Samsung is bringing the spotlight back in an in-person event on February 1st. | Image: Samsung Mark your calendar: Samsung is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked on February 1st. The company is officially confirming a date that it kinda accidentally confirmed a few days ago. The event will take place at the Masonic Auditorium in
Read MoreThe iPhone 14 Pro’s built-in Crash Detection feature is causing problems for some emergency dispatchers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Despite Apple’s best efforts to ensure that its new Crash Detection feature is only triggered when there’s real trouble, winter recreation is proving to be a perfect storm for false alarms.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks. The sudden purge of staff has thrown the future of Parler, one of the first conservative alternatives to mainstream platforms, into question.
Read MoreIf you’ve been pining for a retro-chic 16×2 LCD display to enhance your Windows computing experience, then [mircemk] has got you covered with their neat Windows-based LCD Info Panel. Your everyday garden variety Arduino is the hero here, sitting between the computer’s USB port and the display to make the magic happen. Using the ‘LCD
Read MoreJon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Nevada’s US senators claim the FCC’s new broadband maps, which will be used to allocate $42.45B in grants, are filled with mistakes and overstate coverage — Errors suggest ISPs are claiming to serve more homes than they actually do. — Nevada’s US senators say the Federal Communications Commission’s …
Read MoreRIP to the Twitter star. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default. In a change rolling out to iOS users first, the company has taken away the star button at the top
Read MoreKatie Adams / MedCity News: LeanTaaS, which sells AI-powered capacity optimization software to healthcare providers, buys automation firm Hospital IQ, valuing the combined company at $1B+ — LeanTaaS acquired Massachusetts-based healthcare automation company Hospital IQ. The companies are not disclosing the terms of the transaction …
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter makes the newly named “For You” algorithmic feed the default, rolling out initially to iOS users — Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
Read MoreCredit: Samsung This year’s Galaxy Unpacked event will be on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 1:00 PM ET. The event will happen live in person in San Francisco, but will also be live-streamed on all of Samsung’s usual channels. It’s likely this event will also be the launch date of the Galaxy S23 series. The
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung announces it will hold its next Galaxy Unpacked event in-person, in San Francisco on February 1 at 10am PT, where it’s expected to unveil the Galaxy S23 — Mark your calendar: Samsung is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked on February 1st. The company is officially confirming a date …
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Oxbotica, an Oxford-based autonomous vehicle software developer for enterprise customers, raised a $140M Series C, bringing its total funding to $225M — Activity in the self-driving car industry, frenetic for years, has somewhat stalled in more recent times; but a handful of the most promising companies …
Read MoreSteven Church / Bloomberg: A US bankruptcy judge approves Voyager’s request to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20M, overruling objections by federal regulators and some states — Voyager Digital Ltd. won court approval to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20 million as part of Voyager’s plan to liquidate in bankruptcy.
Read MoreMakena Kelly / The Verge: Sources: Parler’s parent company laid off most of its staff and chief executives over the last few weeks, leaving the company with approximately 20 employees — Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff …
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Nothing Phone (1) rolls out in the US via a $299 “beta membership” offered through June 2023, but the company says the phone “may not work with all US carriers” — After a previous teaser, the Nothing Phone (1) is now officially on its way to the United States …
Read MoreFor over a year, the rollout of C-Band 5G around airports has been contentious. | Photo: Mitchell Clark / The Verge The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a solution to the long-running dust-up between the airline and cellular industries over 5G rollouts: stricter requirements for radio altimeters in airplanes, which would potentially go into effect
Read MoreWade Tyler Millward / CRN: Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of Citrix and Tibco, begin layoffs impacting thousands of employees — ‘It’s a sad day for a company that pioneered the VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) market. It’s a terrible day, with a lot of good Citrix employees with families and kids leaving the
Read MoreIt’s little surprise that most hackers have a favorite text editor, since we tend to spend quite a bit of time staring at the thing. From writing code to reading config files, the hacker’s world is filled with seemingly infinite lines of ASCII. Comparatively, while a hex editor is a critical tool to have in
Read MoreApple has been a notoriously closed system since its inception. The global tech giant likes to keep everything in-house. You buy Apple hardware: you use Apple software. But there have always been exceptions, especially as Apple began selling music and other media on iTunes, since split up into several other apps. Apple TV is one
Read MoreAndré Beganski / Decrypt: Crypto.com plans to delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario’s regulator and will stop facilitating transaction associated with USDT by the end of January — The exchange said it will no longer facilitate transactions associated with the stablecoin at the end of the month.
Read MoreIndian firm Tata is working on a deal that will see it take over an iPhone plant currently owned by Wistron.
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Scale AI, which labels data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in April 2021, lays off 20% of its staff; the startup had ~450 employees in February 2022 — Scale AI, the San Francisco-based company that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data …
Read MoreOver the past few years, many people have given up on using a single router in favor of a mesh network. A mesh configuration can allow for more complete coverage in large homes, with several access points a user can get a signal from as they move around. This usually improves signal strength in the
Read MoreThe tractor maker is accused of blocking farmers from fixing their own equipment. A new agreement offers concessions—but campaigners say it’s not enough.
Read MorePhoto by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images The House Republican majority is finally underway, and newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA) has made big promises about what his leadership means for big tech companies, including a brand new subcommittee tasked with investigating allegations of censorship. This new panel, called the Select
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple could finally bring under-display Face ID to the iPhone 16 Pro. According to a report from the Korean outlet The Elec (via MacRumors), the technology used for Face ID will live directly under the screen, blending in with the rest of the display once it’s turned
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