explains that it’s made up of 8,439 individual photographs taken with a 100 megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera./news/october-prime-day-2023-best-phone-deals-on-samsung-google-moto-and-more.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/october-prime-day-2023-best-phone-deals-on-samsung-google-moto-and-more.htmlAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. It feels like we just had Prime Day, but here we are again. For whatever reason, there aren’t a ton of great smartphone deals this time around. Maybe it’s that the timing is off — the iPhone 15 series just came out last month, and the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro were just announced last week and haven’t even shipped yet./news/oculus-is-shipping-the-quest-2-elite-strap-again-and-extending-its-warranty-after-quality-issues.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oculus-is-shipping-the-quest-2-elite-strap-again-and-extending-its-warranty-after-quality-issues.htmlOculus is resuming shipments of its Quest 2 Elite Strap accessory and extending the warranty after reports of defective straps. As UploadVR reported earlier, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company paused Elite Strap shipments in November, saying a small number of users had reported them snapping after use. Now, it tells Android Central that it’s pinpointed the issue as a “processing inconsistency with some early units,” and the product is going back on sale./news/oneplus-10-pro-review-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/oneplus-10-pro-review-the-verge.htmlThe 10 Pro is OnePlus all grown up. The days of a scrappy upstart challenger are gone — that much was clear with last year’s 9 and 9 Pro, with true flagship specs and prices to match. This year, OnePlus has sharpened its vision of a legitimate flagship phone to challenge the big brands, and the result is a sophisticated, sleek device. It’s not just a cheaper flagship; it’s a real alternative to Samsung and Google, with an identity all its own./news/overwatch-2-a-bold-but-risky-experiment-in-reimagining-the-video-game-sequel.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/overwatch-2-a-bold-but-risky-experiment-in-reimagining-the-video-game-sequel.htmlGame developer Blizzard found itself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how do you develop a sequel to something that’s never supposed to end? It’s a predicament that’s becoming increasingly common in the game industry. Some of the most popular titles today are created to be living entities that exist for months or years and change over time, but hardly ever into something resembling a brand-new product.  That’s the predicament the studio found itself in with Overwatch, the competitive team shooter with more than 50 million players worldwide and a successful e-sports league heading into its third year./news/patrick-swayze-kicks-ass-in-an-illustrated-philosophical-road-house.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/patrick-swayze-kicks-ass-in-an-illustrated-philosophical-road-house.htmlI’ve always loved Road House. The 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle is an awful, utterly awesome movie filled with clattering dialogue and razor-sharp roundhouse kicks. Babak Ganjei agrees with me. He's dedicated the past few months of his life to creating a graphic novel based on Swayze's fourth-greatest movie, titled Babak Ganjei's Roadhouse, and it’s astonishingly good. Roadhouse was born from willful procrastination. "I'd just started renting a studio I couldn't afford with no real idea what I was going to do,” Ganjei tells The Verge./news/pax-launches-web-app-after-getting-booted-from-the-apple-app-store.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pax-launches-web-app-after-getting-booted-from-the-apple-app-store.htmlPax is launching a web app today capable of controlling its lineup of connected weed vapes. The launch comes six months after Pax’s app was banned from the Apple App Store, when Apple decided to crack down on vaping apps amid nationwide concerns over vaping-related lung injuries. The app remained available on Android, but the ban meant iOS users were stuck without a way to control many of the settings on their fancy vapes./news/pebble-steel-review-business-class.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pebble-steel-review-business-class.htmlIt’s hard to imagine, but the best smartwatch you can buy isn’t from Apple, or Google, or Microsoft, or Samsung. It’s from tiny Pebble, a hardware startup that so captured the hearts and minds of gadget fans in 2012 that it shattered Kickstarter records on its way to millions in crowdsourced funding. The first Pebble watch, released almost exactly a year ago, finally made the smartwatch accessible to regular people. At $150, it’s almost cheap, it works, and it doesn’t try to do too much: it flashes notifications about texts and emails and phone calls from your smartphone, and if you’re feeling particularly saucy you could control music playback on your wrist./news/perfect-browser-game-lets-you-jack-epipen-prices-as-the-ceo-of-mylan.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/perfect-browser-game-lets-you-jack-epipen-prices-as-the-ceo-of-mylan.htmlOne of the best things to come out of the whole EpiPen debacle is EpiPen Tycoon, a game that lets you jack up the prices of the lifesaving allergy treatment as much as possible before the angry Twitter mobs take over. Now we can all be greedy CEOs. "You are Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, the maker of EpiPens," the introductory page instructs. "Your shareholders want results. Your customers want to not die of anaphylactic shock./news/phil-spencer-says-microsoft-spends-more-than-1-billion-per-year-to-bring-third-party-games-to-xbox.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/phil-spencer-says-microsoft-spends-more-than-1-billion-per-year-to-bring-third-party-games-to-xbox.htmlPhil Spencer says Microsoft spends more than $1 billion per year to bring third-party games to Xbox Game Pass. From an interview with Windows Central: We have a service that is financially viable, meaning it makes money, in Game Pass. We’ve put a lot of money into the market, over a billion dollars a year supporting third-party games coming into Game Pass. Spencer also says that the company “has no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo;” earlier this week, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said that Microsoft is interested in bringing Game Pass to “every screen that can play games” including “what we would have thought of as competitors in the past like PlayStation and Nintendo,” as reported by GameSpot./news/please-do-not-use-a-live-snake-as-your-face-mask.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/please-do-not-use-a-live-snake-as-your-face-mask.htmlOver the last several months, I have seen a great many comparisons of fabrics that can be used to construct homemade face masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, but I have not seen anyone discuss the use of live snakes. I assume it is because of this crucial omission that a man boarded a UK bus using a live snake as his face covering. Snakes are adorable, so I understand the temptation./news/pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet-rotom-phone-review-it-s-a-literal-lifesaver.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet-rotom-phone-review-it-s-a-literal-lifesaver.htmlAs the Pokémon world becomes a bigger, richer place filled with an ever-growing number of new monsters, the pokédexes trainers receive at the beginning of their journeys have similarly evolved with the release of each new Pokémon game. At first, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s new Rotom Phone might not look like a major step up from the first-gen model introduced in Pokémon Sword and Shield or seem at all novel compared to Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ deific Arc Phone./news/roku-does-customizable-buttons-right-on-the-voice-remote-pro.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/roku-does-customizable-buttons-right-on-the-voice-remote-pro.htmlThe buttons labeled “1” and “2” can save any voice command that Roku supports; just long-press either button after the voice command, and it’ll be set as that button’s function. This can be as simple as using them as two shortcuts for apps that don’t have their own button, like “open HBO Max” or “open Peacock.” But you can also use the shortcut buttons for searches (“show me free movies”), input selection (“switch to antenna TV”), or TV controls (“turn the volume up,” “turn on closed captioning”)./news/safari-suggested-search-results-have-been-promoting-conspiracy-theories.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/safari-suggested-search-results-have-been-promoting-conspiracy-theories.htmlSafari’s Siri Suggested Websites search results have been recommending a litany of low-quality and conspiratorial websites, a report from Buzzfeed has revealed. Siri Suggested results are a means of linking Safari users directly to relevant websites directly from the search bar rather than needing to load the results in a web page first. The suggestions, highlighted at the top of the search bar, include a holocaust denial website, a Pizzagate conspiracy video, and an anti-vaccination website./news/sam-bankman-fried-was-a-bad-friend-too.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sam-bankman-fried-was-a-bad-friend-too.htmlIn September 2022, when he found out that Alameda had been using FTX customer funds, Nishad Singh said he asked to speak with the founder of Alameda and the CEO of FTX. They were both, of course, Sam Bankman-Fried. Singh and Bankman-Fried met on the balcony of the penthouse they shared in the Bahamas, which was spacious enough to include a pool, around 8PM or 9PM local time. As Bankman-Fried sprawled in a white chaise lounge, Singh paced anxiously./news/samsung-doesn-t-fall-far-from-the-apple-stem.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-doesn-t-fall-far-from-the-apple-stem.htmlSamsung doesn’t fall far from the Apple stem. Evan Blass of Evleaks fame has leaked the upcoming design for the new Galaxy Buds 3 Pro headphones, which abandon the bulbous blob look of Samsung’s previous pro buds. We’ll know for sure in one month if rumors are true. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3xyfI5ra2pvZWaBdXvSmqSsrZ6ceqW7xKylrWWWlrmtecWaqWaeoqS6bsDHnmSaqKChsm6%2F056k/news/samsung-targets-students-with-galaxy-j2-pro-smartphone-that-blocks-the-internet.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-targets-students-with-galaxy-j2-pro-smartphone-that-blocks-the-internet.htmlEvery year, high school seniors in South Korea take a national college entrance exam called suneung that will essentially determine the rest of their lives. This isn’t an exaggeration. Unlike the SATs, which only play a small part in college admissions, the idea of suneung is battered into students’ heads as the determining factor of how successful they’ll be in a deeply hierarchical society. That’s why it makes sense that Samsung is releasing a smartphone that can’t connect to the internet, so students don’t get distracted and can focus on studying./news/samsung-s-new-smarttag2-tracker-can-last-up-to-700-days-on-battery.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-new-smarttag2-tracker-can-last-up-to-700-days-on-battery.htmlSamsung is announcing a new version of its SmartTag item trackers at its Developer Conference today. The aptly named SmartTag2 is the company’s second-generation locator device and now features longer battery life, more durability amongst the elements, and better signal penetration with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), so you can find it even if it ends up underground, according to Samsung. SmartTag2 is also smaller than the previous model, so it can fit into tinier spots in your bags and live low-key between your keys./news/seagate-goflex-satellite-software-update-brings-wi-fi-passthrough-improved-battery-life.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/seagate-goflex-satellite-software-update-brings-wi-fi-passthrough-improved-battery-life.htmlIt's not every day an external hard drive gets a software update, much less one that could actually change your decision to buy a drive, but that's exactly what just happened to Seagate's GoFlex Satellite. While the Wi-Fi tablet and laptop companion storage device originally got an estimated five hours of battery life and monopolized your wireless internet connection while in use, software version 1.3.5.015 lets you stay connected to the drive and surf the web at the same time thanks to Wi-Fi passthrough, and allegedly also bumps up the battery life to an estimated seven hours of runtime./news/sega-is-officially-buying-angry-birds-developer-rovio-for-775-million.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sega-is-officially-buying-angry-birds-developer-rovio-for-775-million.htmlSega, the Japanese-headquartered video game company best known in the West for its Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, is acquiring Angry Birds developer Rovio, the companies announced today. The Finnish headquartered mobile games developer will be acquired for €706 million (around $775 million), which The Wall Street Journal notes represents a roughly a 19 percent premium over its share price at close on Friday. The deal is expected to close by the end of September./news/setapp-is-opening-its-subscription-only-ios-app-store.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/setapp-is-opening-its-subscription-only-ios-app-store.htmlOne of the first third-party app stores on iOS is getting ready to open up in the European Union. The software company MacPaw has announced that it’s releasing its Setapp store in beta on Thursday, with an official launch planned for April. Setapp is currently only available on macOS and offers users access to over 240 third-party apps for a $9.99 per month subscription. Some examples of the curated apps available through Setapp include music software n-Track Studio, project planner MindNode, and the productivity app Session./news/sony-smartwatch-review-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-smartwatch-review-the-verge.htmlThe Sony SmartWatch is an intriguing device — a secondary display for your Android-powered handset that provides quick access to notifications from select apps and services on your phone. It’s also able to show you who's calling or texting, control music, and even tell the time. There's been a growing trend for products like this over the past few months, from the WIMM One to Fossil’s MetaWatch, but Sony’s is one of the first of this latest wave (along with the inPulse) to make it to the general public./news/sony-truly-wireless-earbuds-review-a-flawed-first-try.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-truly-wireless-earbuds-review-a-flawed-first-try.htmlI’m rather envious of people who have the right ears for Apple’s AirPods. Right now, they remain the best truly wireless earbuds you can buy. But they fit me a little too loosely, which leaves two options: I can try workaround hacks to make them stay in better, or I can buy ear wings that I’d have to constantly take off and reattach because they don’t fit in the charging case./news/spotify-comes-for-audiobooks-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-comes-for-audiobooks-the-verge.htmlThis article first ran in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s audio industry newsletter. Spotify wants to make audiobooks the next pillar of its business. On Wednesday, company executives pitched the audiobooks business to investors as their next target for industry domination. When they launch the audiobooks vertical (which is TBD), it could have huge ramifications not only for Spotify’s own business, but for the publishing industry as well.  “We believe that audiobooks, in their many different forms, will be a massive opportunity,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said./news/strava-will-add-ai-dark-mode-and-night-heatmaps.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/strava-will-add-ai-dark-mode-and-night-heatmaps.htmlThere’s new leadership at Strava, and they want everyone to know the platform is about to get a bunch of new features, starting with the highly requested dark mode, a family subscription plan, night heatmaps, and, of course, AI. Dark mode as a concept has been around for ages, but it’s been a recurring source of consternation for Strava users on Reddit forums. For those folks, the good news is dark mode will arrive later this summer, and users can choose between permanently keeping the app in dark mode or matching a user’s phone settings./news/supreme-court-protects-the-future-of-content-moderation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/supreme-court-protects-the-future-of-content-moderation.htmlOn Monday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, two consequential cases about the future of speech on the internet. The court explicitly extended First Amendment protections to how social media platforms organize, curate, and moderate their feeds, drawing a comparison between internet content moderation and “traditional publishers and editors.” The decision elaborates that the compilation and curation of “others’ speech into an expressive product of its own” is entitled to First Amendment protection and that “the government cannot get its way just by asserting an interest in better balancing the marketplace of ideas./news/tab-app-review-splitting-brunch-bills-made-simple.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tab-app-review-splitting-brunch-bills-made-simple.htmlThere’s a lot to be said for an app with one singular function, and that’s what makes the Tab app so magical. Unlike other bill splitting apps like Splitwise, which lets you split and track any type of expense, the Tab app exists to only split meal bills among a group of people. That’s it — that’s all it does.  I was first introduced to the app by my friends when I lived in New York City./news/take-an-awesome-3d-tour-of-the-international-space-station.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/take-an-awesome-3d-tour-of-the-international-space-station.htmlOnly about 220 people have ever been on board the International Space Station. Now, thanks to a 3D video by the European Space Agency, you can pretend to be one of them. At least until space tourism becomes a thing and we can all visit the ISS and experience zero gravity. The video starts with a narrated tour of the outside of the station, which unfortunately does not include the expandable habitat that was recently inflated on the ISS./news/targus-announces-an-antimicrobial-keyboard-light-and-backpack.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/targus-announces-an-antimicrobial-keyboard-light-and-backpack.htmlTargus is an accessory manufacturer that’s been around for a long time, and its slate of CES products this year center on three main themes: portability, sustainability, and, of course, staying healthy during a pandemic (via Engadget). The UV-C LED Disinfection light uses UV light to kill microbes on anything in its cleaning area. Image: Targus The company’s banner products for pandemic health are the 2Office antimicrobial backpack and the UV-C LED Disinfection Light./news/terminator-dark-fate-for-better-and-worse-it-s-a-franchise-throwback.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/terminator-dark-fate-for-better-and-worse-it-s-a-franchise-throwback.htmlThe Terminator franchise has always had a fundamental problem: past the hit film that kicked off the story, nothing that happened in the series really mattered. The timeline got complicated, screenwriters monkeyed with the story mechanics, directors brought new special effects into the battle to keep the action fresh. And yet every Terminator story basically assumed the same thing: that a sentient, murderous AI called Skynet would rise, design a series of powerful kill-bots called Terminators, largely wipe out the human race, then send Terminators back in time to kill off anyone who might have a prominent part in resisting the genocide./news/tesla-owner-is-the-first-to-face-felony-charges-for-deadly-autopilot-crash.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-owner-is-the-first-to-face-felony-charges-for-deadly-autopilot-crash.htmlCalifornia prosecutors filed two felony charges against the owner of Tesla Model S for a deadly crash in 2019 that involved the vehicle’s Autopilot system, marking the first time that a Tesla owner has been criminally charged in the US in a case involving the automaker’s advanced driver assist system. The charges were first reported by the AP. According to the LA County District Attorney, the incident took place in Gardena, a suburb of LA, on December 29, 2019./news/the-arctis-nova-4-is-steelseries-latest-budget-wireless-headset.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-arctis-nova-4-is-steelseries-latest-budget-wireless-headset.htmlSteelSeries is launching the Arctis Nova 4, the latest addition to the company’s Nova range of gaming headsets. Considered to be an “heir” to the budget-friendly Arctis 1 Wireless headset, the new Arctis Nova 4 will be available on May 20th for $119.99. For that, you’re getting 360-degree spatial audio and a fully retractable microphone with AI-powered noise cancellation, which SteelSeries claims can reduce up to 25dB of ambient background noises while you chat, such as keyboard tapping or dogs barking./news/the-best-microphones-to-start-podcasting-with.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-microphones-to-start-podcasting-with.htmlAs the resident audio engineer at The Verge, I am occasionally asked what microphone one should get if they wanted to start a podcast. For professional use, the answer is complicated. You can’t just plug any microphone into your computer and start recording. But for a hobbyist or someone starting out in the field, there are now more options than ever to get your show up and running for a fairly low price./news/the-google-home-app-is-finally-getting-garage-door-controls.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-google-home-app-is-finally-getting-garage-door-controls.htmlControls for smart garage doors are coming to the Google Home app. The feature has already started to roll out to some users, with one Reddit user (spotted by 9to5Google) posting an image of the large pill-shaped open / close toggle controls that have silently appeared on the app. We should note that this feature has only landed on the preview Google Home app so far and doesn’t have an official release yet./news/the-guy-behind-threes-wants-to-fix-real-time-strategy-games.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-guy-behind-threes-wants-to-fix-real-time-strategy-games.htmlVollmer's next game, Close Castles, is a collaboration with artist Dominique "Dom2D" Ferland: a game that aims to be a more accessible alternative to complex experiences like Starcraft. He describes these games as "miserable pain engines designed to give players the worst possible experience," adding that "I intend to fix all that with my new game." Close Castles will differ in a number of ways: matches will be short, at around three minutes each, for one thing, and because the game was built with a controller in mind instead of a mouse and keyboard, the experience has been streamlined quite a bit./news/the-justice-department-is-reviewing-its-stingray-phone-tracking-programs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-justice-department-is-reviewing-its-stingray-phone-tracking-programs.htmlFor years, the phone-tracking devices known as Stingrays have been one of law enforcement's most closely guarded secrets — but a new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests that may be about to change. According to the report, the Justice Department is in the midst of a full review of how law enforcement agencies use the devices, and may be about to reveal significant details about how and where the devices are typically deployed./news/the-murder-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-is-a-new-real-and-free-game-you-can-play-right-now.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-murder-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-is-a-new-real-and-free-game-you-can-play-right-now.htmlIn a very sudden, very confusing surprise, Sega has shadow dropped a new Sonic the Hedgehog game for PC and Mac. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, as baffling as that sounds, is a free murder mystery game on Steam you can download and play right now. The point-and-click adventure puts you amid the Sonic cast on a murder mystery party aboard the Mirage Express to celebrate Amy Rose’s birthday, but — gasp — the game turns out to be real as Sonic is found keeled over, dead on the floor./news/the-oneplus-7-pro-has-a-90hz-screen-three-cameras-and-costs-669.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-oneplus-7-pro-has-a-90hz-screen-three-cameras-and-costs-669.htmlFollowing countless leaks and more than a few promotional advertisements, OnePlus has announced its latest smartphone — actually, it announced two. The first is the familiar-looking OnePlus 7, which will be available later this year in select markets. But the central focus is the all-new OnePlus 7 Pro, which is available this week everywhere OnePlus phones are sold, including on T-Mobile in the US. Both new models bring the latest processor from Qualcomm, multiple camera arrays, large screens, large batteries, stereo speakers, and OnePlus’ proprietary fast-charging systems./news/the-playstation-4-s-touchpad-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-playstation-4-s-touchpad-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences.htmlAs a way to control video games, the touchpad on the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller is a failure. Sony has long used the PlayStation controller as a place to innovate. Some of those ideas stuck, like rumble and dual analog sticks. Others, like the PS3’s disastrous “Sixaxis” motion controls, were bigger failures, used by launch titles and then quickly abandoned. And while many of the additions Sony made with the DualShock 4 — like the light bar and integrated speaker — still get used today, the touch-sensitive interface was one of the first things that developers (both first- and third-party) abandoned, despite its prevalence in early PS4 games like Infamous: Second Son./news/the-solid-state-watch-is-the-simplest-digital-watch-ever.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-solid-state-watch-is-the-simplest-digital-watch-ever.htmlWhere the Casio F91W-1 was a fairly simplistic timekeeping device, offering the most bare-bones features of a clock, stopwatch, alarm, and backlight, the Solid State Watch takes things a step further. It takes electronics of an F91W-1 and encases it entirely in a block of solid resin. There are no buttons, rendering the stopwatch, alarm, and backlight unusable. It cannot be set or changed for daylight saving time, nor can the battery be replaced once it dies (which CW&T estimates should be after about 10 years)./news/the-titan-s-implosion-the-latest-news-on-the-titanic-wreckage-tourist-sub.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-titan-s-implosion-the-latest-news-on-the-titanic-wreckage-tourist-sub.htmlA submarine expert tried to warn OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush his sub was flawed. In 2019, after taking a trip on the ill-fated OceanGate Titan, submersible expert Karl Stanley said he heard an increasingly loud cracking sound over the two-hour trip down, according to The New York Times. He tried to warn Rush: In the April 2019 email to Mr. Rush, Mr. Stanley said the loud cracking sounds that they had heard during their dive “sounded like a flaw/defect in one area being acted on by the tremendous pressures and being crushed/damaged./news/the-witcher-blood-origin-review-not-witcher-y-enough-to-stand-out.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-witcher-blood-origin-review-not-witcher-y-enough-to-stand-out.htmlThere’s one very important thing missing from The Witcher: Blood Origin: Geralt of Rivia. Of course, it makes sense that the iconic character isn’t in the new four-episode prequel series, given that it takes place more than 1,000 years before he was born, at a time when witchers (and the monsters they love to hunt) don’t even exist. But that doesn’t make his absence felt any less. Because without the lovably gruff Geralt, or at least an equivalent character to keep the story grounded, there isn’t all that much to differentiate The Witcher from all of the other epic fantasy series out there, of which there is no shortage this year in particular./news/the-yachts-of-america-s-cup-are-faster-and-weirder-than-ever.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-yachts-of-america-s-cup-are-faster-and-weirder-than-ever.htmlWhen I think of yachts, there are billowing white sails helmed by a steady skipper from the stern, smart deck shoes, and Hemingway’s macho protagonists who toil under harsh conditions in briny sea air as they muse, "A man is never lost at sea." My vision stands in sharp contrast to the current state of elite sailing at the America’s Cup. The 165-year-old contest is yachting on the next level, a cross between X Games adrenaline and a Formula One face-off./news/tiktok-and-spotify-together-at-last.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tiktok-and-spotify-together-at-last.htmlTikTok and Spotify, together at last. TikTok’s main feed now has an “add song” button that lets you save songs to your Spotify Liked Songs playlist. Spotify says both free and paid US and UK members will get it. If you don’t see it yet, make sure to update both apps and set Spotify as as your default streaming service in the TikTok app (Settings > Music). Update November 14th, 2023, 11:45AM ET: TechCrunch notes you can also pick Apple Music or Amazon Music./news/trump-s-first-100-days-a-visual-review.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/trump-s-first-100-days-a-visual-review.htmlThe Trump presidency is unique for many reasons, not least because our President is a showman — a reality TV star obsessed with ratings and visuals. Those instincts and his team’s inexperience with the trappings of government have run headlong into the carefully choreographed and stage-managed traditions of the Presidency — a show that’s been running for hundreds of years. The photos of the past 100 days reveal wholesale changes to the equipment our President uses, the design of his productions, and the ways in which the media captures him./news/tumblr-down-due-to-major-network-problems-update-back-up.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tumblr-down-due-to-major-network-problems-update-back-up.htmlTumblr has been experiencing some serious problems today: the entire platform has been down since this morning, with even the status blog falling victim. While it's promised a quick solution in tweets, the problem appears to have gotten worse in the meantime. Two hours ago, the company blamed the issue on "one of our uplink providers," promising it would be fixed soon. As The Next Web points out, this is the second time in a week that Tumblr has had a major outage, previously experiencing trouble on October 19th./news/tumblr-s-adult-content-ban-means-the-death-of-unique-blogs-that-explore-sexuality.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tumblr-s-adult-content-ban-means-the-death-of-unique-blogs-that-explore-sexuality.htmlThis week, Tumblr announced that it would ban all adult content from its platform and said any user who was hurt by the decision could simply migrate to another site. But creators and readers alike don’t believe there’s another website that fosters the same kind of sex-positive spaces that Tumblr has. It’s as though Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio has failed to understand his own platform, how unique these communities are to Tumblr, and how unlikely it is for them to survive beyond the shutdown./news/tunic-is-a-zelda-style-adventure-that-rekindled-my-love-of-strategy-guides.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tunic-is-a-zelda-style-adventure-that-rekindled-my-love-of-strategy-guides.htmlAs a kid, I was obsessed with Nintendo’s official player’s guides. I loved poring over the maps, hints, tips, and information in them so that I could use what I learned the next time I sat down in front of the TV. I have a particular fondness for the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask guides — without them, I would have never been able to find all of the pieces of heart or masks hidden in the games./news/twitch-star-xmiramira-is-fighting-against-lackluster-black-skin-in-the-sims.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-star-xmiramira-is-fighting-against-lackluster-black-skin-in-the-sims.htmlAmira Virgil, known as Xmiramira on Twitch and YouTube, felt something wasn’t right with The Sims 4. Virgil, a content creator and video game streamer, is also a storyteller. Her YouTube page is filled with playlists of soap-opera style Sims 4 Let’s Plays in which she crafts narratives to accompany the actions of her characters in the game. She’s like a showrunner, acting as producer, director, script writer, and, ultimately, God, controlling her characters as they move through a world she created using The Sims 4 and its elaborate library of expansion packs./news/twitch-streamer-kai-cenat-charged-with-inciting-a-riot-after-chaotic-giveaway-in-union-square.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-streamer-kai-cenat-charged-with-inciting-a-riot-after-chaotic-giveaway-in-union-square.htmlA massive gathering of people showed up on Friday afternoon at New York City’s Union Square for a giveaway hosted by two social media influencers, mega-popular Twitch streamer Kai Cenat and another streamer, Fanum. Cenat is the most-subscribed streamer on Twitch, according to TwitchTracker. The giveaway was set to take place at Union Square Park at 4PM ET, and the park was full of people by 3PM. An earlier video posted by Cenat from the inside of a vehicle showed him talking about multiple PS5s he intended to give away while showing off a huge stack of $100 gift cards./news/us-space-force-explains-why-its-logo-isn-t-a-star-trek-ripoff.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/us-space-force-explains-why-its-logo-isn-t-a-star-trek-ripoff.htmlAn official logo and motto for the United States Space Force have been revealed, following the announcement of its official seal back in January, and flag in May. The organization’s motto is “Semper Supra,” which is Latin for “Always Above,” while the logo itself is based around a delta shape that’s been the focus of some mockery thanks to its similarity to Starfleet’s logo from Star Trek. Defenders of Space Force’s seal were quick to point out that its actual inspiration appears to be the shield for Air Force Space Command./news/us-to-require-all-new-vehicles-to-have-robust-automatic-emergency-braking.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/us-to-require-all-new-vehicles-to-have-robust-automatic-emergency-braking.htmlAll new vehicles will be required to have a “more effective” version of automatic emergency braking (AEB) under a new rule proposed today by the US Department of Transportation. Around 90 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road today come standard with AEB. But the Department of Transportation is proposing a rule that would require automakers to adopt a more robust version of the technology that can stop vehicles traveling at higher speeds and detect vulnerable road users, like cyclists and pedestrians, even at night./news/valve-releases-steam-link-app-for-macos.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/valve-releases-steam-link-app-for-macos.htmlValve is launching a dedicated Steam Link app for macOS this week. The app allows Steam users to stream games from a PC to devices with the Steam Link app installed. While the Steam macOS app has offered streaming already, MacRumors points out that this lightweight Steam Link app is just 30MB in size from the Mac App Store compared to the full Steam app, which requires 1GB of storage space./news/vampire-survivors-legacy-of-the-moonspell-dlc-might-add-vampires.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vampire-survivors-legacy-of-the-moonspell-dlc-might-add-vampires.htmlDespite the name, Vampire Survivors currently doesn’t have any vampires among its 41 playable characters and hordes of enemies, but that could change with the game’s first DLC expansion. On the Steam page for the newly announced expansion, Legacy of the Moonspell, developer Poncle is hinting that we might finally see vampires in the game. “Legacy of the Moonspell is the first DLC for Vampire Survivors, and introduces a brand new stage, new characters, new monsters, and new weapons to slaughter them with,” Poncle writes./news/verizon-will-switch-to-google-s-jibe-platform-to-support-rcs-messaging-on-android.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/verizon-will-switch-to-google-s-jibe-platform-to-support-rcs-messaging-on-android.htmlVerizon will switch to Google’s Jibe platform to support RCS messaging on Android. Years after switching to Messages as the default texting app on its Android phones, Verizon says it is “leveling up” the next-gen text message support with a plan to move from its self-hosted servers to Google’s Jibe RCS platform. There’s no word on when the shift will happen, but it follows similar announcements from AT&T and T-Mobile last year and should allow for a more reliable experience, which Droid-Life notes should enable read receipts and interoperability with RCS on other networks./news/video-game-industry-wins-first-oscar-with-documentary-short-colette.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/video-game-industry-wins-first-oscar-with-documentary-short-colette.htmlColette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Presented by Oculus Studios and Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment, and later acquired and distributed by The Guardian, it’s the first time a video game industry project has won an Oscar. Directed by Anthony Giacchino, Colette features a French Resistance survivor, Colette Marin-Catherine, returning to Germany for the first time since the end of World War II to visit a slave labor camp where her brother was killed./news/vivo-nex-3-review-chasing-waterfalls.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vivo-nex-3-review-chasing-waterfalls.htmlFive years ago, I reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge, the first phone to feature an OLED screen that curved at the side. It didn’t have much practical function, but it looked great and served as a useful technical proof of concept for Samsung. I described it as a small step down the path to foldable phones. Well, here we are in 2019, and we just about have foldable phones, while every Samsung flagship now has an OLED screen with curved edges as a standard design feature./news/walmart-tries-to-undercut-amazon-prime-with-cheaper-subscription-service.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/walmart-tries-to-undercut-amazon-prime-with-cheaper-subscription-service.htmlWalmart is trying yet again to take on Amazon Prime with its own delivery subscription service. The new service, which launches September 15th, is named Walmart+ and costs $12.95 a month or $98 a year, compared to $119 for Amazon Prime. For that price, subscribers will get unlimited free deliveries from stores on orders over $35. More than 160,000 items are covered by this, including fresh groceries and household essentials. Walmart says these deliveries can be “as fast as same-day,” but it seems delivery speed will depend on what exactly is in each order./news/we-spoke-to-the-actual-designer-behind-kanye-west-s-iplane-pitch-to-the-president.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/we-spoke-to-the-actual-designer-behind-kanye-west-s-iplane-pitch-to-the-president.htmlSpeaking to The Verge, Hirshberg explained that he had no idea that Kanye was using his art. “No, it completely caught me by surprise. A good surprise, I would say — it’s always nice to see your designs being thought well for,” Hirshberg said. “It’s always nice to see your designs being thought well for.” “This is the accumulation of a one year intensive work, it was my graduating thesis project for my master’s degree in the College for Creative Studies in Detroit,” which Hirshberg described as examining the main problems plaguing air travel today, especially in developing countries, and attempting to design a solution./news/why-it-took-nintendo-15-years-to-make-metroid-dread.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-it-took-nintendo-15-years-to-make-metroid-dread.htmlAround 15 years ago, Yoshio Sakamoto had an idea for the next mainline Metroid game. Called Dread, the game would feature longtime protagonist Samus Aran constantly pursued by some kind of all-powerful force. The idea was to instill fear in players with an enemy they couldn’t defeat. This was the same time that the Nintendo DS was becoming a breakout hit, but Sakamoto soon realized that the handheld wasn’t powerful enough for his ideas./news/wow-dishonored-2-sure-does-have-a-lot-of-ways-to-kill-this-one-guy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wow-dishonored-2-sure-does-have-a-lot-of-ways-to-kill-this-one-guy.htmlDishonored 2’s “grand inventor” Kirin Jindosh is a blowhard at best, a bringer of death at worst. The Clockwork Soldiers inventor is a nuisance for leads Emily and Corvo either way. In the game’s “The Clockwork Mansion” mission, regardless of which hero you play, you’re charged with eliminating the threat posed by Jindosh. How you want to do this is up to you, whether that means by peaceful methods or a more lethal option./news/xbox-the-verge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xbox-the-verge.htmlHere’s another look at Avowed, coming in 2024. Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase is full of release dates today, but we still don’t have an exact one for Avowed. Obsidian’s upcoming first-person RPG is still arriving in 2024, though. I heard from sources a few months ago that it was targeting a November release. Last year, we got a good look at Avowed and a promise of a 2024 launch, and we’re getting much of the same today./news/xbox-one-s-teardown-reveals-a-slightly-faster-hard-drive.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/xbox-one-s-teardown-reveals-a-slightly-faster-hard-drive.htmlThe team over at iFixit has completed their teardown of the new Xbox One S, and the results have revealed a couple of interesting features. The Xbox One S features a SATA III hard drive — specifically a Seagate Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 2 TB 5400 RPM with 32 MB Cache — a slight upgrade over the SATA II drive in the original Xbox One. Hard drive replacements will still void the warranty, so if you have any ideas about swapping it out for an SSD, remember that./news/yahoo-shows-off-password-free-logins-and-new-encrypted-email-technology.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/yahoo-shows-off-password-free-logins-and-new-encrypted-email-technology.htmlPasswords are terrible: they're inefficient and they're often insecure, too. Many leading tech companies have embraced two-factor authentication as a more secure option, but they're optional and only those particularly concerned about their digital identities take the time to set it up. That's why Yahoo is taking a new approach, called "on demand" passwords. Like two-step authentication, you'll be sent a unique time-sensitive code through an app or a text message to your phone when you want to log in./news/your-tiktok-login-will-soon-work-with-other-apps.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/your-tiktok-login-will-soon-work-with-other-apps.htmlTikTok announced two new integrations for its app on Thursday: sharing audio back into TikTok using the new Sound Kit, and using your TikTok account to log in to other apps with Login Kit. Developers can apply to use the new SDKs to insert the short-form video app’s content in even more places, but they may open the company and its users to new privacy concerns. The basic features of Login Kit will sound familiar./news/your-wyze-webcam-might-have-let-other-owners-peek-into-your-house.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/your-wyze-webcam-might-have-let-other-owners-peek-into-your-house.htmlThis was a web caching issue and is now resolved. For about 30 minutes this afternoon, a small number of users who used a web browser to log in to their camera on view.wyze.com may have seen cameras of other users who also may have logged in through view.wyze.com during that time frame. The issue DID NOT affect the Wyze app or users that did not log in to view.wyze.com during that time period. Once we identified the issue we shut down view./news/enter-the-labyrinth-getting-lost-in-door-into-the-dark.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/enter-the-labyrinth-getting-lost-in-door-into-the-dark.htmlI started out in a box with white walls, a low chair, and a locked cabinet — the world’s most ominous waiting room. A map of some territory I don’t remember was fixed to one wall, and a ring of keys — old, rusty cartoon-jailer keys — hung from another. While I waited, I wondered if I was supposed to do something with them. I wondered if somebody was secretly watching me./news/the-transparent-fx0-will-finally-make-you-want-a-firefox-os-phone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-transparent-fx0-will-finally-make-you-want-a-firefox-os-phone.htmlFirefox OS is coming to Japan and doing it in style. Announced at a KDDI press event in Tokyo today, the Fx0 is a striking 4.7-inch smartphone with a transparent shell and a home button decorated with the golden Firefox logo embracing the Earth. It runs the latest version of Mozilla's web-centric mobile OS and was designed by noted Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka, whose previous collaboration with KDDI produced a phone worthy of making it into the Museum of Modern Art's collection./news/a-female-uber-employee-spoke-out-after-a-company-trip-to-a-south-korean-escort-bar.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-female-uber-employee-spoke-out-after-a-company-trip-to-a-south-korean-escort-bar.htmlAmid Uber’s recent problems surrounding its workplace culture, a new incident involving a company trip to a South Korean escort bar has been brought to light, according to a report published by The Information. The 2014 incident prompted a complaint to the company’s human resources department, and recently came to light when company officials tried to get their stories straight with former employees. The report outlines a trip by a group of Uber employees to a Seoul karaoke-escort bar in 2014, which included company CEO Travis Kalanick and his girlfriend, Gabi Holzwarth./news/a-tiny-insect-stands-between-a-billionaire-golf-developer-and-his-newest-course.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-tiny-insect-stands-between-a-billionaire-golf-developer-and-his-newest-course.htmlI’m looking at a dead fly. It’s been dead for 22 years, in fact. There it hangs, impaled by a tiny metal pin, fixing it safely to a piece of foam. The specimen is a few millimeters in length, but it’s easy to make out the chunkiness of its thorax and the proud shape of its wings. This is Botanophila fonsecai, Fonseca’s seed fly. It was caught in 1996 on a beach beside Dornoch in northeast Scotland, and it’s part of a collection being cataloged by Stephen Moran, an entomologist who lives nearby./news/after-losing-ninja-twitch-signs-another-fortnite-star.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/after-losing-ninja-twitch-signs-another-fortnite-star.htmlAmyoony announced that, starting September 1st, he will be moving away from YouTube and live-streaming his Fortnite matches exclusively on Twitch. Although the deal still allows him to upload compilation edits of his gameplay to YouTube (a move many streamers do to increase their audience across platforms and potentially earn more revenue), the majority of his focus will be on Twitch. Amyoony said he decided to jump ship to take advantage of Twitch’s low latency (meaning he can talk to viewers without worrying about too much of a delay) and participate in Twitch-exclusive tournaments, like Twitch Rivals./news/ai-video-and-image-editing-is-coming-to-facebook-and-instagram.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ai-video-and-image-editing-is-coming-to-facebook-and-instagram.htmlFacebook and Instagram are getting some new AI-powered creative tools that will allow users to edit their photographs and produce “high-quality videos” using text descriptions. On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two new capabilities built on Emu — the company’s foundation model for image generation — that are being integrated into Facebook and Instagram. The first, dubbed “Emu Edit,” will allow users to “precisely alter images based on text inputs./news/amazon-is-suing-to-stop-sms-raffle-scams.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-is-suing-to-stop-sms-raffle-scams.htmlEver get a text message informing you that you’ve won a prize — from Amazon itself? I certainly have, and I’ve even known a person or two who fell for those scams. Now, Amazon is attempting to hunt those scammers down, with a new lawsuit aimed at unmasking 50 unknown defendants in federal court. Here’s the text message I received the other day from one such scammer: And here’s where it took me when I clicked:/news/amd-announces-ryzen-z1-and-z1-extreme-chips-for-handheld-gaming-pcs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amd-announces-ryzen-z1-and-z1-extreme-chips-for-handheld-gaming-pcs.htmlOn Friday, we told you how AMD is quietly arming a whole new wave of Steam Deck competitors. But the company’s now saying the quiet part out loud: today, it’s officially announcing the AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, a pair of 4nm processors specifically aimed at handheld gaming PCs. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme pairs eight of AMD’s Zen 4 CPU cores and 16 threads with 12 of its RDNA 3 graphics cores as well as 24MB of cache — and promises up to a whopping 8./news/animal-crossing-powers-nintendo-to-record-switch-sales-in-japan.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/animal-crossing-powers-nintendo-to-record-switch-sales-in-japan.htmlAnimal Crossing: New Horizons is on track to become one of the best-selling video games of all time in Japan, according to sales figures released by Famitsu. The game managed to sell 1.88 million physical copies in its opening three days in Nintendo’s home market, a number far bigger than any other Switch game or Animal Crossing title to date. Famitsu doesn’t track digital sales, so the actual total will be significantly higher./news/another-crab-s-treasure-review-a-cheery-accessible-take-on-dark-souls.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/another-crab-s-treasure-review-a-cheery-accessible-take-on-dark-souls.htmlAnother Crab’s Treasure isn’t shy about its inspirations. If an area titled “The Sands Between” isn’t clue enough, this colorful soulslike about a crab questing to retrieve his shell serves up constant reminders of FromSoftware’s oeuvre, especially Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. That doesn’t make Another Crab’s Treasure just another FromSoftware clone in an increasingly crowded field. Another Crab’s Treasure is a different beast: a rare soulslike with a sense of humor, plenty of undersea pizzazz, and a surprisingly accessible take on the formula./news/apple-and-paramount-discuss-streaming-bundle-to-fight-subscription-fatigue.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-and-paramount-discuss-streaming-bundle-to-fight-subscription-fatigue.htmlApple and Paramount discuss streaming bundle to fight subscription fatigue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the two companies have considered bundling Apple TV Plus and Paramount Plus together for a cheaper price than paying for both streaming services separately. Details are slim, but If it comes to fruition the combined service would join similar entertainment bundles that aim to combat rising customer defections, like Verizon’s $10 bundle for Netflix and Max./news/apple-ipad-pro-2022-review-bump-the-chip.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-ipad-pro-2022-review-bump-the-chip.htmlIt’s a weird year for the iPad Pro. Apple’s top-of-the-line tablet computer has gotten one of its smallest upgrades in recent memory, while the new 10th-gen iPad received things Pro owners have been longing for on their devices for years. And the midtier iPad Air continues to get better with each generation, which just encroaches more on the Pro’s territory. Owners of existing iPad Pro models can happily hang on to what they have and not miss much; if you’re considering buying a Pro this year, I encourage you to look for a sale on last year’s models before committing to the cost of a brand new one./news/apple-is-buying-the-netflix-of-magazines-for-an-undisclosed-amount.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-is-buying-the-netflix-of-magazines-for-an-undisclosed-amount.htmlThe bridge between tech companies and journalism continues to narrow with Apple’s latest purchase. Apple already delivers curated news from third-party publishers through its Apple News platform. In a statement, Apple’s SVP of internet software and services, Eddy Cue, said, “We are committed to quality journalism from trusted sources and allowing magazines to keep producing beautifully designed and engaging stories for users.” It might also be an effort on Apple’s part to match competitors like Google, which offers news through its Play Store, and Amazon, which has its own subscription reading services./news/apple-launches-final-cut-camera-app-to-support-multicam-productions.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-launches-final-cut-camera-app-to-support-multicam-productions.htmlApple is releasing a new Final Cut Camera app for iPhone and iPad that can take video and stream it live back to an iPad for a Multicam shoot, as well as provide more controls for filmmakers. The company’s new pro-level app provides “precise manual controls” and can be used as a plain standalone camera app. The new Final Cut Camera is launching alongside the updated Final Cut 2 app, a successor to last year’s debut Final Cut for iPad./news/apple-macbook-air-m3-hands-on-first-impressions.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-macbook-air-m3-hands-on-first-impressions.htmlHere they are, the 13-inch and 15-inch Apple MacBook Air M3s. And I’ve got one of each. One in starlight and one in midnight. The midnight one is already covered in smudges, while the starlight shines bright, free of visible finger oils. But at least I can tell these two apart. The chassis of the 13-inch and 15-inch Air M3s are the same as their M2 predecessors: same wedgeless design, same dimensions and weight, same colorway options — same everything./news/apple-reportedly-buys-ai-startup-with-privacy-conscious-approach.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-reportedly-buys-ai-startup-with-privacy-conscious-approach.htmlApple has reportedly acquired Silk Labs, a little-known startup which focused on building on-device machine learning software. The purchase, which took place earlier this year according to The Information, would be a natural fit for Apple’s privacy-centric approach to AI. After an unsuccessful foray into the smart home, Silk Labs developed on-device machine learning services. This means processing data without sending it to the cloud — a method that Apple has also preferred./news/apple-to-issue-iphone-12-software-update-in-france-to-address-radiation-concerns.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-to-issue-iphone-12-software-update-in-france-to-address-radiation-concerns.htmlApple says it will release a software update for iPhone 12 owners in France, after regulators ordered a halt of sales of the phone over concerns the device was breaching strict radiation exposure limits. “We will issue a software update for users in France to accommodate the protocol used by French regulators,” says Apple in a statement to Reuters. “We look forward to iPhone 12 continuing to be available in France./news/apple-updates-tvos-with-home-support-and-picture-in-picture.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-updates-tvos-with-home-support-and-picture-in-picture.htmlApple has announced a variety of new features for its tvOS platform, adding better support for Apple’s HomeKit accessories, a new picture-in-picture mode, and Microsoft’s Elite 2 and Adaptive Xbox One controllers. tvOS will also allow for direct control of HomeKit accessories through a new Control Center UI, which looks similar to the menu found on iOS and iPadOS. As part of that new UI, Apple is also offering multiuser support for the Apple TV, although the company has only said that it’ll be used for resuming gameplay on Apple Arcade games for now./news/apple-s-green-iphone-13-and-13-pro-versus-samsung-s-green-galaxy-s22.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-green-iphone-13-and-13-pro-versus-samsung-s-green-galaxy-s22.html“So, is there some kind of promotional tie-in?” My husband was searching for answers. “No. They’re just green phones.” This was not a satisfying answer, so he continued. “Is it an environmental thing? Like are they made out of recycled plastic or something?” Also no, I informed him. They’re just regular phones, but green. “Oh, I bet it’s for St. Patty’s Day!” It also seemed unlikely that Apple would time the release of a new phone color for what is more or less an unofficial binge drinking holiday in this country, but I conceded that it was possible, given the mid-March timing./news/apple-s-lightning-only-charging-case-for-the-third-gen-airpods-doesn-t-make-sense.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-lightning-only-charging-case-for-the-third-gen-airpods-doesn-t-make-sense.htmlFor those looking to trade convenience for savings, foregoing wireless charging used to be a genuinely good option, saving you 20 percent. Now, you can just as easily save $10 on third-gen AirPods with two seconds of Googling — the MagSafe versions are on sale for $169 at both Amazon and Target. If you’re willing to wait, you could probably snag them for even less around the holiday season if last year’s deals are anything to go by./news/apple-s-one-more-thing-arm-mac-event-live-blog.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-one-more-thing-arm-mac-event-live-blog.htmlAt WWDC in June, Apple announced it would begin a two-year transition to using its own processors on Macs this year. True to its word, it has one last event in 2020, titled “One More Thing” after Steve Jobs’ famous catchphrase. We are absolutely expecting Arm-based processors for Macs. Specifically, Bloomberg has reported that the first ones to arrive will be a new MacBook Air and a new 13-inch MacBook Pro./news/april-fools-2024-scishow-s-living-pet-rocks.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/april-fools-2024-scishow-s-living-pet-rocks.htmlApril Fools’ 2024: SciShow’s living pet rocks. SciShow claims it has tapped into the source vein for living pet rocks. As one-time Decoder guest host Hank Green says in the video, it’s clearly an April Fools’ bit, but then he follows through with an announcement that you can preorder a pet rock sticker collection from the SciShow merch store. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXxye5FtaGpwY2yAcK3Pq6ClZZakvK2%2FjGtna2xdqLCqv8eorqxlnJ7DqrrGZqeerF2nvKS30g%3D%3D/news/asus-zenfone-9-review-a-compact-android-flagship.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/asus-zenfone-9-review-a-compact-android-flagship.htmlUnboxing the Asus Zenfone 9 was like meeting someone new and learning that you like the same obscure movies or went to the same high school. I could tell immediately we’d get along. “You’re IP68 and you have a headphone jack? No way! I love headphone jacks!”  A lot of the attraction has to do with its size. As it did with the Zenfone 8, Asus has set out to answer the question “what would a small (read: reasonably sized) flagship Android phone look like?/news/blackberry-10-to-support-android-4-1-jelly-bean-apps-and-runtime-eventually.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blackberry-10-to-support-android-4-1-jelly-bean-apps-and-runtime-eventually.htmlOne of the major features in the new BlackBerry 10 platform is the ability to support Android apps, giving the nascent platform access to many more apps than it would have otherwise. But as we noted in our review of the Z10, the Android implementation in BlackBerry 10 isn't exactly great, and in fact, it is based on a version of Android that is pushing two years of age. BlackBerry hopes to change that soon, as it announced at a developer conference today that it would eventually support Android 4./news/boeing-accepts-guilty-plea-deal-over-737-max-crashes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/boeing-accepts-guilty-plea-deal-over-737-max-crashes.htmlBoeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge related to a pair of crashes of its 737 Max planes, as part of a plea deal with the US Department of Justice. Lawyers for the victims’ families plan to object to the deal, which was forged on Sunday just before a midnight deadline and must still be approved by a federal judge. The two crashes, which happened in 2018 and 2019, killed more than 300 people./news/build-a-speedy-portable-usb-c-drive-with-this-discounted-m-2-enclosure.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/build-a-speedy-portable-usb-c-drive-with-this-discounted-m-2-enclosure.htmlIn most cases, people purchase M.2 NVMe drives to stick into their desktop PCs or laptops for more of that good, fast storage. But there are some other, more practical applications that don’t require opening up your hardware. You can get one of these fast SSDs, then stick it into a small enclosure, and suddenly you’ve made yourself a convenient and speedy portable USB-C drive that’ll cost you as little as $93 with today’s deals./news/call-of-duty-mobile-is-a-free-to-play-tour-of-the-franchise-s-greatest-hits.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/call-of-duty-mobile-is-a-free-to-play-tour-of-the-franchise-s-greatest-hits.htmlActivision and Tencent have announced Call of Duty: Mobile, a free-to-play version of the first-person shooter that’s coming to iOS and Android later this year, via Polygon. The game is set to offer a greatest hits tour of the franchise’s most popular multiplayer modes, including Search and Destroy and Free-For-All as well as maps like Nuketown and Crash. Call of Duty: Mobile is being developed by Tencent’s Timi studio, and it appears to be a different handheld game from the one that’s under development by Candy Crush developer King, which was first teased last year./news/cameras-and-photography-the-verge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cameras-and-photography-the-verge.htmlA Peak Design “data compromise” leaked 10 years worth of customer service tickets. In the grand scheme of things, there have been far worse security breaches than what Peak Design, the popular camera accessory brand, is currently dealing with. But if you had any customer service interactions with the company between October 2013 and May 2023, well... everything contained in those tickets was accessed by an unknown third party before the issue was fixed./news/chamberlain-shuts-off-access-to-myq-s-apis-breaking-smart-home-integrations.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chamberlain-shuts-off-access-to-myq-s-apis-breaking-smart-home-integrations.htmlThe Chamberlain Group — owners of the MyQ smart garage door controller tech — has announced it’s shut off all “unauthorized access” to its APIs. The move breaks the smart home integrations of thousands of users who relied on platforms such as Homebridge and Home Assistant to do things like shut the garage door when they lock their front door or flash a light if they leave their door open for 10 minutes, or whatever other control or automation they wanted to do with the device they bought and paid for./news/chromebook-101-how-to-customize-your-chromebook-s-desktop.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chromebook-101-how-to-customize-your-chromebook-s-desktop.htmlChrome OS isn’t the most option-packed operating system around, but there are some things you can do to make your Chromebook’s desktop look and work the way you want. First, let’s tackle your desktop’s basic appearance: You can choose from several categories of wallpaper images. You can also personalize the page that comes up every time you open a new tab in your browser: You can customize the background or theme of each new browser page./news/corsair-asus-and-others-are-making-it-easier-to-build-a-beautiful-pc.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/corsair-asus-and-others-are-making-it-easier-to-build-a-beautiful-pc.htmlI hate cables. I hide them in the walls behind my TV, I make them disappear around my desk, and I try to eradicate them everywhere else in my life. So every time I hear about something in the PC building community that involves hiding or removing cables, I get excited. Over the past few years, some of the biggest names in PC building have been making it easier to hide cables away and build a PC that showcases your skills./news/court-blocks-california-s-online-child-safety-law.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/court-blocks-california-s-online-child-safety-law.htmlA federal judge has granted a request to block the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA), a law that requires special data safeguards for underage users online. In a ruling issued today, Judge Beth Freeman granted a preliminary injunction for tech industry group NetChoice, saying the law likely violates the First Amendment. It’s the latest of several state-level internet regulations to be blocked while a lawsuit against them proceeds, including some that are likely bound for the Supreme Court./news/cult-classic-star-wars-republic-commando-is-getting-remastered-for-the-ps4-and-switch.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cult-classic-star-wars-republic-commando-is-getting-remastered-for-the-ps4-and-switch.htmlStar Wars: Republic Commando, the mid-2000s cult classic tactical first-person shooter, will get a new life on modern consoles when an HD remaster releases on April 6th for PS4 and Switch for $14.99. Aspyr Media is handling the new version. The studio previously released a remaster for Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for the PS4 and Switch and is also working on a remaster of Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse, which is set to launch on March 16th./news/cyberpunk-2077-bans-unauthorized-keanu-reeves-sex.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cyberpunk-2077-bans-unauthorized-keanu-reeves-sex.htmlCyberpunk 2077 creator CD Projekt Red would kindly like modders to stop making Keanu Reeves into a sex object. Following a fan mod that allowed players to have sex with Reeves’ character, Johnny Silverhand, the developer told PC Gamer that user-generated content cannot be “harmful towards others” — especially when it comes to mods. “In the case of model swaps, especially those that involve explicit situations, it can be perceived as such by the people who lent us their appearance for the purpose of creating characters in Cyberpunk 2077,” the developer said./news/dear-angelica-might-be-the-most-beautiful-virtual-reality-i-ve-ever-seen.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dear-angelica-might-be-the-most-beautiful-virtual-reality-i-ve-ever-seen.htmlOculus Story Studio was assembled to be at the vanguard of virtual reality entertainment, experimenting with a form that’s still in its infancy. But it hadn’t really earned that title until now, with the Sundance premiere of Dear Angelica. Despite a running time under 15 minutes, Dear Angelica is a fully formed piece created for VR, in VR. It’s directed by former Pixar artist Saschka Unseld, with art from illustrator Wesley Allsbrook, using a drawing tool called Quill that was developed for the project./news/dell-xps-13-review-dell-is-coasting-and-that-s-fine.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dell-xps-13-review-dell-is-coasting-and-that-s-fine.htmlThe Dell XPS 13 has long been one of the top recommendations for Windows users looking for a MacBook Air alternative. The model I reviewed in 2020 was one of the best gadgets I’ve ever reviewed; everything from the screen to the build to the performance and battery life was exceptionally strong.  Intel’s 12th Gen and 13th Gen processors have made computers like that a bit of a… fantasy. Sure, Apple and AMD are doing a great job on both the power and efficiency fronts./news/disney-plus-will-start-streaming-cinderella-in-4k-in-august.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-plus-will-start-streaming-cinderella-in-4k-in-august.htmlDisney Plus is getting a restored version of the classic Cinderella movie. Starting on August 25th, you can stream the 1950 animated film in 4K. Disney says it worked with the experts at the Walt Disney Animation Studios to enhance both the look and sound of the film, all while preserving “the rich colors, contrast, and accuracy of the original cels and artwork.” You can get a glimpse at how this might look in the before and after image embedded above./news/dpreview-isn-t-being-shut-down-thanks-to-new-ownership.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dpreview-isn-t-being-shut-down-thanks-to-new-ownership.htmlDPReview has been acquired by Gear Patrol — a publisher focused on varied product reviews and buying guides. Scott Everett, general manager for DPReview, announced the acquisition on Tuesday, saving the beloved camera reviews website from closure almost three months after the site announced it was being shut down by its former parent company, Amazon. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. “Gear Patrol is a natural home for the next phase of DPReview’s journey, and I’m excited to see what we can accomplish together,” said Everett./news/dr-disrespect-s-short-ban-divides-twitch-community.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dr-disrespect-s-short-ban-divides-twitch-community.htmlThere was no question that Dr Disrespect’s ban from Twitch would be temporary when he was suspended from the platform two weeks ago. But as the popular streamer, whose real name is Guy Beahm, prepares to make his return, the community is grappling to understand the precedent it sets going forward. Beahm was suspended for streaming in a public bathroom at a major video game convention, E3. It presented a pivotal moderation moment for Twitch: Beahm is one of the company’s most popular streamers, and whatever actions Twitch’s team took would send a message to the rest of the community./news/dumb-robots-that-make-mistakes-actually-help-humans-solve-problems.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dumb-robots-that-make-mistakes-actually-help-humans-solve-problems.htmlWhen humans work together with not-very-smart robots, they’re better at solving problems than when they work only with other people, new research says. The finding could help boost productivity in digital workplaces. And it’s a step toward understanding an automated future where bots might actually help people make better decisions. Of course, that’s probably what the creators of Skynet thought, too. Welcome to our automated future Our automated future has already arrived — at least, to some extent./news/e3-2020-has-been-canceled.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/e3-2020-has-been-canceled.htmlAfter careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry — our fans, our employees, our exhibitors, and our longtime E3 partners — we have made the decision to cancel E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11 in Los Angeles. Following increased and overwhelming concerns about the COVID-19 virus, we felt this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented global situation. We are very disappointed that we are unable to hold this event for our fans and supporters./news/electric-bikepacking-lessons-learned-over-four-days-and-250-miles.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/electric-bikepacking-lessons-learned-over-four-days-and-250-miles.html“Electric bikes are for cheaters” is the refrain sung by cocksure men in lycra, worried their weekend hobbies will be invaded by unfit neophytes on battery-powered gravel, mountain, and road bicycles.  It reminds me of the early internet when AOL users were considered inferior to the online elite who did the hard work of subscribing to a regional ISP. Back then, losing an argument with an aol.com email address was reason enough to sell your modem./news/eu-chat-control-law-proposes-scanning-your-messages-even-encrypted-ones.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/eu-chat-control-law-proposes-scanning-your-messages-even-encrypted-ones.htmlThe European Union is getting closer to passing new rules that would mandate the bulk scanning of digital messages — including encrypted ones. On Thursday, EU governments will adopt a position on the proposed legislation, which is aimed at detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The vote will determine whether the proposal has enough support to move forward in the EU’s law-making process. The law, first introduced in 2022, would implement an “upload moderation” system that scans all your digital messages, including shared images, videos, and links./news/facebook-adds-new-creative-and-video-streaming-features-to-its-vr-hangout-app.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-adds-new-creative-and-video-streaming-features-to-its-vr-hangout-app.htmlFacebook today announced a handful of new features for its virtual reality hangout app Spaces. The news, presented onstage at the Oculus Connect developer conference in San Jose, California, means you now can bring in your own photos and videos into Spaces, as well as stream 360-degree video from within the app. The company also introduced what it calls 3D Posts, which are cartoony, interactive 3D objects that can be crafted using new creative tools in Spaces and then be taken out of VR and posted directly to Facebook./news/facebook-launches-a-version-of-messenger-for-use-at-work.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-launches-a-version-of-messenger-for-use-at-work.htmlFacebook has launched a version of Messenger that's meant for the office. The app, first spotted by TechCrunch, is an expansion of Facebook at Work, a business platform Facebook has been testing that allows co-workers to talk and collaborate. Everything about Facebook at Work and its new Work Chat app looks almost identical to the Facebook and Messenger we all know — which means, thankfully, you can still use stickers — the only real difference is that the network is limited to people within a single company./news/fortnite-s-next-update-adds-adorable-monsters-and-brings-back-tilted-towers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-s-next-update-adds-adorable-monsters-and-brings-back-tilted-towers.htmlThe next big update for Fortnite brings back something old and adds something new. As fans have long expected, the snow on the battle royale island has slowly melted, revealing the return of Tilted Towers, an iconic urban area that dates back to Fortnite’s first island. Elsewhere in the v19.10 update is the addition of a new kind of creature: a giant, adorable monster called a Klombo. It looks like something ripped out of How to Train Your Dragon, and developer Epic says that they’re mostly gentle and they appear to add a new way of getting around the map./news/foxconn-says-it-might-build-evs-at-empty-wisconsin-site-or-in-mexico.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/foxconn-says-it-might-build-evs-at-empty-wisconsin-site-or-in-mexico.htmlThe chairman of Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn says the electronics giant is considering making electric vehicles at its mostly empty worksite in Wisconsin, where the company originally planned to make LCD panels. Either that, or Foxconn may make EVs in Mexico. The decision will be made by July 1st, chairman Young Liu said at a press conference Tuesday. Best known for manufacturing iPhones, Foxconn has recently shifted some of its attention to the booming electric vehicle space as a way to diversify its revenue./news/frontrow-is-another-high-end-take-on-the-idea-of-a-wearable-camera.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/frontrow-is-another-high-end-take-on-the-idea-of-a-wearable-camera.htmlOver the last few years, our smartphones have become the cameras we use most — even for photographers. But that hasn’t stopped companies big and small from trying to upset the order of things. Ubiquiti Labs — a new part of Ubiquiti Networks, which has (until now) mostly made mesh Wi-Fi products — is the latest to try to take the simplicity and, well, ubiquity of “mobile photography” to the next level with a new $399 wearable camera called FrontRow./news/gamescom-the-verge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gamescom-the-verge.htmlA lot will change with Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. CD Projekt Red showed off a new trailer of the major Cyberpunk 2077 expansion at Opening Night Live. The footage shows off things like a redesigned perks system and new vehicles coming alongside the expansion. Some of the improvements will also be coming to the base game on current-gen consoles and PC as part of update 2.0. Phantom Liberty is scheduled to be released on September 26th./news/gm-and-honda-join-forces-to-make-hydrogen-fuel-cells-for-various-products.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gm-and-honda-join-forces-to-make-hydrogen-fuel-cells-for-various-products.htmlGeneral Motors and Honda announced that their joint venture company, FCSM, has begun production of hydrogen fuel cells that will eventually make their way into “various product applications.” Hydrogen fuel cells use compressed hydrogen as their fuel, releasing water vapor as its only emission. A number of automakers have recently seized on the technology for its advantages in the development of heavy-duty vehicles and mobile power generators — and as a way to further transition away from polluting gas-powered vehicles./news/gmail-s-gemini-ai-sidebar-and-email-summaries-are-rolling-out-now.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gmail-s-gemini-ai-sidebar-and-email-summaries-are-rolling-out-now.htmlGmail is getting more AI features that could make it easier to stay on top of your email. On the web, Google is beginning to roll out a new Gemini side panel that can do things like summarize email threads and draft new emails. The tool will offer “proactive prompts” but you can also ask “freeform questions,” Google writes in a blog post, and it’s “built to leverage Google’s most capable models,” such as Gemini 1./news/gogo-sells-commercial-in-flight-internet-business-to-bankrupt-satellite-provider.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gogo-sells-commercial-in-flight-internet-business-to-bankrupt-satellite-provider.htmlThe bankruptcy was seen as a means for Intelsat to begin paying down its nearly $15 billion debt load while positioning itself to participate in a Federal Communications Commission spectrum clearing program, the company has said. The FCC is clearing out the C-band (4-8 GHz) to make space for 5G customers, and Intelsat is participating in the program that could net the company nearly $5 billion by selling airwave licenses it currently owns./news/google-beefs-up-drive-s-document-scanning-feature-and-brings-it-to-iphone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-beefs-up-drive-s-document-scanning-feature-and-brings-it-to-iphone.htmliPhone users in the US will also benefit from a new title suggestion feature that attempts to auto-generate a document title based on text it recognizes in the scan. The feature previously came to the Android version of Drive earlier this year. Google also says it’s improving document scanning on Android, adding similar features like the option to automatically capture documents when they’re in frame. 9to5Google spotted the rollout of this new Android interface last week./news/google-ceo-makes-fixing-hamburger-emoji-his-top-priority.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-ceo-makes-fixing-hamburger-emoji-his-top-priority.htmlDo you have strong feelings about cheeseburgers? I didn't realize I did until I saw the following tweet over the weekend: Take a good hard look at the position of the ingredients in the emoji above. Apple's ordering of the lettuce, presumably a variant of iceberg sourced from an Italian quarry, is understandable as a mechanism for preventing the lower bun from getting soggy. It’s the same approach taken by the In-N-Out chain./news/google-duo-is-taking-hangouts-place-on-android.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-duo-is-taking-hangouts-place-on-android.htmlIn its ongoing effort to push new chat software, Google won't require Android phone makers to preload the Hangouts app as part of its core mobile app suite starting December 1st, according to Android Police. In its place, the company will instead include Duo, its recently released FaceTime competitor for instant video chatting. Hangouts isn't totally going away. It will remain an optional member of the Google Mobile Services package, which Google requires manufacturers to install so consumers have integral services like the Chrome browser and Google Maps./news/google-fiber-launches-in-kansas-city-promises-1000-mbps-up-and-down.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-fiber-launches-in-kansas-city-promises-1000-mbps-up-and-down.htmlAs rumored, Google will deploy the fiber network in areas where there is most interest first, rather than plan the network out directly. Google is calling this each buildout a "rally," where Kansas City residents can vote by paying a $10 fee to preregister. Then, there's a "fiberhood" zone, where a minimum number of users need to preregister in order to have Google bring Fiber to that neighborhood. It seems like a rather complicated system, actually, but Google is likely hoping to get some grassroots support — and will be offering free Gigabit connectivity to schools to help./news/google-i-o-2024-the-verge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-i-o-2024-the-verge.html“Just prompt your prompt in the prompt bar.” Toward the end (maybe?) of the I/O keynote, Google threw in a cute little ditty about all the things you can do with Gemini prompts: generate photos of cats playing guitar, find smart things to say about Renoir, etc. It includes the phrase “There’s no wrong way to prompt,” which, have you met people? ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jqCmqJ%2Bcmnqquw%3D%3D/news/google-launches-health-research-app.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-launches-health-research-app.htmlGoogle announced Wednesday that it is launching a new research app for Android phones, which would allow anyone with a device to participate in medical studies. The first study run through the app, called Google Health Studies, will look at respiratory illnesses like the flu and COVID-19. Participants in the study will use the app to report any respiratory symptoms, the precautions they’re taking to prevent disease, and whether they’ve been tested for COVID-19 or the flu./news/google-launches-myglass-app-for-iphone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-launches-myglass-app-for-iphone.htmlUsing Google Glass and an iPhone together is getting a bit easier. After teasing it earlier this week, Google officially launched its MyGlass app for iOS today, giving iPhone and Glass owners a simpler way to manage the headset. Through MyGlass, iPhone owners can add Wi-Fi networks, select which services are active on Glass, and display directions on the headset. The app can also stream Glass's display back down to the iPhone./news/google-nexus-10-review-the-verge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-nexus-10-review-the-verge.htmlIn a stunning, shocking twist you'd never see coming, the Nexus 10 looks and feels a lot like the Nexus 7. It also looks and feels a lot like the Nexus 4 — Google's quietly built an impressively cohesive lineup of devices over the last several months. I do wish the Nexus 10 looked a little more like the Nexus 7, though, particularly on the back: the soft-touch, Steve-McQueen-gloves material on the back of the Nexus 7 is grippy and comfortable, and just feels much better than the smooth back of the Nexus 10./news/google-now-owns-mandiant-the-firm-that-found-solarwinds.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-now-owns-mandiant-the-firm-that-found-solarwinds.htmlGoogle has completed its acquisition of Mandiant, bringing a major name in cybersecurity under the tech giant’s ever-growing umbrella. The $5.4 billion acquisition, announced in March, was completed on Monday, according to a Google press release. Per details in the release, Mandiant will keep its own brand while operating under the Google Cloud branch of its new parent company. Google Cloud is the cloud computing platform offered by Google and provides cloud computing and data storage infrastructure for other companies to build products on top of./news/google-pixel-7-vs-pixel-6-specs-and-features-comparison.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-pixel-7-vs-pixel-6-specs-and-features-comparison.htmlStarting price$899$899$599$599$449Latest OS supportedAndroid 13Android 13Android 13Android 13Android 13Display6.7 inches (1440p, 10-120Hz refresh rate) OLED LTPO6.7 inches (1440p, 120Hz refresh rate) OLED6.3 inches (1080p, 90Hz refresh rate) OLED6.4 inches (1080p, 90Hz refresh rate) OLED6.1 inches (1080p, 60Hz) OLEDGorilla Glass versionVictusVictusVictusVictusGorilla Glass 3ProcessorGoogle Tensor G2 custom chipsetGoogle Tensor custom chipsetGoogle Tensor G2 custom chipsetGoogle Tensor custom chipsetGoogle Tensor custom chipsetRAM12GB12GB8GB8GB6GBStorage128, 256, 512GB128, 256, 512GB128, 256GB128, 256GB128GBConnectivityWi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, 5G (mmWave on select models)Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5./news/google-translate-adds-support-for-esperanto.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-translate-adds-support-for-esperanto.htmlIf you frequent websites that contain artificially constructed languages — and really, who doesn't? — you'll be pleased to know that Esperanto has been added as the 64th supported language in Google Translate. For the unfamiliar, Esperanto was intended to be a politically neutral language created by LL Zamenhof in the late 1800s. Zamenhof's goal was to create a language that would be easy to learn, transcended nationality, and, ultimately, foster world peace./news/google-wants-you-to-forget-the-10-blue-links.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-wants-you-to-forget-the-10-blue-links.htmlThe single most visited page on the internet is undergoing its most radical change in 25 years.  On Wednesday, Google introduced a major overhaul of its search results page that infuses the screen with AI. Called the Search Generative Experience (SGE), the new interface makes it so that when you type a query into the search box, the so-called “10 blue links” that we’re all familiar with appear for only a brief moment before being pushed off the page by a colorful new shade with AI-generated information./news/gopro-s-new-camera-is-the-hero10-black-bones-and-you-solder-it-to-a-drone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gopro-s-new-camera-is-the-hero10-black-bones-and-you-solder-it-to-a-drone.htmlWhen GoPro said it was going to build more specialized cameras this year, we didn’t quite know what it meant. Today, it’s revealing the GoPro Hero10 Black Bones, a cut-down version of its flagship camera meant explicitly for FPV drone pilots like the one who famously blazed through that bowling alley last year. The idea is that pilots will strap one of these to their drone to film brilliant footage while using a separate low-latency analog camera and a pair of FPV goggles to see where their drone is going./news/halo-bolt-portable-car-jump-starter-review-more-than-a-battery-saver.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/halo-bolt-portable-car-jump-starter-review-more-than-a-battery-saver.htmlGetting my license at age 16 was a breath of fresh air. It was me, my used 2007 Mazda6, and the open road. As anyone who knew me at the time will say, though, I was a misfortune magnet as a teenager and this extended to my car. There was even a running joke among my peers that I was on a first-name basis with the local tow truck drivers because AAA had to dispatch them on a regular basis — a dead battery being one of the more common mishaps./news/hamilton-is-bringing-back-the-original-digital-wristwatch-with-an-oled-twist.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hamilton-is-bringing-back-the-original-digital-wristwatch-with-an-oled-twist.htmlHamilton is bringing back the original digital watch with the PSR, a 50th anniversary tribute to the company’s legendary Pulsar Time Computer — the first commercially sold digital watch, which was released to massive hype in 1972. (The watch was first announced in 1970, hence the anniversary release this year.) Displaying the time not through a mechanical mechanism but rather an LED display that lit up when a button on the side was pressed, the original Pulsar (and it’s space-age, stainless steel design) was once viewed as the future of the world of technology./news/he-didn-t-shotgun-a-beer-crunch-the-can-against-his-head-rip-his-robe-off-and-scream-firs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/he-didn-t-shotgun-a-beer-crunch-the-can-against-his-head-rip-his-robe-off-and-scream-firs.html“He didn’t shotgun a beer, crunch the can against his head, rip his robe off, and scream ‘First Amendment forever, motherfuckers!’ But that was the vibe.” Corbin Barthold at The Daily Beast has a good piece on Brett Kavanaugh’s role at yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments: the only one in the room (besides NetChoice’s own lawyer) treating government censorship as a unique and serious concern. Kavanaugh called the states out for trying to turn the First Amendment upside down./news/hinge-s-new-feature-may-help-avoid-ghosting-but-only-if-your-matches-are-forgetful.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hinge-s-new-feature-may-help-avoid-ghosting-but-only-if-your-matches-are-forgetful.htmlPeople ghost matches on dating apps for a variety of reasons: they’re bored, they’re not ready to date, or maybe they’re just not that into you. And then there are the accidental ghosters, the ones who never message back because they’ve simply forgotten. For this special, mostly harmless brand of non-responders, the dating app Hinge is rolling out a new feature it’s dubbed “Your Turn” to help. Your Turn, available today, allows users the option to invite a person to start a conversation, as well as mark messages they’ve yet to respond to./news/how-gun-buffs-took-over-wikipedia-s-ar-15-page.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-gun-buffs-took-over-wikipedia-s-ar-15-page.htmlIn the days after the Parkland shooting, users flocked to Wikipedia to learn about guns. When users searched for “AR-15” — the style of gun used during the shooting — they were directed to the page for the “Colt AR-15.” The page was viewed more than 200,000 times on the day after Parkland, a hundred times its usual traffic. But those users didn’t find much information about mass shootings or political efforts./news/how-to-change-the-ringtone-on-your-doorbell.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-change-the-ringtone-on-your-doorbell.htmlA video doorbell is a high-tech upgrade for your front door, adding visual voicemail to your doorstep and a heads-up to who’s there on your smartphone or smart display. Another fun and little-known feature of smart doorbells is the option to change up the doorbell’s ringtone. Depending on the model, you can change the sound the doorbell itself makes or the sound the electronic chime inside your house makes. For example, Nest video doorbells can use different tones at the front door, but Ring and Arlo doorbells only change the sound of the compatible digital chimes inside your house./news/how-to-hide-the-samsung-galaxy-s10-s-hole-punch-camera-cutout.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-hide-the-samsung-galaxy-s10-s-hole-punch-camera-cutout.htmlBy now you may have noticed that the new Samsung Galaxy S10s have a new “hole-punch” design on the front-facing camera that allows for thinner bezels along the top of the screen. Samsung went with this design to avoid the generally disliked notch; the S10E and S10 have a circle hole punch, while the S10 Plus has a longer cutout to accommodate the dual lens selfie camera. But while this does add more screen real estate for those devices, some might find the hole punch a bit annoying to look at./news/how-to-make-the-most-of-google-keep.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-make-the-most-of-google-keep.htmlAs part of my job as a tech writer, and as part of my ongoing efforts to get organized at some point, I’ve tested a whole pile of note-taking apps through the years: the simple, the sophisticated, the quirky, the AI-powered, and on it goes. It’s a popular app category, and there’s no shortage of options. Amid all these different choices, one of the apps that I find myself regularly coming back to is Google Keep./news/how-to-run-cinebench-to-test-your-pc.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-run-cinebench-to-test-your-pc.htmlWe here at The Verge use benchmark utilities a lot to compare computers to each other and figure out which ones are the most powerful. But that’s not their only purpose. You may also want to run them just to see how your own PC stacks up to the competition and make sure it’s running as well as it’s supposed to. One of the easiest utilities for beginners to run is Cinebench R23./news/how-to-see-your-photos-and-albums-on-a-google-nest-hub-smart-display.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-see-your-photos-and-albums-on-a-google-nest-hub-smart-display.htmlThere are many digital picture frames out there, but what sets Google’s apart is the auto-adjustment feature that makes your digital pictures look like a printed image in a frame rather than a digital image on a computer screen. The Nest Hubs are also really easy to use — all you need is a free Google Photos account. And, starting at $100, they’re some of the least expensive options out there./news/how-to-use-alexa-s-drop-in-feature.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-alexa-s-drop-in-feature.htmlAmazon’s Drop In feature has become a useful tool for contacting people in your household, finding out what your kids are up to (especially when they’re being too quiet), and checking in on elderly relatives. It allows you to literally “drop in” using an Alexa-capable device, either just via audio or with audio and video. But since you don’t want anyone dropping in on you unwanted, it’s a good idea to understand how to set it up and how to use it./news/how-to-use-clear-calling-on-the-pixel-7-and-7-pro.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-use-clear-calling-on-the-pixel-7-and-7-pro.htmlWhen Google announced its new  Pixel 7 and 7 Pro smartphones, it promoted a feature called Clear Calling that would improve audio on hard-to-hear phone calls. The feature wasn’t ready when the phones went on sale, but in December 2022, Google made it available for its two latest devices via feature drop.  Here’s what Clear Calling does and how to enable it — which you should definitely do because it’s very good!/news/how-tumblr-went-from-being-the-most-porn-friendly-social-media-site-to-banning-porn.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-tumblr-went-from-being-the-most-porn-friendly-social-media-site-to-banning-porn.htmlAbout a decade ago, I met up with Tumblr founder David Karp at a SoHo coffee shop. I was a writer for Gawker Media’s porn blog, Fleshbot, and Karp was overseeing the relatively new and still growing microblogging platform. We’d met through New York City’s surprisingly small digital media scene. Over coffee, around the corner from Gawker’s Elizabeth Street office, Karp outlined his vision for what Tumblr could do for porn, and what porn could do for Tumblr in return./news/how-william-gibson-s-lost-alien-3-script-became-2019-s-strongest-audio-drama.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-william-gibson-s-lost-alien-3-script-became-2019-s-strongest-audio-drama.htmlSearch for Alien 3 on your favorite video-on-demand service, and you’ll inevitably land on a specific movie: David Fincher’s 1992 sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 hit Alien and James Cameron’s blockbuster 1986 follow-up Aliens. There are different versions out there — the theatrical version and the longer “assembly cut,” a recreation of an earlier version of the film. But they’re variations on the same work, a moody, visually striking, but not entirely successful film that drops protagonist Ellen Ripley on a lice-ridden prison planet that isn’t prepared to fend off an infestation of the xenomorphs she fought in the first two films./news/hulu-is-now-part-of-disney-plus-here-s-what-it-took-to-pull-that-off.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hulu-is-now-part-of-disney-plus-here-s-what-it-took-to-pull-that-off.htmlAs of today, Hulu is part of Disney Plus. Hulu still exists — it still even has its own app — but it’s also being bundled into Disney’s primary streaming service alongside all the company’s other content. Even the Disney Plus logo changed to integrate that iconic green Hulu hue.  From a product perspective, the Hulu integration is roughly what you’d imagine. Hulu is now a tile inside the app, next to Marvel and Pixar and National Geographic and the rest./news/ikea-expands-services-to-include-home-interior-design-offerings.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ikea-expands-services-to-include-home-interior-design-offerings.htmlIf you’re like me, you enjoy walking through Ikea stores and dream your home could be as neat and organized as the showroom samples — but you really don’t feel like putting in all that effort. Well, Ikea has a new interior design service that just might help you over that mental barrier of attempting to make a beautiful, modern, and functional space (via Fast Company). For $99 per room in your home (or $299 in a business setting), you can relinquish your DIY dreams of making your space yours yourself and let Ikea’s designers take care of the planning./news/intel-compute-stick-review-windows-10-for-your-tv.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/intel-compute-stick-review-windows-10-for-your-tv.htmlIn terms of design, the Intel Compute Stick looks about as simple and plain (read: boring) as its name suggests. Most of it is matte black, with a glossy section on the lower half that showcases Intel’s logo. There are two USB ports (an improvement over the lone input of the first model) and this time one of them is USB 3.0. There’s also a microSD slot (up to 128GB), so Intel has designed the Compute Stick with two features that should help alleviate constraints around the 32GB of built-in storage./news/inventor-of-email-and-savior-of-the-sign-ray-tomlinson-is-dead-at-74.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/inventor-of-email-and-savior-of-the-sign-ray-tomlinson-is-dead-at-74.htmlA computing legend has died. The inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, suffered an apparent heart attack on Saturday, according to reports. He was 74 years old. Tomlinson sent the very first email back in 1971; at the time, he was working in Boston at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), a company that was instrumental in the development of a very early version of the internet, called ARPANET. As an employee, he was "/news/iphone-budgeting-apps-can-now-automatically-import-your-apple-card-and-cash-transactions.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphone-budgeting-apps-can-now-automatically-import-your-apple-card-and-cash-transactions.htmlWith its latest iOS 17.4 update, Apple is adding an easier way for Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Savings with Apple Card users to track their balances and transactions, TechCrunch reports. With the update, third-party budgeting apps can automatically import information from Apple’s financial services via the iPhone maker’s FinanceKit API. Budgeting and money-management apps YNAB, Monarch, and Copilot have all rolled out support for the new feature, which will need to be manually set up from within their respective apps./news/j-k-rowling-announces-new-harry-potter-short-story-collections.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/j-k-rowling-announces-new-harry-potter-short-story-collections.htmlHot on the heels of the release of the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling announced a new series of Wizarding World ebooks, known as "Pottermore Presents." A new series of Wizarding World ebooks Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide will dive deeper into secrets and lore of the magical school; Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Political and Pesky Poltergeists will feature a new story with background on Professor Slughorn; and Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies, will reveal the history of Professor Kettleburn, along with more information on Professor McGonagall's role in the Second Wizarding War./news/janet-jackson-s-rhythm-nation-apparently-vibed-too-hard-for-some-laptops.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/janet-jackson-s-rhythm-nation-apparently-vibed-too-hard-for-some-laptops.htmlWhile it’s normal for friends to judge our music tastes and take away your aux privileges, our devices usually won’t complain about our listening habits (even if we ask them to repeatedly play a song that most humans would find insufferable). However, according to a story shared by Microsoft principal software engineer Raymond Chen on his blog The Old New Thing, some Windows XP-era laptops did end up taking exception to the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” because it contained a sound that crashed their hard drives./news/jay-z-s-new-album-will-be-exclusive-to-current-tidal-subscribers-unless-you-re-on-sprint.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jay-z-s-new-album-will-be-exclusive-to-current-tidal-subscribers-unless-you-re-on-sprint.htmlJay Z’s 13th solo album 4:44 will be released exclusively on Tidal at 12AM ET, but if you haven’t signed up for the service before then, you won’t have access to the album. A source with knowledge of the situation tells The Verge that as part of the Sprint deal, only customers of the carrier will be able to sign up for Tidal after 12AM ET and access the album. Until now, it has been unclear as to how Sprint — which provided Tidal with a $75 million budget for exclusives as part of its investment in the service — would benefit from Tidal exclusives, which have been available to anyone who signed up for the service before or after an exclusive release./news/jeff-bezos-kids-made-their-own-dj-roomba-with-an-echo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jeff-bezos-kids-made-their-own-dj-roomba-with-an-echo.htmlIt’s often said that a fresh pair of eyes can be essential for innovation. Altogether, Jeff Bezos’ four children have eight twinkling eyes and the common sense to slap an Echo Plus on an iRobot Roomba, an invention that is more or less what analysts are expecting from Amazon next in the form of a mobile Echo robot. In an Instagram post, dad Bezos proudly showed off his kids’ handiwork: blue painter’s tape haphazardly holding down the Echo to create an Alexa on wheels./news/lab-grown-vaginas-have-been-successfully-implanted-in-four-women.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lab-grown-vaginas-have-been-successfully-implanted-in-four-women.htmlScientists announced today that four women received lab-grown vaginas between 2005 and 2008 — and, according to their doctors, all of the patients are doing quite well. The women were born with either an underdeveloped or absent vagina The women, who were between 13 and 18 at the time of the surgery, were all born with a rare genetic condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) — a condition that causes about one in 4,500 girls to be born with either an underdeveloped or absent vagina and uterus./news/lego-announces-its-biggest-and-most-detailed-space-shuttle-set-yet.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lego-announces-its-biggest-and-most-detailed-space-shuttle-set-yet.htmlIn celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch, Lego is releasing a new Space Shuttle Discovery set in collaboration with NASA. Discovery was not the first shuttle to take flight — that would be Columbia, which likely stirs up too many sad feelings for a Lego set — but it was the shuttle that launched the Hubble Space Telescope, which is also included in the set./news/lenovo-smart-tabs-are-new-alexa-powered-tablets-that-can-be-docked-into-a-smart-speaker.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-smart-tabs-are-new-alexa-powered-tablets-that-can-be-docked-into-a-smart-speaker.htmlIt seems that we haven’t yet hit the limit on weird and novel implementations of Alexa, as Lenovo just announced what might be the neatest use of a charging station the smart home has to offer. Called Smart Tabs, the new pair of devices are 10-inch tablets with Alexa built in that, when docked into the charging station / smart speaker combo, go into Amazon’s Show Mode. That way, the device can display photo albums, play music, and accept standard Alexa voice requests as if it were an Echo Show./news/lenovo-to-begin-making-some-thinkpads-in-the-usa-beating-american-competitors.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-to-begin-making-some-thinkpads-in-the-usa-beating-american-competitors.htmlLargely a symbolic gesture, for now Considering the Chinese company had $29.6 billion in revenue during its last fiscal year, the decision appears to be primarily symbolic. The Wall Street Journal reports that the limited-capacity US plant will allow the company more flexibility when catering to its corporate clients, so don't expect your next ThinkPad Edge to be made locally — the vast majority of machines will likely continue to be built in China and Mexico./news/lg-g-pro-2-review-the-evolutionary-process.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-g-pro-2-review-the-evolutionary-process.htmlHardwareGoing big(ger) The G Pro was LG’s first phablet-style device that made sense — its 5.5-inch display was right in line with Samsung’s offerings at the time and it included a number of software tweaks to take advantage of the larger screen. The G Pro 2's 1080p display expands to an even larger 5.9 inches, and it’s just as nice to look at as before, with great viewing angles and color accuracy./news/logitech-s-g-cloud-gaming-handheld-arrives-in-october-for-349-99.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-s-g-cloud-gaming-handheld-arrives-in-october-for-349-99.htmlLogitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month. The Android-powered $349.99 handheld will arrive in North America on October 17th, with access to the Google Play Store, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia’s GeForce Now service. While you’ll be able to play Android mobile games, the focus is really on cloud gaming, and the handheld has been engineered this way to provide 12 hours or more of battery life./news/logitech-s-g-pro-x-superlight-is-its-lightest-wireless-gaming-mouse-yet.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-s-g-pro-x-superlight-is-its-lightest-wireless-gaming-mouse-yet.htmlNot to be outdone by manufacturers gunning to make the lightest gaming mouse out there (like the recent 66-gram SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless), Logitech’s new G Pro X Superlight weighs less than 63 grams without the need for holes. Most other manufacturers are punching honeycomb-shaped hole patterns out of their mice to achieve lighter weights, while Logitech’s latest is simple and smooth all over. In fact, it actually weighs about 63 grams, but if you remove the magnetic plate on the bottom that covers the USB wireless receiver, the weight goes down to 60 grams./news/lyft-s-new-women-plus-connect-feature-prioritizes-matches-with-women-and-nonbinary-riders.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lyft-s-new-women-plus-connect-feature-prioritizes-matches-with-women-and-nonbinary-riders.htmlThe feature offers Lyft drivers an option to turn on a preference in the Lyft app to prioritize matches with other nearby women and nonbinary riders. It’s not a guarantee, however, and if no riders that match that description are nearby, drivers will still be matched with men.  The driver view in the Lyft app allows them to select to be matched with more women and nonbinary passengers. Image: Lyft On the rider side, women and nonbinary riders will see an option to “count me in” in their Lyft app./news/mario-wonder-s-final-level-pushed-my-patience-to-the-limit.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mario-wonder-s-final-level-pushed-my-patience-to-the-limit.htmlMy mission to 100 percent Super Mario Bros. Wonder officially started a couple of weeks ago, but really it began in the late ‘80s. As a kid, I was certifiably bad at Mario. We didn’t have our own Nintendo console, so any time I spent playing Mario prior to that was at a friend’s or cousin’s house. I’d hold the second controller and wait my turn, marveling at how they just knew where the hidden boxes were, where to jump to the top of the screen and skip ahead three levels, and how to get to the very top of the flagpole every single time./news/meta-is-inexplicably-shutting-down-one-of-the-best-oculus-games.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-is-inexplicably-shutting-down-one-of-the-best-oculus-games.htmlWe’ve called it a cross between the Battle School from Ender’s Game and ultimate frisbee. We’ve called it Final Fantasy X blitzball meets VR. It made two of our Best VR Games lists — three, if you count the one I did for CNET before returning to The Verge. It convincingly sticks you into a robot body inhabiting a zero-G arena, where you have to use your wrist jets, obstacles, teammates, and even foes to catapult yourself to victory./news/meta-starts-licensing-headset-os-in-battle-with-apple.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-starts-licensing-headset-os-in-battle-with-apple.htmlOn the theme of opening up, Meta is also pushing for more ways to discover alternative app stores. It’s making its experimental App Lab store more prominent and even inviting Google to bring the Play Store to its operating system, which is now called Horizon OS. In a blog post, Meta additionally said that it’s working on a spatial framework for developers to more easily port their mobile apps to Horizon OS./news/meta-s-market-value-plunges-by-230-billion-in-one-day.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-s-market-value-plunges-by-230-billion-in-one-day.htmlThe price of shares in Meta — the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Meta Quest (fka Oculus) — dropped more than 25 percent at the start of trading on Thursday, after it revealed its first-ever sequential decline in Facebook’s daily active users. By the time the markets closed, the company had seen $230 billion in market value wiped out, the biggest one-day loss ever by a US company. The company has struggled with waning relevance among young people as CEO Mark Zuckerberg refocuses its aim toward “metaverse” plans./news/microsoft-and-nike-have-created-a-custom-jordan-branded-xbox-one-x.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-and-nike-have-created-a-custom-jordan-branded-xbox-one-x.htmlMicrosoft loves creating custom Xbox One designs, and this time, it has partnered with Nike to introduce a Jordan-themed console. The Xbox One X includes a custom red finish, with the iconic Jordan elephant print covering the top part of the console. There’s even a matching red controller with the Jumpman logo. It’s all designed to match the new Air Jordan III Retro U sneaker, which will be released this weekend./news/microsoft-limits-bing-chat-to-five-replies-to-stop-the-ai-from-getting-real-weird.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-limits-bing-chat-to-five-replies-to-stop-the-ai-from-getting-real-weird.htmlMicrosoft says it’s implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users. Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session after the search engine was seen insulting users, lying to them, and emotionally manipulating people. “Our data has shown that the vast majority of people find the answers they’re looking for within 5 turns and that only around 1 percent of chat conversations have 50+ messages,” says the Bing team in a blog post./news/microsoft-says-new-kinect-for-windows-launching-next-year.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-says-new-kinect-for-windows-launching-next-year.htmlIn addition to launching its new generation Kinect alongside the Xbox One, Microsoft also plans to again release a version of the powerful sensor that's geared for Windows. A post on the company's Kinect blog today confirms the product will be released next year, meaning it will trail behind its console counterpart. Both versions of the new Kinect have been built on top of a shared foundation of technologies, however. When the hardware eventually does reach the hands of developers, Microsoft promises it will "/news/microsoft-unveils-redesigned-to-do-app-that-will-replace-wunderlist.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-unveils-redesigned-to-do-app-that-will-replace-wunderlist.htmlMicrosoft is making some big tweaks to its To-Do app this week, with a redesign that includes more customization options and a rename from To-Do to simply To Do. The big headers in the current version of To Do are going away in favor of a variety of background images and color templates that can theme the entire app. You’ll even be able to choose from the Berlin TV tower background that was featured in Wunderlist, as Microsoft tries to bring the best of Wunderlist and To Do together./news/minit-is-a-beautifully-crafted-love-letter-to-classic-games-and-the-art-of-death.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/minit-is-a-beautifully-crafted-love-letter-to-classic-games-and-the-art-of-death.htmlThe two most vital concepts in most video games are learning and dying. Only by learning can you avoid death, and only through death can you learn. It’s a loop that has existed since the earliest days of the medium. By leaning into and toying with that fundamental relationship, indie game Minit achieves something that feels referential and nostalgic and yet unique and exhilarating all at once. The game, out this week on Steam as well as PS4 and Xbox, was created by developers Jan Willem Nijman, the game design half of two-person indie studio Vlambeer, and Kitty Calis, formerly of Horizon Zero Dawn maker Guerilla Games./news/minority-report-holds-up-because-it-s-about-surveillance-not-gadgets.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/minority-report-holds-up-because-it-s-about-surveillance-not-gadgets.htmlIn 2001, Steven Spielberg began work on his science fiction film Minority Report, famously assembling a “think tank” that tried to figure out what the future might look like. Many sci-fi movies feel dated just a few years after they’ve hit the screen, but 15 years after its original release, Minority Report still looks like the future. Why? Because Spielberg’s group clearly understood that while forward-thinking visual design is important for longevity, nailing how a society may actually evolve is essential for creating a truly prescient story./news/more-on-elon-musk-s-robotaxi-promises-from-over-the-years.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/more-on-elon-musk-s-robotaxi-promises-from-over-the-years.htmlMore on Elon Musk’s robotaxi promises from over the years. After a report from Reuters said Tesla’s $25,000 Model 2 project got the ax, Elon Musk quickly scheduled a Tesla Robotaxi launch on August 8th. Other than the curiously selected date, this is a reminder that Elon’s made a lot of unfulfilled statements about robotaxis over the years (and “full self-driving,” and autonomy generally). Bennett Tomlin checks them out in this video, which you have plenty of time to watch before August./news/my-ps5-is-now-matte-black-thanks-to-dbrand-s-darkplates.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/my-ps5-is-now-matte-black-thanks-to-dbrand-s-darkplates.htmlMaybe you like the PlayStation 5’s distinctive white-and-black look. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’d settle for a Zune-brown and orange model as long as you could find it in stock. But wherever you come down on the PS5’s color, one thing’s for sure: there’s a lot of demand for other options. That’s what Dbrand was betting when it put its matte black replacement “Darkplates” on sale recently while baiting Sony to sue./news/nbcuniversal-gets-exclusive-tv-rights-to-harry-potter-films-until-2025.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nbcuniversal-gets-exclusive-tv-rights-to-harry-potter-films-until-2025.htmlNBCUniversal just signed a massive deal with Warner Bros., giving it exclusive access to J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World franchise and Harry Potter films, Deadline reports. The agreement will give NBCU on-air and digital rights to the Wizarding World properties, and cable TV rights (currently owned by Disney) for the eight Harry Potter films. The agreement spans from 2018 to 2025, and could be one of the biggest movie franchise deals ever, The Wall Street Journal reports./news/netflix-geeked-week-2022-the-biggest-news-and-trailers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-geeked-week-2022-the-biggest-news-and-trailers.htmlFor a second year in a row, Netflix is dedicating an entire week to nerdy new announcements. Geeked Week has returned for 2022, and each day has a different theme. It starts with TV shows on Monday, before moving through film, animation, Stranger Things, and gaming. Basically, there’s going to be a lot to keep track of. To save you some trouble, we’ll be updating this article daily with the most important and interesting announcements to make things easier to parse — so keep checking back for the latest trailers and reveals./news/netflix-is-turning-keanu-reeves-brzrkr-comic-into-a-live-action-movie-and-anime.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-is-turning-keanu-reeves-brzrkr-comic-into-a-live-action-movie-and-anime.htmlNetflix has its next major action franchise: an adaptation of Keanu Reeves’ new BRZRKR comic book series, which the streaming service is turning into both a live-action film (produced and starring Reeves) and a sequel anime series (with Reeves voicing his character), the company announced today. BRZRKR is a new 12-issue series from Boom Studios (the first issue of which was released earlier in March) co-written by Reeves himself (in his comics debut) and Matt Kindt (Folklords, Justice League of America) with art by Ron Garney./news/netflix-s-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-finds-a-smart-metaphor-in-satanism.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-finds-a-smart-metaphor-in-satanism.htmlNetflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina justifies its existence in its second episode, which begins with a contentious conversation about religious rituals and cultural norms — a surprisingly sophisticated argument for a TV show about a teenage witch. As heroine Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) approaches her 16th birthday, her aunts Hilda and Zelda and their priest, Father Faustus, try to quell some of her concerns about her upcoming baptism, reassuring her that the pledge of eternal service she’s making to the Lord will be merely symbolic, and will ensure she doesn’t go to Hell when she dies./news/new-touch-id-magic-keyboards-work-with-all-m1-macs-not-just-the-imac.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-touch-id-magic-keyboards-work-with-all-m1-macs-not-just-the-imac.htmlThe Touch ID sensor in Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, which debuted alongside the updated iMac earlier this week, works with any Mac fitted with Apple’s M1 processor, Rene Ritchie and MacRumors report. However, the sensor won’t work with the new iPad Pro, which also uses the M1 chip. For now, the new keyboard is only sold with the new M1-equipped iMac, which is available to preorder from April 30th. Apple has been shipping MacBooks with built-in Touch ID for a while now, but this is the first time it’s been available in an accessory./news/nintendo-is-releasing-a-bright-blue-switch-lite-in-may.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-is-releasing-a-bright-blue-switch-lite-in-may.htmlNintendo has announced a new color for its portable-only Switch Lite. The new hue is “blue,” which looks pretty close to the Game Boy’s “pocket blue” color variant. The new color could also be inspired by Pantone’s decision to name “classic blue” the Color of the Year for 2020. Blue joins the other four variants available in the Switch Lite lineup: gray, turquoise, yellow, and coral, the latter of which was the first color announced in the product’s release since the Switch Lite debuted in 2019./news/no-instagram-still-won-t-build-an-ipad-app.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/no-instagram-still-won-t-build-an-ipad-app.htmlInstagram CEO Adam Mosseri once again shot down the possibility of an iPad app (because who cares about the millions of iPad users out there, right?). It’s been 12 years since Instagram’s release — over a decade without an accompanying iPad app — and we’re tired. Just think about it for a second: how absurd is it that iPad users either have to settle for an iPhone-sized Instagram app experience on their tablet or must succumb to browsing the platform on a web browser — as Marques Brownlee points out — in the year 2022?/news/openai-introduces-sora-its-text-to-video-ai-model.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-introduces-sora-its-text-to-video-ai-model.htmlOpenAI is launching a new video-generation model, and it’s called Sora. The AI company says Sora “can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.” The text-to-video model allows users to create photorealistic videos up to a minute long — all based on prompts they’ve written. Sora is capable of creating “complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background,” according to OpenAI’s introductory blog post./news/orphan-black-echoes-introduces-a-new-clone-club-in-first-trailer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/orphan-black-echoes-introduces-a-new-clone-club-in-first-trailer.htmlOrphan Black: Echoes introduces a new clone club in first trailer. AMC’s original Orphan Black series always left open the possibility of there being even more people wandering around in the world not knowing they were clones. And the first trailer for Anna Fishko’s spin-off Orphan Black: Echoes makes it seem like Kira Manning’s (Keeley Hawes) experience dealing with genetic dupes is going to come in very handy. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanx6e5FtaG5qaG6FcLvRqZ%2Bapl2XuaKvymacnKCfmsButc2tqaicpZiytHnAZqWer12YubC6xGaapa2SYravecWiqaysXam%2ForXLnqk%3D/news/outer-range-s-new-season-2-makes-time-feel-even-more-broken.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/outer-range-s-new-season-2-makes-time-feel-even-more-broken.htmlThe mysterious hole at the center of Amazon’s Outer Range was something to fear when the sci-fi / western drama first debuted. But the show’s new season 2 trailer makes it seem like the gaping chasm might wind up answering all of the Abbott family’s prayers. Outer Range’s first season came to a close with Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) gaining an even deeper understanding of what the bottomless pit on his farm is and realizing how — terrifying as the thing may be — it could actually help him reunite his fractured family./news/path-talk-lets-you-text-businesses-instead-of-calling-and-it-actually-works.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/path-talk-lets-you-text-businesses-instead-of-calling-and-it-actually-works.html"What if you could text message a store instead of calling them?" This is the stuff of a Silicon Valley fairytale — the promise of an app that’s never actually going to work. But this one does. Path Talk, the first standalone app from Dave Morin’s Path social networking enterprise, now lets you message businesses. I’ve been testing the app for the last few days with great results. I messaged the Apple Store to find out if they had any 64 GB space gray iPhone 6’s in stock./news/patreon-doesn-t-have-special-contract-with-apple-to-avoid-app-store-tax.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/patreon-doesn-t-have-special-contract-with-apple-to-avoid-app-store-tax.htmlWhen you open Patreon’s iPhone app and subscribe to a creator, Apple doesn’t step in the way and take a cut. It turns out, that’s not because of some behind-the-scenes arrangement between the two companies — Apple’s App Store team just decided to give Patreon a pass. “I wish we had some special contract with Apple. We don’t,” Patreon CEO Jack Conte said on Decoder, a podcast from The Verge. “We have to deal with the App Store policies and review process like anybody else./news/photobucket-still-has-your-photos-and-it-wants-you-to-come-back.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/photobucket-still-has-your-photos-and-it-wants-you-to-come-back.htmlWhen the 10-year challenge went viral earlier this year, everyone who wanted to brag about how hot they used to be had the same idea for where to find those nostalgic photos: legacy photo hosting site Photobucket, which saw a massive uptick in traffic that week. “We found that people were like, ‘Where do I find that picture of myself 10 years ago? It’s probably on Photobucket,’” its CEO Ted Leonard tells me./news/pirates-of-khadda-market-the-verge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pirates-of-khadda-market-the-verge.htmlNestled between two hills in Karachi, Pakistan, lies a very different kind of Silicon Valley. Known as Khadda Market, it is one of the many vibrant places that symbolize the city’s charm. From noon to midnight, it is alive with the buzz of crowded restaurants, supplicating panhandlers, weaving motorcycles, and pushy vendors. Many come to Khadda to eat heavenly paratha rolls and biryani on the hoods of their cars. But for most of the 2000s, the market allured me and my brother with something else: a street lined with video game and computer stores./news/pitchfork-lived-and-died-by-the-internet.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pitchfork-lived-and-died-by-the-internet.html{props.credit} ) }const containers = document.querySelectorAll(".w-full figure.w-full"); containers.forEach(container => {const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(container); root.render()}) Last year, in an appearance on Rick Rubin’s podcast, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor observed that over the course of his career, music has become more ubiquitous — and, simultaneously, less special. “I kind of miss the attention music got … not that I’m that interested in a critic’s opinion, but to send something out into the world and feel like it touched places./news/pok%C3%A9mon-hisuian-snow-is-everything-that-s-beautiful-and-brutal-about-hisui.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pok%C3%A9mon-hisuian-snow-is-everything-that-s-beautiful-and-brutal-about-hisui.htmlLike Arceus, Hisuian Snow’s first episode, “Onto the Icy Blue” from writer Taku Kishimoto and director Ken Yamamoto, tells the story of a young person learning firsthand just how unforgiving the Hisui region can be. Rather than focusing on a time traveler who arrives in Hisui by way of a rift in the sky, Hisuian Snow details how its protagonist Alec (Lizzie Freeman) and his father (Steve Kramer) made lives for themselves by traveling to the remote region to harvest lumber./news/popular-audio-ripping-site-convert2mp3-shuts-down-after-lawsuit.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/popular-audio-ripping-site-convert2mp3-shuts-down-after-lawsuit.htmlGlobal recording industry organization IFPI has confirmed in a statement that popular audio ripping site Convert2MP3 is shutting down as part of a settlement from a 2017 lawsuit. Convert2MP3 allows people to download audio files from YouTube links and other sources, and according to the IFPI, had 684 million visits from around the world over the past year. The IFPI has marked piracy as a threat to the music industry for a number of years./news/powerbeats-pro-review-the-best-beats.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/powerbeats-pro-review-the-best-beats.htmlDr. Dre, the man who boasted about being the first billionaire in hip-hop after selling his Beats by Dre to Apple, can be forgiven for taking it easy these days. He has nothing left to prove to anyone. But Beats, the brand that transcended its origins as a cynical celebrity cash-in and became a cultural icon, has everything to prove. For a long time, Apple had seemingly frozen development of new products inside Beats, allowing its adopted brand to release only minor updates and alternative colorways./news/powerpoint-co-creator-dennis-austin-is-dead-at-76.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/powerpoint-co-creator-dennis-austin-is-dead-at-76.htmlDennis Austin, who co-created PowerPoint, passed away at his home in Los Altos, California, on September 1st, reports The Washington Post. His son, Michael Austin, said he’d had lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain, according to the Post. He was 76 years old. Austin studied engineering at several universities, including MIT and UC Santa Barbara, before going to work as a software developer, eventually joining the software company Forethought and co-developing PowerPoint./news/psy-s-gangnam-style-becomes-most-viewed-youtube-video-of-all-time.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/psy-s-gangnam-style-becomes-most-viewed-youtube-video-of-all-time.html"Gangnam Style," the cult hit by Korean hip-hop star Psy, has become the most viewed YouTube video of all time, beating the previous record-holder, Justin Bieber's "Baby." At the time of writing, the video — which was uploaded in mid-July — has over 803,760,000 views, beating Bieber by more than 30,000. It also remains the site's most liked video, having won this accolade in September. As well as a boost for Psy, taking the top spot is a victory for his record company, YG Entertainment./news/razer-s-barracuda-x-wireless-headset-plays-nicely-with-many-platforms.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-s-barracuda-x-wireless-headset-plays-nicely-with-many-platforms.htmlRazer has introduced the Barracuda X, a multiplatform wireless gaming headset that takes design cues from the company’s Opus noise-canceling headphones. They’re available starting today for $99.99, which is more aggressive than I expected, given that the company usually comes in at a premium price point. The Barracuda X is a big step for Razer in that it’s finally jumping into USB-C connectivity — both in terms of how the headset charges and how it transmits audio wirelessly./news/razer-s-viper-v2-pro-wireless-gaming-mouse-is-extremely-lightweight.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/razer-s-viper-v2-pro-wireless-gaming-mouse-is-extremely-lightweight.htmlRazer has delivered a follow-up to its original Viper gaming mouse from 2019. The new wireless Viper V2 Pro is all about shedding off what little excess weight it had before. Like almost every peripheral company, Razer is gunning for the top place with the lightest wireless mouse, and, currently, it holds the crown with its latest mouse. It weighs 58 grams, which is a few grams below the runner-up, Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight./news/reddit-can-survive-without-search-company-reportedly-threatens-to-block-google.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reddit-can-survive-without-search-company-reportedly-threatens-to-block-google.htmlThe Washington Post reported Friday that Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data. Initially, Reddit seemed to deny the report. “Nothing is changing,” Reddit spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr told The Verge, adding that the Post would soon be correcting its story. But after the Post corrected that story, only one major detail had changed — the Post no longer suggests Reddit users would need to log in./news/reddit-communities-with-millions-of-followers-plan-to-extend-the-blackout-indefinitely.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reddit-communities-with-millions-of-followers-plan-to-extend-the-blackout-indefinitely.htmlModerators of many Reddit communities are pledging to keep their subreddits private or restricted indefinitely. For the vast majority of subreddits, the blackout to protest Reddit’s expensive API pricing changes was expected to last from Monday until Wednesday. But in response to a Tuesday post on the r/ModCoord subreddit, users are chiming in to say that their subreddits will remain dark past that 48-hour window. “Reddit has budged microscopically,” u/SpicyThunder335, a moderator for r/ModCoord, wrote in the post./news/remember-when-prince-and-beyonc%C3%A9-rocked-the-world-together.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/remember-when-prince-and-beyonc%C3%A9-rocked-the-world-together.htmlIt's been 30 years since Prince released Purple Rain. In addition to our must-read retrospective on the making of Purple Rain, we thought it'd be great to spend the day watching some of his best television performances of the last decade. Submitted for your approval: sound, scientific proof that Prince objectively can still rock the world. Note: Looks like NBC has nixed the breakout clip, so just skip ahead to the 26-minute mark and enjoy/news/replika-s-new-ai-therapy-app-tries-to-bring-you-to-a-zen-island.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/replika-s-new-ai-therapy-app-tries-to-bring-you-to-a-zen-island.htmlAI companion company Replika partnered with the team behind the AI dating simulator Blush to release Tomo, a wellness and meditation app with an AI-generated avatar guiding users. Its the kind of concept that seemed destined as soon as generative AI took off, but in the time I’ve spent with Tomo, I found myself wondering if I can ever open up to an AI like I can with a real therapist./news/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-review.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-review.htmlHow do you make a good midrange phone better? If you’re Samsung, you swap in a house-made processor, bump up the battery capacity, ditch the in-box charger, and lower the price by $50. Follow that recipe and you get the $449 Galaxy A53 5G. Samsung also followed the cardinal rule of not fixing what wasn’t broken. The cameras, screen, and design are all unchanged from last year’s model. Performance is about the same, too, even with the switch from a Snapdragon processor to a new, unproven Exynos chipset./news/samsung-has-big-ambitions-for-the-galaxy-ring.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-has-big-ambitions-for-the-galaxy-ring.htmlAt Galaxy Unpacked last month, Samsung teased a brand-new wearable in a new product category with not much more than a splashy video and a name: Galaxy Ring. Now, we have a little more to go on, including the fact that it’s expected to arrive this year. I got some hands-on time with a prototype ring ahead of Mobile World Congress — it’s very light and comes in three colors, though Samsung emphasizes that the final product is subject to change./news/samsung-is-investing-in-superhydrophobic-glass-coatings-to-keep-water-off-your-phone-screen.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-is-investing-in-superhydrophobic-glass-coatings-to-keep-water-off-your-phone-screen.htmlSamsung is interested in keeping its devices water, dust, and fingerprint free with something called a "superhydrophobic glass coating." Let’s break that down. Super-hydro-phobic. This word tells me that the glass coating is very afraid of water. And it is! The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed the transparent coating to go over glass displays. It wicks away water and is resistant to fingerprints and smudges. Water literally bounces off the screen, which you can see in the video above and GIF below./news/screendrive-the-mclaren-570s-spider-puts-the-england-back-in-new-england.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/screendrive-the-mclaren-570s-spider-puts-the-england-back-in-new-england.htmlCars have become expensive rolling gadgets, full of screens, speakers, and sensors — but are they actually good gadgets? In our series, ScreenDrive, we review cars just like any other device, starting with the basics of what they’re like to use. When you think of a McLaren supercar, the first words that probably pop into your head are “incredibly fast,” “very expensive,” “uniquely designed,” and possibly “silly doors.” I very much doubt that “sophisticated touchscreen interface” is on your list./news/scribd-reading-service-has-surpassed-1-million-subscribers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/scribd-reading-service-has-surpassed-1-million-subscribers.htmlReading subscription site Scribd announced today that more than 1 million people have signed up for the service, allowing them to access its vast content library of books, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, and graphic novels. The company claims to have “the world’s largest library of digital content,” and it has grown paid subscriptions by over 40 percent since last year. Originally founded in 2007 as a way to share documents, Scribd later shifted its focus to being a reading platform, introducing a subscription for users to access its library of ebooks, which it later expanded to include audiobooks and graphic novels./news/sean-parker-on-facebook-god-only-knows-what-it-s-doing-to-our-children-s-brains.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sean-parker-on-facebook-god-only-knows-what-it-s-doing-to-our-children-s-brains.htmlSean Parker, of Napster fame and an early investor in Facebook, says the founders of the social networking site knew they were creating something people would become addicted to, reports Axios. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he said at an Axios event in Philadelphia, noting that he has become a “conscientious objector” on social media, even though he still maintains a presence on Twitter and Facebook./news/seene-lets-you-capture-3d-objects-using-an-iphone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/seene-lets-you-capture-3d-objects-using-an-iphone.htmlA three-dimensional object captured with iPhone app Seene, available today, is hardly the stuff of a James Cameron movie — but is nevertheless incredibly impressive. With less than 30 seconds of setup after installing the app, you can record and manipulate an object in real-time, and in 3D. It's like iOS 7 parallax gone wild. The science behind the app isn't new, but is executed more effectively than in Seene's predecessors. The app plots points on your subject, then uses parallax to determine its location in space when you move your phone around./news/shopify-s-magic-ai-image-editor-can-make-any-product-pics-look-professional.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shopify-s-magic-ai-image-editor-can-make-any-product-pics-look-professional.htmlThe Shopify Magic suite of generative AI tools that launched in April last year is adding a media editor that brings generative image fill to its platform and conversational search powered by AI. Merchants can prompt the image editor to change photo backgrounds without Photoshop experience to match whatever theme they have in mind. Shopify’s AI editor can also suggest backgrounds and styles that match existing product images in the merchant’s library once it rolls out this spring./news/smartwatch-the-verge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/smartwatch-the-verge.htmlGarmin adds YouTube Music to the mix. You do need a Music Premium account, but you can download playlists for offline playback. We love to see Garmin add to the ConnectIQ store, which... let’s face it, doesn’t have the largest selection as far as third-party smartwatch app stores go. Previously, you could choose between Spotify, Amazon Music, and Deezer. (But I’ve yet to meet anyone who used the latter two with the Garmin./news/sony-has-sold-40-million-ps5s.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-has-sold-40-million-ps5s.htmlSony announced it has sold over 40 million PlayStation 5 consoles despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues. Unlike the press release shared when the PS5 crossed 10 million units sold as of July 2021, Sony didn’t call its flagship console out as the “fastest-selling console in the history of Sony Interactive Entertainment,” reflecting a slower pace of sales even as supply issues ebbed. “For more months than I care to remember, we kept thanking our community for their patience while working through these issues,” Jim Ryan, the president and CEO of Sony, says./news/sony-s-playstation-plus-collection-for-ps5-owners-goes-away-in-may.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-s-playstation-plus-collection-for-ps5-owners-goes-away-in-may.htmlSony will stop offering the PlayStation Plus Collection, which gave PS5 players who subscribed to PlayStation Plus access to more than a dozen classic PS4 titles, on May 9th, the company announced on Wednesday. The PlayStation Plus Collection was a great perk for PS5 owners who were Plus subscribers early in the console’s life, but now that perk will be going away. If you haven’t claimed the games yet, you’ll have until May 9th to do so./news/splatoon-3-is-coming-to-the-nintendo-switch-in-2022.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/splatoon-3-is-coming-to-the-nintendo-switch-in-2022.htmlSplatoon 3 arrives on Nintendo Switch in 2022! In the wake of chaos, enter the sun scorched Splatlands and the new city, Splatsville, inhabited by battle-hardened Inklings and Octolings. New weapons, moves, and more await, so be sure to keep an eye out for updates in the future. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2lfZ3xyg45raWtwaGeEenvSqaOarJ%2Bku25%2FjKegp6yVo7GwedKwoK2bmGJ%2FcX6R/news/squid-game-succession-and-stranger-things-swept-the-2022-emmys.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/squid-game-succession-and-stranger-things-swept-the-2022-emmys.htmlDespite HBO being in a chaotic state of flux as of late, the premium cable channel dominated at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards — an evening packed with wins that were expected and a handful of speeches that were truly moving. Mike White’s The White Lotus paved HBO’s way to dominance with a total of 10 wins at this year’s Emmys, including awards to White specifically for directing and limited-series supporting acting awards to Jennifer Coolidge and Murray Bartlett./news/suicide-squad-kills-another-release-date.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/suicide-squad-kills-another-release-date.htmlYou could be forgiven at this point for not believing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is ever coming out. Rocksteady Studios, of Batman: Arkham series fame, has delayed the game yet again. This is the second time the game has been delayed this year and the third overall, taking the release date from 2022 to May 26th, 2023, to some later date in 2023 to, now, February 2nd, 2024. Earlier this year, Suicide Squad was heavily featured in Sony’s February State of Play./news/take-this-test-to-figure-out-how-tone-deaf-you-are.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/take-this-test-to-figure-out-how-tone-deaf-you-are.htmlOver at Harvard University, the department of psychology has opened a new lab to study the science of music. While this is sure to lead to plenty of interesting research in the future, the important takeaway from this news is that the Music Lab has created a citizen science platform where the general public can take various music quizzes and contribute to research. Currently, the site has four tests, which we can all take to figure out how well we truly understand music./news/tely-labs-telyhd-android-powered-skype-webcam-hands-on-pictures.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tely-labs-telyhd-android-powered-skype-webcam-hands-on-pictures.htmlTely Labs' Android-powered Skype webcam was revealed shortly before CES 2012, but we got a hands-on with this interesting new gadget today. The Kinect-looking webcam is unique, thanks to the fact it's powered by Android and simply plugs into any existing TV with a HDMI port. TelyHD's hardware features a Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, USB port, wired and wireless connectivity, and an SD slot. The telyHD sits on top of a TV, and doesn't require a special connection or Skype-ready television to work — it boots into Android and straight into a Skype application./news/tesla-agrees-to-recall-cars-with-failing-displays.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-agrees-to-recall-cars-with-failing-displays.htmlTesla has agreed to recall more than 134,000 Model S sedans and Model X SUVs that will eventually suffer from faulty displays after pressure from the leading US safety regulator, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tesla announced the recall to customers in an email, according to Electrek, and said a software update could allow them to keep accessing crucial features like the backup camera in the meantime if their displays fail./news/that-s-not-a-celebrity-you-re-following-on-twitter-it-s-an-assistant.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/that-s-not-a-celebrity-you-re-following-on-twitter-it-s-an-assistant.htmlAdam Levine tweeted from an iPhone mere days after promoting Samsung's Galaxy Note 4. Except, he probably didn't. While we laugh at the hypocrisy of Levine selling one phone and using another, we miss the larger hypocrisy: that the person running @adamlevine probably isn't Adam Levine, but his iPhone-using assistant. In the past couple years, some celebrities have parlayed their fame and social media accounts into micro-media companies. Their handles are self-contained streams of self-promotion, brand management, and empty aphorisms./news/the-12-9-max-plus-is-brydge-s-best-ipad-keyboard-yet.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-12-9-max-plus-is-brydge-s-best-ipad-keyboard-yet.htmlBrydge has been making iPad keyboards for nearly a decade now, and while the iPad itself has changed a lot over that time, the company has largely followed the same formula: design a keyboard that makes the iPad look like a MacBook Pro. The key design element has been the company’s trademark rubberized hinges, which the iPad slots into to form the other half of a laptop-style device. Now, Brydge is trying something slightly new./news/the-battle-of-the-standards-why-the-us-and-uk-can-t-stop-fighting-the-metric-system.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-battle-of-the-standards-why-the-us-and-uk-can-t-stop-fighting-the-metric-system.htmlCasing the joint is an essential part of any heist movie. The protag­onists arrive on the scene, dressed suitably incognito, and do their best to blend in while keeping one eye on their target: a historic painting with emotional significance for the hero, perhaps, or a jewel of unrivaled clarity and brilliance, too tempting not to steal. These were the sorts of treasure floating through my mind as I sat in a pub on a dull October afternoon, reconnoitering a much more mundane target: a wrought iron signpost./news/the-best-shows-on-max-in-2023.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-shows-on-max-in-2023.htmlThe streaming service formerly known as HBO Max completed its magical girl transformation this year, dropping arguably the most recognizable part of its name to just become Max. The questionable rename came at the conclusion of the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery and, according to WarnerDiscovery executives, was meant to signal to subscribers that the new Max has content for the whole family to enjoy. Immediately post-merger, Max lost 1.8 million subscribers (that WarnerMedia attributes to simple attrition)./news/the-biblio-mat-is-a-custom-built-vending-machine-for-random-second-hand-books.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-biblio-mat-is-a-custom-built-vending-machine-for-random-second-hand-books.htmlToronto bookstore The Monkey's Paw features a unique and intriguing way for readers to obtain new books: the Biblio-Mat. Created by the store's owner, Stephen Fowler, and The Juggernaut co-founder, Craig Small, the Biblio-Mat is a vending machine built from an old metal locker than dispenses random, used books for $2 each. In an interview with Quill & Quire, Fowler said that his original idea was to put one of his assistants inside of a painted refrigerator box, who would then drop a book out when a coin is inserted — fortunately, Small suggested otherwise./news/the-curtain-s-coming-down-on-showtime-sort-of.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-curtain-s-coming-down-on-showtime-sort-of.htmlThe Showtime cable network feels like it’s in a quantum state, both very much dead and very much alive. Only, I think more people will understand quantum states than what’s going on with the network this week, which is now being renamed Paramount Plus with Showtime. Try to squeeze that mouthful into a cable guide. Variety is reporting that the rebranding of the traditional Showtime TV channel will go into effect on January 8th, 2024./news/the-emotional-thriller-searching-proves-good-computer-screen-movies-aren-t-a-fluke.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-emotional-thriller-searching-proves-good-computer-screen-movies-aren-t-a-fluke.htmlWelcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review was originally posted after the film’s premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it played under the title Search. It has been updated for the film’s wide theatrical release. In 2015, the movie Unfriended landed in theaters, telling a conventional supernatural revenge story with an unconventional conceit: the entire film took place on the screen of one character’s laptop./news/the-internet-s-best-fake-toys-are-going-in-a-fake-museum.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-internet-s-best-fake-toys-are-going-in-a-fake-museum.htmlPhotoshopping a meme is easy. But hunting through thrift stores, finding the perfect action figure to Frankenstein with another toy, designing and packaging it into a slightly off but believable product, and sneaking it onto a store shelf takes a little bit more work. Both have the potential to go viral, but memes are lost to the unforgiving sands of internet time, while the bizarre, bespoke toys can live on as a story for the next person who stumbles upon them./news/the-jetsons-is-actually-a-bone-chilling-dystopia.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-jetsons-is-actually-a-bone-chilling-dystopia.htmlWhen people make jokes demanding to know why, in the year 2017, they still haven’t gotten their flying cars and jetpacks, they’re probably referencing The Jetsons. Since its debut in 1962, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon has become synonymous with the gleaming utopia promised by technology. The world where George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson lived, with robot housekeepers and ozone-scraping luxury smart homes that can dress and groom you by themselves, was a vertical manifest destiny, one where audiences could hang their starry-eyed hopes about the future./news/the-new-sonos-app-is-missing-a-lot-of-features-and-people-aren-t-happy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-new-sonos-app-is-missing-a-lot-of-features-and-people-aren-t-happy.htmlLast month, Sonos announced a complete overhaul of its mobile app for iOS and Android. It was supposed to meaningfully streamline the previous version, “bringing services, content, and system controls to one customizable homescreen.” Sonos wanted the app to feel more personalized and more modern and to make “tab to tab jumping a thing of the past.” I didn’t get a chance to use the new app firsthand in April; Sonos only gave the press an overview and short demo that covered the basics./news/the-nintendo-switch-2-will-now-reportedly-arrive-in-2025-instead-of-2024.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-nintendo-switch-2-will-now-reportedly-arrive-in-2025-instead-of-2024.htmlA release in early 2025 could see the Switch 2 (which is not the confirmed name of the console) launching at the same time of year as its predecessor, which arrived in March 2017. Two of VGC’s sources confirmed that they were developing Switch 2 games planned for early 2025. Whenever it launches, the Switch 2 will have its work cut out for it, following a predecessor that has already become Nintendo’s bestselling console ever and outsold both its Sony and Microsoft console contemporaries./news/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-says-it-will-investigate-palworld.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-says-it-will-investigate-palworld.htmlYou can all stop calling now — The Pokémon Company’s lawyers are on the case. In a statement posted on the company’s website, The Pokémon Company says it’s aware of a “game released in January 2024” and plans to “take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the Pokémon.” Everyone familiar with the famously litigious Nintendo’s reputation for swiftly protecting its IP has been wondering when or if the company would bring down the hammer on Palworld’s “original character, do not steal” monsters./news/the-raspberry-turk-is-a-diy-chess-robot-with-instructions-to-build-your-own.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-raspberry-turk-is-a-diy-chess-robot-with-instructions-to-build-your-own.htmlChess is famous as perhaps the most respected board game ever played, and we often uses chess as a way to metaphorically teach lessons about the world. But as it turns out, chess is also pretty good at teaching programming lessons, too. And the Raspberry Turk — a chess-playing robot from developer Joey Meyer — is a masterwork in that regard, serving as a way to learn everything from machine vision to robotics to AI./news/the-theme-for-the-times-square-new-year-s-eve-bash-is-climate-change.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-theme-for-the-times-square-new-year-s-eve-bash-is-climate-change.htmlTimes Square revelers will ring in the New Year to a theme of existential crisis tonight. Science teachers and students taking on the climate crisis will push the crystal button to trigger the ball drop in Times Square. Organizers of the annual New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City choose a theme each year based on the biggest issues in the news, and this year that theme is climate change./news/the-vaio-sx12-offers-too-little-for-too-much.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-vaio-sx12-offers-too-little-for-too-much.htmlThere are a lot of really light laptops you can buy. You’ve got the 2.6-pound Asus ZenBook 13, the 2.4-pound ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the two-pound LG Gram 14, the 1.96-pound Acer Swift 7, and countless others competing for dominion of the ultra-light laptop world. But you’re always sacrificing something for such a thin build — be it durability, performance, cooling, connectivity, battery life, or (often) many of the above. Vaio doesn’t make the lightest laptops on the market, but it aspires to make the lightest laptops that ask for the fewest sacrifices./news/the-world-s-smallest-nintendo-wii-is-literally-the-size-of-a-deck-of-playing-cards.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-world-s-smallest-nintendo-wii-is-literally-the-size-of-a-deck-of-playing-cards.htmlThe world’s smallest Nintendo Wii is literally the size of a deck of playing cards. The Short Stack: a scale model of a Nintendo Wii one-thirteenth the size, with an actual trimmed Wii motherboard inside. Four headset jacks do duty as working GameCube controller ports, attached to custom PCBs that add USB-C power, HDMI output, and microSD storage. Update: Here’s a video of it working, GameCube pad and all! ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfaXxyhI5ra2prZGaFc3vToZxmr5%2BnuaW%2FjKykmqScmsC1ec2ipa2dnpm8bsPIomSiq12htrWx0ZqjpbFdqbWmedKisZ5ln5t6onnDnpqkZZ%2BberG4wLKgp59dmK6zsNI%3D/news/there-is-now-an-official-bill-cosby-meme-generator-which-is-a-terrible-idea.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/there-is-now-an-official-bill-cosby-meme-generator-which-is-a-terrible-idea.htmlYou've been making Bill Cosby memes for years, but there's always been that pang in the back of your mind. "This isn't legal," you told yourself. While you were typing in those white, oversized Impact font letters over a classic shot of Bill in a sweater, you were probably thinking about that MPAA advertisement that used to run before the start of DVDs, showing all the terrible things that could come from copyright infringement./news/these-floating-bonsai-trees-are-a-moment-of-sci-fi-zen.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-floating-bonsai-trees-are-a-moment-of-sci-fi-zen.htmlLevitating speakers and lightbulbs are so passé: when it comes to floating household items, this year it's all about vegetation. Kicking off this definite new trend (which is definitely going to happen) is the Air Bonsai — a floating bonsai tree that levitates with the help of a magnetic base. The product is currently in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, and has already raised more than $150,000 of its original $80,000 goal./news/these-stickers-make-ai-hallucinate-things-that-aren-t-there.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-stickers-make-ai-hallucinate-things-that-aren-t-there.htmlIf you’re trying to fool an AI vision system in the future, then stickers like these might help. For a long time, computer scientists have been developing special types of images that bamboozle AI eyes. These pictures and patterns are known as “adversarial images,” and they exploit weaknesses in the way computers look at the world to make them see stuff that isn’t there. Think of them as optical illusions, but for AI./news/this-may-be-your-last-chance-to-own-a-rare-nintendo-playstation-controller.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-may-be-your-last-chance-to-own-a-rare-nintendo-playstation-controller.htmlThe Nintendo PlayStation was Sony’s first attempt to break into the gaming market. It was more or less a Super Nintendo console upgraded with a CD-ROM drive, allowing games to incorporate more multimedia content from Sony’s proprietary Super Disc format. The collaboration collapsed after Nintendo announced a partnership with Philips in 1991, and the 200 prototypes of the Nintendo PlayStation were thought to have all been destroyed — at least until one surfaced in 2015 and was eventually sold at auction to the founder of Pets./news/threads-already-has-over-95-million-posts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/threads-already-has-over-95-million-posts.htmlInstagram’s new Threads app seems like it could be a hit. Mark Zuckerberg said that the app has more than 30 million sign-ups as of Thursday morning, and people who are checking it out are posting... er, threading... a lot, too. According to internal data I’ve seen, there have already been more than 95 million posts and 190 million likes shared. All that has happened in less than 24 hours. The app launched Wednesday evening on iOS and Android (significantly earlier than the original Thursday launch time), and a lot of people are checking it out; it’s currently the top free app on the App Store./news/threads-starts-testing-a-tweetdeck-like-feed-of-real-time-posts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/threads-starts-testing-a-tweetdeck-like-feed-of-real-time-posts.htmlMeta is starting to test a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads today. It will allow Threads users to create customizable feeds that are stacked in a column interface on the web — just like TweetDeck did before it became a paid service and was rebranded to X Pro last year. “If you’re in the test, you can choose to keep things simple with a single feed, or add separate columns for your favorite searches, tags, accounts, saved posts, and notifications,” explains Meta spokesperson Seine Kim in a statement to The Verge./news/thunderbolts-becomes-latest-marvel-movie-to-be-hit-by-writers-strike.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/thunderbolts-becomes-latest-marvel-movie-to-be-hit-by-writers-strike.htmlFilming for Thunderbolts, the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film centered around the franchise’s anti-heroes, has been delayed due to the ongoing writers strike, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline report. Production had been due to start in the coming weeks in Atlanta, but now isn’t expected to commence until after the strike ends. Thunderbolts is just the latest production impacted by the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. The union representing roughly 11,500 writers from across film, television, and more went on strike at the beginning of this month in a dispute around pay in an increasingly streaming-dominated era./news/tinder-vulnerability-let-hackers-steal-accounts-with-just-phone-numbers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tinder-vulnerability-let-hackers-steal-accounts-with-just-phone-numbers.htmlA newly published attack let researchers take over Tinder accounts with just a user’s phone number, according to a new report by Appsecure. Tinder has changed its login system to protect against the attack and there’s no evidence it was exploited before the patch. Still, it’s a reminder of how fragile many login systems still are, and how powerful even basic vulnerabilities can be when chained together. The attack worked by exploiting two separate vulnerabilities: one in Tinder and another in Facebook’s Account Kit system, which Tinder uses to manage logins./news/twitter-claims-there-s-no-evidence-200-million-leaked-usernames-and-email-addresses-came-fro.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-claims-there-s-no-evidence-200-million-leaked-usernames-and-email-addresses-came-fro.htmlA database posted online claims to reveal more than 200 million associated Twitter usernames and email addresses. Now, several days after the initial reports, Twitter says the “dataset could not be correlated with the previously reported incident or any data originating from an exploitation of Twitter systems.” According to reports from security researchers and media outlets including BleepingComputer, the credentials in the leak were compiled from a number of earlier Twitter breaches dating back to 2021./news/twitter-is-rolling-out-unmentioning-to-all-users.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-is-rolling-out-unmentioning-to-all-users.htmlYou might want to use this feature yourself if you’re stuck in a toxic conversation or simply don’t want to receive notifications for a thread you’re a part of. Unmentioning untags your username, stops notifications for the thread, and also prevents anyone in the thread from tagging you again. I got to try out the feature for myself after updating the app. To “unmention” yourself, select the tweet that you’re tagged in and then tap the three dots at the top-right corner of the screen./news/twitter-will-now-let-you-add-photos-videos-or-gifs-to-retweets.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-will-now-let-you-add-photos-videos-or-gifs-to-retweets.htmlBeginning today, Twitter users can add images, videos, and GIFs to their retweets / quoted tweets. The company is rolling out this new feature across Android, iOS, and Twitter’s mobile website; it’s not on desktop quite yet, however. Adding media to a retweet works just like you’d expect: tap the “retweet with comment” option and then choose the image or GIF icon in the toolbar. This is a small addition to the service, but Twitter says it was actually quite difficult to design in a way that made sense and wasn’t overwhelming when viewed in the timeline./news/uber-rides-are-getting-safer-but-the-roads-are-deadlier-than-ever.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-rides-are-getting-safer-but-the-roads-are-deadlier-than-ever.htmlUber trips are getting safer, with the company reporting far fewer sexual assaults in 2019 and 2020 as compared to previous years. But the number of traffic deaths during Uber rides is rising, reflecting the increasingly dangerous conditions on US roads. Uber said 3,824 sexual assaults occurred during trips in 2019 and 2020, a 38 percent drop from the 2017–2018 report, which logged 5,981 assaults. The decrease could be related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in an 80 percent drop in Uber’s ride-hailing business during 2020./news/unity-plans-to-change-its-disastrous-new-pricing-program.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/unity-plans-to-change-its-disastrous-new-pricing-program.htmlUnity plans to change its forthcoming pay-per-install program following widespread criticism from game developers. “We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused,” Unity posted on X (formerly Twitter). “We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days.” Though Unity said an update on the pricing model will likely be out sometime this week, a new report from Bloomberg may outline the shape of the changes./news/valorant-is-launching-on-june-2nd.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/valorant-is-launching-on-june-2nd.htmlRiot’s hotly anticipated tactical shooter Valorant is launching on June 2nd. The game, which has been in a closed beta since April, will be available on PC for free and “across the majority of regions worldwide,” according to Riot. As part of the launch, the beta will end on May 28th. For those who managed to get into the beta, Riot says their progress will be reset and they “will start fresh, progressing from the same starting line as they compete with players around the world./news/vizio-updates-its-thin-light-laptop-and-all-in-one-with-haswell-processors-iris-pro-graphics.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vizio-updates-its-thin-light-laptop-and-all-in-one-with-haswell-processors-iris-pro-graphics.htmlIt’s now been exactly two years since Vizio announced it was making the bold move of entering the PC marketplace with its Thin + Light laptops and all-in-one desktop computers. While its first round of laptops didn’t quite live up to our expectations, that hasn’t stopped the company from continuing to tweak and refine the basic concept introduced back at CES 2012. Today, Vizio’s pulling back the cover on a new 15./news/watch-a-range-rover-drive-over-a-bridge-made-entirely-of-paper.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-a-range-rover-drive-over-a-bridge-made-entirely-of-paper.htmlRange Rovers, for all their luxury, are still off-roaders at heart. (At least, I think they are — I can't think of any other explanation for a press photo of the recently announced Evoque Convertible driving through a lake.) That leads me to a stunt that Land Rover recently pulled off in Suzhou, China, celebrating 45 years of the Range Rover, which was first introduced in 1970. The company worked with English artist Steve Messam — known for his large-scale works — to build a paper bridge that a Range Rover could drive over./news/watch-the-newest-trailer-for-disney-and-pixar-s-finding-dory.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-the-newest-trailer-for-disney-and-pixar-s-finding-dory.htmlEllen DeGeneres is unveiling a new trailer for Finding Dory on her show this morning, and it's the most substantive look yet at Disney and Pixar's long-awaited aquatic sequel. (The movie's first trailer was released back in November.) The follow-up to 2003's beloved Finding Nemo revolves around Dory's (DeGeneres) quest to find her parents (played by Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy) in California, and she's helped along the way by old friends like Nemo and his father, Marlin./news/what-never-was-is-a-somber-myst-like-adventure-that-leaves-you-wanting-more.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-never-was-is-a-somber-myst-like-adventure-that-leaves-you-wanting-more.htmlIt can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Shortly after the death of her grandfather, Sarah Wright is tasked with cleaning out the attic of his home in rural England. The small room is furnished with a desk, a large grandfather clock, and a curious globe./news/why-century-old-ship-logs-are-key-to-today-s-climate-research.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-century-old-ship-logs-are-key-to-today-s-climate-research.htmlThrough both sunny days and torrential storms, sailors cutting through the waters around New Zealand and Antarctica faithfully recorded the weather they encountered, building up a treasure trove of data. Over a century later, scientists are digging through these maritime records for insights about the past and future of the region’s climate — and they need the public’s help. Knowing what the weather was up to in the past can help scientists calibrate climate models like the ones they use to predict how weather conditions are likely to change as global temperatures continue to rise./news/why-spotify-is-still-fighting-with-apple-in-europe.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-spotify-is-still-fighting-with-apple-in-europe.htmlOver the past couple of months, Spotify has been submitting update after update to Apple, changing the interface of its music streaming service to display pricing information in-app for users in the European Union. For users, this is barely worth noticing. But for Spotify, each submission has been yet another skirmish in its yearslong legal struggle with Apple in the EU. And right now, Spotify is the closest it’s ever been to getting Apple to finally cave./news/with-the-new-macbook-airs-out-what-s-the-deal-with-those-oled-ipad-pros.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/with-the-new-macbook-airs-out-what-s-the-deal-with-those-oled-ipad-pros.htmlWith the new MacBook Airs out, what’s the deal with those OLED iPad Pros? Apple didn’t hold a Spring event, after all. But hey, we got dual external display support* on the M3 MacBook Air! As for the embiggened iPad Air and OLED iPad Pros, Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today that they’re launching “around the end of March or in April,” along with iPadOS 17./news/wyoming-teen-stumbles-on-dead-body-while-playing-pok%C3%A9mon-go.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wyoming-teen-stumbles-on-dead-body-while-playing-pok%C3%A9mon-go.htmlNow, a teenager has discovered a dead body floating in her hometown river. Shayla Wiggins, a 19-year-old Riverton, Wyoming resident, discovered a man floating in the Wind River early this morning when trying to catch pokémon from a "natural water resource," she told KTVQ.com. Wiggins called 911 and local police arrived on the scene to retrieve the body. The Fremont County Sheriff's Office confirmed the discovery in a press release given to The Verge./news/yahoo-mail-isn-t-dead-and-adds-ai-capabilities.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/yahoo-mail-isn-t-dead-and-adds-ai-capabilities.htmlEmail really can be the treasure trove of potential generative AI uses, so check your old Yahoo Mail address because Yahoo wants to add more AI capabilities. Yahoo used Google Cloud’s AI platform to build out its generative AI features. The features were previously tested only on iOS users, but now, it’s available to users on web browsers. The company said it is adding a shopping feature called Shopping Saver, which finds gift cards, discount codes, and store credits hidden in inboxes and helps draft messages to use those savings even after purchase./news/you-can-now-queue-to-purchase-a-ps5-direct-from-sony-update-sold-out.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-now-queue-to-purchase-a-ps5-direct-from-sony-update-sold-out.htmlUpdate April 21st, 6:33PM ET: Sony has sold out of PS5 consoles for now. A year and a half since its release, the PlayStation 5 is still extremely difficult to get your hands on. Sony has been one of the most reliable retailers when it comes to console restocks, though it usually reserves them for invite-only restocks that you have to register in advance for. This is one of the rare moments where Sony is opening up a public queue, so if you’re still in the market for this rare console, either the disc-based PS5 for $499 or the $399 PS5 Digital Edition, just go ahead and queue up via its direct store to try your luck./news/you-can-turn-meta-s-chatbot-against-mark-zuckerberg.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-turn-meta-s-chatbot-against-mark-zuckerberg.htmlMeta’s AI thinks CEO Mark Zuckerberg is as sketchy as you might — at least, if you ask the right questions at the right time. The BBC and other outlets like Insider have reported on their adventures stress-testing BlenderBot 3, the artificial intelligence chat tool Meta released last week. As they note, it’s easy to make BlenderBot turn against its creator, calling him “creepy” or untrustworthy or even saying he “exploits people for money./news/young-blood-transfusions-are-probably-not-the-best-way-to-reverse-aging.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/young-blood-transfusions-are-probably-not-the-best-way-to-reverse-aging.htmlSorry, Peter Thiel, young blood may not be the key to reversing aging. A study from the same team that tantalized us with promises of youth (provided we can take the blood of youths) now suggests that old blood hurts health more than young blood helps. We may be better off trying to figure out how to fix the blood we have instead of looking for fresh new sources. Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire now on Donald Trump’s transition team, garnered attention (and accusations of vampirism) for being “very interested” in the potential of young blood to rejuvenate old people./news/youtube-s-website-now-supports-vertical-videos-without-black-bars.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-s-website-now-supports-vertical-videos-without-black-bars.htmlYouTube will now display vertical videos on desktop without black bars on the side. It rolled out an update to its desktop player on Friday to automatically adjust the video’s aspect ratio to suit a computer’s screen size. It’s a feature that had already come to mobile on iOS and Android by removing black bars on small videos in favor of white space or an expanded video if possible. Videos in standard 16:9, vertical videos, and in the older 4:3 format will all be affected./news/does-toejam-and-earl-for-sega-genesis-hold-up.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/does-toejam-and-earl-for-sega-genesis-hold-up.htmlDoes It Hold Up is a chance to re-experience childhood favorites of books, movies, TV shows, video games, and other cultural phenomenon decades later. Have they gotten better like a fine wine, or are we drinking cork? Opening presents is one of life’s few consistent pleasures. I enjoy it now as much as I did when I was a little kid. But does the joy of shredding the wrapper off a box to see what’s waiting inside translate into the virtual world?/news/fallout-4-starter-guide-12-things-to-know-before-you-play.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fallout-4-starter-guide-12-things-to-know-before-you-play.htmlI have a very specific way of playing Fallout games, and I don’t think I’m alone. I need to hack every computer, pick every lock, and persuade everyone I come across. If I’m going to devote dozens, if not hundreds of hours to a game, I want to keep as many options open for as long as I can. For Fallout 4, I thought I'd try something different: a no-nonsense character with no charisma or intelligence — someone who can barely aim a gun but is lethal with a baseball bat./news/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-review-dystopia-done-right.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-review-dystopia-done-right.htmlAs I was watching a pre-roll ad for Subway’s Catching Fire-branded Fiery Footlong Collection I remembered why I’d been nervously anticipating the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel since I first read it almost three years ago. The Hunger Games trilogy focuses on a dystopian land called Panem, where every year 24 adolescents are plucked from the population to take place in a televised death match called, yes, The Hunger Games./news/20th-anniversary-ps4-announced-in-original-playstation-colors.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/20th-anniversary-ps4-announced-in-original-playstation-colors.htmlSony knows that nostalgia is the way to an adult gamer's heart. In celebration of the PlayStation's 20th anniversary, the company has announced a commemorative edition of the PS4, one that uses the color palette of the original machine. Only 12,300 units will be sold worldwide — a number symbolic of the seminal PlayStation's launch date. Those hoping to pick up one of these gorgeous units can expect to pay 49,980 Yen (excluding tax) in Japan, $499 in North American, and €499 in Europe./news/activision-blizzard-again-accused-of-threatening-employees-for-speaking-out.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/activision-blizzard-again-accused-of-threatening-employees-for-speaking-out.htmlActivision Blizzard is facing another complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that it’s trying to keep employees from talking about their working conditions, despite their legally protected rights to do so. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has filed an unfair labor charge against the company, alleging that it told workers “they could not discuss issues related to the sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit filed by state of California against the company,” according to a press release from the union./news/adam-sandler-is-a-haunted-astronaut-in-the-first-teaser-for-netflix-s-spaceman.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/adam-sandler-is-a-haunted-astronaut-in-the-first-teaser-for-netflix-s-spaceman.htmlNetflix’s next sci-fi movie has a surprising lead. The streamer just released the first (very brief) teaser for Spaceman, which stars Adam Sandler as an astronaut who encounters a mysterious alien creature (voiced by Paul Dano) while on a research mission in space. The film, directed by Johan Renck, sounds weird and grim and is based on the Czech novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař. Here’s how Netflix describes the premise:/news/adobe-the-verge.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/adobe-the-verge.htmlNow the “what is a photo?” debate has reached Australian news. 9News Melbourne aired the altered image shown below of a member of Victoria’s Parliament, Georgie Purcell. In a statement, 9News director Hugh Nailon said that when the picture was resized, “automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original.” However, Adobe maintains (via NYT and the Guardian) “Any changes to this image would have required human intervention and approval./news/adobe-s-including-frame-io-collaboration-software-in-creative-cloud-subscriptions.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/adobe-s-including-frame-io-collaboration-software-in-creative-cloud-subscriptions.htmlAdobe announced on Tuesday that Creative Cloud subscriptions will now include Frame.io, its software made for collaborating on video projects. It’s building the software into the latest versions of Premiere Pro and After Effects, which have some updates of their own — the company gave its video editing software a visual refresh, and its compositing software will finally be Apple Silicon native. Adobe bought Frame.io last year, so including the service in its video editing subscription makes sense./news/alienware-s-alpha-console-will-bring-steam-to-your-living-room-this-november.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/alienware-s-alpha-console-will-bring-steam-to-your-living-room-this-november.htmlIf you’ve been wanting to get Steam games into your living room — and don’t want to wait for Valve’s official Steam OS— Alienware is now ready to take your money. Interested buyers can now pre-order the Alienware Alpha console, which starts at $549. That’ll get you an Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB of storage, and a custom Nvidia-based graphics card with 2GB of dedicated memory. Alienware is also selling a number of other configurations with more memory, hard drive space, and faster processors./news/amazon-astro-review-living-with-amazon-s-home-robot.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-astro-review-living-with-amazon-s-home-robot.htmlAmazon’s household robot is exactly what I expected, but it’s not what I wanted and it definitely isn’t what anyone asked for. Instead of a multitasking mimicry of me that can empty the dishwasher, pick up my kids’ shoes, feed the dog, and clean the house, Amazon’s first attempt at a home bot is simply a souped-up Echo Show on wheels. Granted, the $1,449.99 (or $999.99 for early adopters who get invites for the chance to buy it) Astro has some impressive wheels, which let the 17-inch tall robot nimbly follow you around the house while playing music or streaming your favorite show./news/amazon-fire-tv-omni-review-useful-alexa-features-underwhelming-picture.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-fire-tv-omni-review-useful-alexa-features-underwhelming-picture.htmlYou’d expect a lot from Amazon’s first self-branded TVs. After building a successful hardware business with its Echo smart devices and Fire TV streaming gadgets, now the tech giant wants to put its name on the biggest screen in your home. The new Fire TV Omni series delivers 4K HDR picture in multiple sizes that start at aggressively low prices: the 50-inch model costs $359.99 at the time of this review./news/amazon-is-turning-audible-into-a-true-podcast-app-but-it-s-got-a-long-way-to-go.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-is-turning-audible-into-a-true-podcast-app-but-it-s-got-a-long-way-to-go.htmlAudible is turning into more of a podcast app. The company announced today that its catalog now contains 100,000 free podcasts that are already available on other streaming platforms, including Pod Save America, This American Life, and Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The shows are now available through the app and will soon show up on Audible’s podcast landing page. Listeners won’t need a subscription to access these shows. This move sets Audible up to compete more earnestly against Spotify and Apple Podcasts, the two biggest names in the space, as well as other, smaller competitors./news/amazon-limits-plan-b-purchases-after-demand-spike.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-limits-plan-b-purchases-after-demand-spike.htmlAmazon is limiting customers to three units of emergency contraceptive pills a week in response to a spike in demand after the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights, the company told CNBC. Other retailers are also limiting purchases of drugs like Plan B and Aftera — CVS and Rite Aid are likewise limiting customers to three pills per customer. The companies say there is enough supply of the drugs but that they’re trying to keep them on the shelves consistently./news/amazon-shaves-app-icon-mustache-that-raised-eyebrows.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-shaves-app-icon-mustache-that-raised-eyebrows.htmlAmazon has quietly rolled out a slight update to its new app icon that it debuted back in January, which alters the colorful strip of tape on the icon that bore an unfortunate resemblance to a toothbrush-style mustache. The toothbrush mustache was originally popularized by comedians like Charlie Chaplin in the early 1900s before it was forever associated with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Amazon made some changes to the icon following customer feedback from its initial rollout before it rolled out the final design worldwide./news/amazon-sold-unauthorized-mole-removers-and-the-fda-isn-t-happy-about-it.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-sold-unauthorized-mole-removers-and-the-fda-isn-t-happy-about-it.htmlUnauthorized mole and skin tag removers sold on Amazon put the company in the crosshairs of the Food and Drug Administration, which sent a warning letter to the retail giant this month asking that it remove the products from its website. There are no authorized over-the-counter drugs that remove moles or skin tags, the FDA said in its warning letter, which was addressed to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. As part of its research, the agency says it bought two of the offending products on Amazon: the “Deisana Skin Tag Remover, Mole Remover and Repair Gel Set” and the “Skincell Mole Skin Tag Corrector Serum./news/amazon-s-alexa-can-handle-patient-information-now-what-does-that-mean-for-privacy.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-alexa-can-handle-patient-information-now-what-does-that-mean-for-privacy.htmlLast week, Amazon announced that Alexa-enabled devices are now able to handle patient information. It’s an exciting update that could make aspects of health care more accessible, but questions remain around privacy and how Amazon will (or won’t) be able to use the data it now has access to. Typically, health care workers can only share a patient’s health information with the patient and others in the health care system, according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)./news/america-s-most-promising-drone-startup-just-partnered-with-dji.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/america-s-most-promising-drone-startup-just-partnered-with-dji.htmlBack in 2015, California-based startup 3D Robotics seemed poised to compete for the top spot in the consumer drone market. It had a great reputation among the hobbyist community and a slick unit called the Solo. Unfortunately, the Solo’s performance and sales didn’t live up to expectations, and last year, 3D Robotics bowed out of the consumer drone game. The company is now focused on enterprise software, specifically an offering called Site Scan that aims to help construction and engineering firms better manage their building sites and operations./news/angry-birds-company-rovio-may-sell-to-sega-for-1-billion.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/angry-birds-company-rovio-may-sell-to-sega-for-1-billion.htmlSega is reportedly close to buying Rovio Entertainment — the company that owns the Angry Birds mobile game franchise — for a whopping $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sega may lock in the big deal by early next week, according to people speaking with WSJ. It’s surprising to think that Sega — specifically, its parent company Sega Sammy Holdings — would want to spend so much on Rovio given the decline in popularity of the Angry Birds games./news/anker-s-new-dual-headed-usb-c-cable-charges-two-devices-at-once.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/anker-s-new-dual-headed-usb-c-cable-charges-two-devices-at-once.htmlAnker’s trying something new that could potentially cut the number of cables you need to wrangle in half. Its 2-in-1 USB-C cable allows two devices to simultaneously charge from a single USB-C port with built-in “Smart Power Management” that automatically adjusts power distribution based on “each device’s power needs.” The four-foot-long cable features a single USB-C port on one end that splits into a pair of USB-C ports on the other, each with a foot of cable that can be shortened as needed to keep things neat and tidy./news/apple-mac-mini-2018-review-the-mini-gets-mighty-and-pricey.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-mac-mini-2018-review-the-mini-gets-mighty-and-pricey.htmlFor years, the Mac mini has been the black sheep of Apple’s computer lineup. It’s not the preferred workstation of graphic designers or video editors. That’s the iMac. And it’s never been the versatile product of choice for the coder class, the modern office worker, or the well-off college student. That’s the MacBook line. But the Mac mini has always had a special place in the hearts of Apple fans. I would know./news/apple-macbook-air-2018-review-retina-display-and-new-keyboard.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-macbook-air-2018-review-retina-display-and-new-keyboard.htmlThe fan is blowing on this brand-new MacBook Air with Retina Display. It’s a familiar sound: a computer trying to cool down a processor that’s being overtaxed by one of the eight or so apps I have running. (In this case, it’s TweetDeck going rogue.) But it’s also a sound you don’t hear on more futuristic computers like the iPad, the Surface Pro, or even the Pixelbook. Still, fan or not, the computer is handling everything I’m doing just fine, and a quick restart of the app quiets it down./news/apple-releasing-first-public-beta-of-os-x-el-capitan-today.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-releasing-first-public-beta-of-os-x-el-capitan-today.htmlJust as it did last year with Yosemite, Apple is again launching a public beta for its latest version of OS X. OS X El Capitan was formally announced at WWDC in June, and you'll be able to try it out starting today at around 2PM ET. The update includes numerous performance enhancements along with new features like smarter multitasking, split-view for full-screen apps, pinned tabs in Safari, public transit in Maps, and more./news/apple-s-iphone-7-event-all-the-news-from-the-big-announcement.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-iphone-7-event-all-the-news-from-the-big-announcement.htmlAs unhappy as I might be about Apple’s removal of the headphone jack, I have to admit that it’s not enough to spoil the appeal of the new iPhone 7. This is shaping up to be yet another excellent update to what was already, for many people, the best smartphone in the world. It just feels like the iPhone 7 itself, the essential device and the things it can do, got almost lost under the weight of all the hype and hoopla of its launch./news/apple-s-latest-ipad-pros-are-cheaper-than-ever-at-amazon-and-best-buy.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-latest-ipad-pros-are-cheaper-than-ever-at-amazon-and-best-buy.htmlPicking the right iPad isn’t easy. There’s a lot to consider, no matter which iPad you’re thinking about. What screen size are you after? What sorts of accessories do you want to use? And, perhaps most importantly, how much do you want to spend? If you’re leaning toward the new iPad Pro, the financial challenge is a steeper hill to climb than the other models. But today’s deals may smooth things out a bit for you./news/apple-s-latest-pride-band-and-wallpapers-are-bathed-in-neon.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-latest-pride-band-and-wallpapers-are-bathed-in-neon.htmlApple’s newest band honoring LGBTQ+ communities is a brightly fluorescent Pride Edition Braided Solo Loop, Apple’s one-piece braided yarn band that stretches over a wearer’s wrist. The band will be available for $99 at Apple retail locations or through the company’s online store starting on May 22nd in the US and Canada — and elsewhere on May 23rd. The new Pride band, looking far less like it sprang forth from the early ’90s than last year’s Sport band, will be available in both 41mm and 45mm sizes, making it compatible with the Apple Watch Series 4 or later and all versions of the Apple Watch SE./news/apple-s-new-ipados-includes-mouse-support-for-ipads.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-new-ipados-includes-mouse-support-for-ipads.htmlApple is making a huge change to its new iPadOS, introducing mouse support for both USB and Bluetooth devices. iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith discovered the new mouse support in iPadOS today, and it reportedly works with USB mice, devices like Apple’s Magic Trackpad, and wireless Bluetooth mice. Apple adding mouse support to iPadOS is significant, even though it’s an accessibility feature for now. Apple has implemented this support as an AssistiveTouch feature, and the cursor looks like a typical touch target you’d find in iOS./news/attendees-experience-severe-eye-burn-following-bored-ape-nft-event.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/attendees-experience-severe-eye-burn-following-bored-ape-nft-event.htmlSeveral people have reported experiencing eye pain, vision problems, and sunburnt skin on Sunday after attending ApeFest, a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection event in Hong Kong that ran from November 3rd-5th. “I woke up at 04:00 and couldn’t see anymore,” said @CryptoJune777. “Had so much pain and my whole skin is burned. Needed to go to the hospital.” Yuga Labs, the blockchain company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project, says it’s aware of the situation and taking the reports seriously./news/audio-only-video-games-were-a-big-hit-and-could-be-coming-back.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/audio-only-video-games-were-a-big-hit-and-could-be-coming-back.htmlNot all video games need video. Over the years, games that exist only in audio have taken players into entirely new worlds in which there’s nothing to see and still everything to do. These games have huge accessibility implications, allowing people who can’t see to play an equally fun, equally immersive game with their other senses. And when all you have is sound, there’s actually even more you can do to make your game great./news/black-widow-s-post-credit-scene-is-marvel-s-biggest-disney-plus-push-yet.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/black-widow-s-post-credit-scene-is-marvel-s-biggest-disney-plus-push-yet.htmlMarvel Studios is practically synonymous with post-credit scenes, so it’s no surprise that Black Widow — the MCU’s first movie in almost two years — continues that tradition. Going all the way back to 2008’s Iron Man (teasing Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and “the Avengers Initiative,”) the post- and mid-credit tags have been used to set the table for the next movie in the Marvel machine. But Black Widow does something different, using its post-credit tag to tease not a future film, but an upcoming Disney Plus show./news/blizzard-reportedly-cancels-world-of-warcraft-mobile-game.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blizzard-reportedly-cancels-world-of-warcraft-mobile-game.htmlBlizzard has canceled a World of Warcraft mobile game according to a report from Bloomberg. The game, made in collaboration with Blizzard’s Chinese publishing partner NetEase, was in development for three years before a conflict about financing terms halted the project. In response to the report, Blizzard spokesperson Andrew Reynolds said in a statement to The Verge, “We continue to have an extremely successful relationship with NetEase, and it is entirely untrue to suggest that there have been financial disputes./news/breath-of-the-wild-in-vr-is-an-ugly-uncomfortable-experience.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/breath-of-the-wild-in-vr-is-an-ugly-uncomfortable-experience.htmlThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the most engrossing games I’ve ever played. In the shift to an open-world structure, Nintendo gave players an unparalleled amount of freedom to explore the fantasy realm of Hyrule to the point that, even two years after launch, it’s easy to lose myself in the game for hours. Unfortunately, that experience doesn’t hold up in virtual reality. Through the lens of a Labo VR headset, Breath of the Wild transforms from a breathtaking adventure into an ugly, uncomfortable chore./news/burning-shores-focus-makes-it-the-best-part-of-horizon-forbidden-west.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/burning-shores-focus-makes-it-the-best-part-of-horizon-forbidden-west.htmlI was relieved when I first looked at the small map in Horizon Forbidden West’s new expansion, Burning Shores. Sony’s Horizon series is renowned for its expansive open worlds that are littered with things to do. When you look at the huge maps in both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, they’re covered with tiny icons pointing you to quests to help your fellow humans, battle with fearsome robot dinosaurs, and even just interesting places to see./news/canva-s-melanie-perkins-says-it-s-time-to-stop-overpaying-for-adobe.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/canva-s-melanie-perkins-says-it-s-time-to-stop-overpaying-for-adobe.htmlToday, I’m talking with Canva CEO and co-founder Melanie Perkins. Canva is a design software company that makes it really easy to do design work, and that means it sits at the intersection of some big conversations right now — especially when it comes to AI and how it might radically change creative work. Canva got its start more than a decade ago as a different form of disruptive tech for creatives./news/celebrated-artist-richard-serra-has-been-making-goatses-his-entire-career.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/celebrated-artist-richard-serra-has-been-making-goatses-his-entire-career.htmlThe above photo is of Backdoor Pipeline, an installation piece by the famous artist Richard Serra. Like most of Serra’s work, the picture doesn’t really do it justice. It’s enormous, designed to be walked through, and the sheer weight of the bent steel is tangible when you’re in the room with it. It shapes the space around it, remaking the relationship between the viewer and the piece. The pink lines aren’t part of the piece; I’ve added them to drive home how much it looks like Goatse./news/chickens-are-closely-related-to-dinosaurs-and-other-insights-from-the-new-bird-family-tree.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/chickens-are-closely-related-to-dinosaurs-and-other-insights-from-the-new-bird-family-tree.htmlFlamingos and doves are more closely related than they look, a new genetic analysis of birds shows. That's not all: chickens are close relations of dinosaurs, and genetic patterns in the brains of birds that learn new calls show remarkable similarities to humans. These findings stem from a project that sequenced genes from 48 bird species and then used several months of supercomputing time to analyze relationships. This week, eight papers appear in Science from the effort, which included more than 200 people from 80 labs./news/comcast-bundles-netflix-peacock-and-apple-tv-plus-for-15-month.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/comcast-bundles-netflix-peacock-and-apple-tv-plus-for-15-month.htmlGet ready for yet another streaming bundle: Comcast is launching a new $15 per month subscription that combines Netflix, Apple TV Plus, and Peacock. The “StreamSaver” bundle will be available to Xfinity Internet and TV customers on May 29th — and it offers monthly savings of around $8. If you do subscribe, expect to sit through some commercials, as the bundle includes Netflix’s ad-supported plan ($6.99 / month), Peacock’s ad-supported Premium plan ($5./news/dell-s-inspiron-7000-line-xps-features-at-a-lower-price.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dell-s-inspiron-7000-line-xps-features-at-a-lower-price.htmlDell’s recent XPS 13 models — with its latest, 8th-Gen Intel processor and ultra-thin bezels — have become one of the best laptops around. Now, some of those features are trickling down the price spectrum, starting with the newly refreshed Inspiron 7000 lineup that was announced at IFA 2018. The new Inspiron 7000s (which come in 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch sizes) all feature 2-in-1 designs, similar to the older models, but Dell has totally overhauled the outside./news/director-hirokazu-kore-eda-on-his-new-film-monster.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/director-hirokazu-kore-eda-on-his-new-film-monster.htmlA building is on fire; we don’t know why. A principal at an elementary school trips a kid at the grocery store; we don’t know why. A student gets in a fight with a classmate, leading to a messy altercation with a teacher; we don’t know why. Monster is a return to form for veteran filmmaker and king of breaking hearts, Hirokazu Kore-eda, who also directed Nobody Knows, Broker, and 2018 Oscar-nominee Shoplifters./news/disney-bringing-frozen-2-to-disney-plus-three-months-early.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-bringing-frozen-2-to-disney-plus-three-months-early.htmlDisney has decided to bring its incredibly popular Frozen 2 to its Disney Plus streaming service three months early “surprising families with some fun and joy during this challenging period” as the country fights the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Frozen 2 has captivated audiences around the world through its powerful themes of perseverance and the importance of family, messages that are incredibly relevant during this time,” said Bob Chapek, Disney’s recently appointed CEO, in a press release./news/disney-plus-is-getting-a-beauty-and-the-beast-prequel-show-based-on-the-live-action-remake.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-plus-is-getting-a-beauty-and-the-beast-prequel-show-based-on-the-live-action-remake.htmlDisney Plus is reportedly getting a new Beauty and the Beast prequel series based on the 2017 live-action remake, which will see Luke Evans and Josh Gad reprise their roles from remake as Gaston and LeFou, respectively, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The TV series is said to be a six-episode musical limited series set before the events of the movie, with iconic composer Alan Menken reportedly in talks to join the show to provide songs (Menken composed the music for both the 1991 animated film and the 2007 remake, along with numerous other Disney productions)./news/disney-s-reported-streaming-service-plans-show-the-company-is-sticking-with-what-already-works.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/disney-s-reported-streaming-service-plans-show-the-company-is-sticking-with-what-already-works.htmlDisney’s streaming service is still on track for its fall 2019 launch, and today Deadline revealed some details about what that service will look like once it launches, and what kind of content Disney will be offering. The information comes from meetings Disney had been conducting in Hollywood to give people in the industry a sense of what to expect from the upcoming service. Per the report, Disney is looking to debut four to five original movies and TV series during the first year of the service, which will launch in America first before expanding internationally later on./news/dlss-3-mod-for-starfield-has-a-controversial-drm-paywall.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dlss-3-mod-for-starfield-has-a-controversial-drm-paywall.htmlStarfield isn’t even officially out of early access yet, but one of its mods has already generated controversy within the community. The mod in question adds support for Nvidia’s DLSS 3 upscaling technology, which Bethesda omitted to include in Starfield in favor of AMD’s rival FSR 2. But users have been critical of modder PureDark’s decision to lock DLSS 3’s more advanced frame-generation features behind a subscription to their Patreon. The free version of the mod only supports DLSS 2, which offers upscaling but not frame generation./news/don-t-confuse-apple-s-fertility-tracking-with-birth-control.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/don-t-confuse-apple-s-fertility-tracking-with-birth-control.htmlApple is very careful with the language it’s using around the new, juiced-up fertility and cycle tracking features on the Apple Watch Series 8. It can “inform your family planning” if you’re trying to conceive, the company said in the product announcement. It can predict ovulation but only retrospectively.  The company isn’t making any claims that people could use the features to avoid becoming pregnant, which would take sign-off from the Food and Drug Administration./news/don-t-expect-any-new-tv-rewatch-podcasts-during-the-hollywood-strike.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/don-t-expect-any-new-tv-rewatch-podcasts-during-the-hollywood-strike.htmlThis is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today, I’ll dive into Spotify’s second quarter earnings call this morning. Despite layoffs and the shutdown of a number of podcasts, it’ll be a while until we see the benefits from a thriftier company. I also have an update on actor-hosted rewatch podcasts — and news of a new podcast coming to public radio. Your favorite TV rewatch podcast is here to stay — but don’t expect any new ones/news/doordash-adds-in-app-safety-features-but-couriers-need-more-protection.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/doordash-adds-in-app-safety-features-but-couriers-need-more-protection.htmlDoorDash is adding a set of tools for its delivery workers called “SafeDash,” which includes a way to contact an agent from the ADT security company or to call 911 through ADT. The company is first launching the tool in major cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, but says it’ll roll out to all its US couriers by the end of the year. While it’s good that DoorDash is acknowledging the dangers its delivery workers face, some advocates say that SafeDash won’t help solve the problems of thieves targeting them for their money or bikes, and the apps giving them routes that put them in harm’s way./news/dyson-s-new-supersonic-is-the-tesla-of-hair-dryers.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dyson-s-new-supersonic-is-the-tesla-of-hair-dryers.htmlThe hair-and-makeup tax is a real thing. It might be difficult to fully grasp the amount of time it takes people with long hair, or people who feel a whole lot better with a little bit of makeup on, to get ready to head out the door if you fall into neither category, but trust me: it takes time away from other things you’d rather be doing. So when Dyson said earlier this year that it had reinvented the hair dryer, building one with a powerful 13-blade motor, high-velocity airstream, and temperature control, I took the bait./news/elon-musk-begins-selling-burnt-hair-perfume.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-begins-selling-burnt-hair-perfume.htmlEver fancied smelling like scorched keratin? Weird, but you’re the target demographic for Elon Musk’s latest product innovation: Burnt Hair cologne. Yes, you can buy it. The fragrance is the realization of a tweet Musk made back in September and is being sold through Musk’s The Boring Company, which you might recall has sold other novelty items in the past, such as the Not-A-Flamethrower. The advertising imagery shows a red bottle with a ruby-like gemstone on top./news/elon-musk-says-the-only-reason-he-wants-to-make-money-is-to-colonize-mars.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-says-the-only-reason-he-wants-to-make-money-is-to-colonize-mars.htmlElon Musk's ambitious plan to turn the human race into a multi-planetary species, starting first with the colonization of Mars, will cost a lot of money. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who laid out his Mars plans today at a press conference, hopes to eventually make the cost of taking a trip to Mars equal that of the average US home, at around $200,000 per ticket. Still, there's a long road ahead to funding the complex architecture of a stable Earth-Mars transportation system./news/epic-games-database-leak-hints-at-a-trove-of-unannounced-games.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/epic-games-database-leak-hints-at-a-trove-of-unannounced-games.htmlAn unofficial site tracking titles in the Epic Games library may have just leaked a ton of upcoming games, as reported earlier by Wccftech. The site, called EpicDB, was taken offline shortly after it posted information scraped from the Epic Games Store catalog on Monday, but that didn’t stop people from scanning the list and posting their findings. You can see the list of games from publishers like Bethesda, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, and others in a series of screenshots posted by a user on a ResetEra forum./news/facebook-launches-verified-pages-and-profiles-for-prominent-public-figures-and-brands.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-launches-verified-pages-and-profiles-for-prominent-public-figures-and-brands.htmlFacebook is taking a page out of Twitter's book, as it has announced the launch of verified pages and profiles for prominent public figures, such as celebrities, journalists, government officials, and popular brands. Facebook says that accounts with large followings will get verified status, but it did not say how it would go about actually verifying them. As with Twitter's verified accounts, pages and profiles on Facebook that have been given verified status will feature a blue check mark next to their names, which will be visible throughout the site./news/facebook-s-contract-workers-are-looking-at-your-private-posts-to-train-ai.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-s-contract-workers-are-looking-at-your-private-posts-to-train-ai.htmlA new report from Reuters reveals that contract workers are looking at private posts on Facebook and Instagram in order to label them for AI systems. Like many tech companies, Facebook uses machine learning and AI to sort content on its platforms. But in order to do this, the software needs to be trained to identify different types of content. To train these algorithms they have to analyze sample data, all of which needs to be categorized and labeled by humans — a process known as “data annotation./news/finding-the-limits-of-dish-s-new-5g-network.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/finding-the-limits-of-dish-s-new-5g-network.htmlDish is trying something no one’s succeeded at for a very long time: build a new nationwide cell network from the ground up. The 5G service, called Project Genesis, finally went live in “over 120 cities” two weeks ago, and my colleague and I immediately signed up to test it out. From the start, we had some big questions: how fast will this new network be? Would we even be able to find Dish service?/news/five-cool-science-experiments-happening-during-the-total-solar-eclipse.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/five-cool-science-experiments-happening-during-the-total-solar-eclipse.htmlNext week’s total solar eclipse isn’t just a chance to see a cool natural phenomenon, it’s a rare opportunity for all kinds of science experiments. The path of a total solar eclipse hasn’t touched the US since 1979. Sure, there’ll be another solar eclipse in 2019, but it’ll mostly be over the Pacific Ocean. NASA is obviously taking the lead with the research and is even sending bacteria into the sky with balloons./news/ford-slashes-mustang-mach-e-prices-again-as-ev-price-war-enters-its-second-year.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ford-slashes-mustang-mach-e-prices-again-as-ev-price-war-enters-its-second-year.htmlThe Ford Mustang Mach-E just became a lot more affordable after the automaker announced a major price cut for the 2023 model year. The new adjustments will bring at least one version of the Mach-E below $40,000 for the first time. The Mustang Mach-E was the number two bestselling electric SUV in the US in 2023. But to get there, Ford had to wage a brutal price war with Tesla that is now entering its second year./news/fortnite-gets-gyro-controls-and-flick-stick-on-ps4-ps5-and-pc.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-gets-gyro-controls-and-flick-stick-on-ps4-ps5-and-pc.htmlEpic Games is bringing gyro-based motion controls for Fortnite to the PS4, PS5, and PC today. Gyro controls have existed on the Nintendo Switch and Android previously, and this new expansion to PlayStation and PC includes more robust gyro controls and a new flick stick option. Gyro controls allow you to control the camera in Fortnite by simply turning your controller. That means you can couple gyro controls with traditional stick aiming to improve precision and movement throughout Fortnite./news/galaxy-z-fold-5-leak-shows-a-hinge-that-closes-flat.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/galaxy-z-fold-5-leak-shows-a-hinge-that-closes-flat.htmlGalaxy Z Fold 4 folded in half on a desk, showing a larger gap near the hinge than the rendered Z Fold 5 in the leaked image. Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Another clearly visible but minor change shows the camera flash moved off of the camera bump on the back, and the screen bezel looks a bit thinner. Expected specs listed include screen sizes that are unchanged from the last couple of years, with a 6./news/game-gear-micro-review-peak-sega.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/game-gear-micro-review-peak-sega.htmlThe Game Gear Micro is portable console as performance art. Coming off the back of the excellent Genesis Mini, Sega had two choices when it came to reviving the Game Gear, its contemporaneous 8-bit handheld system. It could produce another generous, accessible device that plays well and looks great on a modern screen. Or it could do something else. Sega being Sega, it did something else. The Japan-exclusive Game Gear Micro is not one console but four, each including four games./news/gamestop-will-buy-and-sell-rare-pok%C3%A9mon-cards-but-it-doesn-t-want-to-catch-em-all.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gamestop-will-buy-and-sell-rare-pok%C3%A9mon-cards-but-it-doesn-t-want-to-catch-em-all.htmlGameStop, the used video game retailer that’s become increasingly associated with other kinds of speculative investments, wants to cash in on the resurgent card collecting craze — staffers have told Pokébeach, Polygon, and The Verge that stores will begin buying and selling rare Pokémon cards, and possibly other cards, as soon as next week. GameStop apparently doesn’t want just any cards, though: employees across multiple states say they’ll only be buying cards that have already been graded by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) at an 8, 9, or 10, meaning they’re in near-mint condition or better with only slight imperfections./news/genki-tries-to-crack-portable-switch-docks-with-its-new-covert-dock.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/genki-tries-to-crack-portable-switch-docks-with-its-new-covert-dock.htmlThe Switch’s ability to dock and connect to a TV is still one of its most iconic features (it’s right there in the name), but in the two-plus years since the console was released, there haven’t been reliable third-party dock options out there. If you want to connect a Switch to a TV, you’re basically stuck with Nintendo’s dock or nothing. Switch accessory company Genki — which is fresh off a successful Kickstarter last year for a Bluetooth headphone adapter for Nintendo’s portable console — wants to change that with the Genki Covert Dock, a miniature GaN charger that also promises to work as a fully functional portable Switch dock./news/github-is-banning-copies-of-deepfakes-porn-app-deepnude.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/github-is-banning-copies-of-deepfakes-porn-app-deepnude.htmlGitHub is banning code from DeepNude, the app that used AI to create fake nude pictures of women. Motherboard, which first reported on DeepNude last month, confirmed that the Microsoft-owned software development platform won’t allow DeepNude projects. GitHub told Motherboard that the code violated its rules against “sexually obscene content,” and it’s removed multiple repositories, including one that was officially run by DeepNude’s creator. DeepNude was originally a paid app that created nonconsensual nude pictures of women using technology similar to AI “deepfakes./news/god-of-war-ragnar%C3%B6k-comes-to-pc-in-september.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/god-of-war-ragnar%C3%B6k-comes-to-pc-in-september.htmlRagnarök is nigh — that is, if you’ve got a PC capable of handling it. During its summer State of Play event, Sony announced that God of War Ragnarök is coming to PC on September 19th. The news was accompanied by a brand-new trailer including the info that the game is now available for preorder. It’s been just over a year since God of War Ragnarök released, adding another emotional beat to the story of Kratos, the god of war, and his son, Atreus./news/gogoro-s-electric-scooters-just-got-a-major-price-cut-and-a-new-cheaper-model.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gogoro-s-electric-scooters-just-got-a-major-price-cut-and-a-new-cheaper-model.htmlTaiwanese firm Gogoro makes some of the most futuristic electric scooters we've ever seen, but they're certainly not cheap. So, in a bid to attract new customers in Taiwan (where the company is running its pilot program), Gogoro has cut the cost of its current models and introduced a new, cheaper ride named the Gogoro Lite. Customers can now buy the standard scooter at NT$98,000 (around $2,984), while the high-end Gogoro Plus will start at NT$108,000 ($3,288) and the new Gogoro Lite will be available from NT$88,000 ($2,679)./news/google-adds-more-ar-animals-to-mobile-search-and-most-of-them-are-pretty-cute.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-adds-more-ar-animals-to-mobile-search-and-most-of-them-are-pretty-cute.htmlGoogle has added 50 new augmented reality animals to Search which can be either cute, or in the case of the giant cat in the photo above, a bit disconcerting. Of course it’s possible that I find the giant kitty menacing because I hate fun (or so I have been told), but I do not think I want that creature to greet me, anywhere, ever, in AR or any other reality./news/google-announced-an-iphone-a-gear-vr-an-echo-and-an-eero.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-announced-an-iphone-a-gear-vr-an-echo-and-an-eero.htmlEverybody copies everybody. It doesn't mean they're "out of ideas" or "in a technological cul-de-sac" — or at least it doesn't necessarily mean that — it does mean they want to make money and keep users. It's actually one of my favorite elements of the tech industry. It's self-regulating in a small way, because there's a certain shame to, say, copying GoPro or Meerkat or Snapchat or Dropbox, but sometimes a product category or feature is just irresistible./news/google-gave-phone-makers-extra-money-to-ditch-third-party-app-stores.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-gave-phone-makers-extra-money-to-ditch-third-party-app-stores.htmlNewly unredacted sections of Epic’s antitrust complaint against Google reveal new details on the lengths to which Google went to undermine third-party app stores on the Android platform. According to the new text, starting in 2019, Google ran a “Premier Device Program” that gave Android phone makers a greater share of search revenue than they would normally receive. In exchange, the OEMs agreed to ship their devices without any third-party app stores preinstalled./news/google-is-giving-away-the-tool-it-uses-to-understand-language-parsey-mcparseface.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-giving-away-the-tool-it-uses-to-understand-language-parsey-mcparseface.htmlYes, to get you to pay attention to what would otherwise be a fairly dense and nerdy thing, Google is using an homage to Boaty McBoatface for one of the software tools it's releasing today. But don't just laugh (or groan) at the name, what Google is giving developers and researchers access to is a big deal. Today, it's open-sourcing something it calls SyntaxNet and a component for it, Mr. McParseface./news/google-made-an-insanely-high-res-camera-to-preserve-great-works-of-art.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-made-an-insanely-high-res-camera-to-preserve-great-works-of-art.htmlIn its first five years, the Google Cultural Institute scanned and archived 200 works of art in super-high-resolution gigapixel images. Now in just the past few months, it has managed to scan another 1,000. The sudden expansion is thanks to a new camera developed by Google, simply called the Art Camera. It's designed to be far simpler to use than other camera setups, making it easier for museums and other institutions to start digitizing the art and documents in their collection./news/hands-on-with-angry-miao-s-compact-touch-65-less-mechanical-keyboard.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hands-on-with-angry-miao-s-compact-touch-65-less-mechanical-keyboard.htmlAngry Miao is at it again with another unique mechanical keyboard that costs a small fortune. This time it thought, “Hey, wouldn’t you love to use perfectly straight swipe gestures instead of physical arrow keys?” This new board is called the AM Compact Touch. Angry Miao calls it a 65 percent board, but it doesn’t have arrow keys. Instead, it has a small touchpad on the front for swiping your up, down, left, and right directions./news/having-too-much-fun-on-a-mate-x-electric-folding-bike.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/having-too-much-fun-on-a-mate-x-electric-folding-bike.htmlThere are two types of people in this world: those who like fat-tire bikes and those who don’t. I’m very much of the fat tire persuasion, which is why I just had to test the new Mate X electric folding bike. There’s something about those big knobby wheels that speaks to my desire to forge a new path, to take the road less traveled. To explore strange new worlds and go where no one has gone before, even if that’s just to the corner store./news/here-s-how-to-find-android-13-s-emoji-filled-easter-egg.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/here-s-how-to-find-android-13-s-emoji-filled-easter-egg.htmlThe way it functions in the current beta version (13.3) is much like last year — start the Easter egg by going to Settings > About phone > Android version, then tap the Android version three times rapidly. This reveals an analog clock widget; move the hands to 1 o’clock (that’s 13:00 in military time — get it?), and you’ll see a colorful array of spots pop up representing Material You’s customizable color theming./news/home-sick-pilots-review-a-punk-rock-haunted-house-story.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/home-sick-pilots-review-a-punk-rock-haunted-house-story.htmlComics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more prominent in pop culture. This biweekly Verge column recommends comic series new and old, whether you’re a longtime fan or a newcomer. Haunted house stories are usually pretty dreary. It helps with the horror: a bleak old house covered in shadows so that you can’t see what’s around the corner./news/honda-retires-its-famed-asimo-robot.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/honda-retires-its-famed-asimo-robot.htmlAsimo, Honda’s adorable, humanoid robot, is no more. The company announced it would cease production of the robot in order to focus on using Asimo’s technology for more practical use cases in nursing and road transport, as reported by Nikkei Asian Review. Work on Asimo, whose name stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, first began in the ‘80s and it was eventually unveiled in 2000. The first robot to walk on two legs, Asimo can, among other things, recognize multiple moving objects, determine the distance and direction of the objects, interpret voice commands and human gestures (like a wave or handshake), and autonomously navigate thanks to sensors within its body./news/honor-60-announced-in-china-with-vlogging-focused-gesture-controls.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/honor-60-announced-in-china-with-vlogging-focused-gesture-controls.htmlA notable new feature for both new phones is support for hand gesture controls, which let you perform actions like making the “Okay” gesture or raising your hand to perform camera controls like switching between its front and back cameras, or enabling picture-in-picture mode. The phone can recognize five hand gestures in total, and Honor says features like these make vlogging “easier than ever.”  Releasing in China on December 10th/news/how-an-instagram-conversation-led-to-a-firestorm-in-china.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-an-instagram-conversation-led-to-a-firestorm-in-china.htmlRacist Instagram exchanges have gone viral in China, despite the platform being blocked. A Dolce & Gabbana fashion show has been apparently canceled in China as hordes of online users accuse the brand of racism. First denounced by famous actors including Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), the brand pulled its Shanghai fashion show last night after a dozen models left, and now, online platforms like Net-A-Porter and Alibaba’s Taobao have swiftly stopped carrying its wares in China./news/how-an-online-community-took-back-the-legend-of-zelda.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-an-online-community-took-back-the-legend-of-zelda.htmlI don’t have a first memory of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time because It’s been in my life for as long as I can remember. Before I had the coordination to play the game myself, I would watch my older brothers play it for hours on end. When I could finally play through it myself, it felt like flying. I chase that dopamine hit once every year or two by playing through Ocarina of Time, which normally requires dusting off my old GameCube and hoping the disk isn’t too scratched to read./news/how-google-made-the-world-go-viral.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-google-made-the-world-go-viral.htmlThe first thing ever searched on Google was the name Gerhard Casper, a former Stanford president. As the story goes, in 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin demoed Google for computer scientist John Hennessy. They searched Casper’s name on both AltaVista and Google. The former pulled up results for Casper the Friendly Ghost; the latter pulled up information on Gerhard Casper the person. What made Google’s results different from AltaVista’s was its algorithm, PageRank, which organized results based on the amount of links between pages./news/how-i-hosted-my-first-charity-stream-and-how-you-can-host-one-too.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-i-hosted-my-first-charity-stream-and-how-you-can-host-one-too.htmlCongratulations! The world is falling apart (or at least feels like it’s falling apart), and you’ve decided to do something about it. That’s a commendable urge. Here’s where I tell you that you’ve also decided to do something very hard. Hosting a charity stream (on Twitch, YouTube, or on any other platform) is much more difficult than hosting a regular live stream, mostly because charity streams involve more moving parts — there’s the charity, the donation flow, guests, and, obviously, anything else you’re doing to make the experience special for your viewers./news/how-to-customize-your-samsung-galaxy-phone-with-the-good-lock-app.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-customize-your-samsung-galaxy-phone-with-the-good-lock-app.htmlIf you own a Galaxy smartphone and you haven’t already discovered the Samsung Good Lock app, I’d recommend getting it installed at your earliest opportunity. It’s packed with tweaks, tools, and options that build on top of what Samsung already puts into its One UI version of Android. Good Lock lets you take much more control over how your phone interface looks as well as helping you to do more with your phone./news/how-to-install-and-set-up-a-nest-thermostat.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-install-and-set-up-a-nest-thermostat.htmlThe Nest Thermostat is a simple, significant upgrade you can make for your home. It’s a smart thermostat that you can program and control from your phone. You can adjust the temperature with your voice through a smart assistant as well as integrate it with other connected devices in your home to do useful things like turn down the heat when you leave home or shut off your HVAC when your smoke alarm goes off./news/how-to-quit-twitter-the-verge.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-quit-twitter-the-verge.htmlTwitter was once a convenient way to get your memes, world news, and pop culture hot takes all in one place. However, being an active Twitter user also required sifting through a daily deluge of toxic characters, including QAnon, white supremacists, bots, and deepfakes. The Elon Musk circus that has been steadily crushing the formerly popular social network may have you strongly considering the advantages of bailing. And there are a bunch of new social networks vying for the role of Twitter substitute, such as Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon./news/how-to-trigger-spotify-s-creepy-stranger-things-easter-egg.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-trigger-spotify-s-creepy-stranger-things-easter-egg.htmlIn honor of Stranger Things’ upcoming second season, which premieres this Friday on Netflix, Spotify has hidden a spooky little gem in its web player: a re-skin that turns the black-and-green media player into The Upside Down. It won’t affect the music you’re playing, but it will add some floating spores and a flashlight beam to make your listening experience a little creepier. Triggering the Easter egg is pretty simple: pull up your Spotify account on either the browser or app, start the Stranger Things soundtrack for either season, and let it play./news/hulu-is-now-a-channel-on-optimum-cable-boxes.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hulu-is-now-a-channel-on-optimum-cable-boxes.htmlPeople subscribing to Cablevision's Optimum TV service can now flip the channel to Hulu. As in, Hulu is literally now located on channel 605. This time last year, Hulu and Cablevision made a deal to start offering Hulu's subscription service (formerly known as Hulu Plus and now confusingly known just as Hulu) through Optimum. It's beginning to roll out today, making Optimum the first cable service to integrate directly with Hulu./news/ikea-s-swedish-house-mafia-record-player-is-actually-going-on-sale-next-month.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ikea-s-swedish-house-mafia-record-player-is-actually-going-on-sale-next-month.htmlIkea’s record player made in collaboration with music supergroup Swedish House Mafia is set to go on sale on October 1st. The all-black device sports an unsurprisingly minimalistic look and will cost you $159.99 once it hits Ikea’s maze-like stores. The record player is part of Ikea’s overarching Obegränsad (the Swedish word for “unlimited”) collection, which includes an equally-as-modern armchair, desk, LED work lamp, record stand, laptop stand, and shelving units, among other items./news/in-its-second-season-bojack-horseman-quits-beating-a-depressed-horse.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/in-its-second-season-bojack-horseman-quits-beating-a-depressed-horse.htmlI guess I’ll just try and make you understand That I’m more horse than a man Or I’m more man than a horse Within the first five minutes of the second season of Bojack Horseman, the entire conceit of the show is laid bare, with the help of George Takei. I can change, and I will change, the voice of Takei commands Bojack through a self-help audiobook. You've gotta conquer that hill./news/intel-google-microsoft-meta-and-more-want-to-standardize-the-tech-used-in-ai-data-centers.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/intel-google-microsoft-meta-and-more-want-to-standardize-the-tech-used-in-ai-data-centers.htmlIntel, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and more want to standardize the tech used in AI data centers. The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group, will work to create an open standard to help AI accelerators “communicate more effectively” within data centers and boost performance. Other members include AMD, HP, Broadcom, and Cisco — but not Nvidia, which has AI chip-linking tech of its own. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfanx0fI5ra2puZ22EdXvIp6uepF2cvLCzy55kpqGTp7y0u8WtZKadpJZ6orrDZqSoqpVixKK602arqGWjqa6vsMCrm6KylWLBqbGMrZycoF2qwKawjKKlZpmZYrGiwMBmmp6mpJq%2FtA%3D%3D/news/iphone-13-costs-what-that-free-trade-in-offer-really-adds-up-to.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/iphone-13-costs-what-that-free-trade-in-offer-really-adds-up-to.htmlWith all the carriers dangling sweet, sweet trade-in and upgrade offers to essentially give you a “free” iPhone 13 (or two) this year, one can’t help but wonder: which one is the best deal? In this case, that would be the offer that costs you the least money but gets you the iPhone you want. Between all the convoluted conditions and confusing industry jargon, the carriers certainly don’t make it easy to compare different offers or make clear what you’re signing up for./news/it-sure-sounds-like-valve-s-gabe-newell-is-having-a-lovely-time-in-new-zealand.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/it-sure-sounds-like-valve-s-gabe-newell-is-having-a-lovely-time-in-new-zealand.htmlValve co-founder and president Gabe Newell has given one of his famously rare interviews with New Zealand’s 1 News. In it, he discusses his admiration for the island country, where he recently applied for residency after having sheltered there during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also used the interview to confirm that Valve does indeed have new games in development (though he declined to offer more details) and addressed rumors that the company plans to set up an office in New Zealand./news/jessica-jones-trolling-iron-fist-on-twitter-is-a-stroke-of-genius.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/jessica-jones-trolling-iron-fist-on-twitter-is-a-stroke-of-genius.htmlIt’s largely accepted by now that Iron Fist is Marvel’s weakest Netflix series, given the widespread critical opinion that it’s a boring, often offensive mess. But with The Defenders on its way, the show is still an integral piece of the superhero crossover puzzle. Danny Rand and his glowing fist aren’t going away anytime soon, and Marvel can’t sweep either of them under the rug. So what’s the best way to charge through this mess?/news/k-pop-group-newjeans-will-perform-this-year-s-league-of-legends-worlds-anthem.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/k-pop-group-newjeans-will-perform-this-year-s-league-of-legends-worlds-anthem.htmlThe 2023 League of Legends World Championship is taking place in Korea this year, and to celebrate, Riot has tapped one of the country’s hottest bands to perform the annual anthem. Girl group NewJeans — best known for earworms like “Super Shy” — will be behind the new song. It’s called “Gods” and is set to be released on the evening of October 3rd. “Between Worlds taking place in Korea and NewJeans’ meteoric rise, this partnership felt fated as a true cultural celebration,” Carrie Dunn, Riot’s global head of creative for esports, said in a statement./news/kfc-s-iphone-killer-has-arrived.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kfc-s-iphone-killer-has-arrived.htmlThere are no greater joys in life than gadgets and fried chicken, so why not enjoy them at the same time? KFC gets it: it partnered with Huawei to release a limited edition smartphone to commemorate 30 years since opening in China. Since this is a gadget blog, I am compelled to tell you some of the specs of the KFC edition Huawei Enjoy 7 Plus. It’s got a 5.5-inch screen, is powered by a Snapdragon 425 processor, and comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage that can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card./news/let-s-install-google-toolbar-the-project-that-almost-made-it-21-years.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/let-s-install-google-toolbar-the-project-that-almost-made-it-21-years.htmlThere was no ceremony, no announcement, no moment of silence, nor any closure — just a “no longer available.” That’s what Google has now on its Install Google Toolbar help page; it tells you how to uninstall the Google Toolbar and install Chrome instead. How to “install” Google Toolbar — the result may surprise you. It feels unreal for Google to silently forsake a tool that was, in 2008, responsible for 12 percent of all Google searches — and then convince a new internet generation that everyone should just download Chrome if they love Googling so much./news/let-s-speculate-wildly-about-tesla-s-three-mystery-vehicles.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/let-s-speculate-wildly-about-tesla-s-three-mystery-vehicles.htmlTesla CEO Elon Musk teased three new vehicles during his presentation at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday — one more than what he showed off during the Master Plan Part 3 event last year. In a slide showing the company’s current lineup — Models S, X, 3, Y, the Tesla Semi, and Cybertruck — three shrouded vehicles were also included. “Obviously we’ve got some new products that we’re working on under the covers,” Musk said./news/lg-s-rollable-oled-tv-is-finally-coming-to-the-us-for-a-staggering-100-000.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lg-s-rollable-oled-tv-is-finally-coming-to-the-us-for-a-staggering-100-000.htmlLG’s futuristic rollable OLED 4K TV is coming to the US for an eye-popping price of $100,000. First introduced as a stunning prototype at CES 2018 (and then turned into a real product the next year), the 65-inch set can roll itself up and then back down to fully disappear into its housing unit. That cabinet also contains a front-firing, 100-watt Dolby Atmos sound system. The OLED R has a middle mode between being fully unfurled and rolled down./news/logitech-crayon-vs-apple-pencil-review-which-stylus-should-you-get.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-crayon-vs-apple-pencil-review-which-stylus-should-you-get.htmlAt its education event in Chicago earlier this year, Apple announced a $49 Logitech Crayon that was only available exclusively to schools and educators. As of last week, Apple has changed its tune, and the Crayon is now available for the rest of us at $69.99. The question of “which stylus to get” between the Logitech Crayon and Apple Pencil is really only an issue if you have the latest $329 iPad, which is the only iPad the Crayon is compatible with./news/machine-battles-nature-in-this-insane-trailer-for-mega-shark-vs-mecha-shark.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/machine-battles-nature-in-this-insane-trailer-for-mega-shark-vs-mecha-shark.htmlEarlier this year the Syfy movie Sharknado set the internet abuzz with a whirling mix of meteorological activity and razor-sharp teeth. Now its creators are back with another campy tale that's sure to please fans of this very particular brand of TV movie. Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark is actually the third entry in the Mega Shark franchise, following such "classics" as Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and Mega Shark vs./news/make-a-date-with-your-playdate.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/make-a-date-with-your-playdate.htmlMake a date with your Playdate. The folks over at Panic launched a shop for Playdate games at the beginning of the year, and — as of this month — it has now surpassed 100 titles. The November releases are as quirky as always, including a gigantic space yo-yo a game about serving root beer to bears. Check out the full list below. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2tfZn5wfpBoaWxxZ2Z%2Bd3%2BOppiknV2WeqWt055ksKGknXq6u9SrZKmkka6xosDE/news/manchester-city-launches-a-new-wearable-performance-tracker.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/manchester-city-launches-a-new-wearable-performance-tracker.htmlSay what you like about Manchester City FC, but it’s a soccer club that loves wearable gadgets. Not only does it have a smart scarf in the works, but today, it’s launching Cityplay, a wearable performance tracker that provides training insights to folks who like to play footy in their spare time. Cityplay is a collaborative effort with Playermaker, a tech company that makes a wearable soccer tracker. Playermaker’s tech has been around for a while, and the tracker is currently used in Man City’s Academy, which trains promising young players./news/mark-zuckerberg-isn-t-being-held-in-contempt-of-congress-after-all.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mark-zuckerberg-isn-t-being-held-in-contempt-of-congress-after-all.htmlSo, it looks like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t going to be held in contempt of Congress after all — at least for now. The House Judiciary Committee was supposed to vote to hold Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress on Thursday, but chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) canceled the vote shortly before it was scheduled to take place, as first reported by Bloomberg. The vote was originally a play to get Meta to hand over additional documents as part of a committee investigation into alleged collusion with the White House to censor conservative speech./news/massive-square-enix-sale-puts-nearly-every-final-fantasy-game-ever-on-sale.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/massive-square-enix-sale-puts-nearly-every-final-fantasy-game-ever-on-sale.htmlIf you've been looking to buy just about any Square Enix game ever made, chances are right now might be a really good time to buy. The developer is running a massive Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale through its (admittedly outdated) online store. Over 200 games and DLC packs — available as PC downloads and hard copies for everything from next-generation consoles to the PS2, Xbox 360, and PSP — are included in the sale./news/microsoft-is-bringing-ai-characters-to-xbox.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-is-bringing-ai-characters-to-xbox.htmlMicrosoft is partnering with Inworld AI to develop Xbox tools that will allow developers to create AI-powered characters, stories, and quests. The multiyear partnership will include an “AI design copilot” system that Xbox developers can use to create detailed scripts, dialogue trees, quest lines, and more. “At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” explains Haiyan Zhang, general manager of gaming AI at Xbox./news/microsoft-s-new-copilot-will-change-office-documents-forever.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-new-copilot-will-change-office-documents-forever.htmlMicrosoft’s new AI-powered Copilot summarized my meeting instantly yesterday (the meeting was with Microsoft to discuss Copilot, of course) before listing out the questions I’d asked just seconds before. I’ve watched Microsoft demo the future of work for years with concepts about virtual assistants, but Copilot is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to them coming true. “In our minds this is the new way of computing, the new way of working with technology, and the most adaptive technology we’ve seen,” says Jon Friedman, corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft, in an interview with The Verge./news/microsoft-s-testing-a-handy-game-pass-widget-on-windows-11.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-testing-a-handy-game-pass-widget-on-windows-11.htmlMicrosoft’s first new Windows 11 widget should make it even easier to find out which games are coming to PC Game Pass. The widget is only available to Windows Insider testers for now and is supposed to provide a “window” into the service’s game library, allowing you to check out recent additions and the games leaving soon. Microsoft currently has a fairly limited selection of widgets in Windows 11, but a Game Pass widget indicates that Microsoft is trying out other applications (that aren’t so boring as the weather, a calendar, and the news)./news/minecraft-s-recent-surge-on-youtube-proves-that-the-pewdiepie-effect-is-still-real.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/minecraft-s-recent-surge-on-youtube-proves-that-the-pewdiepie-effect-is-still-real.htmlAlmost two months ago, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg did something his fans have wanted for years: he made a Minecraft video, and he’s continued to make them ever since. The result was Kjellberg’s most successful month in years, pulling in more than 570 million views in July and kickstarting a new trend among some of the biggest YouTube creators. For the first time since January 2017, Minecraft has surpassed Fortnite as the most-searched game on YouTube./news/mint-is-getting-new-features-for-tracking-subscriptions-and-managing-transactions.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mint-is-getting-new-features-for-tracking-subscriptions-and-managing-transactions.htmlMint, the free personal finance app from Intuit, is receiving an update today, adding more automated features like subscription tracking and new “insights” to keep you informed where your money is spent, Fast Company reports. Mint’s new features may bring it more in line with the competition from banks and companies like Google that have been nipping at its heels with built-in budget tracking features and other services over the years./news/mit-s-robot-carpenters-will-saw-wood-for-you-but-you-have-to-make-the-furniture-yourself.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mit-s-robot-carpenters-will-saw-wood-for-you-but-you-have-to-make-the-furniture-yourself.htmlResearchers from MIT have created a new system of robot-assisted carpentry that they say could make the creation of custom furniture and fittings safer, easier, and cheaper. It’s called AutoSaw and it’s made up of two parts: design software and semi-autonomous robots. Users select a template from the software (like a chair, table, or shed) and then adjust it to their liking, tweaking the size and shape. This order is then turned into instructions for the robots, which autonomously pick up and saw the necessary materials to the correct size./news/monster-s-lawsuit-against-beats-has-gone-very-poorly.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/monster-s-lawsuit-against-beats-has-gone-very-poorly.htmlMonster's claims that Beats Electronics fraudulently ended their relationship were dismissed in a Los Angeles Superior Court today, leaving Beats and Apple off the hook. The judge ruled that Beats was allowed to end their partnership, meaning its actions were not, as Monster and its CEO Noel Lee claimed, a "sham" designed to take control of their shared headphone line. The case continues, but not in a way that Monster's going to be happy about: Beats is now countersuing for attorneys' fees, claiming its termination agreement with Monster should have prevented this lawsuit — or really any other lawsuit — from being filed in the first place./news/moonfall-review-an-embarrassingly-hollow-and-galaxy-brained-spectacle.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/moonfall-review-an-embarrassingly-hollow-and-galaxy-brained-spectacle.htmlFor movies like Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall that are ostensibly about mysteries meant to keep you guessing, it’s never a good sign when the studios behind them more or less spoil their own plots with overstuffed trailers. If you’ve caught any of Moonfall’s bombastic TV spots or seen some of its busier print ads, you’ll probably see each of the film’s uninspired twists coming long before any of its characters do. But that might not be enough to prepare you for how breathtakingly bad Moonfall — a movie that feels like it could have been great — ends up being./news/movie-tickets-will-cost-just-3-on-national-cinema-day.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/movie-tickets-will-cost-just-3-on-national-cinema-day.htmlMovie tickets across the US will cost just $3 on Saturday, September 3rd in celebration of National Cinema Day (via Associated Press). If you’ve never heard of such a holiday before (at least in the US), that’s because it never existed until now, apparently. The $3 ticket price (not including tax) applies across all tickets, formats, and showtimes — and yes, this includes IMAX and 3D movies. So far, a growing list of 3,000 theaters, including popular chains, like Regal, Cinemark, and AMC, have agreed to take part in the new holiday./news/netflix-is-making-a-live-action-mega-man-movie.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-is-making-a-live-action-mega-man-movie.htmlTechnically, a Mega Man movie’s been in the works since 2015 at Chernin Entertainment, and it became a little more formal in 2018 when Capcom officially announced it’d be a live-action film (!) with Henry Joost and Rel Schulman, perhaps best known for Catfish, attached to write and direct. But recently, that directing duo revealed on their Supermarché company website that Netflix has picked up the picture (via Comicbook and IGN)./news/netflix-s-kiss-me-first-has-an-unusually-personal-take-on-gamer-culture.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netflix-s-kiss-me-first-has-an-unusually-personal-take-on-gamer-culture.htmlIn Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of the bestseller Ready Player One, the lines between heroes and villains are clear, because the bad guys are faceless soldiers driving identical cars, while the good guys have shown off their creativity by customizing their personal avatars and rides. But the message of individuality over being part of a collective rings hollow in a world where the heroes are part of a monoculture imposed by the immersive game’s creator, who decreed that to learn its greatest secrets, players must consume and analyze all his personal favorite pop culture./news/netgear-s-new-nighthawk-mesh-offers-wi-fi-6-for-less.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/netgear-s-new-nighthawk-mesh-offers-wi-fi-6-for-less.htmlSince Wi-Fi 6 was officially ratified in September, we’ve seen a number of Wi-Fi 6 routers hit the market from companies such as Netgear, Linksys, and Ubiquiti. But that first wave of routers was considerably expensive, especially if you were looking for a mesh system that supports Wi-Fi 6. Netgear’s latest model bucks that trend and puts Wi-Fi 6 compatibility in a mesh system that costs less than $250. The new Nighthawk Mesh Wifi 6 System is a dual-band mesh system, and it’s Netgear’s first product to support the WiFi EasyMesh standard./news/new-atomic-clock-could-keep-accurate-time-until-the-world-ends.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-atomic-clock-could-keep-accurate-time-until-the-world-ends.htmlIf the atomic clock in the University of Colorado Boulder's JILA laboratory had been started when the Earth came into existence, its time would still be perfect down to the very second today. Likewise, if the clock were reset now and kept running, it would likely outlast life on Earth. The laboratory's atomic clock is — perhaps unsurprisingly — said to be the most precise one in the world, and it's being unveiled today by a paper in Nature./news/nsa-was-responsible-for-2012-syrian-internet-blackout-snowden-says.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nsa-was-responsible-for-2012-syrian-internet-blackout-snowden-says.htmlWhen Syria's access to the internet was cut for two days back in 2012, it apparently wasn't the fault of dissenting "terrorists," as the Syrian government claimed: according to Wired, it was the fault of the US government. In a long profile of Edward Snowden published today, Wired writes what Snowden says is the truth about the internet outage. An elite hacking unit in the National Security Agency had reportedly been attempting to install malware on a central router within Syria — a feat that would have allowed the agency to access a good amount of the country's internet traffic./news/nvidia-s-latest-ai-tech-can-upscale-old-blurry-youtube-videos.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-s-latest-ai-tech-can-upscale-old-blurry-youtube-videos.htmlNvidia has turned its AI upscaling technology on a new target: blurry web video. Announced this week during its CES 2023 presentation, RTX Video Super Resolution is designed to upscale video watched through the Chrome or Edge browsers on a PC to the equivalent of 4K. The catch is that you’ll need a relatively modern Nvidia GPU to benefit from the feature, with only its most recent 30 and 40-series GPUs listed as getting support when it releases next month./news/openai-says-elon-musk-wanted-absolute-control-of-the-company.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-says-elon-musk-wanted-absolute-control-of-the-company.htmlOpenAI has responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit by saying that he at one point wanted “absolute control” of the company by merging it with Tesla. In a blog post published on Tuesday, OpenAI said it will move to dismiss “all of Elon’s claims” and offered its own counter-narrative to his account of the company abandoning its original mission as a nonprofit. “As we discussed a for-profit structure in order to further the mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control,” including “majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO,” according to the post, which is authored by OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Sam Altman, and Wojciech Zaremba./news/openai-training-sora-on-youtube-videos-would-violate-the-platform-s-rules.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-training-sora-on-youtube-videos-would-violate-the-platform-s-rules.htmlOpenAI training Sora on YouTube videos would violate the platform’s rules. In an interview with Bloomberg, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan doesn’t confirm whether OpenAI used YouTube videos to train its text-to-video AI model — but he says it would be a “clear violation” of the platform’s policies if it did: When a creator uploads their hard work to our platform, they have certain expectations. One of those expectations is that the terms of service is going to be abided by./news/openai-s-dall-e-will-train-on-shutterstock-s-library-for-six-more-years.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/openai-s-dall-e-will-train-on-shutterstock-s-library-for-six-more-years.htmlShutterstock is extending its partnership with OpenAI for six more years, allowing the AI company to train its models using Shutterstock’s sprawling library of images, videos, music, and metadata during that time. The stock image site’s partnership with OpenAI first began in 2021. That’s when Shutterstock started letting the company use its images to train its text-to-image model, DALL-E — a deal OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described as “critical” to the model’s training./news/optoma-s-new-2-000-projector-is-actually-a-pretty-good-deal-for-4k.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/optoma-s-new-2-000-projector-is-actually-a-pretty-good-deal-for-4k.htmlOptoma is looking to popularize 4K projectors with its latest products, the $1,999 UHD60 and the $2,499 UHD65, which launched earlier this week as two of the cheapest 4K projectors on the market. In particular, the UHD60 is the first 4K projector available that breaks the $2,000 price barrier, and while that may still seem like a lot of money, it’s actually a pretty good deal for a projector that supports 4K resolution and HDR video./news/ozzy-osbourne-s-nft-project-shared-a-scam-link-and-followers-lost-thousands-of-dollars.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ozzy-osbourne-s-nft-project-shared-a-scam-link-and-followers-lost-thousands-of-dollars.htmlWhen a pop-cultural icon like Ozzy Osbourne announces an NFT collection, you can count on the project getting publicity. The launch of the “CryptoBatz” collection, a series of 9,666 digital bats, received coverage in outlets like Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, Hypebeast, and Business Insider, among others. But just two days after the tokens were minted, supporters are being targeted by a phishing scam that drains cryptocurrency from their wallets, playing off a bad link shared by the project’s official Twitter account./news/paul-mccartney-s-new-podcast-had-to-make-some-tough-choices.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/paul-mccartney-s-new-podcast-had-to-make-some-tough-choices.htmlThis is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I’ve got a rather assorted issue of Hot Pod for you all today. First off, Paul McCartney is getting a podcast. I spoke to the executive producer of the new show to learn more about the inner workings of the two-season series. There’s a new leader at Amazon Music and a new sales partnership from Soundrise with TED Audio Collective./news/phonedeck-lets-you-manage-your-android-phone-from-the-cloud-and-see-data-about-your-relationships.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/phonedeck-lets-you-manage-your-android-phone-from-the-cloud-and-see-data-about-your-relationships.htmlPhonedeck is a new "cloud dashboard" for Android phones that allows users to sync phone data, gain insights on phone usage, and also to send and receive SMS and phone calls through the browser. The app offers some common syncing options, including contact backup, SMS logs, and social network integration. But Phonedeck's highlight is really the insights feature: the app gives statistics for each of your contacts, letting you know how often you communicate with someone and who contacts who more often./news/plex-was-compromised-exposing-usernames-emails-and-passwords.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/plex-was-compromised-exposing-usernames-emails-and-passwords.htmlStreaming media platform Plex sent out an email to its customers earlier today notifying them of a security breach that may have compromised account information, including usernames, email addresses, and passwords. While Plex’s message says “all account passwords that could have been accessed were hashed and secured in accordance with best practices,” it is still advising all users to change their passwords immediately. Plex is one of the largest media server apps available, used by around 20 million people to stream video, audio, and photos they upload themselves in addition to an increasing variety of content the service provides to paid subscribers./news/pok%C3%A9mon-s-new-live-action-drama-series-heaps-on-the-nostalgia-in-new-trailer.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pok%C3%A9mon-s-new-live-action-drama-series-heaps-on-the-nostalgia-in-new-trailer.htmlThe Detective Pikachu movie proved that The Pokémon Company is more than capable of producing solid live-action projects for the big screen. And from the looks of TV Tokyo’s new upcoming Pokémon-inspired show PokéTsume, that’s true of episodic series, too. Set in our own mundane reality, PokéTsume centers the life of Madoka Akagi (Nanase Nishino), a young woman from Japan’s actual Kanto region (which was the inspiration for the Kanto region from the Pokémon games)./news/prepare-your-ears-for-wikipedia-s-sound-of-all-human-knowledge.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/prepare-your-ears-for-wikipedia-s-sound-of-all-human-knowledge.htmlWith more and more information being delivered via audio sources like voice assistants, the Wikimedia Foundation thought it was time to adopt a so-called “sound logo” for Wikipedia and its other projects. Think of it as Wikipedia’s equivalent of the Netflix “ta-dum,” the HBO “aaaaaaah,” or Intel’s iconic five-note chime. After an exhaustive search via “Sound of All Human Knowledge” contest, Wikimedia thinks it found an audio clip representing its mission./news/rare-nintendo-playstation-console-sells-for-360-000-at-auction.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/rare-nintendo-playstation-console-sells-for-360-000-at-auction.htmlA prototype of the Nintendo PlayStation, a console that never came to market, fetched $360,000 at an auction over the weekend, CNN reports. Greg McLemore, founder of Pets.com and Toys.com had the winning bid, beating out other collectors, including Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR. The console is one of only 200 prototypes created from a failed 1991 partnership between Sony and Nintendo. Forbes describes the unit as basically a Super NES with a CD-ROM drive./news/review-tiger-and-the-need-to-complicate-the-world-we-grew-up-in.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/review-tiger-and-the-need-to-complicate-the-world-we-grew-up-in.htmlThe year is kicking off with what’s becoming a loose tradition: a documentary about a renowned ‘90s athlete that aims to shade in a more complete picture. This time around, it’s Tiger, a two-part HBO Sports documentary about golf superstar Tiger Woods. Like The Last Dance, which chronicled Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls while reflecting on his entire career, Tiger attempts to complicate the prevailing narrative of a legend defined by his meteoric rise and equally steep fall./news/ring-s-new-pet-tag-puts-a-qr-code-on-your-dog-or-cat-s-collar-to-help-if-they-go-missing.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ring-s-new-pet-tag-puts-a-qr-code-on-your-dog-or-cat-s-collar-to-help-if-they-go-missing.htmlAmazon-owned Ring is launching a $9.99 Pet Tag today to make it easier to bring lost pets back home. The Ring Pet Tag essentially puts a QR code on your dog or cat’s collar, which links up to an app. If the unthinkable happens, someone can scan the QR code and help reunite the lost pet with its owner. The QR code is linked to a pet profile that can include information like health conditions and, most importantly, an optional “contact me” feature that starts a two-way communication with the pet owner./news/safari-could-get-an-ai-browsing-assistant-in-ios-18.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/safari-could-get-an-ai-browsing-assistant-in-ios-18.htmlSafari could get an AI browsing assistant in iOS 18. Code uncovered by X user Nicolás Álvarez and confirmed by MacRumors reveals that Apple is working on something called a “Safari browsing assistant” with “encrypted visual search.” As pointed out by Álvarez, this suggests that Safari’s AI assistant may use Apple’s Private Relay feature, which is only available to iCloud Plus subscribers. Details are still slim on Apple’s plans to bring AI to the iPhone, but it could involve either Google or OpenAI./news/sam-altman-is-still-trying-to-return-as-openai-ceo.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sam-altman-is-still-trying-to-return-as-openai-ceo.htmlSam Altman’s surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman are still willing to return to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him step aside, multiple sources tell The Verge. The promised mass exodus of virtually every OpenAI employee — including board member and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who led the initial move to depose Altman! — means that there is more pressure on the board than ever, with only two of the three remaining members needing to flip./news/samsung-galaxy-a52-5g-review.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-a52-5g-review.htmlIf a $100 budget phone is the fast-food dollar menu and a $1,000 flagship is a steakhouse dinner, then the Samsung Galaxy A52 5G sits comfortably halfway between the two: the laid-back all-day cafe with surprisingly tasty food. It’s good. More importantly, it’s good where it matters. Sure, you have to order your food at the counter and get your own water refills, but it’s worth it because brunch is fantastic and the prices are reasonable./news/samsung-made-a-fast-new-dual-wireless-charger-that-props-up-your-phone.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-made-a-fast-new-dual-wireless-charger-that-props-up-your-phone.htmlSamsung has a new dual wireless charger that seems designed for its new Note 9 and Galaxy Watch. The Wireless Charger Duo has two charging pads, with a flat area meant for the new Galaxy smartwatch and a propped up charging spot for keeping a phone display visible during a charge. Each charging pad has 12W of charging power, so both pads will support fast charging from Samsung or any other phone vendor./news/samsung-s-photo-remaster-knows-what-this-baby-pic-is-missing-teeth.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-photo-remaster-knows-what-this-baby-pic-is-missing-teeth.htmlSamsung’s recently caught some flak after widespread reports that its camera software fakes zoom pictures of the Moon, but things may be about to get way more unsettling. A Verge reader wrote in on Wednesday to tell us that the company’s software is adding teeth to pictures of their seven-month-old daughter. This reader says they recently got an S23 Ultra and decided to try out the Remaster feature in Samsung’s photo-viewing app, Gallery./news/samsung-s-viewfinity-s9-is-a-stylish-5k-display-for-creative-professionals.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-viewfinity-s9-is-a-stylish-5k-display-for-creative-professionals.htmlSamsung’s 2023 monitor plans don’t just include Odyssey gaming screens and a new version of its Smart Monitor: the company is also directly coming after Apple and LG with a 27-inch color-accurate 5K monitor called the ViewFinity S9. Samsung says the 5120 x 2880 IPS display has a matte finish to reduce glare and covers 99 percent of the DCI-P3 wide color gamut. The ViewFinity S9 will support a wide mix of I/O, including HDMI, Thunderbolt 4, USB-C, and DisplayPort./news/santa-clarita-diet-everything-you-want-to-know-about-the-show-where-drew-barrymore-eats-brains.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/santa-clarita-diet-everything-you-want-to-know-about-the-show-where-drew-barrymore-eats-brains.htmlHave you heard rumors that your favorite actress Drew Barrymore is starring in a mysterious new television program called Santa Clarita Diet? Or have you heard a less complete rumor that your favorite actress Drew Barrymore is starring in a new television program and blood is somehow involved? Both are true! If you’re dedicated to Drew’s career, or even just dedicated to knowing as much as possible about every new blood-and-guts-related thing (okay, weirdo!/news/seiko-will-sell-a-limited-run-of-steve-jobs-watches-from-his-iconic-1984-portrait.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/seiko-will-sell-a-limited-run-of-steve-jobs-watches-from-his-iconic-1984-portrait.htmlJapanese watch maker Seiko is teaming up with Tokyo-based retailer Nano Universe to sell a limited run of Chariot series watches. What makes the Chariot so special? Well, it was the minimalist watch design Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sported in a 1984 Norman Seeff portrait that later made the cover of Time Magazine. The photo, featuring Jobs sitting lotus-style in his barebones Woodside, California house with a Macintosh on his lap, has become one of the most iconic shots of Jobs during one of Apple’s most critical periods./news/serato-s-new-versions-of-its-dj-software-are-compatible-with-macos-catalina.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/serato-s-new-versions-of-its-dj-software-are-compatible-with-macos-catalina.htmlMusic software company Serato has released new official versions of its DJ Pro and DJ Lite software that are fully supported in macOS Catalina. The updated software works with Apple’s new Music app, which replaced iTunes in Apple’s latest desktop OS refresh, and libraries in Music can automatically load in the updated Serato DJ Pro and DJ Lite. Along with updating its DJ software, Serato has also released a new version of its beat-making software Serato Studio that’s supported in Catalina./news/shane-dawson-s-jake-paul-series-is-really-about-youtube-s-broken-heart.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shane-dawson-s-jake-paul-series-is-really-about-youtube-s-broken-heart.htmlShane Dawson’s coronation as the king of YouTube in 2018 is undeniable: whenever he uploads a documentary on a personality, it’s like the internet stops. Even if you dislike Shane’s style or approach, his investigations produce top-tier online gossip that no traditional media outlet — or YouTuber, for that matter — has been able to crack. While his current eight-part documentary “Mind of Jake Paul” has primarily billed itself as an exploration of Jake Paul’s potential sociopathy, at its heart lies a much more troubling question: is the perpetual shitshow of YouTube a result of its design, or is there something fundamentally wrong with top entertainers on the platform?/news/shazam-finally-lets-dc-superheroes-be-joyous-fun.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shazam-finally-lets-dc-superheroes-be-joyous-fun.htmlShazam! takes place in the same universe as other films adapted from DC Comics, but writer Henry Gayden (Earth to Echo) and director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) seem determined to turn that universe upside down. Or at least, they want to blow a raspberry at the glum-and-glummer world established by the Zack Snyder trilogy of Man of Steel, Batman V. Superman, and Justice League, plus their neck-tattoo-sporting companion piece Suicide Squad./news/shutterstock-will-start-selling-ai-generated-stock-imagery-with-help-from-openai.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/shutterstock-will-start-selling-ai-generated-stock-imagery-with-help-from-openai.htmlWill AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It’s a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years. The answer from the industry’s incumbents, though, is “no” — not if we can start selling AI-generated content first. Today, stock image giant Shutterstock has announced an extended partnership with OpenAI, which will see the AI lab’s text-to-image model DALL-E 2 directly integrated into Shutterstock “in the coming months./news/some-older-nook-e-readers-can-t-get-new-books-in-2024.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/some-older-nook-e-readers-can-t-get-new-books-in-2024.htmlBarnes & Noble is sunsetting support for some of its oldest e-readers. It’ll start by disabling the devices’ services starting in April 2024; afterward, the company will disable access to the Barnes & Noble bookstore, removing the ability to buy new books on the devices beginning in June 2024. The news impacts the following devices: the 2011 Nook Simple Touch; the 2012 Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight (oh hey, we reviewed this); and the 2013 Nook GlowLight./news/sonos-is-hosting-another-refurbished-soundbar-and-speaker-sale.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sonos-is-hosting-another-refurbished-soundbar-and-speaker-sale.htmlSonos makes some of the best speakers and soundbars you can buy, but they come at a high price and are typically only on sale during major shopping holidays. Thankfully, Sonos is currently running a sale on a range of refurbished goods, making today a great opportunity to snag speakers like the Sonos One SL for cheap before the forthcoming Sonos Era 300 and 100 hit shelves, presumingly later this month./news/sony-demos-playstation-5-fast-load-times-hints-at-cloud-gaming-future.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-demos-playstation-5-fast-load-times-hints-at-cloud-gaming-future.htmlSony isn’t holding its usual E3 press conference this year, but the company has been gradually revealing parts of its next-generation PlayStation console. The PlayStation 5 will support 8K graphics, 3D audio, SSD storage, and backwards compatibility with existing PlayStation 4 titles. That SSD storage should boost load times significantly, and Sony offered up some clear demonstrations of exactly that today. During a Sony investor relations meeting (PDF), the company demonstrated PlayStation 5 load times using Spider-Man to load cities and rapidly navigate throughout them./news/sony-launches-foster-care-program-for-its-aging-aibo-robot-dogs.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-launches-foster-care-program-for-its-aging-aibo-robot-dogs.htmlSony is launching a new sustainability program to ensure that even robot dogs are for life, and not just for Christmas. Five years after releasing the ERS-1000 Aibo — a reboot of its popular line of “autonomous entertainment” robot dogs from the late 90’s — Sony Japan is now launching an “Aibo foster parent program” to help ERS-1000 owners who have cancelled their Aibo Cloud Plan to donate the gadget to a worthy cause./news/spotify-adds-video-learning-courses-in-latest-experiment.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-adds-video-learning-courses-in-latest-experiment.htmlSpotify’s UK users are getting access to a fourth category of content to sit alongside its existing library of songs, podcasts and audiobooks: online courses. The company is today launching a new experiment that’ll see video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso made available via Spotify’s apps on mobile and desktop. The experiment is running in just the UK, and there are currently no guarantees that it’ll get a wider more permanent launch./news/spotify-s-podcast-and-audiobook-discovery-will-be-powered-by-google-cloud-s-ai.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-s-podcast-and-audiobook-discovery-will-be-powered-by-google-cloud-s-ai.htmlIt’s a cliché at this point to say that podcasts (and, to a less publicized extent, audiobooks) have a discovery problem. To help fix that, Spotify announced it’s using Google Cloud’s AI tools to improve both content discovery and personalized recommendations for its audio offerings. With this latest move, Spotify is using Google Cloud’s LLMs (large language models) to analyze the roughly 5 million podcasts and 350,000 audiobooks in its content library with a goal of trying to “augment” the metadata, according to a press release./news/star-wars-skeleton-crew-is-the-latest-live-action-series-coming-to-disney-plus.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/star-wars-skeleton-crew-is-the-latest-live-action-series-coming-to-disney-plus.htmlThe Star Wars universe on Disney Plus continues to expand with the official reveal of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which stars Jude Law and is coming to the streaming service in 2023. Announced during Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, the series is a coming-of-age tale set in the sci-fi universe. In addition to Law, it will also star “kids,” though we don’t know who they will be just yet. It’s led by director Jon Watts and writer Chris Ford, who previously collaborated on Spider-Man: Homecoming, and produced by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni./news/steam-deck-s-new-cloud-saves-could-be-the-system-s-best-feature.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/steam-deck-s-new-cloud-saves-could-be-the-system-s-best-feature.htmlAhead of the Steam Deck’s launch, Valve has detailed a new feature for Steam’s cloud saves that should carry over your progress from your Steam Deck back to your PC (or another Steam Deck) even when you put your Steam Deck into suspend mode without fully exiting a game. Valve has talked about this intriguing idea before, but now it has a name — Dynamic Cloud Sync. Here’s how it should work: when you put your Steam Deck into sleep mode, Dynamic Cloud Sync will automatically upload “all modified save game data” to the cloud, Valve explained in a blog post published Monday./news/stephen-elop-was-nokia-s-second-choice-for-ceo-says-ex-chairman.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/stephen-elop-was-nokia-s-second-choice-for-ceo-says-ex-chairman.htmlWhile Nokia brought in Elop and focused on Windows Phone, Ollila admits Microsoft's software hasn't helped the company. "We were not successful in using Microsoft's operating system to create competitive products, or an alternative to the two dominant companies in the field," he says, while noting it's "impossible to say what would have happened to the company if different decisions had been made in early 2011 or at some other time./news/steve-kramer-the-political-consultant-behind-biden-deepfake-robocalls-faces-6-million-fine.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/steve-kramer-the-political-consultant-behind-biden-deepfake-robocalls-faces-6-million-fine.htmlThe Federal Communications Commission has proposed imposing multimillion-dollar fines on the political consultant responsible for the robocall campaign that used an AI-generated deepfake of President Joe Biden’s voice — and on the telecom company that facilitated the calls. “We will act swiftly and decisively to ensure that bad actors cannot use U.S. telecommunications networks to facilitate the misuse of generative AI technology to interfere with elections, defraud consumers, or compromise sensitive data,” Loyaan Egal, chief of the enforcement bureau and chair of the FCC’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, said in a statement./news/sunrise-is-dead-and-so-is-the-dream-of-an-excellent-calendar-app.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sunrise-is-dead-and-so-is-the-dream-of-an-excellent-calendar-app.htmlToday the sun finally sets on Sunrise, the calendar app that Microsoft acquired last year. Microsoft announced its plan to merge Sunrise into Outlook, its mobile email client, last October. And now Sunrise, which began life as a more socially adept calendar, will now be a feature inside an email app. And to anyone looking for a next-generation calendar app to serve as its replacement, the awful truth is that there isn’t one./news/super-gridland-is-an-rpg-puzzle-hybrid-that-s-far-deeper-than-it-looks.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/super-gridland-is-an-rpg-puzzle-hybrid-that-s-far-deeper-than-it-looks.htmlDifferent video games use failure in different ways. Some use it to shock players and teach them what not to do, while others use death as a punishment for carelessness, recklessness, or some other mistake. Super Gridland, the new mobile RPG-puzzle hybrid from Canadian developer Michael Townsend, treats failure as a journey. With each mistake, you learn something new. With each death, you start the day over better equipped to handle what the game throws at you./news/swaggy-ai-pope-inspired-the-real-pope-to-learn-more-about-ai.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/swaggy-ai-pope-inspired-the-real-pope-to-learn-more-about-ai.htmlSwaggy AI Pope inspired the real Pope to learn more about AI. The NYT has a profile of Father Paolo Benati, the “self-professed geek” leading the Vatican’s thinking about AI. A good piece but this jumped out: [Pope] Francis — who Father Benanti said has become more literate on A.I., especially after an image of the pope sporting an A.I. designed white puffer coat went viral — then became more animated. The pope liked when the discussion was less about the technology, Father Benanti said, and more on “what he can do” to protect the vulnerable./news/takedown-notices-threaten-online-thrift-shops-as-business-is-exploding.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/takedown-notices-threaten-online-thrift-shops-as-business-is-exploding.htmlIn January 2020, Jade Myers, a successful seller of secondhand clothes on Poshmark, came across a trove of designer swimwear and apparel at a thrift store that she knew would be a hit with her shoppers. She shelled out for dozens of pieces, prepared and photographed them, and listed them on her shop, Ornamental Stone. Within days, the listings turned into an intellectual property nightmare. The pieces Myers found and purchased for resale were from the buzzy brand Onia x WeWoreWhat, designed by fashion influencer Danielle Bernstein./news/tesla-will-no-longer-include-mobile-connectors-with-every-car.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-will-no-longer-include-mobile-connectors-with-every-car.htmlTesla has stopped including its mobile connector with new car purchases and will instead sell its Gen 2 (Level 1) bundle separately for a lower $200 price, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a series of tweets. The mobile connector bundle comes with an adapter that allows drivers to charge their cars from a standard 110v household outlet, with other adapters available for purchase separately. On Saturday night, Twitter user @Tesla_Adri found that Tesla updated its support page to indicate the mobile connector bundle no longer comes with the car, as it was previously listed as an accessory that “comes with vehicle./news/tesla-s-upgraded-model-3-has-a-new-design-rear-touchscreen-and-range-improvements.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-s-upgraded-model-3-has-a-new-design-rear-touchscreen-and-range-improvements.htmlTesla has announced an upgraded and redesigned Model 3 in Europe, known previously as the Highland. The new design includes changes to the front and rear, a new screen for rear passengers, a redesigned interior, and improvements to aerodynamics and range. The most obvious exterior changes can be found at the front of the Model 3. The bump at the front has been removed in favor of a sleeker design with a single central vent./news/the-best-phone-grips-and-stands-that-don-t-require-a-case.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-phone-grips-and-stands-that-don-t-require-a-case.htmlThere are a ton of good reasons to put a case on your phone, starting with the fact that a flagship phone will easily run you $1,000. A case protects your phone, adds grip to an otherwise slick exterior, and adds, if you want, a little bit of style in a world of same-looking black rectangles. But on the other hand, cases add bulk, they tend to get grimy, and hey, this phone cost me a small fortune./news/the-best-smart-displays-for-2021.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-best-smart-displays-for-2021.htmlSmart displays, those cousins of voice-controlled smart speakers with full touchscreen displays, are great devices for managing your smart home, displaying useful bits of information throughout the day, or even playing music or video. Like a smart speaker, a smart display is primarily voice-controlled, so you can bark commands at it from across a room. But unlike a smart speaker, a smart display can display information such as upcoming appointments, weather, in-progress timers, the current time, a grocery list, recipes, and more without you having to utter a single command./news/the-developers-suing-over-github-copilot-got-dealt-a-major-blow-in-court.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-developers-suing-over-github-copilot-got-dealt-a-major-blow-in-court.htmlA judge has tossed nearly all of the claims a group of developers brought against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit filed in 2022, as reported earlier by The Register. In a court order unsealed last week, a California judge left only two claims standing: one that accuses the companies of an open-source license violation and another that alleges breach of contract. The original lawsuit made 22 claims against the trio, accusing them of violating copyright laws by allowing the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant to train on developers’ work./news/the-ftc-s-case-against-microsoft-could-turn-into-xbox-vs-playstation.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-ftc-s-case-against-microsoft-could-turn-into-xbox-vs-playstation.htmlMicrosoft’s key Xbox executives will defend the company’s $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today in federal court. The result, expected by the first week of July, will likely determine whether this giant gaming deal goes ahead. Microsoft is battling a key US regulator here, but the real war is shaping up to be between Microsoft and Sony. In five days of hearings this week and next, the FTC is seeking an injunction to block the merger while its own administrative case plays out over the coming months./news/the-internet-arcade-puts-900-classic-games-right-in-your-web-browser.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-internet-arcade-puts-900-classic-games-right-in-your-web-browser.htmlThe weekend's winding down, and sure, you could flip on your PlayStation or Xbox and play a few mindless rounds of Call of Duty, but why don't you spin up a real classic instead? Thanks to the new Internet Arcade, an astounding 900 coin-operated arcade games from the ‘70s and ‘80s are free to play right in your browser. The software is hosted by the Internet Archive as part of its quest to preserve computer history, and it's a followup to last year's classic console emulator./news/the-last-of-us-part-2-review.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-review.htmlThe Last of Us Part II isn’t fun. Over the game’s 20-hour runtime, I often found myself wanting to quit because the violence became unbearable. I didn’t want to bash that lunging dog with a hammer or slice at that defenseless woman with a knife. I certainly didn’t want to watch a religious zealot’s head explode into a grisly cloud because of my well-placed shotgun blast. There are scenes so upsetting that they didn’t just make me uncomfortable; they made me question why I was playing this game at all./news/the-latest-ios-beta-makes-it-easier-to-use-apple-cash.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-latest-ios-beta-makes-it-easier-to-use-apple-cash.htmlThe iOS 17.4 beta lets iPhone users generate a virtual card number for Apple Cash, reports 9to5Mac, citing user reports on Reddit in the last couple of weeks. With a virtual card number, iPhone users can pay with Apple Cash even when Apple Pay isn’t available, removing one of the big limitations of Apple’s built-in Venmo-like service. I’m seeing the option in the 17.4 beta as well, but as 9to5Mac notes, its possible it hasn’t been rolled out to every beta user./news/the-minecraft-movie-is-coming-in-2019.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-minecraft-movie-is-coming-in-2019.htmlMinecraft has spawned action figures, a spin-off adventure game series, apparel, a convention, plush dolls, cosplay costumes, and more. On May 24th, 2019, arguably the most culturally significant video game since Super Mario Bros. will get its own movie. According to the Mojang announcement, the Warner Bros. produced Minecraft movie will be released in 3D & IMAX. Details about the film's production remain sparse. In an interview with Collider in February, producer Roy Lee said the filmmakers and game designers were collaborating in some capacity on the project./news/the-pixel-7a-is-a-knockout-at-its-record-low-349.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-pixel-7a-is-a-knockout-at-its-record-low-349.htmlGoogle is expected to introduce the new Pixel 8A at its I/O developer conference next month. That’s probably a contributing factor for the new all-time low price we’re seeing on the midrange Pixel 7A we were introduced to during last year’s event. Amazon, Best Buy, and Google all have it down to $349, which is $150 off the original price. Buying it directly from Google is the better deal, as you’ll also get three months of YouTube Premium and Google One, the latter supplementing the device’s 128GB of storage with 100GB of extra cloud storage./news/the-scooter-wars-might-be-over-as-lime-claims-victory.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-scooter-wars-might-be-over-as-lime-claims-victory.htmlThe shared electric scooter business has gone through a series of ups and downs over the last few years — mostly downs, if we’re being honest — but now, one company is ready to claim the mantle of victor. Lime released a new set of financial figures that it says proves that last year’s slim profits were no fluke. The company reported gross bookings of $250 million in the first half of the year, a 45 percent increase over the same period last year./news/the-story-behind-john-wick-chapter-2-s-best-action-scenes.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-story-behind-john-wick-chapter-2-s-best-action-scenes.htmlIn 2014, Keanu Reeves surprised pretty much everyone with John Wick. The story of a hitman who comes out of retirement to take revenge on the Russian gangster who killed his puppy and stole his car, Wick is a violent, kinetic, pulpy tour de force. Basically, John Wick kills everybody he runs into, in the most stylized way possible. For the sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, Reeves reteamed with director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad./news/the-verge-archives-wearable.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-verge-archives-wearable.htmlResearchers say they’ve figured out how to 3D print AR contact lenses. Smart contacts are a cool idea but a big technical challenge is combining low-power displays with a high-contrast color material to see information. South Korean researchers say their solution is to 3D print micropatterns without needing any kind of voltage, making it ideal for smart contacts. The researchers say they expect AR navigation to be the main application for this tech, where directions unfold right on your eyeball./news/the-verge-guide-to-amazon-s-october-prime-day-event-best-deals-tips-and-news.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-verge-guide-to-amazon-s-october-prime-day-event-best-deals-tips-and-news.htmlFor the second year in a row, Amazon is holding a second Prime Day event in the fall. This year’s two-day deal blitz — aka Prime Big Deal Days — began yesterday, October 10th, and runs through today, October 11th, presenting Amazon Prime members with yet another opportunity to get a head start on their holiday shopping before Black Friday and Cyber Monday arrive. As you might expect, the best deals are on Amazon’s own devices, including Echo smart speakers and displays, Kindles, Fire tablets, and Amazon’s smart TV lineup./news/the-witcher-is-being-made-into-a-tv-show-by-netflix.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-witcher-is-being-made-into-a-tv-show-by-netflix.htmlNetflix is developing and producing an English-language TV show based on The Witcher. The franchise started life as a series of fantasy novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, before being turned into a number of critically acclaimed video games. Now it’s coming to the small screen, although there are no details on when the show might arrive. In a press release Sapkowski said he would be serving as a creative consultant on the series./news/there-s-now-a-950-gucci-version-of-the-oura-ring.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/there-s-now-a-950-gucci-version-of-the-oura-ring.htmlThe Gucci x Oura Ring is made out of “black synthetic corundum” detailed with a braided border and an 18-karat gold Gucci G. It weighs four grams, and the band measures 0.3 inches thick. Other than the luxe design, this is basically the same as the “regular” $299 Oura Ring Generation 3. The main benefit of the Gucci version is that it comes with a lifetime membership. Starting with the Gen 3 ring, Oura began charging a $6 monthly fee for its services./news/thousands-of-samsung-workers-launch-indefinite-strike-over-pay.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/thousands-of-samsung-workers-launch-indefinite-strike-over-pay.htmlUnionized workers at Samsung Electronics in South Korea have indefinitely extended the first-ever strike at the company in a push for better pay and benefits. The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) rallied its over 30,000 members on Wednesday after the company’s leadership showed no indication of holding talks with the union following a three-day walkout. As reported by Reuters, the NSEU is demanding a 3.5 percent increase in base salary, an extra day off to mark the union’s foundation day, and a fairer bonus system between executives and lower-ranking workers./news/three-of-the-biggest-reddit-communities-now-only-feature-john-oliver-posts.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/three-of-the-biggest-reddit-communities-now-only-feature-john-oliver-posts.htmlThree huge subreddits, r/pics, r/gifs, and r/aww, now only allow posts about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver. The subreddits have reopened after participating in the ongoing protests toward Reddit, and after each community polled users, the new rules are now in place. “As many of you are aware, we recently held a poll to decide on the future of the subreddit,” wrote r/gifs moderator u/IronSentinel. “This initiative was prompted by statements from Reddit’s CEO, who suggested that the desires of the platform’s everyday users were being eclipsed by those of moderators./news/tiktok-turned-absofacto-s-dissolve-into-a-creepy-meme-until-fans-took-it-back.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tiktok-turned-absofacto-s-dissolve-into-a-creepy-meme-until-fans-took-it-back.htmlFor years, Absofacto’s “Dissolve” has been a fixture on TikTok — specifically the first few seconds of the chorus, a hooky rising vocal line singing the words, “I just wanted you to watch me dissolve...” The song never broke as big as “Old Town Road” or “The Box,” but TikTok fame has given it millions of streaming plays and even a minor chart breakthrough in 2019, a full four years after it was released./news/tim-cook-s-yearbook-photos-show-apple-ceo-as-studious-high-school-freshman.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tim-cook-s-yearbook-photos-show-apple-ceo-as-studious-high-school-freshman.htmlToday, Apple CEO Tim Cook is one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley. In high school, he was just another freshman with a reputation for hard work. This week, Reddit user whitbaker published a series of photos from Cook's high school yearbook, providing a rare glimpse at the exec's life as a teenager in Alabama. The images don't reveal many details about Cook's hobbies or interests, though the floppy-haired teen appears to have been involved in several extra-curricular activities./news/timex-built-a-smartwatch-that-doesn-t-need-your-phone.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/timex-built-a-smartwatch-that-doesn-t-need-your-phone.htmlSo far, smartwatches have existed fundamentally as extensions of your phone — their primary value is in alleviating the need to pull your phone out of your pocket every time anything happens. But Timex's new IronMan One GPS+ is designed to let you forget your phone at home: with a 3G radio inside and a number of built-in communication tools, it's a fully independent device. The $399.95 One GPS+ looks a lot like Timex just strapped a chunky, ugly computer on your wrist./news/toyota-says-it-s-investing-13-6b-in-car-batteries-over-the-next-decade.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/toyota-says-it-s-investing-13-6b-in-car-batteries-over-the-next-decade.htmlToyota will invest around $13.6 billion in battery tech over the next decade, including a $9 billion investment in production, as it attempts to electrify its vehicle lineup, The Wall Street Journal reports. It reportedly plans to have 10 battery production lines by 2025, eventually increasing to around 70 across an unannounced number of factories around the world. Eventually, it could produce as much as 200GWh of batteries, the company’s chief technology officer, Masahiko Maeda, announced in a press briefing./news/tyrion-subtly-won-the-game-of-thrones.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tyrion-subtly-won-the-game-of-thrones.htmlWarning: spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones’ finale, “The Iron Throne.” In the Game of Thrones finale, Bran Stark — inarguably the least useful character who managed to survive all eight seasons of the show — became king of Westeros. If you’re spitting bile right now, that might be because you’ve thought of the Iron Throne as the series’ putative prize, and you’re feeling rightfully let down by the injustice of handing that position to an undeserving, fairly creepy sideline observer./news/uber-eats-rolls-out-confusing-new-fees-here-s-what-they-mean.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-eats-rolls-out-confusing-new-fees-here-s-what-they-mean.htmlUber Eats rolled out its new fees structure this week, and most people are confused about what the new fees mean. Instead of a booking fee for each order, Uber is now splitting up its fee into a delivery and service fee, and adding a small order fee of $2 when your order total is less than $10. Here’s what it actually means. From the homepage of the app, you can see the delivery fees./news/uber-wants-to-integrate-with-all-your-apps.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-wants-to-integrate-with-all-your-apps.htmlThese days, an Uber button in an app can be seen as a sign of technological sophistication. For developers, integrating Uber in an app speaks volumes about the type of customer you're trying to attract: young, educated, city-dwelling, and affluent. Now, Uber wants to make it easier than ever for developers to convey that message. Today, the ride-hailing company is announcing a new offer to app developers to add a button to their app that, when tapped, allows users to request an Uber driver./news/uber-will-remain-in-quebec-after-new-rules-go-into-effect.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-will-remain-in-quebec-after-new-rules-go-into-effect.htmlUber is backtracking on its plans to shut down its Quebec operations after the Canadian province implemented tighter restrictions on its drivers. According to CBC News (via Engadget), the rideshare company announced yesterday that it will continue to negotiate with the government as the rules are put into place. The new restrictions go into effect today, and require drivers to undergo 35 (up from 20) hours of training and a background check./news/vaping-viagra-fda-says-not-okay.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/vaping-viagra-fda-says-not-okay.htmlSelling vape juice with Viagra in it is not okay, the Food and Drug Administration says. On Thursday, the agency sent a warning letter to HelloCig Electronic Technology Co. Ltd for brazenly selling e-cigarette liquids that have erectile dysfunction drugs in them. “Companies are on notice” The letter is part of the agency’s efforts to “crack down on misleading claims and illegal and dangerous e-liquids that may entice youth or put consumers at risk,” the FDA’s Gottlieb said./news/verge-editor-s-choice-garmin-fenix-5s.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/verge-editor-s-choice-garmin-fenix-5s.htmlThe Garmin Fenix 5S isn’t the sports watch for everyone, given how expensive it is and how granular its activity-tracking features are. But for people looking for a specific kind of smartwatch — one that’s more focused on fitness than literally any other feature — it’s the best one out this year. The Garmin Fenix 5S is as notable for what it isn’t as for what it is. It’s not a massive, overbearing, tactical-looking thing like the Fenix watches of Garmin’s past./news/verizon-reportedly-won-t-activate-google-s-nexus-7-on-its-network-update.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/verizon-reportedly-won-t-activate-google-s-nexus-7-on-its-network-update.htmlWhen Google introduced the new Nexus 7 back in July, we had every reason to believe its tablet would support Verizon's 4G LTE network. The carrier's logo was flashed on screen during the presentation, signaling that the two companies had reached an agreement that would give Google's flagship tablet access to Verizon's vast LTE network — currently the largest in the US. But flash forward to today, and that's clearly not the case. Google's 4G-enabled Nexus 7 is just now reaching consumers, and multiple reports indicate that Verizon is currently refusing to activate the device./news/walmart-s-ai-search-makes-shopping-faster-and-its-ai-delivery-makes-it-invisible.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/walmart-s-ai-search-makes-shopping-faster-and-its-ai-delivery-makes-it-invisible.htmlImagine never running out of milk again. You pour the last bit into your cereal — which is, incidentally, also empty now — and then head to work. By the time you get home the empties have been replaced as if by magic. Walmart thinks it can make this happen, with the help of AI. The company announced a new feature of its InHome replenishment service that aims to automatically order the right stuff at the right time, and hand it off to a delivery person who can drop things off in a fridge in your house./news/watch-the-first-ever-video-of-a-laser-beam-moving-through-thin-air.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-the-first-ever-video-of-a-laser-beam-moving-through-thin-air.htmlFor the first time ever scientists have captured a video of a laser’s flight path as it moves through the air. The clip above was created using a new ultra high-speed camera capable of detecting single photons at a time — the smallest amount of light possible. To create the video, researchers from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in the UK recorded 2 million laser pulses over a 10 minute period, aggregating individual collisions of photons with air particles to map the laser’s entire flight path./news/welcome-to-the-new-verge.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/welcome-to-the-new-verge.htmlWe’ve got a whole new Verge for you today. Radically new. Sometimes you just have to blow things up and start over. Yes, we have a sharp new logo that started with the idea of an unfinished interface between the present and the future. Yes, we have a bright new color palette that highlights our work in confident new ways. Yes, we have new typefaces across the board, including serifs for our body copy./news/we-re-kicking-off-season-8-s-game-of-game-of-thrones-fantasy-sports-league.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/we-re-kicking-off-season-8-s-game-of-game-of-thrones-fantasy-sports-league.htmlWinter has arrived: the final season of the fantasy sports league A Game of Game of Thrones is back for one more round. This is it — the big one. Once again, we’re teaming up with Fantasizr to let people draft fantasy teams based on HBO’s series Game of Thrones, and rake in points based on individual character milestones. Season 8 will premiere on April 14th, officially kicking off the season, but first, players will need to assemble their teams, based on who’s still alive and in the game./news/who-owns-a-luigi-s-mansion-walkthrough-video-the-player-or-nintendo.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/who-owns-a-luigi-s-mansion-walkthrough-video-the-player-or-nintendo.htmlAs part of our ongoing push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an appropriate and safe way, we became a YouTube partner and as such in February 2013 we registered our copyright content in the YouTube database. For most fan videos this will not result in any changes, however, for those videos featuring Nintendo-owned content, such as images or audio of a certain length, adverts will now appear at the beginning, next to or at the end of the clips./news/windows-live-messenger-blocking-links-to-the-pirate-bay.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/windows-live-messenger-blocking-links-to-the-pirate-bay.htmlIf you're a Windows Live Messenger user who happens to drop your friends links to The Pirate Bay, it looks like you'll have to use another chat service. At this moment, links to The Pirate Bay are blocked when trying to send them through Windows Live Messenger — the service spits back an automated reply reading "the link you tried to send was blocked because it was reported as unsafe." This occurs when using Microsoft's native clients as well as when trying to send through third-party tools like Adium or Pidgin./news/wyze-security-cameras-are-coming-back-online-after-an-outage-cut-off-access.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wyze-security-cameras-are-coming-back-online-after-an-outage-cut-off-access.htmlWyze owners reported this morning that they couldn’t access their smart home devices and that its apps returned error messages. Users in the Wyze Discord report the problems began as early as 4AM ET, and reports of the issue popped up widely by 6AM ET, according to Down Detector. Just before 1PM ET, a number of Wyze owners reported their devices were back online.The most recent Wyze status update confirms the restoration, saying at 1:07PM ET that, “Our metrics show that devices are starting to recover./news/you-can-now-share-passwords-within-your-google-family-group.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-now-share-passwords-within-your-google-family-group.htmlThe new password sharing feature just applies to ones that are stored in Google Password Manager, the company’s service that natively stores your passwords and passkeys in Chrome and Android and is linked to your Google account. As of today, the new password sharing feature works on mobile — but apparently not via Chrome on desktop, yet. Once you share a password with one of your family members, a copy of it will be saved into that member’s own Google Password Manager./news/you-don-t-have-to-climb-a-ladder-to-change-your-nest-smoke-detector-s-wi-fi-anymore.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-don-t-have-to-climb-a-ladder-to-change-your-nest-smoke-detector-s-wi-fi-anymore.htmlThis feature doesn’t sound like a big deal — and by all means, it shouldn’t be — but it is a big deal because of just how dumb this process was until now. Previously, if you changed your Wi-Fi password, renamed your Wi-Fi network, or bought a new router and did both, there was no simple way to tell the Nest Protect about your Wi-Fi changes. Your $119 smart smoke detector just wouldn’t connect to the internet./news/youtuber-projared-accused-of-soliciting-sexually-explicit-photos-from-underage-fans.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtuber-projared-accused-of-soliciting-sexually-explicit-photos-from-underage-fans.htmlPopular YouTube gaming creator Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer is being accused of soliciting nude photos from fans, including at least two people who were underage. Knabenbauer is a gaming personality on YouTube with around 1 million subscribers who has appeared on other popular channels, including Game Grumps. But Knabenbauer has now been accused of abusive behavior toward his wife, popular cosplayer Heidi O’Ferrall, and asking that fans send him nude photos over a period of years./news/zack-snyder-s-rebel-moon-director-s-cut-hits-netflix-in-august.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/zack-snyder-s-rebel-moon-director-s-cut-hits-netflix-in-august.htmlIt’s not clear exactly how the new versions will be different, with Netflix saying they will “delve further into the mythology and madness of Zack Snyder’s epic sci-fi saga in the viciously sexier, bloodier world of Rebel Moon.” They will presumably be quite a bit longer than the original films — both of which clock in at over two hours — but at least they don’t appear to have been filmed in 4:3./news/against-all-odds-the-new-wolfenstein-games-are-fantastic.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/against-all-odds-the-new-wolfenstein-games-are-fantastic.htmlAction video games that want to tell stories have a problem: players do little more than shoot people for the vast majority of their time. It’s a problem that, for many, has sunk the experiences of games like BioShock Infinite and Uncharted; they involve heroic characters whose nuanced behavior in cutscenes doesn’t match up to their murderous actions when the player is in control. But last year, one game came as close as I’ve seen to solving this intractable dilemma, and from an unlikely source./news/first-click-the-only-living-boy-in-new-york.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/first-click-the-only-living-boy-in-new-york.htmlLook at this kid. He’s not embarrassed or worried. He’s on a bus, maybe in New York, maybe not, out in public in full nerd regalia and he’s enjoying himself. He doesn’t give one single shit what you think. He can’t — every sense is under bombardment by stimuli both virtual and organic, from inside and out. At one point he suffers a jump scare to which he simply adjusts his Galaxy Gear VR headset and smiles./news/angry-birds-space-hands-on-video-pigs-in-space.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/angry-birds-space-hands-on-video-pigs-in-space.htmlAlthough we played on a Galaxy Note, using the stylus was more of an impediment to our play — the blunt force (and higher coefficient of friction) of a finger just felt more natural, and given the dotted line trajectory assistance, plenty accurate. Speaking of Samsung, the exclusive content (or "egg-sclusive," as Rovio jokes) weren't available to try — not that it'd have likely influenced your choice to by a Galaxy product, anyway./news/240w-fast-charging-will-charge-this-smartphone-fully-in-under-10-minutes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/240w-fast-charging-will-charge-this-smartphone-fully-in-under-10-minutes.htmlIn practical terms, we’re really hitting the point of diminishing returns with fast charging wattage this high on smartphones. Realme advertises that the GT Neo 5’s 4,600mAh battery can be charged to 100 percent in nine and a half minutes thanks to its 240W charging. That’s super fast, but it’s also basically the same as what Redmi was claiming the 210W charging on the Note 12 Discovery Edition could achieve last year (although admittedly it has a slightly smaller 4,300mAh battery)./news/8bitdo-s-first-mechanical-keyboard-is-a-love-letter-to-the-nes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/8bitdo-s-first-mechanical-keyboard-is-a-love-letter-to-the-nes.htmlNintendo doesn’t make keyboards, but 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard might be the next best thing. The $99.99 device comes in two color schemes: an “N Edition,” which has the same gray color scheme the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) had in the West, and a red and white “Fami Edition” that draws obvious inspiration from the Japanese Famicom. Preorders open today, and the keyboard is expected to ship on August 10th./news/a-98-foot-wide-sinkhole-in-japan-was-repaired-in-one-week.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-98-foot-wide-sinkhole-in-japan-was-repaired-in-one-week.htmlLast Tuesday, a massive sinkhole opened up across a five-lane street in the Japanese city of Fukuoka. Today, the street reopened. It took about two days for workers to completely mend the sinkhole, according to The Guardian, and a few more days after that for officials to perform the required safety checks on the road. It took only two days to fill in the sinkhole The sinkhole, which was 98 feet wide and 49 feet deep, opened at 5AM local time last week./news/a-new-duckduckgo-tool-is-supposed-to-prevent-apps-from-tracking-android-users.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/a-new-duckduckgo-tool-is-supposed-to-prevent-apps-from-tracking-android-users.htmlDuckDuckGo’s new tool aims to prevent apps from tracking Android users, first reported by Wired. The tool, called App Tracking Protection, hopes to offer more protection from third-party trackers than Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, which gives users the choice to opt-out of data tracking within apps. However, DuckDuckGo’s tool hasn’t been rolled out as part of an update to all Android phones, nor is it available as a separate download — it’s built into DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser app, but works across your device./news/activision-is-awarded-14-5-million-in-a-call-of-duty-cheating-lawsuit.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/activision-is-awarded-14-5-million-in-a-call-of-duty-cheating-lawsuit.htmlActivision notched a second victory in an ongoing legal case against EngineOwning, a cheat maker that the company sued in 2022. Yesterday, District Judge Michael Fitzgerald ordered several defendants, including EngineOwning itself, to pay the company $14.465,600 for their creation and distribution of Call of Duty cheats. In addition, the judge ordered EngineOwning to turn over its website, stop making and selling cheats, and pay $292,912 in attorney fees to Activision./news/adobe-co-founder-dr-john-warnock-has-died-he-was-82.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/adobe-co-founder-dr-john-warnock-has-died-he-was-82.htmlAdobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock passed away on Saturday at the age of 82, Adobe announces today. A cause of death has not been released; he is survived by his wife, graphic designer Marva Warnock, and his three children. Warnock founded the revolutionary software company Adobe with his partner, the now-late Dr. Charles Geschke, in 1982. Marva Warnock designed the company’s original logo, and Adobe released its first program, the desktop publishing software Adobe PostScript, two years later./news/all-the-announcements-from-nintendo-s-spring-indie-world-event.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/all-the-announcements-from-nintendo-s-spring-indie-world-event.htmlApril showers bring May meow-ers. Little Kitty, Big City was one of the cuter games on display at this year’s GDC and during today’s Indie World showcase. Play as a tiny kitty, who, after a nap gone wrong, must find their way back home. Think Stray but far cozier and cuter. Little Kitty, Big City launches May 9th on Nintendo Switch and Steam. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtramtiZ31ze82ipa2dnpm8brXNnaCeZaekv62wjJqnq6GcYn9xfpM%3D/news/amazon-fire-tvs-have-found-a-new-and-annoying-way-to-slap-you-in-the-face-with-ads.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-fire-tvs-have-found-a-new-and-annoying-way-to-slap-you-in-the-face-with-ads.htmlWell this friggin’ sucks. If you have a Fire TV product of some kind, you’ve probably noticed in the last few weeks that every time you turn on the device, a full-screen ad plays instead of displaying the homescreen. At first, I thought it was some kind of mistake on my part. That I somehow hit a button during my TV’s startup that triggered the ad to play, but then my husband started noticing this phenomenon on his Fire TV, too./news/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-review-2013.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-review-2013.htmlIt happened repeatedly: I would pick up a Paperwhite to test it out, read for a while, and then discover that I was holding the device I bought a year ago instead of my review unit. Only the most discerning of readers will notice the differences in hardware here: a slightly changed Kindle logo, a slightly higher-contrast screen. The only obvious change, the only way I could reliably identify one device from the other, is by the logo on the back./news/amazon-s-echo-show-8-photos-edition-makes-the-smart-display-a-digital-photo-frame.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amazon-s-echo-show-8-photos-edition-makes-the-smart-display-a-digital-photo-frame.htmlAmazon is finally turning its Echo Show into a proper digital photo frame, but you have to pay extra for the privilege. Announced at its fall hardware event this week, the new Echo Show 8 Photos Edition costs $10 more than the standard edition of the new smart display but lets you make your photos the “primary home screen content.” The Show 8 Photos Edition is coming this Fall for $159./news/amc-theaters-will-no-longer-play-universal-movies-after-trolls-world-tour-fight.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amc-theaters-will-no-longer-play-universal-movies-after-trolls-world-tour-fight.htmlAMC Theatres will no longer play Universal films effective immediately after “unacceptable” comments were made from NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell on its decision to bypass a traditional theatrical release for Trolls World Tour and make it a digital exclusive, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Shell noted that Trolls World Tour succeeded their expectations, pulling in nearly $100 million in revenue through digital sales alone and more than five million copies sold./news/amd-makes-ryzen-7840u-official-claims-it-can-beat-apple-m2.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/amd-makes-ryzen-7840u-official-claims-it-can-beat-apple-m2.htmlIt’s no secret that AMD has a new low-power laptop chip with potent integrated graphics. Companies like Asus, Aokzoe, and Ayaneo are sticking it — or its Z1 Extreme spinoff — into their handheld gaming PCs. But the AMD 7840U was originally designed for thin and powerful laptops, and the company’s finally beginning to share that story today. AMD claims the new chip can give Apple a run for its money, besting the 2022 MacBook Air’s M2 processor in “application performance” by up to 75 percent and taking on the Intel Core i7-1360P by even more than that in both productivity and graphics, as you’ll see stated fairly vaguely in the charts below./news/another-porn-site-must-bow-to-the-eu-s-online-safety-rulebook.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/another-porn-site-must-bow-to-the-eu-s-online-safety-rulebook.htmlAnother porn site must bow to the EU’s online safety rulebook. The European Commission has designated XNXX as a “very large online platform” under the Digital Services Act (DSA), potentially requiring the website to bolster its content moderation and age verification processes. The designation follows that of other adult content platforms — Pornhub, Xvideos, and Stripchat — last year. XNXX has until “mid-November 2024” to comply by submitting a risk assessment report./news/aol-is-shutting-down-its-apple-blog-tuaw.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/aol-is-shutting-down-its-apple-blog-tuaw.htmlFounded just over 10 years ago in December 2004, TUAW was acquired by AOL in 2005 when it purchased Weblogs, Inc., alongside other influential sites including Autoblog, Joystiq, and Engadget. TUAW currently has 11 editorial staffers, according to its about page. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong forecasted these changes during an earnings call back in November, stating that the company would "simplify everything that can be simplified." Armstrong said AOL would try to increase growth and value from its content sites by "/news/apple-13-inch-macbook-pro-2020-review-return-to-baseline.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-13-inch-macbook-pro-2020-review-return-to-baseline.htmlThe most interesting — and most common — questions I’ve received about this new 13-inch MacBook Pro aren’t about the laptop itself, at least not directly. They’re about comparison shopping it up against other MacBooks and even other Windows laptops. For Apple, that’s actually good news because, up until recently, most of the questions would have been “is the keyboard going to break?” It’s good news for Apple, but it’s much better news for people in the market to buy a new MacBook because it means you don’t have to second-guess yourself./news/apple-announces-apple-watch-series-8.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-announces-apple-watch-series-8.htmlApple has announced its latest wearable, the Apple Watch Series 8. It includes a new temperature sensor, which Apple says “takes its commitment to women’s health even further.” The Series 8 also includes two new motion sensors to detect if you’ve been in a severe car crash. It’ll be available starting September 16th and will cost $399 for the GPS model and $499 for the cellular model. The company says it can track temperature changes as slight as 0./news/apple-announces-macbook-air-with-apple-s-arm-based-m1-processor.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-announces-macbook-air-with-apple-s-arm-based-m1-processor.htmlApple has announced the launch of its 2020 MacBook Air. It’s powered by Apple’s new M1 processor. This is the first MacBook Air, and one of the first laptops, to feature Apple’s own Arm-based CPUs, designed specifically for Macs. The new MacBook Air starts at $999, the same price as the previous MacBook Air released in March. (That model appears to have been discontinued on Apple’s website.) It’s available November 17th, but you can order it today./news/apple-details-icloud-photos-child-safety-scanning-safeguards.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-details-icloud-photos-child-safety-scanning-safeguards.htmlApple has filled in more details around its upcoming plans to scan iCloud Photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) via users’ iPhones and iPads. The company released a new paper delving into the safeguards it hopes will increase user trust in the initiative. That includes a rule to only flag images found in multiple child safety databases with different government affiliations — theoretically stopping one country from adding non-CSAM content to the system./news/apple-ids-now-support-passkeys-if-you-re-on-the-ios-17-or-macos-sonoma-betas.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-ids-now-support-passkeys-if-you-re-on-the-ios-17-or-macos-sonoma-betas.htmlIt appears that passkeys are now supported for Apple IDs, but only if you have the first beta for iOS 17 (or iPadOS 17 or macOS Sonoma). Beta users of Apple’s operating systems then have the ability to sign in anywhere that supports signing in with your Apple ID — covering not only Apple.com and icloud.com, but also anywhere else your Apple account is linked to — sans passwords, using just the biometrics on their iPhone or MacBook and a dream./news/apple-reports-partial-outages-for-services-including-icloud-drive-photos-mail-and-notes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-reports-partial-outages-for-services-including-icloud-drive-photos-mail-and-notes.htmlA number of Apple’s cloud services are currently dealing with disruptions and partial outages, according to the company’s system dashboard. Photos, iCloud Drive, iCloud Mail, Notes, Contacts, Find My, and iCloud Backups are a few of the services that have been hit by the problems, which Apple’s site reflected as of 1:13PM ET (10:13AM PT) with a message acknowledging that “users may be unable to use this service.” The issues don’t seem to be universal or particularly widespread, as iCloud syncing continues to work normally for several editorial employees at The Verge./news/apple-s-2012-macbook-family-portrait-a-guide-for-new-buyers-and-upgraders.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/apple-s-2012-macbook-family-portrait-a-guide-for-new-buyers-and-upgraders.htmlAs expected, Apple unveiled some massive refreshes to it's full lineup of MacBook laptops earlier today at the Moscone Center as part of its WWDC 2012 keynote — but you may still be wondering whether an upgrade or a first time MacBook purchase is worth the hit to your bank account. While you may want to wait until we've had some time to test-drive Apple's new equipment, we've got a pretty good idea of what the lineup looks like from specs alone — so let's dig in./news/at-t-reportedly-considering-expansion-to-europe.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/at-t-reportedly-considering-expansion-to-europe.htmlThe Wall Street Journal is reporting today that AT&T is considering an expansion into the European market, as part of a potentially risky attempt to gain a competitive advantage overseas. Sources close to the company told the Journal that discussions about a possible acquisition of a European carrier are still in their nascent phase, and that a deal could be announced before the end of the year, if it happens at all./news/bank-of-america-launches-atms-with-teller-assist-brings-video-chat-to-cash-machines.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bank-of-america-launches-atms-with-teller-assist-brings-video-chat-to-cash-machines.htmlBank of America is bringing live video conferencing to its ATMs, a move it says will allow customers to speak with tellers beyond normal business hours and conduct advanced transactions normally not possible from the cash machines. ATMs with Teller Assist will be installed at banking centers (both inside and via drive-thru) and at remote ATM locations. On weekdays, tellers will be available for chat from 7AM to 10PM — a significant extra chunk of time compared to BoA's typical banking hours./news/barbie-photo-fashion-doll-takes-photos-and-displays-them-on-her-shirt.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/barbie-photo-fashion-doll-takes-photos-and-displays-them-on-her-shirt.htmlMattel brought a fairly intriguing toy with it to Toy Fair 2012 — it's called the Barbie Photo Fashion Doll, and it's where doll meets camera meets USB thumb drive. Yeah, doesn't sound terribly good to us either, but here's the rundown: it looks just like any other Barbie, but, discreetly placed on the doll's back within a necklace lies a tiny camera. The photos it takes are displayed on Barbie's T-shirt with what looks to be about an inch-large screen./news/betterhelp-shared-customer-data-while-promising-it-was-private-says-ftc.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/betterhelp-shared-customer-data-while-promising-it-was-private-says-ftc.htmlOnline counseling company BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it improperly shared customers’ sensitive data with companies like Facebook and Snapchat, even after promising to keep it private. The proposed order, announced by the FTC on Thursday, would ban the same behavior in the future and require BetterHelp to make some changes to how it handles customer data. According to the regulator, the sign-up process for the company’s service “promised consumers that it would not use or disclose their personal health data except for limited purposes./news/beyonc%C3%A9-s-renaissance-film-is-the-next-movie-theater-blockbuster.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/beyonc%C3%A9-s-renaissance-film-is-the-next-movie-theater-blockbuster.htmlBeyoncé is bringing her Renaissance tour to theaters, making her the second pop superstar this season to turn a blockbuster concert into a moviegoing experience. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé will hit theaters across the US, Canada, and Mexico on December 1st — AMC, Cinemark, and Regal are all selling tickets already. AMC says it’ll be going global at some point, too. The announcement comes a month after tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour concert film broke preorder records, doing $26 million in ticket sales in just one day./news/blackberry-z10-review-a-new-life-or-life-support.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blackberry-z10-review-a-new-life-or-life-support.htmlThe BlackBerry Hub exhibits similar issues, though I think the concept is far more compelling. The most basic way to think about the Hub is as a unified inbox, except this inbox encompasses nearly every type of notification or message you will receive on the phone. Email from multiple accounts, BBMs of all types, SMS and MMS, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, phone calls, system notifications (such as app update notices), and more./news/blizzard-s-multiplayer-shooter-overwatch-launches-may-24th.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/blizzard-s-multiplayer-shooter-overwatch-launches-may-24th.htmlThe next big thing from Blizzard is coming very soon. The developer announced today that its colorful multiplayer shooter Overwatch will be launching on May 24th on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It was previously pegged for a spring 2016 release. A beta for the game will be available earlier that month; those who pre-order the game will get access to the beta on May 3rd, while an open version will launch between May 5th and 9th./news/bojack-horseman-s-finale-signals-the-end-of-a-netflix-era.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bojack-horseman-s-finale-signals-the-end-of-a-netflix-era.htmlWhen it premiered in 2014, it was one of Netflix’s earliest, best shows — and it would have failed in 2020. BoJack Horseman, one of Netflix’s longest-running shows, comes to an end this Friday. But it’s unclear if BoJack Horseman would have succeeded if it was ordered today. It’s a show that needed time to breathe, and that’s a luxury most shows don’t get on Netflix anymore. BoJack Horseman feels like the end of an era for Netflix, one that produced long-running series like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards./news/bose-sleepbuds-ii-review-get-your-eight-hours.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/bose-sleepbuds-ii-review-get-your-eight-hours.htmlLike I imagine many of us do these days, I often have trouble sleeping. To add to that, I have always been a light sleeper and can be easily awakened by a variety of noises: an especially loud siren outside, a crack of thunder, the heat suddenly coming on in the early morning hours. So I was the perfect person to try out the Bose Sleepbuds II, a set of $250 earbuds, which are specifically designed not to play music or podcasts, but to block out and replace sounds that might disturb your sleep./news/burner-phone-there-s-an-app-for-that-and-it-s-earning-millions-of-dollars.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/burner-phone-there-s-an-app-for-that-and-it-s-earning-millions-of-dollars.htmlBack in the spring of 2012, Greg Cohn and his co-founder Will Carter were working on a product that would let others know when they were available for a phone call. One of the features generated a temporary number that you could share on social media so anyone could reach you. They jokingly called it the Burner feature, an homage to the throwaway phones made famous by drug dealers on HBO’s The Wire./news/byar-volta-is-a-shaft-driven-e-bike-that-might-never-need-charging.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/byar-volta-is-a-shaft-driven-e-bike-that-might-never-need-charging.htmlThink “bicycle” and most people imagine a handlebar, wheels, and pedals attached to a diamond frame. A chain converts the power generated by leg muscles into mechanical energy to drive the contraption forward. That’s been true for nearly 150 years. A new bike I’ve been testing from a small Dutch startup hopes to change your way of thinking. The Volta, pictured above, is Byar Bicycle’s first e-bike. Its striking step-through design and floating saddle are the first things you’ll notice./news/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-s-file-size-is-even-larger-on-ps5-and-xbox-series-x.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-s-file-size-is-even-larger-on-ps5-and-xbox-series-x.htmlActivision has detailed the file sizes of its upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, releasing across existing consoles and next-gen hardware on November 13th. And in keeping with tradition, the game is massive. Another source of pain is that for buyers of the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S, the game will take up roughly an additional 40GB of space on your new solid state drive. Here’s the full breakdown of file sizes across platforms: The same appears to be true of Black Ops Cold War, although now players of the next-gen version will have to account for that added bump in file size for what is likely texture packs and other graphical improvements that take advantage of the more powerful chipsets in the PS5 and Xbox Series X./news/can-hemp-extract-provide-health-benefits-without-getting-you-high.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/can-hemp-extract-provide-health-benefits-without-getting-you-high.htmlIs there a substance that gives us the health benefits of marijuana without getting us stoned? Some people think the answer lies in cannabidiol, or CBD. Like the more well-known tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), this molecule is very abundant in cannabis; in some cases, CBD is the most or second-most abundant molecule. And they both come from the same plant, though CBD is mostly found in a different strain, called hemp. But compared to THC, cannabidiol doesn’t create psychoactive results — and that’s why you see people selling CBD oil you can take by mouth to relieve chronic pain, inflammation, or anxiety./news/ces-2018-day-0-the-year-s-biggest-tech-trade-show-begins.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ces-2018-day-0-the-year-s-biggest-tech-trade-show-begins.htmlApplying filters is ubiquitous on Instagram and other social media platforms. Now a new feature from Nvidia lets you apply filters over the top of games, rather than on your holiday snaps. The feature is called Nvidia Freestyle, and is part of its GeForce Experience software. Freestyle has 15 different filters to choose from, with 38 different settings that paint over your game with different hues and effects. The filters include black and white, sepia, vignette, a night mode, retro, and half-tone options./news/clear-2-for-iphone-and-ipad-the-whimsical-to-do-list-app-is-back.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/clear-2-for-iphone-and-ipad-the-whimsical-to-do-list-app-is-back.htmlClear was one of the most interesting, innovative, and beautiful to-do list apps around. It used clever swipes and gestures instead of buttons and settings, and it had a colorful panache that you just don’t find in a typical productivity tool. Clear was popular, it was cool, it worked well, and it seemed to have a bright future. That was a decade ago. Back then, co-creator Phill Ryu says, the team stopped working on Clear because it felt… finished, or at least close enough./news/cleft-notes-is-an-ai-voice-notes-app-that-really-works.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cleft-notes-is-an-ai-voice-notes-app-that-really-works.htmlHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 32, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy weekend, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)  This week, I’ve been writing about AI search engines and the future of Disney Plus, reading about Anne Hathaway and Andrew Huberman and Jonathan Kanter, talking productivity apps with the WVFRM crew, continuing to watch every “how they made Dune” video I can get my hands on, listening to the Black Box podcast, and learning what The Format is and how to apply it to every aspect of my life./news/clipchamp-is-microsoft-s-new-video-editing-app-for-windows-11.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/clipchamp-is-microsoft-s-new-video-editing-app-for-windows-11.htmlIf you’ve been waiting for Microsoft to resurrect Windows Movie Maker, Clipchamp might be the next best thing. After acquiring Clipchamp last year, Microsoft is now bundling the app into Windows 11. It’s a browser-based app that supports trimming, splitting, transitions, and even has a screen recorder feature. Clipchamp includes a timeline, just like pro apps like Adobe Premiere Pro, and uses a combination of templates and a library of filters, transitions, stock media, and styles to let people create videos with multi-track audio support and user-friendly editing./news/coca-cola-is-going-to-use-microsoft-s-ai-technology.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/coca-cola-is-going-to-use-microsoft-s-ai-technology.htmlCoca-Cola is going to use Microsoft’s AI technology. Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion commitment to the Microsoft Cloud and the company’s generative AI capabilities. Coca-Cola will use the Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot for Microsoft 365 in a five-year strategic partnership. The deal comes a day after Cognizant also partnered with Microsoft for generative AI, and just days before Microsoft’s earnings report where AI growth is a big focus for investors./news/comcast-is-ditching-its-xfinity-10g-network-s-misleading-branding.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/comcast-is-ditching-its-xfinity-10g-network-s-misleading-branding.htmlComcast has agreed to abandon its “Xfinity 10G network” product branding after advertising watchdogs concluded that it could cause consumers to think they will all experience “significantly faster speeds than are available on 5G networks,” which isn’t true. As such, Comcast’s marketing of its service as the “Xfinity 10G network” caused two main concerns: that customers would be misled to believe the service is twice as fast as 5G (which can actually deliver up to 20Gbps); and that 10Gbps network speeds are achievable across every Xfinity service package./news/connecting-your-xbox-controller-to-a-pc-or-phone-and-how-to-quick-swap.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/connecting-your-xbox-controller-to-a-pc-or-phone-and-how-to-quick-swap.htmlConnecting to all these devices is simple, and even swapping back and forth between an Xbox console and a Bluetooth device is nice and easy. Here’s how you set everything up: Press and hold the sync button on the back of your controller to pair it with your phone or PC. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Pairing the Xbox Series X controller with an iPhone on iOS 15./news/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-will-feature-idris-elba.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-will-feature-idris-elba.htmlCyberpunk 2077 is getting a major expansion next year, and it will include a major addition to the cast: Idris Elba. His appearance was confirmed as part of a new Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty trailer released during The Game Awards 2022 on Thursday. Elba will play a character named Solomon Reed, as noted in a tweet from developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR). That tweet also included a few details about the new content in Phantom Liberty: it will take place in an “all new district” of the game’s Night City setting, and it will be a “spy-thriller expansion./news/death-stranding-comes-to-life-on-iphone-and-mac-next-week.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/death-stranding-comes-to-life-on-iphone-and-mac-next-week.htmlSome Mac, iPhone, and iPad gamers will finally be able to play as postapocalyptic Norman Reedus in Death Stranding Director’s Cut on January 30th. Only iPhone 15 Pro models and Macs or iPads equipped with Apple’s M-series chips can run the $39.99 game, though. At the moment, preorders are 50 percent off at $19.99, and pleasantly, it’s a universal purchase, so you only have to buy it once to play it on multiple platforms./news/deepmind-s-starcraft-2-ai-is-now-better-than-99-8-percent-of-all-human-players.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/deepmind-s-starcraft-2-ai-is-now-better-than-99-8-percent-of-all-human-players.htmlDeepMind today announced a new milestone for its artificial intelligence agents trained to play the Blizzard Entertainment game StarCraft II. The Google-owned AI lab’s more sophisticated software, still called AlphaStar, is now grandmaster level in the real-time strategy game, capable of besting 99.8 percent of all human players in competition. The findings are to be published in a research paper in the scientific journal Nature. Not only that, but DeepMind says it also evened the playing field when testing the new and improved AlphaStar against human opponents who opted into online competitions this past summer./news/discord-starts-testing-youtube-integration-weeks-after-google-shuts-down-music-bots.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/discord-starts-testing-youtube-integration-weeks-after-google-shuts-down-music-bots.htmlDiscord is starting to test YouTube integration, just weeks after Google-owned YouTube forced two popular Discord music bots offline. YouTube integration has started appearing in a small number of Discord servers today as part of what appears to be a new test of a collaboration between Discord and YouTube. The feature is called Watch Together, and as the name implies, it allows Discord members to watch YouTube videos together. A test of a similar Discord feature started 10 months ago before disappearing and resurfacing as Watch Together today, and we understand the company has re-prioritized this particular feature due to the recent music bot shutdowns./news/dji-expands-into-e-bikes-and-drive-systems.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dji-expands-into-e-bikes-and-drive-systems.htmlDJI is expanding into electric bikes in a big way with its new Avinox drive system and Amflow e-bike brand. The company best known for its drones is launching its first e-bike — the carbon fiber Amflow PL electric mountain bike — before the end of the year, complete with the mid-drive Avinox motor and fast-charging battery. It has so many smart and powerful features packed into a relatively lightweight e-bike that it should catch the attention of competitors like Bosch and Specialized./news/dune-part-two-has-been-delayed.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/dune-part-two-has-been-delayed.htmlDune: Part Two has been delayed to March 15th, 2024, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and it’s just one of a few big shifts in Warner Bros.’ movie slate. The films are moving around amid the ongoing strikes in Hollywood that have affected production and promotion on many films and TV shows. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has a new date, too, moving from March 15th to April 12th./news/elon-musk-won-t-get-his-55-billion-pay-package-after-all.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/elon-musk-won-t-get-his-55-billion-pay-package-after-all.htmlElon Musk isn’t going to get that $55 billion pay package after all, a Delaware Court of Chancery judge has ruled. The ruling means Tesla’s board will need to come up with a new proposal. The ruling threatens Musk’s fortune if it makes it through an appeal, Bloomberg reports. Without the options in that package, Musk may only be the third-richest man in the world. Tesla shareholders approved the package in 2018, which gave Musk incentive to hit specific milestones, including a market valuation of $650 billion, which was more than 10 times Tesla’s value at the time./news/emoji-15-1-includes-head-shakes-and-a-phoenix.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/emoji-15-1-includes-head-shakes-and-a-phoenix.htmlThere are new emoji on the way... eventually. As reported by Emojipedia, the Unicode Consortium has formally approved Emoji 15.1, meaning a batch of new emoji will appear on your devices at some point in the future. There aren’t quite as many additions to the emoji lineup as there have been in previous releases. The brand new emoji are a head shaking horizontally, a head shaking vertically, a phoenix, a lime, a brown mushroom, and a broken chain, according to Emojipedia./news/ev-owners-won-t-be-able-to-pick-their-own-low-speed-noise-after-nhtsa-scraps-proposal.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ev-owners-won-t-be-able-to-pick-their-own-low-speed-noise-after-nhtsa-scraps-proposal.htmlWell, that’s a bummer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration won’t be moving forward with a proposal to let electric vehicle owners pick their own low-speed sounds, citing a lack of “supportable data.” The move was first reported by Reuters. Back in 2019, NHTSA introduced a proposed rule-making that would have allowed drivers to “select the sound they prefer from the set of sounds installed in the vehicle.” The idea was an amendment to a previous rule requiring EVs to make fake sounds at low speeds to prevent injuring pedestrians, especially people who are blind or visually impaired./news/facebook-pulls-the-plug-on-its-data-snooping-onavo-vpn-service.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/facebook-pulls-the-plug-on-its-data-snooping-onavo-vpn-service.htmlFacebook is shutting down its controversial Onavo VPN app, and will end its practice of conducting unpaid market research programs, TechCrunch reports. Although paid research studies will continue through other means, the company says it will ensure users explicitly understand their privacy implications. The Android version of the Onavo app has now been removed from the Play Store, although will remain functional for existing users for a short while longer. Onavo was responsible for gathering important data for Facebook./news/fairphone-5-review-delayed-gratification.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fairphone-5-review-delayed-gratification.htmlAt the risk of oversimplification, I think there are two main types of phone buyers in the world. There are those who are happy to be in the market for a new device, who delight in discovering how phones have improved since they last upgraded and who can’t wait to reap the benefits of better low-light camera performance, a prettier display, and more premium build quality.  Then, there are those who hate the process of shopping for a new phone, who see it as all cost and no upside./news/finally-there-s-a-website-just-for-people-who-think-clinton-should-have-won.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/finally-there-s-a-website-just-for-people-who-think-clinton-should-have-won.htmlRight after Trump took office, BuzzFeed News reporter Charlie Warzel described counter-programming on the right as “a parallel universe that operates as a mirror image of its mainstream counterpart with its own ‘alternative facts,’ audience, and interpretation of truth.” A new website called Verrit is that nightmare coming full circle. While it may not have outlandish conspiracy theories or careless whoppers (though there’s certainly plenty of that on the left, too), Verrit is counter-counter programming to the pro-Trump media: an enclave for liberal thoughts that is proudly and explicitly for “the 65./news/firefox-boosts-privacy-by-giving-total-cookie-protection-to-all-users-by-default.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/firefox-boosts-privacy-by-giving-total-cookie-protection-to-all-users-by-default.htmlThe Firefox browser, already known for its privacy protections, is about to become even more private thanks to a new cookie-restricting feature announced by Mozilla on Tuesday. The design change, labeled “Total Cookie Protection,” aims to give enhanced protection against online tracking by limiting the ability of websites to read cookies created by third-party services. According to a blog post from Mozilla, access to any given cookie will be restricted to the website that deposited the cookie in a user’s browser, so a cookie created by one website or service will not be readable by other websites that a user visits./news/fixing-chicago-s-potholes-one-mosaic-at-a-time.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fixing-chicago-s-potholes-one-mosaic-at-a-time.htmlJim Bachor is on a mission. For over a year, the artist has been using Chicago's fractured streets as a canvas, replacing potholes with unique mosaics. Bachor's city is crippled by potholes; between January and March Chicago filled over 350,000, but estimated 60,000 still needed attention. "The problem with fixing potholes is that it's always temporary," Bachor tells The Verge, "they get filled sometimes more than once a winter. There was a stubborn pothole in front of our house and I decided to merge my artwork with this problem in the city by creating a special piece of art and installing it./news/fortnite-s-latest-live-event-was-its-strangest-yet.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fortnite-s-latest-live-event-was-its-strangest-yet.htmlFortnite just wrapped up its most recent large-scale live event, and it was a strange one — even by Fortnite standards. The event, dubbed “Fracture,” was meant as a sendoff for Fortnite Chapter 3, and now that it’s over, the game is down ahead of the launch of the next chapter on December 4th, which will introduce not only a new island, but characters like the witcher himself, Geralt of Rivia./news/ftc-says-anonymous-messaging-app-failed-to-stop-rampant-cyberbullying.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ftc-says-anonymous-messaging-app-failed-to-stop-rampant-cyberbullying.htmlThe novel settlement terms — which are still subject to approval by a judge — indicate the latest effort by the FTC to crack down on companies that violate kids’ privacy or otherwise harm them. The commission has issued several complaints involving the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), including against Fortnite-maker Epic Games, Microsoft’s Xbox, and a weight loss app from Weight Watchers marketed to kids. But banning a company from offering their app to kids sets this settlement apart./news/fujifilm-s-new-x-t50-has-a-film-simulation-dial-and-a-questionable-price.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/fujifilm-s-new-x-t50-has-a-film-simulation-dial-and-a-questionable-price.htmlFujifilm has just announced a pair of new cameras at the company’s X Summit Sydney event. There’s the medium format GFX100S II, which frankly falls outside my scope of interest (and budget). The more mainstream of the two is the X-T50, which is a followup to — but not a replacement for — the X-T30 II, which will remain in Fujifilm’s lineup moving forward. The X-T50 is a hodgepodge of the camera maker’s new and old tech./news/gaza-strip-internet-cut-off-following-israeli-airstrikes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gaza-strip-internet-cut-off-following-israeli-airstrikes.htmlThe Gaza Strip is suffering a near-total connectivity outage as the Israeli Defense Forces announced Friday that it was “expanding ground operations” in the region.  As of Friday, the connectivity tracker NetBlocks reported “a collapse in connectivity in the Gaza Strip,” with one of the largest and last remaining Palestinian telecom providers, Paltel, being highly impacted by intense airstrikes. Paltel said it had sustained “a complete disruption of all communication and internet services” as a result of the barrage, according to The Washington Post./news/gdc-is-exorbitantly-expensive-but-still-vital-for-many-game-developers.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/gdc-is-exorbitantly-expensive-but-still-vital-for-many-game-developers.htmlFor this year’s Game Developers Conference, over 28,000 people showed up to San Francisco, California, in March to talk, listen, play, and network. Developers gathered to hear presentations on how to hone their craft, meet with peers, and conduct business. The experiences facilitated by GDC keep fledgling games alive, get them vital exposure, and provide opportunities for developers to meet the people that can help them break into the industry or simply provide advice for their games./news/google-is-changing-how-you-set-up-2fa.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-is-changing-how-you-set-up-2fa.htmlGoogle is streamlining the process of setting up two-factor authentication (2FA). Instead of entering your phone number first to enable 2FA, you can now add a “second step method” to your account such as an authenticator app or a hardware security key to get things set up. This should make it safer to turn on 2FA, as it lets you avoid using less secure SMS verification. You can choose to enter a time-based one-time passcode through apps like Google Authenticator, or you can follow the steps to link a hardware security key./news/google-pixel-8-and-8-pro-price-release-day-and-how-to-buy.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/google-pixel-8-and-8-pro-price-release-day-and-how-to-buy.htmlGoogle announced the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro on Wednesday during its Made by Google Event, introducing it alongside the new Pixel Watch 2. Both phones will be available on October 12th starting at $699 and $999, respectively, with preorders beginning today, October 4th. Powered by the new Google Tensor G3, both phones should offer improved performance, audio, and voice quality. The chip also allows for new AI capabilities, like Audio Magic Eraser, which removes distracting sounds from videos./news/hades-ii-will-launch-in-early-access-in-2024.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hades-ii-will-launch-in-early-access-in-2024.htmlWe’re going to have to wait a little bit longer to play Hades II. The sequel to one of the best roguelikes out there will be launching in early access in Q2 2024, developer Supergiant Games announced on Thursday. You’ll be able to get the early access version through Steam or the Epic Games Store. “You may be wondering, why can’t we launch in Early Access, like, right now?!” the developers wrote in a blog post./news/here-are-some-small-but-helpful-tips-for-starting-shadow-of-the-erdtree.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/here-are-some-small-but-helpful-tips-for-starting-shadow-of-the-erdtree.htmlBefore Shadow of the Erdtree finally goes live, Bandai Namco has implemented a patch that adds a couple of small features and updates just in time for the DLC’s launch in a few short hours. FromSoftware also shared a new launch trailer to herald the DLC’s arrival, but it’s chockful of spoilers, so beware. The update isn’t particularly earth-shattering, but it does include some things worth keeping in mind before all you Tarnished get your head beat in by the vicious monsters patrolling the Shadow Lands./news/how-does-medicine-describe-the-worst-smells-humans-can-make.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-does-medicine-describe-the-worst-smells-humans-can-make.htmlI did not truly know what a foul odor was until a doctor cut into my right breast with a scalpel to remove a growth. I am a new woman, now. If you talk about a lump on your breast, people get twitchy; they always assume it’s potentially cancerous. Sometimes it is! But this was just a cyst, a pea-sized lump that has been chilling on my right breast, near the midline of my body, for years./news/how-lego-builds-a-new-lego-set.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-lego-builds-a-new-lego-set.htmlMarc Corfmat was a teenager when he began to compete for Lego’s ultimate prize: the chance to design an official set. He and his brother Nick had been building custom Lego creations ever since they were kids, sometimes in California, sometimes during vacations at their grandparents’ home in La Rochelle, France. They shared their models on YouTube and posted their creations to Lego’s website, but interest from the Lego world came slowly, if it came at all./news/how-the-next-generation-of-semiconductor-factories-kicked-up-a-fight-over-environmental-review.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-the-next-generation-of-semiconductor-factories-kicked-up-a-fight-over-environmental-review.htmlLawmakers’ push to revive US chip manufacturing has triggered new concerns about pollution regulation, inadvertently subjecting semiconductor factories to federal environmental review for the first time. But while a bipartisan bill would exempt the factories to support a still-struggling American industry, some environmental advocates worry it could weaken the nation’s bedrock environmental law. Since the 1990s, semiconductor manufacturing has shifted from the US to Asia. Around that time, it was becoming cheaper to build fabs and hire workers in Asia./news/how-to-pair-ps4-or-xbox-controllers-with-iphone-ipad-apple-tv-or-android.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-pair-ps4-or-xbox-controllers-with-iphone-ipad-apple-tv-or-android.htmlThe DualShock 4 and Xbox One controllers were originally made to work on their respective consoles, but thanks to Apple’s recent software updates, you can more easily pair them via Bluetooth with your iOS 13 device, iPadOS tablet, or your Apple TV via tvOS 13. Android 10 makes it super easy to pair either controller, too, and you can pair with previous versions of Android and iOS as well. This is probably of particular interest If you subscribe to Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass, as you can play several of the games on offer from either service with a controller./news/how-to-stop-facebook-from-looking-for-you-with-face-recognition.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/how-to-stop-facebook-from-looking-for-you-with-face-recognition.htmlAssuming you haven’t completely erased Facebook from your life and have instead chosen to carefully inspect your privacy settings and limit what Facebook has on you, I’m going to offer another piece of optional advice. If you’re generally distrustful of the social network, you might want to think about disabling the company’s face recognition technology. Facebook has been using face recognition for years to make suggestions of who should be tagged in photos you share./news/hp-revamps-pavilion-all-in-one-pc-with-gorgeous-micro-edge-display.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hp-revamps-pavilion-all-in-one-pc-with-gorgeous-micro-edge-display.htmlHP just unveiled an updated Pavilion all-in-one (AIO) line of computers, which sees a sleek “architecturally inspired” redesign and updated specs just in time for back-to-school shopping. The new range is available in 23.8-inch and 27-inch touchscreen variations, and start from $749.99. They also come with options including the latest AMD or Intel processors, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of storage. HP is also offering AMD Radeon R7 discrete graphics on the 23./news/htc-now-lets-you-directly-buy-vive-repair-parts-through-ifixit.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/htc-now-lets-you-directly-buy-vive-repair-parts-through-ifixit.htmlHTC has partnered with iFixit to make its Vive virtual reality systems more repairable, selling a list of screws, cables, adapters, and other standalone components directly to consumers. In a blog post, HTC says the move is aimed at helping people whose headsets are out of warranty or potentially no longer being sold. iFixit also offers repair guides for the original Vive, the Vive Pro, the original Vive controller, and the Vive Pro Eye./news/huawei-s-mate-10-lite-will-come-with-four-cameras.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/huawei-s-mate-10-lite-will-come-with-four-cameras.htmlOne of the last flagship phone lineups scheduled for release this fall has just leaked. No, not that one. I’m talking about Huawei, which we now know is readying to unveil three new Mate smartphones on October 16th, according to VentureBeat’sEvan Blass: the Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, and Mate 10 Lite. And while we’ve known about the first two for a few weeks, new information about the $455 Mate 10 Lite shows Huawei is angling for a new kind of advantage in mobile photography by using four cameras on the phone./news/hyperx-s-first-wireless-charging-devices-are-now-on-sale.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/hyperx-s-first-wireless-charging-devices-are-now-on-sale.htmlHyperX’s first wireless gaming mouse, the PulseFire Dart, is now available to buy. As well as supporting charging via a USB cable, the mouse can also be wirelessly charged via the Qi wireless standard. HyperX is also shipping its Qi wireless charging pad, the ChargePlay Base, which is able to charge up to two devices simultaneously at 10W. The advantage of using the the common Qi standard is that you can charge the PulseFire Dart using any existing Qi chargers you might own, and you’ll also be able to use HyperX’s charging pad with your phone if it supports the standard./news/ifixit-will-sell-nearly-every-part-of-the-steam-deck-including-the-entire-motherboard.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/ifixit-will-sell-nearly-every-part-of-the-steam-deck-including-the-entire-motherboard.htmlThis evening, the company prematurely revealed a huge collection of its promised repair parts at its website, and we were surprised to see everything down to the motherboard with the AMD Aerith chip at the heart of the Steam Deck will soon be available, admittedly for a pricey $350. The Steam Deck motherboard. Image: iFixit In fact, iFixit will even sell parts that might be considered upgrades for an existing Steam Deck — if you decide you’d rather have the anti-glare screen that only comes with the 512GB model, or the allegedly quieter Huaying fan, you’ll be able to nab those for $95 and $25 respectively./news/india-s-chandrayaan-3-probe-successfully-lands-on-the-moon-s-south-pole.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/india-s-chandrayaan-3-probe-successfully-lands-on-the-moon-s-south-pole.htmlIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has made space travel history today by successfully achieving a soft landing near the south pole of Earth’s Moon, just days after Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft crashed while trying to land in the same region. India is now the fourth nation to achieve a soft Moon landing and the first to have successfully touched down on the lunar south pole — a little-explored area of the Moon that’s believed to contain water ice./news/instagram-is-kicking-the-shopping-tab-out-of-the-home-feed.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/instagram-is-kicking-the-shopping-tab-out-of-the-home-feed.htmlInstagram users will soon have a revamped navigation bar on their home feed. Beginning next month, Instagram will remove the shopping tab from the main bar at the bottom of the screen, and the button to create a new post will move down. The Reels tab, which is currently front and center on the navigation bar, will take the place of the Shop tab. The new nav bar will roll out in February globally./news/it-sure-looks-like-google-s-second-gen-pixel-buds-are-being-discontinued-in-the-us.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/it-sure-looks-like-google-s-second-gen-pixel-buds-are-being-discontinued-in-the-us.htmlGoogle won’t officially say whether the second-generation Pixel Buds are reaching the end of their life. What it will confirm is that they’re “out of stock in the Google Store in the US and Canada at this time” and that it doesn’t have additional stock. “Some third-party retailers may still have inventory available and they remain on sale in other markets as inventory allows,” a spokesperson says. “As inventory allows” definitely makes it sound like the Buds are reaching the end of their life, but as I said, Google is refusing to say the word “discontinued./news/john-b-goodenough-who-shared-a-nobel-prize-for-his-work-on-the-lithium-ion-battery-has-died.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/john-b-goodenough-who-shared-a-nobel-prize-for-his-work-on-the-lithium-ion-battery-has-died.htmlJohn B. Goodenough, a professor who played a critical role in the development of the lithium-ion batteries that are now ubiquitous in the devices we rely on every day, died on Sunday, The University of Texas at Austin announced. He was 100 years old. Goodenough’s key battery breakthrough happened more than 40 years ago. “He and his research team found that by using lithium cobalt oxide as the cathode of a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, it would be possible to achieve a high density of stored energy with an anode other than metallic lithium,” according to the university’s blog post./news/juul-is-being-investigated-by-massachusetts-for-hooking-kids-on-vaping.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/juul-is-being-investigated-by-massachusetts-for-hooking-kids-on-vaping.htmlIn April, the Food and Drug Administration asked Juul to turn over information about its products and marketing. The Massachusetts attorney general’s office, following the FDA’s lead, has subpoenaed Juul Labs for information about whether the company’s marketing and sales strategy has specifically targeted young people. “I want to know if they’re tracking underage use of their products,” Healey said at a press briefing on Tuesday morning. “What are they doing about the rampant use of their product by teenagers?/news/kiwi-farms-has-been-scrubbed-from-the-internet-archive.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kiwi-farms-has-been-scrubbed-from-the-internet-archive.htmlThe Internet Archive is no longer hosting backups of Kiwi Farms, continuing the forum’s removal from major web platforms. Twitch streamer Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, who has led a recent campaign against the site, publicized the removal yesterday. Another tweet noted that a separate backup site has also been removed; searching either returns a response that “this URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.” Kiwi Farms’ main site has been offline since security provider Cloudflare dropped it earlier this week, citing an “immediate threat to human life” due to threats and potential criminal actions from Kiwi Farms users./news/kongregate-com-stops-accepting-new-games-as-flash-slowly-disappears.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/kongregate-com-stops-accepting-new-games-as-flash-slowly-disappears.htmlVideo game publisher and web gaming company Kongregate is no longer accepting new submissions for its Kongregate.com gaming portal, the company has announced. As of this writing, Kongregate’s site says there are 128,655 games available on the service, and the announcement means there are unlikely to ever be more. Kongregate says it’s also shutting down many of the site’s social features, and GameIndustry.biz reports that it’s made a number of layoffs as part of the changes./news/laurene-powell-jobs-reportedly-told-bale-and-dicaprio-not-to-play-steve-jobs.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/laurene-powell-jobs-reportedly-told-bale-and-dicaprio-not-to-play-steve-jobs.htmlSteve Jobs opens this week and is already being held in high acclaim, but for a long while the film's production was in complete disarray. In a new report on how the film came to be made, The Hollywood Reporter suggests that some of the trouble came from Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve's widow, who petitioned against having the film made. She's reported to have even called up Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio — both of whom were briefly attached to play Steve — to dissuade them from participating in the film./news/lego-s-3-745-piece-d-d-set-comes-with-its-own-playable-adventure.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lego-s-3-745-piece-d-d-set-comes-with-its-own-playable-adventure.htmlGrab your dice and get ready to (literally) assemble your adventuring party next month — Lego has finally unveiled the 3,745-piece Dungeons & Dragons set it co-developed with Wizards of the Coast as the tabletop roleplaying game celebrates its 50th anniversary. The $360 set, called “Red Dragon’s Tale,” was inspired by Lucas Bolt’s fan design, “Dragon’s Keep: Journey’s End,” and retains many of the same features. There’s a tower, a bridge, a tavern with a removable roof, and yes — both a dungeon and a dragon./news/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-fold-2nd-gen-hands-on.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-fold-2nd-gen-hands-on.htmlI reviewed Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold, the first PC with a foldable screen, in late 2020. At the time, it was a very cool idea but not particularly, shall we say, usable. Today, Lenovo has announced its second go at this, the “Next-generation” ThinkPad X1 Fold. I spent a few minutes with the device, and let me tell you: I am much more optimistic about this one. Much of this new X1 Fold will be familiar to fans, not just of the previous X1 Fold but of the ThinkPad line in general./news/logitech-combo-touch-review-the-magic-keyboard-for-all-the-other-ipads.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/logitech-combo-touch-review-the-magic-keyboard-for-all-the-other-ipads.htmlThe $149 Logitech Combo Touch is the case I’ve spent years waiting for — well, not this exact case, but the idea of a combination keyboard and touchpad that might turn my iPad into a laptop replacement. If you’ve been intrigued by Apple’s new Magic Keyboard for the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pro but own a different iPad model, Logitech is here for you. Logitech sells two versions of the Combo Touch: one fitting the base 10./news/magic-ai-these-are-the-optical-illusions-that-trick-fool-and-flummox-computers.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/magic-ai-these-are-the-optical-illusions-that-trick-fool-and-flummox-computers.htmlThere’s a scene in William Gibson’s 2010 novel Zero History, in which a character embarking on a high-stakes raid dons what the narrator refers to as the “ugliest T-shirt” in existence — a garment which renders him invisible to CCTV. In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, a bitmap image is used to transmit a virus that scrambles the brains of hackers, leaping through computer-augmented optic nerves to rot the target’s mind. These stories, and many others, tap into a recurring sci-fi trope: that a simple image has the power to crash computers./news/major-nelson-is-leaving-xbox.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/major-nelson-is-leaving-xbox.htmlLarry Hryb, an Xbox employee perhaps better known by his “Major Nelson” alias, is leaving Microsoft, he announced on Friday. Hryb has been a major face for many of Xbox’s marketing activities since the days of the original Xbox and Xbox Live online service, through the launch of the Xbox 360 and all of the years since. “After 20 incredible years, I have decided to take a step back and work on the next chapter of my career,” he tweeted./news/mercedes-is-trialing-humanoid-robots-for-low-skill-repetitive-tasks.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mercedes-is-trialing-humanoid-robots-for-low-skill-repetitive-tasks.htmlMercedes-Benz is the latest automotive company to trial how humanoid robots could be used to automate “low skill, physically challenging, manual labor.” On Friday, robotics company Apptronik announced it had entered into a commercial agreement with Mercedes to pilot how “highly advanced robotics” like Apollo — Apptronik’s 160-pound bipedal robot — can be used in manufacturing. The news follows a similar pilot announced by BMW in January. Apptronik says that Mercedes is exploring use cases like having Apollo inspect and deliver components to human production line workers./news/meta-s-big-vision-for-face-computers-might-be-better-than-apple-s.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/meta-s-big-vision-for-face-computers-might-be-better-than-apple-s.htmlFace computers are the future, but the world as we know it isn’t quite ready. That’s the conclusion both Apple and Meta have arrived at. You can see it in the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses and the Apple Vision Pro. Both fall short of what we imagine true augmented reality ought to be, but that’s not their ultimate purpose. They’re designed to prime the public for the future by giving them a taste of it now./news/microsoft-reveals-how-halo-infinite-will-look-on-32-9-super-ultrawide-monitors-and-other-pc-perks.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-reveals-how-halo-infinite-will-look-on-32-9-super-ultrawide-monitors-and-other-pc-perks.htmlMicrosoft has something of a history of neglecting PC gaming, but it’s trying to change that in a big way — by promising its flagship Halo Infinite will feel like a native PC game when it arrives later this year. We’ve known for many months that it wouldn’t be the Xbox Series X’s killer app, but Microsoft’s trying to make PC gamers feel like first-class citizens too, with features as forward-looking as support for 32:9 super-ultrawide monitors like the Samsung Odyssey G9 I reviewed late last year./news/microsoft-surface-rt-priced-at-499-or-599-with-touch-cover-keyboard.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-surface-rt-priced-at-499-or-599-with-touch-cover-keyboard.htmlAfter announcing its Surface tablets nearly four months ago, Microsoft has now unveiled the pricing for both of its ARM-based Surface RT tablets at its Microsoft online stores. The 10.6-inch Surface, powered by Windows RT, will go on sale on October 26th and will be priced starting at $499 for the 32GB version without Touch Cover and a 32GB version with the Touch Cover for $599. Microsoft is also offering 64GB model for $699 with a Touch Cover included./news/microsoft-to-hit-1-billion-windows-10-devices-in-2020.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-to-hit-1-billion-windows-10-devices-in-2020.htmlMicrosoft is edging closer to its 1 billion goal for Windows 10. The software giant is revealing today that Windows 10 is now running on more than 900 million devices, a significant jump from the previous 800 million figure achieved earlier this year. Microsoft says there have been more new Windows 10 devices in the last 12 months than in any previous year since Windows 10 was introduced back in 2015./news/microsoft-word-now-flags-two-spaces-after-a-period-as-an-error.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-word-now-flags-two-spaces-after-a-period-as-an-error.htmlMicrosoft has settled the great space debate, and sided with everyone who believes one space after a period is correct, not two. The software giant has started to update Microsoft Word to highlight two spaces after a period (a full stop for you Brits) as an error, and to offer a correction to one space. Microsoft recently started testing this change with the desktop version of Word, offering suggestions through the Editor capabilities of the app./news/microsoft-s-new-one-outlook-windows-app-is-starting-to-leak-out.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-new-one-outlook-windows-app-is-starting-to-leak-out.htmlMicrosoft’s new Outlook email client for Windows, the so-called “One Outlook” project the company has been working on for some time, appears to be almost ready for prime time. Some users have been able to download the new app, as first spotted by Windows Central, though it seems to only function for work and educational accounts right now. Those who can get in are finding... well, it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect./news/microsoft-s-xbox-series-x-is-about-to-make-xcloud-gaming-much-faster.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-xbox-series-x-is-about-to-make-xcloud-gaming-much-faster.htmlMicrosoft is making some significant upgrades to its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) service in the next few weeks. The Xbox cloud streaming service will be moving to Xbox Series X hardware on the server side, bringing dramatic improvements to load times and frame rates. Microsoft is also moving xCloud on the web out of beta, which is good news for owners of Apple devices. “We’re now in the final stages of internal testing, and we’ll be upgrading the experience for Ultimate members in the next few weeks,” says Kareem Choudhry, head of cloud gaming at Microsoft./news/mobile-the-verge.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/mobile-the-verge.htmlWould you spend $1,250 on this toilet seat tribute to retro cellphones? Bailey Hikawa is best known for her handmade smartphone cases, but this unique creation — just two exist — features much older tech. It’s a bespoke toilet seat embedded with a myriad of iconic 2G and 3G cellphones including the original Motorola Razr, Samsung sliders, and an assortment of BlackBerrys. One person’s e-waste is another person’s treasure. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jqamm6Gcmg%3D%3D/news/motorola-moto-g-play-2021-review.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/motorola-moto-g-play-2021-review.htmlThe Moto G Play is the least expensive of four phones that Motorola introduced for the US market earlier this year. Introduced at $169, it’s already enjoying an apparently permanent $10 mark down, placing it firmly in budget territory. Most of what you’ll find on the G Play’s spec list makes a lot of sense given that price point: a 6.5-inch 720p LCD with standard refresh rate, Snapdragon 460 processor with 3GB of RAM, and a generous 5,000mAh battery./news/motorola-moto-g-stylus-2021-review-the-best-budget-stylus-phone.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/motorola-moto-g-stylus-2021-review-the-best-budget-stylus-phone.htmlCalling the 2021 Motorola Moto G Stylus the best budget stylus phone feels a bit like a backhanded compliment. There’s more or less just one other contender for that title, the LG Stylo 6, which is too underpowered to recommend. But the G Stylus doesn’t just win by default; it’s actually a well-rounded and capable phone for under $300. It offers a big 6.8-inch 1080p screen, a generous 128GB of built-in storage, and a Snapdragon 678 processor with 4GB of RAM./news/motorola-s-putting-a-huge-battery-in-a-new-moto-g7-power-variant.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/motorola-s-putting-a-huge-battery-in-a-new-moto-g7-power-variant.htmlIt’s been a week of leaks for the upcoming Moto G7 line, and new details of an unannounced G7 Power variant emerged today through an FCC filing, as first spotted by XDA Developers. The Moto G7 Power joins the Moto G7, G7 Plus, and the recently leaked Moto G7 Play as one of the four Moto G devices that will likely launch next year. The Power’s standout feature will clearly be its battery: in the filing, Motorola discloses that it will have a 5,000mAh capacity./news/music-blog-rnbxclusive-shut-down-by-britain-s-serious-organised-crime-agency.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/music-blog-rnbxclusive-shut-down-by-britain-s-serious-organised-crime-agency.htmlGreat Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency shut down music site RnBXclusive.com yesterday and arrested its owners for fraud. The site used to host music news and commentary in addition to links to mixtape and album downloads, but its landing page has now been replaced with a chilling SOCA warning banner. The "new" site says that RnBXclusive's owners have been arrested and that SOCA knows your IP address and what OS you're running./news/nate-silver-and-espn-to-reboot-fivethirtyeight-com-as-a-data-driven-news-site.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nate-silver-and-espn-to-reboot-fivethirtyeight-com-as-a-data-driven-news-site.htmlStatistician Nate Silver rose to prominence by accurately forecasting the results of the 2008 presidential election as an independent blogger and the 2012 presidency as a writer at The New York Times. But on Friday, Silver moved over to ESPN, and sports is only part of the story. In the next couple months, Silver will be relaunching his website, FiveThirtyEight.com, as an ESPN backed publication. The new FiveThirtyEight will be a standalone website that uses a data to tell stories and make predictions on sports, politics, economics, culture, science, and technology, ESPN said in a statement./news/new-york-times-to-limit-mobile-readers-to-three-free-articles-per-day.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/new-york-times-to-limit-mobile-readers-to-three-free-articles-per-day.htmlThe New York Times is slowly reducing the amount of content that nonsubscribers can see for free. The paper announced today that readers using the mobile website and apps will be able to access just three articles a day before being cut off, starting June 27th. Previously, mobile readers could access 10 to 15 articles a day from the paper's "Top News" section for free. Mobile readers still have a better deal than web readers, who are limited to 10 free articles a month./news/nick-cave-says-imitation-chatgpt-song-is-a-grotesque-mockery-of-what-it-is-to-be-human.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nick-cave-says-imitation-chatgpt-song-is-a-grotesque-mockery-of-what-it-is-to-be-human.htmlNick Cave isn’t too impressed with ChatGPT’s capacity for music. On his personal blog, the singer-songwriter gave a withering rebuke to a set of lyrics written by the AI chatbot “in the style of Nick Cave.” “What ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty,” writes Cave. “ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song ./news/nintendo-s-zelda-amiibo-items-are-fun-and-helpful-and-will-cost-me-a-small-fortune.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nintendo-s-zelda-amiibo-items-are-fun-and-helpful-and-will-cost-me-a-small-fortune.htmlFor hours now, I’ve been staring at Zelda amiibo on eBay, and I’m starting to think I have a problem. Within The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo has hidden scores of secret in-game weapons and outfits for players to collect, but only if they have the requisite RFID-equipped figurine, of which there are 14. By scanning each one of these figurines on your Switch controller a maximum of once per day, you have a random chance of obtaining one of upward five exclusive items per amiibo./news/norman-abramson-a-father-of-modern-wireless-networks-dies-at-88.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/norman-abramson-a-father-of-modern-wireless-networks-dies-at-88.htmlNorman Abramson, one of the pioneers behind wireless networks, has died at 88, The New York Times reports. Abramson and the team of graduate students and faculty he led were responsible for creating ALOHAnet, an early wireless network whose innovative techniques are still being used today in modern satellite, phone, and computer networks. Abramson died of skin cancer that had metastasized in his lungs, according to The New York Times./news/nvidia-wants-to-fill-the-virtual-and-physical-worlds-with-ai-avatars.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-wants-to-fill-the-virtual-and-physical-worlds-with-ai-avatars.htmlNvidia has announced a new platform for creating virtual agents named Omniverse Avatar. The platform combines a number of discrete technologies — including speech recognition, synthetic speech, facial tracking, and 3D avatar animation — which Nvidia says can be used to power a range of virtual agents. In a presentation at the company’s annual GTC conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showed off a few demos using Omniverse Avatar tech. In one, a cute animated character in a digital kiosk talks a couple through the menu at a fast food restaurant, answering questions like which items are vegetarian./news/nvidia-s-chat-with-rtx-is-a-promising-ai-chatbot-that-runs-locally-on-your-pc.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-s-chat-with-rtx-is-a-promising-ai-chatbot-that-runs-locally-on-your-pc.htmlNvidia is releasing an early version of Chat with RTX today, a demo app that lets you run a personal AI chatbot on your PC. You can feed it YouTube videos and your own documents to create summaries and get relevant answers based on your own data. It all runs locally on a PC, and all you need is an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with at least 8GB of VRAM./news/nvidia-s-rtx-remix-is-getting-even-more-open-source.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/nvidia-s-rtx-remix-is-getting-even-more-open-source.htmlNvidia’s RTX Remix is getting even more open source. It lets modders bring modern graphics to old games, including but definitely not limited to ray-traced Half-Life and Half-Life 2. This month, there’ll be an SDK to extend it beyond DX8 and DX9 games, new AI modding tools, and more in open source. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3xze5FtaG9waWl9cLrVopuimaNiv7XEjKucpqGoYra0ecaeq62hnpx6psLEp2Smp6KaerC8xKdkrKelp7Cm/news/october-s-video-game-release-calendar-is-a-little-too-stacked.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/october-s-video-game-release-calendar-is-a-little-too-stacked.htmlOctober is a lousy month for games. It’s just stuffed full of some of the biggest releases of the year. Remember back in the summer when Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, and Final Fantasy XVI all released in the span of five weeks? October is that on steroids — a greater number of high-profile games concentrated in a much shorter stretch of time. Here’s what we’re looking at. Wargroove 2 - October 5thAssassin’s Creed Mirage - October 5th/news/one-of-minecraft-s-soundtracks-is-getting-a-fancy-physical-release.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/one-of-minecraft-s-soundtracks-is-getting-a-fancy-physical-release.htmlMinecraft's universe can be overwhelming — it's easy to take little things about the game for granted. That includes its music, which is now being given a change to shine. Electronic label Ghostly International is taking one of the game's soundtracks, 2011's Minecraft Volume Alpha, and giving it a full-fledged physical release on August 21st. The soundtrack is the work of young, prolific German composer Daniel Rosenfeld (aka C418), who has already digitally released compilations of his work via Spotify and Bandcamp./news/peloton-bike-plus-an-upgrade-at-a-crucial-time.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/peloton-bike-plus-an-upgrade-at-a-crucial-time.htmlLast year was the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the year sweatpants become acceptable workwear, and the year Peloton peaked. Mid-pandemic, the company announced two new devices: the pricier Bike Plus and a less expensive treadmill called the Tread. The Bike Plus started shipping in September and includes significant updates to the company’s signature hardware during an especially critical time, when many people have shifted their fitness routines from gyms into their own homes./news/persona-5-s-impossibly-cool-sense-of-style-helps-set-it-apart.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/persona-5-s-impossibly-cool-sense-of-style-helps-set-it-apart.htmlEven before you start playing, Persona 5 makes sure you know that it is just so effortlessly cool. A jazzy tune kicks off the opening credit sequence, where the names of directors and artists appear as street signs and graffiti on billboards. A top hat-wearing angel flies through the air, while a masked burglar rides on top of a rushing train. One character dances on an empty overpass, sliding across the asphalt as if they were figure skating; another grinds down a railing playing air guitar./news/philips-hue-festavia-string-lights-review-pricey-but-great-for-hue-users.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/philips-hue-festavia-string-lights-review-pricey-but-great-for-hue-users.htmlYou don’t need smart, color-changing holiday lights. A smart plug and a couple packs of $20 string lights can do some of what the $160 Philips Hue Festavia string lights do. But, after spending a week with Hue’s new color-changing smart lights, I think you might want a set to decorate your Christmas tree (or other winter holiday focal point) with this season. Hue’s first stab at smart holiday lights is a success./news/pixar-s-turning-red-soul-and-luca-are-getting-theatrical-releases.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pixar-s-turning-red-soul-and-luca-are-getting-theatrical-releases.htmlEarlier this year, Disney CEO Bob Iger expressed his displeasure with how the studio was ultimately monetizing its Disney Plus projects which, while popular, have not been attracting as many subscribers as investors would like. Since then, Disney’s taken steps like airing Ms. Marvel on ABC to make some new advertisement revenue from its streaming catalog, but its next move is probably going to have a much bigger impact, financially speaking./news/pixel-8a-leak-reveals-499-starting-price.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/pixel-8a-leak-reveals-499-starting-price.htmlHowever, Google could bump the price of the Pixel 8A to $559 for a new 256GB storage option, according to Smartprix. The leak also suggests that the Pixel 8A will come with a larger 4,500mAh battery instead of the 4,385mAh option that came with the Pixel 7A. The leak from Smartprix also includes a bunch of new Pixel 8A photos, adding to the trove of leaked images we’ve seen come out over the past several weeks./news/police-won-t-fine-elon-musk-for-illegally-livestreaming-while-driving.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/police-won-t-fine-elon-musk-for-illegally-livestreaming-while-driving.html“Had an officer observed the driver with the phone in their hand, they could have issued the driver an infraction ticket for violating California’s handsfree law,” writes Palo Alto PD Captain James Reifschneider. “As no officer witnessed it happening in person at the time of occurrence, though, no ticket is forthcoming,” he told me via email. Musk’s livestream selfie. Image: Elon Musk Let me be clear: I’m pretty sure Palo Alto Police have better things to do than chase down the world’s richest man for a $20 fine./news/reddit-twitter-mastodon-where-are-we-all-supposed-to-go-now.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/reddit-twitter-mastodon-where-are-we-all-supposed-to-go-now.htmlAn era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over./news/samsung-galaxy-a52-5g-a42-5g-a32-5g-a12-and-a02s-make-us-debut.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-galaxy-a52-5g-a42-5g-a32-5g-a12-and-a02s-make-us-debut.htmlUntil now, we’ve known almost everything about Samsung’s newest Galaxy A-series phones (which were announced recently at the company’s Unpacked event) except for a couple of key details: which models would be sold in the US and for how much. That’s the announcement Samsung made today, with three low-cost 5G phones leading the way. The Galaxy A52 5G, A42 5G, and A32 5G will all go on sale in the US later this week, with the sub-$300 A32 clocking in as Samsung’s lowest-cost 5G model to date./news/samsung-s-galaxy-ring-could-be-the-one-ring-to-rule-an-ecosystem.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/samsung-s-galaxy-ring-could-be-the-one-ring-to-rule-an-ecosystem.htmlSamsung may have launched three new smartwatches this year, but the wearable I’ve been most excited to see from the company was the Galaxy Ring. After months of teasing, Samsung officially announced the $399.99 smart ring at today’s Unpacked event — and I finally got to play around with one. Granted, I only spent a short time with the Galaxy Ring, but so far, I like what I’ve seen. Right off the bat, the Galaxy Ring hardware is quite nice, though its overall design doesn’t stray too far from other smart rings./news/sealand-s-failed-data-haven-why-havenco-was-doomed-from-the-start.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sealand-s-failed-data-haven-why-havenco-was-doomed-from-the-start.htmlIn the past decade, everyone from WikiLeaks to The Pirate Bay has sought safe haven from the law in Sealand. The former anti-aircraft deck, built during World War II off the coast of the UK, was declared a sovereign nation by Roy Bates, a pirate radio operator who fought off both rival pirates and an attempted coup as the self-proclaimed "Prince of Sealand." Its fuzzy legal status made it seem like the perfect site for a data haven, where people could host and anonymously distribute information that was considered illegal elsewhere./news/sennheiser-ie-200-earbuds-review-reconnecting-with-music-literally.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sennheiser-ie-200-earbuds-review-reconnecting-with-music-literally.htmlEvery so often, I just need a break from Bluetooth headphones. I get fed up with recharging them. Heaven forbid I accidentally put my phone in my left pocket while out and about instead of my right and start noticing audio cutouts. (Yes, this can still happen with today’s best wireless earbuds and phones.) And I remind myself that I’m robbing my ears of the true potential of my cultivated lossless music library by settling for Bluetooth codecs instead of going wired./news/seraphine-league-of-legends-latest-champion-is-a-colorful-pop-star.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/seraphine-league-of-legends-latest-champion-is-a-colorful-pop-star.htmlThe newest character to join the fantasy strategy game League of Legends is a pop star who started out as a social media influencer. League developer Riot has officially unveiled Seraphine, a mage described as “the starry-eyed songstress.” You can get a full run-down of her in-game abilities right here. While she looks like a unique addition to the game, one of the most interesting things about the character is how she was revealed./news/siriusxm-s-radio-app-is-now-available-on-comcast-x1-boxes-and-smart-tvs.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/siriusxm-s-radio-app-is-now-available-on-comcast-x1-boxes-and-smart-tvs.htmlComcast subscribers can now access the SiriusXM app from their Xfinity Flex streaming device and XClass TV as well as through the Xfinity X1 hub for live TV. You can call up the app by saying “SiriusXM” to your voice remote or by searching for it within your device’s list of apps. The Platinum tier includes over 425 channels, with 330 for ad-free music, two exclusive Howard Stern channels, and stations for podcasts like Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin Hart, and Freakonomics Radio./news/slack-looks-to-richer-apps-to-help-it-fend-off-microsoft-teams.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/slack-looks-to-richer-apps-to-help-it-fend-off-microsoft-teams.htmlSlack has embraced third-party apps on its platform for years, but in recent months, the company has really been focused on extending its chat app. Earlier this year, Slack bridged the gap between email and instant messaging and also made its service easier to use with Microsoft’s Office 365 apps. Alongside all of this, Slack has been working with Google, Zoom, and other big third-party developers to more closely integrate apps into Slack./news/sling-tv-promises-not-to-raise-prices-on-customers-like-everyone-else-is-doing.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sling-tv-promises-not-to-raise-prices-on-customers-like-everyone-else-is-doing.htmlOne day after YouTube TV announced a $15 price hike that had customers crying out “enough already,” Dish’s Sling TV service is promising that it won’t raise prices on existing customers until at least August 2021. The company seems keen on using the frustration toward YouTube to help boost its own subscriptions; this offer is extended to anyone who signs up for Sling by August 1st and maintains service. (That, of course, leaves open the possibility that new customers who come on board after August 1st will start off with higher pricing./news/some-major-android-apps-are-still-sending-data-directly-to-facebook.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/some-major-android-apps-are-still-sending-data-directly-to-facebook.htmlMajor Android mobile apps from companies including Yelp and Duolingo send data that could be used to personally identify you for ad tracking straight to Facebook immediately upon logging in, according to a new report from the London-based UK charity and watchdog group Privacy International (PI). This data transfer happens even if a user isn’t logged into Facebook on that device and even in the event the user doesn’t have an active Facebook account at all./news/sony-acquires-bluepoint-games-the-studio-behind-its-incredible-remasters-and-remakes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-acquires-bluepoint-games-the-studio-behind-its-incredible-remasters-and-remakes.htmlThat’s not the only reason Sony’s Bluepoint buy isn’t surprising though. The company spilled the beans in June when it bought Returnal developer Housemarque but accidentally uploaded an image showing a Bluepoint acquisition instead: Perhaps we’ll see remasters and remakes more often with Sony’s additional resources, but the studio is also going to create its own games, according to a statement given to IGN. “Our next project, we’re working on original content right now./news/sony-xperia-1-iii-review.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/sony-xperia-1-iii-review.htmlThe Sony Xperia 1 III is a great phone that I won’t recommend to many people. Once again, Sony has created a beautiful device with some unique, marquee features like a 4K-ish OLED 120Hz screen, great photo-taking amenities like a physical shutter button and a high-quality manual camera app, and top-notch hardware for entertainment consumption, like dual front-facing speakers and an honest-to-god headphone jack. You won’t find that combination among the other big-name flagships on the market./news/splatoon-3-is-coming-to-the-switch-in-september.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/splatoon-3-is-coming-to-the-switch-in-september.htmlBy Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Apr 22, 2022, 1:26 PM UTC Share this storyIf you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2pfaXxzfo5ramlrZ2WGeXvSqaOarJ%2Bku25%2FjKegp6yVo7GwedKwoK2bmGK%2FprjEmqqeZZSWwaY%3D/news/spotify-s-replacing-its-heart-icon-with-a-new-and-improved-plus-button.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/spotify-s-replacing-its-heart-icon-with-a-new-and-improved-plus-button.htmlSpotify’s heart icon is changing to a “plus” button that lets you save music and add songs to specific playlists. The music streaming app announced the change in a post on its blog, noting that you’ll now have to tap the new “plus” icon once to save a song or podcast to your library and then tap it again to add it to a playlist of your choosing. Some users already have the combined “plus” button on their app, as it seems Spotify has been testing the change since late last year./news/squishmallows-and-jazwares-vs-build-a-bear-and-skoosherz.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/squishmallows-and-jazwares-vs-build-a-bear-and-skoosherz.htmlSquishmallows and Jazwares vs. Build-A-Bear and Skoosherz. The Guardian reports that Squishmallows parent company Jazwares is suing Build-A-Bear over its new line of rotund, kawaii animals, Skoosherz, accusing it of copying their toys’ “simplified Asian-style kawaii faces.” Not backing down, Build-A-Bear countersued Jazwares, saying Skoosherz extends its existing line of cute animal toys. This is not the first time the Warren Buffet-owned Jazwares has sued for copyright infringement, it filed a lawsuit last year against Alibaba for selling fake Squishmallows./news/star-trek-fantasy-step-aboard-every-starship-enterprise-with-this-website.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/star-trek-fantasy-step-aboard-every-starship-enterprise-with-this-website.htmlGene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, left us a long time ago — but his archive is slowly being digitized so it can live forever. The latest batch includes an official website that lets you set foot on almost every Enterprise bridge. GIF by Sean Hollister / content from Roddenberry Archive Spoiler alert: While this story won’t spoil anything, the website in question does contain a spoiler for Star Trek: Picard./news/study-reveals-fonts-used-by-car-manufacturers-can-influence-distracted-driving.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/study-reveals-fonts-used-by-car-manufacturers-can-influence-distracted-driving.htmlResearchers at MIT's Age Lab have discovered that the fonts car manufacturers choose for use with in-dash entertainment systems can impact the amount of time drivers spend distracted behind the wheel. Unlike the physical controls found in older cars (dials, knobs, etc.), a rise in digital user interfaces has had the unfortunate side effect of demanding more attention from drivers. The study involved a simulation in which participants were asked to perform routine tasks on a display not unlike those you'll find in many modern vehicles./news/tat7-iphone-scuba-case-lets-you-take-photos-underwater-and-only-that.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tat7-iphone-scuba-case-lets-you-take-photos-underwater-and-only-that.htmlPeople into fish photography are evidently willing to go to drastic measures. Following the Olympus OM-D underwater housing that's more expensive than the camera, here's a waterproof iPhone case that essentially removes all non-photography functions. TAT7's $84.95 iPhone Scuba Case is rated to depths of 30 meters (100 feet) and has three mechanical buttons to fire the camera shutter, switch between video and still images, and access the iPhone's home button./news/tcl-announces-two-android-tablets-new-true-wireless-earbuds-and-a-smartwatch-for-seniors.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tcl-announces-two-android-tablets-new-true-wireless-earbuds-and-a-smartwatch-for-seniors.htmlAs part of its IFA 2020 announcements, TCL is today launching a slew of new gadgets including a pair of tablets, new true wireless earbuds, and a smartwatch for seniors. The Android tablets are perhaps the most interesting products of the bunch, as the higher-end model features a 10.36-inch widescreen (2000x1200) display with slim bezels; it even comes with a stylus. The internal specs aren’t going to come anywhere close to something like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7, but the company is positioning the TCL 10 Tab Max as an excellent choice for watching videos or conducting video calls thanks to its dual far-field microphones./news/tcl-s-new-foldable-and-rollable-concepts-imagine-a-wild-future-of-phones.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tcl-s-new-foldable-and-rollable-concepts-imagine-a-wild-future-of-phones.htmlThe first wave of foldable devices are here, and honestly they’ve tended to be a bit... disappointing. But even as hardware companies are still trying to get flexible displays right, TCL is already looking ahead with a pair of foldable and rollable prototypes that imagines what the future of phones could look like. TCL had two new prototypes to show off: a trifold device that can unfold from a 6.65-inch phone into a full-size, 10-inch tablet, and a very early concept for its sliding, rollable phone that leaked in February (which wasn’t actually a functional device, but rather a dummy unit, complete with a paper screen)./news/tesla-introduces-new-powerwall-3-home-battery-backup-solution.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-introduces-new-powerwall-3-home-battery-backup-solution.htmlTesla introduced its newest home battery backup system, the Powerwall 3, which comes with more power throughput and its own built-in solar inverter. The setup makes for a more vertically integrated home solar power installation for new setups compared to the Powerwall 2, which is just a battery. Early details of the Powerwall 3 trickled out in April when we learned it’d come with an easier-to-install process. But the product is still similar to the existing Powerwall 2, starting with the squared-off slate design with a glossy white front./news/tesla-supercharger-in-chicago-packed-with-dead-robots-that-can-t-charge-in-the-cold.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tesla-supercharger-in-chicago-packed-with-dead-robots-that-can-t-charge-in-the-cold.htmlTesla Supercharger in Chicago packed with “dead robots” that can’t charge in the cold. Electrek points out this Fox 32 report from Monday showing Teslas that couldn’t charge in subzero temperatures, similar to issues some drivers reported last winter. It’s unclear if drivers failed to warm the batteries by preconditioning (EVs in Norway, for example, seem to get by somehow) or if the chargers failed, and Tesla doesn’t respond to questions./news/the-apple-iphone-15-pro-is-teaching-me-to-embrace-digital-zoom.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-apple-iphone-15-pro-is-teaching-me-to-embrace-digital-zoom.htmlIf you want to hear a love story, ask any photographer about their favorite lens.  They’ll probably get a little glimmer in their eye as they tell you about the fast 35mm they carry everywhere or the long portrait lens with the bokeh that hits just right. Camera bodies come and go, but your favorite lens is a lifelong relationship. Phone camera lenses are a different story. They’re built like a regular camera lens — only, you know, tiny — and they’re with us literally everywhere we go./news/the-cheaper-600-asus-rog-ally-is-here-and-you-probably-shouldn-t-buy-it.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-cheaper-600-asus-rog-ally-is-here-and-you-probably-shouldn-t-buy-it.htmlIf you’ve been eying an Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld but can’t quite justify the $700 price tag... you’ll probably want to keep on waiting. Today, the company has begun selling a less-expensive $600 model with a lower-performance AMD Z1 chip, but early reviews suggest the Windows gaming handheld is too compromised to justify the purchase. Bottom line: Z1 performance is reportedly worse than the $400-and-up Steam Deck, without any significant battery life benefit to make up for the loss of power./news/the-creators-of-monarch-legacy-of-monsters-aren-t-just-trying-to-make-a-godzilla-spinoff-show.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-creators-of-monarch-legacy-of-monsters-aren-t-just-trying-to-make-a-godzilla-spinoff-show.htmlEpic monster fights, dazzling visuals, and the promise of an interconnected MonsterVerse are the things that have attracted audiences to many of Legendary and Warner Bros.’ recent Godzilla movies. All of those things are very much a part of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Apple TV Plus’ new series set in the MonsterVerse from executive producers Chris Black and Matt Fraction and director / co-executive producer Matt Shakman. But whereas films like Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs./news/the-direct-influence-of-twin-peaks-on-zelda.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-direct-influence-of-twin-peaks-on-zelda.htmlThe Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening has been a Nintendo classic for so long that it’s easy to forget how weird it felt when it dropped for the Game Boy in 1993. Originally conceived as a straightforward port of the Super Nintendo’s A Link to the Past — which itself had been a return to the mean after 1987’s divisive sidescroller Zelda II: The Adventure of Link — Link’s Awakening could have been a safe, solid extension of a proven Nintendo brand, like the Game Boy versions of Mega Man, Metroid, or Castlevania that preceded it./news/the-e-coli-outbreak-linked-to-chipotle-has-spread-to-nine-us-states.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-e-coli-outbreak-linked-to-chipotle-has-spread-to-nine-us-states.htmlThe E. coli outbreak recently linked to Chipotle has spread to Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, bringing the total number of US states affected to nine, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). California, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington have also reported cases in the past two months. Of the 52 total current reported cases, 47 reported eating at Chipotle before getting sick, according to the CDC./news/the-home-assistant-skyconnect-is-a-combination-zigbee-and-thread-dongle-for-better-smart-home-contro.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-home-assistant-skyconnect-is-a-combination-zigbee-and-thread-dongle-for-better-smart-home-contro.htmlMy smart home has been a mess for a while. Before writing this, it was a combination of a Hue hub and HomeKit, the former of which I was not terribly fond of having, and the latter I tolerate. But for a few years now, I have wanted to go convert my whole house to Home Assistant: the self-hosted home automation software. And now, with the SkyConnect Connect, a combination Zigbee and Matter / Thread dongle from Home Assistant, that transition is complete./news/the-keurig-of-weed-vaporizers-is-launching-next-year.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-keurig-of-weed-vaporizers-is-launching-next-year.htmlThe company's sleek, white-plastic vaporizer heats marijuana just enough to release the active compounds while stopping short of actually burning the plant. Users breathe in the vapors released through a canister, and the marijuana comes in small, single-use "pods" that are independently filled by legally authorized growers. [...] CannaKorp is officially focused on the medical marijuana market. But executives acknowledge that legal recreational use has potential to expand their customer base./news/the-lightship-l1-is-a-caravan-built-for-evs-that-can-also-power-your-home.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-lightship-l1-is-a-caravan-built-for-evs-that-can-also-power-your-home.htmlLove it or hate it, it’s hard to look at the Lightship L1 electric caravan and not feel something. This box of glass transforms from an aerodynamic trailer while being towed into a tall camper that sleeps up to six people while stationary. It costs well over $100,000 and looks nothing like the rest of the RV industry, dominated by walls of boring white plastic. It’s the first step in Lightship’s mission to help bring electrification to diesel-loving recreational vehicles./news/the-new-sonos-amp-is-coming-to-save-your-old-speakers.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-new-sonos-amp-is-coming-to-save-your-old-speakers.htmlIn some ways, the new $600 Sonos Amp — like the decade-old Connect:Amp it’s going to replace — is one of the company’s most vital products. But it’s also a device that a lot of typical consumers are unlikely to ever buy. Having finished its recent, consumer-focused launches of the Sonos One and Sonos Beam, Sonos is now turning its attention to what it calls the installed solutions channel. From top to bottom, that’s who and what the Amp has been built for./news/the-new-york-times-blocks-openai-s-web-crawler.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-new-york-times-blocks-openai-s-web-crawler.htmlThe New York Times has blocked OpenAI’s web crawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, it appears NYT blocked the crawler as early as August 17th. The change comes after the NYT updated its terms of service at the beginning of this month to prohibit the use of its content to train AI models./news/the-nintendo-switch-is-now-the-third-bestselling-console-of-all-time.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-nintendo-switch-is-now-the-third-bestselling-console-of-all-time.htmlThe Nintendo Switch is now the third-bestselling console of all time, surpassing both the Sony PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Game Boy in total lifetime units sold. Nintendo’s third quarter earnings report shows that the Switch, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite achieved 8.2 million combined unit sales between October 1st and December 31st in 2022, bringing the total lifetime unit sales for the console to 122.55 million since it was released in 2017./news/the-nsa-s-leaked-windows-hack-caused-more-damage-than-just-wannacry.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-nsa-s-leaked-windows-hack-caused-more-damage-than-just-wannacry.htmlWhen the ShadowBrokers first published the code for EternalBlue — an NSA exploit targeting Windows’ file-sharing protocol — researchers knew it was a bad bug. But most had no idea of the scale of the damage that would be caused by the vulnerability. Much of that damage has only become visible in recent days, as a ransomware program dubbed “WannaCry” locked up computers from the UK’s National Health Service to the Russian Ministry of the Interior./news/the-oppo-watch-isn-t-bad-but-it-does-look-like-an-apple-watch.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-oppo-watch-isn-t-bad-but-it-does-look-like-an-apple-watch.htmlAfter I recently wrote about Oppo’s “oddly familiar” new smartwatch, Oppo got in touch with me to ask whether I’d be interested in checking it out for myself, even though it’ll only be available in China until later this year. The company representative suggested that I might find it less familiar in person, so I was interested to try it. How did that work out? Well, it’s true that the Oppo Watch looks a little less derivative on my wrist than in press shots./news/the-shark-ai-ultra-xl-robot-vacuum-with-lidar-is-300-off-for-prime-day.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-shark-ai-ultra-xl-robot-vacuum-with-lidar-is-300-off-for-prime-day.htmlThis Shark robovac is a formidable challenger to various Roombas and Roborocks of the world, as it’s one of the few bots in this price range that navigates using lidar. This should make its auto-mapping feature more precise and less prone to bumping into everything than other automated vacuums. It’s also sold with an included auto-emptying station, making this deal price even more enticing. Our resident smart home expert, Jennifer Tuohy, ranked the Shark in the top five for our buying guide on the best robot vacuums you can buy right now./news/the-simple-search-browser-extension-gives-you-raw-google-search-results.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-simple-search-browser-extension-gives-you-raw-google-search-results.htmlFor the last 10 years, Google has been building new widgets into its search results — and now, a group of journalists has built a browser extension to show you what search would look like without them. Built by The Markup, Simple Search strips out the information panels, shopping boxes, and search ads to show only the raw web search results. It’s a view of an older, simpler Google, one with surprising antitrust implications./news/the-simpsons-has-been-axed-on-dvd.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-simpsons-has-been-axed-on-dvd.htmlIt's undoubtedly the end of an era for The Simpsons and for physical formats, but it's not yet clear whether the decision will extend to Blu-ray releases as well. Dedicated fans can also rest assured that extras such as deleted scenes and commentaries will live on in digital formats. These will be available via on-demand service FX Now and its Simpsons World app, said Jean, with the latter featuring every episode of the iconic series as well as quotes, clips, and playlists./news/the-smart-car-goes-electric-before-it-plans-its-autonomous-future.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/the-smart-car-goes-electric-before-it-plans-its-autonomous-future.htmlLook at some of the autonomous vehicle concepts, predicting a future of us being able to treat a car as a lounge or work area when we don’t want to actually drive, and you’ll notice one thing: space. By that, I mean the space they take up on the road. Everyone seems to be designing a large, autonomous SUV because that’s what people want.   Mercedes-Benz is guilty of the same thing, with its vast F105 Concept it showed a few years ago./news/these-are-the-certified-wi-fi-7-devices-you-can-buy-now.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/these-are-the-certified-wi-fi-7-devices-you-can-buy-now.htmlWi-Fi 7 is the next version of Wi-Fi to follow Wi-Fi 6E. Like Wi-Fi 6E, the protocol works on the 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands, and it’s backward-compatible with devices that precede it. Wi-Fi 7 promises faster throughput through features like 320MHz channel bandwidth, which is twice what’s offered on Wi-Fi 6E; Multi-Link Operation, which combines bands into a single, faster, and more stable connection; and improved interference handling. The standard hasn’t yet been finalized, however, and there are no client devices — phones, laptops, and so forth — that support it, putting current Wi-Fi 7 routers very firmly in the early adopter market./news/this-13-year-old-voice-recorder-captured-my-entire-professional-career.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-13-year-old-voice-recorder-captured-my-entire-professional-career.htmlBack in November 2009, I was getting ready to attend the Montreal International Games Summit, and I panicked — it was my first major event as a member of the press, and I had no way to record an interview. This was a problem because I was scheduled to talk with Yoichi Wada, then president of Square Enix, along with several other notable industry people. So I rushed to Radio Shack and picked the cheapest voice recorder I could find, a little grey rectangle made by RCA that was locked up in a glass display case./news/this-solar-system-of-seven-earth-sized-planets-may-be-the-best-place-to-look-for-alien-life.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/this-solar-system-of-seven-earth-sized-planets-may-be-the-best-place-to-look-for-alien-life.htmlAround 40 light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets have been spotted orbiting closely around a small, ultra-cool star. It’s one of the largest solar systems that’s ever been discovered outside of our own, and it’s a particularly enticing find in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life. Six of the planets in the system may have the right temperatures for liquid water to exist on their surfaces, and astronomers are confident they’ll be able to get a more in-depth look at these seven worlds with future space telescopes./news/toyota-s-weird-bright-green-prius-uses-science-to-stay-cooler-in-the-sun.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/toyota-s-weird-bright-green-prius-uses-science-to-stay-cooler-in-the-sun.htmlThe Prius is an intentionally odd-looking car that gets odder with every generation; I'm pretty sure even ardent defenders of Toyota's flagship hybrid could agree with me on that. So why not throw an equally odd paint color on top? What you're looking at here is the new Prius in "Thermo-Tect Lime Green," which is more than your average upsettingly loud paint color. Toyota says that by removing the carbon black particles found in most paint and replacing them with titanium oxide, it has significantly increased the vehicle's solar reflectivity — in other words, the car heats up less, which lessens the need for air conditioning, which in turn improves fuel economy./news/trump-supporters-accuse-cnn-of-blackmail-after-controversial-article-on-reddit-user.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/trump-supporters-accuse-cnn-of-blackmail-after-controversial-article-on-reddit-user.htmlCNN is facing escalating backlash after publishing a controversial article on a Reddit user. The incident started earlier this week, when President Trump tweeted a GIF showing himself knocking out someone digitally labeled “CNN,” an image that many took as an endorsement of violence against the media. On Reddit, a user named “HanAssholeSolo” took credit for the GIF, saying he was “honored” that “the MAGA EMPORER himself” had tweeted it. Racist posts from the account were soon uncovered, the latest in a series of incidents where a Trump tweet was linked to racist internet users./news/tupac-s-estate-may-sue-drake-over-taylor-made-ai-generated-diss-track.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/tupac-s-estate-may-sue-drake-over-taylor-made-ai-generated-diss-track.htmlWhile Drake’s fans have been having a ball with the Canadian rapper’s recently released track dissing fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, the legal team representing Tupac Shakur is threatening to take legal action if the song isn’t pulled off the internet. Billboard reports that late rapper Tupac’s legal team is ready to take Drake to court over the release of “Taylor Made,” Drake’s recently released song featuring the AI-generated voices of Shakur and Snoop Dogg./news/twitch-bans-saynotorage-after-harassment-allegations.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-bans-saynotorage-after-harassment-allegations.htmlTwitch has banned SayNoToRage, a popular Destiny streamer, after several women said that he harassed them or touched them without consent. The Twitch page for SayNoToRage disappeared Thursday afternoon, suggesting he had been banned. A second streamer, Papa_Chau, who had allegations of emotional abuse made against him more than a year ago, appears to have been banned this afternoon, too. Twitch said it would begin issuing permanent bans as it looked into the allegations/news/twitch-is-finally-making-some-friends-in-the-music-industry.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-is-finally-making-some-friends-in-the-music-industry.htmlTwitch is attempting to mend fences with a big pillar of the music industry by announcing an agreement to “work together” with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). Details are vague right now, but the agreement says they plan to “build productive partnerships between the service and music publishers” after a year of conflict over music rights. Twitch has long had a contentious relationship with the music industry, which has accused the company of allowing streamers to play copyrighted music without the appropriate licenses./news/twitch-star-amouranth-is-safe-shares-update-on-her-abuse-situation.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitch-star-amouranth-is-safe-shares-update-on-her-abuse-situation.htmlKaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa has revealed she and her pets are safe, she is in control of her finances, and her spouse is no longer living with her and seeking help. The news comes after the content creator, one of Twitch’s most popular and highest paid, revealed she was a victim of intimate partner violence at the hands of her husband. During a stream on October 16th, Siragusa revealed she was married, a fact she said she was forced by her husband to keep secret in order to not “ruin the business model./news/twitter-users-are-now-wondering-if-mandatory-blue-checks-are-illegal.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/twitter-users-are-now-wondering-if-mandatory-blue-checks-are-illegal.htmlOkay, I’ll admit it: I did not expect the Twitter checkpocalypse to result in Dril accusing Elon Musk of violating federal consumer protection laws. It’s been four days since Musk removed the last “legacy verified” checkmarks, leaving Twitter’s blue checks in the hands of people who pay $8 per month for Twitter Blue. Or, at least, that was the idea. As of Monday morning, here’s how it’s gone: Legacy checkmarks did, in fact, disappear, leaving only checks bestowed through the paid Twitter Blue service./news/uber-expands-background-checks-for-all-us-drivers.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-expands-background-checks-for-all-us-drivers.htmlAll new Uber drivers in American markets will now need to undergo federal and county background checks, the private cab and ridesharing network announced in a blog post yesterday. The new checks will also be run on current Uber drivers who have not yet been cleared against federal and county criminal databases The new checks will be introduced in addition to Uber's existing policies for all US drivers. Of Uber's five services, four — UberBLACK, UberTAXI, UberSUV, and UberLUX — are staffed by full-time employees./news/uber-tried-to-fool-apple-and-got-caught.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uber-tried-to-fool-apple-and-got-caught.htmlApple CEO Tim Cook threatened to have Uber’s iPhone app removed from the App Store in 2015, when it learned that the ride-sharing company had secretly found a way to identify individual iPhones, even once the app was deleted from the phone, according to The New York Times. The article is a wide-ranging profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, describing him as a leader who is willing to break and bend rules to get his way, even if it means running afoul of one of the world’s largest tech firms./news/uk-government-is-allegedly-involved-in-us-internet-spying-program-prism.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uk-government-is-allegedly-involved-in-us-internet-spying-program-prism.htmlA major intelligence agency in the United Kingdom is part of the US government's massive secret internet user spying program PRISM, according to leaked documents obtained by The Guardian. The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of three top intelligence agencies in the country, has been able to view private internet user data since 2010 under the US National Security Agency's (NSA) PRISM program, which allegedly taps into the servers of tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, and Yahoo./news/uk-mobile-carrier-copies-t-mobile-s-binge-on-scheme-nearly-down-to-the-name.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/uk-mobile-carrier-copies-t-mobile-s-binge-on-scheme-nearly-down-to-the-name.htmlUK telecom provider Three is taking a cue from T-Mobile and launching a new data plan called “Go Binge,” which sounds awfully similar to T-Mobile’s “Binge On” program. Through Go Binge, Three subscribers can use Netflix, SoundCloud, Deezer, and TVPlayer without having it count toward their data plan. Existing customers will have to upgrade their plan to qualify while new customers on higher-priced plans — with 4GB and above data allowance — will be automatically opted in./news/venom-and-eddie-are-on-the-run-in-the-last-dance-s-first-trailer.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/venom-and-eddie-are-on-the-run-in-the-last-dance-s-first-trailer.htmlThe extraterrestrial bromance between Eddie Brock and Venom is set to conclude — and it looks like the trilogy is going out with a bang. Sony released the first trailer for The Last Dance, which will conclude the story, and it’s got everything: ultraviolence, one-liners, ballroom dancing, alien armies, and even a symbiote horse. The movie follows Let There Be Carnage and puts Eddie (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Hardy) in a tough spot./news/voicemod-arrives-on-iphone-to-change-your-voice-to-darth-vader-t-pain-and-more.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/voicemod-arrives-on-iphone-to-change-your-voice-to-darth-vader-t-pain-and-more.htmlPopular voice changing app Voicemod is making its way to the iPhone today. Voicemod Clips is a new mobile app that will allow iPhone owners, and Android users soon, to modify their voice for short video and audio clips. The app is completely free to use, with no annoying ads or freemium features. You can choose from a variety of facial and audio filters to create clips that can be shared freely on social networks, messaging apps, and more./news/voicemod-will-now-let-you-create-ai-voices-of-your-own.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/voicemod-will-now-let-you-create-ai-voices-of-your-own.htmlThanks to AI voice cloning, anyone can sound like Joe Rogan, Oprah, or even Darth Vader. But a newly launched set of features from Voicemod should make it easy for users to create and share their own bespoke AI voices from scratch. Users can now create and tweak unique synthetic voices with AI Voice Changer and then share them with other users on Community Voices. For those outside the world of gaming, Voicemod is an AI voice changing program popular with streamers and gamers./news/walmart-shopper-data-will-soon-feed-targeted-ads-on-disney-plus-and-hulu.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/walmart-shopper-data-will-soon-feed-targeted-ads-on-disney-plus-and-hulu.htmlAdvertisers can now use Walmart’s shopping data to target Disney’s streaming portfolio, which includes Disney Plus and Hulu, Adweek reports. The news comes after the companies announced a partnership between Disney Advertising and Walmart Connect, the retailer’s media business, on Wednesday. As a part of the deal, Walmart advertisers will be able to match the retailer’s shopper data with Disney’s proprietary Audience Graph tools, helping them target audiences and measure data better./news/warner-bros-discovery-and-paramount-in-discussions-for-a-max-merger.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/warner-bros-discovery-and-paramount-in-discussions-for-a-max-merger.htmlUpdate February 27th, 12:57PM ET: Since the publication of this article, CNBC has reported that Warner Bros. Discovery has stopped pursuing an acquisition of Paramount. The original story follows below. Warner Bros. Discovery might merge with another entertainment giant: Paramount. Sources tell Axios that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav held talks with Paramount CEO Bob Bakish on Tuesday about a possible merger. The meeting reportedly took place at Paramount’s headquarters in Times Square, with the two CEOs discussing how the companies could complement one another./news/warner-bros-discovery-explains-why-it-s-dropping-the-hbo-max-name.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/warner-bros-discovery-explains-why-it-s-dropping-the-hbo-max-name.htmlWarner Bros. Discovery’s revamped subscription service is just called “Max,” and the company explained why it dropped the HBO branding at a press event on Wednesday. A key reason was to help Warner Bros. Discovery broaden the appeal of the app so that it’s not mostly targeted at content for adults. “We want [Max] to be welcoming to all and easily recognizable, including to a key customer segment, kids and families,” JB Perrette, president and CEO of Warner Bros./news/watch-this-excellent-historically-accurate-star-wars-anime-short.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-this-excellent-historically-accurate-star-wars-anime-short.htmlPaul Johnson'sseven-minute TIE Fighter is a dialogue-free short movie that details a dogfight in space between Star Wars' Imperial and Rebel forces. Influenced by the 1994 PC game of the same name and put together by Johnson over the course of four years, the film is action-packed, beautifully drawn, smoothly animated, and — most importantly — impressively accurate to Star Wars' fiction. That's an Interdictor-class cruiser The short starts with an Imperial probe droid, warbling its familiar refrain as it spots a small Rebel fleet loitering near an asteroid field (sound, as science has proven, carries in Star Wars' space)./news/watch-werner-herzog-s-harrowing-documentary-on-texting-and-driving.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/watch-werner-herzog-s-harrowing-documentary-on-texting-and-driving.htmlFilmmaker and documentarian Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man) has directed a short film on the dangers of texting and driving. From One Second to the Next looks at how four lives have been impacted by texting-related accidents. Created for AT&T's "It Can Wait" campaign, which has the backing of all the major US carriers, the documentary expands on the TV spots that Herzog also produced. Among the subjects of the film are Xzavier, a young boy who was left paralyzed by a car accident caused by texting, and Chandler Gerber, who killed three people while reading a text behind the wheel of a van./news/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-is-a-vampire-comedy-about-being-stuck-at-home.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-is-a-vampire-comedy-about-being-stuck-at-home.htmlThere’s something soothing about watching a bunch of vampires be absolute morons on television every week. They’re undead, capable of incredible feats, dark magic, and, in most cases, have been alive for hundreds of years. They should possess at least a little more finesse than Michael Scott. And yet, the bloodsucking clowns of What We Do in the Shadows are so very bad at being immortal monsters, which means they are excellent at comedy./news/what-were-the-first-apps-you-ever-downloaded-from-the-app-store.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/what-were-the-first-apps-you-ever-downloaded-from-the-app-store.htmlToday marks the 10th anniversary of the iOS App Store, which has a lot of us here at The Verge thinking about what the first apps that we ever went and installed on our iPhones and iPod Touches were. Fortunately, Apple makes this easy — the App Store has a “Purchased” section designed to let you easily re-download apps, which also serves as a convenient ledger of (almost) all the apps you’ve ever bought or installed on your devices./news/when-wendy-s%C3%A1nchez-went-missing-her-brother-made-a-campaign-to-find-her.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/when-wendy-s%C3%A1nchez-went-missing-her-brother-made-a-campaign-to-find-her.htmlWendy Sánchez is a white woman, standing five feet and four inches tall, with brown eyes, short brown hair, and freckles. Her face has recently been seen on murals, video projections on buildings, illustrations shared on social networks, and missing persons posters. Since January 9th, her family has been looking for her across Mexico.  That Saturday in January, as she did every two weeks, Sánchez left her home in the small beach town of San Francisco (San Pancho), in the state of Nayarit on the central Pacific coast, to visit her family in the neighboring state of Jalisco./news/wherever-you-get-your-podcasts.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wherever-you-get-your-podcasts.html“Wherever you get your podcasts.” Anil Dash: Being able to say, “wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that’s supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that’s not owned by any one company, that can’t be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience. I just said this on this week’s Decoder with Casey, but at this point it’s easy to see how algorithmic media platforms tend to push people and content into being more or less the same, but open distribution protocols like email and podcasts tend to allow for a much richer set of creators and formats./news/why-didn-t-epic-sue-microsoft-sony-or-nintendo.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-didn-t-epic-sue-microsoft-sony-or-nintendo.htmlWhy didn’t Epic sue Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo? We’re now hearing a taped deposition of Epic CFO Randy Gelber from September 2022, and we’re hearing an interesting question indeed — one that cuts both ways if you’ve been following each party’s narrative so far. Gelber replies: We believe those to be competitive markets and we believe that the fee, their cost structure, is entirely different than a mobile app store./news/why-slack-could-be-the-future-of-conferences.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/why-slack-could-be-the-future-of-conferences.htmlWe go to conferences to meet people, whether for business or personal reasons, and yet often I meet far fewer than I hope to. Inside a crowded convention space, things can turn cliquish in a hurry. Come lunch time, I’m right back to being the new kid at school, sheepishly hunting for a table that will accept me. Want to know anything about the strangers around you? Just read the fine print on their name badge, and do it before they notice and think you’re staring at their chest./news/withings-scanwatch-2-and-light-review-hybrid-watches-for-the-tech-fatigued.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/withings-scanwatch-2-and-light-review-hybrid-watches-for-the-tech-fatigued.htmlThese days, there’s been an uptick in people asking me about simple yet stylish smartwatches. Emphasis on simple. Begone fancy health and training features! Stuff the third-party apps! All they want is a device that looks nice, has bare-bones tracking, and doesn’t need frequent charging. Everything else — the Apple Watches, the Samsung Galaxy Watches, the Pixel Watches — comes with too many bells and whistles. Inevitably, the daily charging gets old, and these expensive watches end up collecting dust in a drawer./news/wwe-went-big-on-ar-at-wrestlemania-40.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/wwe-went-big-on-ar-at-wrestlemania-40.htmlWWE marched into what its top executives described as “a new era” over WrestleMania 40 weekend this past Saturday and Sunday. That phrase was bandied about because there were a number of firsts that went down in Philly. This was the first WrestleMania produced under Endeavor, which acquired WWE last year and combined it with UFC to form a new company known as TKO. On Saturday night, WrestleMania 40 featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first match since 2016, which saw him partner in a tag team match with Roman Reigns, whose own historic run as WWE champion was brought to an end Sunday after Reigns spent 1,316 days as the face of the sports entertainment brand./news/yamaha-developing-vocaloid-keyboard-for-real-time-live-performances.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/yamaha-developing-vocaloid-keyboard-for-real-time-live-performances.htmlAn increasing amount of Japanese pop music of late is eschewing vocal cords for Vocaloid, a series of voice synthesizers developed by Yamaha that is designed to fill the role of human singers. The most famous of these is Hatsune Miku, which (who?) has an image and persona more visible than many "real" Japanese stars, though it's otherwise quite a niche phenomenon. One problem with Vocaloid tracks is the difficulty of authentic live performances, but Yamaha is working on something to combat this — a real-time Vocaloid keyboard that allows players to "/news/you-can-now-mute-your-xbox-s-startup-sound-and-control-volume-through-the-console.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/you-can-now-mute-your-xbox-s-startup-sound-and-control-volume-through-the-console.htmlMicrosoft has released software updates for the Xbox Series S and X and the Xbox app for iOS and Android that bring some quality-of-life improvements and small tweaks that you may notice the next time you go to play a game. If you have your console output audio via HDMI, you may now be able to control the volume of your speakers from the Xbox itself, using new options in the Audio and Music section of the Xbox menu./news/youtube-insider-access-tied-to-massive-leaks.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-insider-access-tied-to-massive-leaks.htmlOne incident, as noted by Henderson, occurred in 2022 when KSI attempted to give away over $10,000 in Amazon gift cards. However, KSI later realized that all of the gift card codes had been redeemed before the video was posted, sparking an internal investigation at YouTube. The company reportedly started a similar investigation after the trailer for GTA VI leaked, but it’s not clear whether it’s related. All of this ties into what seems like an ongoing problem at Google./news/youtube-will-waive-a-creator-s-content-violation-warning-if-they-attend-a-class.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/youtube-will-waive-a-creator-s-content-violation-warning-if-they-attend-a-class.htmlYouTube wants to give content creators who violate its guidelines a second chance. Creators will now get the option to take an “educational training course” when they receive a community guidelines warning, and in exchange, YouTube will lift that warning from their account. YouTube previously issued a lifetime warning to channels that violated its content guidelines and removed the video in question. The lifetime warning stayed on a YouTuber’s account forever and preceded the strikes that a creator would receive for breaking its rules again./news/zoom-adds-facial-effects-so-you-can-look-your-weirdest-during-meetings.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/zoom-adds-facial-effects-so-you-can-look-your-weirdest-during-meetings.htmlWhile Zoom was originally created as a serious meeting application for businesses, it has since become one of the most-used services during the pandemic for anyone who wants to have a face-to-face virtual conversation. As a result, the company has been adding more fun stuff, such as weird backgrounds, to use for online family gatherings, friend chats, and well, for business meetings. And now, it’s come up with a feature called Studio Effects that gives you the ability to add a variety of eyebrows, facial hair, and lip color to your video image during Zoom sessions./news/microsoft-s-copilot-pro-subscription-is-losing-a-feature.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news/microsoft-s-copilot-pro-subscription-is-losing-a-feature.htmlMicrosoft’s Copilot Pro subscription is losing a feature. Microsoft’s $20 monthly subscription for Copilot Pro will no longer have GPT Builder next month — the feature that lets you create a custom Copilot GPTs. Microsoft says it’s removing the ability to create GPTs starting July 10th because it’s “prioritizing core product experiences” for consumers instead. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEr5yrn5VjsLC5jmtna2xfa3xyfY5ra2pvZW6BdHvMopqrp6Oks7W%2FjJymqaGcpMFuvNGoZKytkqiws7XPraCopl2ewG64zqygp59dlnqnscCtrKud