Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down officially December 29th. Microsoft has not appointed a direct replacement and instead has rolled the suite of Activision Blizzard executives — including Blizzard president Mike Ybarra, Activision publishing president Rob Kostich, and Activision Blizzard vice chair Thomas Tippl — under
Read MoreYou’d be forgiven for having missed the TicWatch Pro 5 deal in the Black Friday sales. While much top-branded hardware was on sale for most of November, the impressive smartwatch was only on offer for a single day. But you now have a chance to pick up the wearable at that excellent price once more,
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Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Generational development is the most consistent story of 2023’s wearables market. The top products of the year all build on the success of existing device lines with upgraded specs, added tools, and revamped features. In fact, none of our top five picks represent a brand-new competitor. We’re not complaining; everyone
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Here at Android Authority, we run a weekly series called Wallpaper Wednesday. Every Wednesday, we post an article with six wallpaper images: three created by our readers and three by our staff. With the year coming to a close, we thought we’d give a shout-out to the readers who
Read MoreTim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple resolved an outage for Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Wallet that started around 6:15AM ET; users had reported IAP issues and more — There is an Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay and Wallet outage that is causing some users to experience issues with Apple Cash transaction notifications
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Read MoreWill Rogers once said that veterinarians are the best doctors because their patients can’t tell them where it hurts. I’ve often thought that electronic people have a similar problem. In many cases, what’s wrong with our circuits isn’t visible. Sure, you can visually identify a backward diode, a bad solder joint, or a blown fuse.
Read MoreNeed a last-minute Christmas gift or waiting for a great MacBook deal? This 15-inch M2 MacBook Air is now $1,049.
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge PlayStation 5 sales have hit a new milestone. Sony announced on Wednesday that it sold 50 million consoles since its launch in late 2020. The number shows just how much PS5 sales are ramping up, as Sony announced in July that it sold more than 40 million units.
Read MoreNew York Times: Investors are spending hundreds of millions on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that its new leadership will recover funds that Sam Bankman-Fried misappropriated — Investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that the firm’s new leaders will recover …
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Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Some users are having issues with Apple’s financial services. Apple has confirmed that an outage is affecting Apple Pay, Card, Cash, and Wallet. The outage appears to have started this morning. If you tried using one of Apple’s financial services today — like Apple Cash or Apple Card —
Read MoreBest Buy is hosting its last-minute holiday sale, with deals on every major Apple product category to be found.
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images A popular training dataset for AI image generation contained links to child abuse imagery, Stanford’s Internet Observatory found, potentially allowing AI models to create harmful content. LAION-5B, a dataset used by Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI and Google’s Imagen image generators, included
Read MoreImage: Ohni Lisle / The Verge It’s a TV. It’s a roller coaster. It’s a 4D Disney World experience. It’s the Sphere, and it’s a lot more fun than my phone. Continue reading…
Read MoreTim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple resolved an outage for Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Wallet that started around 6:15AM ET; users had reported IAP issues and more — There is an Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay and Wallet outage that is causing some users to experience issues with Apple Cash transaction notifications
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority A leaker claims Nothing could release compact phones in the future. The company would be joining the likes of ASUS, Sony, and Samsung in offering pocket-friendly Android phones. Compact Android phones are a rarity, with phones like the Galaxy S23, ASUS Zenfone 10, and Sony Xperia 5 V being
Read MoreImage: Sony As I battled my way through God of War Ragnarök’s new roguelike expansion, Valhalla, I was dying to learn the next part of Kratos’ story — and that story is what’s made me push through even when the game got tough. God of War’s recent entries — the 2018 reboot and Ragnarök —
Read MoreThe Verge / Photos by Allison Johnson and Amelia Holowaty Krales Smartphones — the gadgets I spend most of my waking hours thinking about, testing, and tinkering with — are generally considered a mature product category. This means that, in any of the previous, oh, five years, you’d struggle to find a big defining moment
Read MoreProPublica: Analysis of 2K misleading Israel-Hamas war posts on X, viewed 500M+ times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes can’t keep up — Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky.
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Sony sold 50M PS5 consoles in the three years since its November 2020 launch, almost as fast as the PS4 reached 50M, and outsold Xbox by almost 3:1 in 2023 — Sony outsells Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s Switch as sector recovers from post-pandemic slump — Resurgent sales …
Read MoreThis year’s best cookbooks provide tasty, well-tested instructions for grilling, fermenting, and baking. There’s even something for cocktail hour.
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Adobe just abandoned its $20 billion deal to buy Figma, and now we know why. In an interview on the Decoder podcast with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, Adobe general counsel Dana Rao said that the company couldn’t prove to European regulators that the acquisition wouldn’t harm competition
Read MoreImage: Eros Hoagland Michael Mann’s biopic of the Italian sports car maker feels at home in the director’s canon of obsessive men. But have we been here before too many times? Continue reading…
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