Credit: Roland Quandt/WinFuture OPPO has announced the global launch date for the Find N3 series. The Find N3 Flip has already launched in China, but the Find N3 will be unveiled for the first time on October 19. It is the same phone as the OnePlus Open. OnePlus has been teasing its first foldable phone
Read MoreBloomberg: Analysis: Apple’s key suppliers in Taiwan saw revenue fall 16.4% YoY to ~$38.7B in September, despite the launch of new iPhones and several Android smartphones — – September sales deepened double-digit decline seen in August — Consumer electronics demand has been stubbornly low all year
Read MoreBBC: Investigation: instant loan app scams push people in India and other countries into a spiral of debt, driving many to suicide after shame and blackmail — A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon’s 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Sequoia’s China spin off HongShan is seeking global business opportunities and investments for its portfolio companies, as China’s economy slows down — Venture capital firm’s head Neil Shen seeks investments and business opportunities for his Chinese portfolio companies
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: a16z-backed Character.AI launches Character Group Chat, a feature that lets paying subscribers start group chats with AI characters, and with or without humans — Character.AI, the a16z-backed AI chatbot startup from ex-Google AI researchers, is out today with a new feature for its subscribers.
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Automattic expands ActivityPub support to WordPress.com hosted sites, letting blog owners reach 13.3M users across the fediverse, including Mastodon’s 1.8M MAUs — Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse …
Read MoreImage: Google / Fitbit The Fitbit app has been dealing with some issues for hours, and the Google-owned company acknowledged Wednesday night that there are some problems right now. “We’re aware that some customers are experiencing issues with the Fitbit app and we are currently investigating,” Fitbit wrote in a message on X (formerly Twitter)
Read MoreReuters: Sources: OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers on November 6, including memory storage to its tools and vision capabilities to analyze images — OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based …
Read MoreOver the ages, a lot of human activity has been concerned about getting water from where we find it to where we want it. If you want to move water to a lower elevation, there’s no problem. But if you want to move water up, you need a pump. The ancients used what we call
Read MoreGabe Bullard / Nieman Reports: Internal memo: NPR traffic loss has been negligible in the six months since it left Twitter, after the platform labeled NPR “US state-affiliated media” — The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
Read MoreCredit: Darcy LaCouvee / Android Authority LG offers a variety of monitors for every need and price bracket. Now, it turns out that the company has slashed prices on these displays as part of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days promotion, and some of the LG monitor deals are rather tempting. The most notable deal is
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Cleanlab, which offers automated data curation tools to increase the accuracy of data used by AI, raised a $25M Series A at a $100M valuation — The startup based on a popular open-source project for fixing data problems in AI models now counts cloud heavyweight Databricks as an investor and partner.
Read MoreApple’s entry-level iPad is matching its best price to date at Amazon and Walmart, where you can snag it for just $249. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. Apple rarely discounts its
Read MoreHer ex-boyfriend told her not to write anything down she wouldn’t want to see in The New York Times, then leaked her love notes to The New York Times. | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Michael M. Santiago, PM Images, Getty Images And his “very valuable” hair, too. Continue
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Read MoreIllustration: The Verge The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has informed Microsoft that the company owes back taxes of $28.9 billion “plus penalties and interest” for the tax years 2004 through 2013, according to an SEC filing. Microsoft’s corporate VP for worldwide tax and customs Daniel Goff responded to the audit in a blog post, and
Read MoreFrom laptops, tablets, phones, and smartwatches to Amazon Echo Dots, these are the best Prime Day deals on all your favorite WIRED gear.
Read MoreFrom Apple Watches to MagSafe accessories, we’ve gathered the top discounts on our favorite Apple devices.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority When it comes to PC gaming, the monitor you’re using can have a huge impact on your experience. However, monitors can vary greatly in their capabilities and price, making it hard to choose the best option for your situation. Fortunately, some of Samsung’s best monitors are being featured
Read MoreThe Pixel 8 series launched last week with tons of new software features, like Magic Editor and Best Take. However, not every feature that Google planned to bring to the Pixel 8 could make it. Features like display output, 8K video recording, and 480fps slo-mo were scrapped or delayed before launch. The Pixel 8 and
Read MoreImage: WNYC This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. On Wednesday afternoon, staffers at WNYC’s podcast division sat down for an all-hands meeting looking for answers. Last week, 6 percent of New York Public Radio’s workforce was let go — with most of the
Read MoreFor a lonely person, elderly or otherwise, the sound of a ringing phone can be music to the ears, unless of course it’s another spam call. But what good is a phone when you can’t hear it well enough to answer? [Giovanni Aggiustatutto] was tasked with building an additional ringer for a set of cordless
Read MoreSingle-use disgarded vapes in a Lidl, Recycling Bin on May 4,2023 in London, England. | Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images “Invisible” e-waste — from disposable vapes to toys and tangles of cables — is piling up and robbing supply chains of valuable materials. A new analysis counts up all the small electronics people often don’t
Read MorePhoto by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Crunchyroll is in the news today, and I’m gonna get to all of that. But first, a moment of silence. When I saw Crunchyroll in a headline flying across my RSS feed, I thought for sure it was the streaming service announcing it has fixed its app for
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