Apple recently slipped from the number one spot as the world’s most valuable company Thursday as its share price continues to slide.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon launches “badge pay,” which uses its Just Walk Out retail tech to let employees use their badges for payments, starting with a hospital in Savannah, GA — Amazon’s computer vision and sensor-powered Just Walk Out retail technology, which allows customers to shop at stores …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge WhatsApp is rolling out a custom sticker maker for users with iOS 17 or later. While you can already make stickers by dragging and dropping images from your gallery into the app, this takes things a step further by letting you draw on top of them, add text, or slap on another
Read MoreChris Kerr / gamedeveloper: Filing: ironSource founders, including CEO and Unity Grow president Tomer Bar-Zeev, are exiting Unity amid mass layoffs; Unity merged with ironSource in 2022 — IronSource CEO Tomer Bar-Zeev and his fellow co-founders are stepping down effective immediately.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft has surpassed Apple’s market cap to become the world’s most valuable public company again. The software giant’s stock has been rallying in recent months thanks to its AI announcements. Meanwhile, there are concerns about Apple’s iPhone sales, leading to the two tech giants swapping top places for market value during trading
Read MoreCredit: Adam Birney / Android Authority A listing for a mysterious V2 DualSense wireless controller has appeared on Best Buy Canada. The PS5 controller is said to offer 12 hours of battery life. This new controller will also come with a charging station that comes included in the box. The PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller is
Read MoreBear’s developers say users range from writers and lawyers to chefs and CEOs.
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: Ivanti confirms hackers are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in its corporate VPN software, but says patches won’t be available until the end of January — U.S. software giant Ivanti has confirmed that hackers are exploiting two critical-rated vulnerabilities affecting …
Read MoreLoop stations are neat things, able to replay one or more loops of audio over and over again while you perform over the top of them. Musicians like [Marc Rebillet], [Reinhardt Buhr], and [Dub FX] have made careers out of this style of performance. [Yaqi Gao], [Xiaoyu Liang] and [Alina Wang] decided to build a
Read MoreApple has released a new Magic Keyboard firmware update to fix a Bluetooth security flaw.
Read MoreNaman Ramachandran / Variety: Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film — Tamil-language film “Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food,” headlined by “Jawan” actor Nayanthara, has been pulled from Netflix …
Read MoreThe Herman Miller Aeron is an icon in the office chair world — but just how good is it?
Read MoreMatt Burgess / Wired: A researcher finds 800GB of data online tied to school software maker Raptor, used by 5,300+ US districts, including evacuation plans and student medical files — More than 4 million school records, including safety procedures, student medical files, and court documents, were also publicly accessible online.
Read MoreA look into the latest Sony Afeela prototype car, from the driver’s side. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge It’s been four years since we called Sony’s concept car the best surprise of CES. And I get it: one does not build a car company overnight. But here at CES 2024, it feels
Read MoreCrypto tracing firm Chainalysis found that sellers of child sexual abuse materials are successfully using “mixers” and “privacy coins” like Monero to launder their profits and evade law enforcement.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources describe how AI replaced the metaverse as Mark Zuckerberg’s top priority, leading Meta to ruthlessly cut jobs and focus on quickly releasing AI products — Meta’s founder has become deeply engaged in his company’s AI efforts ahead of its 20th anniversary, but his close attention hasn’t always proved to be a recipe for
Read MoreAs Wi-Fi 7 makes its way to new routers, it only makes me yearn for the return of Apple’s AirPort routers.
Read MoreKat Tenbarge / NBC News: Analysis: Google and Bing showed deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms — Google and other search engines include nonconsensual deepfake porn in top image search results alongside tools …
Read MoreCillian Murphy as Jim in 28 Days Later. | Image: Searchlight Pictures Filmmakers Alex Garland and Danny Boyle — the writer / director duo who gave us 2002’s 28 Days Later — have been talking about wanting to make a third film in the apocalyptic zombie franchise for years now. But it seems as if
Read MoreDina Bass / Bloomberg: Google Cloud eliminates fees levied on customers who leave for a rival service, effective immediately, which may put pressure on AWS and Azure to do the same — Antirust officials have been looking at cloud data-transfer policies — The cost of switching between cloud-computing providers …
Read MoreImage: Plaion / Retro Games Ltd. The mini-console trend that started with the tiny NES Classic has largely slowed down, but there are still some cute game-filled gadgets coming. Case in point: the 400 Mini from Plaion and Retro Games Ltd. It’s exactly what it sounds like — a shrunken-down version of the Atari 400
Read MoreBloomberg: After spending $13M+ on US lobbying in the past decade, Huawei quietly shutters its in-house lobbying operation, ending an effort to overturn the US bans — – Chinese firm lost its last Washington fixers in recent months — Hired hands and Huawei itself have told Congress they’re done
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority POCO has launched the X6 and X6 Pro in global markets. These are effectively rebadged versions of the Redmi K70E and Redmi Note 13 Pro. Expect a starting price of $249 for the new series. POCO is no stranger to rebranding, as it frequently takes Xiaomi devices and gives
Read MoreThis week, we dig into all the big news from CES and identify some of the best, weirdest, and saddest stuff we saw at the show.
Read MoreReuters: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle confidentially files for a US IPO, without saying the number of shares for sale or price range; Circle had a $9B valuation in 2022 — Circle Internet Financial, the company behind stablecoin USDC, said on Thursday that it had confidentially filed …
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