Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has shifted to providing general narrative guidance and character designs for many of the franchise’s projects in recent years. But for Dragon Ball Daima — a new animated series from Toei — the legendary mangaka will be hands-on in a big way. Today at this year’s New York Comic Con,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A bipartisan bill seeks to create a federal law to protect actors, musicians, and other performers from unauthorized digital replicas of their faces or voices. The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2023 — or the No Fakes Act — standardizes rules around using
Read MoreSquid Game. | Image: Netflix Just as Netflix is getting out of one business with the closure of its DVD rentals, it looks like it’s getting into the physical realm in a different way. Bloomberg reports that the streamer is planning to launch new retail destinations — dubbed Netflix House — that will offer not
Read MoreIf you want to keep your badminton game at its peak, you’ll need a good racket with a proper set of strings. When an injury kept [Antonie Colin] off the court for a few months, building a restringing machine helped pass the time. The design is straightforward, using commonly-available motion components and 3D-printed parts. The
Read MoreLucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix plans to open Netflix House, permanent stores where fans can buy clothes, eat themed food, and try live experiences, starting with two US venues in 2025 — – Its first permanent retail sites will be named ‘Netflix House’ — Initial locations in US will be followed by global expansion
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge After receiving backlash from customers, Microsoft announced it has canceled plans to impose storage limits for photos in a user’s OneDrive account starting on October 16th, Gizmodo reports. Starting in October, under the now-rescinded policy, photos in a user’s saved photo albums and OneDrive Gallery would count against its cloud-based quota of
Read MoreImage: Google / Fitbit Fitbit’s services were dealing with some issues for hours on Wednesday, but the company mitigated the problems by early Thursday morning, according to an explanation on Fitbit’s status website. While the issues were going on, people who use Fitbit on its own and Fitbit via a Google account were seeing errors
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: Google vows to defend users of generative AI tools in Google Cloud and Workspace from copyright claims; Microsoft, Adobe, and others have made similar pledges — Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms …
Read MoreTech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the last two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.
Read MoreThe comprehensive collection of 21 studies attempts to map all the brain’s cell types and offers hope of one day being able to trace brain diseases to their genetic roots.
Read MoreKudurru, the new tool from the creator of Have I Been Trained?, can help artists block web scrapers and even “poison” the scraping by sending back the wrong image.
Read MoreThe $999 Google Pixel 8 Pro takes good photos with its 50-megapixel f/1.68 main sensor. | Photo by Eddie Costas / The Verge The $999 Google Pixel 8 Pro takes good photos with its 50-megapixel f/1.68 main sensor. For the most part, subjects are sharp, colors aren’t too saturated, and the focus fall-off can fool
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority SpaceX’s Starlink plans to roll out its Direct to Cell satellite phone service starting in 2024. Texting will come first to the service, with voice and data to follow in 2025. Initial coverage will include the continental US, Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico, and US territorial waters. Last
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: EU launched a probe into X over hosting misinformation in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel; X could be fined up to 5% of its daily global turnover — Investigation is the first under the bloc’s Digital Services Act and comes after letter to Musk raising concerns
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Fitbit app was experiencing an outage. The outage was preventing the app from successfully connecting to Fitbit’s servers. The issue has now been fixed. Update: October 12, 2023 (2:56 PM ET): A spokesperson from Fitbit has reached out to Android Authority confirming the issue has been resolved. That
Read MorePhoto by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google’s Tensor 3 and AI-touting new Pixel 8 phones are now available. Continue reading…
Read MoreSarah Wynn / The Block: The CFTC charges Voyager Digital co-founder Stephen Ehrlich with fraud, saying he and Voyager lied to clients and hid the crypto lender’s true financial health — – Stephen Ehrlich and the firm the co-founded, Voyager Digital, lied to customers and hid the crypto lender’s true financial health, according to the
Read MoreWhen working on simple DC systems, a small low-cost multimeter from the hardware store will get the job done well enough. Often they have the capability for measuring AC, but this is where cheap meters can get tripped up. Unless the waveform is a perfect sinusoid at a specific frequency, their simple algorithms won’t be
Read MoreA recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained. In its 9th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, published October 3, software supply chain management company Sonatype assessed 1,176,407 projects and reported an 18% decline this
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A federal district judge voiced skepticism over Montana’s first-in-the-nation ban of TikTok during a hearing in Missoula on Thursday. TikTok and several platform creators sued Montana earlier this year, calling the state’s ban unconstitutional and infringing on the free speech rights of both the company and users. Throughout
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: Filing: Caltech settles a patent lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom, after suing them in 2016 for allegedly infringing its Wi-Fi patents — The California Institute of Technology has reached an agreement to end a patent lawsuit against Apple (AAPL.O) and Broadcom (AVGO.O) over Wi-Fi chips …
Read MoreAstroPad Slate is a new app that turns your iPad into a graphics tablet, writing tablet, or just a plain old mouse.
Read MorePhoto by Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images A few weeks after announcing he intended to leave PlatinumGames, Hideki Kamiya posted a video on YouTube celebrating his first official day of unemployment. In the video, Kamiya explained what he’s been up to, what his future plans are, and clarified that though he’s left PlatinumGames, he’s not
Read MoreWhat if you wanted to build your own USB-C PSU? Good news – it’s easy enough! If you ever wanted to retrofit a decent DC PSU of yours to the USB-C standard, say, you got a Lenovo/HP/Dell 19V-20V charger brick and you’ve ever wished it were USB-C, today is the day when we do exactly
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Lowpass: Filing: Sam Altman is the largest investor in Humane, which plans to unveil its AI Pin next month, with a 14.93% equity; Humane’s two co-founders own 13% each — Sam Altman is Humane’s biggest shareholder — Secretive AI hardware startup Humane is getting ready to officially unveil its AI Pin next
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