The limits of myth-making are apparent in Walter Isaacson’s new biography. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The trouble began days before the biography was even published. CNN had a story summarizing an excerpt of Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk that claimed Musk had shut down SpaceX’s satellite network, Starlink, to prevent a “Ukrainian
Read MoreThe limits of myth-making are apparent in Walter Isaacson’s new biography. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The trouble began days before the biography was even published. CNN had a story summarizing an excerpt of Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk that claimed Musk had shut down SpaceX’s satellite network, Starlink, to prevent a “Ukrainian
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Read MoreDo fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains.
Read MoreIn a wearables market saturated with wristwear, the Oura Ring 3 is small but mighty. Easily the most popular smart ring currently available, the device offers a petite alternative to bulky smartwatches, without sacrificing key health measurements. It’s also one of the most powerful sleep trackers we’ve tested. With its lead in the ring race,
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Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 8, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, first of all, hi, hello, welcome, and second of all, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve spent an alarming
Read MoreAs the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit’s Big Three drags on, a classic behavioral theory provides a way to figure out how long they may continue.
Read MoreEvery smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.
Read MoreOverclocking computer systems is a fun way to extract some free performance, or at least see how far you can push the hardware before you run into practical limitations. The newly released Raspberry Pi 5 with BCM2712 SoC is no exception here, with Tom’s Hardware having a go at seeing how far both the CPU
Read MoreDo-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s.
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on competing with Nvidia’s H100, PyTorch, AI regulation, the CHIPS Act, diversifying from TSMC, the global supply chain, and more — At this year’s Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world’s largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia’s leading GPU …
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Semafor: Q&A with Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi on AI trends, competition, taking over some of Panos Panay’s responsibilities, and more — Usually, when Microsoft unveils its new laptops, the focus is on the hardware. Last week, it was all about the software …
Read MoreNew York Times: Fact-checking sites have been declining worldwide as social media platforms cut back on disinformation efforts, and bogus AI-generated content thrives online — The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off.
Read MoreBrushless motors are fascinating devices that come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but you’ve probably never seen one in the form of a free-spinning shiny metal egg. Created by [David Windestål], [Giacomo Di Muro], and [Chad Kapper], the Motion Zero is part top, part brushless motor, and fully mesmerizing. Tech overview video after
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, we may be witnessing the rise of social networks populated by synthetic companions — Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
Read MoreSoldering pin headers by hand is a tedious task, especially when your project has a huge number of them. [iforce2d] has a large number of boards with a lot of headers, and has created a rather special CNC machine to to do the job. It’s a soldering robot, controlled by LinuxCNC and you can see
Read MoreResearchers at Cornell University have developed a tiny, proof of concept robot that moves its four limbs by rapidly igniting a combination of methane and oxygen inside flexible joints. The device can’t do much more than blow each limb outward with a varying amount of force, but that’s enough to be able to steer and
Read MoreJeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: Filing: LG suspends the inclusion of ATSC 3.0, an IP-based broadcast system, in its 2024 lineup of US TVs due to a “challenging and uncertain patent landscape” — Citing a ‘challenging and uncertain patent landscape,’ LG has suspended the inclusion of ATSC 3.0 tech in its 2024 TV lineup.
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 15 Pro overheating issue. The company has said that a software fix is in the process of being rolled out. As per Apple’s findings, the hardware of the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro is not to blame for the heating issue. Apple has officially
Read MoreKatie Paul / Reuters: Nick Clegg says Meta used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new AI assistant and took steps to filter private details from training datasets — Meta Platforms (META.O) used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant …
Read MoreMaking an oscilloscope is relatively easy, while making a very fast oscilloscope is hard. There’s a trick that converts a mundane instrument into a very fast one, it’s been around since the 1950s, and [CuriousMarc] has a video explaining it with an instrument from the 1960s. The diode sampler is the electronic equivalent of a
Read MoreSoldering pin headers by hand is a tedious task, especially when your project has a huge number of them. [iforce2d] has a large number of boards with a lot of headers, and has created a rather special CNC machine to to do the job. It’s a soldering robot, controlled by LinuxCNC and you can see
Read MoreIf you buy any kind of electronic gadget today, chances are it’s powered by a microcontroller with a program stored in its internal flash ROM. That program’s code is often jealously guarded by the manufacturer, who will try their best to make sure you can’t just read back the chip’s contents by using lock bits
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. That’s the three that come to mind when people inquire about wireless networks in the USA, isn’t it? While these are the prominent players, there are, in fact, more wireless networks out there than you might realize. Excluding MVNOs that depend on existing networks, there
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