Epic games, offline music, and 200MP cameras are all things to get excited about. But at the end of the day, you have to store all that data somewhere. Amazon’s got you, with an unprecedented 57% price drop on the popular Samsung T7 2TB Portable SSD. It’s down to just $114.99 ($155 off) for the
Read MoreIt should be the size of a hubcap, and it should glow in the dark. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s time to mint the coin, sickos! If you have not been paying attention to the most tragically online sectors of the financial internet, here’s a summary: the government is about to
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google launches Product Studio to let merchants quickly edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US merchants in “the next few months” — Google is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows Google Shopping merchants to quickly edit and customize …
Read MoreCredit: Backbone The Backbone One PlayStation Edition is getting Android phone support. Android recognizes the controller as a DualSense for the PS Remote Play App. The Backbone app is now available for Android as well. Last year, mobile gaming product maker Backbone announced the Backbone One PlayStation Edition for iPhone. This left PlayStation fans with
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data platform that aims to create a unified compute infrastructure and a single data lake for analytics workloads — Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric).
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Leaked information points to Google working on a Chromebook with a discrete GPU. At least two models are in the works, both with an as-yet-unannounced NVIDIA RTX 4050 card. There is no timeline for a release quite yet. Earlier this year, Google and several partners made a big to-do
Read MoreEvery PC gamer wants a lightning-fast laptop that handles the top AAA titles as well as they do. Such machines aren’t cheap, but the brand-new Alienware X16 R1 gaming laptop just got more affordable thanks to a $400 price drop today. It’s down to $2,899.99 ($400 off) in this deal. This first discount only makes
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft debuts Azure AI Content Safety to moderate images and text in eight languages, assigning severity scores to flagged content and giving explanations — Microsoft is launching a new AI-powered moderation service that it says is designed to foster safer online environments and communities.
Read MoreMicrosoft Developer on YouTube: A livestream of the Microsoft Build 2023 keynote — For the full event experience, please head to ➡️ https://aka.ms/MSBuild2023EventJoin us for Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2023Microsoft Build is for developers, b…
Read MoreAn image of a Google Pixel phone slotted into a Backbone One PlayStation edition. | Image: Backbone If you were an Android user jealous of last year’s iOS exclusive PlayStation-branded Backbone One mobile gaming controller, be jealous no more: Backbone announced an Android-compatible version of its PlayStation edition controller on Tuesday that’s now available to
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, offering a music creation and fan engagement service with 60M+ registered users, raised $25M Series B1 valuing it at $425M — Singapore-based BandLab Technologies, the parent company of social music creation platform BandLab, has raised $25 million …
Read More2022 saw both an insane rise and then fall in the interest of Web3 and blockchain development. In the first half of the year, it felt like every time I logged onto Twitter, I’d see an update from a new brand that secured funding or an update on a project’s incredible growth. The latter half
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple has signed on to a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement with Broadcom, a chipmaker based in the US. The company announced the news on Tuesday, saying it will continue to work with the chipmaker to develop 5G components and other wireless connectivity parts. From the announcement: Through this collaboration, Broadcom will develop 5G
Read MoreNew York Times: US prosecutors have gathered over 6M pages of documents ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, an unusually large amount that underscores his legal difficulties — Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.
Read MoreSocial media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.
Read MoreIllustration by Kyle Ellingson for The Verge The crowdfunding company’s organizing effort was divisive but still remains a landmark moment in the tech labor movement. Continue reading…
Read MoreWaymo’s robotaxis will be available to hail for rides and food delivery on Uber’s app in Phoenix later this year, the result of a new partnership that the two former rivals announced today. A “set number” of Waymo vehicles will be available to Uber riders and Uber Eats delivery customers in Phoenix, where the Alphabet
Read MoreScientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith.
Read MoreIf Apple can solve the VR motion sickness problem, it’s one step closer to Reality Pro VR being a hit.
Read MoreReuters: Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with revenue; a source says the sums ran into billions of dollars in Silvergate-held accounts — The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021 …
Read MoreJesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: SEC-backed FINRA approved two crypto-related companies, including broker-dealer Prometheum Capital, which defined tokens as securities to comply with SEC rules — As the industry fights with the U.S. regulator over “impossible” demands, Prometheum Capital and others win approvals to deal in crypto securities.
Read MoreTage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: South African digital banking startup TymeBank raised a $77.8M pre-Series C led by Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital, after a $110M Series B in February 2021 — South African digital banking platform Tyme has raised $77.8 million in a pre-Series C round led by African-focused growth stage fund Norrsken22 …
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Expect plenty of AI announcements as Microsoft integrates the technology into its lineup. Continue reading…
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches Generative Fill for Photoshop, one of the first Creative Cloud apps to use its generative AI Firefly tool, in beta, rolling out fully in H2 2023 — / Generative Fill will arrive in Photoshop in ‘the second half of 2023.’ — Adobe Photoshop is getting a new generative
Read MoreYuvraj Malik / Reuters: Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta’s acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content — Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million
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