An unofficial render of what the OnePlus foldable could look like. | Image: OnLeaks via SmartPrix As the Oppo sub-brand’s foldable nears release, here’s the story so far. Continue reading…
Read MoreNikki Ekstein / Bloomberg: An interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on affordable prices, reliability, proper customer support, using AI for quality control, a loyalty program, and more — “We never fully built the foundation,” Brian Chesky says in a revelatory interview. “It had four pillars when we needed to have 10.”
Read MoreWhen Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange collapsed, customers lost billions of dollars. A New York court will decide whether it was fraud.
Read MoreThe CEO of Microsoft just testified that Apple may be responsible for Google beating out Bing as the most popular search engine.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge You can’t have missed Microsoft’s attempts to stuff generative AI into almost everything it makes, from Bing search to the Windows OS. And it continues: the most recent update for Windows 11 has rolled out Copilot to all users. If you’re new to Copilot, it’s very much like
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Epic Games will be introducing age ratings to all Fortnite experiences starting later this year. The new system will go into effect on November 14th and will include “all first and third party playable content” in the game, which basically means everything built in the Creative mode. The ratings will be powered
Read MoreMicrosoft’s new Surface Laptop Studio 2 has new chips, a new touchpad, and a very, very high price tag. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Goal Zero Yeti Pro 4000 at home. | Image: Goal Zero Goal Zero is updating its lineup of Yeti Power Stations today with the release of the Yeti Pro 4000 and stackable Tank Pro expansion batteries. This modular approach allows you to choose as much capacity as needed, making the batteries suitable for use
Read MoreMicrosoft’s most ambitious Surface yet is a well-designed graphics powerhouse, but all that brawn comes with trade-offs in size, weight, cost, battery life, and lap feel.
Read MoreWIRED takes an exclusive ride on this groundbreaking 233-mile-range electric motorcycle with a wormhole generator for a back wheel.
Read MoreImran Rahman-Jones / BBC: The FCC fines Dish Network $150,000 for failing to move its old EchoStar-7 satellite far enough away from others in use, the FCC’s first space junk fine — The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.
Read MoreTarget’s rival Prime Day sale runs a week earlier, through October 7. We’ve rounded up our favorite discounts.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s SkiFree-like game appears when setting up a Surface Laptop Studio 2. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is making the Windows 11 setup process a little more entertaining, at least on some laptops. I unboxed the Surface Laptop Studio 2 yesterday (read Monica Chin’s review here) and noticed that Microsoft now
Read MoreAmazon’s big-screen Kindle Scribe still isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly better than it was when it first launched. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We’re now less than a week out from Amazon’s October Prime Day and, as expected, Amazon has already started to drop discounts on Echo speakers, Fire tablets, and
Read MoreFact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.
Read MoreGoogle, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.
Read MoreAdvances in artificial intelligence are making it easier to clone and generate voices. It has huge implications for voice actors.
Read MoreKnown as “The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller”, OpenSCAD is used by many people for whom writing code comes more naturally than learning a fiddly user interface. It’s a very capable piece of software, but regular users will tell you that it can be rather slow when it comes to rendering your work. We’re very
Read MorePriya Anand / Bloomberg: Stampli, which uses AI to automate the processing of invoices and help businesses pay vendors, raised $61M, bringing its total funding to $148M+ — Artificial intelligence is showing up in unexpected sectors. … Funds managed by Blackstone Inc. led the round. The company declined to give its valuation.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Meta is proposing to EU regulators an option for an ad-free subscription for Instagram and Facebook. For roughly €10 (~$10.5), users in the EU could use one account on a desktop without personalized ads, with €6 (~$6.3) extra for each additional linked account and another 30% app store commission
Read MorePolice seized laptops and phones from reporters working for the anti-establishment Newsclick website—the latest outlet to be raided during a crackdown on media in India.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Filings: Niklas Zennström’s VC firm Atomico raised $1.1B across two funds, among the largest such raises this year in Europe, as it nears its goal of $1.35B — London-based group founded by Niklas Zennström nears fundraising goal despite tough economic conditions — NEW
Read MoreThis high-end turntable made me re-think how seriously I took my record collection.
Read MoreMini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized medicine.
Read MoreImage: Instacart Instacart is expanding its payment options next year to include Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and other supplement health benefits for grocery deliveries. The move comes after the company began accepting food stamps as payment earlier this year. The program, which will be administered through Alignment Health, will allow anyone who receives health insurance through
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