It’s a mod. After the Nier: Automata community went through a good 96-ish hours of pure, high-octane gas trying to figure out if a heretofore undiscovered church was a mod or an Easter egg or an ARG put together by Yoko Taro and his merry band of weirdos, a trio of modders has come forward
Read MoreLike artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice reading out predefined sentences was not actually that useful. Nevertheless, computer manufacturers didn’t want to miss out on the hype and speech synthesizers became a relatively
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store’s Today homepage and individual app pages — Apple is expanding its advertising business and adding two new ad slots to the App Store. Currently, the App Store has two ad slots: one on the main
Read MoreLawmakers are blaming “three hostile foreign actors.” | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The federal courts’ document system was hit by a breach with a “startling breadth and scope” in early 2020, according to a report from Politico that cites testimony from House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler. The Department of Justice
Read MoreIt takes about five seconds to set up. If you want to know what frame rates your Steam games are running at, there are many third-party programs out there to help. But if all you need is a very basic counter and you don’t care about other hardware stats, you don’t need to download any
Read More(Photo: Jason Richard/Unsplash)New legislation could bring back Obama-era net neutrality rules, as well as give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) more authority over broadband services. Senators Edward Markey and Ron Wyden introduced the bill Thursday alongside Representative Doris Matsui. Titled the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act, the bill promises to reinstate net neutrality rules
Read MoreXenoblade Chronicles 3 offers a vast world with numerous enemies and ways to level up. Using these tips and tricks, you can earn more money and learn how to battle more effectively.
Read MoreThe term “open source” can be tricky. For many people, it’s taken to mean that a particular piece of software is free and that they can do whatever they wish with it. But the reality is far more complex, and the actual rights you’re afforded as the user depend entirely on which license the developers
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Samsung has begun rolling out its August 2022 security updates in parts of Europe. The Galaxy S20, S20, and S22 phones are the first to receive the updates. More markets will receive the patch over the coming days and weeks. Samsung continues to keep its promises when it
Read MoreManu P Toms / The Economic Times: Sources: Ola and Uber are discussing a possible merger, after a deal did not materialize four years ago, when common investor Softbank pushed for it — Both companies had held conversations four years ago as well, when common investor Softbank had pushed for a merger. A deal did
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / 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 Fridays, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex Cranz discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and
Read MoreLori Garver’s new memoir details her struggles to get NASA colleagues to embrace SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Read MoreDavid E. Sanger / New York Times: As Congress debated the $280B CHIPS Act for 13 months, China’s semiconductor industry surged ahead, producing an advanced 7nm chip to rival those made in Taiwan — While Congress argued over whether and how to support American chip makers and research in other technologies China was surging ahead.
Read MoreProbably not, but tell that to the conspiracy theorists.
Read MoreWhen you’re looking for a MacBook Air at a good price, it can be tricky to find the best. We’ve put all the best MacBook Air deals and sales together in one place to save you a job.
Read MoreEmergency services fight fires on July 19th, 2022, in Wennington, England. A series of grass fires broke out around the British capital amid an intense heatwave. | Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images Climate change made the record-smashing heatwave in the UK last week at least 10 times more likely, new research has found. The analysis
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Amazon will shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus “on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos” — In an email to customers this morning, Amazon announced that its “Drive” cloud storage service is shutting down at the end of 2023.
Read MoreIllustration by Ana Kova New Jersey police may have used blood samples taken from babies to investigate crimes, according to public defenders in the state. According to a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD), the practice came to light after a case in which New Jersey State Police successfully
Read MoreJoin Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for their take on the hottest hacks in a hot, hot week. We found a bunch of unusual mechanisms this week, like an omnidirectional robot that’s not quite wheeled but not quite a walker either. Or, if you’d rather fly, there’s a UAV that’s basically
Read MoreGoogle announced Stadia in 2019, and from the start, there were concerns about the company’s commitment. Google has a reputation for neglecting and then killing services after people have become dependent on them, and Stadia seemed like a prime candidate for the Google graveyard. And now, one tracker of Google’s fickleness claims the end is
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Valve’s Steam Deck has been in high demand from the moment reservations went live last year, but if you’re still waiting for an order email to come through, good news: if you have a reservation, Valve says you’ll get your Steam Deck by the end of the
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as settlement for tracking their location data for over a year — The wholesome Canadian chain caused a scandal when its privacy violation was revealed, and now it’s proposing a free coffee and a baked good
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram might be walking back its horribly received TikTok-style redesign and cutting down on the app’s constant avalanche of recommendations, but that won’t prevent recommended content from appearing in your feed altogether. It turns out there’s a fix for that you might not be aware of; I didn’t
Read MoreA new report has revealed how Apple tried to stop employees in Towson, Maryland, from forming a union.
Read MoreEarlier this year, Aible, the only enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solution that guarantees impact in one month, announced the initial results of the Intel and Aible Benchmark Study, a collaboration that is helping enterprises fast-track benefits from advanced analytics and AI, while also evaluating server vs. serverless architecture. To read this article in full, please click here
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