Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 9, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hurray! I’m so happy you’re here, and also, you can catch up on all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading Zeke
Read MoreThe development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons.
Read MoreJust because your computer isn’t with you doesn’t mean you can’t use it.
Read MoreIn the early days of FDM 3D printing, the RepRap project spawned all sorts of weird and and wonderful designs. In the video after the break [dizekat] gives us a throwback to those times with the Marionette 3D printer, completely forgoing linear rails in favor of strings. The closest thing to a linear guide found
Read MoreIn the early days of FDM 3D printing, the RepRap project spawned all sorts of weird and and wonderful designs. In the video after the break [dizekat] gives us a throwback to those times with the Marionette 3D printer, completely forgoing linear rails in favor of strings. The closest thing to a linear guide found
Read MoreIt’s increasingly common, it seems, to acknowledge that there isn’t as much reason to upgrade your smartphone these days as there was even a few years ago. Year-to-year changes have become incremental. The longer you wait, though, the more those changes can add up. So, if you’re weighing an upgrade from the Google Pixel 6
Read MoreIf you want to log or analyze your shut-eye, these WIRED-tested sleep trackers are the way to go.
Read MoreOld-school Macintosh-to-VGA adapter. Just solve for X, set the right DIP switches and you’re golden. If you’re the happy owner of a vintage Apple system like a 1989 Macintosh IIci you may know the pain of keeping working monitors around. Unless it’s a genuine Apple-approved CRT with the proprietary DA-15-based video connector, you are going
Read MoreAndy Patrizio / Ars Technica: A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, which pioneered minicomputers after being founded in 1957 and was acquired by Compaq in 1998 — One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s. — Even though very few of the early players in technology still exist, we
Read More[Kevin Hunckler] recently did some in-house manufacturing for a product and shared his experiences in adding high-quality custom graphic overlays or acrylic panels to give the finished units a professional look. The results look great and were easy to apply, making his product more attractive without needing much assembly work. A graphic overlay with transparent
Read MoreK.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday that MGM Resorts International didn’t pay the ransomware attackers who broke into its systems last month, forcing the company to shut down systems at several of its hotels and casinos. The hack kept many waiting to check into their
Read MoreAlthough the PET is most likely the more well-known of Commodore’s early computer systems, the KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) single board computer was launched a year prior, in 1976. It featured not only the same MOS 6502 MPU as later Commodore systems, but also an MCS6530 PIO IC that contained the ROM, RAM and programmable
Read MoreKia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Y Combinator hires Yelp policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for his public criticism of Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics — Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig: heading up
Read MoreSine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through a one-way door. Sine-wave speech (SWS) is intentionally-degraded audio. Here are the samples, and here’s what to do: Choose a sample and listen to the
Read MoreEmily Nicolle / Bloomberg: The UK FCA plans to name firms violating its crypto promotion rules, which will be widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location — – Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday — The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name …
Read MoreOver the years, we’ve seen DOOM run on pretty much everything from an 8088 to a single keycap. We’ve also written up one or two controllers, but we don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this — playing DOOM with an electric guitar. The guitar in question is a Schecter Hellraiser Deluxe, which seems like
Read MoreAnthropic: A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable “features” may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs — Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge It’s been almost 10 months since a trial date was set in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, and with all of the other big tech cases going on right now, including Google’s other antitrust proceedings, you’d be forgiven for forgetting about this one. But believe it or not, the trial will start
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs There’s a lot to dive into with the new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, but I’m sure everyone’s immediate attention is drawn to the new price tag. For the first time since 2021, Google has raised its smartphone prices, risking a fair bit
Read MoreAs portable as keyboards have gotten, you still need some place to put the thing — some kind of bag for travel, and a flat surface for using it. Well, it doesn’t get much more portable than a hat keyboard, now does it? Every October 1st, Google Japan likes to celebrate the 101-key keyboard by
Read MoreHisense’s latest entry-level model offers a lot for the price, including Mini LED backlighting and full-array local dimming. | Image: Hisense Happy Saturday, dear readers! As you might have seen, Amazon has already begun to roll out a bevy of deals and discounts ahead of its fall Prime Day event next week. However, Amazon isn’t
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones between 2016 and 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the last 12 months — Google Pixel is still a minor player in the global smartphone market, but the brand continues to move along. As the Pixel 8 series launched this
Read MoreShould you buy the Apple iPhone 15 Pro?
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs There’s a lot to dive into with the new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, but I’m sure everyone’s immediate attention is drawn to the new price tag. For the first time since 2021, Google has raised its smartphone prices, risking a fair bit
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were fixed — The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source — foreshadowing
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