American prisons are strict about television use. Typically they’re only to be used with headphones, and their enclosures need to be transparent so they can’t be used to smuggle goods. ClearTech makes TVs that meet these specifications, and when [Steve Pietras] got his hands on just such a unit, he set about modding it for
Read MoreCreated with GIMP Credit: Twitter/Mishaal Rahman Android 14 could allow you to disable full-screen notifications. These notifications are often used for activities like alarms and phone calls. Android offers a very robust notification system, offering a variety of notification formats and plenty of customization. Now, it looks like Android 14 could build on this with
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority A developer has made an app that allows Nearby Share file transfers between Android and macOS. The unofficial macOS app can currently only allow receiving files over Wi-Fi LAN. It’s still a neat app, though, given Google doesn’t have an official solution for macOS just yet. A developer has
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Microsoft has brought Bing Chat integration to the SwiftKey keyboard app. This integration offers both AI chatbot functionality and a Tone feature. This feature is now available in the Android and iOS apps. Update: April 14, 2023 (2:40 AM ET): Microsoft brought Bing Chat to the beta version of
Read MoreCredit: Google / YouTube Google seems to have added a new hardware switch to the Pixel Tablet. It might be used as a privacy switch to physically disable the microphone and camera. Google seems to have added a physical switch to the Pixel Tablet since the last time we saw it. Newly leaked renders of
Read MoreXiaomi may have teased a camera grip accessory for the upcoming Xiaomi 13 Ultra flagship. A camera grip would make it comfortable to use the phone in landscape orientation as a camera for longer periods of time. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra has one 50MP Sony IMX989 1-inch sensor with variable aperture and three 50MP Sony
Read MoreJ. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts — Fox Corp. is one partner using the audio giant’s “broadcast-to-podcast” technology to turn existing Fox radio shows into on-demand podcasts.
Read MoreImage: Bungie Bungie is the latest online game developer to announce it’ll start monitoring, warning, and even banning Destiny 2 players who use controller-spoofing XIM hardware or similar to cheat. The company told The Verge in February that it was investigating ways to combat cheaters, and now its policy is drawing a clear line on
Read MoreIgor Bonifacic / Engadget: WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks — WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features. The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users against SIM jacking …
Read MoreNintendo Game Boy, Lego edition — not authorized by Lego or Nintendo. | Image: Nick Lever Nick Lever, video editor and Lego Masters Australia finalist, has recreated the original Nintendo Game Boy in bricks — and with such droolworthy depth that I hereby petition Lego to make it into an official set. It’s just 364
Read MoreFew things are more annoying than being at a conference and having an inconsiderate group conducting a vociferous sidebar that drowns out the speaker. More annoying still is the inevitable shushing; nobody likes being either the shusher or the shushed. So why not take the humans out of the loop and automate the chore of
Read MoreImage: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Law enforcement officials have linked a trove of classified government documents leaked on Discord to a 21-year-old Air Force National Guard member, as reported earlier by NBC News. The suspect, Jack Teixeira, was arrested at his home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday. “Today, the Justice Department arrested
Read MoreThe $599 Creality K1. | Image: Creality 3D printers can take hours or even days to produce simple parts — but it only took two weeks for the biggest names in consumer 3D printing to declare that era is over. On March 29th, Prusa announced the $799 Prusa MK4, its first new printer in four
Read MoreThe beta is finally here. Here’s what Google has planned for the next version of its mobile operating system.
Read MoreKris Holt / Engadget: Meta open sources Animated Drawings, an AI project that turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings — Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. The company hopes that by offering Animated Drawings …
Read MoreSquare Enix Not to be outdone by Tears of the Kingdom in the summer video game blockbuster hype generation category, Final Fantasy XVI got its own State of Play, showcasing over 20 minutes of gameplay. Final Fantasy XVI is a beautiful game, both within the cutscenes and gameplay. The combat looked slick and exciting. Clive
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Read MoreThe beta is finally here. Here’s what Google has planned for the next version of its mobile operating system.
Read MoreAria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a network of optical satellites to deliver data at 2.5Gbps to satellites in low Earth orbit, raised a $92M Series C — Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network.
Read MoreImage: EA EA on Thursday released a new trailer for Immortals of Aveum, a single-player “first-person magic shooter” the company is publishing under its EA Originals label. The game is being developed by Ascendant Studios, which is “made up of BAFTA and Game of the Year award-winning industry veterans,” according to a press release. Based
Read MoreImage: EA EA on Thursday released a new trailer for Immortals of Aveum, a single-player “first-person magic shooter” the company is publishing under its EA Originals label. The game is being developed by Ascendant Studios, which is “made up of BAFTA and Game of the Year award-winning industry veterans,” according to a press release. Based
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority The latest version of Chrome improves the browser’s speed and efficiency on high-end devices. Google claims that the Speedometer 2.1 benchmark test says the browser running 30% faster. The speed boost is a result of the app prioritizing speed over file size. Google has released a new version of
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions — Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation? — It is fair to say that Substack …
Read MoreIf you’ve ever short-circuited a car battery, you’ve seen the pitting and damage a few sparks can cause. Smart minds realised that controlled sparks could erode metal very accurately, in a process now known as electrical discharge machining. [Tanner Beard] decided to build just such a machine for a hackathon, and it works a treat.
Read MoreRocksteady Studios You could be forgiven at this point for not believing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is ever coming out. Rocksteady Studios, of Batman: Arkham series fame, has delayed the game yet again. This is the second time the game has been delayed this year and the third overall, taking the release date
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