Toho In the months before The Boy and The Heron’s Japanese debut, Studio Ghibli made a point of keeping details about the latest animated feature from Hayao Miyazaki to a minimum. For those who’ve been trying to avoid spoilers, it’s definitely gotten trickier what with all the buzz coming from its run on the film
Read MoreJared Newman / TechHive: Amazon adds advertisements for physical products, such as earbuds, to Fire TV’s top feature carousel, which until now has only promoted streaming video content — Amazon will hawk products straight from the top carousel and bring ads into search results. — CORD-CUTTER CONFIDENTIAL
Read MoreAfter plenty of beta releases, Samsung has finally begun rolling out One UI 6 to the stable branch, starting with the Galaxy S23 series. One UI 6 is an iterative update that builds upon the vast changelog of previous One UI features. But is it a good update? Are there enough meaningful changes in One
Read MoreBloomberg: The FTC says Jeff Bezos personally ordered Amazon execs to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to 2022 — – FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
Read MoreThis keyboard has everything: trackpoint, gesture pads, real thick keycaps, Bluetooth — everything but Topre switches. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Apple Corps Today marks the release of the first “new” song by the Beatles since 1995. “Now and Then” is available on streaming services (with an Atmos mix where supported), and the story behind the song’s production is one that’s drawn a lot of interest from fans of the iconic rock band. Paul McCartney
Read MoreQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon confirmed there will be at least some Samsung Galaxy S24 Exynos models. This means the all-Qualcomm-everywhere format of the Galaxy S23 series will not carry over into 2024. We are still unclear on how, exactly, the family will split. For the past few months, there have been a lot of conflicting
Read MoreThe Hidden Treasures of Area Zero: The Indigo Disk key art. | Nintendo / The Pokémon Company If the first half of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Hidden Treasures of Area Zero DLC felt a little short and left you hankering for more ninth-generation adventures, worry not, because the second half is just a few short
Read MoreIt may only be the start of November, but Verizon is keen to drip-feed its holiday offers this year, starting with a real gem if you’ve got a dusty old Apple device lying around. As of today, new Verizon customers or existing customers adding a new line on the Unlimited Ultimate plan can trade in
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: After a security incident at Okta’s healthcare coverage provider Rightway, Okta warns around 5,000 employees that hackers may have accessed their personal info — Okta is warning nearly 5,000 employees that the company was impacted by a data breach that exposed personal information.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago, one of the most sophisticated cybersecurity attacks we’ve ever seen. Then, 30,000 organizations’ email servers were hacked in 2021 thanks to a Microsoft Exchange Server flaw. If that
Read MoreFollowing a string of serious security incidents, Microsoft says it has a plan to deal with escalating threats from cybercriminals and state-backed hackers.
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: After major Azure attacks, Microsoft launches the Secure Future Initiative, with plans to use AI and automation to identify vulnerabilities and respond faster — Microsoft has had a rough few years of cybersecurity incidents. It found itself at the center of the SolarWinds attack nearly three years ago …
Read MoreImage: 11 Bit Studios For a while there, first-person exploration games — otherwise known as walking simulators — were all the rage. There were titles like Gone Home, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture that were basically FPS games without the guns, allowing players to explore spaces from a
Read MoreIt’s hard to not dig the Elite Series 2’s stealthy looks if you’re into all-black hardware. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Microsoft’s Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 is a very cool controller for those who want to game on an Xbox or PC with something a little fancier and a
Read MoreJay Goldberg / Digits to Dollars: Apple’s M3 series shows a return to core messaging themes around user human usability; producing three M3 chips likely has to be close to $1B in tape-out costs — Earlier this week Apple unveiled the latest in its line of CPUs – the M3 family. There has been a
Read MoreHugh Son / CNBC: Amazon plans to roll out a BNPL checkout option for Amazon Business users by November 24 via its Affirm partnership, with loans ranging from $100 to $20,000 — – Amazon is rolling out its first buy now, pay later checkout option for the millions of small business owners who use its
Read MoreImage: Mint Mint, the budgeting app owned by Intuit, is shutting down. Intuit announced on Tuesday that Mint will get absorbed into Intuit’s other service, Credit Karma, when it officially goes away on January 1st, 2024 (via Bloomberg). But it’s still not clear whether Credit Karma will get the budgeting features that Mint is known
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Read MoreIlya Banares / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.71B, beating $1.68B est., a $56.2B GMV, beating $54.42B est., and expects ~25% 2023 revenue growth; SHOP jumps 18%+ — Revenue for the period came in at $1.71 billion, up about 25% year-over-year and beating the $1.68 billion average estimate of analysts surveyed
Read MoreJulie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: AI-generated nudes of female students at a high school in New Jersey, shared by male students in a group chat, cause major concern among parents and teachers — After boys shared faked pornographic images made of female classmates, both the school and the local police began investigating
Read MoreImage: KIUC Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. Now, it’s ready to go up a few sizes. The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture founded by the former chief technologist of Tesla announced today that it will help decommission and recycle a 4MWh stationary storage substation in Kauai, Hawaii, as part
Read MoreThe Matic is an $1,800 home robot that claims to be the first fully autonomous floor-cleaning robot. | Image: Matic The Matic is a new robot vacuum with a different approach to cleaning your floors. Built by two former Google Nest engineers, it’s designed to move around your home in the same way most humans
Read MoreLenovo teamed up with fashion designers to make outerwear for carrying—and using—its Android tablets outside the home.
Read MoreSheena Vasani / The Verge: YouTube begins restricting how often teens receive repeated video recommendations related to sensitive topics like body image — Starting November 2nd, YouTube will impose restrictions on how often teens receive repeated video recommendations related to sensitive topics like body image, the company announced on Thursday.
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