Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Pixel users are reporting severe battery drain and overheating issues on their phones. The problem seems to be affecting Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series users. A recent Google app update is to blame, and Google is in the process of issuing a patch. Update, May 15, 2023
Read MoreYouTube TV | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Cable TV is on the way out, and YouTube TV is in for Wide Open West, or WOW!, a smaller US broadband operator with just over a half million internet customers and, as of March 31st, 117,000 households paying for cable TV. The company said Monday
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The NFL just announced a new deal with Peacock that gives the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service national broadcast rights to one wild card playoff game next season. Described as the “first-ever exclusive live streamed NFL Playoff game,” it will feature two teams facing off in primetime on January 13th,
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Pharmacy services provider PharMerica says hackers breached its system and stole the names, addresses, SSNs, and health data of 5.8M+ patients on March 12, 2023 — Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.
Read MoreJane Lee / Reuters: Ethernovia, which builds automotive ethernet chips and software, raised a $64M Series A from Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures, VentureTech Alliance, and others — Silicon Valley automotive ethernet chip startup Ethernovia Inc said on Monday it had raised $64 million in a Series …
Read MoreIf you’ve got a laser cutter, it is highly probable that it uses a laser diode. But more expensive machines use a carbon dioxide laser tube along with mirrors. There was a time when these lasers came in two flavors: very expensive and amazing or moderately expensive and cheaply made. However, we are seeing that
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Kyocera has announced it will alter its consumer smartphone strategy in Japan. Kyocera’s President says the changes are due to the inability to make a profit in the current market. The company says it will instead focus solely on corporate phones. Update, May 15, 2023 (10:10 PM ET): Kyocera reached
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Kyocera has announced it will alter its consumer smartphone strategy in Japan. Kyocera’s President says the changes are due to the inability to make a profit in the current market. The company says it will instead focus solely on corporate phones. Update, May 15, 2023 (10:10 PM ET): Kyocera reached
Read MoreIllustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge Microsoft just backed a big plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions from a wood-burning power plant. Today, the tech giant announced a deal with Danish energy company Ørsted to purchase credits representing 2.76 million metric tons of carbon dioxide captured at Ørsted’s Asnæs Power Station over 11 years.
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 7a has arrived and there’s a lot to like about it, but you should still weigh your options before buying it. We recently explored the best current Pixel 7a alternatives, but plenty of other decently priced phones are coming out later this year, including the Pixel 8. Should you wait for the
Read More[legolor] brings us a great, cheap rotary axis to add to your small 3 axis CNC mills. How are you going to generate G-Code for this 4th axis? That’s the great part, and the hack, that [legolor] really just swapped the Y axis for the rotation. To finish the workflow and keep things cheap accessible
Read MoreJeremy Allen White as Carmen Berzatto. | FX By the end of The Bear’s first season, The Beef was on its last legs, and the restaurant’s staff knew that they were all going to have to embrace change if they wanted to survive. Whether or not the team’s all going to make it intact is
Read MoreAs technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, businesses must constantly update and improve their software systems to stay competitive. However, the process of updating and releasing new software can be difficult and time-consuming, especially if the existing software is bloated, monolithic, and tightly coupled with other components. This lag creates technical debt that can
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft’s Phone Link app now lets iPhone owners use a Windows 11 PC to send and receive messages via iMessage, but not in group chats, and make or take calls — Microsoft promised to make its Phone Link app available for iPhone users (so you can use iMessage from a
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google will soon start displaying prewritten text messages that appear when users search for suicide-related terms. These prompts are supposed to help people start a difficult conversation during a mental health crisis and were created in partnership with the International Association for Suicide Prevention. The message options will appear directly beneath the
Read MoreVictor Dey / VentureBeat: Together, which aims to build open-source LLMs and was part of RedPajama, a project where six companies replicated Meta’s LLaMA dataset, raised a $20M seed — Together, an open-source AI startup, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding to support its mission …
Read MoreWireless headphones are popular accessories, and new ones come out every year. While it’s always fun to turn your attention to the next thing in audio tech, the fact is that you don’t need to buy the latest and greatest. Today, we’ll look at the Beats Studio 3 vs Sony WH-1000XM4. Both are years-old active
Read MoreVictor Dey / VentureBeat: Cloudflare debuts Cloudflare One for AI, a zero-trust security controls suite to help businesses use generative AI tools while protecting IP and customer data — Internet solutions firm Cloudflare today unveiled Cloudflare One for AI, its latest suite of zero-trust security controls.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google will soon start displaying prewritten text messages that appear when users search for suicide-related terms. These prompts are supposed to help people start a difficult conversation during a mental health crisis and were created in partnership with the International Association for Suicide Prevention. The message options will appear directly beneath the
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: The founders of Indian BNPL startup ZestMoney, which has raised $130M+, resign amid fundraising struggles, after a deal to be acquired by PhonePe fell through — Founders of ZestMoney have resigned from the startup, the latest twist in the fate of the Indian fintech whose ability …
Read MoreThe dystopian corporate dominated future may have taken a step closer, as a startup called Telly promises a free 55 inch 4K TV with a catch — a second screen beneath the main one that displays adverts. The viewers definitely aren’t the customers but the product, and will no doubt have every possible piece of
Read MoreThe families of victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo are challenging the platforms they believe led the attacker to carry out a racist massacre.
Read MorePhoebe Liu / Forbes: Zip, which offers procurement management software, raised a $100M Series C led by Y Combinator at a $1.5B post-money valuation, taking its total raised to $181M — Zip, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses manage spending, announced a fresh round of capital today …
Read MoreIf science fiction taught us anything, it’s that voice control was going to be the human-machine interface of the future. [Dennis] has now whipped up a tutorial that lets you add a voice control module to any of your own projects. The voice control module uses a Raspberry Pi 4 as the brains of the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s moneymaking source for apps, games, and more was having some issues on Monday. Reports of problems have spiked across social media, while Verge writers trying to access the App Store via iPhone, Mac, or iPad were seeing mostly blank spaces instead of descriptions and screenshots, but it’s
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