Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, recently made a bold announcement during the MWC Shanghai event, stating that it plans to provide all the necessary components for running a 5.5G network by 2024. This move is seen as an attempt by Huawei to position its upcoming release, known as 5.5G, as the next iteration of 5G
Read MoreTypically, most of the gears we use in our life are made of plastic or metal. However, wood gears can do just fine in some simple roles, and they’re utterly pleasant to make, as this video from [botto bie] demonstrates. With steady hands, it’s easy to make basic gears by hand with basic tools and
Read MoreHayden Field / CNBC: Apple becomes the first publicly traded company to close with a $3T market cap; the company hit a $3T market cap during intraday trading in January 2022 — – Apple’s market cap topped $3 trillion on Friday, passing the $190.73 share price required to hit the milestone, according to CNBC’s most
Read MoreAnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks for American Express to take over its ventures with Apple, including Apple Card, a “buy now, pay later” offering, and more — American Express in talks to take over Goldman’s card deal, other ventures with tech giant
Read MoreOur fast developing technology landscape now includes artificial intelligence (AI). Concerns have been raised by industry executives as the European Union (EU) works to adopt comprehensive rules pertaining to AI. More than 160 international tech CEOs recently asked EU lawmakers to carefully evaluate the implications of AI rules on the industry and markets in an
Read MoreNot only is one of the best deals we’ve spotlighted in 2023 available again, but it’s also at an all-time low price. This is your chance to pick up lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for a one-time payment of just $29.97 ($190 off). The deal is as good as it sounds — no
Read MoreThe CMA isn’t convinced that Adobe doesn’t compete against Figma in a meaningful way. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge The UK’s competition watchdog has concluded its initial investigation into Adobe’s $20 billion acquisition of cloud-based product design platform Figma, warning that the merger could cause a “substantial lessening of competition” for UK
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: VMware partners with Samsung, AMD, and the RISC-V Keystone community to accelerate the adoption of confidential computing, which encrypts data being processed — VMware Inc. stepped up its efforts to accelerate the adoption of confidential computing today, announcing an alliance …
Read MoreIn today’s digital age, managing social media platforms has become an essential aspect of growing one’s online presence and brand engagement. With the plethora of available social media management tools, it can be overwhelming to decide which one fits your needs best. In this article, we will delve into a comprehensive comparison between two of
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority It’s now impossible to view tweets or use the platform at all if you’re not logged into an account. Previously, the public had at least limited access to Twitter. It’s unclear if this is intentional or just a mishap. If you try to view a tweet without having a
Read MoreMicrocontrollers are so powerful these days that you can build color handheld games with them that match or exceed what you’d ever get on the Game Boys and Game Gears of yesteryear. The Picopad aims to offer just this, in an open-source hackable format that’s friendly to experimenters. As you might have guessed from the
Read MoreThis is our best look at the Ai Pin yet. | Image: Humane Humane, the buzzy company started by former Apple employees that has been making big promises about an AI-first and post-smartphone future, announced today that its first gadget will be called the Humane Ai Pin. It’ll be powered by “an advanced Snapdragon platform”
Read MoreDespite the convenience of commission free brokerages, retail investors are still hitting a roadblock when it comes to participating in the stock market. I conducted a survey of 100 active investors, and the result showed that a lack of time to research stocks, insufficient funds, and limited knowledge are the top reasons preventing them from
Read MoreNetChoice, a trade group for the tech industry, has sued the state of Arkansas in federal court to overturn the state’s new law that mandates children get parental permission before making social media accounts. The complaint, which was filed on Thursday, argues that the regulation suppresses users’ right to free speech in violation of the
Read MoreHeavy-metal band “The Polymetallic Nodules” played to protest against deep-sea mining outside Dutch ministerial buildings in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 8th, 2023. | Photo by Charles M Vella / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images When the island nation of Nauru announced that it would sponsor a deep-sea mining effort for battery materials,
Read MoreIRL’s company logo. | Photo illustration by William Joel/The Verge I have a packed issue this week, starting with the implosion of a once-hot social media startup called IRL. It raised $200 million at over a $1 billion valuation, and now its board is dissolving the company after finding that most of its users were
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? Continue reading…
Read MoreThe “Game Boy Mini Camera” by Christopher Graves. Twenty-five years ago this month, the Game Boy Camera arrived in the United States and Europe. Now, a modder has made the chonky 118 x 112-pixel greyscale digital imager fully fit inside a standard Game Boy cartridge. And it’s so damn clean. Photo by Christopher Graves Photo
Read MorePYMNTS.com: Unit21, which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities, raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium to identify fraud — Unit21 has raised $45 million in a Series C round to grow the Fintech Fraud DAO consortium. — The funding is being used …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you, too, are so very tired of not knowing which reviews to trust on the internet, we may eventually get some peace of mind. That’s because the Federal Trade Commission now wants to penalize companies for engaging in shady review practices. Under the terms of a new
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: A summary of the last day and closing arguments in FTC v. Microsoft hearing, where FTC mostly focused on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity — FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? — The final day of FTC v. Microsoft gave us key closing arguments from both
Read MoreFor many of us, our digital life is anchored with a Google account, thanks to the prevalence of great Android phones that need one for an optimal experience. Google stores our emails, calendar, contacts, files, photos, notes, tasks, location history, and payment information. The amount of data we voluntarily handed over to the company is
Read MoreGregory Frost’s fantasy novel puts a new spin on the folk tale of Thomas the Rhymer.
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos don’t have a whole lot in the way of news, but we do know this: the Green Hacks Challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize ends precisely at 7AM PDT on July 4th. Show us what you can do in the realm of hacking for the planet, be
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: TikTok is offering free listings, shipping, zero commissions, and warehousing to Chinese merchants, as it plans to debut its marketplace in the US — TikTok is taking a page from the playbook bargains app Temu employed to jumpstart its business in America: it’s promising merchants …
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