A mechanical being appearing in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon. | Image: Netflix This year’s summer of movies is finally drawing to a close, but Netflix is already gearing up for another round of fall features to keep you watching as the seasons change. Today, Netflix dropped a massive preview of all the cinematic offerings coming
Read MoreIn a crowded field, we believe that the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is the best cheap Android tablet that you can buy. Its already affordable price tag just got a massive cut in today’s Amazon deal, which sees the impressive slate drop to only $139.99 — just $1 from its all-time lowest price that was
Read MoreAutopay with a debit card or be prepared to pay up. | Illustration: The Verge You gotta hand it to carriers: if there’s a way to squeeze an extra few dollars out of their customers, they will find it. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the latest maneuver is requiring customers — current and
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: China will approve the first batch of generative AI services for public rollout as soon as this week, with Baidu among the first to win approval — – Regulators may give out the green-light as soon as this week — Beijing deems AI a business as well as political imperative
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google has given a date for its upcoming Pixel hardware event. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 4, 2023. It’s expected Google will announce the Pixel 8 series, Pixel Watch 2, and possibly other products. Over the last few months, there have been numerous leaks regarding the
Read MoreThe Huawei Mate 60 Pro supposedly comes with a 5G chip. | Image: Huawei Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro on Wednesday with little fanfare and some missing details — namely, the kind of chip it uses. Any mention of a chip is notably absent from the $960 phone’s product pages despite mentioning “better communication
Read MoreImage: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz announced pricing for its upcoming eSprinter electric van, which is available to be ordered starting today from US dealers. The US will get the 170-inch-long wheelbase cargo version of the eSprinter, with a high-roof configuration carrying a 113kWh battery. That version will start at $71,886, making it the more premium entry in
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is testing 3D printing the stainless steel Apple Watch Series 9’s chassis to speed up production, boost sustainability, and lower costs over time — – New approach will use less material and be more eco-friendly — Company is trying out the process with steel Apple Watches
Read MoreImage: Max We already knew that a second season of Our Flag Means Death was on the way, and now Max has finally put a date on it: the show will set sail again on October 5th. The news comes via the first trailer for season 2, which you can check out above. Three episodes
Read MoreA WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member.
Read MoreImage: CFOTO / Future Publishing via Getty Images The road to a world with only electric vehicles doesn’t run through the US. It runs through China. In China, nearly 30 percent of all car sales are EVs. In the US, it’s just 7 percent. How did China so thoroughly smoke the US when it comes
Read MoreJordan Fragen / VentureBeat: Data.ai and IDC expect consumers to spend $108B on mobile games in 2023, or 55% of global spending on games, followed by $43B on consoles and $40B on PC/Mac — While the games industry isn’t growing according to Data.ai and IDC’s latest report, spending declines are leveling off faster than expected.
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about one of the most important cases that Meta’s Oversight Board has heard to date — and how the process ultimately revealed a
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 MoreImage: Lotus Lotus’ next electric hypercar, the 2024 Emeya, will get an official reveal in New York City on September 7th, the British automaker announced. And what hypercar reveal would be complete without a lot of, well, hyperbole? Lotus says the Emeya will be “the most advanced fully electric hyper Grand Tourer (GT) in the
Read MoreLast year’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat.
Read MoreHumanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends even further back than that. Compared to the vast history of using wind energy directly to do things like mill grain, pump water,
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Roborock has introduced two new vacuum robots: Q5 Pro and Q8 Max. Both feature the new DuoRoller Brush system, 5,500Pa of suction power, LiDar-based navigation, and simultaneous vacuum and mopping capabilities. The Q8 Max also features a basic obstacle avoidance system and a larger water tank but a
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority 25 years ago, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were attending the Burning Man festival and decided to add a whimsical stick figure to the second “O” in the Google logo to indicate their out-of-office status to employees. The first Google Doodle was born then, on August
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Instagram looks like it’s working on a longer version of Instagram Reels, allowing users to record up to 10 minutes of videos. Leaker Alessandro Paluzzi shared screenshots of two side-by-side Reels pages, one to record for three minutes — the current standard for shortform videos — and another
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Hyperproof, which offers SaaS risk and compliance management tools, raised $40M led by Riverwood Capital, taking its total funding to $66.5M — Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led …
Read MoreThe Soundgear Sense are designed to keep you aware of your surroundings. | Image: JBL JBL’s Soundgear Sense is a new pair of true wireless earbuds with an open design that’s meant to allow you to “hear the world around you while enjoying every beat of your favorite tracks.” JBL is announcing the earbuds alongside
Read MoreThe JBL Authentics 500 is one of three new speakers from Harman that will house Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa simultaneously. | Image: JBL Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start the music and then ask Google to stop
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Read MoreTurtles’ shells contain a chemical record of the environment—including highly enriched uranium, an indicator of nuclear weapons development. What can we learn from these accidental archivists?
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