Credit: 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 MoreThe Central Bank of Nigeria has lifted its ban on cryptocurrency transactions, acknowledging the global trend towards regulating digital assets, according to a recent Reuters report. This move marks a departure from the bank’s February 2021 decision, which prohibited banks and financial institutions from engaging in crypto-related activities due to concerns over money laundering and
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple Music is one of the top Spotify alternatives for lovers of good songs and podcasts, especially the more iOS-inclined. But it isn’t a more affordable option — the Individual plan of both streaming services costs $10.99 per month in the US. What you might not know is that
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 MoreThe Verge What a year, huh? As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the year that was. It was a great year for entertainment and a not-so-great year for the people who actually made that entertainment. It was the year Twitter died, and the year Matter mostly failed to launch.
Read MoreMacDonald Dzirutwe / Reuters: The Central Bank of Nigeria lifts a ban, imposed in February 2021, on cryptocurrency transactions but says global trends show a need to regulate such activities — Nigeria’s central bank has lifted a ban on transacting in cryptocurrencies, while saying global trends had shown a need to regulate …
Read MoreWashington Post: How Sam Altman, the dealmaking prodigy full of contradictions, became one of the best-known tech CEOs, including by cultivating close ties with Peter Thiel — Investing in everything from speakeasys to nuclear fusion, the Silicon Valley wunderkind, dealing-making prodigy is full of contradictions
Read MoreThe Verge What a year, huh? As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the year that was. It was a great year for entertainment and a not-so-great year for the people who actually made that entertainment. It was the year Twitter died, and the year Matter mostly failed to launch.
Read MoreA number of talented artists are using video games not just as a method of telling stories, but as an environment to break viewers—and players—out of the “magic circle.”
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority For most of 2023, we ran a weekly event focused on custom Android home screens on our X (formerly Twitter) profile. Using the hashtag #aahomescreens, anyone could submit a screenshot of their phone’s home screen design, and we would pick our favorite for the week. Due to ongoing
Read MoreSome experts believe the science of champagne has applications in ballistics and rocketry, and now producers are trialing deep-sea aging, seeking the salty superiority of a life under pressure.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad for The Verge Happy holidays! Here is The Vergecast’s gift to you: over 90 minutes of audio content dedicated to USB-C. Every holiday season, we think about what consumer technology standard has impacted our gadgets throughout the year — and without a doubt, 2023’s favorite standard has to be USB-C. We
Read MoreThe Verge / Photo courtesy of Netflix and IMDB With shows like Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Blue Eye Samurai, and a wild new Castlevania spinoff, Netflix is still holding its own in the streaming wars. Continue reading…
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Bots registered as 13-year-old users on TikTok were shown highly polarized content about the Israel-Hamas war in the For You feed, within hours after signing up — Imagine your 13-year-old signs up for TikTok and, while scrolling through videos, lingers on footage of explosions …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani As the OG of community-led brands, OnePlus might’ve had renegade origins and lofty ideals to change the smartphone status quo. However, the OnePlus of 2023 is a whole different beast. While value positioning is still a core aspect of the company’s market strategy, it
Read MoreWe had the opportunity to add a new feature to our lineup: the FLOSS Weekly podcast. It’s a very long running series that covers the goings on in the free, libre, and open-source software world. It’s been co-hosted by our own [Jonathan Bennett] for quite a while now, and when This Week in Tech announced
Read MoreIt’s not a lot, but there are still things I think macOS needs to make it the perfect modern operating system.
Read MoreThe holiday season is the perfect time to clean up your Mac. Here are our top 10 tips to make your computer feel like new.
Read MoreJosh Sisco / Politico: A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, who on a trip to Silicon Valley in November aimed to convince a skeptical tech sector that the government was there to help — FTC Chair Lina Khan’s vast ambitions to cut back on corporate power could be a huge part of Biden’s legacy
Read MoreUsing embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for irrigation, and slash maintenance costs. A movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam.
Read MoreWhen you’re out riding your bike, a horn can be a useful warning device to other road users and pedestrians alike. It can also be a source of fun and amusement, or annoyance, depending on the sounds it makes and how you use it. For the ultimate flexibility, you might like this digital bicycle horn
Read MoreThanks in part to Elon Musk, the field of brain-computer interfaces has captured both public and investor interest, with a cadre of companies now developing implantable devices.
Read MoreFrom historical studies to psychedelic darkroom experiments, these are the photo books that best document the WIRED world.
Read MoreOnly the Pixel 8 Pro gets Video Boost, one of the AI camera features announced at its launch. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When Google introduced Night Sight on the Pixel 3, it was a revelation. It was as if someone had literally turned on the lights in your low-light photos. Previously
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 8 is more affordable than its larger sibling, but with seven years of updates on the table, you’ll want to make sure it goes the distance. The best way to do that is by picking up a case. To help find the right one for you, we’ve rounded up the best Google
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