Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Netflix is at an all-time high. Disney is cracking down on password sharing. And Apple TV Plus has doubled its prices. Will the streaming squeeze ever end? Continue reading…
Read More[Crispernaki] and I have something in common. We both saw this awesome project that made a scroll wheel out of a VHS head back in 2010, and wanted to make one. We both wanted to put our own spin on the gadget, (tee-hee), discovered that it was harder than either of us wanted to commit
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Semafor: Q&A with Discord’s head of trust and safety John Redgrave on the content moderation challenges in the age of generative AI, exploring E2EE on Discord, and more — Discord, the online messaging platform that started as a haven for gamers, became better known earlier this year as the site …
Read MoreRazer’s latest BlackWidow is a bold step into the world of custom mechanical keyboards.
Read MoreAs the first known cases of H5N1 are detected in the region, scientists fear for the isolated penguin and seal populations that have never been exposed.
Read MoreImage: Sega With Sonic Superstars, I’m starting to get the feeling I’ve been here before. In Sonic’s return to the 2D format, there’s a good game here with lots of moments where I was pleased to see the innovation of Sonic Team shining through. These ideas were, unfortunately, buried in slower-than-it-should-be-for-a-Sonic-game moments with technical issues
Read MorePlus: Details emerge of a US government social media-scanning tool that flags “derogatory” speech, and researchers find vulnerabilities in the global mobile communications network.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple and Google are two brands that pride themself on best-in-class camera phones. They’ve built reputations on it and continue to play to this strength with the latest iPhone 15 Pro and Pixel 8 Pro. This begs the question: if you have $999 to spend on your next smartphone
Read MoreThe Journal app itself is incredibly basic — it’s the Moments page that’s really interesting. | Image: David Pierce / Apple The Apple Journal app is so simple that, at first, it felt like I was missing something. The whole app is just one screen: a reverse-chronological timeline of your journal entries, with a big
Read MorePlus: Details emerge of a US government social media-scanning tool that flags “derogatory” speech, and researchers find vulnerabilities in the global mobile communications network.
Read MoreMetalworking has always been very much a “mixed method” art. Forging, welding, milling, grinding; anything to remove metal or push it around from one place to another is fair game when you’ve got to make something fast. Adding in fancy new tools like CNC plasma cutting and computer-aided drafting doesn’t change that much, although new
Read MoreThe new compact mode in the Xbox app. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft has started testing new updates to its Xbox app on Windows 11 that improve the experience on handheld devices and smaller screens. In an Xbox test app released earlier this week, Microsoft has introduced a new compact mode
Read MoreGet more out of Valve’s handheld gaming console with these external batteries, protective cases, and storage upgrades.
Read MoreWill Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A profile of, and interview with, OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who made a “superalignment” team to safely build and control superintelligent AI models — “It’s going to be monumental, earth-shattering. There will be a before and an after.” — Ilya Sutskever, head bowed, is deep in thought.
Read MoreRFID tags are great little pieces of technology, but unfortunately, the combination of paper, metal, and silicon means they are as bad as some modern pregnancy tests — single-use electronic devices that can’t be recycled. Some prototypes of the RFID tags. A team of design program graduates from London’s Royal College of Art aim to
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it’ll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content” — Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers to create different apps and
Read MoreMore than 220 people are believed to have been kidnapped and taken to Gaza by Hamas. Their loved ones are trying to trace them using every grain of information they can find.
Read MoreOpenAI’s new image generator is powerful and flawed. Here’s how to use the beta feature in ChatGPT Plus, and some advice for getting started.
Read MoreGrab a slice of Black Friday in October with these sales on our favorite Sonos hardware, Samsung TVs, and mirrorless cameras.
Read MoreThe ranks of doomsday preppers have swelled since the pandemic, with many stocking up on freeze-dried rations in case things go bad.
Read MoreAdafruit’s PropMaker Feather is a microcontroller board designed specifically for building props with electronic features. Thus, what better way to show it off than by building a nifty replica of the most menacing AI ever to roam this solar system? That’s right, it’s the Adafruit HAL9000 build! Following the 80/20 rule, this version is intended
Read MoreCivilians in Israel can get mobile alerts of incoming rockets from apps that relay data from the Israel Defense Forces. Gaza has no early warning system, or internet access.
Read MoreFinancial Times: SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of the full financial state of his companies and was “surprised” by FTX’s $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022 — Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers in testimony to the jury at trial
Read MoreFor better or worse, most drivers for PC-related hardware like RGB components and fan controllers are built for Windows and aren’t generally of the highest quality. They’re often proprietary and clunky, and even if they aren’t a total mess they generally won’t work on Linux machines at all, or even on a headless setup regardless
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