Scooter hacking is wonderful – you get to create a better scooter from a pre-made scooter platform, and sometimes you can do that purely through firmware modifications. Typically, hackers have been uploading firmware using Bluetooth OTA methods, and at some point, we’ve seen the always-popular Xiaomi scooters starting to get locked down. Today, we see
Read MoreImage: Kobo Kobo’s launching a new 10.3-inch E Ink e-reader and writing device, the Kobo Elipsa 2E, on April 19th. The new Kindle Scribe and Onyx Boox Nova Air C rival will retail for $399.99 and comes with an upgraded stylus that you can use to write directly on the pages of ebooks and documents.
Read MorePhoto by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Kobo is bringing its Kobo Plus service, which lets you read unlimited ebooks and audiobooks for a flat monthly fee, to the US. There are three different plans available; for $7.99 a month, you can get access to ebooks or audiobooks with the “Read” and “Listen” plans, or
Read MoreJoshua Benton / Nieman Lab: A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg’s archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more — The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority A customer service representative stated that a Wear OS 3 update is scheduled for Q3 2023. The update is said to be planned for the TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra and TicWatch E3. It’s still unknown if the update will come to other Mobvoi smartwatches. Wear OS 3 launched back
Read MoreThe Nintendo Switch OLED Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition is available to preorder for $359.99. | Image: Nintendo Last week, after months of rumors, Nintendo finally confirmed that it’s releasing a Zelda-inspired Nintendo Switch OLED on April 28th. The special-edition console will retail for $359.99 and commemorates one of this year’s most anticipated video
Read MoreJoshua Benton / Nieman Lab: A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg’s archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more — The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition
Read MoreImage: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s Weather app on iPhone was down for many users on Tuesday. The issues started at around midnight ET and persisted throughout the morning in many locations. iPhone owners have reported opening the Weather app and finding no data or old cached weather information. 9to5Mac noted that while
Read MoreProjects can often spiral, not down or up, but out. For [Derek] he started playing around with a 3D-printed escapement mechanism and thought it was a wonderful bit of engineering. But with a simple drum and weight, it only had a runtime of a few minutes. What started as a simple “can I make it
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Lots of news to start off the week. Let’s get right into it: Spotify Live gets the ax, the Obamas land another podcast deal, and iHeart signs a top wellness
Read MoreCharlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: Canada’s privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data — The Canadian privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT.
Read MoreDatabricks on Tuesday announced an industry-specific data lakehouse for the manufacturing sector, in an effort to surpass its data lake and data warehouse rivals. A data lakehouse is a data architecture that offers storage and analytics capabilities, in contrast to data lakes, which store data in native format, and data warehouses, which store structured data (often in SQL format). To read
Read MoreScreenshot: Tom Warren / The Verge Naughty Dog and Nvidia have released more hotfixes for The Last of Us Part I’s PC port in an attempt to fix various crashes and other bugs that have plagued the game since it launched a week ago. Nvidia says its hotfix driver Version 531.58 is meant to make
Read MoreWhen making a PCB informative and self-documenting, there’s often just not enough space to silkscreen all the labels you want, and slowly but surely, you collect a set of tricks: using different through-hole pad shapes to denote ground or power pins, standardized pinouts for connectors, your own signal name shortening notations, and so on. What
Read MoreSnyk aims to bolster security support for developers across their software supply chain with coding, cloud and devsecops enhancements.
Read MoreSasha Luccioni / Wired: Instead of halting AI research, an unfeasible task, the industry must improve transparency and accountability by being open to external audits and to regulation — Tech leaders’ Open Letter proposed a pause on ChatGPT. But researchers already know how to make artificial intelligence safer.
Read MoreAlexander Martin / The Record: Genesis Market, a stolen credentials marketplace and one of the top cyber fraud platforms, was seized in an FBI-led operation with over a dozen global partners — Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners …
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Germany says Twitter has repeatedly failed to remove user-reported illegal content and starts a Network Enforcement Act proceeding that may lead to fines — In an early FAFO test for Elon Musk, Germany could be set to fine Twitter for repeatedly failing to comply with a social media hate …
Read MoreOwen Wilson in Paint. | Image: IFC Films Bob Ross has become one of those inescapable facets of the internet. The longtime The Joy of Painting host is firmly entrenched in the realm of online kitsch, featured everywhere from Twitch streams and Marvel ads to Magic: The Gathering sets. His distinct and goofy persona makes
Read MoreThese days, video game companies can just promote their hardware and new releases via prepackaged livestreams. Why would they bother with a trade show?
Read MoreBlizzard Overwatch 2 has been releasing new heroes at a pretty good clip, and with the pending arrival of season 4 comes the latest hero: Lifeweaver. Lifeweaver’s addition to the game had been teased by the Overwatch developers in the last few weeks, with them calling the new hero “cute,” leading some in the Overwatch
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Online alcohol recovery services Monument and Tempest admitted to sharing private patient information with advertisers for years, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a disclosure filed with the California Attorney General, Monument (which acquired Temple in 2022) says the tracking tools used on both services “may have
Read MoreImage: Activision Activision is cracking down on third-party hardware cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Devices like XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 have been widely used in Call of Duty to allow mouse and keyboard users to get the benefits of aim assist and reduced recoil from
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft debuts the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock for $300, offering a USB-C port instead of a proprietary Surface Connect port and supporting non-Surface devices — Priced at $299.99, the new Surface dock will connect over USB-C instead of the proprietary Surface Connect port.
Read MoreChilling. | Image: Nintendo Pokémon Stadium will join Nintendo’s growing roster of Nintendo 64 classics you can play through Nintendo Switch Online starting April 12th. First released in 2000, Stadium is a battle-focused Pokémon game featuring the original 151 pocket monsters. The thing is, this version of Stadium has a very big catch (no pun
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