As we continue through 2023, the iPhone has become an essential part of our lives, serving as a communication device, a camera, a music player, and more. However, even with the advancements in battery technology, the need for a reliable and efficient iPhone charger remains paramount. With so many options on the market, it can
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives — Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum.
Read MoreDonald Trump Jr. says Idaho-based RedBalloon will “advance” the US culture war. It has fewer than 900 active job listings.
Read MoreAnyone looking for components for electronics projects, especially robotics, microcontrollers, and IoT devices, has likely heard of Waveshare. They are additionally well-known suppliers of low-cost displays with a wide range of resolutions, sizes, and capabilities, but as [Dmitry Grinberg] found, they’re not all winners. He thought the price on this 2.8-inch display might outweigh its
Read MoreThe wired Nest Doorbell from Google has a simple and sleek look and is available in four colors. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge One of the best video doorbells money can buy costs a whole lot less right now. Google’s latest wired Nest Doorbell is on sale for $129.99 in all
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Contributor Emeritus Kristina Panos gushed about all the best hacks of the previous week. But first, a contest! That’s right — hot on the heels of the Low Power Challenge comes the Op Amp Challenge, sponsored by Digi-Key. You have between now and June 6th to dip your toes
Read MoreThe smoking rubble of a plastics recycling facility in Richmond, Indiana. | Image: Wayne County Emergency Management Agency A massive blaze at a plastic recycling facility in Richmond, Indiana, is a terrifying reminder that plastics are a pollution nightmare, one that recycling can’t fix. The fire started Tuesday night at a recycling and resale warehouse,
Read MoreNicolas Cage as Dracula. | Image: Universal Save for Nicolas Cage’s over-the-top Dracula, almost nothing about Universal’s Renfield really works the way it could. Continue reading…
Read MoreFor nearly three years, the US government has tried to ban TikTok. Concerns over the app’s alleged risks to national security have spanned two presidential administrations and forged alliances among Republicans and Democrats. At a time of heightened partisanship, TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have become the focus of anti-China policy — a
Read MoreYou may not be familiar with the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service, a store and forward sort of inter-process and inter-system communication service. MSMQ has become something of a legacy product, but is still available as an optional component in Windows. And in addition to other enterprise software solutions, Microsoft Exchange turns the service on
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t train GPT-5 for “some time” and the open letter to pause AI training missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause” — In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder …
Read MoreA screenshot of Artifact, the new news app from Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. | Image: Artifact Last week, I observed here that journalists have mostly continued to post on Twitter as if everything is normal there. That’s less true today than it was then — good on NPR and PBS for showing
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal use of copyrighted material — Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material — The European parliament is preparing tough …
Read MoreImage: Dan Seifert / The Verge Sling TV is finally making its way to Amazon Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 10 devices — nearly two years after Amazon first promised that it would bring the app to all the Echo Show devices in its lineup. While Amazon did manage to bring Sling TV to
Read MoreWith WWDC dated, we’ll be hearing all about iPadOS 17 soon. Here’s what we want to see from the tablet OS.
Read MoreThe iPad has come a long way, but it’s still got plenty to work on for my workflow.
Read MoreRichard Waters / Financial Times: Intel faces huge challenges in revitalizing its business, meaning a central piece of US industrial policy rests on one of the most complex tech turnarounds ever — Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech’s most complex turnrounds
Read MoreIBM has acquired Ahana, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based provider of PrestoDB, for an undisclosed sum. PrestoDB, or Presto, is an open source, distributed SQL query engine created at Facebook (now Meta) that is tailored for ad hoc analytics against data of all sizes. IBM said that its acquisition of Ahana is in line with its strategy
Read MoreSheila Dang / Reuters: Sensor Tower: Twitter’s top 50 advertisers spent a combined $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, and Volkswagen haven’t returned — Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies …
Read MoreImage: OpenAI In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, has confirmed that the company is not currently training GPT-5, the presumed successor to its AI language model GPT-4, released this March. Speaking at an event at MIT, Altman was asked about a recent open letter circulated among
Read MoreSamsung has offered a desktop mode called Dex since 2017, allowing you to get a PC-like experience when connecting your phone to an external display. Samsung isn’t the only brand to offer a feature like this, but it certainly popularized the feature on Android. So with that in mind, we asked you whether you used
Read MoreCallie Holtermann / New York Times: BeReal struggles to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app’s daily users dropped to under 6M in March from ~15M in October — BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so
Read MoreThe Glorious GMMK 2 is the newest keyboard for peripheral maker Glorious and comes in a very compelling prebuilt form. Here’s what we thought about this new keyboard.
Read MoreSarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Parlement Technologies agrees to sell right-wing social network Parler to Starboard, which will take temporarily shut down Parler ahead of a planned relaunch — Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Denver-based Elevate, which provides a dashboard for managing employee benefits, raised $28M led by Anthemis, bringing its total funding to $43M — Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis with participation …
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