Razer’s newest gaming laptops are certified for Wi-Fi 7. | Image: Razer The Wi-Fi Alliance announced at the beginning of CES last week that it had begun certifying Wi-Fi 7 devices. Not having the certification doesn’t mean a device won’t work, but it does mean that it’s been confirmed to work within the standard’s specification
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge CES is the tech world’s biggest event of the year. The Verge is on the ground covering the biggest news in tech, gaming, transportation, and more. Continue reading…
Read MoreBloomberg: Baidu’s stock drops 10%+ after an SCMP report linking Ernie Bot, which Baidu said amassed 70M users within three months of launch, to Chinese military research — – Traders cited an SCMP report about an alleged military tieup — The US and China are in a conflict over technology such as AI
Read MoreBelkin is working on a battery clip for the Vision Pro’s external cell, according to a new report.
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How dye-sensitized solar cells, which are lightweight, bendable, and manufactured cheaply, can capture light indoors to charge small gadgets like headphones — Indoor solar power technology is finally becoming available; Some devices no longer need batteries at all
Read MoreEduardo Baptista / Reuters: Sources: dozens of Chinese entities, including military bodies, AI research institutes, and universities bought small batches of Nvidia chips despite a US ban — Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over the past year purchased small batches …
Read MoreHow long does it take a team of rocket scientists to remove two screws? When the screws they’re working on are keeping a priceless sample of asteroid safe, it’s about three months. That’s how long NASA has been working on the OSIRIS-REx sample return canister, which came back to Earth from asteroid Bennu back in
Read MoreImage: FedEx FedEx announced today that it will launch a new “data-driven commerce platform” this fall called fdx that it says will give online merchants “end-to-end e-commerce solutions.” The company’s new platform is aimed at helping businesses manage their supply chain, sell to customers, and manage deliveries. The company wrote in its announcement that fdx
Read MoreFor some computing components, the bottleneck to improved speed and performance hasn’t been power consumption or clock speed but physical space. But a new memory standard may provide all of the power and space-saving benefits of soldered memory modules without losing any upgradability. The standard is called compression attached memory modules (CAMM) and provides a
Read MoreUEVR, or the Universal Unreal Engine VR Mod by [praydog] is made possible by some pretty neat software tricks. Reverse engineering concepts and advanced techniques used in game hacking are leveraged to add VR support, including motion controls, to applicable Unreal Engine games. The UEVR project is a real-world application of various ideas and concepts,
Read MoreAdam Samson / Financial Times: Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 VPN services, fueling concerns of the government stifling news and information before elections in March — New controls on VPNs underline Erdoğan’s moves to curb freedom of information — Turkey is tightening its censorship …
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge For anyone who wants to try the Apple Vision Pro when it’s officially released on February 2nd, there’s going to be a whole procedure. We knew that, but now a report in Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter for Bloomberg sheds light on how the in-store demos for
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple will combine a San Diego team of 121 employees with one in Austin, Texas, and any of the employees who elect not to move could be let go on April 26. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reported that an Apple spokesperson confirmed that the team, which listens
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge For anyone who wants to try the Apple Vision Pro when it’s officially released on February 2nd, there’s going to be a whole procedure. We knew that, but now a report in Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter for Bloomberg sheds light on how the in-store demos for
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Read MoreWhen working on a project, plenty of us will reach for an Atmel microcontroller because of the widespread prevalence of the Arduino platform. A few hackers would opt for a bit more modern part like an ESP32. But these Arduino-compatible platforms are far from the only microcontrollers available. The flash-based PIC family of microcontrollers is
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Conventional wisdom has it that smartphone specifications don’t really matter all that much anymore. Whether you’re looking at the very best flagships or a plucky mid-ranger, they’re all more than capable of daily tasks, playing the latest mobile games, and even taking stonkingly good snaps. It’s quite difficult to
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail the Vision Pro’s in-store sales process, which includes extensive fitting and calibration and an employee-guided demo lasting up to 25 minutes — The company is preparing an extensive sales pitch for the $3,499 device, including a demo lasting as long as 25 minutes.
Read MoreThe Xiaomi Mi Band 8 (a.k.a. the Xiaomi Smart Band 8 in Europe) has an incredibly long list of features considering it costs under $50, which we currently recommend for budget shoppers in our best fitness tracker guide. Every year the next Mi Band arrives bringing further refinements to the series, often delivering features previously
Read MoreFrom Roswell to the USS Nimitz, sightings and evidence abound. How do we investigate UFO reports—and are they real in the first place? We’ll explore the evidence, and you can draw your own conclusions.
Read MoreSitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand.
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 21, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry for all the bad jokes, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I’ve been in Vegas all week for
Read MoreNews broke this week that SoundCloud was looking to be bought. Even in the hands of different owners, its legacy—from Kehlani to “Old Town Road”—remains.
Read More[James Bruton]’s unusual Möbius Tank has gotten a little more unusual with the ability to bend itself, which allows it to perform turns even though it is a single-track vehicle. The turning radius isn’t great, but three-point turns are perfectly feasible. The Möbius Tank was a wild idea that started as a “what if” question:
Read MoreThe Xiaomi Mi Band 8 (a.k.a. the Xiaomi Smart Band 8 in Europe) has an incredibly long list of features considering it costs under $50, which we currently recommend for budget shoppers in our best fitness tracker guide. Every year the next Mi Band arrives bringing further refinements to the series, often delivering features previously
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