We all know the top results in a Google search are ads, but they can also look like exactly what you’re searching for, too. If you’re feeling too lazy to scroll down a bit, it can be tempting to just click it anyway. However, that type of behavior could now be considered dangerous. According to
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Netflix posted its fourth quarter earnings report on Thursday. The report reveals the company is ready to begin cracking down on password sharing. People who share passwords with those who don’t live with them will have to pay extra. The era of sharing Netflix passwords with friends and family for free is coming
Read MoreWoot woot! It’s the beginning of another year, which makes it the perfect time to reimagine your life. And no matter how you’d like to switch things up, you can find plenty of companies out there to help. Whether they’re disruptive startups or traditional corporate brands, they’re primed to help you unleash a new you
Read MoreOne of the ongoing issues in the GPU world these days is whether AMD and Nvidia would fail in their attempts to sell extremely pricey GPUs. The thinking is that both companies realized in the pandemic they could charge whatever they want, and people would pay. Here in the US, the notion has been met
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge CNET will pause publication of stories generated using artificial intelligence “for now,” the site’s leadership told employees on a staff call Friday. The call, which lasted under an hour, was held a week after CNET came under fire for its use of AI tools on stories and one
Read MoreExtrusion is a process for forming materials by forcing them through an opening, which can allow for complex shapes. Aluminum extrusion beams are what most of us are probably thinking of, but plenty of other things are made from extruded material like pipe, heat sinks, and even macaroni. Extrusion can also be used for modelling
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo is planning to increase production of the Switch for the upcoming fiscal year beginning in March, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The news arrives on the same weekend as the company’s first big release in 2023, Fire Emblem Engage, and ahead of the long-anticipated
Read MoreNatasha Singer / New York Times: How Dutch privacy negotiators, empowered by GDPR, have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and others, as the Netherlands punches above its weight — Dutch privacy negotiators have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft and Zoom, using a landmark European data protection law as a lever.
Read MoreMicrosoft has improved functionality, performance, and diagnostics in the MVVM toolkit portion of the .NET Community Toolkit. The upgrade was released this week. Unveiled January 18, .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 adds dedicated analyzers to the MVVM (model-view-viewmodel) toolkit. Previously, the MVVM toolkit emitted diagnostics for features used incorrectly. Now, it can offer recommendations for improving
Read MoreAs a Hackaday reader, it’s safe to assume you’ve got a better than average understanding of electricity. There’s also an excellent chance you’re familiar with machining, and may even have a lathe or old mill in the workshop. But combining the two, and actually machining a piece of metal with electricity, isn’t something that many
Read MoreEmily Baker-White / Forbes: According to six employees and an internal doc, TikTok and ByteDance staff engage in “heating”, or inflating video view counts, to court influencers and brands — TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos …
Read MoreJunji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre | Image: Netflix Part of what makes Junji Ito’s work so terrifying is how it sticks with you. The mind behind iconic horror manga like Tomie and Uzumaki takes an idea — whether it’s a schoolgirl who can’t die or a small town obsessed with spirals —
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung revealed a prototype 360 folding display and waterdrop hinge at CES. New images show exactly what the prototypes can do. It’s believed that the prototypes could be used in the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5. If there’s one thing that bothers consumers about foldable phones, it’s the screen crease. Samsung has been
Read MoreRonan Shields / Digiday: Sources: Google is pushing advertisers to work with third-party resellers directly as it seeks to reduce its overheads related to advertising services — Alphabet today has confirmed that it plans to cut 12,000 jobs, reportedly the largest round of layoffs in its history …
Read MoreThe cost of streaming subscriptions can add up fast, so finding a budget device to access them is always a relief. For those who don’t want to break the bank, the Roku Express series is an affordable way to dive into the streaming space, with Roku’s platform offering access to all of the major services.
Read MoreThe boom in generative AI art is creating an aesthetic movement—one that looks oddly familiar.
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos stood around and marveled at machinery in its many forms, from a stone-cutting CNC to an acrobatic robot to an AI-controlled Twitch v-tuber. But before all of that, we took a look at the winners of our FPV Vehicle Contest, poured one out for Google
Read MoreRyan Weeks / The Block: Bankruptcy filing: Genesis Global owes more than $3.6B to its top 50 creditors, including $766M to the Winklevoss’ Gemini Trust Company and $151M to Mirana — – Genesis Global filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Read MoreMost of the foldable phones floating around the world today come from Samsung, but even if you see one of them in the wild, you might not be able to tell if it’s the latest and greatest Z Fold4 or one of the earlier revisions. Samsung has kept the form factor largely unchanged across four
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad; Allison Johnson / The Verge If you have a guest over to your house for any amount of time, there’s a fair chance they’ll ask you for the Wi-Fi password, which may begin a dreaded dance of you trying to remember what it is or read out a complicated string of numbers,
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The threat AI products, like ChatGPT, has prompted Google to jumpstart development on AI products. Google is reported to have over 20 AI products it plans to unveil this year. Some of the products will be for developers and others for consumers When ChatGPT started gaining popularity, reports
Read MoreYesterday’s flagships are today’s bang-for-the-buck deals when you can get them for prices like this. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge It’s Friday, which means it’s time for some Frideals (sorry, not sorry). First off, the last-gen Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro have fallen to their lowest price yet. Right now, you can get
Read MoreYou can’t take anything for granted with the new Musk-backed Twitter. After years of uneasy truce between app developers and the social network, Twitter has dropped the hammer. It began shutting off API access to popular Twitter clients like Twitterific and Fenix several days ago and has now made the change official: Third-party apps are
Read MoreThe cup was invented in 1570 BC. Despite this, infuriatingly, the cupholder didn’t become common in the automotive world until the early 2000s. Cars built in the years PCH (pre-cupholder) typically also had tape decks. Noticing this relationship, [thephatmaster] designed this useful cassette-deck cupholder accessory. The design is simple, consisting of a 3D printed ring
Read MoreFirst up, git has been audited. This was an effort sponsored by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a non-profit working to improve the security of Open Source projects. The audit itself was done by researchers from X41 and GitLab, and two critical vulnerabilities were found, both caused by the same bad coding habit
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