Only the Ryzen 9s will be coming in February. | Image: AMD AMD has announced the pricing for its flagship 7000X3D chips as well as when you’ll be able to get them. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D will cost $699, with the 7900X3D coming in at $599. Both chips will be available on February 28th. The
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung revealed its plans to start working on extended reality devices. Samsung has partnered with Qualcomm and Google for its plans. Samsung is also forming service partnerships with Meta and Microsoft. The Galaxy S23 series and Galaxy Book 3 series aren’t the only things that were announced during Samsung’s
Read MoreSome of you probably know this already, but there’s actually more than one kind of electron microscope. In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common. You hit something with electrons and watch for secondary electron emissions. However, biologists more often use a TEM — a transmissive electron microscope — which passes
Read MoreFrom left to right: the Samsung Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra. The latest Galaxy trio is available for preorder | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Another year, another round of flagship Samsung phones. This time around, Samsung used its Unpacked event to announce a new line of Galaxy Books, in addition
Read MorePhoto by Nilay Patel / The Verge Another day, another company announces it’s laying off 6 percent of employees. Today, that company is Rivian, the EV automaker that had one of the biggest IPOs of 2021 but has since struggled to hit its targets as manufacturing and supply chain problems mount. The layoffs also come
Read MoreIn today’s world we are surrounded by various sources of written information, information which we generally assume to have been written by other humans. Whether this is in the form of books, blogs, news articles, forum posts, feedback on a product page or the discussions on social media and in comment sections, the assumption is
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy S23 Ultra, similar to the S22 Ultra but with a 200MP main camera, more robust image stabilization, and better battery life — The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is an S22 Ultra with an extra layer of polish — figuratively speaking.
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S23 series has launched, and as tradition holds, it comprises three new flagships: the Galaxy S23 Ultra, the Galaxy S23 Plus, and the regular Galaxy S23. The Ultra model sits at the top of the pack with the best Samsung has to offer in terms of hardware. Meanwhile, the Galaxy S23 Plus
Read MoreAllison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung announces 6.1″ Galaxy S23 and 6.6″ S23+ with a better selfie camera and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, shipping February 17; S23 starts at $800, S23+ at $1,000 — Samsung’s S-series phones actually look like they belong together this year. The S23 and S23 Plus have adopted the floating camera
Read MoreCherlynn Low / Engadget: Samsung refreshes its Galaxy Book lineup, adding the Galaxy Book3 Ultra with a 16″ 120Hz 3K display and Nvidia’s RTX 4050, 4070 GPUs, coming Feb. 17 from $2.4K — Samsung is ready to take its Ultra branding to the final frontier — at least, as far as its mobile products go.
Read More(Credit: Starlink)SpaceX is working toward large-scale deployment of its Starlink Gen 2 satellites to reduce congestion and speed up its service, but the improvements apparently extend to the ground. The FCC granted the company’s request to test new user terminals featuring improved phased array antennas. SpaceX hasn’t settled on a design, though, and will test
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, a pilot plan with access during peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features, in the US for $20/month — Aiming to monetize what’s become a viral phenomenon, OpenAI today launched a new pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT …
Read MoreCheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: A US judge amends Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail terms, prohibiting him from contacting any current or former FTX or Alameda employees and using Signal and other apps — The tentative order was granted by a New York court on Wednesday after prosecutors asked the former FTX CEO’s bail conditions to be amended
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Pakistan “degrades” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warns of a full block if the nonprofit fails to comply — Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” …
Read MoreNatasha Singer / New York Times: Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M after the FTC said the company wrongfully disclosed intimate health information to Facebook, Google, and others — The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users’ illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint.
Read MoreThe iPad Air from 2022 is a great buy unless you really prefer a bigger screen or the Face ID found on the Pro models. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s February, folks. For many of us, that means a month of dreary weather and seasonal depression, but today, we can
Read MorePhoto by Rob Tringali / MLB Photos via Getty Images YouTube TV might be working to refine and improve its user experience, but like every other subscription TV service, its customers are always at risk of losing channels out of the blue. MLB Network is the latest to vanish from the service with little warning.
Read MorePeloton’s Q2 2023 losses were the narrowest they have been since 2021. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “If you’ve been wondering whether or not Peloton can make an epic comeback, this quarter’s results show the changes we’re making are working,” Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy wrote Wednesday in an investor letter accompanying the
Read MoreIf you want those classic PS4 games, you should claim them while you can. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony will stop offering the PlayStation Plus Collection, which gave PS5 players who subscribed to PlayStation Plus access to more than a dozen classic PS4 titles, on May 9th, the company announced on
Read MoreGenerally speaking, your company culture reflects how your employees feel at work. It encompasses workers’ thoughts on your organization, their career goals, the practices they follow, and more. And as the job market becomes more competitive, more candidates will examine your culture to ensure compatibility and a sense of belonging. This is especially true in the
Read MoreMike Butcher / TechCrunch: Digital fingerprinting startup Addressable, which claims to have matched over 17M anonymous crypto wallets with social media accounts, raised a $7.5M seed — Marketo, which was developed – among other things.- to enhance marketing around social media users, ended up being acquired by Adobe.
Read MoreKarl Brauer / Forbes: Cars & Bids, a car auction site founded by Doug DeMuro, an automotive YouTuber who has amassed 4.5M+ subscribers since 2013, raised $37M from The Chernin Group — Doug DeMuro is arguably the most successful automotive YouTuber in the relatively short history of that young medium.
Read MoreA few months ago, a scandal erupted in the chess world which led to some pretty wild speculation around a specific chess player. We won’t go into any of the details except to say that there is virtually no physical evidence of any method this player allegedly used to cheat in a specific in-person chess
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app — Microsoft’s second-place search engine Bing is poised to incorporate a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4 …
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A California judge is reportedly allowing Meta to close its acquisition of virtual reality fitness startup Within, despite an ongoing antitrust case by the Federal Trade Commission. Bloomberg reports that a pair of sealed orders deny the FTC’s request to block the deal but with a one-week delay
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