[Justine Tunney]’s printimage.com is a program capable of splatting full-color images to text mode terminal sessions, but that’s not even its neatest trick. It’s also a small binary executable capable of running on six different operating systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. All without having to be installed or otherwise compiled first. On
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge People worldwide have reported trouble connecting to Netflix and a strange “tvq-pb-101” error message starting at around 5PM ET until the issue was resolved at around 8PM ET. Given the service’s global availability and massive subscriber base, small outages are common, but what we saw on Monday evening
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing
Read MoreEnthusiasts of machine learning (ML) can celebrate as the highly anticipated NetMind Power platform has been launched for community input. The NetMind development crew looks forward to receiving valuable insights from ML researchers, engineers, and the NetMind community for their pioneering decentralized AI model training platform. This revolutionary platform aims to create a more inclusive
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: A US judge upholds Texas’ TikTok ban on state devices, rejecting a lawsuit filed by The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in July 2023 — A U.S. judge on Monday upheld Texas’ ban on state employees’, including public university employees, using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok …
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal — Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.
Read MoreA jury in San Francisco unanimously found that Google stifled competition for its app store. A judge will now decide on what fixes to require at the company, but appeals could delay the impact of the case for years.
Read MorePhoto illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Philip Pacheco, Bloomberg, Getty Images The jury has returned a verdict, and it’s in Epic’s favor — follow the updates live here. Continue reading…
Read MoreBicycles are the most efficient machines for moving a person around, and wireless drivetrains have been heralded as a way to make shifting more consistent and require less maintenance. [Blake Samson] wondered if the same could be true of wireless brakes. Inspired by the controller for an RC car, [Blake] picked a 150 kg servo
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Ford told its dealers that it was reducing weekly production of its F-150 Lightning pickup truck next year in response to slowing customer demand, Automotive News reports. According to a memo viewed by the outlet, Ford told its dealers to prepare for an average production volume of 1,600
Read MoreNetflix Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai animated series from co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green has turned out to be one of this year’s surprise hits, and the streamer already has plans to keep the momentum going with a second season. Blue Eye Samurai’s season 1 finale made it fairly obvious that Noizumi and Green still
Read MoreAnna Baydakova / The Block: Filing: FTX asks the US IRS to substantiate its unpaid taxes claim against the company; the IRS lowered the amount from $44B in April 2023 to $24B in November — – FTX lawyers are asking the IRS to show how it calculated what it says is $24 billion of unpaid
Read MoreJetBrains has released an AI-powered coding companion, AI Assistant, which is available to paid users of JetBrains IDEs including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, PhpStorm, ReSharper, and Fleet by subscription. Unveiled December 6, AI Assistant can explain code, answer questions about code, generate code and code completion suggestions, generate documentation, explain commits and generate commit messages, and
Read MoreNetflix Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai animated series from co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green has turned out to be one of this year’s surprise hits, and the streamer already has plans to keep the momentum going with a second season. Blue Eye Samurai’s season 1 finale made it fairly obvious that Noizumi and Green still
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google is about to fully move on from the Google Play Movies & TV. It had already moved Android and iOS users to the Google TV app, removed the app from every Roku and most smart TVs, and pulled the app from Android TV in October. In a recently published support document,
Read MoreGoogle and Actiontec worked together to make this Wi-Fi 7 router to with with the 20-gig service. | Image: Google Google is rolling out its 20-gig internet service offering to Fiber customers in select markets, with installations starting in Q1 2024. The ridiculously high-speed residential connection, first announced in October, also throws in the latest
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google may be working on a new feature for the Google Messages app. Code within a beta version of the Google Messages app suggests Google may allow users to edit their messages. From UI changes to the inclusion of HDR, Google has been making quite a few adjustments to
Read MoreStadia controllers could only connect through Wi-Fi when they launched. Google allowed Stadia controller owners to switch the controller to Bluetooth mode back in January 2023. Stadia controllers will essentially become useless if they aren’t switched to Bluetooth mode before December 31, 2023. Although the game streaming platform known as Stadia is long gone, Google’s
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Cath Virginia / The Verge A collection of cool, calming, and creative gifts to show your appreciation for that special maternal figure in your life. Continue reading…
Read MoreCompeting bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties.
Read MoreCredit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Beeper Mini is back up after Apple blocked the app for security reasons. Beeper Mini now requires users to sign in with an Apple ID. Users will also now have to send and receive messages through their email address until a fix comes. Just last week, there appeared to
Read MoreResult of winding a carbon fiber tube. (Credit: Andrew Reilley) Carbon fiber (CF) is an amazing material that provides a lot of strength for very little weight, making it very useful for a lot of applications, ranging from rods in CoreXY 3D printers to model- and full-sized rockets. The model rocketry hobby is the reason
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle Q2: revenue up 5% YoY to $12.94B, vs. $13.05B est., net income up 44% to $2.5B, and cloud and on-prem license revenue down 18% to $1.18B; ORCL drops 8%+ — – Oracle’s revenue came up short in three operating segments. — The stock tumbled in after-hours trading.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has announced it is rolling out the second Android 14 QPR2 beta. The latest beta update fixes a few bugs and optimizes performance and stability. The update is available for the Pixel 5a and up, as well as the Pixel Fold and Tablet. If you’re brave enough to
Read MoreWhile C# fell short of Tiobe’s Programming Language of the Year honors for 2022, Tiobe expects the Microsoft-built object-oriented, type-safe language to snag the honor for 2023. Tiobe will announce the winning programming language in January. Tiobe gives Programming Language of the Year honors to the language with the most growth year over year in
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