Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. | Image: Lucasfilm While Hollywood’s ongoing double labor strike has kept any substantive progress from being made on Donald and Stephen Glover’s forthcoming Lando Calrissian project, according to one half of the creative duo, a movie — not a Disney Plus series — is what fans have to look forward
Read MoreImage: Bose Bose is introducing not one, not two, but three new products today. It’s an ambitious move from a company that’s traditionally been very calculated, and it points to a nimbler future for Bose that could see new devices brought to market at a faster clip. Today’s announcements include the $429 QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
Read MoreWhen we think about machine learning, our minds often jump to datacenters full of sweating, overheating GPUs. However, lighter-weight hardware can also be used to these ends, as demonstrated by [Nikodem Bartnik] and his latest robot. The robot is charged with autonomously navigating a simple racetrack delineated by cardboard barriers. The robot is based on
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: The Biden administration asks SCOTUS to pause a lower court’s order limiting the White House, FBI, and public health agencies from making social media requests — The move comes after a lower court found the White House, FBI and key public health officials probably violated the First Amendment
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just like Netflix, Hulu will now show you a list of the most popular shows and movies on the platform. The new top 15 list will start appearing on the service today, with Hulu’s entire library of content eligible for inclusion. Hulu will update its list every day
Read MoreUnity Earlier this week, Unity, the company that makes the Unity video game engine popular with indie developers, announced that it was changing its pricing model. The changes included a pricing scheme that sought to charge developers on a per-install basis for games that met specific download and revenue thresholds. Unity wanted to charge developers
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Paying subscribers to X — formerly Twitter — will now be able to hide their likes tab from public view, the company announced today. When enabled, the tab disappears completely from an X Premium user’s profile. Private likes are the latest exclusive feature X owner Elon Musk has
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom — Caesars is second major casino operator hit by hackers in recent weeks — paid roughly half of a $30 million ransom …
Read MoreYou were too good for this world, tiny iPhone. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Small phone fans — all 36 of us — experienced a major loss this week. The iPhone Mini is officially gone, taking with it the legacy of a truly small flagship smartphone. But it’s not all bad news.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The official OnePlus India account on X (formerly known as Twitter) hinted at the OnePlus Pad Go. No other OnePlus accounts posted this teaser, leading us to believe the tablet could be an India exclusive. The tablet has also only appeared in Indian regulatory bodies. OnePlus launched its very
Read MoreImage: Unity The game engine popular with indie developers has caused a storm of controversy with its new pricing scheme that seeks to charge developers per installation of their games. Continue reading…
Read MoreJanko Roettgers / Lowpass: Amazon adds back IAP for Prime Video users on Android to buy VOD rentals and more, after removing IAP from its Android apps in 2022 to avoid Google’s 30% fee — Next up: The Kindle app, maybe? — Some news from the someone-must-have-struck-a-deal department: Amazon is once again allowing users …
Read MoreEntire neighborhoods of the Libyan city of Derna have vanished following devastating floods wrought by Storm Daniel. Such storms are rare—but climate change will supersize them.
Read MoreImage: Cruise / Raymond Rudolph Photography Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company backed by General Motors, revealed a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi that it says could start picking up disabled passengers as soon as next year. The reveal of the newly accessible robotaxi is a major step toward fulfilling the dream of people with vision, hearing, and mobility
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is partnering with Billboard to launch a top 50 chart that tracks the most popular songs on the platform. Topping the chart right now is Sexyy Red with “SkeeYee,” followed by Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” with Taylor Swift’s “August” taking third place. TikTok and Billboard
Read MoreImage: Supergiant Games We’re going to have to wait a little bit longer to play Hades II. The sequel to one of the best roguelikes out there will be launching in early access in Q2 2024, developer Supergiant Games announced on Thursday. You’ll be able to get the early access version through Steam or the
Read MoreMehul Srivastava / Financial Times: MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines — Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
Read MoreBBC: Greater Manchester Police confirms a ransomware attack on its ID supplier, potentially exposing officer identities, one month after a breach in Northern Ireland — Police officers’ personal details have been hacked after a company was targeted in a cyber attack.
Read MoreDo you need this mug? No. But who cares. | Image: Ember Both of the following things are true: $199.95 is a totally ludicrous price to pay for a mug, and Ember’s new Tumbler looks pretty great. The Tumbler is a 16-ounce black travel mug (the biggest one Ember has ever made) that claims to
Read MoreAt “the size of three 60% keyboards (put together)” or approximately one Cannibal Corpse record on vinyl, this beautifully-executed death metal font-inspired macro pad by [zyumbik] may be better off hanging on the wall than hanging out on the desktop. But let’s say you did have room for the 9-key Deathpad on your desktop. Wouldn’t
Read MoreThe Unity pricing debacle has taken an unfortunate, dangerous turn. In a new report from Bloomberg, the company has reportedly canceled a town hall meeting due to what the publication called credible death threats. According to Bloomberg, Unity CEO John Riccitiello was set to address employees Thursday morning, but the companywide meeting was canceled and
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority An update is rolling out for the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4. The changelog provides vague details on what’s been improved. This is the first patch the phones have received since the One UI 5.1.1 update. As Galaxy owners wait for the stable version of One
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Automattic releases ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress, letting fediverse users follow WordPress blogs on apps like Mastodon and receive replies as blog comments — In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include …
Read MoreI would also like several million dollars to study UFOs, if we’re just flinging cash around. | Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images First of all, let’s be clear: NASA’s new report on so-called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) says there’s “no conclusive evidence suggesting an extraterrestrial origin.” They’re going to create a director of
Read MoreSuper Rumble on mobile. | Image: Meta Meta is finally bringing Horizon Worlds out of virtual reality. The 3D social platform has previously been exclusive to its VR headsets, but Meta announced on Thursday that Horizon Worlds is starting to roll out on mobile and the web in early access. “To start, a small number
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