Credit: GizNext Renders showing the apparent Galaxy S24 Plus have been posted online. The images show off a phone with iPhone-style flat edges. It’s believed the phone will be slightly taller, thicker, and narrower than the S23 Plus. We’ve already gotten our first apparent looks at the Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Ultra via a
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Even in the face of impressive new competition from Motorola and others, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is still arguably the best clamshell-style Android phone you can buy. It retails for a cool $1,000 in the USA before sales tax, but what if we told you that not
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on licensing the autonomous electric tractor startup’s tech to other companies, the future of farming, and more — Monarch Tractor’s Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI.
Read MoreThe new Model Y for China looks a lot like the old one. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Tesla’s China arm announced in a WeChat post Sunday morning that it released a new Model Y with design and performance tweaks that keeps the same starting price as before (via Reuters). The new car
Read MoreWith a simple firmware update, Kaluma puts a lightweight JavaScript runtime on the Raspberry Pi Pico (which uses the RP2040 microcontroller), providing handy modules for file systems, graphics, networking, and more. Code for a simple LED blink can then look like: // index.js const led = 25; pinMode(led, OUTPUT); setInterval(() => { digitalToggle(led); }, 1000);
Read MoreZoë Corbyn / The Guardian: Q&A with researcher Tamara Kneese on her book Death Glitch and why tech companies need to improve how they handle posthumous digital remains on their platforms — Our digital profiles and possessions are ever-expanding, but what happens to them after our deaths?
Read MoreWe’ve devoted a fair amount of virtual ink here to casting shade at self-driving vehicles, especially lately with all the robo-taxi fiascos that seem to keep cropping up in cities serving as testbeds. It’s hard not to, especially when an entire fleet of taxis seems to spontaneously congregate at a single point, or all it
Read MoreDespite recent advances in diagnosing cancer, many cases are still diagnosed using biopsies and analyzing thin slices of tissue underneath a microscope. Properly analyzing these tissue sample slides requires highly experienced and skilled pathologists, and remains subject to some level of bias. In 2018 Google announced a convolutional neural network (CNN) based system which they
Read More[Pete Lewis] from SparkFun takes audio and comfort seriously, and recently shared details on making a customized set of Super Headphones, granting quality sound and stereo ambient passthrough, while providing hearing protection at the same time by isolating the wearer from the environment. Such products can be purchased off the shelf (usually called some variant
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple will soon bring its powerful internal search engine to the App Store and other apps, as Mark Gurman reports in this week’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple debuted upgrades to its Spotlight search feature in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, letting users search there for web results, details from apps,
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown Earlier this week, I attended Meta Connect 2023, the company’s tenth annual developer conference. During this event, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, among other things, the brand-new Meta Quest 3. A sequel to the Meta Quest 2 (née Oculus Quest 2), the
Read MoreWith desktop widgets now on the Mac thanks to macOS Sonoma, do they remind you of Apple’s abandoned Dashboard Widgets?
Read MoreApple has addressed the iPhone 15 Pro overheating issue, saying a software bug in iOS 17 is responsible, with an update fix on the way.
Read MoreNew York Times: Ukrainians fear Chinese rules restricting exporting cheap consumer drone components from September 1 could worsen supply chain woes in Ukraine’s “war of drones” — As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: John Giannandrea’s team built a next-gen search engine, “Pegasus”, for Apple’s own apps, used in Spotlight and Siri, and coming soon to the App Store — Apple has the wherewithal to launch its own search engine, a replacement for Google. And Microsoft even approached the company about helping make that
Read MoreA leaked Pixel 8 “Switch to Pixel” ad posted to X by Arséne Lupin highlights Google’s AI features, including Best Take, which lets you swap faces into an image from other pictures (via 9to5Google). Google’s Pixel event is just around the corner on October 4th, but there’s seemingly very little we don’t already know about
Read MoreGet that box spring off the floor with these WIRED-tested frames.
Read MoreLike swimming pools, hot tubs need regular monitoring to ensure their water stays clean and clear. An average person might take a water quality reading once or twice a week using test strips, but such a low sampling rate obviously won’t do for a hacker. [Stephen Carey] has therefore built a hot tub monitor that
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Rumors of Google’s upcoming Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are swirling left and right, but as I sat down to catch up on them, one thing jumped at me that might have flown under the radar amidst all the features: Colors. Specifically, single-tone
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Rumors of Google’s upcoming Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are swirling left and right, but as I sat down to catch up on them, one thing jumped at me that might have flown under the radar amidst all the features: Colors. Specifically, single-tone
Read MoreApple is looking to bid for Formula 1 streaming rights for Apple TV Plus, expected to cost an estimated $2 billion per year.
Read MoreNew York Times: Ukrainians fear Chinese rules restricting exporting cheap consumer drone components from September 1 could worsen supply chain woes in Ukraine’s “war of drones” — As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines.
Read MoreNew York Times: Ukrainians fear Chinese rules restricting exporting cheap consumer drone components from September 1 could worsen supply chain woes in Ukraine’s “war of drones” — As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines.
Read MoreCourtesy of Cinema Guild Recently, we’ve been gifted two new works by Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo each year. He loves a small movie, usually comfortably under the 90-minute mark, and a scope that might encompass a novella or even a short story. I personally find them kind of hit or miss. Not to say Hong
Read MoreThe Pixel Watch 2 is a golden opportunity for Google to prove it’s serious about wearables. | Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After I reviewed the Pixel Watch last year, skeptics kept asking me the same questions over and over again: Do you think Google’s actually going to keep this thing going?
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