No Finder required. Apple has made macOS very good at handling drag and drops. For example, I often pull a picture right out of the Photos app or Safari and drop it into iMessage or Slack. One thing that’s always slowed me down, though, is moving around more traditional files, like PDFs or other documents.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons Google debuted the Tensor in the Pixel 6 series late last year — a semi-custom high-end chipset with Google’s special hardware sauce slathered on top of it. Although the Pixel 6 series didn’t quite boast best-in-class flagship performance, it still offered plenty of power
Read MoreWashington Post: A look at the GOP’s escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail’s filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam — As fundraising slows, the GOP is blaming Gmail’s spam filter. The tech giant rejects claims of bias but is moving to placate Republicans, anyway.
Read MorePlus: A Google Chrome patch licks the DevilsTongue spyware, Android’s kernel gets a tune-up, and Microsoft fixes 84 flaws.
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Read MoreScent is the realest sense. For virtual reality to feel truly immersive, it needs to start stinking it up.
Read MoreForget (almost) all other performance clothing and just get this versatile denim.
Read MoreIt’s not every day we see the results of someone putting their own spin on a vintage tube amp, but that’s exactly what [lens42] did in creating the McIntosh 217, created as a “mini” version of the McIntosh MC275, a classic piece of audio equipment. Both are pictured next to each other, above. When it
Read MoreNikkei Asia: A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks — TAIPEI — In the sweltering Asia summertime of mid-June, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. urgently dispatched a team …
Read MoreThere is something inherently fascinating about tiny mechanical devices, especially when you’re used to seeing much larger versions. This is the case with [Penguin DIY]’s tiny centrifugal water pump built from 5 ml syringes. The pump is powered by a small 8 mm diameter brushed DC motor, likely the same type that is used for
Read MoreCal Newport / New Yorker: Chasing TikTok’s success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook — Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.
Read MoreFilm scanners are a useful tool for digitizing slides and negatives, and the Plustek 8100 that [Christian Chapman] had was capable, but limited to small format film only. Rather than pay for a much more expensive medium format scanner that could handle 120 film, he modified his 8100 to accomplish the same thing with a
Read MoreAs the saying goes, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and the never-ending inventiveness of clock hacks. No matter how tried and proven a concept is, someone will always find a new twist for it. Case in point: notorious clock builder [Shinsaku Hiura] took the good old split-flap display approach, and
Read MoreRieko Miki / Nikkei Asia: The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan — Economic and diplomatic chiefs to discuss supply chains at 2+2 meeting Friday — Taiwan hosts the lion’s share …
Read More[Walker] has a very interesting new project: a completely different take on a self-destructing USB drive. Instead of relying on encryption or other “visible” security features, this device looks and works like an utterly normal USB drive. The only difference is this: if an unauthorized person plugs it in, there’s no data. What separates authorized
Read MoreImage: Liam Daniel / Netflix Netflix is suing Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the duo behind The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical over copyright infringement, as first reported by Deadline. The streaming giant filed the complaint in a Washington, DC district court just days after Barlow and Bear held a live, sold-out show dedicated to the album.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani I’m not a gambling man, but over the years, I’ve come to realize that buying into any Google service is a game of Russian Roulette. The Google graveyard will attest to the number of Google services killed over the years, but many other services
Read MoreWhen Datamedia announced their new DT80 terminal as a VT100 killer back in 1979, they were so confident of its reliability, they threw in a full one-year warranty. Now, decades later, that confidence is once more put to the touch after [RingingResonance] fished one such terminal out of a creek by an old illegal dumping
Read MoreJoanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in its sector collapse — Almost exactly five years ago, the scooters came. That’s when Bird, the first unicorn in this once sizzling startup sector, launched its inaugural
Read MoreA Long March 5B rocket with the Wentian lab module lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site. | Photo by Yang Guanyu/Xinhua via Getty Images China’s uncontrolled Long March 5B rocket reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, landing somewhere near Sarawak, the Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. The US Space
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports — The XPS 13 has a new design and a whole bunch of new problems — Dell collectively shocked everyone who follows
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Over the last 12 months, my husband and I have gone on 12 short vacations (three to four days on average) across France and a few neighboring countries. From smaller towns like Amiens and Montreux to cosmopolitan capitals like Madrid and Amsterdam, we’ve tried to keep things fun
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Indonesian government has blocked access to a range of online services, including Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and Yahoo after the companies failed to comply with a new requirement related to the country’s restrictive content moderation laws, as reported earlier by Reuters. In line with the rules, companies
Read More[Marek] has an impressive collection of old Soviet-style Geiger counters. These are handy tools to have in some specific situations, but for most of us they would be curiosities. Even so, they need some help from the modern world to work well, and [Marek] has come up with some pretty creative ways of bringing them
Read MoreIn this week’s Nintendo recap, many people have been blaming Nintendo for Bayonetta 3’s Naive Angel Mode, but PlatinumGames says differently. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 also released this week and seems to be one of the most popular games in the franchise.
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