Server-side goals for the Swift language this year include promoting the adoption of structured concurrency while also emphasizing better tools, according to an August 17 bulletin from the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG). SSWG believes structured concurrency is a key feature that will make Swift stand out on the server. Plans include producing an adoption guide
Read MoreImage: The Verge Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014, either with an image or a link that had been shortened by Twitter. A post by Tom Coates alerted many people to the problem and he noted that a
Read MoreEve’s promised products, circa 2020. | Image: Eve Every time I write about Dough — the PC gaming monitor company formerly known as Eve — some people tell me to stop! They say Dough scammed them out of money or shipped their monitors too late to matter or ghosted their attempts to get customer support.
Read MoreMexico and the western US are reeling from record-shattering rainfall. Blame high ocean temperatures—and prepare for worse to come as the planet warms.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The New York Times has blocked OpenAI’s web crawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on
Read MoreThe Italian soccer season is underway, and there’s much to get excited about. The Serie A clubs made a statement on the European stage last season, making up two of the Champions League semi-finalists in the shape of the Milan clubs. And after an emphatic Scudetto win from Napoli in May, the league title is
Read MorePhoto by Sean O’Kane / The Verge The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening a query on Ford’s response to a recall last year that affected almost 49,000 Mustang Mach-E vehicles, as reported by Automotive News. The June 2022 recall was issued due to a malfunction involving overheating of the electric SUV’s
Read MoreThe era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and knowing precisely what’s going on is becoming a little bit of a lost art. That’s why [Phil] took it upon himself
Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: X says it has fixed a bug which, over the weekend, prevented it from displaying many images from before 2014, and that “no images or data were lost” — Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT has only been around for a year at this point, but the world is still finding new uses for it seemingly every now and then. Whether it’s planning a vacation itinerary or drafting an email, the chatbot can solve personal problems with ease. But could it also generate
Read MoreChris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Genesis Therapeutics, which uses AI to discover and develop new medicines, raised a $200M Series B co-led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $280M — Artificial intelligence and biotech are two of the sectors that have been able to buck the current sluggish pace of venture capital spending.
Read MoreEve’s promised products, circa 2020. | Image: Eve Every time I write about Dough — the PC gaming monitor company formerly known as Eve — some people tell me to stop! They say Dough scammed them out of money or shipped their monitors too late to matter or ghosted their attempts to get customer support.
Read MoreImage: The Verge Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014, either with an image or a link that had been shortened by Twitter. A post by Tom Coates alerted many people to the problem and he noted that a
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 3.6% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., net income of $182M, up from $46M YoY, and raises its FY 2024 guidance; ZM jumps 5%+ — – Zoom surpassed expectations on the top and bottom lines and pushed up full-year guidance. — During the quarter Zoom said
Read MoreThere’s a unique romance attached to the process of taking something broken and making it whole again. In the automotive world, restoring a crashed Grand Cherokee is a testament to this transformative power—whether you’re securing it from a salvage yard or auction platform like SCA. Whether impacted by a slight fender bender or a catastrophic
Read MoreCNBC: Filing: SoftBank’s Arm files to list on Nasdaq and reports $524M in net income on $2.68B in revenue in its fiscal 2023, with sales slightly down from 2022 — – Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during
Read MoreThe FCC filing seems to indicate a Bluetooth-only tracker. The Fitbit Inspire 3 (pictured) is a less likely candidate since it launched just last year. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge It looks like the Pixel Watch 2 may not be the only wearable that Google launches this fall. A new FCC filing
Read MoreLeo Schwartz / Fortune: Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle as the companies shutter the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance and funding of USDC …
Read MoreUpdate, August 21, 2023 (04:27 PM ET): We have updated the Samsung Galaxy S24 series rumor hub with a rumor about the S24 Ultra’s frame and weight. Original article: Every year, smartphone fans look forward to the latest flagship Android phones from Samsung. In 2023, those flagships were in the Galaxy S23 series. Next year,
Read MoreIf you use any social media platforms – Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc. – you likely know that people are using them to sell items they no longer want or need, from clothing to cars to landscaping materials to furniture to more. Given that there are nearly 5 billion people using social media, it is no
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is discontinuing the Kinect — again. The company officially stopped manufacturing the depth camera and microphone in 2017 and brought it back in a new form in 2019 as the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. Now, Microsoft is ending production of that, too, but it has partnered with some outside companies to provide
Read MoreCredit: Lily Katz / Android Authority Leaked Samsung model number SM-R400N suggests a new set of Samsung Galaxy Buds are on the way. It’s possible these are the long-awaited Galaxy Buds 3. However, it could be these are an intermediary model, such as a Buds 2 Plus or even a Buds 2 FE. We’re edging
Read MoreImagine if this were two iPhones in a trench coat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Hey, wait a minute, that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is actually just two iPhones in a trench coat! That’s the idea behind the latest update to the Try Galaxy web app, which, when running on two
Read MoreReuters: Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose shares dropped ~80% in the last two years, has been exploring options including a sale; stock jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Updated, August 21, 2023 (01:39 PM ET): We’ve updated this OnePlus 12 rumor hub with details on the 12R model and a new section about whether or not it’s worth waiting for the phones. Original article: OnePlus has thrown us a lot of curveballs over the past few
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