Is that a Charge 6 I see? | Image: Fitbit It’s been a big day for Fitbit fans. On Tuesday morning, the Google-owned subsidiary started rolling out its new Fitbit app, and later in the day, it teased news on September 28th about a new Fitbit device. The news teaser is brief: it’s a six-second
Read MoreElon Musk’s neurotech startup announced that it is now seeking patients with paralysis to test a brain-computer interface.
Read MoreGitHub is wooing customers of rival Atlassian who will lose technical support for their server-deployed products for code-hosting and CI/CD, including Bitbucket Server and Bamboo Server. Atlassian is ending support for its server products on February 15, 2024. GitHub said on September 18 it has launched migration tools to move Atlassian users to GitHub Enterprise
Read MoreShubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Tabular, which provides an independent storage platform based on Apache Iceberg, raised $26M led by Altimeter Capital, bringing its total funding to $37M — California-based Tabular, an independent data platform built by the creators of Apache Iceberg, today announced $26 million in a fresh round of funding.
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant details UNC53, a China-backed group that hacked 29+ global orgs since 2022 by tricking staff into using malware-infected USB drives, mostly in Africa — Security researchers found USB-based Sogu espionage malware spreading within African operations of European and US firms.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge A few lucky WhatsApp beta testers got a surprising treat this week: the company appears to be testing a version of its iOS app that is also optimized for the iPad. As first spotted by WABetaInfo, version 23.19.1.71 of WhatsApp’s TestFlight app includes the new iPad app as well. From what we
Read MoreNerf has made plenty of fully-automatic blasters over the years, but their toys typically lack punch, precision, and fire rate. [3DprintedLife] set about building a blaster to rectify that last shortcoming, aiming for design that could fire 100 darts per second. The design uses half length darts which tend to fly a little nicer from
Read MoreMicrosoft’s new core gamepad, codenamed Sebile, may become the new default Xbox gamepad in May 2024. | Image via court documents, text removed by The Verge New Xbox for 2024! New hybrid Xbox for 2028! But can we just appreciate Microsoft’s leaked Sebile controller for a sec? The $70 pad could arrive in 2024 chock-full
Read MoreNeuralink’s N1 implant is ready for its first human users. | Image: Neuralink A few months after getting FDA approval for human trials, Neuralink is looking for its first test subjects. The six-year initial trial, which the Elon Musk-owned company is calling “the PRIME Study,” is intended to test Neuralink tech designed to help those
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The UK’s Online Safety Bill is ready to become law. The bill, which aims to make the UK “the safest place in the world to be online,” passed through the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday and imposes strict requirements on large social platforms to remove illegal content. It
Read MoreEd Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: Emails from 2022: worried about Starfield’s delay, Microsoft estimated how much it may have to pay to get specific games on Xbox Game Pass, ranging up to $300M — Given very high wow factor. — Follow Star Wars Jedi: Survivor — The recent leak of internal Microsoft documents gives …
Read MoreAs amazing and groundbreaking the Nintendo 64 was, over the years it has also become synonymous with blurry textures and liberal use of Gouraud shading as its most strongly defining visual features. In a recent video, [James Lambert] covers how the system’s minuscule 4 kB texture memory (TMEM) can be circumvented using mipmapping. By loading
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Max, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, is adding a live sports tier in the US on October 5th. The Bleacher Report Sports add-on will cost $9.99 per month, with current Max subscribers getting the tier for free until February 29th, 2024. The upcoming sports tier will feature live games
Read MoreCredit: Cricket Wireless Cricket Wireless has announced the launch of the Cricket Magic 5G. The Cricket Magic 5G is a budget phone that sells for under $200. The Cricket Magic 5G is available now in Gray Plaid. Cricket Wireless is launching a new smartphone under its brand. The handset will compete against some of the
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The ACSI 2023 award for personal computing is a tie between Samsung and Apple. This is the first time in 20 years that Apple hasn’t been the sole winner. Samsung’s tablets are likely the main reason for gaining steam against Apple for this award. Each year, the American Customer
Read MoreAn object lesson in filial piety! | Illustration: The Verge; Image: Getty Images The lawyers who represent what’s left of FTX filed suit against Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, saying they “exploited their access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves, directly and indirectly, by millions of dollars.” The point of the suit is to
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iFixit is dropping the repairability score on the iPhone 14. While the organization originally gave the phone a seven out of 10 to indicate high repairability, iFixit has lowered that rating to a four after taking into account parts pairing requirements that make fixing the device a
Read MoreMantan Direktur Utama Pertamina, Karen Agustiawan, telah selesai menjalani pemeriksaan di Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) terkait kasus korupsi gas alam cair (liquefied natural gas atau LNG). Dalam pemeriksaan tersebut, Karen Agustiawan dianggap sebagai tersangka dan kemudian ditahan oleh KPK. Pemeriksaan terhadap Karen Agustiawan berlangsung di gedung KPK yang terletak di Jakarta Selatan, seperti yang terpantau
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is responsible for the huge trove of leaked documents that revealed things like a new disc-less Xbox Series X design, unannounced games from Bethesda, and executive musings about buying Nintendo, according to a new filing from the FTC v. Microsoft judge on Tuesday. In the filing, Judge
Read MoreDo you want some frittata? | Image: Toyota Research Institute Yeah, so Toyota Research Institute (TRI) used generative AI in a “kindergarten for robots” to teach robots how to make breakfast — or at least, the individual tasks needed to do so — and it didn’t take hundreds of hours of coding and errors and
Read MoreSymbiosis between its Fire TVs and its Alexa smart home ambitions could help Amazon create a smart home that works for everyone. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s fall hardware event is taking place this week, and the company will undoubtedly be searching for its next big hardware hit. But how about
Read MoreImage: Apple It’s rare that I ever encounter any bugs or software problems with the Apple TV 4K that stop me in my tracks. But in the event you do have trouble, restoring Apple’s streaming box has always been something of a hassle. With the older Apple TV HD, you’ve got to plug it into
Read MoreHassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Intel says Emerald Rapids, its fifth-gen Xeon chips, will arrive on December 14, and announces a Sierra Forest Xeon processor with 288 cores launching in 2024 — Intel has unveiled its brand-new Xeon CPU roadmap which reveals three product families as a part of the Birch Stream platform.
Read MoreEpomaker’s TH80 Pro is a great entry-level mechanical keyboard, regardless of which switches you opt for. | Image: Epomaker It’s hard to beat the tactile feel and durability of a good ol’ fashioned mechanical keyboard. Fortunately, if you’re someone who’s looking to kick their membrane keyboard to the curb, Epomaker’s TH80 Pro represents a great
Read MoreImage: Epic Games You can now apply to receive a refund from Fortnite maker Epic Games’ $245 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC alleged that Fortnite players bought in-game goods on accident because of design tricks, and the two parties agreed to the settlement, which was announced as part of a
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