Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: A look at D Billions, a network of YouTube channels run by Kyrgyzstan-based media company AWA and which got billions of views by teaching kids words via songs — A landlocked country in Central Asia is home to an international hit. — The US has Mr. Beast. The Kyrgyz Republic has
Read MoreOnce upon a time, NASA-JPL put out a design for an open-source rocker-bogie rover. It was an impressive and capable thing, albeit a little expensive and difficult to build. Now, the open source community has dived in and refreshed the design, making it cheaper and more accessible than ever before. Many parts of the original
Read MoreMax Hoppenstedt / Washington Post: German prosecutors say Elon Musk’s X has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests; Twitter used to push back if requests threatened free speech — The social media company has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests from German authorities since Musk’s purchase, prosecutors say
Read MoreThe OnePlus Pad as pictured in The Verge’s April review. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge OnePlus is making a new budget tablet called the OnePlus Pad Go, according to Digital Trends. It will have an 11.6-inch 2.4K screen with a 144Hz refresh rate, according to the article, and will launch with OnePlus’
Read MoreWith the beta release of Ruby on Rails 7.1, the Ruby-based web application framework now will produce all the Dockerfiles needed to deploy an application. Unveiled September 13, Rails 7.1 beta 1 offers default Docker support. When generating a new application, the framework now will include Docker-related files in the application. These files are turned
Read MoreOnce upon a time, NASA-JPL put out a design for an open-source rocker-bogie rover. It was an impressive and capable thing, albeit a little expensive and difficult to build. Now, the open source community has dived in and refreshed the design, making it cheaper and more accessible than ever before. Many parts of the original
Read MoreMax Hoppenstedt / Washington Post: German prosecutors say Elon Musk’s X has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests; Twitter used to push back if requests threatened free speech — The social media company has complied with hundreds of hate-crime user data requests from German authorities since Musk’s purchase, prosecutors say
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” goes the old adage, and it’s one that tech brands are increasingly embracing. At least if you read their marketing material. No doubt you’ll have spotted this trend at Apple’s latest iPhone 15 announcement, as well as during other high-profile flagship
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s not easy to find a high-end Android phone with expandable storage in 2023. As companies scramble to raise their bottom line, the simplicity and lucrativeness of the no-microSD-slot strategy made it a de-facto move: Why let users buy extra storage for next to nothing when they could
Read MorePhoto by Nilay Patel / The Verge Are you an iPhone user looking to upgrade to… the iPhone? Well, you’ll have more to consider this time around since the new iPhone 15 comes with a USB-C port, ending an 11-year run for the company’s proprietary Lightning charging plug. USB Type-C (or just USB-C) is the
Read MoreWhile we were debating about whether it even makes any sense to reboot RadioShack, or indeed any brick-and-mortar electronics store in the modern era, Dan Maloney and I stumbled on what probably is the real source of all of our greybeard nostalgia for the store chain: inspiration. For both of us, the appeal of a
Read MoreWho needs the drab white model, anyway? | Image: Nintendo It’s been an exciting week for Nintendo Switch fans. First, Nintendo announced a whole bunch of games as part of its latest Direct event, including F-Zero 99 — a battle royale spin on the classic racing title — and remakes of both Mario and Donkey
Read MoreWhile we were debating about whether it even makes any sense to reboot RadioShack, or indeed any brick-and-mortar electronics store in the modern era, Dan Maloney and I stumbled on what probably is the real source of all of our greybeard nostalgia for the store chain: inspiration. For both of us, the appeal of a
Read MorePlus: Spyware-packing ads, TikTok GDPR violations, Elon Musk investigations, and more.
Read MorePlus: Spyware-packing ads, TikTok GDPR violations, Elon Musk investigations, and more.
Read MorePlus: Bose refreshes the QuietComfort line of noise-canceling headphones, and HP debuts a folding laptop (which means something different than you think it does).
Read MoreRegular lawnmowers are a perfectly fine way to mow your lawn, but they can be a bit boring. They’re also not always the best at tackling thick brush and bushes. [rctestflight] has a solution to both of those problems, in the form of a plant-munching bulldozer. The concept is simple — it starts with a
Read MoreOne of the world’s deadliest diseases is rising again as extreme weather creates a perfect breeding ground for the bacteria.
Read MoreWhen Google introduced its first Tensor chipset with the Pixel 6, its intentions were pretty clear: to grow independent of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon (or any other chipset vendor) and to build experiences that would otherwise be impossible. While we’re still waiting for the Pixel 8 series and its accompanying third-generation Tensor G3 processor, Google’s chips have
Read MoreTom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed — Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott spearheaded the tech titan’s unlikely partnership with OpenAI — In the tech industry’s artificial-intelligence race,
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The world is rightfully celebrating the iPhone’s switch from Lightning to USB-C this week. People love to hate on Lightning — and they have good reasons to. Many of the world’s most popular devices now use USB-C ports, including Apple’s own iPads, meaning iPhone owners have been
Read MoreCyberattacks on casinos grab attention, but a steady stream of less publicized attacks leave vulnerable victims struggling to recover.
Read MoreYou dream of a basement-wide cityscape, but you also have to pay rent. We asked Lego Master and brickfluencer Stacey Roy how to do it.
Read MoreNew engine work, motion capture, and experimentation in the new The Expanse: A Telltale Series, gives us all a positive impression for the studio’s future.
Read MoreJohn Gruber / Daring Fireball: Thoughts on Apple’s Wonderlust event, including the Mother Nature skit, FineWoven iPhone cases and Watch straps, iPhone 15 and 15 Pro lineup, and AirPods Pro 2 — Was Tuesday’s “Wonderlust” event mostly predictable? Yes. Does that mean it was boring? For some people, yes.
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