Illustration: The Verge Everybody’s coming for Google, but Google is doing just fine, according to parent company Alphabet’s third quarter earnings on Tuesday. While Google has been dealing with fierce competition on all sides and is investing a lot into infusing AI into as many products as it can, its ads business, the company’s bread
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Everybody’s coming for Google, but Google is doing just fine, according to parent company Alphabet’s third quarter earnings on Tuesday. While Google has been dealing with fierce competition on all sides and is investing a lot into infusing AI into as many products as it can, its ads business, the company’s bread
Read MoreImage: Apple It looks like Apple is rolling out Pay Later to all users in the US. As spotted by MacRumors, the buy now, pay later service is now widely available within Apple Wallet and is featured on Apple’s homepage. First announced in June 2022, Apple Pay Later lets users make a purchase and then
Read MoreKate Clark / The Information: Sources: VC firm IVP is leading an investment in AI search engine Perplexity at a ~$500M valuation, up from $150M in March 2023; Perplexity generates $3M in ARR — Venture capital firm IVP is leading an investment in Perplexity, developer of an artificial intelligence-powered search engine …
Read MoreDerrek Lee / Android Central: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Seamless, a technology integrated in its newest chips to better enable cross-device communication between different OEMs and OSes — Qualcomm wants all your devices to work together. — What you need to know — Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Seamless, a technology that aims to better connect devices.
Read MoreWhat laptop is this? I have a guess. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced its new Snapdragon X Elite platform, which looks to be its most powerful computing processor to date. The chips (including the new Qualcomm Oryon, announced today) are built on a 4nm process and include 136GB/s of memory bandwidth. PCs are expected
Read MoreImage: Qualcomm Any flagship pair of headphones or earbuds you buy nowadays is going to be very, very good. Noise cancellation has grown more impressive than ever, and Bluetooth codecs like LDAC and AptX Adaptive have led to meaningful upticks in audio quality. But there’s always room for our tech to get better, and particularly
Read MoreThe what-is-a-photo-pocalypse gets even more complicated. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm’s new flagship mobile chipset is an on-device AI fest from top to bottom. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 brings generative AI capabilities right to the chipset, vastly speeding up the processing-intensive activities that are usually outsourced to the cloud. It’s one more leap forward in
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple Pay Later launches for all eligible users in the US, following its invite-only early access prerelease version for “randomly selected users” in March 2023 — Apple Pay Later appears to have officially launched for all qualifying U.S. residents today, as it is now widely available in the Wallet app on
Read MoreZachary Boddy / Windows Central: Microsoft Q1: devices revenue down 22% YoY, Windows revenue up 5% YoY, Xbox content and services revenue up 13% YoY, search and news ad revenue up 10% YoY — Microsoft’s revenue this quarter was up 13% year-over-year, mostly thanks to the cloud again. — What you need to know
Read MoreThese five features of Instagram helped Meta deceptively hook teens and harm their mental health, allege lawsuits filed today by 42 US states.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pebble, the Twitter alternative formerly known as T2, plans to shut down, having maxed out at 3,000 DAUs, despite decent early retention and invite conversion — The grip Twitter, now called X, has on the market may be stronger than some believed. Unfortunately, that’s led …
Read MoreImage: Apple Apple is gearing up for another product launch event on October 30th at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. The company has started sending out invites for everyone to tune in to the event, called “Scary Fast” on Apple.com and YouTube Monday night, following rumors Apple is preparing to reveal updates for the Mac
Read MoreAggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Munich-based Quantum Systems, which makes reconnaissance drones for Germany, Ukraine, and others, raised a €63.6M Series B, taking its total funding to €100M+ — – Quantum Systems raised over €100 million after Series B round — HV Capital, DTCP led round, which was backed by Thiel Ventures
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Dozens of states sued Meta on Tuesday, accusing the company of putting profit ahead of the safety of its young users. The lawsuit, filed in a California federal court, argues that Meta unlawfully misled the public about the harms its products, like Facebook and Instagram, could impose on
Read MoreAditya Soni / Reuters: Nvidia says new US export rules for AI chips to countries including China, Iran, and Russia, came into effect on October 23, or about 24 days ahead of schedule — Chip designer Nvidia (NVDA.O) said new U.S. export curbs that block the sale of its high-end artificial intelligence chips …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge You know that thing in Apple Photos and Google Photos where they’ll just randomly generate a generically titled video slideshow that sometimes includes just the worst pictures? Google says that, soon, you’ll be able to ask Google Photos to make them for you! The company will start rolling out an update that
Read MoreWhen it comes to programming in C and, sometimes, C++, the printf function is a jack-of-all-trades. It does a nice job of quickly writing output, but it can also do surprisingly intricate formatting. For debugging, it is a quick way to dump some data. But what if you have data that printf can’t format? Sure,
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: YouTube finally lets users update the cover art for YouTube Music playlists, but only using images created by YouTube’s generative AI, not their own images — YouTube Music is finally letting you change the cover art of your playlists. While you still won’t get to upload your own image …
Read MoreLook at that magnificent fella on the far left — every bit as imposing as the real deal. | Image: Lego If you’re bummed about Dune: Part Two being delayed until March 15th, 2024, Lego’s latest Icons set might be the ideal fix to tide you over. The Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter — a 1,369-piece
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: California and 41 other US states sue Meta in federal and state courts alleging that Facebook and Instagram features are addictive and aimed at kids and teens — – A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general is suing Meta, alleging features on Facebook and Instagram are addictive and are aimed at
Read MoreMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella with a Windows Phone. | Image: Getty Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the third chief executive of the software giant to admit the company has made some serious mobile mistakes. Satya Nadella took over from former CEO Steve Ballmer in 2014 and, just over a year later, wrote off $7.6 billion
Read MoreWyze’s new video doorbell is its first with local recording. | Image: Wyze Smart home company Wyze has a new doorbell cam. The Wyze Video Doorbell v2 is a 2K-capable doorbell camera with a head-to-toe view of your porch and local recording via a microSD card. Costing just $39.99 (plus shipping), it’s a wired doorbell
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: California’s DMV suspends Cruise’s deployment and driverless testing permits, ending the GM self-driving car subsidiary’s robotaxi operations in San Francisco — The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Tuesday it has immediately suspended Cruise’s deployment and driverless testing permits …
Read MoreImage: Getty The California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s robotaxi permit “effective immediately.” The General Motors-backed company had been involved in several safety incidents recently, most recently a hit-and-run by another driver that resulted in a pedestrian trapped under one of Cruise’s driverless vehicles. Among the reasons cited for the suspension: Cruise’s vehicles “are
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