It’s summer time in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means campfires for cooking hot dogs, keeping the mosquitoes away, and of course, making s’mores. For our far-flung friends, that’s a fire roasted marshmallow and a square of chocolate smashed between two graham crackers. So called because when you’re done, you’ll want s’more. It’s an easy
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act — Not just Safari — Apple Pay could finally be compatible with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox in iOS
Read MoreGizmodo: Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products” — Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as …
Read MoreDon’t look up! As of the time of this writing, there’s a decent chance that a Chinese Long March 5B booster has already completed its uncontrolled return to Earth, hopefully safely. The reentry prediction was continually tweaked over the last week or so, until the consensus closed in on 30 Jul 2022 at 17:08 UTC,
Read MoreNichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura in Star Trek. | Photo by Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images Nichelle Nichols, who was best known for her groundbreaking role as Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek series, died at age 89. Her son, Kyle Johnson, informed her fans in a post on Nichols’ Instagram account. “Last night,
Read MoreIf Nintendo is known for anything outside of their characters and admittedly top-notch video games, it’s being merciless to fans when it comes to using their intellectual property. They take legal action against people just for showing non-Nintendo hardware emulating games of theirs, and have even attempted to shut down the competitive scene for games
Read MoreRest of World: Inside China’s $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day — Hidden behind the perfect faces of China’s $16 billion virtual celebrity industry is an angry, overworked labor force.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Considering how intertwined music discovery is with TikTok, it wouldn’t be all that surprising if the company launched a music streaming app of its own. Well, patent filings uncovered by Insider suggest TikTok’s working on just that. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, filed a trademark application with the US
Read MoreNatasha Singer / New York Times: Cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing information on 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling sensitive info on millions of school children — At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
Read MoreWant to add a bit of visual flair to 3D printed parts that goes maybe a little more than skin-deep? That’s exactly what [volzo] was after, which led him to create a Python script capable of generating a chunk of Perlin noise, rendered as an STL file. What does that look like? An unpredictably-random landscape
Read MoreAs we wrap up a blazing hot July, let’s look ahead to the iPhone 14 and iOS 16.
Read MoreCredit: Nanoleaf If you’re not familiar with why Matter matters for smart homes, we have a primer for you below, but to put it as briefly as possible: simplicity. It’s a universal protocol that will allow accessories to work on any major smart home platform, eventually putting an end (in many cases at least) to
Read MoreMatt Burgess / Wired: How Tor is fighting Russia’s efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges — Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results. — For years, the anonymity service Tor …
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Just days after the Pixel 6A’s launch, Google’s rolling out an update to fix an issue preventing users from unlocking the bootloader and performing mods, according to a report from Android Police. The change is bundled within the Pixel 6A’s first update, which Google just started releasing last
Read MoreThere’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
Read MoreAlicia Vikander as Lara Croft in MGM’s 2018 Tomb Raider. | Image: Warner Bros Tomb Raider’s movie rights are up for grabs. According to a report from TheWrap, the Amazon-owned MGM waited too long to create a sequel to its 2018 Tomb Raider film, freeing up the rights for the next Hollywood studio that wants
Read MoreApple Card users can get four percent Daily Cash when making purchases at select merchants through July 31.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Yes, that’s a GameBoy case. A fully functioning GameBoy case, to be precise. Well, of sorts — it’s not an officially licensed Nintendo product. In fact, I doubt the manufacturer has the rights to market such a close likeness of the iconic handheld game console, let alone use the
Read MoreSeeing his wife try to use a cool face mask to get through the pain of a migraine headache, [Sparks and Code] started thinking of ways to improve the situation. The desire to save her from these debilitating bouts of pain drove him to make an actively cooled mask, all the while creating his own
Read MoreWhether you want the best photo quality or ultra-portability, there’s a printer for you. The little prints Continue reading…
Read MoreWhen you buy a Samsung phone, you get a custom version of Google’s mobile operating system that comes with its own unique tools and perks.
Read MoreApple’s Stage Manager feature in macOS Ventura has been polarizing. While some hate it, it’s exactly the kind of feature I’ve been waiting for.
Read MoreIn 1973, Paul Erdős asked if it was possible to assemble sets of “triples”—three points on a graph—so that they abide by two seemingly incompatible rules.
Read MoreRooms with a lot of natural light can make it hard to see some screens, but the QN90B’s mini LEDs make it a lot easier to see.
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