Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Razer is here at CES 2023 with several new announcements, including the new Razer Blade 16 and Blade 18. We’re seeing a lot of 18-inch laptops in Vegas this week, especially in the gaming and creator space. This leaves us wondering: are these machines too big, or are they
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Amazon S3 will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side using AES-256; AWS has had server-side encryption for over a decade — Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default.
Read MoreE-waste is one of the main unfortunate consequences of the widespread adoption of electronic devices, and there are various efforts to stem the flow of this pernicious trash. One new approach from researchers at the Johannes Kepler University in Austria is to replace the substrate in electronics with a material made from mycelium skins. Maintaining
Read MoreApple released the iPhone 14 last year with a nifty new feature: satellite communication. The iPhone “Emergency SOS” feature relies on Globalstar’s new satellite constellation to send messages to emergency services when the situation is dire, but what if you don’t have an iPhone? Qualcomm has just announced a similar feature for upcoming high-end Android
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Kuo: Apple canceled its fourth gen iPhone SE, in which it planned to debut its own 5G modem; the cancelation could be due to poor sales of mid-to-low-end phones — On Friday, Kuo wrote in a blog post that Apple had canceled production and shipment plans for the phone after
Read MoreStaff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.
Read MoreMan City fans will be able to hang out in this new metaverse. | Image: Sony Sony builds incredible virtual worlds for its PlayStation games, and now the company is starting to dabble more seriously with building metaverse worlds, too. At CES 2023, the company showed a brief look at a metaverse-y experience it’s building
Read More(Photo: AMD)This year’s high-end GPU launches have been a bit rocky. First, there was cable-gate on the Nvidia side of the fence. That was followed by junction-gate for AMD, where some of its new flagship GPUs were hitting the 110C junction temperature. This resulted in thermal throttling, increased fan speed, and some angry early adopters.
Read MoreIn the news a few days ago, the revelation that Luke Dashjr, a core Bitcoin developer, had his wallet compromised, and lost 200 BTC. A small fortune, and something of a shock. I’m guessing that someone with that expertise would not have left his private key lying around, so as a cryptocurrency non-enthusiast I’m left
Read MoreWe mentioned the LastPass story in closing a couple weeks ago, but details were still a bit scarce. The hope was that LastPass would release more transparent information about what happened, and how many accounts were accessed. Unfortunately it looks like the December 22nd news release is all we’re going to get. For LastPass users,
Read MoreSatechi’s new charger powering up a phone, laptop, and iPad. | Image: Satechi At CES 2023, Satechi announced what it calls its most powerful charger yet: a new GaN charging hub capable of delivering 200 watts of power. Basically, it can charge a lot of stuff at once and do it at high speeds, too.
Read MoreTry as they might, crypto companies pressured by the trading platform’s collapse are failing to bail themselves out.
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: PitchBook and NVCA: US VC deal count fell 14% YoY in 2022 from 18,521 to 15,852, deal value fell 30% to $238.3B, and exit value dropped from $753.2B to $71.4B — The deal count in 2022 for the full year was 15,852, down 14% from 18,521 in 2021. And deal value
Read MoreSamar Haddad / The Verge At a show of wild concepts and far-out tech, this year’s best gadgets got real. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Ethan Miller/Getty Images French automaker Peugeot revealed its Inception concept, a deadly looking electric car that’s all sharp angles and brutalist designs. The concept, which was announced at CES this week, will inspire a lineup of future EVs that will start making their way to customers in 2025. Stellantis, which owns Peugeot, had
Read MorePhoto by Owen Grove / The Verge The Always Home Cam, Ring’s autonomous indoor security drone, made its public debut at CES this week. But it was flying in an empty room behind a glass door and disappearing into a side room between flights, so we never saw it take off or land. The demo,
Read MoreSamsung’s ViewFinity S9 5K monitor. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge A weird thing has happened at CES this year: display manufacturers not named Apple have announced true 5K and 6K monitors designed for creative work and productivity. These new monitors, which will appeal to Mac users for reasons other than “it’s white
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge CES will continue through the weekend, but The Verge has already seen a whole lot of what the show has to offer. This week on The Vergecast, myself, our editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel, and our senior news editor, Richard Lawler, get together and talk about some of the weirdest
Read MoreSennheiser’s IE 200. | Image: Sennheiser I mean, sure, if you’re wearing wired in-ear headphones in 2023, you could absolutely buy a pair with the cables going straight down. Or you could get a pair with wires that go up and swoops backward behind your ears like Sennheiser’s latest pair of earbuds, the IE 200,
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi ring in the New Year with…well, pretty much the same stuff they do every other week. After taking some time to talk about the nuts and bolts of the podcast in honor of Episode 200, discussion moves on to favorite stories of the week including
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Researcher earns $1M via Immunefi bug bounty platform after discovering a vulnerability in several Polkadot parachains that could have been exploited for ~$200M — – An Immunefi security researcher found a critical vulnerability on three Polkadot parachains.
Read MoreWhatsApp has launched a new proxy option that helps people send and receive messages even when a local internet shutdown is underway.
Read MoreThe next version of macOS will arrive later this year. Here’s the latest information.
Read MoreThomas Brewster / Forbes: Researchers: cybercriminals look for ways to use ChatGPT to create hacking tools, share AI generated malware code in forums, discuss creating dating scam bots — Users of underground forums start sharing malware coded by OpenAI’s viral sensation and dating scammers are planning on creating convincing fake girls with the tool.
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has enabled standalone turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation on Wear OS. Wear OS watches will now be able to use Google Maps without a phone. The feature will work for LTE watches and Wi-Fi watches (if connected to a Wi-Fi network). A long-requested Google Maps navigation feature has finally
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