Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge “The new FineWoven iPhone cases are very bad,” according to my colleague Allison Johnson, so you probably shouldn’t buy one. Still, I’ve been curious to learn more about them, and iFixit’s new teardown just gave me even more information than I could have thought to ask for: it
Read MoreEven though the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial new fee policy, the damage is done.
Read MoreWired: A look at the UK NHS’ plans for a federated data platform and the doctors, privacy campaigners, and others concerned that Palantir could win the £480M contract — US-based Palantir is favored to win a $595 million NHS contract, but activists and doctors worry about its controversial ties …
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2 looks to be a minor update of the prior model, with faster performance and new connectivity options. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Surface Laptop Go 3 during its recent hardware event in New York City, introducing the two laptops
Read MoreDo a titanium shell and a dedicated Action Button make the iPhone 15 Pro worth the upgrade? We break down the differences between the latest Apple handsets.
Read MoreAside from idle curiosity, very few of us need to see inside chips and components to diagnose a circuit. But reverse engineering is another story; being able to see what lies beneath the inscrutable epoxy blobs that protect the silicon within is a vital capability, one that might justify the expense involved in procuring an
Read MoreBecky Peterson / The Information: Sources: SpaceX does not plan to test its direct to cell service with T-Mobile until 2024 as it works out technical kinks, after a planned rollout in late 2023 — When SpaceX’s new Starship rocket exploded during a test flight in April, the company largely painted it as a success
Read MoreSolar power is an excellent way of generating electricity, whether that’s for an off-grid home or for the power grid. With no moving parts maintenance is relatively low, and the downsides of burning fuel are eliminated as well. But as much as it’s revolutionized power generation over the last few decades, there’s still some performance
Read MoreParesh Dave / Wired: A look at the antitrust activists attending the DOJ’s Google antitrust trial every day and documenting their observations through social media and newsletters — A historic antitrust trial sees Google accused of unlawfully monopolizing search. A handful of antitrust activists are trying to make sure the world sees all the action.
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: Doc: Booking.com accuses the EU of using “misleading” and “selective” facts to block its €1.63B Etraveli acquisition and plans to challenge any ban in court — US online travel site says Brussels has not shown €1.63bn acquisition of Swedish group will force rivals to close
Read More[John Earnest]’s passion project Decker is creative software with a classic MacOS look (it’s not limited to running on Macs, however) for easily making and sharing interactive documents with sound, images, hypertext, scripted behavior, and more to allow making just about anything in a WYSIWYG manner. Decker creates decks, which can be thought of as
Read MoreVauhini Vara / Wired: A writer whose AI-assisted essay went viral reflects on testing GPT-3 early, Sudowrite’s novel generator, and whether AI is good for writers and literature — Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.
Read MoreEd Bott / ZDNet: A look at Microsoft’s Surface business as device revenue plunged in FY 2023 after growing steadily since FY 2014, as a major correction hits the wider PC market — Do you like roller coaster rides? Do you crave those steep drops where the car plunges more than a thousand feet at
Read MoreLeo Schwartz / Fortune: Documents: Coinbase explored acquiring FTX Europe after FTX’s November 2022 bankruptcy, as part of Coinbase’s goal to expand its overseas derivatives business — In its pursuit to build out crypto derivatives offerings worldwide, Coinbase explored an acquisition of FTX’s European entity following …
Read MoreApple didn’t choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. Continue reading…
Read MoreApple didn’t choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft’s big Windows and Surface event focused on its AI vision of the future. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Ultra 2 is available to buy today, and Amazon has wasted no time in offering a deal on it — albeit a small one. The retail price of the premium Apple smartwatch is an eye-watering $799, but you can save $19 on it when you buy from the online retail giant. Apple
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Pro Max is out now, and we know all the best ways to save money on one.
Read MoreThe iPhone 15 Plus is out now, and we’ve found the best deals on the larger iPhone model.
Read MoreIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge A little more than a week after announcing a disastrous new pricing model that infuriated developers, Unity has introduced its revamped version. The new plan is a drastic departure from what was initially announced. Now, users on the Unity Personal subscription plan will not be charged the new
Read MoreBryant Francis / Game Developer: Unity apologizes and says games made with Unity Personal will be exempt from its Runtime Fee, which will only apply to games made with Unity versions from 2024 — Unity’s updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the
Read MoreYou may not have heard, but there’s a chip shortage out there. And it’s not just the fancy new chips that are in short supply; the chips that were fancy and new back when you could still buy them from Radio Shack are getting hard to come by, too. For different reasons, of course, but
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google rolled out the Android 14 QPR1 beta a couple of days ago. Some Pixel owners who installed the update are noticing that Google Wallet has stopped working. Google has acknowledged the problem and is working on a fix. In a surprise move, Google rolled out the Android 14
Read MoreQuantic Dream is famous for choose-your-own-adventure games like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human, where protagonists can die along the way — and apparently, Disney and Lucasfilm have signed off on that idea for its upcoming Star Wars game, Star Wars Eclipse. “There’s no game over. Anyone can die, anything can happen, and the story
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