Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge The US Department of the Treasury is exempting telecommunications services from ongoing sanctions against Russia. The move, confirmed late last week in an order, follows requests from advocacy groups who feared a disruption would cut off Russian activists’ access to the outside world. It may not, however, cause
Read MoreThe Batman stars Robert Pattinson at Batman and Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle. | Image: Warner Bros. The Batman, the new Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, will be available to stream on HBO Max starting April 18th, WarnerMedia announced Monday. The film first debuted in theaters on March 4th. The quick
Read MoreSpam calls are annoying, but your iPhone can silence unknown callers, so your iPhone won’t ring. Nobody likes spam calls. Whether it’s a government survey, a fraud scheme trying to convince you to give over your personal information, or just wrong numbers, having your phone ring incessantly with no one you want to talk to
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Apple Watch is a stellar smartwatch, seamlessly melding style with functionality. While the Series 7 recently launched with faster-charging capabilities, one mark against the entire series remains the weak battery life. Apple claims that the watches should go for 18 hours between charges, but what should you do
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Read MoreToday’s Android smartphones usually rely on fingerprint scanning to unlock the device, authenticate payments, and more. But there are plenty of devices with face unlock technology as well, letting you unlock your phone by simply looking at it. Do you value face unlock tech on your smartphone though? Or is it something you don’t care
Read MoreIn planetary exploration circles, Mars has quite a bad reputation. The Red Planet has a habit of eating spacecraft sent there to explore it, to the degree that nearly half of the missions we’ve thrown at it have failed in one way or another. The “Mars Curse” manifests itself most spectacularly when landers fail to
Read MoreNew York Times: In the absence of federal crypto regulations in the US, lobbyists and executives are helping to draft and pass favorable bills at state level — In the absence of federal regulations, crypto lobbyists and executives are going state by state to get favorable rules enacted. Many lawmakers have been willing partners.
Read MorePhoto by Avery White for The Verge A Fitbit feature that passively monitors users’ heart rhythms was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, the company announced today. The feature periodically checks wearers’ heart rhythms and alerts them if they show signs of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that puts people at a
Read MoreThe Vivo X Fold. | Image: Vivo Vivo has announced the X Fold, its first folding phone. The X Fold takes a similar approach to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold series and its competitors, with a large 8.03-inch folding screen on the inside for tablet-style use and a more conventional phone-sized screen — in this case,
Read MoreSara Fischer / Axios: French social app BeReal, which encourages users to post one selfie per day, has exploded in popularity with Gen Z users; Apptopia says MAUs are up 315% in 2022 — Downloads of BeReal, Gen Z’s hot new social media app, have skyrocketed in recent months, giving the world’s mobile-first generation …
Read More(Image: AMD) AMD’s first V-cache enabled gaming CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, will be released on April 20th. Despite it being officially unavailable, a Peruvian tech site has already bought one at retail. Like any good silicon steward, it’s been running benchmarks on the chip and posting them online. The website Xenogaming started off with
Read More(Photo: Warren Umoh/Unsplash)For many of us, the topic of cloning animals elicits memories of Dolly the sheep—AKA the world’s first cloned mammal. But cloning technology has seen its fair share of developments since Dolly’s birth in 1996. These days, despite the financial investment, more people are choosing to clone their beloved household pets. ViaGen, a
Read MoreAndrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: US policy makers identified stablecoins as an initial target for regulation, asking lawmakers to pass legislation that would treat stablecoin issuers like banks — Digital assets tied to the dollar could pose risk to broader financial system, policy makers say
Read MoreWhat you need to know WhatsApp is adding a new encryption explanation to its iPhone app. A new encryption explainer is available in the WhatsApp beta release. End-to-end encryption ensures conversations cannot be read by others. WhatsApp is adding a new end-to-end encryption explainer to its iPhone app. WhatsApp is readying an update that will
Read MoreWhy do you need the best ear hooks for your AirPods 2? While the AirPods 2 are fantastic accessories for your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you may find them slipping out of your ears. The last thing you want is to lose one of your AirPods. If you’re looking for something that can help those
Read MoreIn today’s digital world, our life is surrounded by Embedded Systems. From brewing your morning coffee to microwaving your breakfast to driving your car (with its smart digital features), getting to the office where you take an elevator to get to your smart (auto adjustable) desk. Systems, Embedded in Our Life From the auto adjustable
Read MoreInfrastructure automation software company Puppet has been acquired by Perforce for an undisclosed amount. Perforce is responsible for a suite of popular developer and devops tools, most notably Helix. Puppet’s 500 employees, brand, and software suite will continue to work as a standalone business unit within Perforce for now. To read this article in full,
Read MoreOmar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk appears to have deleted some tweets critical of Twitter and its leadership; Musk liked a tweet saying he was “told to play nice and not speak freely” — Tesla CEO and Twitter’s largest shareholder ‘liked’ a tweet suggesting he was ‘told to play nice and not speak
Read MoreCredit: Vivo We’ve known about Vivo’s first foldable, dubbed the X Fold, for a while now thanks to leaks and Vivo’s own teases. The day is finally here though, as the company has just launched the foldable in China, alongside the Vivo Pad tablet and Vivo X Note smartphone. The new foldable takes the Galaxy
Read MoreWhat you need to know YouTube says everyone is going to get picture-in-picture support within days. Picture-in-picture support was previously only available as an experimental feature. YouTube’s experimental feature came to a close this past weekend. This after the company’s testing phase ended over the weekend. YouTube’s picture-in-picture testing phase ended this past weekend but
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge What’s next for Twitter and Elon Musk? Continue reading…
Read MoreFood delivery platform DoorDash is adding a new cheaper subscription plan called DashPass for Students. It costs $4.99 a month, half that of its regular $9.99 DashPass subscription, and offers similar benefits including: free delivery on eligible orders over a minimum threshold (generally $12 for restaurants and $25 for grocery orders); five percent credit back
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Tive, which is developing supply chain visibility tools to help companies manage and track shipments, raises a $54M Series B, bringing its total funding to $79M — Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs, and pandemic-related lockdowns …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple’s Studio Display couldn’t be updated over the weekend. The Studio Display required iOS 15.4, but Apple had stopped signing it. Apple appears to have re-signed the update, allowing it to be installed. Apple broke its own update system, it seems. People who found that they couldn’t update the software
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