Financial Times: The Global Times: China opens a Foxconn investigation over tax and land use, inspecting Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, and Hubei sites; Foxconn plans to cooperate — Tax authorities said to have inspected a number of the Apple supplier’s sites in provinces — China has launched an investigation …
Read MoreThis unobtrusive smart ring tracks your sleep and activity to nudge you toward healthier habits—no subscription needed.
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 11, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome to the Installerverse, which is officially a thing now — we did it, everybody — and you can read all the old editions at the Installer
Read MoreA five-year “adversarial collaboration” of scientists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners—but it’s still progress.
Read MoreElizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns — This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.
Read MoreA Nollywood thriller shot for $1 million has topped Netflix charts as far away as South Korea, showing streamers the potential of African cinema.
Read MoreWith all due respect to the Utah Opera’s production of La bohème, we just couldn’t resist poking a little fun at master electrician [David Smith]’s quick lighting hack for the opera. And who knew an opera from 1896 would need a garbage can fire? Live and learn. In what appears to be a case of
Read MoreThere are plenty of chemical processes that happen commonly around the house that, if we’re really following safety protocols to the letter, should be done in a fume hood. Most of us will have had that experience with soldering various electronics, especially if we’re not exactly sure where the solder came from or how old
Read MoreA new history of the Luddites, Blood in the Machine, argues that 19th century fears about technology are still relevant today. It’s the latest in a long line of attempts to reclaim the label.
Read MoreThis human-sized pet bed is a great place to read, snooze, and hide from your anxieties.
Read MoreThere are plenty of chemical processes that happen commonly around the house that, if we’re really following safety protocols to the letter, should be done in a fume hood. Most of us will have had that experience with soldering various electronics, especially if we’re not exactly sure where the solder came from or how old
Read MoreEven with help from Apple’s much-discussed Game Porting Toolkit, you still can’t guarantee that Windows games will run on your Mac.
Read MoreIf you think about it, an antenna is nothing more than a radio frequency energy sensor, or — more precisely — a transducer. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that there could be different ways to sense RF that would work as an antenna. A recent paper in Applied Physics Letters explains an atomic antenna
Read MoreBrandy Zadrozny / NBC News: Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10 — The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …
Read MoreRecently, we’ve seen a lot of semi-portable power stations. These have some big rechargeable battery and various connection options. [Dereksgc] wanted to make his own and decided the perfect housing would be a small PC tower case. (Video, embedded below.) It makes sense. There are plenty of easy-to-work front panel inserts, a power supply box
Read MoreCate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform used by Boeing, the Obama Foundation, and others, raised a $37M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M — Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform, raises $37 million to fuel platform innovation and team expansion.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered how many Bluetooth devices are floating around you? You could use one of those creepy retail store Bluetooth tracking systems, or set your smartphone to scan. Alternatively, you could use the Bluetooth Devices Visualizer from [Jeremy Geppert]. The device was inspired by [Jeremy’s] trip to Hackaday Supercon 2022. Wanting to build
Read MoreBrandy Zadrozny / NBC News: Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10 — The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …
Read MoreCate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform used by Boeing, the Obama Foundation, and others, raised a $37M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M — Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform, raises $37 million to fuel platform innovation and team expansion.
Read MoreRecently, we’ve seen a lot of semi-portable power stations. These have some big rechargeable battery and various connection options. [Dereksgc] wanted to make his own and decided the perfect housing would be a small PC tower case. (Video, embedded below.) It makes sense. There are plenty of easy-to-work front panel inserts, a power supply box
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge A jury found Google guilty of sexual discrimination and awarded female Google Cloud executive Ulku Rowe, who filed the complaint, $1.1 million. Rowe’s lawsuit alleged that the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts and that it later denied her promotions in retaliation for her complaints, both internal and later in
Read MoreBeth Wang / Bloomberg Law: A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, in the first such case filed against Google after 2018’s mass walkouts — Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than
Read More[Audax] built an unassuming side table with a party trick. It could retract a glass inside and fill it up with bourbon. The nifty device gained plenty of positive attention online, leading to a commission from Amazon to build a new version. Thus, [Audax] set about a redesign to create an even more impressive drink
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically. Yesterday, a member of the Excel team posted that the company is
Read MoreCoil winders are a popular project because doing the deed manually can be an incredibly tedious and time consuming task. After building one such rig, [Pisces Printing] wanted to find even further time savings, and thus designed an improved, faster version. At it’s heart, it’s a straightforward design, using a linear rail and a leadscrew
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