The Aqara LED Strip T1 is available now. | Image: Aqara Aqara has released a new Zigbee RGB smart light strip called the LED Strip T1. It costs $49.99, requires an Aqara hub, and is compatible with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and IFTTT. When paired with certain hubs, including the Aqara Hub M2,
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra will reportedly offer “good” 5x zoom quality. This is due to the previously rumored 50MP 3x tele camera, a leaker claimed. This would address a key weakness of Galaxy Ultra phones if confirmed. A leaker claimed last week that the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra will
Read MoreFor the last few years, [Mangy_Dog] has been working on what is easily the most technically and aesthetically impressive Star Trek tricorder prop the world has ever seen. With each new version of the hardware we’ve gotten the occasional peek under the hood or source code walk-through, but these limited presentations have made it somewhat
Read MoreFor some of us, unused hardware lying around just calls to be used. It seems like [Miles Goodhew] heard the call, and wanted to put a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client to use — in this case as a wireless router. It seems simple enough. OpenWrt supports x64_64 targets, and the thin client has 2G
Read MoreLuc Cohen / Reuters: In an amended indictment, the US DOJ alleges SBF used money he stole from FTX customers to make $100M+ in political campaign donations before the 2022 midterms — Sam Bankman-Fried used money he stole from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange to make more than $100 million …
Read MoreSarah Wynn / The Block: Coinbase launches the Stand with Crypto Alliance, a US advocacy organization meant to mobilize the crypto community before Congress votes on key legislation — – Coinbase launched the “Stand with Crypto Alliance” on Monday, which it says is “crypto’s first true grassroots movement that will be organized onchain.”
Read MoreTimmy Shen / The Block: Crypto custody service Prime Trust and some of its affiliates file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing liabilities between $100M-$500M and assets $50M-$100M — – Prime Trust and some of its affiliates have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company said today.
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge Substack now lets you follow writers, offering a way for you to keep tabs on what a writer is doing without having to subscribe to their newsletter. When you follow a writer, “you can stay up to date with what they’re reading, liking, publishing, and subscribing to — through the Notes
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge Substack now lets you follow writers, offering a way for you to keep tabs on what a writer is doing without having to subscribe to their newsletter. When you follow a writer, “you can stay up to date with what they’re reading, liking, publishing, and subscribing to — through the Notes
Read MoreA speaker project isn’t usually very different, but we couldn’t help but notice [Electronoob’s] latest speaker not for its audio performance but because it features dancing ferrofluid and is an unusual work of art. The housing is 3D printed and includes some translucent portions for LEDs.You can see and hear the speaker at work in
Read MoreGreg Stohr / Bloomberg: Filing: the Biden administration urges SCOTUS to review key parts of Florida and Texas laws that would restrict how social media companies moderate user content — – Biden administration urges review of laws in Texas, Florida — Filing largely backs social media challenges to state laws
Read MoreThousands of security experts, hackers, and college students competed to trick powerful text-generation systems into revealing their dark sides at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
Read MoreThe first set of Wear OS 4 wearables is officially here with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series. Like last year, the lineup features two distinct devices. This time, that includes a base model and a Classic model featuring a rotating bezel. If you opt for the sporty pick, shop our round-up
Read MoreJava Development Kit (JDK) 21, due September 19 as the next long-term support (LTS) release of Oracle’s standard Java implementation, has reached the release candidate (RC) stage. Java 21 will have 15 features, as a previously proposed 16th feature, the experimental Shenandoah garbage collector, was dropped in June. The 15 features that made the final
Read MoreArtificial intelligence is transforming many industries but few as dramatically as cybersecurity. It’s becoming increasingly clear that AI is the future of security as cybercrime has skyrocketed and skills gaps widen, but some challenges remain. One that’s seen increasing attention lately is the demand for explainability in AI. Concerns around AI explainability have grown as
Read MoreThe future might not come with flying cars, but it did bring cheap robots to clean your house.
Read MoreApple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Just as some iPhone 14 owners are raising concerns about a possible battery issue, the original lawsuit over 2017’s batterygate saga is nearing an end. One of the firms representing Apple customers in the suit, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, announced
Read MoreThe first smart door has landed at The Home Depot, and if you’re good with dropping at least $4,000 on your front door, then you can order one today. That price doesn’t include installation, though, and no matter how handy you are, this one needs the pros — including an electrician to wire it up.
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Saudi Arabia bought 3,000+ of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, and the UAE purchased thousands of Nvidia chips; Nvidia will ship ~550K of H100 GPUs globally in 2023 — Gulf nations acquire thousands of GPUs amid global shortage of semiconductors needed to build large language models
Read MoreA speaker project isn’t usually very different, but we couldn’t help but notice [Electronoob’s] latest speaker not for its audio performance but because it features dancing ferrofluid and is an unusual work of art. The housing is 3D printed and includes some translucent portions for LEDs.You can see and hear the speaker at work in
Read MoreArtificial intelligence is transforming many industries but few as dramatically as cybersecurity. It’s becoming increasingly clear that AI is the future of security as cybercrime has skyrocketed and skills gaps widen, but some challenges remain. One that’s seen increasing attention lately is the demand for explainability in AI. Concerns around AI explainability have grown as
Read MoreJonathan Randles / Bloomberg: A US court permits bankrupt crypto lender Celsius to poll account holders on its proposal to relaunch as a user-owned company and distribute ~$2B of BTC and ETH — – Bankrupt crypto lender plans new creditor-owned company — Federal judge notes risks tied to planned Celsius restart
Read MoreImage: The Verge Now that the proposed cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk isn’t going to happen, Musk is saying he will show up unannounced at Zuckerberg’s home to fight. “For the Tesla FSD test drive in Palo Alto tonight, I will ask the car to drive to @finkd’s house,” Musk posted today
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nonprofits Accountable Tech, AI Now, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released policy proposals that seek to limit how much power big AI companies have on regulation that could also expand the power of government agencies against some uses of generative AI. The group sent the framework
Read MoreImage: Getty Images The Biden administration has requested the US Supreme Court review Florida and Texas laws restricting how social media companies like Facebook moderate the content users post on their platforms. In briefs filed on Monday, the US solicitor general urged the court to take up a pair of lawsuits led by the tech
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