Microcontrollers are so powerful these days that you can build color handheld games with them that match or exceed what you’d ever get on the Game Boys and Game Gears of yesteryear. The Picopad aims to offer just this, in an open-source hackable format that’s friendly to experimenters. As you might have guessed from the
Read MoreThis is our best look at the Ai Pin yet. | Image: Humane Humane, the buzzy company started by former Apple employees that has been making big promises about an AI-first and post-smartphone future, announced today that its first gadget will be called the Humane Ai Pin. It’ll be powered by “an advanced Snapdragon platform”
Read MoreDespite the convenience of commission free brokerages, retail investors are still hitting a roadblock when it comes to participating in the stock market. I conducted a survey of 100 active investors, and the result showed that a lack of time to research stocks, insufficient funds, and limited knowledge are the top reasons preventing them from
Read MoreNetChoice, a trade group for the tech industry, has sued the state of Arkansas in federal court to overturn the state’s new law that mandates children get parental permission before making social media accounts. The complaint, which was filed on Thursday, argues that the regulation suppresses users’ right to free speech in violation of the
Read MoreHeavy-metal band “The Polymetallic Nodules” played to protest against deep-sea mining outside Dutch ministerial buildings in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 8th, 2023. | Photo by Charles M Vella / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images When the island nation of Nauru announced that it would sponsor a deep-sea mining effort for battery materials,
Read MoreIRL’s company logo. | Photo illustration by William Joel/The Verge I have a packed issue this week, starting with the implosion of a once-hot social media startup called IRL. It raised $200 million at over a $1 billion valuation, and now its board is dissolving the company after finding that most of its users were
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? Continue reading…
Read MoreThe “Game Boy Mini Camera” by Christopher Graves. Twenty-five years ago this month, the Game Boy Camera arrived in the United States and Europe. Now, a modder has made the chonky 118 x 112-pixel greyscale digital imager fully fit inside a standard Game Boy cartridge. And it’s so damn clean. Photo by Christopher Graves Photo
Read MorePYMNTS.com: Unit21, which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities, raised a $45M Series C to expand its Fintech Fraud DAO data sharing consortium to identify fraud — Unit21 has raised $45 million in a Series C round to grow the Fintech Fraud DAO consortium. — The funding is being used …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you, too, are so very tired of not knowing which reviews to trust on the internet, we may eventually get some peace of mind. That’s because the Federal Trade Commission now wants to penalize companies for engaging in shady review practices. Under the terms of a new
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: A summary of the last day and closing arguments in FTC v. Microsoft hearing, where FTC mostly focused on Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusivity — FTC v. Microsoft is over, but who won? — The final day of FTC v. Microsoft gave us key closing arguments from both
Read MoreFor many of us, our digital life is anchored with a Google account, thanks to the prevalence of great Android phones that need one for an optimal experience. Google stores our emails, calendar, contacts, files, photos, notes, tasks, location history, and payment information. The amount of data we voluntarily handed over to the company is
Read MoreGregory Frost’s fantasy novel puts a new spin on the folk tale of Thomas the Rhymer.
Read MoreThis week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos don’t have a whole lot in the way of news, but we do know this: the Green Hacks Challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize ends precisely at 7AM PDT on July 4th. Show us what you can do in the realm of hacking for the planet, be
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: TikTok is offering free listings, shipping, zero commissions, and warehousing to Chinese merchants, as it plans to debut its marketplace in the US — TikTok is taking a page from the playbook bargains app Temu employed to jumpstart its business in America: it’s promising merchants …
Read MoreNanoleaf’s innovative HomeKit lights are already $30 off before Prime Day even starts on July 11.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp is introducing a new chat transfer feature that uses QR codes. This method of transfer only works between devices with the same operating system. The QR code transfer is said to be fully encrypted. Transferring data from your old phone to your new phone can be a pain
Read MoreMatt Binder / Mashable: Some developers using Twitter’s API, including Enterprise tier users paying $42K/month, say they are experiencing outages, bugs, and bad or no customer support — Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over. — Twitter’s new API may now cost tens of thousands of dollars per month …
Read MoreDigitally native companies have dominated the intelligent products and services landscape with software-driven offerings and services. But that may be changing. A 2022 survey of executives and senior leaders at 1,000 traditional manufacturers in 11 countries explored how they’re retooling for the future and how they’re using, or planning to use, intelligent products and services
Read MoreLet’s be honest; sometimes, change can seem overwhelming. That’s true even for something as simple as switching phone service. The good news is switching cell phone carriers doesn’t have to be complicated. In this guide, we explain how to switch your phone carrier while keeping your number, as well as what you’ll need to know
Read MoreDan Taylor / Tech.eu: US-based Silver Lake acquires 63%+ of Germany-based enterprise software developer Software AG for €2.4B and plans to delist the company as soon as possible — US-based private equity firm Silver Lake says it’s secured a majority stake in Software AG and plans to delist the company as soon as possible.
Read MorePhoto by Xavi Torrent / Getty Images Thousands of influencers post content online with one goal: getting a brand deal. It’s affirmation that they’ve “made it” as an influencer, that they’re interesting enough to be paid to post, and that content creation could be a job. It’s usually a good thing — until, of course,
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: TSMC confirms it experienced a data breach after being listed as a victim by the LockBit ransomware gang, which is demanding $70M not to publish stolen data — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed it’s experienced a data breach …
Read More[Aaed Musa] has built a variety of robots over the years, but found off-the-shelf servos to be underwhelming for his work. Thus, he set out to build a better actuator to support his goals of building a high-performance walking bot in future. [Aaed] decided to try and build a quasi-direct drive actuator, similar to those
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: An Indian court dismisses Twitter’s challenge to government content rules and fines the company ~$61K after it failed to explain its delayed compliance — An Indian court has dismissed Twitter’s lawsuit against the federal government that sought to challenge New Delhi’s block orders on tweets and accounts.
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