The Quest 2 offers lower specs than Meta’s latest headset, true, but it also costs half the price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In case you haven’t heard, the Meta Quest 2’s $249 holiday pricing is sticking around for good. That’s a natural progression for the second-gen VR headset, which launched
Read MoreCredit: Capcom Welcome to the 517th edition of Android Apps Weekly, where we discuss the latest in mobile news and take a closer look at some of the most interesting new apps and games. Let’s jump right in and take a look at some of the biggest highlights from the last week: Google announced plans
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Google pulls Binance, Kraken, and other global crypto apps from the Play Store in India, after the country flagged them for operating illegally in December 2023 — Google has pulled many crypto exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its Play Store in India, the latest blow …
Read MoreCredit: Capcom Welcome to the 517th edition of Android Apps Weekly, where we discuss the latest in mobile news and take a closer look at some of the most interesting new apps and games. Let’s jump right in and take a look at some of the biggest highlights from the last week: Google announced plans
Read MoreMochi Mayhem and the Indigo Disk are lightyears away from perfection, but they offered a satisfying conclusion to the parts of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that worked best. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’m not delusional about the state of social media and the web these days. I understand that companies want me to get sucked into their apps, consume more and more content, and give them more insight into my preferences so they can surface ads for me or sell
Read MoreAt this point, the Apple Watch is nearly synonymous with the smartwatch in many people’s minds. Wildly popular for their unmatched app support and seamless iPhone integration, the brand’s wearables flood the ever-growing market. One way the company finds its way onto more wrists is with its economical lineup: the SE series. This line makes
Read MoreI love minimal hacks. Limitations are sometimes the spark for our greatest creativity, and seeing someone do something truly marvelous with the simplest of technological ingredients never fails to put a smile on my face. This week, it was the super-simple 1D Fireworks project by [Daniel Westhof]. Nothing more than an ESP8266 and a long
Read MoreI love minimal hacks. Limitations are sometimes the spark for our greatest creativity, and seeing someone do something truly marvelous with the simplest of technological ingredients never fails to put a smile on my face. This week, it was the super-simple 1D Fireworks project by [Daniel Westhof]. Nothing more than an ESP8266 and a long
Read MoreMochi Mayhem and the Indigo Disk are lightyears away from perfection, but they offered a satisfying conclusion to the parts of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that worked best. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge I’m always moving bits of information around on my iPhone — between documents and screens and apps — but I’m not always sure I’m doing it in the best way, especially since Apple has regularly changed the way that copy and paste works through successive versions of iOS.
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Chainalysis analysis of ~400 crypto wallets of CSAM sellers: revenue is down since 2021, but sellers are using mixers and privacy coins to evade law enforcement — Crypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers” and …
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge I’m always moving bits of information around on my iPhone — between documents and screens and apps — but I’m not always sure I’m doing it in the best way, especially since Apple has regularly changed the way that copy and paste works through successive versions of iOS.
Read MoreThe fashion industry has created a sprawling informal disposal network across the world—that brings with it money, conflict, and environmental destruction.
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4gmc9y9Vo I hate cable messes but my job practically requires me to live in an eternal tangle of cables, wires, and an impossible-to-manage proprietary and universal charging hell. USB-C made a lot of things simpler for me, but despite the many cables on my desk and in my bag, I always find myself with a
Read MoreImage: Samsung This year at CES was the year AI took over. From large language model-powered voice assistants in cars to the Rabbit R1, the technology you heard about everywhere was AI. It was a little too much. It may be the year of AI at CES, but many of these “AI” features have been
Read MorePlus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more.
Read MoreThe OpenWRT project is now two decades old. The project has come a long way since Linksys was forced to release the GNU-licensed code for the original WRT54G router from which the project takes its name. They’ve marked the occasion in an interesting manner: by proposing that the plethora of devices supported by the OS
Read MoreAs gamers we all want a cool-looking gaming space we can call our own, but what does that look like? A nice gaming chair? An adjustable gaming desk like one from Flexispot? Copious amounts of LEDs and lighting solutions like the ones from Nanoleaf? But how do we stand out from the crowd – especially
Read MoreC, the cosmic speed limit, is the fastest anything in the universe can go. But how fast is that? And how do we know?
Read MoreIn 1998 the founders of Palm had a bit of a falling out with the wildly successful PDA company’s new owners. They set up a new company called Handspring, which enabled them to make PDAs again in the way they preferred, This resulted in the Handspring Visor line of PDAs, which featured a big cartridge
Read MoreThe wait is almost over. Young Sheldon is back with its seventh season. Bittersweet really, because this one will be the last. Here’s everything we know about Young Sheldon season 7 release date, plot developments, and more. When is season 7 of Young Sheldon coming out? The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes delayed production, so we’ve
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: US chipmaker Wolfspeed was the only stock in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor index to decline in 2023, amid struggles at its new plant in NY — – Wolfspeed investors have soured amid struggles with new plant — The semiconductor stock is off to a rough start this year
Read MoreThomas Claburn / The Register: Security researchers at Recorded Future detail various ways criminals are frequently abusing GitHub’s infrastructure to support and deliver malware — Microsoft says it’s doing its best to crack down on crims — The popularity of Github has made it too big to block …
Read MoreBloomberg: The hack of the @SECGov X account highlights security gaps at the agency, which wasn’t fully adhering to the federal cybersecurity standards as of last year — – Agency’s X hack on Tuesday shines light on security gaps — Watchdog said the agency wasn’t adhering to all standards
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