Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Android apps are about to get better built-in passkey support. Google announced in a developer blog post last week that Credential Manager, a new Android-specific API for storing credentials like username and password combinations and passkeys, is going public on November 1st. Credential Manager, which has been in
Read MoreDIY electric personal vehicles are a field where even hobbyists can meaningfully innovate, and that’s demonstrated by the Mega-Wheelie, a self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard constructed as an experiment in traversing off-road conditions. [John Dingley] and [Nick Thatcher] have been building and testing self-balancing electric vehicles since 2008, with a beach being a common testing ground. They
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Open. Close. Open. Close. The Google Pixel Fold is the world’s most expensive fidget toy in my hands. But I can’t help myself; it’s just addictive. Two weeks ago, the Android Authority team’s Pixel Fold made it to me. My first impressions were both better and worse than
Read MoreFoo Yun Chee / Reuters: Document: the G7 plans to agree to a voluntary, 11-point code of conduct on October 30 for companies developing advanced AI systems, seeking to mitigate risks — The Group of Seven industrial countries will on Monday agree a code of conduct for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence systems …
Read MoreOpinion post by Ryan Haines If you’re eyeing up a foldable phone, there’s a good chance you want to run two apps at a time. Maybe you even want to add a third to achieve peak productivity. The only problem is that most foldables default to cramming extra apps into smaller and smaller windows, making
Read MoreThe Guardian: UK Minister for Policing Chris Philp encourages the police to double its use of retrospective facial recognition software by May 2024 to track down offenders — Policing minister Chris Philp suggests target of more than 200,000 searches over next six months
Read MoreGetting married? Having a kid? Getting gifts to mark the milestone is easier with an online registry—but not all are made equally.
Read MoreImage: Apple I’m trying to remember the last time a company’s big event came for prime time TV the way Apple’s 8pm ET keynote is trying to lock down our attention tomorrow. The only company I can think of that’s done it successfully lately is Victoria’s Secret with its Fashion Show. While I suspect there’s
Read MoreThe FCC is circulating a proposal for new rules pertaining to amateur radio in the United States. In particular, they want to remove certain baud rate restrictions that have been in place since 1980. It appears the relaxed rules would apply only to some bands, notably some VHF and UHF bands along with the 630
Read MoreGetting married? Having a kid? Getting gifts to mark the milestone is easier with an online registry—but not all are made equally.
Read MoreWith each new season, the allure of Love Is Blind or The Real Housewives is both what is happening on our screens as much as what is happening beyond them.
Read MoreMathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 12, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome. I’m so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been testing the Superlist
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani Apple’s announcement earlier this year that it was foraying into the journaling app ecosystem was not entirely surprising; mental health and wellness are increasingly central to the company’s software decisions. The introduction of Mindfulness capture in Watch OS 10 and iOS 17 is just
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at physics-informed machine learning approaches, which are in the early stages and can help AI tackle hard problems in robotics, science, and engineering — Adding what we know about the real world to artificial intelligence can make it more effective at solving some of the hardest and
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at physics-informed machine learning approaches, which are in the early stages and can help AI tackle hard problems in robotics, science, and engineering — Adding what we know about the real world to artificial intelligence can make it more effective at solving some of the hardest and
Read MoreThis astonishingly expensive 8K TV is among the prettiest you can buy.
Read MoreThese apps can help you slow your mindless scrolling—or put it to good use.
Read MoreNo, you probably shouldn’t spend $5,000 on this folding OLED laptop.
Read MoreHackaday Supercon 2023 is a week away, and if you’re still thinking about the equipment you need to take with you, here’s something you’ll want to print – a case for the Supercon 2023 badge that you will find inside of your goodie bag. This year’s Supercon badge is a gorgeous analog playground board we
Read MoreStefanos Kasselakis is the darling of the country’s media, with a celebrity status forged on social media. But how much of his carefully crafted image is real?
Read MoreWashington Post: A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as a hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes — The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.” He has succeeded at only one of those goals.
Read MoreFabric must be cut before it can be turned into something else, and [fiercekittenz] shows how a laser cutter can hit all the right bases to save a lot of time on the process. She demonstrates processing three layers of fabric at once on a CO2 laser cutter, cutting three bags’ worth of material in
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Hands-on with Apple’s Journal, a very basic journaling app, with an interesting Moments page, which uses the Suggestions API for prompting users to add entries — The Apple Journal app is so simple that, at first, it felt like I was missing something. The whole app is just one screen
Read MoreThat EPROMs, EEPROMs and kin can be used as programmable logic should probably not come as a major surprise, but [Jimmy] has created a Lisp-based project that makes using these chips as a logic array very straightforward. All it takes is importing the package into one’s Lisp project and defining the logic, before the truth
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