One week with the new MacBook Air: Great looks, portability, and functionality
The MacBook Air (M2, 2022) sits at the intersection of power and portability.
Read MoreThe MacBook Air (M2, 2022) sits at the intersection of power and portability.
Read More(Photo: Google)Earlier this year Google unveiled its new augmented reality (AR) glasses at Google I/O, its annual developer conference. The glasses were the star of the show, capturing attendees’ and at-home viewers’ imaginations with a demonstration of the technology’s real-time translation capabilities. But very little information about the glasses was available at the time, and
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Fake elector Jake Hoffman has been accused of running a Turning Point Action troll farm Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Welcome to the new era of Instagram, as it shifts even further into an all-Reels, all-the-time machine to keep users’ short attention spans inside its app instead of TikTok. Other than incentivizing users to create Reels with easier templates to let you react to content and a new
Read MoreAs arcades become more and more rare, plenty of pinball enthusiasts are moving these intricate machines to their home collections in basements, garages, and guest rooms. But if you’re not fortunate enough to live in a home that can support a space-intensive hobby like pinball machines, there are some solutions to that problem. This one,
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Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: Instagram says all new video posts under 15 minutes will now be shared as Reels and videos under 90 seconds from public accounts will be recommended to others — And it’s combining the Reels / Video section of your profile under one tab — Welcome to the new era of
Read MoreDepending on your Xbox controller’s generation, the method to connect it to your PC will be different. The newer Xbox Series X and S controllers support wireless Bluetooth or wired USB-C connectivity. In contrast, the older Xbox One controllers require a wireless adapter or a micro-USB cable to connect. Here’s how to find out which
Read MoreIllustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge It appears that a crypto Twitter user named Cobie influenced the FBI into bringing an insider trading case. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is bringing an indictment against a former Coinbase employee, who allegedly tipped his brother and his buddy about which
Read MoreInstagram’s Remix interface. | Image: Meta Instagram will soon let anyone on the platform remix your new photos, as long as your account is public. There’ll be a way to turn remixing off, but you’ll have to actively opt out once the option is live — it’ll be enabled by default. In “the coming weeks,”
Read MoreAn accessibility option lets you turn the app’s sounds off. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Recently, Twitter users noticed that the app has started making a new sound — when you pull down to refresh your timeline, notifications, DMs, or pretty much anything else in the official app, there’s a robotic chirp
Read MoreA woman cools herself by a water sprinkler installed in the city during the heatwave in Kraków, Poland, on July 21st, 2022. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images As extreme heat stifles communities around the world this week, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that it has “no immediate plans” to give heatwaves
Read MoreTim Copeland / The Block: The SEC lists nine crypto tokens as securities in its insider trading complaint against an ex-Coinbase staffer; Coinbase petitions for rules classifying tokens — – The SEC has arrested and charged a former Coinbase employee with wire fraud. — In the SEC complaint, it mentions nine tokens and says they
Read MoreImage: Google Google’s latest and most advanced wireless earbuds yet, the Pixel Buds Pro, won’t be on store shelves for another week. But the company has announced that its Android software is already prepared for one of the earbuds’ most convenient new features: the Pixel Buds Pro will be able to switch between devices automatically
Read MoreTaylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch is rolling out new moderator tools, including letting channels swap ban lists and inviting communities to collaborate on locking disruptive users out — Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it’s even harder when it happens in a silo.
Read MoreThere are many ways to tell the time, from using analog dials to 7-segment displays. Hackers tend to enjoy binary watches, if only for their association with the digital machines that seem to make the world turn these days. [Vishal Soni] decided to build one of their own. It’s a straightforward design, that uses six
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft launched its rental car service in December 2019, more than a year after Uber shut down a similar program that provided rental cars and access to bike rides and public transportation. Lyft Rentals stood out for its low starting rate of $35 a day and lack of
Read MoreApple’s tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS betas all reportedly include references to a new AV1 video codec that could pave the way for 8K viewing.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is rolling out a new safety tool that will allow streamers to share information on users they’ve banned from their chat. Shared Ban Info, as the new function will be known, will allow streamers to cooperate in keeping their communities safe from malicious actors. Twitch details the
Read MoreClare Duffy / CNN: YouTube stops allowing misinformation about the safety of an abortion procedure and potentially unsafe instructions about how to self-induce an abortion — New York (CNN Business)YouTube on Thursday said it will no longer allow misinformation related to abortion on its platform …
Read MoreThe service’s Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, which is being built by Oshkosh. | Image: USPS The United States Postal Service, or USPS, has another new proposal that raises the percentage of electric vehicles it plans on purchasing to modernize its fleet (via Electrek). In a press release on Wednesday, the service said that “at least
Read MoreThis affordable midrange phone checks off all the boxes but no longer has a sizable lead with its camera and software support.
Read MoreImage: Ubisoft Ubisoft has delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora from a 2022 release window to sometime in 2023 or 2024, the company announced as part of its Q1 earnings on Thursday (pdf). The delay keeps up with something of a tradition for Avatar properties to get pushed. “We want to make [Avatar] a video game
Read MoreYou can change the way the Alexa voice assistant sounds on your smart speaker or smart display just by asking Alexa. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Alexa’s pleasant, feminine voice has filled the homes of millions over the past few years, but Amazon finally offered a viable choice last year when it
Read MoreJosh Dzieza / The Verge: A look at GPT-3-powered fiction writing tools like Sudowrite, which proposes plot twists, rewrites in specific tones, suggests metaphors, and more — On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series …
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