There are a lot of things you can do with today’s powerful microcontrollers, but sometimes you really need a full embedded Linux setup. [Dylan Brophy] wanted to make it easier to add Linux to his own projects and designed the BeagleStamp. Squeezed onto a 1″ square, the BeagleStamp puts the power of a PocketBeagle into
Read MoreMeir Orbach / CTech: Novidea, which offers software spanning every aspect of an insurance business, raised a $50M Series C, brining its total funding to $90M — Using an open API architecture, Novidea’s software platform enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey
Read MorePhoto by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s mostly unreliable tunnel digging venture, has won the approval to expand its “Vegas Loop” system to — wait for it — 69 stations. Nice? Not really. The tunnel system is Musk’s supposedly futuristic idea to alleviate road traffic by shifting
Read MoreThe Denon Home 150 is great, with some useful connection methods and solid sound quality.
Read MoreGoing beyond “What’s the weather like?” | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon is looking to add new AI chatbot technology to Alexa, reports Insider based on leaked documents. The voice assistant needs reanimation in a world now seemingly infatuated with generative AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. One example in
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Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Samsung is introducing new Galaxy Watch sleep tracking in One UI 5 Watch, coming later this year. Some of the features are reminiscent of Fitbit’s own sleep tracking. Samsung is also introducing smarter fitness and better safety features. When it comes to sleep tracking, few wearable companies can compare
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI like GitHub’s Copilot, as part of the BigCode project — AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative …
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Read MoreApple announced a bunch of games coming to its Arcade service, ready to play on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.
Read MoreWhile Paramount and Hasbro’s live-action Transformers movies have always been fanservice-focused visual triumphs, they’ve been consistently held back by the studio’s erroneous belief that people line up for these things wanting to see regular human people become friends with robots. Though that has never and will never be the case, one detail from the latest
Read MoreAfter Richard Branson delivered some inspiring words from his seat aboard SpaceShipTwo Unity, he unbuckled himself and started to float around the vehicle’s cabin along with three other Virgin Galactic employees. Reaching an apogee of 86 kilometers (53 miles), the passengers enjoyed four minutes of weightlessness during the July 2021 flight that was live-streamed over
Read MoreSago Mini Friends, which has spawned a spin-off Apple TV + animated series, is an app to promote empathy, sharing, and creativity through pretend play.
Read MoreImage: Apple Apple Arcade is getting 20 new games, and that includes the exclusive launch of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle roguelike. The game, called TMNT Splintered Fate, is a top-down co-op roguelike that has Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael fighting their way through enemies as they search for Master Splinter, who’s gone missing. You
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: Discord plans to remove the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others, forcing users to pick a username with the @ symbol — Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to
Read MoreCase-Mate’s translucent and colorful USB-C chargers start at just $15.40 today. | Image: Case-Mate If you’re hunting for a graduation gift that’s both playful and practical, Case-Mate’s Fuel USB-C Charger is a good option. The portable charger delivers 30 watts of power so your giftee can quickly power up their smartphone, tablet, or even Nintendo Switch.
Read MoreAffiliate marketing is an effective way for businesses to increase sales and reach new customers. In fact, with the right strategies in place, affiliates can generate significant income from their efforts. However, many marketers struggle to maximize their earnings due to a lack of the proper techniques. This post will discuss ten advanced affiliate marketing
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority As traditional streaming services raise the price, you might find yourself looking for more free streaming content. Luckily there are plenty of sources, including YouTube. YouTube has had free, ad-supported movies on its service for a while now for folks who simply don’t want to pay for premium streaming
Read MoreAlf Wilkinson / Financial Times: A Finder.com experiment using ChatGPT to pick 38 stocks finds the portfolio rose 4.9% compared to an average 0.8% loss for 10 popular funds over eight weeks — Theoretical fund of 38 stocks do better than 10 most popular funds on Interactive Investor, finds finder.com — Latest news on ETFs
Read MoreMozilla is jumping on the Mastodon train but taking a very different approach. | Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla’s new Mastodon instance, you’re not allowed to harass other users. You’re also not allowed to use derogatory language
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber is announcing a new integration with Alexa today that’ll allow you to track your Uber Eats orders via Amazon’s voice assistant in the US. Amazon says the feature will provide updates about the status of an order from when it’s being prepared right through to when Uber’s
Read MoreA new UI is coming to town when the Galaxy Watch 6 launches later this year. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge It’s been relatively quiet on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 rumor front, but we finally have some idea of what to expect. Today, Samsung announced that the watch will launch with
Read MoreSome of the 27 mental health apps tested by Mozilla last year have improved. Most, however, have not. | Image: Mozilla / *Privacy Not Included. An investigation into mental health apps has revealed that many of the most popular services are failing to protect the privacy and security of their users. Following up on a
Read MoreIlya Banares / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 25% YoY to $1.5B, above $1.43B analyst estimates, GMV up 15% to $49.6B, and plans to cut 20% of its staff; SHOP jumps 14%+ — Shopify Inc. cut jobs for the second time in less than a year and agreed to sell the majority of its
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