Kyiv enlisted a Silicon Valley insider to rush consumer-grade tech onto the battlefield. He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex.
Read MoreImage: Charter / Comcast In April 2022, cable operators Comcast and Charter announced a partnership that the companies said would produce “a next-generation streaming platform on a variety of branded 4K streaming devices and smart TVs.” A few months later, we learned that this joint effort would be called Xumo, and now the first hardware
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: FTX employees in the US found and reported the backdoor Alameda used to allegedly withdraw billions in customer funds, months before FTX’s collapse — The crypto exchange allowed Alameda to have a negative balance of up to $65 billion, prosecutors say
Read MoreBen Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung unveils Galaxy SmartTag 2, with an updated design, both BT low energy and UWB, and exclusive to Samsung devices, available on October 10 for $30 — As the smart tracker market waits for Google to shake things up on the Android side of things, Samsung has today unveiled the Galaxy
Read MoreElectric bikes are broadly designated as Class 1, 2, or 3. Pay close attention, because it determines what’s legal to ride and where.
Read MoreChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.
Read MoreBy this point, we probably all know that most AI chatbots will decline a request to do something even marginally nefarious. But it turns out that you just might be able to get a chatbot to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle (Nitter), if you make up a good enough “dead grandma” story. Right up front, we’re
Read MoreI’m pretty sure your jaw dropped when the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro‘s official prices were revealed earlier today, even more so if you live outside the USA. The US pricing for both Pixels has jumped up by $100, putting it closer to its tougher Galaxy and iPhone competition. But the sticker shock is even
Read MoreEven Adobe is sick of using the lasso tool to manually separate objects from photographs. | Image: Adobe Adobe is set to announce a new AI-powered photo editing tool at the Adobe Max event next week that makes it much easier to alter images without prior editing experience. According to a promotional video (seen via
Read MoreGeorge Dvorsky / Gizmodo: Amazon’s Project Kuiper plans to launch its first two demo internet satellites, KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2, on October 6 — Jeff Bezos’s space venture, Project Kuiper, is set for a Friday launch, aiming to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink in the satellite internet arena.
Read MoreAfter months of rumors and leaks, the Google Pixel 8 and Samsung Galaxy S23 FE are finally official and will soon hit store shelves. Both smartphones offer near flagship-grade specs without the usual hefty price tag to match. However, they take different approaches to reach their respective price points, making some performance and camera trade-offs
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When Google announced the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro today, it added a feature no other phone can compete with: both devices will get Android OS updates, security updates, and new feature updates for the next seven years. That’s a very big deal! Ongoing support is the
Read MoreSince the arrival of the first Google Pixel Watch, we’ve eagerly awaited the company’s follow-up device. Now that the Google Pixel Watch 2 is here, it still may not be the right device for you. Whether your phone is incompatible or you’re looking for something different than what the device has to offer, the wearables
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge The clouds are gathering over Microsoft’s Azure operations in the EU and now the UK, with the launch of a new investigation into major cloud service providers that also includes Amazon. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is just about to wrap up its concerns over cloud gaming with Microsoft’s proposed
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: The CMA announces an investigation into public cloud providers in the UK, following a referral from Ofcom, and says the probe will conclude by April 2025 — The clouds are gathering over Microsoft’s Azure operations in the EU and now the UK, with the launch of a new investigation …
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google has revealed trade-in offers for the Pixel 8 phones. The Pixel 7 Pro will only get you up to $420 in credit, less than the iPhone 11. However, Google is offering solid trade-in values for older Pixels and iPhones. The Google Pixel 8 series is here, and
Read MoreImage: The Verge While Google’s search engine has for years been the default on Apple’s devices, newly unsealed court testimonies reveal that Apple held talks with both Microsoft and DuckDuckGo to use their search engines across Apple devices, and in Microsoft’s case even potentially buying Bing, The Washington Post and Bloomberg report. The potential of
Read MoreSam Reynolds / CoinDesk: The Hong Kong Stock Exchange announces Synapse, designed to streamline post-trade processes using smart contracts, which will go live on October 9 — HKEX says the system, used by traders in Hong Kong to buy stocks in China, will speed up settlement and provide greater transparency.
Read MoreUSB-C and iPhone support could be coming to the Apple Pencil 3.
Read MoreiOS 17.0.3 has arrived, bringing a fix to the overheating issues that have plagued the iPhone 15 lineup since launch.
Read MoreWith a contract running out in 2026, Apple has been looking into a deal to sign streaming rights for the College Football Playoff.
Read MoreFinancial Times: A TSMC exec says the Arizona fab will not be “as profitable as our Taiwan fabs”, amid construction and labor challenges and the lack of EUV expertise in the US — Unfamiliar approaches to construction and labour are proving obstacles to the semiconductor giant’s Arizona project
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung has announced the Galaxy SmartTag 2 tracker. The new tag now offers an IP67 rating and up to 700 days of battery life. Expect to pay $29.99 for the tag when it goes on sale. Samsung hopped aboard the tracker tag market in 2021 with the Galaxy SmartTag, shortly followed by the
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The October 2023 security patches are rolling out to Google Pixel smartphones and Pixel Tablet. These patches include the Android-wide security bulletin and the Pixel-specific security bulletin. The patches are rolling out alongside the Android 14 update. Google just launched the Pixel 8 series and followed up on the
Read MoreAre you getting a Google Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro? You better prepare yourself with a charger, as there won’t be one included in the box. You’ll have to either use an old charger or pick up a new one. Just keep in mind not all chargers are made equal, and you will need
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