Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s putting your Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger account settings in one place. The company’s rolling out a new Accounts Center that lets you manage your preferences across all your Meta accounts from a centralized hub. The revamped Accounts Center will live in the settings menu on Facebook, Instagram,
Read MoreWhile you might have bought the best pair of skis in the 90s or 00s, as parts on boots and bindings start to fail and safety standards for ski equipment improve, even the highest-quality skis more than 15 or 20 years old will eventually become unsafe or otherwise obsolete. There are plenty of things that
Read MoreAnna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO but plans to stay on as executive chair; the company promotes COO Greg Peters to co-CEO with Ted Sarandos — Streaming company names new leadership as it looks to reset after ‘tough year’ in 2022 — Reed Hastings is stepping …
Read MoreJavaScript and Java both rank among developers’ most favorite and least favorite programming languages in JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 report. The just-released report is based on a survey of more than 29,000 developers. The most favorite languages cited in the report, relative to the number of programmers using them, were Kotlin, C#, Python,
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: PayPal says hackers accessed sensitive data of ~35K users, including addresses and social security numbers, in a credential stuffing attack in December 2022 — PayPal is sending out data breach notifications to thousands of users who had their accounts accessed through credential stuffing attacks that exposed some personal data.
Read MoreCould this defeat the Pentagon’s latest human-identifying robot? Apparently so. (Image: Kelli McClintock/Unsplash)The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested some of its resources into a robot that’s been trained—likely among other things—to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse. Army veteran, former Pentagon policy analyst,
Read MoreApple is raising the price of the HomePod mini, but only for some buyers. Here’s why.
Read MoreDid you hear? We could be getting a new MacBook this year.
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we don’t often cover woodworking projects here. It’s not because we aren’t impressed with the skill and effort that folks put into them, and truth be told, we occasionally we even feel a tang of envy when looking at the final result. It’s
Read MoreWe sure didn’t have to wait very long to get a glimpse of what the new M2 Pro silicon can dish out. A Geekbench benchmark result has surfaced, and it shows a surprisingly large gain in multi-core performance over both its M1 and M2 predecessors. It’s a somewhat shocking delta given all of the M-class
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: CB Insights: global fintech funding amounted to $75.2B in 2022, down 46% YoY, but up 52% compared to 2020; US fintech funding was down 50% YoY to $32.8B in 2022 — If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A post on the PlayStation blog lists “over 30” titles for the PlayStation VR2’s monthlong launch window (you can scroll down to see the full list here) that starts when the hardware ships starting February 22nd. While the new additions consist mostly of ports from the first PS
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: Google made many mistakes with Stadia but did right by users when shutting down the service, including via full refunds, and other companies should take note — Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. … Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down a
Read MoreAndy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony announces the PlayStation VR2’s full launch game lineup, including Tetris Effect and 12 other new titles; the PSVR 2 will not be backwards compatible — 13 NEW TITLES HAVE BEEN REVEALED FOR THE HEADSET — Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the final PlayStation VR 2 launch line-up …
Read MoreUnless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start your operating system. If you use Windows, you get Windows. If you use Linux, there’s a good chance you’ll use Grub
Read MoreGoogle released Android 13 in the fall of 2022, so most people still don’t have it. How many do, though? We finally have some idea now that Google has released updated Android device distribution numbers. So far, 5.2% of the world’s Android devices are running on Android 13. Although that may not sound like a
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Everyone knows that person who really seems to love TV. Maybe they used to spend several hundred a month on cable TV, or maybe they are the kind that collects subscription services like pokemon. I used to be one of those folks. If you can think of a mainline
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A post on the PlayStation blog lists “over 30” titles for the PlayStation VR2’s monthlong launch window (you can scroll down to see the full list here) that starts when the hardware ships starting February 22nd. While the new additions consist mostly of ports from the first PS
Read More(Image: Jesse Orrico/Unsplash)What if you could “edit” heart disease out of a person? Thanks to a new gene-editing technique, this could eventually be a possibility. A researcher in Texas has devised a sort of genetic pen that allows scientists to modify a person’s DNA sequence, thus eliminating cardiac risk. Some forms of heart disease manifest
Read MoreThis week, we get honest about our attachments to our gas stoves, and debate whether to replace them or just continue breathing their fumes.
Read Morehttps://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Tecno-Foldable-Rollable-Phone-Video-Clip.mp4 TECNO has released concept imagery of a foldable and rollable phone. The phone looks like a mashup of a Galaxy Z Fold, a Galaxy Z Flip, and rollable phones that have never been widely released. TECNO has no plans to create this phone, but it would be cool if it did. At this point,
Read MoreFor writers and artists of all kinds, making a living isn’t always straightforward. Regardless of the medium or genre, competition abounds, and even with some online success, it can be challenging to break through to a broader market. The internet has made it both easier and more challenging to get your work out there. On
Read MoreFinancial Times: Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are laying off staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investment fell 75% to $801M in 2022 — Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful retrenchment …
Read MoreThings are falling into place for Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset, which should be announced soon.
Read MoreThe Verge: Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate with RTX 4080 hands-on: impressive input latency, but some visuals are still hazy and only six games support 240fps right now — For $20 a month, Nvidia will rent you an RTX 4080 gaming PC in the cloud. It feels phenomenal in some games, but there’s still work to
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