Galaxy S23 Ultra Credit: Harley Maranan / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra reportedly costs $469 to make. The processor, cellular components, and display accounted for most of the bill. This analysis doesn’t take other costs into account, such as marketing and labor. Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra retails for a cool $1,199 in the
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge The Windows Widgets feature is finally getting some useful additions to let you monitor CPU, memory, and GPU usage. Neowin has spotted that Microsoft’s new release of a Dev Home app includes several new widgets for Windows 11. You can use the new widgets to monitor processor utilization
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Payments startup NomuPay, formed out of Wirecard and other assets, discloses raising $53.6M in total, including $15M recently, and plans a “proper raise” soon — We still see regular updates on the calamitous fallout of the 2020 collapse of Wirecard, the now-insolvent fintech …
Read MoreMichael del Castillo / Forbes: An interview with reclusive Bitcoin programmer @Fiatjaf on building the Nostr protocol to offer an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social media — Disenchanted with social media options like Twitter, the reclusive Bitcoin programmer tells Forbes how he designed his chat …
Read MoreAccording to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, new Macs are coming at WWDC 2023 – but what could they be?
Read MoreThe xrOS name has reared its head(set) again, although this time in an error message.
Read MoreKathrin Hille / Financial Times: Foxconn predicts “triple-digit growth in AI servers” in H2 2023 as demand skyrockets; in 2022, Foxconn made ~$36B in server revenue out of its $215B total — Apple’s largest manufacturer says demand for servers needed to run ChatGPT-like services will double this year
Read MoreCredit: Curtis Joe / Android Authority The popular Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator has now arrived on Android. The emulator supports plenty of games, but requires relatively high-end Snapdragon devices. Skyline is the most popular Nintendo Switch emulator for Android, but the developers decided to abandon the project due to apparent legal trouble. Two of the
Read MoreNikkei Asia: How Taiwan became a key part of the electronics supply chain, creating interdependence between Taiwan, China, and the US that has deepened even as tensions rise — In the days after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year, Taiwanese suppliers to U.S. tech giants including Apple …
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Apple’s Reality Pro headset will reportedly offer 4K resolution per eye. The headset is also tipped to arrive with 5,000 nits of brightness. Both figure surpass other VR headsets from the likes of Meta and Sony. Apple is expected to reveal its Reality Pro XR headset at its WWDC
Read MoreWhen USB first came on the scene, one of the benefits was that essentially any four conductors could get you to the point where you could send information at 12 Mbps. Of course everything is faster these days, and reaching today’s speeds requires a little bit more fidelity in the cables. This simple tester makes
Read MoreOliver Whang / New York Times: A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which aims to create language models with datasets that are less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs — Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. — When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots,
Read MoreThe original Chromecast plugged into an HDMI port. | Image: The Verge Google has ended support for the original Chromecast, around a decade after the $35 streaming stick launched in 2013. A message announcing the end of support has appeared on several Google support pages. “Support for Chromecast (1st gen) has ended,” the notice brought
Read MoreNikou Asgari / Financial Times: By creating separate crypto companies, Standard Chartered and other finance groups are betting fund managers will prefer trusted brands to opaque crypto firms — Traditional finance groups create digital asset infrastructure untainted by year of crypto scandals
Read MoreDavid Kirton / Reuters: Some mainland China tech entrepreneurs are trying to gain permanent residency or citizenship outside of China to avoid US curbs and biases against Chinese firms — For the ambitious Chinese tech entrepreneur, expanding into the U.S. just keeps getting harder.
Read MoreGoogle is ending software support for the first Chromecast. The device launched in 2013 and is now over a decade old. The last update to the first generation Chromecast came in November 2022. Google has ended support for the first generation Chromecast that launched back in 2013. That was a decade ago, so it seems
Read MoreWhat is it that compels us about a secret door? It’s almost as if the door itself and the promise of mystery is more exciting than whatever could lay beyond. In any case, [Scott Monaghan] is a lover of the form, and built his own secret door hidden in a bookshelf, as all good secret
Read MoreNadia Asparouhova / Wired: As GitHub prepares to close its San Francisco HQ, a look back at the living testament to tech culture, with its conflicts presaging a decade of tech backlash — The code-hosting platform’s headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.
Read MoreMyungshin Cho / Bloomberg: Statistics Korea: South Korea’s semiconductor inventory rose 83% YoY in April 2023, the biggest increase since April 2016, while factory shipments fell 33% YoY — South Korea’s semiconductor inventory surged by the most in seven years, underscoring ongoing weak demand for chips despite the global boom in AI development.
Read MoreAR and VR developer [Skarredghost] got pretty excited about a virtual blue cube, and for a very good reason. It marked a successful prototype of an augmented reality experience in which the logic underlying the cube as a virtual object was changed by AI in response to verbal direction by the user. Saying “make it
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party — Now that Twitter’s API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down.
Read MoreBloomberg: Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk’s $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake — Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
Read MoreWhen science fiction authors imagined robots in the 20th century, many of them were huge imposing steel automatons. [Shane]’s designs for the Pretty Small Robot are quite contrary to that, being tiny in stature and cute in affect. The whole robot is an exploration in nifty engineering. It uses an easy clip-together structure with fasteners
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia temporarily became a $1 trillion company on Tuesday morning, with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O and Microsoft Build presentations, and Nvidia’s
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