We found some great discounts on Apple’s latest smartwatch and other gadgets. | Image: Will Joel / The Verge Memorial Day isn’t just the unofficial start of summer — it’s also a good time to save money on everything from outdoor furniture to the latest tech accessories. And with many sales now in full swing,
Read MoreAs the 2020s are seeing the return of the flip phone, could we see a rebirth of other device form factors from before the slab era? [Eric Migicovsky] and [SQFMI] are working on a new physical keyboard device with the Beepberry. Featuring a high contrast Sharp Memory LCD and the tried-and-true reliability of a BlackBerry
Read MoreWelcome to the 486th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: There is an app in the works that generates music based on text prompts. You input what kind of music you want to hear, and the AI generates the music. It’s in the experimental stage right now,
Read MoreBenjamin Weiser / New York Times: A New York lawyer faces sanctions after his legal brief, written using ChatGPT, had “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations” — A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on artificial intelligence to help prepare a court filing.
Read MoreApple’s entry-level MacBook Air is an easy rec at $799.99 thanks to its speedy performance and long-lasting battery life. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Happy Saturday, readers! Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is now less than two weeks away. The company is largely expected to introduce its mixed reality headset —
Read MorePhoto by ICED / Games Done Quick 2023’s edition of Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ), the annual weeklong speedrunning marathon for charity, kicks off on Sunday, and I can’t wait. For an entire week, SGDQ features hit after hit of speedrunners beating video games extremely fast or breaking them in unfathomable ways, and it’s a
Read MoreBloomberg: The median gain in Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia stocks is 43% since January, almost 5x the S&P 500, bolstered by AI optimism — Rarely does a tech-powered stock rally come along that isn’t pilloried for the fragility of its foundation.
Read MoreWindows lives on. | Image: Microsoft The activation algorithm for Windows XP has, incredibly, finally been completely cracked, allowing for totally offline activation, according to The Register (via Ars Technica). A blog post on tinyapps covered a Reddit post discussing it, but the program allowing it has apparently existed for at least several months, possibly
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last year, Ford surprised F-150 Lightning truck owners with an accessory that can recharge stranded Teslas. Now, it looks like Tesla is the one lending a hand to Ford. In a surprise Twitter Spaces meeting between Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday, Farley
Read MoreMaría Luisa Paúl / Washington Post: Brazilian lawmakers file a complaint against Google for letting users download “Slavery Simulator” game on Google Play for about a month before taking it down — For about a month, Google Play users in Brazil could download a game that simulated what the South American nation looked …
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge It’s easy to blame trackers when fitness goals don’t go according to plan, but sometimes the problem lies closer to home. Continue reading…
Read More[Sebastian Staacks] built a video booth for his wedding, and the setup was so popular with family, that it was only fitting to do one better and make some improvements to the setup, Matrix-style. The “bullet time” video effect was introduced by the classic movie franchise and makes for a splendid video transition effect for
Read MoreThe Baratza Encore ESP is fine-tuned to grind coffee to make espresso, but it’s adept at prepping beans for almost all other brew methods too.
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 246th edition here, with the top Pixel Fold model selling out in the US, a rather nasty trick to make your Pixel 7 fingerprint scanner more reliable, a OnePlus 12 leak, Snapdragon 8
Read MoreImage: Future Publishing via Getty Images Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for the laptop and PC space, begins in a couple of days. A number of companies will have big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia’s keynote, which will open the show on Monday morning.
Read MoreThe number of ocean going birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google Assistant hasn’t seen much in the way of new features lately, as the company focuses on Bard and other AI efforts instead. But it’s still pre-installed on millions of devices around the world. Nevertheless, we want to know whether you’re still using Google Assistant or any other voice
Read MoreFinancial Times: In a policy reversal, a Portuguese government document outlines rationale for banning Huawei equipment in the country’s 5G network, deeming it “high risk” — Lisbon’s new security assessment could deal blow to Chinese telecom equipment group’s ambitions in Europe
Read More[Sebastian Staacks] built a video booth for his wedding, and the setup was so popular with family, that it was only fitting to do one better and make some improvements to the setup, Matrix-style. The “bullet time” video effect was introduced by the classic movie franchise and makes for a splendid video transition effect for
Read MoreJeff Burt / The Register: Microsoft makes Azure Linux, a container host OS for the Azure Kubernetes Service, generally available, after running it in public preview since October 2022 — Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers — After using Azure Linux internally for two years and running …
Read MoreKelvin Chan / Associated Press: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary EU pact to combat online disinformation and adds Twitter’s “obligations remain” — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.
Read MoreFinancial Times: The popularity of H100, which offers at least 3x better performance than the A100, with Big Tech, OpenAI, and others has pushed Nvidia’s market value toward $1T — High demand for US group’s H100 processors helps send its market value skyrocketing towards $1tn
Read MoreTwo humans and a beagle named Hank spent two weeks and 2,000 miles in Europe with a Ququq camping box to preview the future of #vanlife. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe noise of a dot matrix printer is probably as synonymous with 1980s computing as the modem handshake would become with the desktop experience a decade or more later. But unlike the computers that would have driven it, a dot matrix printer can still be a very useful device here in 2023. And why not?
Read MoreAssociated Press: AGs from Washington DC and 48 US states file a lawsuit against Avid Telecom, accusing the firm of making 7.5B+ robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry — Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls …
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