Image: TCL TCL is overhauling its TV strategy for 2023 by ditching the company’s long-running 6-Series, 5-Series, and 4-Series branding in favor of two new lines: higher-end sets will be part of the Q-Series, while more value-focused TVs will fall under the S-Series. Within the two segments are six different models in all. Let’s cover
Read MoreIf you didn’t grow up clutching Nintendo’s original DMG-01 Game Boy, it might difficult to see the appeal in 2023. It had the ergonomics of a brick, the system’s unlit LCD screen utilized a somewhat nauseating green color palette, and when compared to its contemporary competition like the Sega Game Gear or Atari Lynx, it
Read MoreYou probably hear it all the time: smartphones all look the same these days. We’ve gotten to the point where phones are almost interchangeable, with most sharing similar parts, designs, and features. Not all is lost, though, because an unlikely company could shake things up a bit.
Read MoreTCL’s NXTWear V headset concept is just one way the company hopes to put screens on your face. | Image: TCL TCL’s displays are in TVs, smartphones, and maybe in the near future, the metaverse, too. At least, the company wants to make the screen that gets you there. At CES 2023, the company is
Read MoreCredit: TCL TCL has announced its first 2023 smart TVs, and they will be sold in two model categories. The S-Series will be the new TCL budget TVs, while the Q-Series will include more advanced features such as QLED screens. Pricing and release dates for these 2023 TCL smart TVs have yet to be announced.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority At CES 2023, TCL launched its 40 series phones. The TCL 40 SE is the phone most likely to come to the US, with a low price and budget specs. Specific pricing and availability wasn’t available. Early CES 2023 announcements are dropping at a rapid pace right now.
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: In another wrongful arrest using erroneous facial recognition matches, a Black man in Georgia was jailed for a week due to a warrant secured by Louisiana cops — An algorithm sent a Black man to jail in Louisiana, a state he’d never visited, according to his lawyer. Experts say he won’t
Read More(Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Google has been the only search engine of consequence for coming up on two decades, but Microsoft hasn’t given up. Bing is still online and ready to accept your search queries, and if a new report is accurate, it might answer your
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API flaws that could have allowed hackers to access customers’ data and unlock, start, and track cars — Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API security vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to perform malicious activity …
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google has announced that it will support the RISC-V architecture. This is an alternative computing architecture to Arm, which powers virtually all smartphones. Android only supports two computing architectures right now, namely Arm and x86. The former architecture is used in chips powering smartphones, most tablets, smartwatches, and TV
Read More(Photo: PCMag)The rebranded RTX 4080 12GB launches tomorrow, Jan. 5. as the RTX 4070 Ti, with $100 knocked off its price tag. Our sister site PCMag has run it through its paces, and we honestly feel like we could just use a text replacement query from the RTX 4080 16GB review. Control+F for 4080, insert
Read MoreJack Schickler / CoinDesk: US officials say the DOJ has seized or is in the process of seizing assets linked to FTX, including ~$450M in Robinhood shares whose ownership is being disputed — Officials may later seek to have Sam Bankman-Fried forfeit the assets, potentially including as much as $450 million in stocks, to avoid
Read MoreNanoleaf has announced five new products that are all compatible with the Matter smart home standard.
Read MoreImage: Vox Media Podcast Network Like how your swipes feel great but your dates feel bad? Or how you’ve been pushed to delete them all off your homescreen, only to redownload them a few weeks later? Have you ever wondered if this cycle is by design? Last summer, New York Magazine published an entire issue
Read MorePhoto by Melissa Sue Gerrits / Getty Images I hope you all had a relaxing holiday break. My body is not ready to be back at work, but Hot Pod won’t write itself. For our first issue of the year, Donald Trump Jr. signs with Rumble, PodcastOne is becoming a separate public company, and De
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney Plus has been streaming movies in a taller-than-usual “IMAX Enhanced” format for more than a year now, and now it will roll out a new wrinkle for the home theater certification, with IMAX signature sound by DTS. Set to roll out at some point this year, the
Read MoreIt’s on the fancier ProArt Studiobook, too. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge For some companies that sell gaming and creator-oriented laptops, glasses-free 3D has become a bit of a dream. Acer first tried it back in 2021. Its SpatialLabs technology, which uses a combination of a stereo camera, optical lens, and real-time
Read MoreIf you want a hockey puck of a computer to easily deploy on a desk or behind a monitor, you’ll find plenty on sale, from the Mac Mini to Intel’s bare-bones NUC. But Asus is adding a “why didn’t anyone think of that?” feature to its new Chromebox 5 this year: a built-in 15W wireless
Read MoreThe F15 and F17 come with up to an Intel Core i9 processor, while the A15 and A17 have AMD’s Ryzen 9 (Zen 4). | Image: Asus Asus has announced upgrades to its four TUF Gaming models: the F15, F17, A15, and A17. The devices have new processors and GPUs inside, but what’s especially good
Read MoreImage: Asus From the beginning, the Asus Zenbook was an attempt to beat Apple’s MacBooks at their own game — using knowledge Asus originally obtained while helping to build those laptops for Apple. Why do I bring that up? We’re wondering whether the new Asus ZenBook Pro 14 and 16X might give them a run
Read MoreThere was a time not too long ago when “LOL” actually meant something online. If someone went through the trouble of putting LOL into an email or text, you could be sure they were actually LOL-ing while they were typing — it was part of the social compact that made the Internet such a wholesome
Read MoreAdam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: CoinShares: inflows to crypto asset funds fell from $9.1B in 2021 to $433M in 2022, down 95% YoY, the worst year since 2018, when inflows totaled $233M — – Crypto asset funds saw the lowest inflows last year since 2018. — Inflows in 2022 declined to $433 million as
Read MoreCredit: Asus Asus announced the Chromebook Vibe CX34 Flip as part of its CES 2023 product reveals. It’s made specifically for PC cloud gaming, with support for GeForce Now and more There’s no word on a release date or price for the Vibe CX34 Flip. Asus has always been one of the biggest Chromebook makers.
Read MoreAs electric vehicles become more prolific, governments are encouraging consumers to move beyond internal combustion. The US has offered a tax credit for years, but many manufacturers like Tesla have sold too many EVs to qualify. A new round of credits is now available, giving Tesla buyers a chance to save on a new vehicle.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Vimeo is doing another round of layoffs, this time affecting 11 percent of the company, CEO Anjali Sud announced in a letter posted online. Citing “a further deterioration in economic conditions,” Sud told Vimeo staff that nearly every department and region of the company will see cuts. The
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