Image: Getty Embattled electric vehicle startup Lordstown Motors says it could run out of money if its deal with iPhone manufacturer Foxconn fails to go through. The deal is in jeopardy after Foxconn notified Lordstown that it’s in breach of its investment deal because its stock has fallen under $1 a share. Lordstown traces its
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter had plenty of problems in February (the rate limit debacle) and March (when it broke all links and pictures), but through April, the service didn’t register outages of similar significance. Now it’s May, and the streak has ended early as a number of people (including many Verge
Read MoreCredit: Twitter Photos have leaked of the Google Pixel 7a box. The box shows that it won’t support mmWave and doesn’t come with a charger. It also confirms the model number GWKK2. Rumors have been ramping up significantly for the next budget-level Pixel phone from Google. Today, we have yet another leak: the retail box
Read MoreAndrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at last year’s WWDC, for the first time, pushing a more lightweight fix to iOS and macOS users — Rapid Security Response updates haven’t been released to the public until today. — When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16 …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: A glitch on Twitter’s website has been randomly logging out users for at least a couple hours and has prevented some from logging back in — Twitter is not dead yet, it’s just randomly logging out a number of its users. After reporting earlier today that Twitter was experiencing a bug
Read MoreDebris litters the ground on April 22nd, 2023, after the SpaceX Starship liftedoff on April 20th for a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Environmental groups and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas have filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration after SpaceX’s
Read MoreVal Zod punching an enemy. | DC Comics / Bruno Redondo, Alejandro Sánchez, Juan Albarran With all of the reorganization of priorities that came with Warner Bros. Discovery tapping James Gunn and Peter Safran to oversee DC Studios, it felt like some of the studio’s previously announced projects might have been taken off the table.
Read MoreApple’s rumored 15-inch MacBook Air now looks likely to be announced during the WWDC23 event on June 5.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple announced the new “Rapid Security Response” updates for iPhones, iPads, and Macs last year at WWDC, and today, the first publicly released patch on the system started to roll out. After rough going initially when the new update claimed every iPhone was “offline,” the new patch
Read MoreUltimately, the goal of Hackaday is to shine a light on the incredible projects coming from the hardware hacking community. In the vast majority of cases, said projects end up being one-off creations — a clever solution that solved a specific problem for the creator, which may or may not be directly applicable to anyone
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Slack is quickly becoming one of the most popular workplace tools in the world. Not only is Slack popular among Fortune 500 companies and big businesses, but many smaller teams also use the service. But what is Slack exactly, how does Slack work, and why should you or your
Read MorePop bubbles on your Stream Deck. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge I’ve always thought the Stream Deck’s squishy buttons felt like delightful bubble wrap. What if you could pop them, too? We just made that a reality with BubbleDeck, our first official and totally free Stream Deck plug-in. View this post on
Read MoreMatt Binder / Mashable: Automattic plans to drop its WordPress plugin JetPack’s ability to automatically tweet blog posts, citing Twitter’s dramatic change to its API terms and pricing — Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies. — When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website …
Read MoreSwitching regulators have delivered such convenience and efficiency compared to their linear siblings, that it’s now becoming rare to see an old-style three-terminal regulator. Modern designs have integrated to such an extent that for many of us the inner workings remain something of a mystery. It’s still possible to make switching regulators from first principles
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify-owned audiobooks seller Findaway will no longer take a 20 percent cut of royalties for titles sold on its DIY Voices platform — so long as the sales are made on Spotify. In a company blog post published on Monday, Findaway said that it would “pass on cost-saving
Read MoreImage: Nintendo A couple of weeks before its May 12th launch, it appears that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has leaked. According to a report from Kotaku, physical copies of the game have leaked from retailers, and people are streaming the game on Twitch and Discord. It was relatively easy for me
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The May 2023 Android security patch is here! If you own a recent Google Pixel smartphone, you can perform a software update check now in System Settings to grab it. You can also update manually or simply wait for the OTA notification. We expect the next big Pixel feature
Read MoreImage: EA Star Wars Jedi: Survivor released over the weekend with a whole slew of performance problems, and EA is now doing something about it. The company noted the problem over the weekend and is releasing a new patch for the PC version of the game — which has been hammered by negative Steam reviews
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a Windows-based alternative to Apple’s MacBook Air, the Zenbook S 13 is what you want. It’s even thinner and lighter than last year’s version, too. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google’s VP and engineering fellow, Geoffrey Hinton, resigned from the company in April. Hinton left the firm to warn of the risks associated with AI. Hinton worries unregulated AI could lead to waves of misinformation, lost jobs, and problems with fully automated weapons. It’s no secret that Google has
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will add over 100 original Prime Video titles to Freevee, the company’s free ad-supported streaming option, this year. That includes the first three episodes of shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty and A League of Their Own, which will become available on May 26th. The company
Read MoreApple is reportedly ready to change the way we use Apple Watches with widgets, but is that the right course of action?
Read MoreCredit: WinFuture/Google The Pixel 7a is expected to be revealed during Google I/O. Our leaked Pixel roadmap says there could be a Pixel 8a, but it depends on how the Pixel 7a sells. A leaker suggests the Pixel 7a could be the last of its kind. We’re only days away from Google’s I/O event where
Read MoreBack in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes in a new report called Chromebook Churn that
Read MoreAlex Kaplan / Media Matters for America: Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of posting on Truth Social, vs. 300+ times from 2017 to 2021 on Twitter — Former President Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of actively posting …
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