New Apple TV Plus show The Changeling storms the streaming charts in its debut week
New Apple TV Plus show The Changeling found itself in the top four most popular shows and movies of the week.
Read MoreNew Apple TV Plus show The Changeling found itself in the top four most popular shows and movies of the week.
Read MoreRachel Metz / Bloomberg: AI writing startup Writer, used by L’Oréal, Spotify, and Uber to create digital marketing campaigns, raised $100M led by Iconiq Growth at a $500M+ valuation — The company’s technology can write and summarize a wide range of text. … Led by Chief Executive Officer May Habib …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been planning to stream PC games over the cloud, internal emails from the FTC v. Microsoft case show. Microsoft currently streams games through its Xbox Cloud Gaming service, but it’s limited to Xbox titles as the servers run specialized Xbox Series X chips. Microsoft has been
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft was, as you’d expect, following Sony’s reveal of the PS5 very closely. Sony announced the full PS5 tech specs in March 2020, which prompted an Xbox executive to provide Xbox chief Phil Spencer and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella with a summary of Sony’s console, internal emails from
Read MoreIt’s another sale to convince you to subscribe (or stay subscribed) to Prime. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We knew it was coming, but now we can officially mark our calendars for the next Prime Day sale. Amazon has announced that its fall Prime Day is scheduled for October 10th and 11th.
Read MoreThe repair costs for the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max have been revealed, and the price is much lower than expected.
Read MoreThe second Prime Day is coming, and it’s got a new name — Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. It will be a big deal — and will hopefully save us some money on Apple devices.
Read MoreFor the past few years, one phrase that’s been repeated by tech enthusiasts and gamers is “ray tracing,” though many don’t even fully understand what it is. But what is ray tracing? Today, we’ll unpack the technology, from how it works, whether it’s worth it, and what games and graphics cards fully support it. What
Read MoreCredit: Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The cheaper ASUS ROG Ally reportedly has inferior performance to the Steam Deck. A review noted that the ROG Ally Z1 lagged behind the Deck in a variety of games. It looks like battery life isn’t much better than the ROG Ally Z1 Extreme model, either. ASUS launched the
Read MoreApple is finally fixing the radiation issues spotted by the French government but, now, other countries may require the same.
Read MoreiPhone 15 Pro Max Credit: Apple Apple could launch bigger iPhones next year. The company is also expected to bring major upgrades to the Apple Watch series, the iPad Pro lineup, and all MacBooks. Apple just got done with its “Wonderlust” announcements, including the iPhone 15 series, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2,
Read MoreNormally, 3D printing with filament takes temperatures of around 200 °C. However, there are some crafting plastics that melts in hot water at 60 °C. You can get spools of similar plastic that prints at very low temperatures, and some 3D printing pens use it. [Lost in Tech] picked up a spool of the stuff
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Apple will issue a software update to the iPhone 12 so that the device can resume sales in France. The update will accommodate the SAR protocol used by French regulators. France will resume iPhone 12 sales after the update. Apple has responded to the French sales ban on the
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Prosus and Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk steps down and plans to remain as a consultant for a year; Prosus executive Ervin Tu will temporarily take over as CEO — Bob van Dijk, the chief executive of Dutch e-commerce investor Prosus and its controlling shareholder Naspers, has stepped …
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority OnePlus has officially revealed the OnePlus Pad Go design and launch date. The tablet is launching on October 6. We’ve known for a few weeks now that OnePlus was working on the OnePlus Pad Go. OnePlus India started teasing the Android tablet last week, and we’ve now got a
Read MoreAnother Kickstarter, another opportunity for people to get mad at delayed and poorly functioning (if delivered at all) gadgets. But the real star of the show here is NiTinol, a shape metal alloy composed of nickel and titanium. It is increasingly available, with a lot of potential; maybe we should add it to our repertoire
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Amazon’s bets across industries, including health care, as some analysts and investors question the company’s scattershot efforts and its poor returns — The tech giant has built three wildly successful businesses. It’s been toiling for years to find a ‘fourth pillar.’ — The team atop
Read MoreCredit: Google / YouTube The Google Pixel 8 series is less than a month away from launching, but rumored European prices suggest a huge price hike is on the cards. The standard Pixel 8 could start at €874.25 (up from €649) while the Pixel 8 Pro could set you back €1,235 (up from €849). We
Read MoreDaniel Thomas / Financial Times: The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and other UK broadcasters announce Freely, offering linear TV channels via the internet, available on new smart TVs starting in 2024 — Freely will be built into next-generation smart sets, in effect taking Freeview platform on to internet
Read MoreTo get the most from generative AI (GenAI) tools like GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT, Datasette founder Simon Willison argues you have to be prepared to accept four conflicting opinions. Namely, that AI is neither our salvation nor our doom, neither empty hype nor the solution to everything. It’s none of these and all of them at
Read MoreLike many technology organizations, when ChatGPT was publicly released, we wanted to compare its answers to those of a regular web search. We experimented by asking technical questions and requesting specific content. Not all answers were efficient or correct, but our team appreciated the ability to provide feedback to improve responses. We then got more
Read MoreRod McGuirk / Associated Press: Australia says Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, and others must submit a voluntary code of conduct by June 30, 2024, to improve safety standards or face regulation — Australia’s government said Monday the online dating industry must improve safety standards or be forced to make changes through legislation …
Read MoreLaura Normand / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledges in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning that there are “some things about” the platform formerly known as Twitter that he doesn’t like. Cook called the platform’s apparent anti-Semitism problem “abhorrent” but said, “Twitter is an important property; I like the concept that it’s there
Read MoreGrand Theft Auto V turns 10. | Image: Rockstar Games It’s been exactly 10 years since Grand Theft Auto V first launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, followed soon after by Grand Theft Auto Online. In a thread on X today, Rockstar Games thanked fans, calling them “the reason GTA V has thrived
Read MoreOK, it’s official — everyone hates San Francisco’s self-driving taxi fleet. Or at least so it seems, if this video of someone vandalizing a Cruise robotaxi is an accurate reflection of the public’s sentiment. We’ve been covering the increasingly fraught relationship between Cruise and San Franciscans for a while now — between their cabs crashing
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