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US livestream shopping sales are estimated to hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020 (New York Times)

New York Times: US livestream shopping sales are estimated to hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020 — The market for selling goods in real time online is relatively small, but a number of start-ups and big tech names are betting American

Google Pixel Tablet hands-on: Such a great idea

The last time we saw an Android-powered tablet from Google was in 2015. To be clear, that predates the entire Pixel lineup (the OG Pixel smartphone launched in 2016). So yeah, it’s been a while. But here we are with a brand new slate from the company: the Google Pixel Tablet. This is the first

A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer — An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera’s Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim that

Europe’s Moral Crusader Lays Down the Law on Encryption

Ylva Johansson is on a personal mission to make the internet safer for children. Her opponents say her plans would wreck online privacy.

Amazon secures an estimated $1B in tax breaks for five data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, which local officials hope will generate $12B in Amazon spending (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Amazon secures an estimated $1B in tax breaks for five data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, which local officials hope will generate $12B in Amazon spending — Port of Morrow commissioners signed off Wednesday on a contentious package of tax incentives for five more Amazon data centers in eastern Oregon …

Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation’s software facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a cyberattack (Vivian Salama/Wall Street Journal)

Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal: Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation’s software facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a cyberattack — Investigation of Rockwell looks at whether its software might allow access to critical U.S. government and industrial infrastructure

Sony Xperia 1 V launched: The best phone with a headphone jack

Credit: Harley Maranan / Android Authority Sony has announced the Xperia 1 V smartphone. The new phone brings a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC and a 52MP main camera. Expect to pay $1,399 when the phone goes on sale in July. Sony’s Xperia phones have long earned a reputation as being the devices of choice

Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp

The social network’s new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month.

Some crypto miners, like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining, are repurposing their GPUs to power high-performance computing services for AI clients (David Pan/Bloomberg)

David Pan / Bloomberg: Some crypto miners, like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining, are repurposing their GPUs to power high-performance computing services for AI clients — When the Ethereum blockchain moved away from using a technique for verifying transactions known as proof of work last September …

Sony Xperia 1 V launched: The best phone with a headphone jack

Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools (Brady Snyder/XDA Developers)

Brady Snyder / XDA Developers: Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools — Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now. Here’s how

Google’s PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM’s major limitations, but doesn’t reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google’s PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM’s major limitations, but doesn’t reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model — At its annual I/O conference, Google unveiled PaLM 2, the successor to its PaLM large language model for understanding and generating multilingual

Exploiting Hardware-Level Parallelism in the Manticore Hardware-Accelerated RTL Simulator

Before a chip design is turned from a hardware design language (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog into physical hardware, testing and validating the design is an essential step. Yet simulating a HDL design is rather slow due to the simulator using either only a single CPU thread, or limited multi-threading due to the requirements of

The Verge’s 2023 Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge From transparent chargers and TikTok gems to the latest wearables, we’ve curated a batch of unique gifts fit for any mom worth celebrating. Continue reading…

Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn’t breach its internal network (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn’t breach its internal network — Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted …

Canon’s PowerShot V10 is a vlogging-centric callback to old Flip Video cams

It’s actually kinda cute for a simple black-and-silver design. | Image: Canon Canon is finally stepping into the vlogging camera arena, and it’s doing so with a quirky new point-and-shoot geared toward a mindless “set-it-and-forget-it” crowd I’m not sure exists. The $429.99 Canon PowerShot V10 is an adorable little camera about the size of an

Google Pixel Fold hands-on: A first-gen success?

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Google doesn’t have the greatest track record when it comes to its first-gen products. Just look at the Pixel Watch: while a gorgeous timepiece, its poor battery life made it difficult to recommend. With that in mind, should we trust Google with its first foldable phone? Are consumers doomed

Disney Q2: Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. 163.17M est., its second consecutive quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Disney Q2: Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. 163.17M est., its second consecutive quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M — On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over

The best Google Pixel 7a accessories

Google’s Pixel 7a represents unprecedented midrange value. It sports a best-in-class smartphone camera, a smooth 90Hz refresh rate display, excellent performance, and fantastic upgrade commitment. Google promises three years of Android version support and five years of security coverage. If you don’t enjoy shelling out for a new phone annually, the 7a promises buttery, up-to-date

Twitter launches encrypted DMs behind a paywall

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new support document, Twitter has detailed what you can expect from the first version of the platform’s encrypted direct messages. Perhaps most notably, to be able to send and receive encrypted messages, you’ll have to pay Twitter for the ability to do so. Platforms like WhatsApp,

Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted — There are still some major limitations to the feature. — Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.

The best Google Pixel 7a accessories

Here’s how the new Google Pixel Fold stacks up to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 4

Do you like your Fold long or tall? | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s taken a page from Samsung’s book and made itself a foldable phone. In fact, the newly announced Google Pixel Fold, shown off at Google I/O 2023 alongside the Pixel 7A and Pixel Tablet, looks as if it borrowed

Here are the best Google Pixel 7a deals in the US

Pixel UI Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Google Pixel 7a finally launched today and became available to buy right away. That left no time for pre-order promotions, but thankfully there are several ways that you can already save on the new device. We’ve rounded up some of the best Pixel 7a deals here.

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