Dan Primack / Axios: Oxide Computer, which aims to provide on-premise cloud computers, raised a $44M Series A led by Eclipse — Oxide Computer Co., a San Francisco-based developer of on-premise cloud computers, has raised $44 million in Series A funding led by Eclipse. … – Oxide wants to provide the same …
Read MoreBP Pulse charging stations that now include Tesla Supercharger hardware inside. | Image: BP BP is buying $100 million of Supercharger hardware from Tesla, making it the first company to purchase DC fast-charging equipment from the automaker for use in a third-party charging network. The sale is going to the oil and gas conglomerate’s EV
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is reorganizing its Xbox gaming and marketing leadership, less than two weeks after acquiring Activision Blizzard. Microsoft is promoting Matt Booty to president of game content and studios, including the new responsibility of ZeniMax, and Sarah Bond to Xbox president, overseeing all Xbox platform and hardware work.
Read MoreThai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work? Continue reading…
Read MoreJust like the M11, the M11-P comes in a black aluminum body that’s lighter in weight or a silver chromed brass that’s heavier. | Image: Leica Camera The compact and discreet nature of Leica M rangefinder cameras once made them a popular choice for photojournalists, long before autofocus became pretty much a prerequisite. But while
Read MoreImage: Shutterstock Shutterstock will now let you edit its library of images using AI. In an update on Thursday, Shutterstock revealed a set of new AI-powered tools, like Magic Brush, which lets you tweak an image by brushing over an area and “describing what you want to add, replace or erase.” The AI image editor
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is adding a range of new AI-powered features to Maps, including more immersive navigation, easier-to-follow driving directions, and better organized search results. The end result is an experience that will likely remind many users of Google Search. Some of this news has already been announced, like Immersive
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor is now official and on its way to powering, no doubt, some of the best Android smartphones of 2024. While we wait, we grabbed one of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 reference phones and ran our usual suite of performance benchmarks to see
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill becomes law, imposing fines of up to £18M or 10% of global turnover; Ofcom now plans to publish a code of practice — The UK’s Online Safety Bill, a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to make the country “the safest place in the
Read MoreThe second-gen HomePod looks just like the original, but it has an updated driver configuration and slightly better smart home applications. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s flagship HomePod smart speaker rarely goes on sale after returning from the grave, but right now, you can get the white version for $279.99 ($20
Read MoreXiaomi has launched the Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro, the first smartphones with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. They also sport a new Leica Summilux lens and are the first devices to launch with Xiaomi’s new HyperOS UX. As someone who has used the Xiaomi 13 Pro for a few months,
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google begins rolling out new Maps features, including updating search to more easily find things nearby and expanding Immersive View for Routes to new cities — Google is adding a slew of new updates for Maps, including a few AI-powered features that are designed to make it easier for users to
Read MoreMIH’s Project X EV looks like a toy car, but full humans can fit inside. | Image: MIH Don’t give up on the dream of a small electric car just yet. At the Japan Mobility Show 2023, there’s a tiny car designed for city driving and powered by Gogoro scooter batteries that owners can swap
Read MoreSheena Vasani / The Verge: Samsung now offers Galaxy users running One UI 6 a Temporary Cloud Backup feature with unlimited storage for up to 30 days for free, on par with Apple — Samsung is starting to roll out a “Temporary Cloud Backup” feature to Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets running on One UI
Read MoreThe Game Boy Mini Camera, by Christopher Graves. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Game Boy Camera is remembered as a bulbous sphere that sat atop an absolute chonk of a portable gaming machine — but yours doesn’t need to be so huge! Remember the gorgeous Game Boy Mini Camera we introduced
Read MoreDo we live in a simulation? This is one of those questions which has kept at least part of humanity awake at night, and which has led to a number of successful books and movies being made on the subject, topped perhaps by the blockbuster movie The Matrix. Yet the traditional interpretation of the ‘simulated
Read MoreNico Grant / New York Times: Internal Google documents detail plans to contain Apple’s search ambitions after Spotlight’s 2021 update; sources say Google paid Apple $18B for search in 2021 — Google has worried for years that Apple would one day expand its internet search technology, and has been working on ways to prevent that
Read MoreSuvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: JPMorgan’s Global Head of Payments says its blockchain-based JMP Coin now handles $1B in transactions per day and the bank plans to continue to widen its usage — – JPM Coin allows blockchain-based payments by wholesale clients — Token is a rare instance of live blockchain use by a big bank
Read MoreThis week, we talk about how the data of millions of 23andMe customers was stolen and put up for sale. Pro tip: Don’t use the same password on multiple websites.
Read MoreAn objectively good game, the latest Spider-Man title expands on what made its predecessor great—wish fulfillment, emotion, and showing the human side of both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
Read MoreA Greek tragedy in the Southern District of New York. | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Michael M. Santiago, Bloomberg, Klmax, Whyframestudio, Yevgen Romanenko, Pixhook, Peter Dazeley, Jimkruger, Getty Images The prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot of collateral damage. Continue reading…
Read MoreOverwhelmed by keycaps and switch options? The Logitech Pop Keys made getting a colorful mechanical keyboard a breeze.
Read MoreSamsung is rolling out a Temporary Cloud Backup feature. It offers users unlimited storage for a maximum of 30 days. Samsung believes this should make transferring data between two devices a little easier. Finding enough storage to back up a smartphone, even for a few weeks, can be tricky. To simplify this task, Samsung is
Read MoreWashington Post: Although creators are an economic juggernaut in the US, the industry remains broadly unregulated and largely fails to appear in the Census Bureau’s job index — The U.S. Census Bureau tallies for the federal government an extensive list of 22,607 American industries, recognizing those who work …
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: Toronto-based Arteria AI, which offers tools to manage financial documentation, raised a $30M Series B led by GGV Capital US, taking its total funding to $50M — Data makes the world go ’round, but only if you can get what you need and know how to put it to good use.
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