Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Update, October 16, 2023 (1:51 PM ET): We have updated our Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 hub with a scheduled launch window for the next-gen chip. Although the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is already powering some absolutely brilliant smartphones, we can’t help but think ahead to what the next generation
Read MoreProlific Hackaday.io member [Michael Gardi] has hit upon the biggest problem with making reprogrammable macro pads — the legend situation. What do you do when the whole point is that the keys can so easily be changed? There are a couple of options: blank keycaps and memorization, re-legendable keycaps, and little screens instead of keycaps.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TwitchCon Las Vegas is set to begin later this week. In advance of the festivities, Twitch has announced that it’s rolling out a new stories feature to the Twitch mobile app. “By building stories into the Twitch experience, we’ve made it easier for you to reach your community
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority In a new framework policy proposal, Google lays out its ideas for protecting children online. Interestingly, Google says identity and age verification systems for this purpose can be “unnecessary.” Google would rather see technology companies follow “age-appropriate design principles” through legislation instead. Recently, the Global System for Mobile
Read MoreImage: The Verge Time to gird your browsers, y’all — Wi-Fi is getting another upgrade very soon. That’s right: about four years after Wi-Fi 6 debuted and two years after Wi-Fi 6E followed it up, Wi-Fi 7 is picking up the baton. And as someone who got his start reviewing routers, I am so tired.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is expanding its games streaming beta to the US, the company announced in an update to a blog post. The feature, which lets you play games streamed from the cloud on devices like your TV or a computer, launched first in August in Canada and the UK.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Qualcomm has announced the dates for its Snapdragon Summit. The Summit will be a three-day event starting on October 24. Qualcomm will likely announce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip during the event. Qualcomm is once again holding its Snapdragon Summit a little early, this time in October instead
Read MorePokémon Go’s latest set of features aren’t quite the fixes that players have been begging Niantic for, but they will give trainers new ways to compete and team up as they dig into a spooky season of shadowy raids. After a little bit of teasing toward the end of last week, Niantic has officially announced
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge You would barely know Google is in the middle of one of the most consequential antitrust trials in decades right now. Although some important witnesses have testified in open court and documents have been posted online after a delay, access to the trial is still uncertain and sporadic
Read MoreAmazon’s second Prime Day of the year may be well behind us, but you can expect to see top deals continue to roll out as the holidays approach. Three fantastic smartwatch deals this Monday morning perfectly highlight this, with our favorite of the offers being a record $121 markdown on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5
Read MoreMorty and Rick taking off in Rick’s ship. | Image: Adult Swim The new voices behind Rick and Morty’s titular duo sound so uncannily similar to their old selves that it almost seemed like Adult Swim might have simply recreated Justin Roiland’s voice using artificial intelligence. It turns out, though, that they’re just two relatively
Read MoreThe Markup: Following reports from Patreon users, analysis shows X slowing down traffic on links to Patreon, WhatsApp, and, at times Meta’s Messenger, by ~2.5 seconds — Markup readers helped uncover the link delays, which also affect WhatsApp and Messenger. — Twitter is now slowing down traffic …
Read MoreSome of you may have heard of the ROMulator, a device that can emulate RAM and ROM on 6502-based computers. But how does it work? How do you use it? What computers is it compatible with? [Jeff Tranter] covers that and more in his review of the ROMulator 6502. The ROMulator is an FPGA-based board
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: LinkedIn plans to lay off nearly 700 staffers, mostly from its engineering teams, after cutting 716 jobs in May; source: LinkedIn is ramping up hiring in India — – LinkedIn is cutting almost 700 employees as revenue growth has slowed over the past two years.
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images LinkedIn is laying off about 668 employees across various teams, the Microsoft-owned company announced on Monday. It’s the second time LinkedIn has announced cuts this year; it laid off 716 employees in May, saying at the time that the move was meant to “re-organize for greater agility and
Read MoreRescheduled — note new date! Join us on Wednesday, October 18 at noon Pacific for the Satellite Hunting Hack Chat with Scott Tilley! From the very first beeps of Sputnik, space has primarily been the domain of nations. It makes sense — for the most part, it takes the resources of a nation to get
Read MoreCo-showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough confirmed that there would be a second season of Wednesday in January 2023. Season 1 was captivating in its comforting darkness; so morbid, yet so upbeat with its takeaways and warm character dynamics. Is there a Wednesday season 2 release date? Let’s find out what the possible dates are,
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Samsung is opening up its One UI 6 beta program to two more Galaxy phones. The beta program will now include the Galaxy A52 and Galaxy M23. The update has been confirmed in India for the M23 and in South Korea for the A52. After rolling out its Android
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games announced a new program on Monday to try and incentivize developers to bring their older games to the Epic Games Store. Under the new “Now On Epic” program, Epic will give developers 100 percent of the “net revenue from user spending” for six months on products
Read MoreHannah Murphy / Financial Times: Some influencers and CEOs are taking their brands to LinkedIn, enticed by less competition among creators, a committed user base, and a safer feel than X — Once purely a jobs board, users say the platform is now more valuable than rivals — Marketer Zain Kahn says he earns more
Read MoreWe’ve had about a week to digest the pending arrival of the Raspberry Pi 5, and it’s safe to say that the new board from Cambridge has produced quite some excitement with its enhanced specifications and a few new capabilities not seen in its predecessors. When it goes on general sale we expect that it
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a dedicated in-app Merch Hub that provides personalized merch recommendations based on users’ listening habits — Spotify is launching a dedicated in-app Merch Hub that provides personalized merch recommendations based on your listening habits, the company announced on Monday.
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: Stack Overflow lays off 100+ people, or 28% of its workforce, to “significantly” reduce its “go-to-market organization”, after doubling its size to 500+ in 2022 — Coding help forum Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff as it struggles toward profitability.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Google Pixel smartphone series is no stranger to odd software and hardware additions. The double-sized notch and the short-lived Soli sensor stand out as some of Google’s more out-there experiments. But despite the company’s path towards more refined and purposeful hardware over the last few generations, it wouldn’t
Read MorePhoto by Christian Petersen / Getty Images Pete Hines, the head of publishing at Bethesda, is retiring after 24 years at the gaming company. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Hines announced that his time at Bethesda “has come to an end.” Hines first joined Bethesda in 1999 as the senior vice president of
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