Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties on NFT sales — Magic Eden’s new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties. What does that mean for traders?
Read MoreThe WH-1000XM5s are still the best pair of headphones you can get, even if Sony’s naming convention is still terrible. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Peace and quiet can be hard to come by, whether you’re a parent, a frequent traveler, or someone who has been forced to listen to ongoing construction
Read MoreCredit: Blizzard Entertainment Welcome to the 508th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Once again we bring you the latest news and apps from the previous week. Let’s start with some of the biggest headlines from last week: YouTube was in the news a lot last week. First, it started cracking down on ad-blocking, and then
Read MoreThese British bookshelf speakers have crisp highs fit for an orchestra.
Read MoreAs Lake Powell shrinks, thanks to chronic drought, smallmouth bass are heading downriver, threatening a haven for native species.
Read MoreThe Good Doctor is The Big Bang Theory meets House. Shaun is young, eerily intelligent, and autistic. This means that while he’s usually right about his patients and his heart is pure, he almost always says the wrong thing, much like House. Except House really did like riling people up, while Shaun cannot really help
Read MoreGabor Cselle / Medium: The CEO of Pebble, formerly T2, on why the social network failed: not prioritizing building an app, Threads’ launch, not enough interesting content, and more — Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the
Read MoreWith its latest game, Remedy Entertainment nails a formula that’s been in the making for over 20 years.
Read MoreThese British bookshelf speakers have crisp highs fit for an orchestra.
Read MoreThis slightly watered-down flagship makes some of Xiaomi’s best features more affordable.
Read MoreAlthough BASIC was most commonly used on home computers like the Commodore VIC-20, it was possible to write programs in other languages, such as Forth. Conveniently, all it took to set up a Forth development system was inserting the cartridge into the VIC-20 and powering it on, with the VIC-FORTH cartridge by [Tom Zimmer] being
Read MoreNBC News: On Instagram, journalists and creators inside Gaza see a surge in followers as they document the Israel-Hamas war, even as Meta has broadly moved away from news — One journalist has added more than 12 million followers. The work highlights some of the challenges and dangers of covering the conflict.
Read MoreThe 2023 Halloween Contest might be over, but we saw some great entries and clever modifications bringing projects into the Halloween spirit. One of them is Creepsy by [Hazal Mestci], a Raspberry Pi-based robotic ghost able to autonomously pick people out of a crowd and glide towards them, emitting eerie sounds as it does so.
Read MoreIn the US, Daylight Saving Time ends and the clocks go back one hour on November 5. You know this. Google knows this. But here we all are. Again.
Read MoreNational Sex Toy Day kicks off the holiday season with a bang. These are the best discounts on sex toys you’ll find this weekend.
Read More[Sebastian] describes himself as “a total noob” when it comes to CNC, so in an attempt to get to know his new CNC router, he chose about the most complex possible project — replicating an original Game Boy case in wood. And spoiler alert: he nailed it. Of course, he did have a few things
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company’s plans to remove the benefit — Microsoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January …
Read MoreAside from apparently having both the ability to reproduce on their own and simultaneously never being around when you need one, USB chargers seem innocuous enough. The specs are simple: convert mains voltage to 5 volts, and don’t kill anyone while doing it. Both specs are typically met by most designs, but judging by [DiodeGoneWild]’s
Read MoreYouTube’s new aggressive tactics to disable ad blockers has led to a wave of ad blocker uninstallations, according to data from ad blocker companies. The video platform, owned by Google, escalated efforts last month to crackdown on the popular add-ons used by millions to skip ads. It now uses repeated pop-up messages demanding viewers turn
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: A security researcher says that a Flipper Zero device can carry out DoS attacks on iPhones running iOS 17 by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests — No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth. — One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases — Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being
Read MoreMicrosoft has announced that it will extend the firmware update support for new Surface PCs from four to six years. This change applies to all Surface devices delivered after January 1, 2021, significantly impacting models like the Surface Laptop Studio 1 and 2. Firmware updates play a crucial role in enhancing Windows compatibility, increasing battery
Read More[Max Woolf] has been working in the AI space since 2015, and among other work has created numerous useful open-source tools. He also recently wrote a thoughtful blog post that attempts to put into words his feelings on the state of things in the wake of experiencing a bit of an AI backlash-related burnout. Essentially,
Read MoreElon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is preparing to unveil its first AI model on Saturday, November 4th, the tech mogul and CEO of Tesla announced on Friday. This launch comes almost a year after OpenAI’s conversational AI ChatGPT captivated businesses and users globally, catalyzing widespread adoption of generative AI. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015
Read MoreWashington D.C.’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that 14 of the city’s largest landlords colluded with a property management software company to inflate rental prices across the city artificially. According to a Nov. 1 ArsTechnica report, the civil complaint accuses the landlords of conspiring with RealPage, a Texas-based provider of
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