While YouTube Music might not be as popular as Spotify or Apple Music, it’s still something a lot of people depend on for daily listening. Going without it can feel like a minor crisis, especially for those of us who use it to survive the workday or long commutes. With that in mind, here’s a
Read MoreHaving only hit the market in October and not seeing big Black Friday markdowns, we weren’t expecting to see much price movement on the Garmin Venu 3S until at least the new year. But we’ll never say no to a surprise Monday deal, and one model of the highly rated wearable is on sale for
Read MoreKris Holt / Engadget: Apple releases iOS 17.2, with a Journal app, Qi2 support on iPhone 13 and 14, and 15 Pro spatial video capture, alongside macOS, tvOS, watchOS, iPadOS updates — Software updates for all of Apple’s platforms, including the Mac and Apple Watch, are live. — After several weeks of testing …
Read MoreNow…they are together. | Image: Paramount Plus The Showtime cable network feels like it’s in a quantum state, both very much dead and very much alive. Only, I think more people will understand quantum states than what’s going on with the network this week, which is now being renamed Paramount Plus with Showtime. Try to
Read MoreImage: The Verge Reddit says it has “restored services” after a major outage that, depending on the situation, stopped posts and comments from loading. I had observed a few different issues. When logged out, I couldn’t see any posts or comments at all; I would just get an error message or a blank page under
Read MoreIf there’s one city which can truly claim to be the powerhouse of high-tech manufacturing here in the 21st century, it’s the Chinese city of Shenzhen. It’s likely that few people don’t own something made in that city or with parts that have passed through companies in the legendary electronic component markets of its Huaqiangbei
Read MorePew Research Center: US teens survey: 93% use YouTube, 63% use TikTok, 60% use Snapchat, 59% use Instagram, and 33% use Facebook; ~33% use at least one of these “almost constantly” — YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram remain the most widely used online platforms among U.S. teens
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Samsung Display may have reorganized to improve the efficiency of its foldable display development. The move is believed to be in anticipation of Apple’s first foldable products. Apple could be considering using Samsung’s display technology for its foldables. Samsung Display is one of Apple’s main display suppliers. In fact,
Read MoreSony’s new Access controller is a welcome addition to accessible hardware solutions. But its high price tag is a reminder of the cost that gamers bear simply for being disabled.
Read MoreApple’s Vision Pro will go on sale in early 2024 and Apple Stores are starting to get ready for the in-store experience.
Read MoreBlack Friday may be well behind us, but just as some brands started their sales well before the event, a number of sales are still running throughout the holiday period. Bose still has many top audio devices at their Black Friday prices, including this all-time low on the Bose SoundLink Revolve II Bluetooth speaker. It’s
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Beeper says “Beeper Mini is back” but now requires users to log in with their Apple ID, as phone number registration doesn’t work; Beeper makes the service free — Just days after its debut, Beeper Mini was seemingly killed by Apple. Now, the iMessage app for Android is back, but how
Read MoreMany inventions happen not by design but through failure. They don’t happen through the failure directly, but because someone was paying attention and remembered the how and why of the failure, and learns from this. One of these inventions is Super Glue, the adhesive that every tinkerer and engineer has to hand to stick pretty
Read MoreImage: Beeper The faceoff between Apple and Beeper has entered another round. Days after Apple managed to block Beeper Mini from seamlessly sending and receiving iMessages on Android, Beeper says the app is up and running again — sort of. See, Beeper Mini works a little differently this time: you must now sign in with
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s iOS 17.2 update is now available for recent iPhones. The update includes Apple’s new Journal app, which is designed to get you writing about events in your life with prompts that draw from data on your phone as well
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Armada, which aims to bring AI grade computing to remote places like oil rigs using Starlink, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a nearly $250M valuation — Led by former DataRobot CEO Dan Wright, one-year-old Armada is leveraging a “close collaboration” with Elon Musk’s SpaceX …
Read MoreThis week, Taylor Swift was named Time’s Person of the Year. QAnon conspiracy theorists say it’s all part of a psyop to alter the trajectory of the 2024 election.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Most of today’s biggest music releases already come with a Dolby Atmos mix alongside the traditional stereo version, but Apple is apparently determined to increase the format’s adoption even further. Bloomberg is today reporting that the company is planning to give “added weighting” to songs that offer an
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The autonomous vehicle industry is in trouble and is looking for help from an unlikely source: US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. A coalition of lobbying groups sent Buttigieg a letter last week imploring him to support AV development or risk being outpaced by China. The subtext, of course,
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is planning yet another live sports event — and this time, it’s a tennis match pitting veteran tennis player Rafael Nadal against Carlos Alcaraz, who’s currently ranked number two in the world. The streamer is calling the event The Netflix Slam, and it will air on March
Read MoreIn the “don’t try this at home” category, [Joe Smith] builds a spark gap transmitter with a twist. The twist is that the drive power is from a signal generator attached to a FET. From there, though, things go classic using an automotive ignition coil and a tank circuit. He shows how adjusting the spark
Read MoreAlex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Elon Musk reinstated the X account of Alex Jones over the weekend, then welcomed the conspiracy-spreading radio host back to the platform by participating in a live interview with him. During the course of Musk’s hour-and-a-half appearance on the call, Jones blamed his
Read MoreThe Discover Samsung Winter Sale is off to a flying start today. While your eyes might be immediately drawn to the sizeable savings on the biggest ticket items, we’re more keen to spotlight the tempting Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE deals available. With the right trade-in, you could pick up the new Samsung tablet for
Read MoreFinancial Times: Dealroom: Nvidia is the most active large-scale investor in AI startups in 2023, excluding accelerator funds like YC, with 35 deals, almost 6x more than in 2022 — US chipmaker takes stakes in groups that are also its customers in effort to ‘lock up the market’
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google may be working on a new AI project called “Project Ellmann.” Project Ellmann would use a person’s phone data to provide a “bird’s-eye view” of that person’s life. Project Ellmann would reportedly be able to describe a user’s photos more deeply by using biographies, previous moments, and
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