Touch ID was a blessing for lazy teens like me who couldn’t be bothered to set an unlocking PIN. | Photo by Lintao Zhang / Getty Images Every phone you pick up today has a fingerprint scanner, a face scanner, an option for PINs with four, six, or more digits, and often all of them
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A report says Samsung Galaxy S23 sales are doing much better than Galaxy S22 sales during the first six months of availability. Because of this, Samsung has high hopes for the Galaxy S24 series. Additionally, the Galaxy S24 series might land earlier than expected. Samsung doesn’t make the sales
Read MoreAs the iPhone 15 approaches, we look back at Apple’s proprietary charging options from over the years.
Read MoreThe Apple iPhone 15 launch event is finally on today. Here’s everything you should know about it.
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel agrees to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC, valuing IMS at $4.3B, and will retain majority ownership of the standalone subsidiary — Intel has agreed to sell a 10% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to TSMC for $430 million at a valuation of $4.3 billion.
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Rad Power Bikes, the largest e-bike manufacturer in North America, says that going forward, it will only produce bikes that comply with UL safety standards. The announcement comes after a series of deadly fires, mostly in New York City, were linked to malfunctioning e-bike batteries. UL Standards and
Read MoreJeff Ward as Buggy the Clown. | Image: Netflix You only need to take a casual glance at the new live-action One Piece adaptation to see that Netflix went all out when it came to translating Eiichiro Oda’s vision of a wild world full of pirates to the small screen. A big part of what
Read MoreAfter shifting some iPhone 14 (pictured) production to India shortly after launch last year, the iPhone 15 may be the first model to sell India-made units on launch day. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple will reportedly hit a major milestone regarding its global supply chain with the expected launch of
Read MoreMorgan Meaker / Wired: How Finnish AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, uses prison labor paid €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support — In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.
Read MoreAmazon’s discounted bundle arrives just as Philips Hue is gearing up to roll out support for Matter, the new smart home standard. | Image: Philips Hue Outside of Sengled and Wyze, there are few companies in the smart lighting space as well known as Philips Hue, which offers one of the more robust catalogs of
Read MoreVideoCardz.com: Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging support — Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4 — Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology.
Read MoreSpencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon announces a service that lets its 2M merchants deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, rolling out broadly later in 2023 — – Service brings inventory to stores instead of shoppers’ homes … Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service …
Read MoreSenator Scott Wiener on Friday, January 10th, 2020, in San Francisco, California. Wiener authored a newly passed bill that requires carbon footprint disclosures from big companies. | Photo By Liz Hafalia / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images California legislators passed a bill Monday night that would force big companies doing business in the
Read MoreNew York Times: A live blog of the US et al v. Google trial, which starts today, as the DOJ prepares to argue the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly — Here is the latest on the Google antitrust trial. Opening statements are underway in a major antitrust case against Google …
Read MoreImage: Western Digital Western Digital is launching its new SN770M NVMe SSD, designed specifically for devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. The small M.2 2230 form factor drives will be available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB options, allowing handheld gamers to significantly upgrade their storage. Replacing the SSD inside a Steam Deck has
Read MoreRachel Graf / The Information: Sources describe Apollo’s Yahoo turnaround efforts, including layoffs, asset sales, and new partnerships; Yahoo is on pace to generate $7B in 2023 gross revenue — When speaking about the company he inherited in September 2021, Jim Lanzone is remarkably blunt.
Read MoreTikTok lets you buy things now. | Image: TikTok Starting today, TikTok users in the US can buy stuff directly in the TikTok app as the company rolls out TikTok Shop, its online marketplace that’s already live in the UK. With this change, brands and creators alike can sell directly to you in their videos
Read MoreKellen Browning / New York Times: Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that helps match female drivers with female passengers; riders can still match with men when no women are available — The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers. — Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing …
Read MoreDon Clark / New York Times: A look at the challenges facing Arm, expected to start trading on September 14 at a $52B valuation, including a huge array of clients and geopolitical tensions — The SoftBank-owned company, which for decades has defined how mobile phones operate, is grappling with geopolitical …
Read MoreStephen Nellis / Reuters: Enfabrica, which develops “hub and spoke” networking chips to improve Nvidia GPU-based AI data center processing, raised a $125M Series B led by Atreides — Enfabrica, a Silicon Valley chip startup working on networking chips for artificial intelligence data centers …
Read MoreClara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Sources: Inditex races to fix bugs in Zara’s new anti-shoplifting system, based on RFID, to replace plastic tags; some staff worry over theft becoming easier — – RFID technology is supposed to replace hard security tags — Global rollout of the new hardware was expected in July
Read MoreFinancial Times: An in-depth look at how Google’s Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language — Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM.
Read MoreBrain injury from contact sports doesn’t just affect professional athletes. A new study of amateur athletes who died before turning 30 reveals that many already showed signs of neurodegeneration.
Read MoreDid you buy any of these in your Apple ownership life? | Photo by Umar Shakir / The Verge Lightning cables will soon join the junk pile of dongles, adapters, and accessories that Apple has left behind over the years — for better or worse. Continue reading…
Read MoreKyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Salesforce announces Einstein Copilot, an AI chatbot for its apps, launching via pilot later in fall, part of its new Einstein 1 Platform — Salesforce Inc. today rolled out an artificial intelligence conversational copilot assistant for its applications that can assist users …
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