Leaked images of the new Samsung S24 Ultra and standard S24. | Image: Windows Report This is the time of year when Samsung unwillingly has major details of its flagship Galaxy S line of phones leaked out months before they launch. So it will come as no surprise that we’ve now got details on the
Read MoreTechCrunch: Filing: hackers accessed 0.1% of user accounts in 23andMe’s data breach that the company disclosed in October 2023; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023 — Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach.
Read MoreGoogle chief legal officer Kent Walker. | Photo By Alex Zea/Europa Press via Getty Images Judge James Donato is overseeing Epic v. Google, a case that could determine the future of the Android app store — but testimony in this case may have more repercussions for Google too. On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate
Read MoreThe piano has been around for a long time now. Not long after its invention, humans started contemplating how they could avoid playing it by getting a machine to do the job instead. [vicenzobit] is the latest to take on this task, building a “Robot Pianista” that uses a simple mechanism to play a tune
Read MoreNeedless to say, a malfunctioning microphone is a major problem on any kind of Android phone. While a lot of people confine their conversations to messaging apps these days, you’re almost inevitably going to be taking an honest-to-goodness voice call at some point. If your mic isn’t hearing you, there are a few things you
Read MoreJava Development Kit 22, due in March 2024 as the next version of Java Standard Edition, has grown to include 12 features, with a second preview of scoped values and a preview of stream gatherers being the latest additions. Oracle said the feature set for JDK 22 will be frozen by December 7. Scoped values
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Read MoreIllustration: The Verge We still don’t know the whole story around the conflict between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the company’s board, but more and more is leaking out. A new report, from The New Yorker, alleges that OpenAI’s old board deliberately excluded Microsoft after initially voting to expel Sam Altman as CEO, and they
Read MoreJava Development Kit 22, due in March 2024 as the next version of Java Standard Edition, has grown to include 12 features, with a second preview of scoped values and a preview of stream gatherers being the latest additions. Oracle said the feature set for JDK 22 will be frozen by December 7. Scoped values
Read MoreAt AWS’ annual re:Invent conference this week, CEO Adam Selipsky and other top executives announced new services and updates to attract burgeoning enterprise interest in generative AI systems and take on rivals including Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and IBM. AWS, the largest cloud service provider in terms of market share, is looking to capitalize on growing
Read MoreBloomberg: An in-depth look at China’s efforts to help Huawei build a self-sufficient chip supply chain via a network of enterprises backed by Shenzhen’s investment fund — Less than five years after US sanctions nearly crippled Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese giant is now Beijing’s most important weapon …
Read MoreWith offerings like Rap Sh!t and The Gilded Age, Max is a streaming paradise of “it’s not TV” television.
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is enlisting the help of one of its biggest rivals to shuttle its Project Kuiper internet satellites into space. The company will use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket for three launches beginning in 2025, Amazon announced on Friday. Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite program that could eventually provide users across
Read MoreBloomberg: Amazon signs a SpaceX contract for three Falcon 9 rocket launches, set to begin in mid-2025, to help put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation into orbit — – Amazon’s Project Kuiper has been delayed by rocket setbacks — Company also aims to use rockets from ULA, Bezos’ Blue Origin
Read MoreAuthorities hope AirTags will help residents track stolen jackets
Read MoreJez Corden / Windows Central: Phil Spencer says Microsoft has “no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo” after Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants to target “every screen” — In our exclusive interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, we got a glimpse of the future of Xbox …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gmail experienced some issues with delayed emails twice this week: on Thursday and again on Friday. On Thursday at 12:31PM ET, Google wrote on Gmail’s Workspace Status Dashboard that “customers impacted by this issue may see delay in sending the emails,” but at 5:03PM ET, the company posted
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A French research team with EURECOM has discovered a scary Bluetooth security flaw. Using a brute-force attack, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) operator could spoof two connected devices using Bluetooth 4.2 or newer. The Bluetooth SIG has acknowledged the flaw and made suggestions for OEMs to keep consumers safe. With smartphones
Read MoreImage: Amazon Well this friggin’ sucks. If you have a Fire TV product of some kind, you’ve probably noticed in the last few weeks that every time you turn on the device, a full-screen ad plays instead of displaying the homescreen. At first, I thought it was some kind of mistake on my part. That
Read MoreAssociated Press: A councilman for the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre reveals that a resolution that the city council approved unanimously in October 2023 was written by ChatGPT — City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence …
Read MoreA federal court ruled on Friday that Trump, as president, may be able to avoid civil action for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. But candidate Trump is something different.
Read MoreSustained radio emissions originating from high over a sunspot are getting researchers thinking in new directions. Unlike solar radio bursts — which typically last only minutes or hours — these have persisted for over a week. They resemble auroral radio emissions observed in planetary magnetospheres and some stars, but seeing them from about 40,000 km
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky rolls out “more advanced” automated moderation tools, along with moderation lists, which let users mute or block many users at once, user lists, more — Bluesky, the startup aiming to build a decentralized social network to take on Twitter/X, says it has begun deploying …
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Semafor: Google reaches a $27M settlement with employees who accused the company of unfair labor practices in a 2016 lawsuit stemming from Nest terminating an employee — Google has reached a $27 million settlement with employees who accused the tech giant of unfair labor practices …
Read MoreThanks to a wildly popular ruleset, a new movie, and celebrity endorsements, Dungeons & Dragons has gone totally mainstream.
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