David Welch / Bloomberg: Waymo says it will slow the development of autonomous trucking as it moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing — Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that’s being done by its Via subsidiary.
Read MoreImage: Neopets Neopets is back in a big way. I don’t mean the revamped website or even the weird bit of news where Arthur lookalike John Legend has become Neopets’ first influencer. I’m talking about the games. Over 50 web browser games from the site’s past have been restored via an emulator and are playable
Read MoreIf music is a sport, this is the most competitive season of the year. Here are WIRED’s picks for the best tracks out right now. Who deserves the top spot?
Read MoreDish’s postpaid wireless plan is now on sale at Amazon. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Remember our fourth wireless carrier, Dish Network? No? That’s because Dish is still trying to make its Boost brand a viable alternative to the big three US carriers. It’s not going all that great, but today, the
Read MoreChavi Mehta / Reuters: eBay reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $2.52B, vs. $2.51B est., gross merchandise volume down 2% YoY to $18.2B, and active buyers down 4% YoY to 132M — E-commerce platform eBay (EBAY.O) forecast third-quarter revenue slightly above market expectations on Wednesday, banking on its focus categories …
Read MoreScreenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Former Twitter Blue lead Esther Crawford just published a very long post on Twitter about her time at the company, working under Elon Musk, and that incident where a picture of her sleeping on the floor went viral. Crawford joined the company after it acquired her startup, Squad, in
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta’s Reality Labs reports Q2 $3.7B operating loss, vs. $3.5B est., and expects losses to “increase meaningfully” due to investments in VR/AR and its ecosystem — – Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality and augmented reality technologies …
Read MoreShopify, a leading ecommerce platform, is constantly pushing the boundaries of technology to provide its merchants with innovative solutions. One such solution is Shopify Sidekick, an AI-powered assistant that is revolutionizing the way ecommerce merchants run their businesses. In this article, we will explore the capabilities of Shopify Sidekick and how it is redefining the
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The CISA warns US federal agencies to secure their systems against an Ivanti flaw that’s been exploited as a zero-day to hack Norway’s government systems — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned U.S. federal agencies today to secure their systems …
Read MoreAre you looking for your next flip phone? The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is definitely one of the best foldable phones around, so we know many of you are considering it. We can also deduce you’re wondering if the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip has a crease. Keep reading to find out! QUICK ANSWER
Read MoreMedha Singh / Reuters: Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers — Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is partnering with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell wireless postpaid service plans through its platform …
Read MoreCredit: Microsoft Xbox has rolled out a new update for its Home screen. The update adds a quick access menu that makes it faster to go to the Library, Microsoft Store, Xbox Game Pass, Search, or Settings. Users now have more space for their personalized background and can pick an option to change the background
Read MoreCNN: US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison’s personal writings to the NYT — New York CNN — — US prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of witness-tampering.
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony is acting quickly to make sure owners of its WH-1000XM5 headphones don’t feel left behind after seeing the just-released WF-1000XM5 earbuds gain several new features. (Putting both of those products in the same sentence really hammers home the madness of Sony’s product names, eh?) The company has
Read MoreJio BlackRock is a collaboration between Jio Financial Services, a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Reliance, and BlackRock, one of the largest and most respected asset management companies in the world. This partnership brings together Jio’s technology capabilities and deep market expertise with BlackRock’s extensive experience in investment and risk management. The vision behind Jio
Read MoreImage: The Verge Elon Musk has wanted to build X.com into a super app for a very long time. As described by Walter Isaacson, who is writing a Musk biography, when Musk launched the online bank X.com in 1999, his original concept was to turn the website into a “one-stop everything-store for all financial needs.”
Read MoreImage: DoorDash DoorDash has added Apple CarPlay syncing to its Dasher app, which delivery workers use to accept deliveries and get to your house. For workers with Apple’s infotainment system software in their cars, that means they can spare their phone batteries the cruel and unusual punishment of hours of daily use in the sometimes
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks” — / T-Mobile’s new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and TomTom have created an organization called the Overture Maps Foundation. The group has launched an initiative to take on Google Maps and Apple Maps. Overture’s open-source mapping project will make it easier for third-party devs to challenge Google’s and Apple’s products. When it comes to
Read MoreLook, these graphics were amazing for the year 2000, alright? | Image: Beamdog Humble has a new bundle of computer role-playing games to whet the appetite of those excited for Baldur’s Gate 3 launching next month. Starting now until August 16th, you can get up to nine PC games in the RPG Legends Humble Bundle
Read MoreA man walks with his donkey in the Tafilalet oasis on October 27th, 2016, near Morocco’s southeastern oasis town of Erfoud, north of Er-Rissani in the Sahara Desert. The oasis is at risk of disappearing as the area is drying up due to global warming. | Photo by Fadel Senna / AFP via Getty Images
Read MoreOne of the great things about the Gearing Up challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize is that it lets you discover tools that you don’t encounter every day. We had never given much thought to spin coaters, for example, until we saw [Jeroen Delcour]’s neat homebrew example. As it turns out, spin coating has lots
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, an open-source text-to-image model that can yield 1MP resolution images “in seconds” in multiple aspect ratios — AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges.
Read MoreWe’ll be blunt here — you simply aren’t going to find as many cases for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S9 as you are for an iPad. But quality S9 cases do exist, and if you’re going to buy one, you should probably have it ready to use on Day One with your new tablet. Here are
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks” — / T-Mobile’s new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
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