Image: Getty Polestar has found another product to slap its logo on, and it’s not an electric car. The Swedish-based, Chinese-owned EV maker will launch its own smartphone in December, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath told CNBC at the IAA Mobility auto show in Munich, Germany, this week. The phone will be produced by Xingji Meizu,
Read MoreGoogle has announced that it’s testing ‘Playables’ on YouTube. These are games that can be played on YouTube itself. The titles can be played on your desktop or mobile device. Google is no stranger to gaming, as it previously offered the ill-fated Stadia service until January 2023. Now, it looks like the company is getting
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is trying out games as its next experimental offering. The company is adding a new “Playables” section on the site that will include games that can be played on both the desktop website and mobile devices. Playables will only appear for “a limited number of users to start,”
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreCredit: Lily Katz / Android Authority A regulatory listing of a new Galaxy Buds has been spotted online, with model number SM-R400N. Leaks suggest this could be the new Galaxy Buds FE. The new earbuds take inspiration from the looks of the original Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds Plus. Samsung currently sells three earbuds as
Read MoreThomas Claburn / The Register: Google has been rolling out Chrome’s “Enhanced Ad Privacy” via a popup, part of its Topics API; some say the “Got It” button is misleading as tracking is active — YMMV, based on where you are — Google has been gradually rolling out Chrome’s “Enhanced Ad Privacy.”
Read MoreNo one has a plan for regulating AI yet. These are the questions that leaders must ask to contain the coming wave.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: The Pentagon is considering building a vast network of AI-powered tech, drones, and autonomous systems in the next two years to counter threats from China — Defense Department seeks an array of air-, land- and sea-based autonomous systems to keep pace with adversaries
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: the UK government pulls back from new encryption rules in the Online Safety Bill, averting a clash with Big Tech, as the bill enters its final stages — Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
Read MoreNico Grant / New York Times: A profile of Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, who helped negotiate the 2013 FTC settlement, as Google prepares to defend itself against DOJ antitrust claims — The tech giant is facing the greatest legal threat in its history, and hopes the stolid approach of Kent Walker, its top lawyer,
Read MoreMax A. Cherney / Reuters: d-Matrix, which designs chips aimed at the “inference” part of AI processing, raised a $110M Series B led by Temasek, taking its total funding to $154M — Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence chip startup d-Matrix has raised $110 million from investors that include Microsoft Corp …
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku will be laying off 10 percent of its employees — more than 300 people — in its third round of workforce cuts in under a year. As reported by Variety, Roku revealed the move in an 8-K SEC filing early on Wednesday and says it made the
Read MoreThe new cookbook from Bricia Lopez approaches Mexican cuisine with a festive, LA vibe. The recipes, which heavily feature open-flame cooking, are universally delicious.
Read MoreSome foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I’m not going to lie: it sucks that Disney Plus is going to increase the price of its ad-free plan next month. But today, Disney softened the blow somewhat. First, the company introduced a new ad-free Disney Plus and Hulu plan for $19.99 per month, which is about
Read MoreImage: Sonos The Sonos Move 2 will be released on September 20th for $449, the company announced this morning. I’ve already reported extensively on the new product, which is Sonos’ third portable speaker after the original Move and much smaller Roam. There are several meaningful improvements to the second-generation Move: it will output stereo audio
Read MoreAMD’s latest GPUs will put even more pressure on Nvidia’s RTX 40-series pricing. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: GoPro GoPro is announcing its next major action camera: the GoPro Hero 12 Black. The new camera has a bunch of notable features, including support for longer runtimes when you’re recording footage continuously for those times when you want to capture as much of your adventure as possible when using GoPro’s Enduro battery. The
Read MoreSophie Kiderlin / CNBC: Crypto Wealth Report: 88,200 people have crypto worth $1M+, or <1% of all users, 182 have $100M+, and 22 have $1B+, of which six hold the funds in bitcoin — Hundreds of millions of people around the world have some form of crypto holdings, whether that is in bitcoin or one
Read MoreOpinion post by Rita El Khoury As I was checking our Android Authority stats a few days ago, I noticed that our readers were flocking to an article about the HONOR Magic V2’s global launch. “Huh, curious,” I thought, as HONOR devices are — if I’m being blunt here — not the most popular Android phones
Read MoreFor all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an open secret, of course, but some of their activities are so mysterious that no one will confirm or deny that they’re doing it. We’re talking
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Dublin-based Wayflyer, which offers e-commerce funding in exchange for future revenue, raised $1B from Neuberger Berman via an “off-balance sheet program” — Wayflyer, which provides financing to e-commerce startups in exchange for a portion of their future revenue …
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is holding a special OneDrive event on October 3rd where the company plans to offer a “sneak peek at our AI plans” for the cloud storage service. “The future of file management” event will be live streamed on Microsoft Teams and looks like it will include a redesigned OneDrive interface, alongside new
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Roku plans to lay off 300+, or 10% of its staff, to cut costs and will take a ~$65M impairment charge in the current quarter to remove content; ROKU jumps 12%+ — Roku will cut more than 300 staffers — laying off 10% of its workforce — as the streaming-platform company
Read MoreImage: Microsoft MSI has started issuing BIOS updates to fix Windows 11 Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) “unsupported processor” errors that started appearing with its Intel 700 and 600 Series motherboards last month. Microsoft initially investigated reports of errors that appeared after the latest KB5029351 update, and MSI now confirms it has found and fixed
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