Users of Tapo and Kasa smart home devices can now control them both in one app. | Image: TP-Link Wi-Fi router manufacturer TP-Link is finally uniting its two smart home brands under one app, Tapo. The company has made smart gadgets since 2015, but confoundingly under two separate brands: Tapo and Kasa. Both brands offer
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: SimSpace, which replicates organizations’ tech stacks for cybersecurity training, raised $45M led by L2 Point Management, bringing its total funding to $70M — SimSpace, a startup that creates digital replicas of organizations’ tech and networking stacks for cybersecurity training …
Read MoreGoogle is launching its podcast subscription migration tool. The option to export podcast subscriptions will appear on mobile and the web. The tool is currently only available to users in the US. When Google announced it was ending the Podcasts app, the company said it would release a tool in the coming weeks to make
Read MoreIf there’s anything as American as baseball and apple pie, it’s gotta be the Kit-Kat clock in the kitchen. For the unfamiliar, the Kit-Kat clock is special in that its pendulum tail and eyes move back and forth with each passing second. They’re equal parts cute and creepy. But not this particular Kit-Kat, not once
Read MoreBlue Origin will stream the launch on its site. | Screenshot: The Verge Space tourism company Blue Origin has set its sights on a New Shepard launch window that starts Tuesday at 11:37AM ET, marking its latest attempt since the rocket booster failed during its September 2022 launch. While Blue Origin originally planned on carrying
Read MoreDavid Heaney / UploadVR: Meta updates its OpenXR extension with tongue tracking, letting developers use the feature in the Quest Pro, but hasn’t added support to the Meta Avatars SDK — Quest Pro’s face tracking now includes your tongue too. — In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how moving …
Read MoreColorado Parks and Wildlife released five gray wolves onto public land in Grand County, Colorado, on Monday, December 18th, 2023. Pictured is a young female brought to the state from Oregon. | Image: Colorado Parks and Wildlife Five gray wolves have a new home in Colorado; state wildlife officials released them yesterday in a spectacular
Read MoreMeta’s automated systems made mistakes in removing sensitive content from the Israel-Hamas war, the company’s Oversight Board has ruled. It called on the company to put more human intervention in place.
Read MoreApple’s iOS 18 software update is expected to be announced in June 2024 and made available to the public in September of the same year.
Read MoreImage: Netflix The idea of the world ending usually channels excess: humanity running wild because, well, what does it matter anymore? And there’s some of that in Carol & the End of the World, a new animated series on Netflix. But mostly it’s a story about a quiet forty-something woman who uses the impending destruction
Read MoreA new report says Apple’s new OLED iPad Pro in 2024 could come with MagSafe charging.
Read MoreImage: Xfinity Comcast is notifying Xfinity customers of a “data security incident” it says resulted in the theft of customer information, including usernames, passwords, contact information, partial social security numbers, and more. In a notice on Monday, Xfinity said “there was unauthorized access” to its systems from October 16th to October 19th, 2023. BleepingComputer linked
Read MoreImage: Netflix Netflix’s next sci-fi movie has a surprising lead. The streamer just released the first (very brief) teaser for Spaceman, which stars Adam Sandler as an astronaut who encounters a mysterious alien creature (voiced by Paul Dano) while on a research mission in space. The film, directed by Johan Renck, sounds weird and grim
Read MoreSpencer Soper / Bloomberg: An analysis of Amazon’s AI review summaries shows they sometimes mischaracterize products or exaggerate negative feedback, which sellers say can threaten sales — Review summaries created by generative artificial intelligence also sometimes mischaracterize products.
Read MoreAs Goldman Sachs wants out of its Apple Card deal it might be customers who suffer depending on who takes over.
Read MoreRachel Metz / Bloomberg: Boston-based Lightmatter, which uses light for AI computing, adds $155M led by GV to its $154M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, taking its total funding to $420M+ — The AI boom has lifted the startup’s prospects. … Lightmatter said Tuesday that it raised $155 million in a deal led by
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge | Photo by Flexport His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back? Continue reading…
Read MoreOnce upon a time, when the earliest spy satellites were developed, there wasn’t an easy way to send high-quality image data over the air. The satellites would capture images on film and dump out cartridges back to earth with parachutes that would be recovered by military planes. It all sounds so archaic, so Rube Goldberg,
Read MoreThe approval of the first Crispr-based therapy is just the beginning. Getting it to patients is the next hurdle.
Read MoreThe Meta Oversight Board said removing the content could impact “freedom of expression and access to information” in the war. | Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s Oversight Board has criticized the company’s automated moderation tools for being too aggressive after two videos that depicted hostages, injured civilians, and possible casualties in the Israel-Hamas
Read MoreSony is one of those rare OEMs that has stuck to its vision of offering the best set of features for photographers and audiophiles, even when the rest of the industry has moved on. But how well does its most recent flagship compare to the de-facto choice for many photography enthusiasts? We pit the Sony
Read MoreThousands of beta iPhone apps and games have appeared online dating back more than a decade.
Read MoreWouldn’t you know it — the best Xbox Series X deal ever just dropped to bring some festive cheer. If that weren’t enough, ordering the gaming console from Amazon in the next few hours might even get it to you in time for Christmas Day. What a last-minute gift that would make to the gamer
Read MoreAs a ban is due to hit the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US, here are the best ways to get one for yourself.
Read MoreColorful and magical iPad app Lost in Play is a refreshing take on standard point and click adventures.
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