The PHANTOM X2 Series revolutionizes the premium smartphone experience. Credit: TECNO If there’s one company that has truly moved the needle in recent years in terms of global recognition and innovation, it’s TECNO. The brand was a dark horse outside of a few locales, but now it’s making head-turning strides in over 70 markets globally.
Read MoreCredit: HBO Warner Bros. Discovery announced the price of HBO Max’s ad-free plan is going up by a dollar. This is the first time the price of the streaming service’s ad-free plan has increased. The new price is scheduled to go into effect today, but existing subscribers will start paying the new price in February.
Read MoreSemafor: Sources: Tiger Global struggles to raise its latest fund after investors learned it secretly paid a senior female staffer $10M to settle allegations of bullying — Tiger Global, the $60 billion firm that’s a major tech investor, has been struggling to raise its latest venture fund since investors learned …
Read MoreThe LG Artcool Gallery AC unit adds some style to your smart home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The smart home at CES wasn’t all Matter, Matter, Matter. At The Verge, we covered the launch of literally dozens of new products at the big consumer tech show. From innovations in smart
Read MoreTCL’s 6-Series QLED TV is equipped with a 120Hz refresh rate in addition to the Google smart platform. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If your New Year’s resolution was to get a big 4K TV, we’re here to make quick work of that less than two weeks into 2023. Currently, you can
Read MoreThis illustration reflects that exoplanet LHS 475 b is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth based on new evidence from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. | Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet, an Earth-sized rocky planet called LHS 475 b.
Read MoreBut you’re paying a little more for a lot less than you used to. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HBO Max is the next streaming service to get a price increase, its first one since launching in 2020. Starting Thursday, the cost of a new subscription to HBO Max will increase from
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Mobvoi launched a new app for smartwatches called TimeShow. TimeShow gives users access to dozens of watch faces with new faces added weekly. Creators can get paid for making and sharing their own watch faces using the TimeShow DIY site. The AI tech company known as Mobvoi has launched
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Letter: Social Capital narrows the scope of its Fund V to ~$1B with a focus on early-stage deals vs prior plan to raise much more and back growth-stage startups — Social Capital, the VC firm led by Chamath Palihapitiya, has narrowed the scope of its new fundraise, according to a letter
Read MoreBoth Apple and Meta have fallen out of the top 100 highest-ranked places to work in the United States.
Read MoreOlivia Rockeman / Bloomberg: Rent the Runway partners with Amazon to launch an Amazon Fashion online storefront featuring new and second-hand items, expecting ~$4.6M in revenue in Q3 2023 — Rent the Runway Inc. will launch an online storefront with Amazon.com Inc., expanding the clothing rental company’s reach beyond the subscription business model.
Read MoreGone are the days when customers stand in long bank queues. Previously, the bank customer would stand in line, almost longer than the time they took to visit with their soul mate or better half. Today we shop where we trust and feel esteemed. We, as customers, will pay for the prime help and great
Read MoreAnthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: Congress rejects the US Army’s request for $400M to buy ~6,900 Microsoft HoloLens goggles this fiscal year but approves $40M for the development of a new model — Microsoft Corp. won’t be getting more orders for its combat goggles anytime soon after Congress rejected the US Army’s request …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority One of the counter-intuitive developments in the streaming wars has been the rise of live TV streaming. In our haste to switch over the streaming, we’ve come to see the value of channel surfing and appointment viewing. Home company that has successfully bridged the gap between offering a Netflix-style
Read MoreSometimes, the best gift is the one you make yourself. [Pigeonaut] decided to whip up a few Game Boy games of their very own creation to gift to the special people in their life. The games were crafted using a platform called GB Studio. It’s a tool that allows the drag-and-drop creation of games for
Read MoreSince homo sapiens began to walk upright, PC power supplies have used pretty much the same layout. The power cable from the wall goes in one side, and the connectors are on the other side, facing toward the front of the chassis. This has worked out well, as that layout is compatible with the ATX
Read MoreApple’s rumored 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro refreshes were supposed to arrive last year but a new report claims they’ve been delayed yet again.
Read MoreAMD CEO Lisa Su announces the new Ryzen 7040 chip at CES 2023. | Image: David Becker/Getty Images The PC market is in rough waters, and it was for much of last year. Worldwide PC shipments fell by 16 percent in 2022, according to recent analysis by Canalys, while Gartner reported a 28.5 percent year-over-year
Read MoreThe mission, if successful, will deploy three radio frequency monitoring satellites into low orbit. | Image: Rocket Lab Private spaceflight company Rocket Lab has announced the launch window of its debut Electron rocket mission from US soil. The “Virginia Is For Launch Lovers” mission is set to take off on January 23rd, 2023, from NASA’s
Read MoreIntel’s latest 13th Gen CPU breaks the 6GHz barrier. | Image: Intel Intel is launching its fastest desktop processor to date, breaking the 6GHz barrier at stock speeds for the first time. The new Core i9-13900KS is based on the 13th Gen Core i9-13900K that came close to the 6GHz barrier with its 5.8GHz turbo
Read MoreImage: WENDELL TEODORO/AFP via Getty Images Airbus is testing out a suite of new automated technology that it says has the potential to improve the safety and efficiency of flying. The automated technology, which has been branded as the company’s DragonFly project, includes “automated emergency diversion in cruise, automatic landing, and taxi assistance,” Airbus says.
Read MoreM. Night Shyamalan at the season 4 premiere of Servant in NYC. | Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images ‘It is terrifying. But I don’t know if there is any other way to go through life.’ Continue reading…
Read MoreSurely we have all at least heard of Twitch by now. For the as-yet uninitiated: imagine you had your own TV channel. What would you do on it? Although Twitch really got going as a place for gamers to stream the action, there are almost as many people jamming out on their guitars, or building
Read More(Credit: HP)After two years of record profits in the PC market, we’re seeing in real-time the old adage of “what goes up, must come down.” All of 2022 has been brutal for PC manufacturers, but they held a glimmer of hope that the holiday shopping season might turn things around. After all, we have never
Read MoreThe Verge / Getty Images Almost until the moment of his arrest in the Bahamas a month ago, Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) post-FTX collapse media tour included days of back-to-back Twitter Spaces and Zoom calls. Now, top executives of companies in his crypto empire have pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges of fraud and money laundering
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