A screenshot of Horizon Worlds | Image: Meta Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company’s future on the metaverse — a virtual space in which people interact with each other using avatars and developing AR / VR technology — investing tens of billions of dollars in an attempt to build the platforms and hardware that capture
Read MoreA photo has been shared showing what appears to be an Apple-branded iPhone case for an “iPhone 14 Plus.”
Read MoreApple’s 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are some of the best deals happening around this holiday, at $400 off each. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Labor Day weekend marks the bittersweet end of summer, but in the midst of kids heading back to school and the world of tech about to
Read MoreReuters: Arm sues Qualcomm and its subsidiary Nuvia for using licenses without approval, asking Qualcomm to destroy designs developed under Nuvia’s agreements with Arm — Chip technology firm Arm Ltd, which is owned by Softbank Group Corp (9984.T), said on Wednesday it has sued Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) …
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Read MoreWhether you need to replace your Nintendo Switch dock or want a dock that’s easy to travel with, the AceFast GaN Smart PD Charger Hub is a great choice.
Read MoreIt’s customary to have questions in mind before releasing a new product. For example, we often wonder how the market will respond to our products. Would customers like it? But what if you had a tool that would make it easier for you to get answers to such questions? Sounds impressive, right? An in-depth analysis
Read MoreKyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Q&A with Chris McKillop, the former director of engineering for Google’s Fuchsia project, on the past, present, and future of the OS, Nexus Q failures, and more — The former director of engineering for Google’s Fuchsia project, Chris McKillop, has shared with us some insights …
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority A new feature called Network Pass gets new customers unlimited free T-Mobile service for three months. This used to be known as Test Drive, which limited you to 30 days or 30GB of data, whichever came first. Network Pass is available to any unlocked Android or iOS phone that
Read MorePhoto by Sean Rayford / Getty Images South Carolina Republican politicians distanced themselves from a widely criticized plan to outlaw offering abortion guidance online — a proposal that raised fears about internet censorship after the end of Roe v. Wade. Lawmakers introduced the proposed abortion ban in June, basing it on model legislation from the
Read MoreNelson Wang / CoinDesk: Washington, DC sues Michael Saylor for tax fraud and his company MicroStrategy “for conspiring to help him evade taxes” “on hundreds of millions of dollars” — The Attorney General’s office is also suing the business software company for allegedly helping him evade taxes on his earnings in the district.
Read MoreUpdates for Apple’s older devices are rare but worth paying attention to. | Photo by Michael Shane / The Verge Almost a year after the last update, Apple released a new version of iOS 12 on Wednesday, meant to patch a security hole that was recently fixed in newer versions of the OS. If you’re
Read MoreThere’s plenty of power to be had from the sun, but you need to be out of the shade to receive it. [Dennis] built a robot by the name of Sun Chaser that has the smarts to go where the sun is shining. Sun Chaser is essentially a robotic solar panel, tasked with filling up
Read MoreImage: Quantic Dream Quantic Dream, the game developers behind titles like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, has been acquired by the Chinese technology giant NetEase (via CNBC). In a blog post, the French game studio announced that it will continue to operate independently despite joining the company. While Quantic Dream has just a handful
Read MoreA new paper argues that excitement has veered into misinformation—and scientists should be the ones to set things straight.
Read MoreSamsung’s nailed the gaming aesthetic here. | Image: Samsung Samsung has announced its first OLED gaming monitor, the 34-inch Odyssey OLED G8. It’s also one of the company’s first gaming monitors we’ve seen that includes Samsung’s Gaming Hub, which lets people stream games from services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google Stadia, or Xbox Game Pass
Read MoreIf your friend told you their car had a backup camera, a digital dashboard, climate control, could find radio stations, and even helped stay on the road, you wouldn’t think much about it. Unless the year was 1969. The car — the Hurricane by Australian automaker Holden — was never a production vehicle. But it
Read MoreElectric vehicles are very helpful for fighting climate change. But EVs need batteries, and batteries need minerals like nickel, cobalt, and lithium. The US has some of these minerals underground, and it wants to dig them up, expeditiously, so that it doesn’t have to rely as much on other countries, including China. But this is
Read MoreImage: Jay Peters / The Verge Leakers have long suggested that 2022 iPhone models would include two notches at the top of their screens: one for the camera, and one for the FaceID system (the “hole + pill design,” as consultant Ross Young referred to it). A new leak from MacRumors, citing “an anonymous tipster,”
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When a group of Etsy sellers announced in March that they would temporarily shut down their shops to protest changes on the platform, organizers made a promise: the strike was just the first step. Now, following the week-long strike and small concessions by Etsy, organizers have formed the
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Within the next 12 months, Oppo will stop including chargers with some of its devices. The company currently plans to drop the charger from several of its products. Oppo’s plan could be implemented for specific markets. Despite the growing trend of not including chargers with new phones, Oppo was
Read MoreThe new Paramount Plus app will feature Showtime’s catalogue | Image: Paramount You can now access the content packed into Paramount Plus and Showtime from a single app. First bundled as a subscription last September, Paramount and Showtime’s catalogs have been separated between two apps for viewers in the US, but viewers can now access
Read MoreHopefully this child isn’t scared by the sounds of a spooky, scary skeleton. | Image: Google Google — along with Starbucks, Spirit Halloween, and seemingly every grocery store in my area — is starting to gear up for fall. It’s bringing seasonal ringtones to the Nest Doorbell (battery) even earlier this year, with the addition
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge A vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android could have let attackers take over any account that clicked on a malicious link, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of users of the platform. Details of the one-click exploit were revealed today in a blog post from researchers on Microsoft’s 365 Defender
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: After an outcry over having transphobic forum Kiwi Farms as a client, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy — The company has faced mounting pressure to stop providing security services to Kiwi Farms, whose users regularly dox and stalk trans people.
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