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Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo” (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo” — The crypto payments space is seeing a surge of activity these days as developers strive to make decentralized finance as user-friendly as web2 experiences.

Peacock adds just 2 million subscribers ahead of price hike

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Peacock added just 2 million subscribers over the past three months, bringing the service up to 24 million subscribers in the US. That number was included in Comcast’s earnings report today, which says Peacock nearly doubled its subscribers year over year. In addition to the small bump in

Sony has sold 40 million PS5s

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony announced it has sold over 40 million PlayStation 5 consoles despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues. Unlike the press release shared when the PS5 crossed 10 million units sold as of July 2021, Sony didn’t call its flagship console out as the “fastest-selling

GoodRx launches digital ‘medicine cabinet’ that rewards people for taking their meds

The Medicine Cabinet feature aims to tackle more than forgetfulness when it comes to medication adherence. | Image: GoodRx There’s no shortage of apps designed to remind people to take their medications. But GoodRx, an online pharmacy and telehealth app, is trying to take it a step further by launching a digital “medicine cabinet.” The

Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 vs Google Pixel Tablet: Which tablet should you buy?

Over the past couple of years, Android tablets have witnessed a major resurgence in popularity with breakneck innovation in both hardware and software. Amidst these developments, Google has re-entered the device category with the Pixel Tablet. Samsung, meanwhile, has followed up with the Galaxy Tab S9 series and hopes to maintain its position as the

Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues (The Verge)

The Verge: Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues — / Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’

Adobe adds Firefly-based Generative Expand, which “expands images beyond their original bounds”, to the Photoshop beta and support for prompts in 100 languages (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Adobe adds Firefly-based Generative Expand, which “expands images beyond their original bounds”, to the Photoshop beta and support for prompts in 100 languages — Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that …

Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times: Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses — A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology.

Is the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 waterproof?

Picking the right smartwatch with a water resistance rating is almost essential today. Whether you forget it on while showering or get caught in the rain while training, your wearable is bound to get wet. But is the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 waterproof? Find out everything you need to know below. QUICK ANSWER

HONOR’s first Flip phone is real, but when will it launch?

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority An HONOR executive has reportedly revealed that the company will launch a Flip phone. The executive added that the phone would arrive next year. HONOR has already launched three foldables, namely the Magic V, Magic Vs, and Magic V2 (seen above). These are all Fold-style foldables, though, but the

Google is doing something Apple should have done for the iPad years ago

Google is going to promote proper tablet apps and shame developers that phone their apps in.

Niantic’s Monster Hunter Now is launching on September 14th

Image: Niantic The next major release from Pokémon Go developer Niantic is launching very soon. The studio announced today that Monster Hunter Now, a collaboration with Capcom, will be available globally on September 14th, launching on both iOS and Android. The announcement was made as part of a lengthy presentation detailing more about how the

Using a G4 iMac in 2023 to mark its 20th anniversary: a still-spectacular Mac

An iMac G4 makes an impact, ever since its release, but how does it run in 2023 in the age of Apple silicon?

Two of the most underrated Zelda games are now available on Nintendo Switch Online

Thank you Nintendo, now can we please have some GameCube titles? I miss playing Twilight Princess. | Image: Nintendo / Jess Weatherbed Nintendo has announced that two new retro Zelda games — The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons — are now available for Nintendo Switch Online

Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints (Reuters)

Reuters: Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints — About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” …

This Apple TV Plus show won’t be impacted by ongoing actor strikes as filming continues

A new interim agreement means that Apple TV Plus show Tehran will continue filming despite an ongoing actor strike.

Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech (New York Times)

New York Times: Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech — Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina. Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts.

The 15 best Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 cases you can buy at launch

Samsung is back with another great clamshell phone in the Galaxy Z Flip 5, but despite the reduced gap to improve impact resistance, it’s still far more likely to suffer damage from a fall than a standard slab-style smartphone. With that in mind, we’ve selected the best Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 cases you can

How Russia’s invasion led Ukraine to innovate in combat drones, including improving speed, flight range, and payload, and the implications for warfare globally (Washington Post)

Washington Post: How Russia’s invasion led Ukraine to innovate in combat drones, including improving speed, flight range, and payload, and the implications for warfare globally — The advent of AI-enabled drones holds huge promise for Ukraine’s military but may also be exploited by nefarious non-state actors

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 vs Galaxy S23: Which small phone should you buy?

Flagships continue to get better every year, but they also continue to get bigger and bigger. This ever-increasing race to pack the best technologies into a single phone has led us to phones we can’t easily hold and handle. If you’re looking for compact phones, your options are pretty limited. From the house of Samsung,

Did you know you can supercharge iPad Pro download speeds with just an adapter?

Get insane download and upload speeds on your iPad Pro using a Thunderbolt 10Gbps adapter.

Twitter stole its new @X username without paying its owner a dime

Twitter has taken over the @X username without paying its owner anything.

AWS updates Amazon Bedrock service with new large language models

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its generative AI service, Amazon Bedrock, to include new foundational large language models and tools. Amazon Bedrock, which was released in April this year and is yet to be made generally available, will now allow organizations to choose foundation models from Cohere and new additional models from Anthropic and

Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World)

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures — As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter

A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google’s dominance (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge: A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google’s dominance — A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free.

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