10 tips to make your iPhone feel faster for the new year
These 10 tips will make your iPhone feel faster for the new year.
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Read MoreKeep your iPhones, iPads, and Macs, Apple — just give me a revised AirPods Max option.
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Data.ai: puzzle app Royal Match has held the top spot for the biggest mobile game by monthly revenue globally since July, ahead of Candy Crush Saga — Istanbul-based developer Dream Games is on track to double revenue from its debut title despite a lacklustre year for mobile peers
Read MorePhones can be distracting, with notifications popping up all the time to snare our attention and maybe even ruin our lives. [Guy Dupont] wishes to be no slave to the machine, and thus built a solution. Enter Mailblocks. The concept is simple. It’s a physical mailbox which [Guy] can put his phone in. All notifications
Read MoreEthan Zuckerman: A study estimates that there are 13.3B+ videos on YouTube, of which 4B+ were posted to the platform in 2023, and the median YouTube video has 39 views — I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”.
Read MoreThere was a time early in the development of the Super Nintendo (SNES) where the new console was to feature backwards compatibility with NES games. The solution would have required a cumbersome cartridge adapter and a hard switch on every console to flip the CPU into 8-bit mode. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be
Read MoreSwetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: Buyout firm Leonard Green agrees to buy a stake in UK-based Iris Software, which makes payroll and HR tools, from Hg in a deal valuing Iris at ~£3.15B — Leonard Green will become a co-controlling shareholder of the UK firm alongside Hg, which is reinvesting in the business, according to a
Read MoreSome hacks are useful and some are just… well… for the fun of it, and we can appreciate that. Take, for example, [Cool Blog’s] recent experiments with dialup networking. If you think about it, the BBS systems of yesterday have been replaced with more modern tools like Discord. So why not run modems using audio
Read MoreSean O’Kane / TechCrunch: GM pauses Chevy Blazer EV sales as it works to fix software problems, including the infotainment screen going blank, which affect a “limited number” of vehicles — General Motors has temporarily halted sales of the brand new Chevy Blazer EV after some of the first vehicles shipped encountered a number of
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: Micron says it has reached a global settlement agreement to end all lawsuits, including claims of IP theft, with Chinese state-backed chipmaker Fujian Jinhua — Fujian Jinhua did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment outside of office hours. — The settlement comes months …
Read MoreWill Oremus / Washington Post: Elon Musk is fielding complaints about Grok giving liberal responses on diversity, transgender rights, and inequality, despite promising an “anti-woke” chatbot — Grok, launched this month on X, has angered conservatives by endorsing diversity. Musk says he’s trying to fix it.
Read MoreSome hacks are useful and some are just… well… for the fun of it, and we can appreciate that. Take, for example, [Cool Blog’s] recent experiments with dialup networking. If you think about it, the BBS systems of yesterday have been replaced with more modern tools like Discord. So why not run modems using audio
Read MorePneumatic actuators can be powerful and fast, making them very useful for all kinds of mechanical jobs. [Michael Rechtin] decided that while he could buy them off-the-shelf, he preferred to see if he could make his own via 3D printing. Despite the challenges, he succeeded! Part of his success is because he knew when to
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 series ranks as the best trio of Android tablets, but nothing is perfect. The extremely wide aspect ratio is one of the most obvious weaknesses for anyone hoping to use the tablets in portrait orientation, but there are other improvements we’d love to see, too. While we likely won’t see
Read More2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS in Galaxy Gray Metallic | Image: GM Our automotive editor was scheduled to test a Blazer EV soon, but it looks like that will have to wait — GM has paused sales of its brand-new Chevy Blazer EV following reports of significant issues. In a statement provided to The Verge,
Read MoreEdd Gent / IEEE Spectrum: Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits’ slow operating speeds, more — Hype is everywhere, skeptics say, and practical applications are still far away — The quantum computer revolution …
Read MoreWhen you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. So why not shoot for the sky — literally — and build the 1980s-est possible thing: a full-scale flying Delorean. Attentive readers will no doubt remember [Brian Brocken] from his recent attempt to bring a welding robot out of retirement.
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Ubisoft is investigating reports of a new security breach after security research collective VX-Underground shared screenshots of the company’s internal tools — Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company’s internal software and developer tools were leaked online.
Read MoreTrei Brundrett / American Journalism Project: A look at the American Journalism Project’s Product & AI Studio, launched with OpenAI in summer 2023 to explore how to apply emerging tech in local journalism — This summer, the American Journalism Project launched our new Product & AI Studio, a new program to explore the smart application
Read MoreWhen you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. So why not shoot for the sky — literally — and build the 1980s-est possible thing: a full-scale flying Delorean. Attentive readers will no doubt remember [Brian Brocken] from his recent attempt to bring a welding robot out of retirement.
Read More2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS in Galaxy Gray Metallic | Image: GM Our automotive editor was scheduled to test a Blazer EV soon, but it looks like that will have to wait — GM has paused sales of its brand-new Chevy Blazer EV following reports of significant issues. In a statement provided to The Verge,
Read MoreWith superb ANC and dynamic, rich sound, Bose’s latest pair of earbuds are a bonafide hit. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Happy Saturday, dear readers! It’s been an extremely quiet week on the deals front, with the most notable discounts we’ve seen landing on Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air, GOTY contender Baldur’s Gate
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset in October, 2023 while MediaTek announced its Dimensity 9300 in November. These chipsets are expected to power a host of flagship phones in 2024, but device makers are wasting little time in adopting these processors. We’ve already seen handsets with both
Read MoreOnce upon a time, the poor humans of the past had to lug around suitcases and trunks with their own arms. Then, some genius figured out that you could just put wheels on and make everyone’s life a million times easier. Now, what if you didn’t even have push, because your luggage could just follow
Read MoreForbes: How AI defense tech developer Rebellion Defense is struggling to survive after failing to win a US DOD contract, losing its founders, and shuttering its UK arm — Launched with funding from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Rebellion Defense promised to deliver cutting-edge AI for the U.S.-U.K. alliance.
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