After iPhone 15, would Apple really ditch Dynamic Island?
Apple isn’t about to ditch Dynamic Island on future iPhones. Its tie to the TrueDepth camera could be cut, however, on the iPhone 16 Pro and beyond, and that’s fine.
Read MoreApple isn’t about to ditch Dynamic Island on future iPhones. Its tie to the TrueDepth camera could be cut, however, on the iPhone 16 Pro and beyond, and that’s fine.
Read MoreJacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: The Easy Company raised a $14.2M seed and launches a “social” crypto wallet in beta with an “Instagram-like experience” for viewing NFTs — The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences …
Read MoreBob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A New York judge sentences Nikhil Wahi, a brother of Coinbase PM Ishan Wahi, to 10 months for a scheme to trade on insider info on the timing of new listings — The brother of a former Coinbase Global Inc. product manager was sentenced to 10 months behind bars for
Read MoreStarships prepared for flight tests. (Photo: SpaceX) SpaceX is still working toward an orbital test for the Starship megarocket, an event CEO Elon Musk previously hinted would come in late 2022. That didn’t happen, but Musk now says there’s a possibility the next-gen rocket will head into space for the first time in February, and
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple’s Eddy Cue says App Store developers have made $320B+ since 2008, there are 900M paid subscriptions, 200+ Arcade games, 70B all-time Shazams, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, has penned an open letter celebrating what he calls a “groundbreaking year for entertainment.”
Read MoreJoaquin Phoenix in Beau is Afraid. | Image: A24 The title for Beau Is Afraid really seems to nail the premise — at least based on the first trailer. The A24 film is the latest from Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster, and it stars Joaquin Phoenix as a stressed-out guy who goes “on an
Read MoreThere’s a lot to like about Kobo’s Clara 2E. It’s waterproof, has a high-resolution display, and comes with audiobooks. Unfortunately, its slow performance is hard to ignore. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe most important thing in working with an offshore software development partner is to keep in mind that you are collaborating. It’s a partnership not a hierarchy of managers and employees. A lot of business owners fail to understand this just because they pay and the offshore company does the work. However, they forget that
Read MoreLate last year, California became only the third state in the US to allow digital license plates. The fancy customizable plates are only available from a company called Reviver, which charges users $20 to $25 per month. At the time, Reviver swore that the DMV-certified cloud service backing the plates was entirely secure, but now
Read MorePhotography by Ivanna Oksenyuk and Paula Mariel | Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge Last year, I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms and how different kinds of distribution and creation tools create chokepoints for different companies
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon’s expanding the availability of its “Buy with Prime” button. Starting on January 31st, more online stores in the US can start offering the benefits of a Prime subscription, such as free shipping and next-day deliveries, on their own websites. Of course, customers who actually want to use the feature will have to
Read MoreWhat do you get when you combine roll-on deodorant containers and a soccer ball with an optical mouse and an obscure 90s Japanese video game about racing armadillos? Well, you get a pretty darn cool controller with which to play said game, we must admit. We hardly knew they were still making roll-on deodorant, and
Read MoreAll nuclear fission power reactors run on fuel containing uranium and other isotopes, but fueling a nuclear reactor is a lot more complicated than driving up to them with a dump truck filled with uranium ore and filling ‘er up. Although nuclear fission is simple enough that it can occur without human intervention as happened
Read MoreGamers tend to fall into certain camps when it comes to supporting brands, platforms, and smaller topics like RGB lighting. However, one thing has universal acknowledgment across brand and platform lines: MSI’s Afterburner is the best software for overclocking. It works on any GPU and can be used for myriad scenarios, from overclocking to undervolting
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Three years after ending mainstream support for Windows 7, Microsoft ends premium extended security support for the OS and support for Windows 8.1 — Pour one out for Windows 7, the decade-old operating system that today reached the end of the security line.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is the latest tech company to announce mass layoffs. In an email to staff on Tuesday, CEO Brain Armstrong said the company would be letting 950 employees go as it attempts to “weather downturns in the crypto market.” The email was made public on the
Read MoreNell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint, Katie Lee Hill, and Toby Kebbell in season 4 of Servant on Apple TV Plus. | Image: Apple As the Apple TV Plus thriller from M. Night Shyamalan kicks off its fourth season, the mysteries continue to pile up. Continue reading…
Read MoreIt can deliver fast Wi-Fi to the largest of homes, but this mesh system has some odd limitations.
Read MoreImage: Navigator Games The Avatar: The Last Airbender content machine is ramping up with a new mobile RPG. Ahead of the live-action movie and rumors of a new animated series, Paramount is launching Avatar Generations, a mobile RPG that will feature characters throughout the Avatar universe. Developed by Navigator Games, Avatar Generations will allow players
Read MoreOlga Kharif / Bloomberg: Cameron Winklevoss writes to DCG’s board, demanding CEO Barry Silbert’s removal and alleging he and Genesis publicly lied, after his resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
Read MoreThe OnePlus Buds Pro are currently on sale in white for a mere $79.99. | Image: OnePlus If you ask me, one of the best things about new products releasing is seeing the steep discounts on older models. With the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 set to debut next month, we’re starting to see some terrific
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Chronosphere, which offers cloud-based observability tools, raised a $115M Series C extension at a $1.6B valuation, after a $200M C at a $1B+ valuation in 2021 — The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved …
Read MoreImage: SkyShowtime SkyShowtime, a European streaming service jointly operated by Comcast and Paramount, has swooped in to acquire the exclusive streaming rights to 21 local HBO Max shows across the continent, the streaming service announced today. Rights to the shows became available after HBO Max halted its original programming plans in Europe last year in
Read More(Credit: Sony)Windows 7, the last operating system to have truly embodied Microsoft’s original Windows design, has seen four (if you count Windows 8.1) successors since its 2009 release. Despite its age, a few businesses still use the OS—though they might want to switch to something else now that Microsoft is dropping Windows 7’s Extended Security
Read MoreHannah Kuchler / Financial Times: German drugmaker BioNTech acquires London-based AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562M to help harness machine learning to improve drug discovery — Covid-19 vaccine maker is looking to use machine learning to help discover new treatments — BioNTech has agreed to buy UK artificial intelligence start …
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