Don’t Call the New Federal Gun Law a Gun Law
Democratic senators lacked actionable gun data for their negotiations—so they passed mental health reform instead.
Read MoreDemocratic senators lacked actionable gun data for their negotiations—so they passed mental health reform instead.
Read MoreCarbon dioxide emissions aren’t the only way aviation warms the planet. Exhaust contains a host of polluting particles, from soot to nitrogen oxides.
Read MoreSilicon has had a long run as the king of semiconductors, and why not? It’s plentiful and works well. However, working well and working ideally are two different things. In particular, electrons flow better than holes through the material. Silicon also is a poor heat conductor as we’ve all noticed when working with high-speed or
Read MoreIt’s time to talk mindsets. You can have one of two different mindsets. You can either have a growth mindset or a broke mindset. I’ll give you an example of a broke mindset. And, more importantly, how not to think. So a while back, I published this short where I shared that I took my
Read MoreChris Stokel-Walker / Gizmodo: Internal TikTok PR documents suggest responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, links to ByteDance, and “the China association” — Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn’t. — Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal …
Read MoreMK Manoylov / The Block: Unstoppable Domains, which offers NFT domains as a personal identifier across Web3 apps, raised a $65M Series A led by Pantera Capital at a $1B+ valuation — – Unstoppable Domains announced Wednesday that it raised $65 million in a Series A funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation.
Read MoreThe Car Thing in action. | Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge Spotify has stopped manufacturing Car Thing, a dashboard accessory designed to make it easier to control the streaming service on your phone from a car. The change was quietly announced as part of the company’s latest earnings release, which notes the decision
Read MoreAnalyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that one of Apple’s iPhone 14 camera suppliers is struggling with quality control, prompting a move to another supplier.
Read MoreStefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: Shopify misses as Q2 revenue grew 16% YoY to $1.3B and GMV reached $46.9B, up 11% YoY; SHOP drops 6%+, after crashing 14% on Tuesday due to layoffs — Shopify Inc. slumped in premarket trading after the company kicked off earnings season for e-commerce firms with a result that missed analysts’
Read MoreThe Apple Watch supports flipping watch orientation. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge When it comes to watches, southpaws often get the short end of the stick. Unless lefties buy a destro watch, they have to learn to wear watches on their dominant hand instead of the nondominant hand as recommended. But that
Read MoreGoogle parent company Alphabet posted strong second quarter results on Tuesday, buoyed by the momentum of its cloud business, that continued to grow by 35% year-on-year. The cloud unit surpassed $6 billion in quarterly cloud revenue for the first time, at $6.3 billion, driven by core infrastructure and platform services, along with its Google Workspace
Read MoreThough Nintendo Switch Sports was a bit lackluster upon its release, the company has begun to roll out updates that tweak gameplay and ranked mode.
Read MoreA recent upgrade to Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js, improves performance for transpiling, type checking, and more, proponents say. Prior to the Deno 1.24 release, Deno internally converted TypeScript code to JavaScript using the TypeScript compiler when the –check flag was specified; otherwise, it used swc, a Rust-based platform for
Read MoreIn the last episode we looked at a Steampipe dashboard that joins search results across diverse APIs. That metasearch dashboard is defined entirely in code that blends two languages: SQL to query the APIs, and HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) to flow results into a dashboard table. This dashboards-as-code approach leans into the infrastructure-as-code philosophy. We
Read MoreThe compromise of SolarWinds’ system management tool raised a lot of interesting issues for anyone using a CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) build process for their software. How can we ensure that the software we distribute to our users is the software we intend to build? Are all the dependencies for our code the
Read MoreThe best way to watch Apple TV+ is on an Apple TV. They are, however, expensive devices – here are the best deals you’ll find on Apple TV.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify’s number of premium subscribers rose to 188 million in its second quarter, while its monthly active users (MAU) now sit at 433 million, the company announced in an earnings release today. That’s a year-over-year increase of 14 percent and 19 percent respectively, and compares to the 182
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 23% YoY to €2.9B as its net loss widened to €125M; MAUs were up 19% YoY to 433M and Premium users reached to 188M, up 14% YoY — Spotify turned in strong numbers for the second quarter, beating expectations for total and paid subscriber adds and
Read MoreLeah Nylen / Bloomberg: An illustrated look at the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Act’s impact on US tech giants, seeking to ban self-preferencing and improve competition — US lawmakers are eyeing votes before November’s midterm elections on legislation that marks the first major effort by Congress …
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Spotify says it has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing demand and supply chain issues — Spotify’s push to complement its music streaming with a big move into podcasting and related content appears to be paying off …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Hey there! Our boiler decided to fail on us yesterday. Fortunately, water leakage was at a minimum. Unfortunately, we’re without hot water for a while.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AMD accidentally leaked its Noise Suppression feature last week, and now it’s officially making it available as part of its Adrenalin software. The latest Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 update includes AMD Noise Suppression, which will reduce background audio noise using a real-time deep learning algorithm. AMD Noise Suppression works
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority My colleague Robert Triggs recently wrote about how he reluctantly ditched his Pixel 6 Pro after nine months of using it as his daily driver. He had many reasons to do so, including connectivity problems, overheating, and other issues. So we asked our readers if they are still holding
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: An IBM study of 550 global organizations finds the average cost of a data breach is $4.35M, up ~13% over the last two years, and 83% had more than one breach — A new report from IBM Security today reveals that data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before.
Read MoreImagine realizing that you accidentally threw away a winning lottery ticket. You’d probably be digging through the trash, and if the jackpot was high enough, you might even toy with paying a visit to your local landfill. This has been a reality for a UK man named James Howells for the past decade, only instead
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