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Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work (Mark Wilding/The Verge)

Mark Wilding / The Verge: Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work — IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due …

Fairphone 5 hands-on: Feels like the best phone for a small group of people

Every year, we see the newest and best smartphones from the big brands, such as Samsung, Apple, Google, etc. Regardless of your preferred brand, the messaging is always crystal clear: “Your old phone is not as good as this new phone, so out with the old and in with the new!” While this is usually

Diving into Starlink’s User Terminal Firmware

The average Starlink user probably doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about their hardware after getting the dish aligned and wiring run. To security researchers, however, it’s another fascinating device to tinker with as they reverse-engineer the firmware and try to both find out what makes it tick, as well as how to break

Nvidia and AMD say they face new restrictions on AI chip sales

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia and AMD say they face new restrictions in some Middle Eastern countries, Reuters reports. This widens the restrictions on these chips beyond China and Russia. The new licensing requirement applies to “a subset” of Nvidia’s top-end chips, the company said. In response, the Biden administration said it

IBM promised to back off facial recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations. In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept the US after George Floyd’s

Meta begins testing full-text search on Threads in Australia and New Zealand and plans a wider rollout to other English-speaking countries in the future (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta begins testing full-text search on Threads in Australia and New Zealand and plans a wider rollout to other English-speaking countries in the future — Threads launched one of the most anticipated features, a web version of the platform, last week. Now, Meta is testing another highly …

Source: Binance Asia-Pacific’s head Leon Foong resigned from the exchange, the latest senior executive departure; Foong helped expand in South Korea and Japan (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Source: Binance Asia-Pacific’s head Leon Foong resigned from the exchange, the latest senior executive departure; Foong helped expand in South Korea and Japan — – Foong led Binance expansion into markets like Japan, Korea — Market share has declined after a global regulatory crackdown

VanMoof e-bikes finds a buyer

People swarm around the S5 at its reveal in March 2022. VanMoof’s future is less clear. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Lavoie is buying bankrupt e-bike maker VanMoof. The e-mobility subsidiary of McLaren Applied announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the VanMoof e-bike business. The announcement

Samsung’s noise-canceling Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are over $50 off right now

Even the lavender version of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are on sale right now. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple may release a new set of AirPods with support for USB-C in a matter of weeks, but if you’re embedded in the Samsung ecosystem, there are more suitable pairs of earbuds

Interbank messaging system Swift and Chainlink successfully transfer tokenized value across multiple private and public blockchains via Chainlink’s CCIP (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: Interbank messaging system Swift and Chainlink successfully transfer tokenized value across multiple private and public blockchains via Chainlink’s CCIP — The interbank messaging system Swift announced in June it was collaborating with Chainlink and dozens of financial institutions to test connecting blockchains.

Universal won’t be seeing Ana de Armas fans in court for their Yesterday trailer lawsuit

Photo by Todd Owyoung / NBC via Getty Images Though some Ana de Armas fans have insisted that Universal tricked them into seeing Danny Boyle’s 2019 musical Yesterday with trailers featuring the Blonde actor, a US district judge has found that not to be the case. It’s unclear how serious Peter Michael Rosza and Conor

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Uniswap, founder Hayden Adams, a16z, and others over scam token sales as software cannot be held accountable for losses (James Hunt/The Block)

James Hunt / The Block: A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Uniswap, founder Hayden Adams, a16z, and others over scam token sales as software cannot be held accountable for losses — – Uniswap founder Hayden Adams hailed the court’s comments as “based” after a class action lawsuit alleging liability for scam token sales was

X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history

Image: The Verge X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is expanding the amount of data it collects on users. The social network has updated its privacy policy to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” as spotted by Bloomberg. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety,

Xgimi’s latest 4K projector is super bright for the price

The Horizon Ultra is bright enough to overcome some ambient light. | Image: Xgimi Home projector upstart Xgimi just announced its new Horizon Ultra model, dubbed the “world’s first 4K long-throw projector with Dolby Vision.” While I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for the device to produce an image with jaw-dropping HDR, it’s certainly

Berlin-based Ivy, which offers an API to create a “network of networks” for open banking payments globally, raised a $20M Series A, after a $7.7M seed in July (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Ivy, which offers an API to create a “network of networks” for open banking payments globally, raised a $20M Series A, after a $7.7M seed in July — Open banking — where traditional banks open their data up with APIs to build new financial services for their customers …

Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching

For a lot of reasons, home etching of PCBs is somewhat of a dying art. The main reason is the rise of quick-turn PCB fabrication services, of course; when you can send your Gerbers off and receive back a box with a dozen or so professionally made PCBs for a couple of bucks, why would

Nintendo is making a bright red Switch OLED for Mario Wonder

Image: Nintendo At its most recent Nintendo Direct, the company showed off some fresh gameplay for the upcoming platformer Super Mario Bros. Wonder. But we also got a look at some new hardware — or, at least, a new color for the OLED version of the Nintendo Switch. The tablet is getting a Mario makeover

Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes laid off 100+ employees as it prepares for a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes laid off 100+ employees as it prepares for a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units — Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned.

Threads will soon let you search through posts

Image: The Verge Threads, the X (formerly Twitter) competitor created by Meta, is working on a way to search through posts using keywords, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. You can see how Threads’ new search feature might work in the image embedded below. While your search for a specific keyword will pull people up with

Super Mario Bros. Wonder looks trippy as hell in new gameplay trailer

Nintendo As people eagerly await Starfield reviews and rev up their Xboxes for the game’s early access opening, Nintendo decided that it would not be left out of today’s video game news. During today’s interestingly timed Mario Direct presentation, Nintendo shared roughly 15 minutes of gameplay from Super Mario Bros. Wonder and announced a new

Sources: CoreWeave is exploring a ~10% equity stake sale valuing the company between $5B and $8B; source: CoreWeave revenue is projected to hit $1.5B in 2024 (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Sources: CoreWeave is exploring a ~10% equity stake sale valuing the company between $5B and $8B; source: CoreWeave revenue is projected to hit $1.5B in 2024 — – Company counts Nvidia, Magnetar as existing equity investors — Startup raised $2.3 billion in debt from Blackstone, others

OnePlus is working on an interesting way to use all that RAM on your phone

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The newest Oxygen OS 14 Closed Beta references a new “Dedicated RAM for games” feature. This feature could allocate some dedicated RAM space to games, improving the startup speed for the game and minimizing loading time. The feature could be an extension of the existing “Quick Startup” feature present

How to check data usage on your Android device

Blazing 5G network speeds and the proliferation of video content means we’re burning through mobile data on our devices faster than ever. This can be problematic if you’re on a limited data plan that charges you more for going over your allocation, or even more so if you’re abroad and paying by the gigabyte. Even

Document: the UK plans to increase use of AI-based facial recognition tech by the police, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12-18 months (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Document: the UK plans to increase use of AI-based facial recognition tech by the police, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12-18 months — Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate

X updates its privacy policy to include biometric information as data it plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on users’ jobs and education (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: X updates its privacy policy to include biometric information as data it plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on users’ jobs and education — – In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs

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