Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Analyst Ross Young says Apple’s headset will have two 1.41″ Micro OLED displays at 5000+ nits of brightness, a 4000:1 contrast ratio, and “should be 4K per eye” — The tech community is collectively on the edge of our seats as we zoom toward the expected unveiling of Apple’s mixed reality
Read MoreSome great discounts are still holding on Apple’s latest smartwatch and other gadgets. | Image: Will Joel / The Verge Memorial Day may already be in the rearview mirror, but if you’re sad the long weekend went by so fast, there’s some good news: summer is basically here (yay) and some noteworthy deals have stuck
Read MoreHow do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on wheels for my experiments’ perspective. In that case, consider that there’s a different side to robot building – one where you account for your robot’s
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Binance discusses a proposal to let some institutional clients use bank deposits as collateral for margin trading, to help reduce counterparty risk — Binance is discussing a proposal to let some of its institutional clients keep their trading collateral at a bank instead …
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Amazon is discontinuing Celebrity Personalities for Alexa. The Samuel L. Jackson personality has already stopped working. Shaq and Melissa McCarthy’s voices will stop working later this year. Amazon first introduced Celebrity Personalities for Alexa back in 2019. Now it appears Amazon is pulling the plug on Alexa’s celebrity voices
Read MoreLily-Rose Depp as Jocelyn and Abel Tesfaye as Tedros. | Warner Bros. Discovery The Idol co-creators Sam Levinson and The Weeknd have spent the past few months insisting that their upcoming Max series is really a provocative piece of heightened commentary about the perils of fame rather than the self-indulgent piece of “torture porn” it’s
Read MoreImage: @_snoopytech_ The specs for Motorola’s upcoming flagship foldable have leaked. A marketing image posted by leaker SnoopyTech indicates that the premium Razr 40 Ultra could come with a massive 3.6-inch pOLED outer display at 144Hz, as well as a 6.9-inch inner pOLED display when the device is unfolded. The leaked image, which contains Italian
Read MoreSomeone bought a OnePlus 11 that came with a six-month YouTube Premium trial. When trying to redeem the offer, it wouldn’t activate. A OnePlus representative claimed there was a system error that may take six to seven months to resolve. It’s not uncommon for companies to bundle in offers to help entice purchases. From subscriptions
Read MoreImage: Wyze Smart home company Wyze has announced the Cam Floodlight Pro, a security camera with built-in lighting and object sensing that serves as the next-gen successor to the original Wyze Cam Floodlight. The wired $149.98 Cam Floodlight Pro bumps its predecessor’s 1080p camera resolution to 1440p (2.5K) and features a 180-degree field of view
Read MoreAssociated Press: NHTSA closes its investigation into Tesla’s Passenger Play video game feature, after Tesla released a 2021 update to block the service when the car is moving — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving.
Read MoreMeasuring local rainfall has real practical uses, especially in agriculture, but most of us will have to admit that it’s at least partly about drawing cool graphs on a screen. Whatever your motivation, you can build this open source electronic rain gauge designed by [Sebastian] of Smart Solutions for Home, and integrate it with Home
Read MoreSome prototype AirPods have appeared that show we might have had some colorful options at one point or another.
Read MoreJharrel Jerome as Cootie. | Amazon As wild as the premise of Amazon Prime’s I’m a Virgo might sound at first, the series’ newest trailer makes clear just how perfectly all writer-director Boots Riley’s ideas fit together to tell a story that’s more grounded than it initially seems. Equal parts fairytale, superhero origin story, and
Read MoreEmily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: SCOTUS turns away an appeal by victims of child pornography who claimed Reddit facilitated and benefited from CSAM, after two Section 230 rulings in early May — The US Supreme Court turned away an appeal from victims of child pornography who claimed Reddit Inc. knowingly facilitates and benefits from images of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia has just become a $1 trillion company, 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 chips make
Read MoreOrbeez guns, also known as gel blasters or water bead blasters, are toy guns that shoot small, colorful water-absorbing beads called Orbeez or gel balls. These toys have become increasingly popular in recent years, providing a fun and safe way for people of all ages to engage in exciting battles without causing harm to others.
Read MoreThe Moto G Stylus 5G (2023) comes with a few upgrades, including a more powerful processor. | Image: Motorola Motorola hasn’t had a lot of success with midrange devices lately, but it’s trying again with the Moto G Stylus 5G — 2023 edition. It’ll sell for $399 unlocked for a variant with a healthy 6GB
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Motorola has launched the slightly more premium 5G version of the Moto G Stylus. The Moto G Stylus 5G comes with a 5,000mAh battery and a 6.6-inch FHD+ display. The Moto G Stylus 5G will run on a Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 processor. At the beginning of this month,
Read MoreImage: Niantic Niantic, known for augmented reality mobile games like Pokémon Go and Peridot, revealed a new mixed reality experience on Tuesday. Titled “Wol,” it can be played on Quest headsets and features an “AI-enabled” talking owl discussing the redwood forest. I packed a lot into that sentence, so let’s break it down. While you
Read MoreIn addition to Arm’s 2023 CPU cores, we’re taking a deep dive into what Arm has built into its recently announced 5th Gen mobile graphics architecture that will inevitably power future high-end mobile games. Before getting into the fine details, Arm’s 2023 GPU architecture comes in three product varieties — the Immortalis-G720, Mali-G720, and Mali-G620.
Read MoreThe chatbot can help rehearse communication skills and for some provides a resource to turn to when life is tough.
Read MoreThere are two professions used to driving single-seaters with hundreds of horsepower, one of which is very exclusive and the other of which can be found anywhere the ground is fertile enough to support agriculture. Formula One drivers operate fragile machines pushed to the edges of their performance envelope, while the tractor at the hands
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft issues a temporary fix for Surface Pro X tablets after the devices’ cameras stopped working last week, most likely due to a faulty Qualcomm driver — Issues with cameras on some Arm-based devices, including the Surface Pro X, started on May 23rd, with owners reporting they couldn’t use …
Read MoreThe world of generative AI is simply exploding. And while headlines may be dominated by tech industry juggernauts Google, Microsoft, and relative newcomer OpenAI, there is a virtual renaissance occurring that has opened the doors for frustrated artists worldwide whose creative juices have now been unleashed with a multitude of AI content generators that they’re
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Analysis: of 460 companies that did SPAC deals, insiders at 232 sold $22B in shares in well-timed trades; Chamath Palihapitiya made $310M selling Virgin stock — Executives and early investors sold shares worth $22 billion — The SPAC boom cost investors billions.
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