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A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on changing tech gadget reviews, business strategies, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on changing tech gadget reviews, business strategies, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more — Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them. Inside the humble workshop with the power …

The best apps for Google Pixel 8: FlashDim, Google One, and more

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro bring an improved camera experience, a faster SoC, and a whole host of improvements that will take your Android 14 experience to new heights. Whether you’ve already pre-ordered your Pixel 8 or are just curious, we’ve picked out the five best apps

Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?

Illustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to start a company together? They spend most of their time grappling with one looming problem: climate change. In 2020, Gilwoo Lee, the robotics expert, and Casey Call, the farmer, founded Zordi, an agricultural platform that

A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol

It’s still early days for a novel form of gene therapy called base editing, but this small study in people with extremely high cholesterol shows striking results.

Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action (Reuters)

Reuters: Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that’s …

Uber is testing a service that lets you hire drivers for chores

I guess that means your Uber driver can collect you from Ikea and then build your furniture when you get home. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is experimenting with a new service that allows users to hire drivers from its app to complete everyday household chores and projects, in a bid

D-POINT: A Digital Pen with Optical-Inertial Tracking

[Jcparkyn] clearly had an interesting topic for their thesis project, and was conscientious enough to write up a chunk of it and release it to the wild. The project in question is a digital pen that uses some neat sensor fusion to combine the inputs from a pen-mounted gyro/accelerometer with data from an optical tracking

Ann McKee Is on a Quest to Save Humanity’s Brains

The medical community’s leading authority on traumatic brain injuries wants to make contact sports—which she loves—safer for everyone.

TikTok Is the New TV

A new series is premiering this week on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. It’s a move that shows how studios are dipping into social video as more people watch on their phones.

Màkku Review: an Ancient Korean Libation Transformed for the Modern Drinker

With its sleek cans and fruity flavors, Màkku wants to pour more makgeolli—an alcoholic rice-based drink long loved by Koreans—into the American market.

Counterpoint: Chinese smartphone sales grew 11% YoY in October, led by Huawei, up 83% due to the Mate 60, and Xiaomi, up 33%; iPhone sales were unusually muted (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Counterpoint: Chinese smartphone sales grew 11% YoY in October, led by Huawei, up 83% due to the Mate 60, and Xiaomi, up 33%; iPhone sales were unusually muted — – Inventory glut that plagued industry now in rear view mirror — Domestic brands picked up the slack while iPhone struggled

A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master (James Somers/New Yorker)

James Somers / New Yorker: A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for

Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge “gatekeeper” status under the EU DMA, ahead of a November 16 deadline to object; sources say TikTok may challenge (Reuters)

Reuters: Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge “gatekeeper” status under the EU DMA, ahead of a November 16 deadline to object; sources say TikTok may challenge — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier …

The Amazon Fire smart TV Black Friday offers start at just $109.99

Amazon is giving you the chance to get your holiday shopping early, with the Fire smart TV Black Friday deals already underway. Some of the smart TV models are almost 50% off, with prices starting at just $109.99. If you’re on some streaming or gaming this winter, these display upgrades are well worth a look.

Latest US climate assessment shows the extreme toll taken by climate change

Homes and businesses in Lahaina, Maui, are in ruins on August 16th, 2023, after a devastating wildfire swept through town. | Photo by Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Climate disasters are costing the US billions of dollars a year, and the damage isn’t spread out evenly, according to a new national

Large language models: The foundations of generative AI

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Bard, and Llama 2 have caught the public’s imagination and garnered a wide variety of reactions. This article looks behind the hype to help you understand the origins of large language models, how they’re built and trained, and the range of tasks they are specialized for. We’ll also

Everyone in cloud computing is scurrying to find a genAI strategy

Generative AI has emerged as the focus of this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. In most cloud computing conferences this year, GenAI has dominated keynote presentations and shed light on the evolution of cloud-native platforms. Most companies who took the stage at KubeCon announced that they already leverage cloud-native platforms to support generative AI applications and

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B, net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers the outlook for its components business to flat YoY (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B, net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers the outlook for its components business to flat YoY — – It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter

Top500: the AMD-powered Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 Exaflop/s, fending off the Argonne National Laboratory’s Intel-powered Aurora (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Top500: the AMD-powered Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 Exaflop/s, fending off the Argonne National Laboratory’s Intel-powered Aurora — Intel’s oft-delayed Aurora remains a work in progress. — The Top500 organization released its semi-annual list of the fastest supercomputers …

Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers are collecting browsing data in much more detail than previously known, including for those in sensitive jobs (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers are collecting browsing data in much more detail than previously known, including for those in sensitive jobs — Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story

Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.

YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they upload realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including videos made using its tools, in 2024 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they upload realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including videos made using its tools, in 2024 — Site’s creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google …

Uber rolls out new tools in the US to identify riders or Uber Eats users who consistently give bad ratings to get refunds, to cut down on unfair deactivations (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Uber rolls out new tools in the US to identify riders or Uber Eats users who consistently give bad ratings to get refunds, to cut down on unfair deactivations — Uber is introducing new features geared toward addressing the issues of unfair deactivations that ride-hail and delivery drivers often face.

YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube will have two sets of content guidelines for AI-generated deepfakes: a very strict set of rules to protect the platform’s music industry partners, and another, looser set for everyone else. That’s the explicit distinction laid out today in a company blog post, which goes through the platform’s

Finally! You can now delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Threads finally lets you delete your account without affecting your Instagram account. You can now also choose whether your Threads posts will be surfaced on other Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Threads arrived in the market earlier this year as a direct competitor to X/Twitter. Meta’s newest social

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