Apple Mac Studio (2023) review: the M2 Ultra rips
The Mac Studio remains the top choice for professionals who need a powerful but compact desktop computer. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe Mac Studio remains the top choice for professionals who need a powerful but compact desktop computer. Continue reading…
Read MoreI felt kind of meh toward the second-gen Epix, but I really do get the appeal now thanks to the smaller Pro. Continue reading…
Read MoreWashington Post: Meta shifts to a country-by-country approach for its COVID-19 misinfo rules, ending them in countries like the US where COVID is no longer a national emergency — Happy Friday! A quick programming note: The newsletter will be off Monday for Juneteenth. In the meantime, send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When you read a review of a smartphone, you will usually be hit with a long list of screen specs: the display type, its dimensions and aspect ratio, its resolution in pixels, its HDR support (or lack of it), and its brightness, for example. Too often, it’s assumed
Read MoreLet’s Encrypt has made an enormous difference to the landscape of the web. The protocol used for authenticating and receiving certificates, ACME, has spawned quite a few clients of various flavors. Some are written in Rust, some in Python or Go, and a few in straight Bash shell script. One of those last ones, acme.sh,
Read MoreThe entry-level WF-C700N come in four colors, including two colorful pastel hues. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The old “times have changed” applies to a lot of things — the way we consume media, the general office environment, Taco Bell. It also applies to wireless earbuds, which have come down drastically in price
Read MoreDavis (Samuel Blenkin) and Pia (Myha’la Herrold) in “Loch Henry.” | Image: Netflix Black Mirror is known as a series about the dangers of technology, but it’s often more specifically about the corrupting influence of entertainment. Spectatorship makes us cruel, the show suggests over and over, turning other humans’ real pain into fodder for our
Read MoreImage: Netflix After a hiatus, the bleak series is back with five more episodes looking at technology and the future. Continue reading…
Read MoreBusinesses today rely heavily on customer relationship management (CRM) software to streamline essential processes, boost team productivity, build better relationships with customers, and increase overall profitability. Unfortunately, CRM adoption is not always successful despite its success. The most common challenges that often lead to CRM failure include lack of executive sponsorship and support, inadequate user
Read MoreBenedict Evans: Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta’s Quest, aren’t good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability — The narrative for VR and AR has been pretty static for years. We have a dream of AR devices that look like a pair
Read MoreMaybe just one more go-round with the oven to get the seasoning juuuuuust right. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I never thought of myself as being an especially heavy user of social media, but now that I no longer post on Instagram and barely post on Twitter… I suddenly have a
Read MoreImage: Pixar Pixar’s latest animated feature from director Peter Sohn doesn’t want to be another Zootopia, and yet… Continue reading…
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: In a cease-and-desist order, Texas’ securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent for months and accuses the company of securities fraud — State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars’ worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms.
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit’s rules may let the platform remove protesting moderators — “We are not shutting down discussions or unilaterally reopening communities,” reads a line from a …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord has announced that Activities — a feature for voice channels that allows members to play games or watch content together — will remain free for all Discord users. While most Discord Activities were previously locked behind a subscription to Discord Nitro (which starts at $2.99 a month),
Read MoreLeo Schwartz / Fortune: Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is regulatory clarity on offering coins compliantly — Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto …
Read MoreApple Watches are arguably the best smartwatch you can buy, but they need an iPhone to work and get the most use out of them. Still, the Apple Watch is as good as it will get for iPhone users. Apple is working on improving its smartwatches with timely software updates like watchOS 10 that add
Read MoreBloomberg: NY AG documents: Tether once counted securities from Chinese companies among its reserves; Tether said in July 2022 that it held no Chinese commercial paper — Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin …
Read MoreThe coding hub’s 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men. This time around it simply dropped the question.
Read MoreThe UK’s houses are still designed to retain heat. In an age of global warming, that needs to change.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Uber plans to run video ads inside the Uber app, Uber Eats, and Drizly. These ads can be up to 90 seconds long and will be positioned at key waiting spots in the apps and websites. They will start appearing for users in the US this week, with the
Read MoreIn the three or four decades since storing programs on audio cassettes has been relevant, a lot of irreplaceable personal computing history has been lost to the ravages of time and the sub-optimal conditions in the attics and basements where tapes have been stored. Luckily, over that time we’ve developed a lot of tools and
Read MoreSandali Handagama / CoinDesk: France’s public prosecutor investigates Binance over the “illegal” provision of digital asset services and “acts of aggravated money laundering” — Binance illegally provided digital asset services to local customers, and implemented poor money laundering checks, the Paris public prosecutor told CoinDesk.
Read MoreWe chat with Apollo developer Christian Selig about Reddit’s API, and his scrapped plans for Apollo on iPad.
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