Delays and a $1.2 billion debt end Toronto’s flagship Apple Store hopes
Plans to bring a new flagship Apple Store to Toronto have been canned after the company developing the building failed to do its part.
Read MorePlans to bring a new flagship Apple Store to Toronto have been canned after the company developing the building failed to do its part.
Read MoreYou just spend nearly a grand (if not more) on a Samsung phone. Don’t take a risk—keep it safe!
Read MoreThere are loads of ways to use the Action Button on the Apple Watch Ultra and Ultra 2. Here’s everything you need to know.
Read MoreAs if you weren’t already excited enough about the speakers and events that will be part of this year’s Hackaday Supercon, today we can finally reveal that journalist, activist, author, technologist, and all around geek Cory Doctorow will be presenting the keynote address on Saturday morning. Cory has always been an outspoken supporter of digital
Read MoreWayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Apple employees have discussed using Vision Pro to diagnose and treat mental health issues; eye-tracking and cameras could measure a person’s “affect” — So far, Apple has pitched its upcoming Vision Pro mixed-reality headset as a tool for working and enjoying various forms of entertainment.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is raising the prices of several of its services, including Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, Apple News Plus, and Apple One. Apple TV Plus is going from $6.99 per month to $9.99 per month, and Apple’s other services are seeing significant hikes, too. MacRumors first spotted the
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple increases the monthly price of Apple TV+ from $6.99 to $9.99, News+ from $9.99 to $12.99, Arcade from $4.99 to $6.99, and Apple One from $16.95 to $19.95 — Apple is increasing the prices of some services, including Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+, across the U.S. and some
Read MoreThese people were adults. This is how adults talk now. | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Michael M. Santiago, Bloomberg, Klmax, Whyframestudio, Yevgen Romanenko, Pixhook, Peter Dazeley, Jimkruger, Getty Images It is one thing to type the world YOLO, jokingly, on Beyoncé’s internet. It is another thing entirely to
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is beta testing AI image generation tools for its advertisers, offering an easy way to create backgrounds or scenes around whatever product ad buyers are hoping to sell. The company says the new feature is “designed to remove creative barriers and enable brands to produce lifestyle imagery that helps improve their ads’
Read MoreApple has raised the prices of Apple TV+ Plus, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+, as well as its Apple One bundles.
Read MoreImage: OpenAI Fighting against data used to train AI models has become more poisonous. A new tool called Nightshade allows users to attach it to their creative work, and it will corrupt — or poison — training data using that art. Eventually, it can ruin future models of AI art platforms like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion,
Read MoreRania Aniftos / Billboard: TikTok announces its first live global music event, set for December 10 in Mesa, Arizona, with Cardi B, Niall Horan, Anitta, and Charlie Puth headlining — The event will take place on Dec. 10 at Sloan Park in Mesa, Ariz. — TikTok is continuing its foray into the music world …
Read MoreWe had serious software issues with these luxury ’buds, but there’s no doubting the superlative sound performance of Montblanc’s latest audio offering.
Read MoreJoshua Oliver / Financial Times: After 12 days of damaging US witness testimony from SBF’s friends and colleagues, legal experts say he may now have to take the stand to avoid life in prison — After days of prosecution evidence, including testimony from erstwhile colleagues and friends, some legal experts think the former FTX boss
Read MorePhoto by Tom Warren / The Verge Intel’s latest 14th Gen chips aren’t a huge improvement over the 13th Gen in gaming performance, but a new Intel Application Optimization (APO) feature might just change that. Intel’s new APO app simply runs in the background, improving performance in games. It offers impressive boosts to frame rates
Read MoreScott Nover / Slate: US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta has repeatedly accepted Google’s requests to redact documents and hold private testimony, alarming press advocates and reporters — U.S. v. Google was supposed to be the “antitrust trial of the century”—the highest-profile, and potentially the most consequential …
Read MoreThe DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Five years ago, DJI paired its super-stable drone cameras with a postage-stamp-size screen to create the Osmo Pocket, a tiny vlogger cam. It was neat, and its successor had a handful of key improvements. But the new Osmo Pocket 3, announced and shipping today, has more than a handful. While
Read MoreLike many instructors, Janani Umamaheswar occasionally checks Rate My Professors to monitor her course reviews. The site offers a loose barometer of how you are doing as a teacher, especially early in a career in academia. Since users post anonymously, including criticisms and rants, the site can also become a fount of anxiety. When negative
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: one year after lending Elon Musk $13B to acquire Twitter, seven US banks still hold the debt and expect to take a 15%+, or ~$2B, hit when they sell — Banks have begun preparations to try to unload at least some of the $13 billion of debt they underwrote, at a
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Toronto-based CentML, which offers tools to cut the cost of deploying ML models, raised a $27M seed from Nvidia and others, taking its total funding to $30.5M — Contrary to what you might’ve heard, the era of large seed rounds isn’t over — at least in the AI sector.
Read MoreThese tablets are only “small” by Cintiq standards but they still carry the lineup’s loft prices. | Image: Wacom Wacom has unveiled the Cintiq Pro 17 and Cintiq Pro 22 — two new additions to its popular family of Cintiq display drawing tablets, providing more compact options for creative professionals who prefer to work with
Read MoreImage: GM A little more than a year after announcing an ambitious plan to co-develop a lineup of affordable electric vehicles, General Motors and Honda are scrapping the deal — or at least just that one aspect of the deal. Announced in April 2022, the plan was to build a series of affordable EVs on
Read MoreJordan Middler / Video Games Chronicle: Sony’s new PS5 Slim disc drive requires an internet connection to pair with the console for the first time, likely due to the DMCA’s rules to prevent piracy — THE ONLINE REQUIREMENT HAS RAISED PRESERVATION CONCERNS — The upcoming optional disc drive for the PlayStation 5 will require …
Read MoreThe Blink Video Doorbell pairs best with the Sync Module 2, but the wireless hub isn’t absolutely necessary. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Whether you want to keep tabs on trick-or-treaters or protect your holiday gifts from would-be porch pirates, a good video doorbell or security camera can come in handy
Read MoreImage: Proton Proton’s password manager, Proton Pass, is rolling out a new feature that lets you share sign-ins using end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Instead of sharing a password over Gmail or a text, Proton will now let you safely give friends, family members, or co-workers access to things like streaming services, bank accounts, work logins, and
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