“I predict Apple may launch its first foldable product in 2025 at the earliest, which may be a foldable iPad or a hybrid of iPad & iPhone.” What you need to know A new report claims Apple is “actively testing” a 9-inch foldable device. Ming-Chi Kuo says the device is being tested “to verify key
Read MoreCerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what’s achievable today.
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Read MoreMicrosoft is moving into the next phase of its plan to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to as many devices as possible, and it’s one of the most important steps yet. Starting this holiday season, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will have access to cloud gaming on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One consoles. The company,
Read MoreFika Ventures is a five-year-old, L.A.-based seed stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long as they don’t involve hardware or FDA approval. The firm’s investors apparently think it’s doing a decent job. After raising $41 million for its
Read MoreToday you can get a compact 13.3-inch Dell laptop with a Core i7 processor, a 1080p touchscreen display and a sleek aluminum chassis marked down to just $985.59. Dell XPS 13 9300 Intel Core i7-1165G7 13.3-Inch 1080p Touchscreen Laptop w/ Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB LPDDR4x RAM and 1TB M.2 SSD for $985.59 from Dell
Read MoreGoogle’s first foray into smart doorbells started with the Nest Hello in 2018. Unfortunately, that doorbell had a small audience due to its high price and huge limitation of only working with existing wired doorbell systems. This year, though, the company is finally offering a totally wireless solution with the Google Nest Doorbell. Without a
Read MoreWhat you need to know PCMag has crowned T-Mobile as the fastest carrier in the United States for the first time. The “Uncarrier” beat out AT&T and Verizon in the outlet’s annual network test. That Sprint merger really paid off. T-Mobile has beat out AT&T and Verizon to become America’s fastest mobile network. In the
Read MoreJessica Guynn / USA Today: Researchers say that, before Trump’s ban, his tweets that had fact-check labels spread further on Twitter than those that lacked them — Twitter blocked and labeled some Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the run-up and aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
Read MoreParadox Games Gamescom doesn’t officially start until Wednesday, but Xbox got a head start on the festivities with an announcement of all the new games coming to Xbox Game Pass. Xbox has been laser focused on its subscription platform. During E3 2021, Microsoft announced a ton of new games including all the forthcoming Microsoft Studios
Read MoreThere are currently 186 amiibo figures, plus hundreds of amiibo cards. Nintendo’s amiibo figures are one of the most Nintendo things out there with the unique ability for toys to interact with video games. Yet, they weren’t even Nintendo’s original idea. The Japanese gaming company only produced them in response to the toys-to-life sensation created
Read MoreHi, everyone! Thank you for the great response to our Distinguished Leader Series! Here’s the second part of my talk with GitLab’s Head of Remote, Darren Murph. If you missed part 1 of this conversation where we dig into how GitLab runs a multi-billion dollar remote-first company — you can find it here. Jonathan Siddharth:
Read MoreSure, there are subtleties, but by and large it’s pretty easy to pick up soldering skills with a little practice. But wait! Not all soldering is created equal, and as [Quinn Dunki] learned, silver soldering is far harder to get right. Granted, the job [Quinn] is working on is much more demanding than tacking some
Read MoreA player uses the Ping System in Apex Legends to alert their team of the presence of a “Shield Battery”. | Image: Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is pledging to open the patents for some of its accessibility-related tech, including the much-celebrated Apex Legends ping system, the company announced today. EA says it won’t file infringement
Read MoreImage: Walmart Walmart plans to offer its logistics and delivery services to other companies as part of a new last-mile delivery business, the company announced on Monday. The service, called Walmart GoLocal, hopes to serve as a white label delivery offering for businesses big and small, and yet another way for Walmart to try to
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Some people who pre-ordered the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and other new devices are getting emails notifying them of shipping delays. It looks like many will need to wait until September. Samsung’s email cites higher-than-expected demand as the reason. Pre-orders for the new slate of Samsung devices opened
Read MoreFlockjay, a bootcamp startup that helps laid off people and job seekers break into tech, cut half of its own employees amid a broader pivot to a B2B SaaS platform, TechCrunch has learned from sources close to the company. The layoffs impacted every nontechnical team at Flockjay, including admission advisers, biz ops and development, partnerships,
Read MoreMichael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times: FBI says a man phished thousands of iCloud accounts via an email scam where he impersonated customer support, stealing 620K photos and 9K videos until mid-2018 — A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos …
Read MoreEarlier today, spend management startup Ramp said it has raised a $300 million Series C that valued it at $3.9 billion. It also said it was acquiring Buyer, a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that it believes will help customers save money on purchases and SaaS products. The round and deal were announced just a week after competitor
Read MoreFollowing its announcement late last month, Facebook’s new 128GB model of the Oculus Quest 2 is now available to buy. You can purchase the VR headset from the company’s website for the same $299 price as the previous 64GB base model. “Long story short? We’ve created this 128GB model so that players can easily store
Read MoreForgeRock filed its form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step toward its IPO. The company did not provide initial pricing for its shares, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FORG. The IPO is being led by
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack down on Discord music bots. The search giant has sent a cease and desist to the owners of the popular Groovy Bot, which lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and is installed on more than 16 million Discord servers. Google
Read MoreLinktree, the popular “link in bio” service with more than 16 million users, is partnering with PayPal to expand its recently launched “Commerce Links” tools for direct payment on Linktree globally. The Melbourne-based startup says creators in over 200 countries where PayPal operates can now accept payments through the transaction tools. Launched in March, Commerce
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is experimenting with a way to make it easier to find Spaces that you might be interested in. Some users on iOS or Android will now see if someone they follow is listening in on a Space right at the top of their timelines, according to the
Read MoreMovies Anywhere, an app that allows you to centralize your digital movie collection from across services, is rolling out a new feature that will help you make better sense of your growing library. The company today introduced an A.I.-powered feature called “My Lists,” which automatically groups movies together based on any number of factors —
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