Injection molding is the obvious onward step from 3D printing when the making of a few plastic parts becomes their series manufacture. The problem with injection molding is though, that making a mold can be prohibitively expensive. Has the advent of affordable CNC machining changed that? [Teaching Tech] takes a look, and machines a mold
Read MoreEugene Kim / Insider: Internal meeting: Andy Jassy told employees who refuse to comply with Amazon’s return-to-office mandate that “it’s probably not going to work out for you” — – Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who disagree with the return-to-office mandate that it’s “not going to work out for you.”
Read MoreJennifer Elias / CNBC: Docs: Google plans to sell mapping API access to companies making products that use solar, energy, and air quality data, targeting ~$100M in revenue in year one — – Google is planning to sell new mapping APIs that would allow companies to build products that use energy and environmental data.
Read MorePaul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel details next-gen Xeon processors Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids, launching in 2024, claiming Sierra Forest has 2.4x performance per watt than last gen — Intel shares P- and E-Core architectures at Hot Chips 2023. — At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled the first deep-dive details …
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority An updated software experience is headed to Apple’s smartwatches in the coming weeks, alongside the launch of the company’s Apple Watch Series 9. Apple provided a sneak peek of watchOS 10 at WWDC 2023 in early June and Apple Watch users have plenty to look forward to when it lands. Find out
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a message to employees who don’t want to return to the office: “It’s not going to work out for you.” That’s according to a report from Insider, which says Jassy made that statement during a meeting earlier this month. While Amazon ordered its
Read MoreAMC’s logos as seen in the trailer for the second season of Dark Winds. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge A handful of AMC Plus shows, including Fear the Walking Dead and Killing Eve, will have a temporary home on Max, Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service, starting September 1st and going through October 31st.
Read MoreImage: The Verge The next version of Microsoft’s Edge web browser might end up with fewer features than before. The new Edge version 117, which is currently in beta and expected to turn stable on September 14th, according to Neowin and 9to5Google, has five features slated for removal. Those features include Math Solver, Picture Dictionary,
Read MoreNathan Edwards / The Verge: Google announces several automation starters and actions for the Home app, plus new features for the Home script editor, which is available in Public Preview — Google Home is getting smarter. In a pair of blog posts published today, Google announced a bunch of new automation starters …
Read MoreForbes: Sources: Intenseye, a workplace safety AI startup, is raising a $65M Series B led by Lightspeed at a ~$300M valuation, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2021 — The workplace AI software company is expected to roughly triple its valuation in the Series B funding round, multiple sources told Forbes.
Read MoreAn alleged image of the iPhone 15 USB-C port. | Image: Majin Bu Apple said last year it will bring USB-C to the iPhone, and now alleged pictures of the iPhone 15’s USB-C port hint at light blue and green colors for Apple’s new non-Pro phones, according to leaker Majin Bu (via AppleInsider). The images,
Read MoreCredit: @TechLeaksZone A leak revealed three products that Nothing’s sub-brand CMF could launch. The three products include a smartwatch, earbuds, and a USB-C charger. The leak claims these products are rolling out on September 26 in India. The CEO of Nothing, Carl Pei, announced at the beginning of August that his company would be launching
Read MoreIllustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk’s Tesla almost ran a red light while livestreaming a demo of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software. Musk was also livestreaming the demo while in the driver’s seat, violating Tesla’s rules for its advanced driver-assist technology. Oh, and he kind of doxxes Mark Zuckerberg, too. The
Read MorePoe is now available on the web, iOS, Android, and the Mac. | Image: The Verge Poe, the AI chatbot platform created by Quora, has added a slew of updates, including a Mac app, the ability to have multiple simultaneous conversations with the same AI bot, access to Meta’s Llama 2 model, and more. It’s
Read More[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was the heart of radar signals used to identify attacking German forces. The magnetron itself was truly an international effort, with scientists
Read MoreLeo Schwartz / Fortune: The US SEC charges Impact Theory, which sold NFTs, with offering unregistered securities, in a first; the LA-based entertainment firm agreed to pay a $6.1M fine — Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission — In an enforcement action announced on Monday …
Read MoreVlad Turiceanu / Windows Report: Document: Lenovo plans to unveil on September 1 a €799 Legion Go gaming handheld, with an 8.8″ 144Hz 2560×1600 display and 16GB RAM, and €499 Legion AR glasses — Lenovo’s Legion Go has a hefty price, but maybe it’s worth it — An official document confirms the Lenovo Legion Go
Read MorePhoto by Paul Hennessy / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A new crew recently arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), ready to begin a six-month stint of life in orbit. During its stay, Crew-7 will work on scientific research, including a new suite of experiments into the effects of spaceflight on the human body
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge The 13-inch Apple MacBook Air with M2 is on sale for its lowest price to date, dropping to just $899 ($200 off) for the base model at Best Buy. The M2 Air starts with 256GB of storage, 8GB of RAM, and an eight-core M2 processor, though if you
Read MoreThe first generation of a new device can often be wide of the mark, but that’s not true of the OnePlus Pad. The manufacturer’s first foray into the Android tablet market was an immediate hit with our reviewers, so we’re happy to report it just got its first significant price drop. This OnePlus Pad deal
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google and Meta tend to pay their software engineers more than their peers in Big Tech, according to new data from Blind, an anonymous forum for tech employees. Apple and Microsoft, meanwhile, pay the least for entry-level engineers on average, though compensation tends to become more comparable across Big Tech for senior
Read MoreOn these pages we bring you plenty of reports from events, most of which are from the hacker or hardware communities. These can be great fun to attend, but they’re not the only game in town when looking at things adjacent to our community. At what you might describe as the consumer end of the
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This story originally ran in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hope everyone who attended Podcast Movement is replenished and recovered! Last week, I sent a special recap of the conference to Insider subscribers of
Read MoreImage: Matt Jewell Hey, remember when Foxconn bought a bunch of buildings around Wisconsin just before an election and said it was building “innovation centers” around the state in a transparent attempt to build support for the giant tax credits it was given to build an LCD factory that never arrived? Yeah, it’s selling two
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DoorDash is launching a new answering service for restaurants that could put you on the phone with AI when ordering takeout or delivery. With the new service, restaurants can have AI field phone calls and take orders from customers, with live agents available “to support customers at any
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