I am salivating over how convenient this looks. | Image: Google Starting next week, editing PDFs on a Chromebook is going to be a breeze. Users will be able to highlight text, fill out forms, sign documents, and add text annotations directly within the Gallery app. Gallery is the default photo editing app on Chromebooks.
Read MoreApple’s redesigned Home app makes it easier to control your lights, locks, and other smart home devices. | Image: Apple A new Home View and a bit of ‘jiggle mode’ make the HomeKit app more usable, but there’s still a long way to go Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Google Google announced several upcoming Chromebook features, including a new easy-to-use Google Photos movie editor. Chromebooks will also get new light and dark themes, along with other customizable options. New productivity features and apps are coming soon as well. It’s hard to believe, but we are getting close to a new school season for
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Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives
Read MoreThe Connected Scarf aims to track fans’ emotional response to matches. | Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The sports world has generally embraced wearable technology with open arms — though it’s usually for the athletes themselves. However, English soccer club Manchester City is hoping to keep track of its fans’ biometrics, too.
Read MoreJeff Stone / Bloomberg: How two college students used an IP grabbing tool to find the attacker who hacked one of their Snapchat accounts in a sextortion scheme, putting him in jail — Natalie Claus was getting accustomed to her sorority and preparing for winter break one evening in December 2019 when people she knew
Read MoreImage: Spice DAO The cryptocurrency collective built around a copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune script bible will no longer be a collective and is trying to sell its Dune bible. Spice DAO (short for decentralized autonomous organization) recently began “Redemption Phase One,” a fundamental shift in its direction. After a series of setbacks in an
Read MoreA key way to monitor your business is to track what your competitors are doing. Why is this? One reason is to make sure that you’re up to industry standards. When you know what other businesses in your arena are doing, you have a finger on the pulse of your industry. And Another reason is
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Human Security, an enterprise bot mitigation and fraud prevention service, merges with PerimeterX, which helps protect web apps; terms were not disclosed — Human Security, a bot mitigation and fraud detection platform for enterprises, is merging with PerimeterX, a company focused …
Read MoreBuilding and flying model rockets is great fun. Eventually, though, the thrill of the fire and smoke subsides, and you want to know more about what it’s doing in the air. With a thirst for knowledge, [archy587] started building a project to monitor the vital stats of rockets in flight. The project mounts an M0
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Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Street View has returned to select parts of India, Google announced today at an event hosted in New Delhi and on its blog. The 360-degree street-level viewpoint debuted in the country in 2011 but was then rejected by its government in 2016 due to security concerns. The navigation feature
Read MoreOpenAI has announced that it’s granting Dall-E users the right to commercialize their art. For now.
Read MoreDrop’s selection of keycaps range from clean aesthetics to cringey Marvel collaborations. | Image: Drop Nothing livens up your desk like some colorful mechanical keyboard keycaps, and Drop’s buy one, get one deal has returned to brighten up your hump day. You can buy one base or ortholinear kit of MT3 keycaps from Drop’s selection
Read MoreRoblox removed the “oof” noise over licensing issues. Roblox has gotten rid of the iconic “oof” sound your character makes when dying (that even I, as an adult, can find some semblance of joy in). In a thread on Twitter (via Kotaku), Roblox explains it removed the sound “due to a licensing issue” and replaced
Read MoreIf you have an Apple development account or are signed up with the company’s free public beta program, here’s what you need to know to get access to software betas.
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Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is making it easier for researchers to delve into the data and protocols that make up the platform. In a blog post, TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas announced the company will soon grant researchers access to the framework behind the platform and its moderation system. Pappas says TikTok
Read MoreKurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Twitter plans to reduce its office space in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, and other major markets, in a bid to cut costs — Twitter Inc. is cutting back on its physical office space in several global markets, including San Francisco, New York and Sydney …
Read MoreCredit: Palash Volvoikar / Android Authority Opinion post by Palash Volvoikar Phones have become so versatile to the point where they’ve invaded the infotainment system in a large chunk of newer cars. Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are the go-to options for an in-car experience now, especially if you want a little familiarity and coherence.
Read MoreEven from the very earliest days of the automobile age, cars and trucks have been hybrids of mechanical and electrical design. For every piston sliding up and down in a cylinder, there’s a spark plug that needs to be fired at just the right time to make the engine work, and stepping on the brake
Read MoreGoogle’s new Pixel 6a smartphone has only just started shipping to those who pre-ordered, but some reviewers have noted a potentially serious bug. According to multiple reports, the latest Google phone can be unlocked with a fingerprint — any fingerprint, even if it’s not the one you registered or one that belongs to someone else
Read MoreTaylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz’s Newsletter: Nostalgia for the “old”, chronological Instagram makes sense but belies changing norms around online sharing, communication, privacy, and engaging content — It isn’t just the platform that has changed, we have too. — Over the past few days there’s been a movement to “Make Instagram Instagram again.”
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is holding an in-person tech event in October, the first since the coronavirus pandemic began more than two years ago. Microsoft Ignite, an annual conference for developers and IT professionals, will take place in Seattle between October 12th and 14th, and Microsoft says “space will be limited.” The software maker is planning
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