The Kindle Scribe has hit a new all-time low, as have other Kindle models. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s that time of year again. Amazon Prime Day kicked off in earnest yesterday and will last through the end of today, July 12th. As an Amazon event, naturally, some of the
Read MoreThe first Apple silicon MacBook Pros are already dropping in price – and so the time could be now to move on from Intel.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google is introducing a new blockchain-based content policy for Android apps on the Google Play Store. The new policy, which will be effective on December 7th, covers things like cryptocurrency exchanges and software wallets, transparency requirements, and rules for NFT gamification that would cover things like loot boxes. According to the new
Read MoreAs Amazon Prime Day enters its final 12 hours, we’ve had a chance to weigh up the best deals from the sale. Smartwatches have been a particularly strong contender, with almost every flagship wearable from each of the industry leaders dropping to new low prices. We’ll show you what we mean in our rundown of
Read MoreStandBy might be one of the headliners, but iOS 17 is all about the supporting acts, too. There’s no single must-have feature in Apple’s latest iPhone OS update, but a lot of little improvements make it worth getting excited about. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: David Pierce/The Verge When Stage Manager first launched last year as part of iPadOS 16, I turned the setting off as fast as I could and never looked back. It was a half-hearted attempt to build a better multitasking system, with too many quirks and complications that all added up to more clutter and
Read MoreStandBy can be a desk clock, or it can do all sorts of other things. It only took a few minutes of using the iPhone’s new StandBy mode before I started using it all the time. After a few weeks of testing the early betas of Apple’s iOS 17, I’ve already changed my daily phone
Read MoreWidgets are back. watchOS 10 rethinks how you’ll interact with the Apple Watch — and would ya look at that, Apple finally did something about the app grid. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Canoo When Canoo first unveiled its cool, futuristic-looking electric van back in 2021, a non-zero number of friends reached out to me to ask when they could buy one. The answer is probably never. Not unless they work for the federal government. The struggling EV startup has been on the verge of running out
Read MorePedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey as Ellie. | HBO Ahead of the very real possibility of the Screen Actors Guild going on strike tonight, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced this morning the nominees for the 2023 Emmy Awards, a celebration that’s going to be very interesting this year, to say
Read MoreToby Bochan / CoinDesk: In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers have tokenized digital assets like NFTs in apps including games — The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Apple is launching the public beta for macOS Sonoma today. This is the next big update coming to Mac computers (the final version is expected later in 2023), and it brings several big changes. In this article, we’re going to walk you through how to get the beta
Read MoreCredit: Google Google is launching Project Tailwind to a small group of users in the US. Project Tailwind is an AI-powered app aimed to help with notetaking. Google is changing the name of the app to NotebookLM. One of the more impressive surprises at Google I/O earlier this year was the reveal of a prototype
Read MoreApple’s latest iPad Mini is just one of many Apple products on sale this year for Prime Day. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Obviously, Amazon Prime Day offers an excellent opportunity to save a lot of money on Amazon’s devices — it’s kind of in the name. Luckily, it’s also a good
Read MoreCorsair isn’t holding back when it comes to Prime Day. On the second and final day of the Amazon sales event, you still have time to save as much as 37% on some of the best gaming gear on the market. Whether you’re looking to complement your battle station with a new gaming mouse, keyboard,
Read MoreTake advantage of these office chair deals for Amazon Prime Day and your back will thank me.
Read MoreTom Giles / Bloomberg: Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more — Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot …
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation. “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature
Read MoreThe VanMoof S4 e-bike, which you could still buy up until two weeks ago. | Image: Thomas Ricker / The Verge VanMoof — the Amsterdam-based e-bike maker that once bragged about being the “most funded e-bike company in the world” — has turned to the Dutch courts for legal protection in order to give the
Read MorePhoto: Zojirushi Whenever the staff of The Verge is asked to describe their favorite pet toys, summer tech, desktop accessories or whatever, they are free to describe something that is recently bought, 10 years old, or that has been sitting around the house for decades. Inevitably, though, some of the items have popped up in
Read MoreAround 25 organizations and government agencies are believed to be affected by the breach. | Illustration: Beatrice Sala In two blog posts published on Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed that a China-based hacking group — which the company refers to as “Storm-0558” — is intent on “gaining access to email systems for intelligence collection.” It said the
Read MoreAmazon Prime Day has entered day two, and there are still great savings to be had on Apple Watch.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Xbox is adding reactive voice chat moderation. Rolling out today to Xbox Insiders, the new reporting feature will allow players to capture and submit 60-second audio clips of inappropriate voice chat messages, which will then be reviewed by the Xbox safety team. In an interview with The Verge,
Read MoreImage: Blaze Entertainment The team behind the Evercade line of retro hardware is back with a cute new handheld. It’s called the Super Pocket, and it is downright tiny — it measures in at 78mm x 125mm x 25mm — and relatively cheap. It’ll cost you £49, $59, or €59 depending on region. At launch,
Read MoreThe technology sector has played an important role in the region’s economy for many years. However, the sector’s difficulties persist, with many businesses resorting to layoffs as a means of survival. This article will provide a comprehensive overview of the tech layoffs in the Bay Area in 2023, covering the most recent layoffs, the industries
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