Ruby 3.2.0, an upgrade to the popular open source dynamic language introduced on Christmas Day, offers initial WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) support. WebAssembly and WASI support allows developers to create CRuby binaries that will run in web browsers, serverless edge environments, and other WebAssembly/WASI embedders. Available at ruby-lang.org, Ruby 3.2.0 offers an initial port of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s cutting off Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 from security updates and technical support on January 10th. That’s just one week from today and also marks the launch of Microsoft Edge 109 — the last version to support the aged operating systems. But Edge isn’t the only major
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Three federal financial agencies put out a joint statement on Tuesday warning banks about the “key risks for banks associated with crypto-assets and the crypto-asset sector.” The statement explains that while banks aren’t wholesale banned or discouraged from providing services to crypto firms, the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit
Read MoreAn assembly line of Model Y vehicles being built at the Texas Gigafactory. | Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge If you were waiting until after New Year to pick up a Tesla Model Y in hopes it’d qualify you for the new federal tax credit, you might be in for a disappointment. The
Read MoreAxios: Sources: crypto payments startup Wyre told its staff it’s shutting down; Bolt planned to acquire Wyre for ~$1.5B, but the deal was canceled in September 2022 — Wyre, a crypto payments company founded in 2013, has told employees that it is shutting down amid layoffs, Axios has learned.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The Wireless Power Consortium has announced the new Qi2 standard for wireless charging of devices, replacing the current Qi standard. Apple’s MagSafe wireless tech will be the basis for the new Qi2 standard. Smartphones and other devices utilizing the Qi2 standard will launch by the end of 2023.
Read MoreApple is increasing the price of replacement batteries by $20 across a range of older iPhones starting March 2023.
Read MoreTwitter Safety: [Thread] Twitter says it is relaxing its policy on cause-based ads in the US and plans to expand the political advertising it permits in the coming weeks — We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics. Today, we’re relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We
Read MoreGraphic by James Bareham / The Verge A Louisiana law requiring age verification for adult websites has kicked in, renewing long-standing concerns about online privacy. The policy, Louisiana HB 142, requires sites composed of “thirty-three and one-third percent” or more of pornographic content to verify that people accessing them are 18 or older. That includes
Read MoreFTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan federal court on January 1st, 2023, in New York City. | Photo by Gotham / GC Images CNBC reports that Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to the eight criminal charges he’s facing, accusing the former crypto billionaire of committing fraud and money laundering. Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF,
Read MoreHenrik Fisker is facing a make-or-break year for his startup. | Image: Henrik Fisker In a wide-ranging interview, the Fisker Inc. CEO talks about avoiding production hell, making an actually affordable electric car, and why 2023 will be a pivotal year for EVs. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Intel has unveiled the new Core i9-13980HX. The new laptop CPU offers 24 cores and a speed of 5.6GHz. Intel has also revealed the rest of its 13th-gen lineup as well. Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs launched for desktops back in September 2022. Now Intel is bringing the power of
Read MoreWelcome to the 27-inch club, Asus. | Image: Asus Asus is one of many brands jumping into making smaller OLED gaming monitors for 2023. Acer and LG took their shots. Now, the model Asus had been teasing is real, and it’s got a clunky name: the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM. Screen-wise, what it’s offering
Read MoreThis crawlspace crawler FPV robot is a fairly simple build. [Jeff G] bought a boxy chassis kit with frame, motors, and wheels, mounted lights and camera, and we get to see it in action (video, embedded below). As always, the details are where it’s at, and his overview covers most of the high points. [Jeff]
Read MoreSarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: CWA announces that about 300 quality-assurance testers in Microsoft’s ZeniMax unit have voted to form a union, the first in the US for Microsoft — Around 300 employees at company’s videogame unit ZeniMax vote to organize with Communications Workers of America
Read MoreCoinDesk: Judge sets SBF’s trial for early October, allows redaction of SBF’s bond signers’ names for now, and amends bail terms to keep SBF from accessing FTX funds — The presiding judge in the case set a target date for the trial to begin in early October. — Join the most important conversation …
Read MoreCredit: LG LG has announced new models of its very thin and light Gram PC notebooks. That includes the all-new LG Gram Ultraslim, which is LG’s thinnest notebook ever at just 10.99mm when closed. Also new is the LG Gram Style notebooks, which will come in 14-inch and 16-inch versions. The LG Gram notebook family is
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority A report has revealed new details about Apple’s unannounced mixed reality headset. The headset could feature a waist-mounted battery, magnetically attachable custom prescription lenses, and more. The headset may not work well with third-party Bluetooth headphones. Although it has yet to be announced, Apple’s mixed-reality headset is one of
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Nvidia plans to bring its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to Hyundai’s, Polestar’s, and BYD’s infotainment systems, but offers no timeline or eligible cars — Nvidia is working with automakers to make its cloud gaming service GeForce Now available in cars.
Read MoreLast month, NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite headed into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Once fully online, the spacecraft will provide height measurements of Earth’s surface water with unprecedented detail. Before it can do that, SWOT needed to deploy the massive antenna arrays that allow it to make those precision
Read MoreFilipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: The Wireless Power Consortium says it is working with Apple on a next-generation “Qi2” wireless charging standard, based on MagSafe, coming later this year — Apple’s Magsafe is a more convenient way to charge the iPhone using accessories based on the Qi standard …
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is currently down for many in its first major outage of 2023. The streaming site is currently showing blank pages for accounts or “an error has occurred,” which makes it appear like a streamer may have deleted their account. They haven’t — it’s just sitewide issues at
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok creators who make content more suitable for adults will soon get more tools for limiting their audience. Creators will have the option to restrict under-18 users from viewing shortform videos on the platform if they think the content is only appropriate for older viewers, including things like
Read MoreThe Strix G18 (right), and Strix Scar 18 (left) are both equipped with 18-inch displays. | Image: Asus Asus is announcing a pair of new ROG gaming laptops equipped with 18-inch displays at CES 2023 today: the Asus ROG Strix G 18 and ROG Strix Scar 18. While it’s not uncommon to see gaming laptops
Read MoreThe ROG Flow X16 is just one of three convertible laptops Asus showed off at CES 2023. | Image: Asus The hits from CES 2023 just keep coming. Asus is rolling out a bevy of new hardware announcements for its ROG gaming brand, and among those are refreshed models of its Flow lineup. The Flow
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