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Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally (Kim Zetter/Wired)

Kim Zetter / Wired: Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally — A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight.

Sony’s new WF-1000XM5 buds are here, and AirPods Pro 2 better watch out

Sony’s anticipated follow-up to the WF-1000XM4 are coming in August, and the WF-1000XM5 look to shake things up in some key ways.

CircuitPython Happenings Hack Chat with Adafruit

Join us on Wednesday, July 26 at noon Pacific for the CircuitPython Happenings Hack Chat with The folks from Adafruit! It’s always a party when the good folks from Adafruit stop by the Hack Chat, and we expect no less than that this time around. It’s hard to predict where the conversation will go when

A US court jury says Google violated a software developer’s patent rights related to streaming tech used in Chromecast devices and must pay $338.7M in damages (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US court jury says Google violated a software developer’s patent rights related to streaming tech used in Chromecast devices and must pay $338.7M in damages — Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million …

Nanoleaf’s blacked-out Triangle panels that light up with RGB color are $55 off

The Ultra Black version of the Nanoleaf Triangles leaves a bit of negative space on your walls when turned off as opposed to the usual bright white. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf is offering a sizable savings on its slick, blacked-out light panels. The Nanoleaf Shapes Ultra Black Triangles Smarter Kit with nine panels is selling

Sony WF-1000XM5 Review: Smaller, Lighter, but Not Better

The all-conquering buds are back—smaller, lighter, and better for the planet. But the WF-1000XM5 earbuds struggle with dynamics, calls, bass, and noise cancellation. Sony’s crown is slipping.

At a Comic-Con Without Hollywood, Fans Show Their Allegiances

With striking actors unable to participate in flashy events, the convention went back to its roots—and attendees got a glimpse of the future of culture.

Sony WF-1000XM4 vs Sony WF-1000XM5: Are they worth the upgrade?

The Sony WF-1000XM4 first launched back in 2021 as yet another pair of would-be AirPod competitors and quickly became some of the best true wireless earbuds available. With the arrival of the Sony WF-1000XM5, are you better off paying a bit more for their successors? We take a quick look at the biggest differences between

The maxed-out OnePlus 10T plunges to an all-time low price

The OnePlus 10T was always an Android phone that emphasized power, and now the most powerful variant is at its best price ever on Amazon. The top-end model with twice the RAM and storage of the base phone just dropped to $499.99 for the first time. OnePlus 10T (256GB) for $499.99 ($200 off)

TikTok is adding text posts

Image: TikTok TikTok users can now post text-based updates in addition to videos and series of photos — just as platforms like Meta’s Threads are vying to take on Twitter’s microblogging dominance. Text posts appear similar to Instagram Stories visually: users can add a background color, edit how text appears, and add music and stickers

After iPhone 15’s upgrade, Apple is planning a bezel-less iPhone future

iPhone 15 is yet to be revealed, but Apple reportedly wants a future model that just shows screen and nothing else.

TikTok rolls out support for text posts, available via the app’s Camera page and letting users add sounds, locations, stickers, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok rolls out support for text posts, available via the app’s Camera page and letting users add sounds, locations, stickers, and more — As Twitter shoots itself in the foot with a rebrand this morning, TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out support for text posts.

Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models could be more expensive

Apple is expecting to produce around 85 million units of the iPhone 15 this year, roughly in line with iPhone 14 (pictured) production last year. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge According to a new report by Bloomberg, Apple is allegedly planning to hike the price of its upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and

A Vintage Transistor Radio Gets a Repair

Here in 2023 the field of electronics covers a breathtaking variety of devices and applications, but if we were to go back in time far enough we’d enter an age in which computers were few and far between, and any automated control systems would have been electromechanical at best. Back in the 1950s the semiconductor

Samsung’s Smart View can finally mirror your screen to Chromecast devices

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority A hidden Samsung “Labs” menu for Smart View was found in One UI 5.1. The hidden menu has a toggle that will allow users to turn on Google Cast. It takes a few steps to enable the feature. Samsung’s One UI 5.1 update introduced a number of changes when

Tencent set to acquire Dying Light studio Techland

Image: Techland Tencent, the billion-dollar Chinese holding company that owns either wholly or in part game studios like Riot Games, Epic Games, and many others, is in the process of adding another studio to its long list of subsidiaries — Techland. CEO Pawel Marchewka announced the news, saying, “Teaming up with Tencent will allow us

Microsoft has created a pizza-scented Xbox controller

Image: Microsoft I’m fairly sure most Xbox controllers give off a bit of a sweaty pong after hours of gaming, but Microsoft has now created one that’s supposed to smell like pizza from the get-go. The “world’s first ever pizza-scented controller” is part of a marketing effort for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant

DisplayPort: Tapping The Altmode

Really, the most modern implementation of DisplayPort is the USB-C DisplayPort altmode, synonymous with “video over USB-C”, and we’d miss out if I were to skip it. Incidentally, our last two articles about talking USB-PD have given a few people a cool new toy to play with – people have commented on the articles, reached

Best Blender for Frozen Fruit in 2023

Many companies featured on ReadWrite partner with us. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine how products may be selected and ranked. Learn more about how we make money. Welcome to our comprehensive guide on the best blenders for frozen fruit in 2023! Whether you’re a health enthusiast, a smoothie lover, or simply looking

Bing Chat is now available in Google Chrome and Safari

Illustration: The Verge Watch out Bard — Bing’s AI chatbot is now available in Google Chrome and Safari. As first spotted by Windows Latest (via 9to5Google), you can now access the chatbot from Bing.com in both browsers. There are some limitations to using Bing Chat on Chrome and Safari, though. For one, you can only

Kaiko: monthly spot trading volumes on decentralized crypto exchanges dropped 76% YoY to $21B in June 2023; centralized exchanges slid 69% YoY to $429B (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Kaiko: monthly spot trading volumes on decentralized crypto exchanges dropped 76% YoY to $21B in June 2023; centralized exchanges slid 69% YoY to $429B — – Volumes falling more sharply at decentralized crypto exchanges — Traditional financial firms may add to competitive challenges

Q&A with Justine Bateman, a member of the DGA, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA, on how AI may change the industry, the importance of the timing of the strike, and more (Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press)

Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: Q&A with Justine Bateman, a member of the DGA, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA, on how AI may change the industry, the importance of the timing of the strike, and more — Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. — Artificial intelligence will likely impact every

The Flipper Zero has an app store now

This press image sums up the Flipper’s appeal pretty well. | Image: Flipper The Flipper Zero — a dolphin-themed digital multitool — now has a mobile app store, which makes it much easier to browse and install third-party tools and plug-ins right from your phone. The marketplace is built into the latest version of Flipper’s

The New ‘Futurama’ Successfully Reboots the Show for 2023

The animated sci-fi sitcom returns with satirical humor for a new era.

‘Oppenheimer’ Review: The Dharma of Death

Christopher Nolan’s massive new movie is a technical marvel, but it lacks its subject’s more metaphysical dimensions.

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