Fantastic Apple TV Plus trailer confirms Foundation season 2 is coming soon
Foundation is one of the best things on Apple TV Plus and now its second season is coming soon — and the trailer is here now.
Read MoreFoundation is one of the best things on Apple TV Plus and now its second season is coming soon — and the trailer is here now.
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Read MoreChe Pan / South China Morning Post: Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q1 revenue down 20.6% YoY to $1.46B and net income down 48.3% YoY to $231.1M, both beating analyst estimates — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) , China’s top contract chip maker, posted its biggest drop in quarterly revenue in over a decade …
Read MoreThey say time flies when you’re having fun, and doubly so when you’re hacking hardware. If you can believe it, we’ve already closed out the first challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize, and you know what that means — it’s time to announce the 10 finalists. As a reminder, each of these projects not only
Read MoreCredit: Matt Horne / Android Authority Maybe Samsung is jealous of Google’s limelight this week, as the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra just dropped to its best-ever price on Amazon. If you act fast, you can pick up a brand-new and unlocked model for just $749.99 ($450 off). You could splash out $1,200 on the Samsung
Read MoreThe draft legislation will ban mass facial recognition, among other uses of AI, but has yet to be confirmed as law. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The EU has taken a step closer to enforcing strong regulation of AI, drafting new safeguards that would prohibit a wide range of dangerous use cases.
Read MoreVirtual reality has come a long way in the past decade, with successful commercial offerings for gaming platforms still going strong as well as a number of semi-virtual, or augmented, reality tools that are proving their worth outside of a gaming environment as well. But with all this success they still haven’t quite figured out
Read MoreThe tail of a dead beached whale is seen on Rockaway beach on December 13th, 2022, in the Queens borough of New York City. | Photo by Bryan Bedder / Getty Images Whales are washing up along the east coast of the US. Offshore wind opponents blame future wind farms. Experts see a different threat.
Read MoreImage: Raycast Raycast, the full-featured launcher for Mac, has announced an $8 per month Pro subscription (billed annually) that adds new AI and syncing features, along with the option for unlimited clipboard history, as reported by MacStories. The Pro subscription expands on Raycast’s existing launcher functionalities, which are quite extensive. It replaces the app’s existing
Read MoreJack Schickler / CoinDesk: A judge rules that $300M in BlockFi’s wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender’s estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts belong to the estate — A further $375 million that users tried to transfer out of interest-bearing accounts after Nov. 10 still belongs to the estate, Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Just a few months ago, Netflix was proud to announce that it was putting on its first-ever in-person upfront week presentation in New York City alongside other networks and streamers vying for advertiser cash, like NBCUniversal, Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery. But after being tipped off by
Read MoreIf you are a Pythonista or a data scientist, you’ve probably used Jupyter. If you haven’t, it is an interesting way to work with Python by placing it in a Markdown document in a web browser. Part spreadsheet, part web page, part Python program, you create notebooks that can contain data, programs, graphics, and widgets.
Read MoreArjun Kharpal / CNBC: JD.com says CEO Xu Lei will step down in June “due to personal reasons”, after one year in the role; CFO Sandy Ran Xu will become the CEO — – JD.com shares rose in pre-market trade in the U.S. on Thursday after it said it swung to profit in the first
Read MoreThe POCO F2 Pro launched back in 2020, offering a flagship-level experience in many ways for a more palatable price. The F Pro line has been dormant since then, but the Xiaomi-affiliated company is finally back with the POCO F5 Pro. Does it still live up to the affordable flagship ethos, though? It’s time to
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Microsoft is skipping raises for salaried employees this year. In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees that only hourly workers will receive raises and blamed the move on the uncertain state of the economy. “We are clear that we are helping drive a major platform
Read MoreTiyashi Datta / Reuters: JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 1.4% YoY to ~$35B, beating estimates, and ~$906M net profit, compared to a ~$431M net loss in Q1 2022; JD rises 7%+ — China’s e-commerce giant JD.com Inc (9618.HK), said on Thursday its chief executive Xu Lei will step down, with the company’s chief financial officer
Read MoreJamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Robinhood reported crypto trading revenue of $38M for Q1 2023, down ~30% YoY and 1% QoQ, and says it has ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets, up 36% from Q4 2022 — The trading platform also reported holding around $11.5 billion worth of crypto in assets under custody, an increase of
Read MoreThe 7A’s lovely coral color is exclusive to the Google Store, but it also comes in charcoal, light blue, and white elsewhere. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google actually did it. It made a new, very good, fairly affordable midrange phone and started shipping it right away. And not only is the
Read MoreAlvise Armellini / Reuters: Italy’s AGCM begins investigating Apple over App Store ATT prompts for developers, a day after the EU confirmed sending questionnaires to retailers on Apple Pay — Italy’s antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) …
Read MoreRyan Gallagher / Bloomberg: A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, which quietly harvests ad data to help governments track people via their phones using its Echo tool, sold around the globe — The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users …
Read MoreXiaomi’s Poco phones have some impressive specs, but also bloated software and dated designs.
Read MoreNew York Times: Taiwan’s chip sector, built by TSMC’s skilled employees, risks losing its massive advantage due to a demographic crisis, demanding culture, and competing jobs — Taiwan’s world-dominating microchip sector was built by TSMC’s skilled employees. But a demographic crisis, demanding work culture and flagging interest threaten its lead.
Read MorePhoto by Zeng Hui / Xinhua via Getty Images Nintendo is a company whose success ebbs and flows. The glory days give way to lean periods, but things inevitably rebound. It happens in cycles. The quiet times of the GameCube gave way to the breakout mainstream popularity of the Wii. The humbling days of the
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Fairphone Fairbuds XL review: modular design, lovely controls, and great ANC, but sound isn’t great, no 3.5mm port, and confusing multipoint connectivity — With readily available spare parts and a modular construction, Fairphone’s first over-ear headphones are a suitable companion to its repairable smartphones.
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Let me tell you about the time I got stranded on an island floating in the sky. Much like its predecessor, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom begins in a sort of training area. In this case, it’s a series of interconnected islands high up in the sky, where you’re able
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