Monica Chin / The Verge: Surface Laptop Go 3 review: premium design but low-resolution screen, no keyboard backlighting, limited port selection, and too expensive for what it offers — The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical …
Read MoreSelect colors of the PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox and PC are as low as $19.99 | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There’s arguably no better deal than one that makes a handy, low-cost item drop to a price that falls into impulse-buy territory. While big-ticket items like iPads and
Read MoreImage: SAG-AFTRA In the wake of the Writers Guild of America finally winning and ratifying a new labor contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) after 146 days of striking, there was some hope that the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — which has also
Read MoreChatGPT-style chatbots that pretend to be people are being used to help companies develop new product and marketing ideas.
Read MoreThe Magic VS2 shown folded and unfolded. | Image: Honor Honor’s Magic VS2 is the former Huawei sub-brand’s third new foldable launch in four months, following the launch of the Magic V2 in July and the Magic V Purse last month. And that’s without counting the international launch of the Magic VS earlier this year
Read MoreWhoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin.
Read MoreBloomberg: As Pat Gelsinger tries to revive Intel, a self-imposed deadline to add a big foundry client in 2023 looms and, even then, revenue from a deal may be years away — – Wall Street waiting for Gelsinger to name major foundry client — Record-setting factory build-out hinges on lining up customers
Read MoreNew York Times: At SBF’s trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him — The FTX founder’s criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him.
Read MoreThe homepage promoting the new feature. | Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge SpaceX has published a new webpage to promote its upcoming “Starlink Direct to Cell” service that plans to offer cellular connectivity to “existing LTE phones” via satellite. The website, which PCMag reports went live earlier this week, notes that the service
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors is ramping up its efforts to create a better technology experience for software developers to make cool apps for its vehicles — and, notably, the vehicles of its competitors. GM announced a new vehicle services definition called “uServices” for the automotive software developer community. In essence,
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023 — Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus has revealed that the OnePlus Open will launch on October 19. The foldable phone will launch in India at 10:00 AM EDT. We’ve known for months now that OnePlus planned to launch its first foldable phone in 2023. It’s taken a while, but the company has finally confirmed that the OnePlus Open
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’ve been wearing the first Google Pixel Watch for a year now so, as you can imagine, I was pretty excited to hear all about the new Pixel Watch 2. Google didn’t implement all the changes that I had wished for: The new watch is still the same
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Update: October 12, 2023 (9:20 AM ET): We’ve updated this article after Samsung confirmed the existence of the Exynos 2400. We’ve also added some official CPU, GPU, and AI details. Original article: After a long history in the custom mobile processor game, Samsung somewhat unexpectedly dropped its Exynos chipset
Read MoreAkash Sriram / Reuters: Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024 — Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million …
Read MoreIllustration by Lucia Pham / The Verge Love it or leave it, Prime Big Deal Days is now in the rearview mirror. Amazon’s latest two-day bombardment of deals — which will (most likely) function as the last discount-heavy holiday prior to Black Friday and Cyber Monday — technically wrapped yesterday, yet there’s still a scattershot
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Read MorePhoto illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge AI is relatively easy, Baszucki said at Code. Working in China? That’s harder. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Air Up bottle’s smelly gimmick commits a terrible water foul.
Read MoreOnePlus’ first folding phone arrives soon with the alert slider intact. | Image: OnePlus The OnePlus Fold is set to arrive on October 19th, and this is our first official look at the folding-style phone. In an official teaser image provided to The Verge, it looks to be a relatively thin design with at least
Read MoreWIRED’s spiritual advice columnist advises a parent who’s freaking out about their 6-year-old’s ambitions to make a life online.
Read MoreThe Eowave Persephone was a beautiful thing—a monophonic ribbon synth capable of producing clean, smoothly varying tones. [Ben Glover] used to own a nice example that formerly belonged to Peter Christopherson, but lost it in the shifting sands of time. His solution was to build one of his own from scratch. It’s a simple build,
Read MoreRob Copeland / New York Times: Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021 — Goldman sells the consumer lender GreenSky after significant losses, less than two years after buying it.
Read MoreReuters: Filing: India accuses 30+ staff of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo of visa violations and says Vivo siphoned off ~$13B to its Chinese parent via a “masking layer” — Many employees of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo and its Indian affiliates concealed their employment when seeking visas …
Read MoreZack Abrams / The Block: Caroline Ellison’s well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates — – Government prosecutors completed their direct examination of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison on Wednesday in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
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