Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images With a months-long recess on the horizon, House progressives are urging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to act fast on two competition bills that would better equip antitrust enforcers to take on major tech firms. In a letter sent to Schumer on Friday, more than a dozen Congressional Progressive Caucus
Read MoreOne of the magical things about near-field communication technology (NFC) is that tags don’t need a battery to communicate — you’ll never need to buy a new coin cell for your employee badge, because the badge scanner wirelessly beams enough power to the badge to verify it’s legit. Now, chipmaker Infineon wants to make the
Read MoreA majority of open source developers are eyeing new job opportunities amid the “Great Resignation,” which has seen workloads increase drastically, according to a report by database management software provider EDB. The report, which is based on a survey of over 1,400 application developers and IT, operations and business management professionals globally, shows that despite
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Twitter reports Q2 revenue of $1.18B, down 1% YoY, a net loss of $270M, down from $66M in net income last year, and 237.8M mDAUs, up 16.6% YoY — – Twitter reported earnings for the second quarter on Friday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter would have earned more money over the past few months if Elon Musk hadn’t been in the picture. At least, that’s what the company says in its Q2 earnings release this morning, citing Musk as a factor in its revenue results, which fell year over year to
Read MoreAfter a year of teases, General Motors revealed the Cadillac Celestiq, a $300,000 ultra-luxury electric sedan that the automaker says is the most Cadillac Cadillac that ever Cadillac’d. The Celestiq is Cadillac’s first major effort to capture some of the high-end market currently dominated by the likes of Rolls-Royce and Bentley. As such, GM is
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Chancery Court! Delaware’s moment in the sun continues as the fight between Elon Musk and Twitter shifts from fiery tweets… to fiery legal filings. Here’s where we are: lawsuits. Twitter wanted to have a trial as quickly
Read MoreBest Foot Forward, a new family comedy, is now streaming on Apple TV+
Read MoreA new auction could see an Apple-1 computer prototype fetch as much as $500,000 at auction next month, with bidding already past $140,000.
Read MoreMultiple reports are emerging that Apple’s new M2 MacBook Air is quite vulnerable to scratches, especially the midnight finish.
Read MoreHappy Friday, everyone! I spent the week in Madrid, which in hindsight was not the greatest idea with a heatwave making temperatures unbearable. Thank goodness for swimming pools! Pixel 6a reviews are in and it looks like a winner… mostly
Read MoreSeason three of Trying, the heartwarming British comedy series, is now streaming on Apple TV+.
Read MoreAs OnePlus flagships keep creeping up the price ladder, the Nord series has been propped up as the value alternative for the Oppo sub-brand. While the Nord brand itself has been diluted to include smartphones at an assortment of price tags, the original Nord‘s formula — solid performance, ad-free, clean — has since been copied
Read MoreThe beauty of Windows is in its customizability, and that hasn’t changed with Windows 11. If anything, now the operating system looks better by default. However, the good old Windows customization options are still in there, and you can do quite a few things to personalize Windows 11 to match your style. Here’s how to
Read MoreMen don’t have many options when it comes to pregnancy prevention—but the time may finally be right for a men’s version of the pill.
Read MoreAs new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.
Read MoreAs confusing as it can be, USB-C is actually pretty good, and certainly has its fans. [David Buchanan] must be one of them, for he did a great job putting a USB-C port into his iPhone SE. [David] didn’t want to ruin a pristine example, so set about hacking the cheapest first-gen iPhone SE he
Read MoreAfter almost two years since the onset of the global pandemic, companies and their human resource managers are faced with an even more critical issue — remote employees are overworked and experiencing major burnout. Ensuring Employee Safety and Job Security With Adequate Tools The last few years have seen many companies restructure their business practices
Read MoreNew Boost Mobile customers can currently get unlimited 5G data for only $5 a month, saving them a bundle.
Read MoreMegha Paul / Tech.eu: Finland-based IQM, which is building on-premises quantum computers for supercomputing data centres and research labs, raises a €128M Series A2 — The Finnish startup, building superconducting quantum computers for HPC centres, research institutes and businesses, will use the funding …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The fitness tracker market is pretty competitive, generally coming in cheaper than smartwatches but offering a laser focus on health and fitness features. There’s also no shortage of brands on offer, from Fitbit and Garmin to Xiaomi, Samsung, and plenty of other companies. We want to know what’s
Read MoreKwasi Gyamfi Asiedu / Protocol: A look at Meta’s $150M Meta Immersive Learning project, through which it has partnered with Iowa-based VR startup VictoryXR to create 10 “metaversities” — During her inorganic chemistry class at Morehouse College in the spring of 2021, Dr. Muhsinah Morris launched a little experiment.
Read MoreCloud computing is an abstraction of compute, storage, and network infrastructure assembled as a platform on which applications and systems can be deployed quickly and scaled on the fly. Crucial to cloud computing is self-service: Users can simply fill in a web form and get up and running. The vast majority of cloud customers consume
Read MoreIf you’re not able to attend RStudio Conference 2022 in person July 27-28, you can still tune in to watch live, and even submit questions remotely and join a Discord discussion server with other virtual attendees, all for free. The main conference, billed as an event to “connect, learn, and celebrate all things R and
Read MoreIaaS (infrastructure as a service) is a type of cloud computing that offers virtualized compute, storage, and networking wrapped together as a self-service platform upon which customers can deploy and run applications with minimal fuss. The household names of cloud computing—AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud—are IaaS providers. All three maintain giant
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