Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A Redditor has uncovered an icky workaround for unlocking Pixel phones with dry fingers. The user advises that you wipe the side of your nose and then unlock your phone. The Google Pixel 7 series delivers a more reliable fingerprint scanning experience than the Pixel 6 range. Some Pixel
Read MoreFinancial Times: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls has put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese firms start building their own chips — Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing
Read MoreCissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Alibaba Cloud plans to layoff 7% of its staff, or ~1,000 employees, as it prepares for a spinoff within 12 months and an eventual IPO — Move follows tech giant announcing spinoff of group within 12 months — Alibaba, like other Chinese tech companies, has been cutting costs and
Read MoreLogitech’s G Pro X 2 headset has an updated design. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Logitech is announcing a new G Pro X 2 Lightspeed gaming headset today that features graphene audio drivers. You’ve probably heard of graphene, the miracle form of carbon that has been promised by many over the past
Read MoreHow long do you think it’ll be before someone sticks the “DO IT FOR HER” Simpsons meme on one of these? | Image: Logitech Logitech has announced the Logi Dock Flex, its latest all-in-one USB-C docking station designed to alleviate some of the frustrations of hot desking and hybrid working. The Logi Dock Flex kinda
Read MoreFinancial Times: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls has put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese firms start building their own chips — Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing
Read MoreTakashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Tokyo-based taxi-hailing app Go says it raised ~$72M from Goldman Sachs at a ~$1B valuation and commands 70% of the Japanese market, outpacing Uber and Didi — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has made Japan’s leading taxi-hailing provider, Go Inc., a unicorn with its biggest startup investment in the country.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Right now, Sony may be widely renowned for its ambitious single-player PlayStation games from franchises you’ve come to know and love — series like God of War, Horizon, and Spider-Man come to mind for me. But in just a few years, you might instead be playing a lot
Read MoreSince sound is the primary sense used by most ocean life, disruptions to the natural noise levels in the ocean from human activities can be particularly problematic for marine life. [DW Planet A] has a video describing some of the ways we can mitigate these disruptions to our friends under the sea. Being noisy neighbors
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google launches the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program, a bug bounty program for its Android applications, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $30K — Google has launched the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty program that will pay security researchers …
Read MorePhilip Bump / Washington Post: Elon Musk’s intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight — It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics
Read MoreAndy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony says it sold ~600K PS VR2 units during the first six weeks of availability since launching on February 22, 8% more than PS VR sales six weeks from launch — THE PS5 HEADSET SOLD AROUND 600,000 UNITS IN ITS FIRST SIX WEEKS — PlayStation VR2’s early sales are
Read MoreAre you switching from Android to iOS? We’re sad to see you go, but we can definitely understand how iOS might be better than Android for some users. You’ll need some help figuring out the best way to migrate, so we’ll show you the best ways to transfer data from Android to iPhone. QUICK ANSWER
Read MoreIt’s a tiny boy! | Image: Canon The Canon EOS M mirrorless system may be dead, but one of its cameras is being exhumed and reincarnated into a new model for the ongoing EOS R series. The EOS R100 is the latest of Canon’s APS-C mirrorless offerings. It features a 24.1-megapixel sensor, eye-tracking dual pixel
Read MoreWired: Multilingual language models may not be effective tools to moderate content on social networks due the systems’ shortcomings in detecting harmful content — Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.
Read MoreWhile the Commodore 64 was an immensely popular computer for its time, and still remains a strong favorite within the retrocomputing community, there’s a reason we’re not using modern Commodore-branded computers today. Intense competition, company mismanagement, and advancing beyond 8-bit computers too late in the game all led to the company’s eventual downfall. But if
Read MoreBloomberg: TikTok CEO Shou Chew says Oracle has begun reviewing TikTok’s source code and the app is “on track” to have all US user data hosted and overseen by Oracle — ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok is “on track” with its undertaking to have all US user data hosted and overseen by Oracle Corp. …
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google launches the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program, a bug bounty program for its Android applications, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $30K — Google has launched the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty program that will pay security researchers …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Right now, Sony may be widely renowned for its ambitious single-player PlayStation games from franchises you’ve come to know and love — series like God of War, Horizon, and Spider-Man come to mind for me. But in just a few years, you might instead be playing a lot
Read MoreImage: AMD AMD has announced four new (well, kind of) processors marketed for Chromebooks: the Ryzen and Athlon 7020C series. The release includes two Ryzen processors (a Ryzen 5 7520C and a Ryzen 3 7320C) with four cores, eight threads, and 15W TDP, with AMD Radeon 610M graphics. The Ryzen 3 has a 2.4 GHz
Read MoreGyroscopes are one of those physics phenomena that are a means to many ends, but can also enjoyed as a fascinating object in their own right. Case and point being [Hyperspace Pirate]’s tightrope-balancing crawler in the video after the break. Inside the PLA and aluminum shell is a 3D-printed wheel with steel bolts around the
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user’s finger — The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is. On Tuesday, Netflix revealed the details of how its crackdown on password sharing will affect viewers in the US and how much it will cost
Read MoreAre you trying to transfer photos from Android to iPhone? The simplest solution is to use Google Photos, which saves your images in the cloud, so you can access them straight from the iOS app. That said, there are benefits to migrating images to the Apple ecosystem, especially if you are thinking of leaving the
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China — And it’s happening in plain sight. — Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …
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