Joe Devon Contributor Share on Twitter Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond, a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. The world of accessibility has experienced a tipping point thanks to the pandemic, which drove people of all abilities
Read MoreCredit: Amazon A new sound bar can be a big investment that changes the way you watch TV. Whether you want to feel like you’re at the Super Bowl or living out your favorite Netflix show, a sound bar can amplify the experience. We’ve picked out a few of the best sound bar deals available
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project — Loot (and Vine) creator Dom Hofmann on creating an open-source, decentralized game / financial asset / art project / metaverse (?)
Read MorePhoto by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images In case you haven’t heard, Texas now has a law that makes it illegal for anyone to help women get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — and to take advantage of that, the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life is encouraging citizens to report those
Read MoreNicole Perlroth / New York Times: GoDaddy says it gave Texas Right to Life, an abortion “whistleblower” website, 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service — To protest Texas’ new abortion law, activists said, they pranked a website set up by the state’s largest anti-abortion group.
Read MoreIllustration by James Bareham / The Verge A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France will show that misinformation got six times as much engagement on Facebook as real news, The Washington Post reports. The study looked at posts from the Facebook pages of more than
Read MoreIllustration by James Bareham / The Verge Should an artificially intelligent machine be able to patent its own inventions? For a US federal judge, the larger implications of that question were irrelevant. In April 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that only “natural persons” could be credited as the inventor of a
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Indian e-commerce retailer Snapdeal is considering an IPO in Mumbai that could raise about $400M and value the company at about $2.5B — – E-commerce platform could be valued at $2.5 billion in listing — Startup talking with advisers for potential offering as 2022
Read MoreFor frantic hacking sessions where seconds count, this forearm mounted oscilloscope with fingertip probes built by [aniketdhole] might be just what you need. Well, maybe. It’s not immediately clear why you might want to wear an oscilloscope on your arm, and sticking your fingers inside of powered up electronic devices sounds specifically like something your
Read MoreThere are a growing number of users around the world finding their Google Pixel 3 phones bricked. Most cases involve the phones entering EDL mode and then getting stuck there. It’s possible this is a hardware failure, but a true cause is a mystery for now. Google is no stranger to hardware issues on its
Read MoreHere’s everything you need to know on how to use News+ in the Apple News app! Apple’s news-based subscription service, appropriately dubbed Apple News+ includes premium newspaper content as well as access to hundreds of magazines. If you’re a news junkie, then Apple News+ is about to become one of the best iPhone apps you
Read MoreWe’ve all experienced that magic moment when, after countless frustrating hours of experimentation and racking your brain, the object of our attention starts working. The 3D printer finally produces good output. The hacked up laptop finally boots. The car engine finally purrs. The question is, do we know why it started working? This is more
Read MoreKim Lyons / The Verge: US Commerce Dept. says it will close a unit that monitored Americans’ social media for Census disinformation, after finding it had overstepped its authority — The ITMS unit in the Commerce Department overstepped its boundaries, an internal review found — The US Commerce Department …
Read MoreImages: BMW Motorrad BMW’s Motorrad division has been pumping out some wild concepts over the last few years as the larger company turns its attention towards electric vehicles. It’s latest is also the to date, but still looks extremely cool: the CE 02 mini-bike. Debuted this week ahead of the IAA Mobility conference in Germany,
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Read MoreElizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: NYU study: from August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement than trustworthy news sources like WHO — Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around …
Read MoreIn a year of semiconductor shortages it’s a difficult task to deliver an electronic conference badge, so this year’s BornHack camp in Denmark had an SAO prototyping board as its badge. Some people made blinkies with theirs, but that wasn’t enough for [Inne] who had to go a step further with a light-up pneumatic bubble
Read MoreSusan Decker / Bloomberg: Federal judge rules that AI can’t be listed as an inventor on patents because US law requires that an “individual” take an oath that he or she is the inventor — – Federal judge says AI can’t be listed as inventor on patents — Case is first U.S. ruling in global
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Read MoreHackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys are joined by contributing editor Jenny List to talk about her adventure at Born Hack last week. We also discuss the many capacitor values that go into regen receivers, the quest for a Raspberry Pi handheld that includes a slide-out keyboard, and how capacitive touch might make mice
Read MoreImage: Adult Swim A brief new promo for Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty features Christopher Lloyd playing the titular Rick Sanchez, scratching an itch that has persisted for many fans since the show’s genesis as a Back to the Future spoof. In the 14-second clip, we see Lloyd hop out of a portal and into
Read MoreWe should be expecting new MacBook Pros this year, but they might come a little later than we’d hoped. Still going to be worth it, though. The rumors of an impending MacBook Pro refresh continue to swirl as we head into iPhone 13 season — but the most recent of those rumors suggest that those
Read MoreThe LTE-ready Apple Watch Series 6 is available at Amazon for its lowest price to date. | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Apple Watch Series 7 may arrive as soon as this month, but if you’re looking for a sizable discount on what is currently the latest model, you’ll love today’s deal. The red
Read MoreA rogue Commerce Dept. unit will be shut down, the agency said | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Commerce Department said Friday that it will eliminate an internal security division after an investigation found it had overstepped its authority when it launched criminal investigations into Commerce employees and US citizens. The
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