Electric-assisted bicycles, or ebikes, are fundamentally changing the way people get around cities and towns. What were once sweaty, hilly, or difficult rides have quickly turned into a low-impact and inexpensive ways around town without foregoing all of the benefits of exercise. [Braden] hoped to expand this idea to the open waters and is building
Read MoreIllustration: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 19, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) It’s the last Installer of the year, so
Read MoreScientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating planets that defy classification—forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
Read MoreAfter years of free games dominating the scenes, we finally saw a big shift in 2023. Although there were plenty of great Android games released this year that were still free, only two out of ten of our top favorite mobile games of 2023 are completely free with ads, although a few have demo versions.
Read MoreScientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating planets that defy classification—forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
Read MorePlus: Apple shuts down a Flipper Zero Attack, Microsoft patches more than 30 vulnerabilities, and more critical updates for the last month of 2023.
Read MoreFrom Dune: Part Two to Deadpool 3, these are the movies we can’t wait to see in the coming year.
Read MoreFrom the falling costs of renewable energy to new treatments for a whole host of diseases, 2023 wasn’t all doom and gloom.
Read MoreIllustration: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 19, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) It’s the last Installer of the year, so
Read More2024 is set to be a crucial year for Apple with big launches set to arrive. Here’s what we’re hoping the Cupertino company delivers to make it its best year yet.
Read MoreMost of the stories we cover here are fresh from the firehose, the newest and coolest stuff to interest you during your idle moments. Sometimes though, we come across a page that’s not new, but is interesting in its own right enough to bring to your attention. So it is with our subject here, because
Read MoreMichael Koziol / IEEE Spectrum: A look at Wi-Fi 7, slated for certification in Q1 2024, with multi-link operations that allow devices to spread a data stream across multiple frequency bands — Wi-Fi is one of the most aggravating success stories. Despite how ubiquitous the technology has become in our lives …
Read MoreIt’s the future. We should have weird glowy lights everywhere, all over our homes, cars, and businesses. In the automotive world, luxury automakers are doing their part with LED ambient lighting systems, but the rest of us have to step up. [Super Valid Designs] has developed an excellent modular DMX lighting rig that’s fit for
Read MoreIf the M3 chip comes to the iPad, will I have run out of reasons to use it instead of a laptop?
Read MoreFrom the falling costs of renewable energy to new treatments for a whole host of diseases, 2023 wasn’t all doom and gloom.
Read MoreJustin Garrison / Justin Garrison: An AWS developer claims Amazon is “silently sacking” staff by pushing them to take a different role that they would quit later, avoiding the need for severance — Amazon has a stock problem. It’s not only Amazon, but they have more to lose. If you’re a customer, that’s going to
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Counterpoint: about 16M foldable phones were sold in 2023, just 1.3% of the 1.2B smartphone market, as foldables start to gain traction in the US and China — Samsung, Motorola and Huawei continue to invest in high-priced flip devices despite weak sales — Every large smartphone maker except Apple …
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Nikon, Sony, and Canon are developing camera tech that embeds digital signatures in images so that they can be distinguished from realistic AI-generated fakes — Digital signatures to provide way to tell real photos from — Sony will release a firmware for professional-grade cameras to embed digital signatures to photos.
Read MoreThe LG Qube is so tiny, so boxy, so handle-y. | Image: LG LG announced the CineBeam Qube (model HU710PB) laser projector yesterday: It’s got a minimalist look and stature, weighing 3.28 pounds and measuring 135mm square on one side and just 80mm wide at the front. (For comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro is just
Read MoreIf you have multiple microphones in known locations, and can determine the time a sound arrives at each one, you can actually determine the location that sound is coming from. This technique is referred to as sound localization via time difference of arrival. [Kim Hendrikse] decided to put the technique to good use to track
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: A look at the rise of AI-generated virtual influencers, with some charging thousands of dollars to promote products, leading to concerns from human influencers — Hyper-realistic ‘virtual influencers’ are being used to promote leading brands — drawing ire from human content creators
Read MoreNot every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the planets. The question “What is a planet?” is probably more about the astronomers doing the looking than the celestial bodies that they’re looking for. In
Read MoreAnil Dash / Rolling Stone: In 2024, the internet is about to see the biggest reshuffling of power in 25 years, with a resurgent “human web” and regulators forcing tech giants to open up — The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century … Everything
Read MoreBrendan Bordelon / Politico: How effective altruism, described by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, is influencing White House, Congress, and others’ approach toward AI regulation — Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into D.C. …
Read More[Thomas Roth], aka [Ghidraninja], and author of the [Stacksmashing] YouTube channel, investigated Apple’s Lightning port and created a cool debugging tool that allowed one to get JTAG on the device. Then, Apple went to USB-C for their new phones, and all his work went to waste. Oh well, start again — and take a look
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